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Meet Dr Jones Ofori-Atta, the influential father of embattled Ken Ofori-Atta

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  • AKYEM HYPOCRITE 4 days ago

    He was a typical akyem man, arrogant, smug, ugly, and with no love for Ghana or Ghanaians! He was my Economics lecturer in Legon!

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 4 days ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine...........for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide..

  • FRANKIE 4 days ago

    The end of an era of the criminal dynasty. Nothing special about Jones Ofori Atta. Tertiary education was very limited at the time so any half baked pseudo intellectual would pass for an economic guru. Thankfully Ken, the Pic ...
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  • Alex Yeboah 4 days ago

    And he failed to teach his son against greediness and theft. Add that.

  • Tweakai 4 days ago

    He was a hopeless Economics lecturer who couldn't even teach his own son Ken Ofori Atta to pass his GCE A-Level Economics exam!

    After all the appor his father gave him, Ken failed this exam miserably with an "F'.

    Esteem ...
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  • DR FATHER OF A NOTORIOUS OF A THIEF. 4 days ago

    WE GREET YOU, DOCTOR FATHER OF OUR BIGGEST NATIONAL THIEF.

  • Fankyeneko 4 days ago

    We the people of Fankyeneko, Dwenase, Abompe, Gyampomani, Dome and Osino will forever be grateful to Dr Jones Ofori Atta.
    It was through him that we got a tarred road linking Bososu-Begoro road.

  • The akyem sakawa mafia came to LOOT! 4 days ago

    Carefully read this article and you will understand their evil document called AGYAPADIE

  • Kingsley 4 days ago

    Yes those time, those who can(they call it form four or standard 7) write and read very well were employed and even some worked at Banks. In service training was very important. With some efforts some travelled on scholarship ...
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  • WONDERS SHALL NEVER END 4 days ago

    Ken Ofori Atta is after all Ayigbe. Yes ooo Ayigbe Akyem halfcaste.

  • Seidu 4 days ago

    Yet your father couldn't become one!

  • Northern Boy 4 days ago

    His father didn't also give ghana a child that would wreck harvock on its citizens by stealing5ueir resources.

  • Goodman 3 days ago

    PAPA WHY DIDN'T YOU CONVINCED YOUR WIFE TO ABORT OFORI? A USELESS SON OF A CRIMINAL

  • Sadat 4 days ago

    Stupid fool, we are sick and tired of your advice to Ghanaian youth. Go and give your generation 20 red red tablets. Senseless man

  • Kwame 4 days ago

    Listen did our fathers know at the time that this Jones Ofori Atta was nurturing a young boy in Ken Ofori Atta at the time who would grow up become a criminal and corrupt individual who messed up our lives and frustrated our ...
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  • D TROOTHSAYER 4 days ago

    1. Ken Ofori Atta is the pikinabolo of this pompous git called Jones Ofori Atta!
    2. Infact he wanted Ken to be aborted before birth but Satan had other plans and a special assignment for that evil creature that we are all l ...
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  • DICTIONARY 4 days ago

    Pikinabolo means an illegitimate child!

  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 4 days ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper..........Search online for ways to move away from evil islam.........You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe. Yo ...
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  • SAEED OSMAN 4 days ago

    WHAT? His legacy!!!, what legacy? We should not be mentioning their names when discussing anything positive about Ghana. All these criminals did was to have a situation where THEIR CHILDREN will dominate Ghanaians politics so ...
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  • Tito 4 days ago

    The same like someone who's father stolen generator at Nkruma era , only criminals rules

  • GHANA'S ELDERS ARE AN IRRESPONSIBLE BUNCH OF CRIMINALS 4 days ago

    GHANA'S LEADERS ARE ALL AN IRRESPONSIBLE BUNCH OF CRIMINALS AND FREELOADERS. THAT'S WHY GHANA IS STILL POOR DESPITE OVER 60 YEARS OF THE EXPORT OF GOLD, TIMBER, DIAMONDS, BAUXITE, COCOA, CRUDE OIL, ETC.

    GHANAIANS SHOULD V ...
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  • I agree with you 4 days ago

    I agree with you entirely and I would put the cause of our predicament to a thoroughly useless education system that produces recycled illiterates to become glamorirized slaves of the Western hegemonic imperialist system who ...
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  • the Villager 4 days ago

    It is not only Prof. Boateng, we also have persons like PC Ofori who blew the whistle about the K4 govt doling out envelopes to ensure passage of dubious bills and Lawyer Andy Appiah Kubi (Wontumi’s lawyer. They tried to el ...
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  • Onipanua 4 days ago

    Ungrateful student. You were lucky to have him as your lecturer. Read the family tree carefully and compare it to that of yours. No family tree comes near the OFORI-ATTAH dynasty. You can call it Akyem mafia.

  • K. Kusi 4 days ago

    It has all been stealing. But for president Kufuor's negligence, Ofori Atta should been in jail for the Obotan fraud against SSNIT. AKRONFUO ASEFUO

  • AKYEM HYPOCRITE 4 days ago

    Responding to your ignorant comment is like casting my pearls before a swine!

  • Afetor Kwesirn English 4 days ago

    Sir Offori Attah sucked up to the British and got his children the privileges to study in the UK long before independence. His descendants used Ghana's resources to educate their children. They hate all that Nkrumah did and d ...
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  • BULLSHIT AND NOTHING ELSE 4 days ago

    He was a hopeless Economics lecturer who couldn't even teach his own son Ken Ofori Atta to pass his GCE A-Level Economics exam!

    After all the appor his father gave him, Ken failed this exam miserably with an "F'.

    Est ...
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  • DEEVINITY 4 days ago

    @Onipanua. All of them, bar-none, are a bunch of criminal, freeloading traitors and they are proud of it too!!!!

    It is only in the criminally inverted delusion we live in here in this town that madmen would dare to call su ...
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  • Gyimi ni 4 days ago

    Besides that family stealing from Ghana through politics:l, what's thier achievement?

  • Mbawuni 4 days ago

    Wofa Jones, ad3nn na wo ba nó y3 kromfuor saa...???? Dabi koraaaa..........

  • K. Opoku-London-UK 4 days ago

    Akuffo Addo used us ASHANTIS 8000% for the 8 YEARS. Yesterday- I WAS VERY SAD. IF I GET THE CHANCE TO MEET TANI, ARROGANT, WEE SMOKER DISMISSED FROM THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN HIS FIRST SEMESTER, After attending Lancing College ...
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  • Kojo 4 days ago

    U are mad

  • K Poku-London-UK 4 days ago

    ==AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFFO ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 4 days ago

    ==AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFFO ...
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  • All these Kyebi men are criminals 4 days ago

    They are fake people with colonial masters mindset. They are very evil ,selfish,and lazy . Till date nobody knows how akuffo addo became a lawyer and how Gabby okyere Darko acquired his law degree. Nkwaseafuor nkoaa. Azaa aky ...
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  • K. Kusi 4 days ago

    So this man brought this curse on Ghana out of wedlock. The end shall surely always justify the means. An illegitimate vagabond that has brought so much hardship on Ghana. Nfui

  • Andrew - Oh Ofori Atta 4 days ago

    I don’t Ken, and why he decided to disgrace himself like that. He had enough money to live comfortably and even if he didn’t his position as FM allowed him to make money without stealing.

    Why did he stoop this low and ...
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  • K. Kusi 4 days ago

    Then you didn't know the person you trusted. He has always been a criminal. The SSNIT Obotan deal.

  • Koo 4 days ago

    The father of a thief. A crab does not produce a bird in labour. Look at his head like a pumpkin. Akoronfoɔ bloodline.

  • KK 4 days ago

    Hahaha, you are wicked, bro! His head like a pumpkin paa?? Lol.

  • MARCUS AURELIUS 4 days ago

    He never married the Ewe woman who gave birth to to Ken Ofori Atta! Jones Ofori Atta was a typical chew and pour African scholar who did not add any value to our society or the fortunes of our people!

  • SO KEN OFORI-ATTAH IS AYIGBE? 4 days ago

    No wonder

  • Nii Odoi 4 days ago

    So Ken Oflori Atta is half ewe and half akyem? No wonder.

  • Razal Sheiba 4 days ago

    More clarity needed. Was Jones Ofori Atta the deputy minister of finance or the substantive minister of finance in the Busia regime? If he was a deputy, who then was the minister of finance in the Busia regime? Because histor ...
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  • D TROOTHSAYER 4 days ago

    The Finance Minister under Ghana's Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia (1969-1972) was Joseph Henry Mensah (J.H. Mensah), known for his significant economic policy role during that era, managing Ghana's finances through major re ...
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  • SAEED OSMAN 4 days ago

    Reform like what? And what did Ghana gain from those reforms. You Matemeho people and words and self praise. I heard Akuffo Addo saying he has been the best president since independent. They will steal our money and insult u ...
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  • D TROOTHDAYER 4 days ago

    Saeed, my bad! That was a quotation from Google so it should be in quotation marks!

  • Kwadwo 4 days ago

    Ignoramus! You Will never know UNTIL THE END OF TIME or the age! ALL the ignoramuses out there holding yourselves out as educated Ghanaians, it is per haps until you meet your maker that you will finally accept the difficult ...
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  • CRY MY BELOVED GHANA 3 days ago

    Why is such an upper case BUFFOON like you still allowed here in 2026?

  • SURVIVAL. 4 days ago

    We thank Almighty God that this Akyem people didn't gain independent for us.Listening to their biographies,they were all having bad questionable characters.

  • CONCERN CITIZEN 4 days ago

    This man himself was also a thief!!!

  • Benjamin Nana Mintah 4 days ago

    This man undermined Hon. JH Mensah, his Finance Minister and MP Sunyani East in his latter days. A typical Akyem man , he was, did all manner of things to fail JH Mensah. Today, only his family would remember him as a scholar ...
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  • Klaase Klose Marfhen 4 days ago

    Hmmmmmm, father of a CRIMINAL. Sad

  • kelewele 4 days ago

    Mtseeeew..

  • Holy Sinner 4 days ago

    FAMILY OF CRIMINALS. Of what use is this article to us..BULLSHIT...MPONKYE-BIN.

  • Mims 4 days ago

    Hmmm

  • Families of criminals 4 days ago

    This useless families are our problems of today.The criminalities runs in their blood.Acheampong overthrow busia government because of this criminal family.This Akuffo Addo and ofori atta must not near power in Ghana again. T ...
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  • Zionism is racism 4 days ago

    Bunch of parasites who sucked the country to the bones. He and Busia ruined and divided the country.

  • Agyeman 4 days ago

    VERY SAD. IS THIS HOW WE HONOUR PERSONS WHO HAVE SERVED OUR NATION? THEN MAHAMA SHOULD GET READY. EVEN HE MAHAMA WHO'S FATHER A GENERATOR, WHO'S APPOINTING PRESIDENT MILLS PUT HIM UNDER INVESTIGATION IS HANGING AROUND AS PRES ...
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  • NM9AR 4 days ago

    Cor blimey! Why is a village idiot like you still allowed here? Why?

  • K. Kusi 4 days ago

    Only an Agyeman will spew this garbage. You said all the nonsense about Mahama to deceive Ghanaians to vote that thieving family into peer and they messed this country up and you're here still saying what? Akufo Addo himself ...
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  • Agyeman 4 days ago

    ANY WAY YOU SKEW IT BRO, THE MAMAMA FAMILY IS STILL ON RECORD. MAY BE YOU'RE TOO LITTLE TO KNOW BUT TRUTH BE TOLD ITS A GENERATIONAL FAMILY KNOWN FOR ROGUERY, WOMANIZING AND DRUNKENESSS.

  • Kwame 4 days ago

    You fuuuuuuul waai. Jones Ofori-Atta's father (i.e Ken-Ofori Attta's grandfather) had 44 wives. That is the mark of womanizing. The grandfather was legislator during pre-indepence. Jones ofori-atta and several of his brothers ...
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  • DR. ANWAH IBRAHIM KWATSON 4 days ago

    All these rubbish of an indecent family!

    Why didn't you dig into the life of a decent family to look up to? That family is just full of treachery, never smart, always portraying Ghana as their own.

    Let's not highlight t ...
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  • boye 4 days ago

    Criminal family of Theives and Scammers we wishes their Criminal Family doesn't came to Power Again Never

  • All that said 4 days ago

    Ghana us still underdeveloped. Touting him with acolades and praises is ok. But what tangible impact do we see today in Ghana as something coming from him? Nothing.

  • Please 4 days ago

    CHECK AND FACT CHECK
    Jones was to be the Leader of the Party in Parliament
    However, for serving as a member of the Constituent Assembly, Jones submitted claims for Hotel Bills although he was resident in Accra Legon.
    He e ...
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  • The father of a thief 4 days ago

    They all stole from the public office . They were lazy and not creative.He stole Ghana money and was jailed .He’s the father of a thief , and he was also a thief . Fellow Ghanaians, are we waiting for Ofori atta’s childre ...
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  • BULLSHIT AND NOTHING ELSE 4 days ago

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  • K. Opoku-London-UK 4 days ago

    Akuffo Addo used us ASHANTIS 8000% for the 8 YEARS. Yesterday- I WAS VERY SAD. IF I GET THE CHANCE TO MEET TANI, ARROGANT, WEE SMOKER DISMISSED FROM THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN HIS FIRST SEMESTER, After attending Lancing College ...
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  • Nsor 4 days ago

    What's the relevance telling us this rubbish

  • Gasco 4 days ago

    Born 1937 and died 2020, means he was 83 years old and not 86 years oooo.

  • Nsia 4 days ago

    Ken Ofori Atta and his father were as straight as a corkscrew.Vile and despicable creatures. It runs in the family.

  • Kwaku 4 days ago

    A host of neocolonialists who defined their.africanity by the core values of Englishness. These folks delayed the ascendancy of africanity based upon Pan africanism and soveignty of Africans and the African personality. They ...
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  • Ojatanaa 4 days ago

    Most of them have slave names

  • AM 4 days ago

    At jones ofori attahs time at legon deans were elected. He was elected as a dean becsuse he was moisy. He howevever lacked intellect. Like busia who made him deputy finance ministeria he was tribalidtic. Recall his calling a ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 4 days ago

    ==AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFFO ...
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  • Achakanapaya 4 days ago

    Akyem s are all known Nation wreckers.

  • K Poku-London-UK 4 days ago

    ==AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFFO ...
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  • La Pleasure man 4 days ago

    Why should we read about the dead father of a shameless, prostateless, impotent and incontinent thiefman?

  • K. Kusi 4 days ago

    Well, his ideas resonate with the thievery of his fugitive son who doesn't want to account to Ghanaians. That is his legacy. We are all aware of how he undermined his boss J. H. Mensah as the finance minister and looted to wi ...
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  • Gbetia 4 days ago

    So what foolish stupid article this also about?

  • Truth 4 days ago

    What I fluential? He is just the original thief together with the Akuffo Addo. They stole so much after taking over government when Nkrumah was overthrown. They taught their kids this criminal life. They are not smart....they ...
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  • Jones 4 days ago

    Check the background of the critics of this family. It is all about hatred, envy and jealousy. God will also deal with them and family. Those God have bl noone can curse. This attitude of pull him down will not help anyon ...
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  • Nii 4 days ago

    Hatred and jealousy for an old stinking corrupt fugitive? Anokwa! You mist be a special kind of idiotic sycophantic party idiot. Kwashiaaa.

  • Akyem abuakwa thieves … shameful family 4 days ago

    Jealous of who ? Tell us their single achievements in private sector. What have they done apart from acquiring fake degrees backed with incompetence to enter the public service to steal ? They all wish that the British were s ...
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  • jj 4 days ago

    like father like son. you taught ofori how to rob Ghana in plain sight.MAY GOD FORGIVE YOU.

  • DEEVINITY 4 days ago

    So now we're extolling nation-wreckers.......

  • EMP 4 days ago

    Ghanaweb, why this story about this industrious father of Ken at this time? When ken's woes are being discussed: this way you are giving people who never knew how hard working, down-to-earth nature of this man(Papa Jones),th ...
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  • Chief Adubofour 4 days ago

    How can he be 86 whilst he was born in 1937 and died in 2020?

  • KK 4 days ago

    I think we should exhume his skeleton and administer 54 lashes to it, for raising a a criminal who tried to sell Ghana to the highest bidder.
    He did a really bad job, at least, in raising Ken; a silent criminal.
    No wonder ...
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  • Kofi Sam 4 days ago

    The father was distinguished i my view but the son is was brutally corrupt and not patriotic

  • Ololololololo 4 days ago

    Very ugly like the son. Ugly and criminal looking face. Chaii no wonder evil run in their family

  • Ivory Mensah 4 days ago

    Thieves.

  • Wahab 4 days ago

    Nation wreckers !! Jealous and hateful people who resented Nkrumah but had no plan to fix the country nor chart a path that will propel us to develop .
    Wicked bunch

  • Agbeli Kumordziì 4 days ago

    They are all thieves

  • Efo 4 days ago

    Jealousy, and tribal evenness will kill some tribes in Ghana ooo. Those who have ordained can't never be destroyed or matched.

  • Yaw Brobbey 4 days ago

    I am a Bosome, Abuakwa is my brother but truth be told, Ofori Atta has proven beyond doubts he has a lot of rot under his sleeves. He is a disgrace to us Akyems.

  • Kwam 4 days ago

    So what. Who cares. Ask his son to come and answer for his crimes.

  • Prayer 4 days ago

    A long spin doctoring of a failed and corrupt father and son public career that led Ghana into economic crisis on the two occasions both served as finance minister.The son simply went by the playback of the father on how to s ...
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  • Kofi Ghanaba 4 days ago

    Jones Ofori Atta in my estimation was one of the most distinguished economists in the history of Ghana.I sat in awe during my school days when l saw him on Talking Point a GTV program in the days when we had frequent coups in ...
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  • the Villager 4 days ago

    In future, some ppl will also say they sat in awe when Bawumia was talking economics. Isaac Adongo even accorded him the Walewale Adam Smith title.

  • Citoyen 4 days ago

    Knowing Him will not put food to anyone's table......r

  • 2026er 4 days ago

    KEN HAS DISGRACED THE NOBLE FAMILY
    Shame to Ken a trillion times trillion for running away from justice. We should never appoint an Akyem near the Ministry of Finance.

  • Jones Mary sweet. MEXICO CITY 4 days ago

    THEY ARE ALL CRIMINALS. FORGET THEM KURAA

  • Tito 4 days ago

    What does his father got to do ??? Your founder rawlings rule for 19 years , killed ex presidents and over 600 Ghanaians for corruption and died rich, indemnified himself from probity and accountability he killed people for ...
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  • Kwamina 4 days ago

    So the wearing of necklace was something that he learned from his father. Criminals!!!

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 4 days ago

    Confusing write up. Ofori Atta Ofori Atta. You need say Jones or Ken sometimes to be clearer.

  • Northern Boy 4 days ago

    No wonder. He was raised a crook. See the father's chain even as an old man

  • Ghanaman 4 days ago

    What legacy? He was a failure like his son. A corrupt bastard ho should have been hanged by JJ

  • Nkowie 4 days ago

    I was expecting to read more of his actual work, policies, and contributions mentioned in here. Huh

  • Asonaba asiedu 4 days ago

    Nice and distinguished man but unfortunately he's got a wayward son!! Isn't it typical? We're all human after all!!

  • Onipanua 4 days ago

    Thier lineage only did harm to Nkrumah and mother Ghana and any serious people must stop showing their faces on media

  • Okponglo Guy 4 days ago

    Why all this hatred towards Ken? Please explain. Facts only.

  • Danduruwa 4 days ago

    Who loves a Rapist? Perhaps only Okponglo guys! ken ofori-attah is a mirror image of the npp. Being the most corrupt, criminal, killer and disgraceful entity on planet earth.

  • Augustina Quayson 2 days ago

    Please what is the offence of Ken Ofori Atta

  • O 4 days ago

    F

  • Clynns 3 days ago

    I Remember Beyeeman Me And Jokaba use to buy frozen meet meat from.there ..

  • Nana 3 days ago

    Waaaaw.....what a family. Well renowned academicians and top notch politicians. Congratulations to you all for your contributions towards the political, economical, educational and social developments for mother Ghana. We sal ...
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  • Kofi Ghanaba 2 days ago

    Does John Dramani Mahama know Ken Ofori Atta’s mother is an Ewe.

  • Onipanua 2 days ago

    No wonder we are here!

  • Augustina Quayson 2 days ago

    Please what is the offence of Ken Ofori Atta?