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Kwaku Azar warns against renaming of Kotoka International Airport

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  • LA VERITE 1 month ago

    Nonsense promax and nothing but a load of codswallop!

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    Cry to create another ocean! Kotoka was a most wicked murderer - shot and killed Major-General BARWAH, in cold blood in front of wife and kids!
    IGP Harlley and the Deputy IGP Deku with Kotoka, these selfish EWES took BRIBES ...
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  • Nel 1 month ago

    What a load of Horsecrap this prof is dumping. Stinks to the high heavens

  • Blue Pen 1 month ago

    Ah Kwaku Azaaaaar, must you comment on every issue. If you no get anything useful say on any matter, just keep quiet. E be by force? Naming of Ghana's major airport after Kotoka, the coup maker cum murdeter of Maj Gen Barwah ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    Stop your damn nonsense about Kotoka. Kotoka was among the gallant men who were able to prevent Kwame Nkrumah turning Ghana into a modern day North Korea where people are just sacrificed and killed on any issue
    The Airport ...
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  • P Djamgbe 1 month ago

    Kotoka was a traitor and a nation wrecker and he shouldn't be named after anything good in Ghana, regardless of who built it or where it is situated - since it is in Nkrumah's Ghana

  • Emperor Rasheed 1 month ago

    @ P Djamgbe. I took part in killing that bastard called Kotoka.

  • Thomas 1 month ago

    Unwittingly, this Kweku Azaa has thankfully exposed himself as an agent of global imperialism and neocolonialism. What a damned fool he is. We are dealing with a total and complete illiterate parading and strutting around as ...
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  • JEFF MORGAN 1 month ago

    That's his view and in a way it make sense to some of us so if you don't seem to his fine but don't undermine or attack that way please

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    What about Efo Jeremiah Julor Rawlings? Was he also not a Coup maker who killed and helped kill many innocent Ghanaians? How many people did Kutu and Generals killed? He just signed for them to be killed? How many innocent Gh ...
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  • PROF, AS FOR THIS, YOU HAVE MISFIRED. YOU ARE NOT MAKING ANY SENSE AT ALL 1 month ago

    The is the worse contribution you have ever made on a national issue. We dont have to put the name of a coup leader or criminal on a National Monument in order to remember the event.

    WE should honour heroes and not villai ...
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  • Emperor Gyaedu 1 month ago

    Tribal old fool Karibari.
    Old man with no sense. You'll drink urine any day so long at it's from an NPP person or an Ashanti

  • Emperor Rasheed 1 month ago

    @ Gyaedu. Please stop using “ EMPEROR” !

  • Bright 1 month ago

    @Frank Agyena Karikari, stop trying to put a tribal twist to this Aiirport name change.How many Ewes do you think associate Ewe with the Airport because of the name Kotoka. We just don't care the government should just go ah ...
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  • StGhfuo 1 month ago

    @Frank Agyena-Karikari. You have no shame at all! At you old of age 92, you should be giving good advice. I am sure you are suffering from Schizophrenia.

  • Anokwale 1 month ago

    Rawlings forgot to kill Frank Agyena-Karikari’s corrupt and gay father.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    I am churned Guy with my ancestry from Adukrom so Rawlings could not kill me. Go to Adukrom and ask for Okomfo Kwame Kwapong. I was directly named after him. He was the father of my grandmother Akosua Anyinakwe. Rawlings’ m ...
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  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 1 month 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......You ar ...
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  • Azar warns .against the renaming 1 month ago

    Ghanaweb should not tolerate these types of coments.What did you write that for.?

  • Bonus Baba 1 month ago

    I am curious about your upbringing. Which tribe do you belong? Anytime you open your dirty foul mouth you spit stupidity about EWES being murderers. How many of you knuckle head father ,mother and siblings have been slau ...
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  • Kwame 1 month ago

    Leave these Gas with their hypocrisy and foolish advicacies. They are living in that state of ignorance to the effect that every national monument that is in Accra should be seen as a Ga traditional heritage How pathetic coul ...
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  • Gas Will Eventually Be Told Where They Come From! 1 month ago

    If the Gas will continue with this nonesense Ghanaians will eventually have to tell them their origins. And that this land they claim belobgs to them DOES not.

    The land belongs to the Akwamus. When they came from their lo ...
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  • mong 1 month ago

    You sound like an idiot with your historical nonsense.

  • Kalimba Mozambo 1 month ago

    Besides Danso and Ababop, I never saw the other names as coming from Alwamu. Check your sourses.

  • Nii ankrah 1 month ago

    It looks like you are attacking Ga.s because of a reason known to you,there is simply hole in ur brain, what you have written is trash,the Akwamus are the ones from Otublohum, and is also one of the clans,some of you are dump ...
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  • IF GAS ARE NOT FROM GHANA, THEN YOU ARE FROM MALI. HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN. GO BACK TO MALI 1 month ago

    Have you also forgotten where you came from? Pack your stuff and head out of Ghana to Mali, where you came from

  • Nii ankrah 1 month ago

    What has this got to do with Gas,if Government is changing the name of the airport, you are insulting Gas for no reason,there is not an iota of wisdom in you ,you are talking foolishly, a fool is known by the multitude of hi ...
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  • Kwame 1 month ago

    That is why some of us continue to say that John Mahama is not a real NDC man. He only rode on the back of the Umbrela party to realise his ambition. Look at how he even treated the daughter of the Founder of their Party Zena ...
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  • Azar warns .against the renaming 1 month ago

    What are all these blabbering for..You are completely out of proportion.Bring another subject. Please..Long live Ghana .

  • ccxc 1 month ago

    kotoka was an imperialist stooge, remove his name from the airport. those mad soldiers including Affrifa reversed the clock of progress by overthrowing Nkrumah after being bribed by the USA

  • Nene Sackitey 1 month ago

    Nonsense and xenophobic inferiority and tribalistic complex from a village man who calls his bush London UK. If you ask him to distinguish metric Great Britain and United Kingdom or the British Isle now he would be fainting

  • Imani 1 month ago

    Tell them. These brain dead people who didn't know about the curse of Kotoka. I hope his statue is also removed.

  • Same applies to Rawlings 1 month ago

    Anything building or road named after Rawlings too has to be changed because he was a coup maker who murderer lots of people without trial

  • Northern Boy 1 month ago

    After Rawlings is stability and democracy. After kotoka then what? Tell us, apart ftom retardation in development and general backwardness and a million coups etc as a result of Nkrumah's overthrow

  • Ato 1 month ago

    I am ndc but logically you make a lot of sense.

  • We are NPP 1 month ago

    Very cheap opinion by this Azar man. No glorification for coup makers

  • Kojo 1 month ago

    Including JJ?

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  • Kojo 1 month ago

    This single act of renaming will set the ball rolling for erasing anything of coup makers including the founder of NDC. Watch out!!!

  • King Vasco 1 month ago

    Many Ghanaians were not born then, and many were told a twisted history. Majority of Ghanaians hate to accept the bitter truth. After Kwame Nkrumah attained independence, he was ruling very well by doing so much for the count ...
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  • Kofi I Edusei 1 month ago

    It is childish to believe that Nkrumah wanted to be President of Africa ? The visionary Kwame Nkrumah knew the advantages of a continental government for United Africa.He started in one of his speeches that Africa became Un ...
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  • shahidi 1 month ago

    It should be Nkrumah Airport

  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 1 month ago

    I agree with you. The airport should be named after a national hero. KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT for sure. From KIA to KNIA. That will be a simple editing.
    The airport was formally a Royal Airbase for the UK. So if N ...
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  • Koliko 1 month ago

    Mahama is the most anti Ewe fool. He sacked a lot of Ewes appointed by Atta Mills in his first term. This renaming is a complete populist nonsense

  • Kojo poku-London UK 1 month ago

    @ LA Verite

    Kotoka is a MURDERER who killed Lt. General BARWAH INFRONT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. Kotoka was a TRAITOR and an UNPATRIOTIC EWE who took $10 Million US dollars BRIBE FROM THE CIA TO BETRAY MOTHER GHANA. IGP HA ...
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    Hey clown! If you have such access, why not use it to enrich yourself. Gigemamuma!

  • kkcc 1 month ago

    Im beginning to see how Ghanaians really are,foolish emotional arrogant people who act purely out of emotions without thinking about their actions. Kotoka did what was best for Ghanaians at that time why dont Ghanaians like t ...
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  • Seth Ntiri Twum 1 month ago

    I don't know how old you are, but you have have made the point that many people have missed all this while. The way ordinary Ghanaians jubilated , and the mock burials that took place on every nook and cranny in Ghana showed ...
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  • Mangana Yazo 1 month ago

    Ghanaweb. Where has Article "2019882" disappeared to?

  • John 1 month ago

    Thw whole country is going through transportation crisis yet the incompetent Govt is wasting its time in renaming an airport. How many Ghanaians use KIA to be bothered by its name?

  • Nkeaaaa 1 month ago

    Kwasia. It's people like you that are hiking transport fares and multi charging commuters by picking in bits just to make the government unpopular. The poison you sowed at your workplace you encountered at the roadside. Ask y ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

    Have you forgotten that Ghanaians were going through more difficult times when NPP's Akufo-Addo was busy renaming institutions across Ghana? If you want to know how many Ghanaians use KIA, take your rear-end to KIA and sit th ...
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  • Please 1 month ago

    Start by renaming a particular Circle

    Someone who was a bomb thrower
    Killing children
    ............

  • Kwame Angel 1 month ago

    Foolish argument. You don't honor a rogue simply because he was killed. We will "dishonor" him because he took money collaborated with foregn agencies to destry his own country. So, if he was killed in the Gulf of Guinea, the ...
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  • Nana 1 month ago

    NDC shd direct their amger and strength to GPRTU, dismantling their powers. They have threatened the Transport Minister that they will beat him up , when he directed them to reduce fares and improve their services.

  • GHANA MUST BAN THE NPP POLITICAL PARTY BECAUSE THEY ARE PUPPETS OF THE CORRUPT AND EVIL WHITE MAN 1 month ago

    Ghana's NPP Political Party are nation destroyers and foot soldiers of the evil white man. The NPP must be desolved and banned from Ghanaian politics for good. Do a research on how the NPP has destroyed Ghana's national asset ...
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  • Laimomo 1 month ago

    Kwaku Azar is getting facile with sentimentality! Who the fk was Kotoka before 1966? Traitorous deeds was his accomplishment!

  • nii 1 month ago

    IMAGINE NAMING ANYTHING ADOLF HITLER

  • Gas Dont Like the Fact That a National Monument On Their Land Is Named After an Ewe! 1 month ago

    Typical Gaman with his hatred for Ewes!

  • Nii ankrah 1 month ago

    Is the president a Ga,how many Gas are occupying positions in this government, which other thing was in the name of an Ewe that Gas opposed,

  • nii 1 month ago

    SOMETIMES I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO ARTICULATE SOME OF YOUR ARGUMENTS. PLEASE READ OVER AGAIN AND MAYBE YOU MIGHT COME OUT WITH A MORE MEANINGFUL VERSION

  • nii 1 month ago

    IMAGINE NAMING ANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AFTER ADOLF HITLER

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    ARE-YOu-MAD-KWAKU?
    Cry to create another ocean! Kotoka was a most wicked murderer - shot and killed Major-General BARWAH, in cold blood in front of wife and kids!
    IGP Harlley and the Deputy IGP Deku with Kotoka, these selfi ...
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  • nii 1 month ago

    SOMETIMES I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO ARTICULATE SOME OF YOUR ARGUMENTS. PLEASE READ OVER AGAIN AND MAYBE YOU MIGHT COME OUT WITH A MORE MEANINGFUL VERSION. CAN THE GERMANS NAME EVEN A SCHOOL AFER ADOLF HITLER

  • Peter 1 month ago

    This change is very very unnecessary.

  • Akwadaa Nyame 1 month ago

    Who the heck wants to remember traitor Kotoka? The least said about this buffoon the better for generations to come not hearing this awful name. Kwaku Azar should go back to his Busia UP base and stop hidding behind a pen.

  • NPP NO MORE ATTRACTIVE TO THE NEUTRALS!! 1 month ago

    Must you always have something to say about everything?

  • Sycamore 1 month ago

    Prof you got it all wrong this time
    The airport's name must be changed asap

  • Kwame Nkrumah 1 month ago

    You might as well demolished the cape coat and elimina castles

  • CORRUPT AND THE,UNPATRIOTIC OPPOSE IT- Kwabena ohemeng,london 1 month ago

    Hey,Kwaku Azar are you really serious? Kotoka took a bribe
    of 10 million dollars from the CIA to overthrow Nkrumah and you are telling ghanaians that his name should be glorified because he was killed during Arthur and Yeb ...
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  • Lieut Gen. Akatsatsi 1 month ago

    Kwaku Azar you're right. Very very right.

  • JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

    The only things right about Azar are his right hand and right leg.

  • Akronfo Addoonothing-Mumu Bawuliar- Ofui AtaaAyi the fugithief 1 month ago

    Why- so we can’t read to know our history? These so called professors- empty heads.

  • Ghana Money 1 month ago

    Those whose party founder was.a coupist are the ones saying Kotoka was a coup maker. So they will rename the airport.

  • AK 1 month ago

    The argument of this man is skewed. How on earth can a political turbulence be celebrated? The argument of this supposed legal luminary is totally flawed.

  • Matthew Annan 1 month ago

    We Cocoa farmers want our payment.
    Useless Randy Abbey
    Solve Accra transport mess.
    Honey moon over NDC

  • Image 1 month ago

    history...is long overdue...is better to name the airport Atta Ayi International Airport than kotoka International Airport, kotoka is the most wicket person in human history..he helped CIA to destroy ghana n Africa dream b ...
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  • Ken 1 month ago

    When the renaming from KIA to AIA is done, let the names of the airports in Kumasi and Tamale be also changed to Kumasi International Airport and Tamale International Airport .

    The change is unnecessary

  • Akintola 1 month ago

    The change of the name has kept long. How can a traitor be named after a facility developed by the one he betrayed?

  • Asonaba asiedu 1 month ago

    Prof this one dierr your reasoning is a bit unreasonable!! The name Kotoka resonates with a coup. Simple. What's surprising is the fact that the name hasn't been changed for so long. Thank God finally the present government h ...
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  • ITS THE NORTHERNERS OVERTURNING EWE DOMINANCE IN NDC & COUNTRY! 1 month ago

    Northerners has over the years derided the fact thst since independence they have played second fiddle to Ewes in the polity of Ghana and also in all the Socialist groupings from CPP to NDC. Its their opportunity to overturn ...
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  • Frontomfrom 1 month ago

    "Renowned legal expert", my foot!
    He appeals for sympathy for Kotoka's execution as emotional justification for retaining the ILLEGAL airport name change. Where is the honour for Major-General Charles Barwah, who was callous ...
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  • Suu 1 month ago

    I agreed with professor submission.....I don't know what is wrong with my party ndc.....their will be lossing ground with some individual who are dictating to them,ie Asiedu Nkietiah n kwesi Pratt.

  • Bretuoba Kofi Frimpong Boateng 1 month ago

    Bullshit. Change it. Shameful history like this is what we will continue not to glorify.

  • Kobie 1 month ago

    Naming and renaming. Soon the only history that will be left will be in one place and the jealousy will continue. I guess you the place I am talking about.

  • Fairman 1 month ago

    My friend, the revert is proper and long overdue.
    Thought the prof will be taking about our all- Ghc1,Ghc 5, Ghc 10, Ghc 20, Ghc 50, Ghc 100 and Ghc 200 bank notes carrying the images of 6 men, so called big 6.
    Is it been ...
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  • Zelda 1 month ago

    All NDC knows how to do is change names

  • C&L 1 month ago

    A known coupist Kwaku Azar has no business telling us how to name institutions in our country. We welcome the change.

  • Papa Kumasi 1 month ago

    I disagree with you on this one, Prof.

  • Alex Owusu 1 month ago

    Prof Azar I totally disagree with your submission.The history of the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah is nothing something appealing to know .Its a dark history for Ghana .

  • Ivory Mensah 1 month ago

    Mr Azaaah, so who's Kotoka ?

  • Takyi 1 month ago

    In 32 years time the NPP will rename it after one of their very own.

  • LEAVE THE AIRPORT ALONE! 1 month ago

    What if NPP comes to power and says Kotoka overthrew a Dixtatir and restored democracy to Ghana so they are also xhanging the name back to Kotoka.

    You illiterate politicians from both NDC and NPP are destroying this countr ...
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  • dovi 1 month ago

    Should this idiot comment on any issues, even if he has nothing to say

  • Ewes In NDC Forums Have Gone Very Quiet On this Issue 1 month ago

    Im in 3 NDC forums. Most of the hardcore loudmouth NDC Ewes who will comment on everything under the earth has for once gone very quiet over this namechanging issue.

    As they say "silence speaks louder than words".

  • Kofi 1 month ago

    Kweku Azar, which of the confederare general is name after any of the international airports in the USA where you sit and tyrow epitles towards Ghana?

  • Mahama Kwaku Ananse Trick to Divert Attention from 24-Hr Economy Propaganda 1 month ago

    People have started asking questions when the 24 Hr economy is going to start. This us a trick vy Mahama to distract Ghanaians from asking too many questions about the 24hr economy.

  • JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

    Azar, your argument in support of coup-maker Kotoka is utterly ridiculous. Is honouring Kotoka not an open endorsement of coups? Kotoka was part of the 1966 gang of coup-makers, and the naming of that airport after him is not ...
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  • THE MONUMENT SHOULD BE A REMINDER TO WOULD BE DICTATORS 1 month ago

    And the third-termers like JDM turning all tricks for a third term. That if you try it yiu will be overthrown!

  • ADDO BEYONCE 1 month ago

    MONUMENTAL STUPIDITY TO CHANGE THE NAME...
    The so-called DEMOCRATIC LEADERS have stolen and caused more damage to the country...check the stats.


    Tweaaa

    I am never an NDC and NPP........
    NADAA alone squandered more t ...
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  • THEN NDC SHOULD ALSO BE DISBANDED AS A POLITICAL PARTY! 1 month ago

    Because it was established by a Coup Plotter!!

  • No pain no gain 1 month ago

    Look at this kwaku Azar, so should it rather be named after Akuffo addo then ?. What at all is wrong with some Ghanaians?. I know in every race there is a little bit of stupidity but sometimes it is saddening when people just ...
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  • Ken 1 month ago

    Unfortunately, it’s not a nation at peace with itself. Renaming is long overdue. A classic case of pretending as if it is the right thing when obviously it is not. Leaders shied away from this bold action, I doff my hat to ...
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  • YB 1 month ago

    Your comment is hollow @ Kwaku Azar

  • Killer 1 month ago

    Masa masa this is done everywhere in the world. USA, Canada France you name it names of streets, schools etc

  • Momo 1 month ago

    Mahama, just remember the day you change that name .Let your country men keep it in mind.You will also one day ,become a former president.we were made to believe someone was a dictator,some believed it,a savior(?)was then th ...
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  • Razal Sheiba 1 month ago

    Can one therefore argue that any street named after Rawlings should also be changed to something better because he's also a 2 time coup maker with many more innocent lives dying under his watch than kotoka? June 4 and 31 Dece ...
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  • Northern Boy 1 month ago

    Maasa ho warn yourself

  • No Nonsense 1 month ago

    NOBODY CONGRATULATES OR CELEBRATES POLITICAL TURBULENCE. THE AIRPORT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT GATE OR ENTRY POINT TO GHANA. SO ENTERING THAT GATE REMINDS YOU OF THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY AS A PLACE OF POLITICAL TURBULENCE WHICH IS S ...
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  • Tosh 1 month ago

    Was Kotoka the only coupist who was killed in Ghana's turbulent history? What about Afrifa, Acheampong, Fella, Akuffo and others? Could we name the Tamale International Airport, Fella International Airport? Or Kumasi, Afrifa ...
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  • No Nonsense 1 month ago

    VERY GOOD ARGUMENT!

  • Kofi Ghanaba 1 month ago

    General Kotoka was transferred to Kumasi in 1965 and he befriended General Afrifa.It was there that the coup in 1966 was planned.I have some Ewe blood in me.It is sad a northerner Dramani Mahama wants to erase history.The one ...
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  • my eyes everywhere. 1 month ago

    is the re- naming of the airport a part of 24hr economy? is a new ndc campaigh message for 2028?

  • Nkwa Kwame 1 month ago

    @Kwaku Azar, I am over sixty years and never have I associated Kotoka to any counter coup for which you think the name must be maintained for historical reasons and I believe there are many like me.We can read about whatever ...
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  • SO ALSO IS RAWLINGS 1 month ago

    He should never have anything named after him vexause he was also a Coup Plotter!

  • Ed 1 month ago

    Absolute bollocks u dey tok. Nooonsense gerrout from here.

  • rashid 1 month ago

    when they finish, they should remove Rawlings' name from every single thing named after him in Ghana. Nobody was more a coup maker and a murderer than Rawlings. And we hope we don't see the NDC celebrating 31st December or Ju ...
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  • Peaceful man 1 month ago

    Mr Azar this your argument holds no water

  • Wise Man. 1 month ago

    Foolish Man.

  • Ali Bradley 1 month ago

    Kotoka does not deserve an airport named after him. He was a traitor to his country. He helped overthrow a visionary leader and set the country down a dangerous downward spiral. We did not know Coup d’état’s until this n ...
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  • Nana 1 month ago

    Are you sure you are a lawyer, lawyer azar meaning fraud

  • Traitor Kotoka name Has No bussiness On National Sirport 1 month ago

    Renaning of our Narional Airport Is Long Due Its a pure insults totally disgraced to have a despicable nation wreacker Corrupted Kotoka on any of public properties in the Ckuntry.

  • Stanley Glover 1 month ago

    What a contradiction? Airport was named to honour Kotoka but not to glorify coups, but who was Kotoka and what brought about his name into the mix in the first place?

  • Shhh 1 month ago

    I agree with you proff,let the name remain like that untouched,

  • Shai 1 month ago

    Ring road should then be named after Odartey Wellington according to your logic.

  • the Villager 1 month ago

    By Azar’s reasoning we should change the name of the Flagstaff/Jubilee House to BARWAH’S HOUSE in honour of the only senior Northern Officer who was killed during the coup. If KIA is to honour Kotoka then Barwah House sho ...
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  • Sibo 1 month ago

    Ghana, nkwasias3m nkoaaa!!!

  • GOD IS FIGHTING FOR GHANAIANS! 1 month ago

    A Rawlings established Party is taking steps that will ban Rawlings and the other Ewe Coup Plotter Kotoka from the annals of Ghanas history.

    God is fighting for Oman Ghana. Praise the Lord!

  • Martin A 1 month ago

    Azar is not a renowned legal scholar, but a professor of accounting at the University of Florida. He's not better suited to provide a legal advice than a makola market woman.

  • Agya Koo 1 month ago

    Ei!!! Prof know all. He thinks he's the wisest person in Ghana. Hmmm

  • Joey 1 month ago

    I agree with him. It isn't necessary to change the name at this time. There are more important things to do than change of names. I am not sure changing of names is one of the issues Ghanaians are concerned about. Unemploymen ...
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  • Agbelimor Paris 1 month ago

    Constitutional amendment in 1964 officially declared him as president for life of Ghana,one party system, detention without trial.General Kotoka was ahead of his time thinking he was liberating Ghanaians from authoritarian r ...
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  • Samuel Attafuah 1 month ago

    MASSA, PLEASE WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT?
    HOW COULD RENAMING OUR AIRPORT, LIKELY ENGENDER THE ERASURE OF SOME ASPECTS OF GHANA'S HISTORY, ESPECIALLY WHERE THE CURRENT NAME HAS NO POSITIVE BEARING ON OUR HISTORY, WHATSOEVER? THE ...
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  • Samuel Attafuah 1 month ago

    MASSA, PLEASE WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT?
    HOW COULD RENAMING OUR AIRPORT, LIKELY ENGENDER THE ERASURE OF SOME ASPECTS OF GHANA'S HISTORY, ESPECIALLY WHERE THE CURRENT NAME HAS NO POSITIVE BEARING ON OUR HISTORY, WHATSOEVER? THE ...
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  • Patrick Ayepa Gyedu 1 month ago

    What are you saying man that if posterity finds out who is Kotoka that such an important state edifice is named after and it turns out he was the protagonist for the 1966 coup against BBC African personality for the past cent ...
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  • Asida 1 month ago

    Kookaburra International Airport is Kotoka International Airport. Nothing will change. They should not attempt changing it, we will not agree.

  • Acragirly 1 month ago

    Kotoka does not deserve any recognition. He cohorted with CIA and destroy our nation's progress.
    We must change the airport name to Accra international in order to have peace with Nkrumah.
    Nkrumah did his very best for Gh ...
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  • Acragirly 1 month ago

    A scholar my foot. His argument doesn't hold water.
    A bla, blah schola !

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    Govt properties and renaming. Govt built an airport in Kumasi and named it after one of the Kumasi chiefs. Accra people don’t agree with the govt name provided

  • Asakramitoga 1 month ago

    Azar, as for this you have failed goofed so badly. Those if us who were alive during the Operation cold chop and Operation guitar boy will not like to hear the name Kotoka. We are not Akanising the issue.

  • Hmm TV G 1 month ago

    Why is that, the names of national monuments in Accra are changed under the instigation of the Ga people but not so for the others not in Accra. Examples:Ohene Djan Stadium, now Kotoko Airport. Does the government appreciate ...
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  • Rocky 1 month ago

    Kotoka adds no concrete value or substance to the history of Ghana. On the contrary keeping his name on the nation’s international airport means the glorification of a western puppet, a traitor and villain whose actions set ...
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  • Donatus 1 month ago

    That history about how kotoka was killed should be erased.

  • Kk 1 month ago

    GAs by far are the most tribalistic tribe in Ghana. If all tribes were like these few gas Ghana would have collapsed. They are filled with jealousy and pain against especially Akans. You just be happy Accra was made the capi ...
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  • Sultan 1 month ago

    NDC please don't fall for this name change.....otherwise the spirit of kotoka will take down your government after four years another kotoka will emerge, that is the sermon to John Mahama. A trap is been set in front you.

  • PEOPLE WHO ALWAYS ESPOUSE DIVERGENT VIEWS LIKE AZAR ARE CONFUSED 1 month ago

    People who behave like A car, criticizing every decision are confused. Like Amidu, they flop when the job is given to them. Such holier than thou illusionists spend all the time in fear their actions will be criticized by oth ...
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  • Kojo poku-London UK 1 month ago

    @ Emmanuel Kwame

    Kotoka is a MURDERER who killed Lt. General BARWAH INFRONT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. Kotoka was a TRAITOR and an UNPATRIOTIC EWE who took $10 Million US dollars BRIBE FROM THE CIA TO BETRAY MOTHER GHANA. I ...
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  • DDT 1 month ago

    Can kweku Azar mention one benefit Ghana gain from that traitor Kotoka? If none, he should off. He should use he time wisely next time. All that he wrote was nonsense.

  • Koti 1 month ago

    It doesn't click. What you are saying is similar to saying Judas Iscariot should also be honoured.

  • Watchman 1 month ago

    Kotoka is a historical reminder that we reject a one party state. The airport was not renamed after Kotoka because he was a Ewe as claimed by Afenyo Markin; but because he was killed at the Accra International Airport. I thin ...
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  • SamKiss 1 month ago

    Up to when will Ghana stop this craps

  • Honest 1 month ago

    Don’t we have more things to better think of than renaming
    We can turn the current transportation crises into a developmental agenda and even offer a lot of employment
    Mps waisting time to debate name change in the not t ...
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  • The orangutans state 1 month ago

    Majority must always be carried in any democratic regime. The people say they don't want it because ot reminds them of dirty events . Kotoka,s name can be found in our historic books and archives but not in a daily state. He ...
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  • Bonus Baba 1 month ago

    The NDC party can't solve simple basic problems The party is finding it difficult to find solutions to daily constant congestion on the Kwabenya road. The party keeps spending millions of dollars each month trying to ...
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  • Ishmael 1 month ago

    Complete fallacy..what is the relevance of Kotoka to our national identity. If he died defending the very system he helped put in place - having overthrown our iconic president by the gun - why should he be honoured such icon ...
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  • Nyameba 1 month ago

    We don’t need any more EWE name on our prestigious airport period. Accra International Airport is fine

  • Ato 1 month ago

    There is no need to rename. Mr. Kotoka International Airport didn't divorce Mrs Accra International Airport to revert.

    It is not broken dont fix it. The government must rather think of improving the status of the airport b ...
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  • Cambodia'88 1 month ago

    I think Prof Kwaku Asare has provided valuable depth and clarity to the whole cacophony of discussion going on about whether to change or not to change..
    Govt must listen or hear this position and submission by Prof Azar.. f ...
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  • David 1 month ago

    Very good that our international airport is named after Emmanuel Kwesi Kotoka who redeemed Ghana from the oppresive rule of Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah was great in terms of developing the country. No one can take that from him. B ...
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  • Jagadu 1 month ago

    Kwaku Azar or what the you are. Get the outta here. Kotoka the traitor does not deserve that recognition. It is a stain in the conscience of the masses. How do you justify to kids learning Ghana’s history and telling th ...
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  • KWEEKU TOSA 1 month ago

    Kwaaku Azar " WOTRISO NE WAPAMPASO"

  • Fireman 1 month ago

    Nonsense, who is this one too. Where were you when Nana was change names to honor his own people

  • Azar warns .against the renaming 1 month ago

    Flag
    staff house name was changed ,why not Accra
    International Airport.The nation has already been in democratic dispensation for years now .It is better to remove such unfortunate and hard luck name from the airport ...
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  • The Great 1 month ago

    KIA, originally Accra International Airport was built by Kwame Nkrumah and should be named after him. Nkrumah gave Ghana independence. A world renowned leader should have KIA named after him. This will increase tourism to Gha ...
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  • King 1 month ago

    First of all Ghana is full of tribe's and kotoka is not Accra born and even if he was Accra born he should not be named after anything but in the interest of Accra....
    It's high time Africans should face the reality.. e ...
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  • Sly 1 month ago

    Good professor,
    The renaming of the Accra International Airport to Kotoka was done to honor a coup maker, a notorious anti Pan Africanist, a traitor of our motherland Ghana and national liberation movement of Africa. So whe ...
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