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Why the IGP wore an FBI Badge during an event in Accra

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  • Jury 1 month ago

    He’s a law enforcement officer and every right to collaborate with foreign intelligence agencies to combat crime in Ghana. What’s your problem ? Criminals !!!!

  • Kwaku Tee 1 month ago

    The Russians would say Africans have gotten their independence from their Colonial masters , but their Colonial masters are still holding their brains. This is Foolishness from a whole IGP. Would the head of USA Police do su ...
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  • Asantehene ba 1 month ago

    This Kwaku T guy will die oooo...ahuoyaa paaa nie. You are still in pains after one year. GYIMIEEEEEEEEE SAAA NA KWA

  • THINK DEEP 1 month ago

    You're among the stupid masses that cannot tell the King that , he is naked dancing in public.Sad that this is happening to a govt that took us thru 11yrs of revolution. The same NDC said they are doing a RESET. How do you ex ...
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  • CIA and FBI agents leading our institutions 1 month ago

    Once and agent always an agent

  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 1 month ago

    NPP ANIMALS ARE CONFUSED AGAIN

  • Jack Toronto 1 month ago

    Neocolonialism at work.

  • Apuuuuuuu!!!! 1 month ago

    Him receiving such an award doesn't mean it has to be on him in public. He can showcase it in his office but not in public. He is the head of the Ghana police service

  • Focus on reducing petrol cost 1 month ago

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  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 1 month ago

    NPP ANIMALS ARE CONFUSED

  • cxxx 1 month ago

    ls he supposed to wear that badge in ghana ?

  • Nana 1 month ago

    My sentiments exactly!!!

  • WELL SAID MASSA. HE PROBABLY DOESN'T REALISE THE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF HIS ACTIONS. 1 month ago

    There is nothing wrong with getting a small piece of cotton or nylon embroidery as a memento from the FBI. However, it is inappropriate for him to pin this on his uniform. He should rather have the FBI MOMENTO BADGE added to ...
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  • Kofi Nti 1 month ago

    Kwaku Tee please desist from using abusive language in public. There is nothing wrong with the explanation. It is sad that you this word in public. It is a pity you used such a word or language as ‘foolishness’ to describ ...
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  • SICURA 1 month ago

    SAY IT AGAIN AND AGAIN! IT ALL LOOKS LIKE WE CAN'T LEARN, OR WE HAVE RESOLVED NOT TO LEARN.

  • Koo Dwomo 1 month ago

    This is an inferiority complex on the part of IGP Yohuno. Never again Sir. Next time please hang such foreign badge in your residence, not for a public display.

  • Nana 1 month ago

    Ama Ghana paa nie ?They go out doing there doing the wrong things but but nothing pricks their conscience that they are sending a wrong signal to the entire nation and their subordinates. Who can reprimand him when the Presid ...
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  • Nkwantabisa 1 month ago

    Ghana is not Ama, as she has been wrongly named by some ignorant people. Ghana was born on Wednesday 6th March 1957, she's EKUA .....EKUA GHANA.
    MAAME EKUA GHANA IS HER NAME.
    Ama is her younger sister, that fat one with s ...
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  • Saintt 1 month ago

    @Jury or whoever . Don’t let partisan politics blindfold you and speak to matters as it is . Why wear a badge of different jurisdiction in your own ? Is Ghana not a sovereign country anymore . Stuff like this is what they u ...
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  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 1 month ago

    NPP ANIMALS ARE CONFUSED.

  • cxxx 1 month ago

    man with very weak mentality .

  • Schroedinger's Cat 1 month ago

    Would the Head of Poice in the US come and hold meetings with A Regional Police Commander in Ghana and be recieving awards from a lower level ranking Officer?
    This was not awarded at the FBI HQ but the New York Field office! ...
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  • cxxx 1 month ago

    cheap IGP

  • kb 1 month ago

    yes, can and does collaborate with external agencies. BUT he cannot disrespect the uniform, by wearing that badge or any inappropriate item. its about our institutions

  • CORRECT 1 month ago

    You have said it all. This IGP has demonstrated disrespect to the Ghana Police service and to Ghana. He must not appear in public again with that piece of cotton design stuck to his uniform- THIS IS AN AFFRONT TO GHANAIANS.

  • TWEAA DC 1 month ago

    GHANAWEB DO NOT HAVE ANY NEWS TO PUT ACROSS...YES, THEY DON'T...TWEAA.

  • NEW COLONIAL STRATEGY 1 month ago

    With high minds of today's America, this is one of the new colonial strategies employed to deceive all nations. Some of us don't buy this explanations. ❌️

  • Paa 1 month ago

    I expected many comments here. Where are the ignorant hypocrites who always want to create mischief out of nothing? Shame.

  • WHY THE FULL POLICE REGALIA? 1 month ago

    The IGP and his team should have worn simple suits and not the full police regalia as shown in the pictures, and they should have taken off their caps too! I mean look at their counterparts across the table, which one of them ...
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  • Prof Atokan 1 month ago

    I see this as a sign of an inferiority mindset that we must consciously move away from.
    There is nothing wrong with receiving recognition or a symbolic gift from a foreign institution. That is normal professional courtesy. T ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 1 month ago

    Perfectly Correct my brother. It is a demonstration that our leaders that we rely on, still have inferiority Complex. How can we criticise USA when they are misbehaving all around the world.

  • Asantehene ba 1 month ago

    Kwaku T gyimieeeeeeeee

  • What a shame 1 month ago

    It is really so sad and disappointing for the IGP to misrepresent himself in this manner. It constitutes a mark of disgrace not only for the Ghana Police Service but for the govt that is trying so hard to uplift the image of ...
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  • Jack Toronto 1 month ago

    Inferiority complex indeed.

  • Asantehene ba 1 month ago

    We were here when your stupid so called ancestors of your party took money from the CIA to overthrow Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. What do you call that one too. Mmoaaaaaaa. You people go die in pains. Gyimieeeeeeeee saaaaaa kwa

  • Ruthan 1 month ago

    Capt Ibrahim Traore up there would tell his ppl, look at those Foolish Ghanaian leaders.These are the same ppl whose President Nana Akuffo Addo went and reported me at the UN that I'm bringing Russians into our neighbourhood.

  • CORRECTION 1 month ago

    Ruthan, Akuffo Addo did not report Traore to the UN. If that had been the case, we would have forgiven him. What that sneaky treacherous evil man did was to report the universally popular President Traore of Burkina Faso, to ...
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  • Monnie 1 month ago

    Were you there? Stop the NDC propaganda.

  • Phila phila 1 month ago

    Kwaseato, was kotoko a member of the UP party

  • Phila phila 1 month ago

    Correction (kotoka)

  • Kwesi 1 month ago

    Prof Atokan. Good submission. I can not agree with you more. Well said!!

  • Prayer 1 month ago

    I also second your submission Prof Stokan.You said more than it all.Ghana's IGP proudly wearing the badge of a local FBI field office.Not even the FBI itself but that of a field office in New York that was given him when on a ...
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  • Razor 1 month ago

    Politically jaundiced myopic minds will criticise this international normal gesture. What about our soldiers who wear medals and tags awarded by foreign countries in appreciating or recognising their services rendered on th ...
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  • A 1 month ago

    Our impoverished, terminally ill WWI & WWII Veterans are still wearing their badges and displaying them in public, what has our Colonial masters done for them?The British forced us to engage in those stupid wars,what have th ...
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  • Nkwantabisa 1 month ago

    Tweaaaa...who in his rightful senses will believe this story, officers were badges to demonstrates their office of honour or their duties entrusted to them by the state. As the highest police officer, he is supposed to know t ...
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  • MO KWAME NKRUMAH NO 1 month ago

    "Ghana dierrr mfiifiimu nkoaaa na akayen,ye perserr yer doodoo bribiaamu humu yiye!Nhwehwemufuo, mfiifiimufuo!

  • Kwamina 1 month ago

    They should check that badge carefully so it does not contain a hidden chip which can transmit sensitive information from discussions/meetings with the IGP. Don't trust those guys in the U. S.

  • GOOD POINT 1 month ago

    Good thinking

  • The Devil’s Advocate 1 month ago

    Whatever! Highly inappropriate. Wrong imagery wrong messaging for our subservient country and citizens. Courtesy awards/medals are in order but displayed in the circumstance was highly inappropriate.

  • Jesus is Lord! 1 month ago

    Another stupid Anlo-Ewe sellout!

  • Schroedinger's Cat 1 month ago

    The stupidity is yours alone. He is neither Anlo nor Ewe but your bigoted ignorant and uneducated mind cannot know.

  • Kofi 1 month ago

    Just imagine that this is one of the people leading our nation. Wearing that badge (with pride in Ghana) and it never occurred to him that it's inappropriate to wear as head of our national Police Force. Our inferiority compl ...
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  • Yaw Poku 1 month ago

    I have nothing to say about this stupid man

  • YAH! 1 month ago

    Oh!! African!

  • BE CAREFUL,GHANA - Patriot 1 month ago

    Ghana should be careful dealing wth America.America is an evil nation.A nation created by satan and run by satan

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  • Ojatanaa 1 month ago

    What have the stomach journalist kwesi Pratt have to say about this and okudzeto

  • What is this? 1 month ago

    This explanation makes it even worse. What kind of inferiority complex is that? Yes, we understand, you have partnership with other countries. You can decorate your offices and homes with your awards from there, not on your o ...
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  • Kobina Boafo 1 month ago

    Enough of this ass kissing. Ghana is an independent sovereign nation and must act as such. Ablakwa is our best representative, won't accept any dubious superiority from our partners.

  • Simple reason 1 month ago

    It's because he's a fucking idiot who doesn't representing a country with very low self respect. That's the only reason

  • Simple reason 1 month ago

    It's because he's a fucking idiot representing a country with very low self respect. That's the only reason

  • Omaru Issah (Maryland) 1 month ago

    Such a national disgrace

  • Dr Ali Awudu 1 month ago

    Impeach the IGP immediately

  • Teddy more 1 month ago

    Please mind your own business. If IGP wearing FBI badge it could be a designer wear. Why are you also foreign designer wear. Ghanaians have time publish unnecessary articles on website.

  • Nana 1 month ago

    This is stupid at its highest level. A whole chief of Ghana Police, a sovereign country, an Inspector General of Police, wearing the insignia of another force of a foreign country? Do you think an FBI agent, or even a com ...
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  • Akwesi 1 month ago

    Does this really make sense. I doubt if any us security officer will wear a Ghanaian badge for any reason

  • Moses Faal 1 month ago

    What are the implications for putting on such a batch?

  • Me mfa Borg3 3ny3 swine 1 month ago

    They are puppets for them o. Nothing new under the sun. They run the country for us from there o, you know what l mean?

  • New bro vrs old school bro 1 month ago

    Twene Jonas is dead. Hahaha

  • Obroni akoaa 1 month ago

    Shithole people

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  • Foish nso y3 tah 1 month ago

    Hahaha FBI there means fool8sh boy inspector. That's all.

  • The two sides 1 month ago

    And this story helped capture how many armed robbers?

  • The true patriots 1 month ago

    The FBI themselves don’t display their identities in public like our l National security does. He is just making himself an FBI sandbag our subregion is fluid

  • Kwame Ofori 1 month ago

    He should not have the badge on !!. It undermines ihis position as IGP. He owes allegiance to Ghana and Ghana alone !! There is no issue with collaboration with foreign agencies but his independence as a Ghanaian police offic ...
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  • Nii Fio Shamo 1 month ago

    It is stupidity. The IGP wants to show off by carelessly displaying validation of a foreign entity. It's all because if his local mindset, and perhaps village upbringing. He failed to understand what sovereignty is all about ...
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  • Dadeako 1 month ago

    Why are we exposing ourselves to these criminals.some of Our leiders are weak and fools .cant we manage affairs anymore, next time u will see them bombing us.

  • Kwabee - shai 1 month ago

    Well done Ghanaweb. This is responsible journalism. Fact check ✔️ always. Congratulations

  • Bracket 1 month ago

    Gyimie saaaaa

  • Pablo Escobar 1 month ago

    Africans y3 nkruase fo).

  • It’s a patch not badge lol 1 month ago

    Funny o cant
    Differentiate patch and badge

  • Y3 d3 du 1 month ago

    Emancipate yourself from mental slavery mu friend. Gyai gyimie no.

  • B3ll3 fool 1 month ago

    I am on my varander l lie down, l see the moon through my b3ll3 fool.

  • Peeeeeeeee 1 month ago

    So you answered your own fucking question so why ask?

  • Peeeeeeeee 1 month ago

    So you answered your own fucking question so why ask

  • SUHIN 1 month ago

    Does FBI wear our Crest sworn to their Uniforms on such special occasions.
    I know there is a strong collaboration.

  • Richard 1 month ago

    He is a disgrace. He can’t wear it because it is not an award. If it was awarded then he can wear it as part of the uniform. He has lost it completely. He is a confused individual parading as chief law enforcement officer.

  • Patrick 1 month ago

    So who are the people behind JB Danquah's Murder at his RESIDENCE. Ghanaians are still waiting for an answer.

  • Wondered If Any US Law Enforcement Agency Will Recons Ghana Police Badges On Their Coustoms 1 month ago

    Inferiority Complex Will Turn Devalues BlackMans Own Sensens o Importances Creatives As Poor As Nothing,. Corrupt Stupid ,Lazy Visionless Lunutic Good For Nothing,Nepotic Akuffo Addo ,Proven Exhibited Demonstrated The Il ...
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  • Prudhomme - Ghanaians are unintelligent 1 month ago

    Courtesy (honary) Badges are common in all US law enforcement agencies and given to people. However, they are for decorative purposes and nothing more than that.

    For example if NYPD gives a person a courtesy badge for a he ...
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  • IGP, FBI concert party 1 month ago

    Overdressed IGP and subordinates with FBI school boys. Every country can be gratis. It Dependance on the Headset that occupy positions. Tete, you were way too overdressed. Your receivers were Just boys.

  • crusader 1 month ago

    sell outs, wicked uncle toms.

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  • NEW COLONIAL STRATEGY 1 month ago

    With high minds of today's America, this is one of the new colonial strategies employed to deceive all nations. Some of don't buy this explanations. ❌️

  • Fromtomfrom 1 month ago

    The neo-colonization is complete.God have mercy on us.

  • Sarfo 1 month ago

    Ghanaweb, you can do better. You are gradually losing credibility. A two-year old child can see the difference between the two badges. Please take your readers seriously for goodness sake.

  • Kwaku 1 month ago

    What a shame

  • Cameraman 1 month ago

    Imperialism meets colonialism

  • Pepenyi Mfantse 1 month ago

    Oh my God !!!
    There’s no words to describe this localism

  • Kwasi 1 month ago

    Why didn't he keep it as souvenir in his house or office? It's like those using fake titles.
    Why can't we shake off inferiority complex?

  • michael mensah 1 month ago

    It's a "tug of war" between independence and mental slavery. Wearing a badge to show admission into FBI "University abiiii.