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Kotoka prevented one-party state under Nkrumah - Family and chiefs claim

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  • Nonsense 1 month ago

    One party state with Nkrumah would have been better off than 15 different Ghanaian presidents as we have experienced today. The UPs are the cause of our problems. Come to think about Akufo Addo's government, the cathedral, ...
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  • FRANKIE 1 month ago

    Yes, and Ghana would have experienced unprecedented development. Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, etc are classic examples. Nkrumah never dies!

  • LOOK AT THIS CONFUSED FAMILY. ON ONE BREATH THEY SAID KOTOKA WANTED NKRUMAH BACK AND NOW THEY ARE SAYING HE PREVENTED GHANA FROM BECOMING ONE PARTY STATE. WHATEVER IT IS, KOTOKA BETRAYED GHANA 1 month ago

    This family and their supporters are confused. This same people, while trying to vindicate Kotoka, said he wanted Nkrumah back because he realised that the Western world had deceived them into overthrowing Nkrumah.

    Now thi ...
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  • Ernestine Sackey 1 month ago

    Airport should be renamed Ayikushi International Airport. Ewes like coup too much.

  • Justice 1 month ago

    You are right! What is wrong with one party state with the needed development. Nkrumah was doing the right thing, there was no need for a coup or any election to change him. We then unborn can even feel the impact of his good ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 month ago

    Family members eat shit sleep free...useless people they don't contribute anything except food poisoning and stealing from each other. Do these stupid family know that their kotoka TOOK BRIBES to overthrow and help stage that ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    Some of Kwame Nkrumah’s Achievements to Ghana in the space of 6 years Ghana 60's

    - University Of Cape Coast (UCC)
    - Ghana National College, Cape Coast
    - Mfantsiman Girls' SHS
    - Winneba secondary school
    - Apam Seconda ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    The White man and woman CAME TO AFRICA TO SCAM US, TO STEAL, TO DEPLETE OUR RESOURCES-MINERALS-HENCE GOLD COAST and THE SLAVE TRADE.
    The Whites or England left Ghana with NO EDUCATION FOR OUR MASSES AND MASSES OF OUR PEOPLE. ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    Kotoka TOOK CIA SPY BRIBES OF 10 MILLION US DOLLARS TO BETRAY MOTHER GHANA. KOTOKA MUST DIE BY FIRING SQUAD. A TRAITOR AND AN UNPATRIOTIC SELFISH MAN. KOTOKA HATED GHANA BECAUSE HE IS FROM THE TOGOLAND.
    Kotoka is a MURDERER ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILD ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
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  • NKRUMAH WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE MUGABE 1 month ago

    NKRUMAH WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE MUGABE OR MUSEVENI HE WOULD LIKE TO DIE ON THE THRONE AND BY DOING SO WOULD HAVE DESTROYED ALL THE GOOD THINGS HE DID.

  • Paa Pee 1 month ago

    Arfe you sure of watch you are saying? Would have? What a stupid point to make.

  • Ruben 1 month ago

    He started destroying them already.

  • Blema Duade 1 month ago

    How come someone who has done gud things turn around n destroy dem, Nkrumah would not do dat.

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    Please please Dr Kwame Nkrumah was NEVER A COMMUNIST. DR KWAME NKRUMAH WAS NON ALIGNED. GHANA WAS A NON ALIGNED COUNTRY. THERE WERE OVER 80 NON ALIGNED COUNTRIES AND GHANA WAS ONE OF THEM.
    LET ME ENLIGHTEN YOU. USA IS NOW IN ...
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  • Stop the personal sentiment there! 1 month ago

    1) Did Kotoka name the airport to himself?
    2) If no, did we know the situation at the time better than those who named the airport in honour of Kotoka?
    3) Did those who name the airport after Kotoka did it under duress or a ...
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  • Kojo poku-London UK 1 month ago

    @ Stop the personal sentiments here

    Are you MAD? The Accra International Airport was BUILT BY DR KWAME NKRUMAH AND SO WHY SHOULD IT LOGICALLY BE NAMED AFTER HIS NEMESIS TRAITOR AND AN UNPATRIOTIC EWE WHO TOOK THE CIA 10 MI ...
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  • Stone 1 month ago

    We are changing the name of the airport; period!!!
    If you don't agree, go to Hell.

  • Reap what you sow 1 month ago

    Why is Ghana getting more and more grown up idiots?

  • NPP= NANA'S POVERTY PROMOTERS 1 month ago

    Is there something wrong with one party state? We had one party democracy in Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, China etc.. what was the result? All these countries have developed exponentially. What have Ghanaians gained from mul ...
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  • Kwame panin 1 month ago

    Nyerere ruled Tanzania for as long as he could. What has happened to Tanzania. Ghana was on the verge of bankruptcy before Nkrumah was overthrown.

  • Uncle James 1 month ago

    Kotoka betrayed Ghana and had caused Ghanaians and by extension, all Africans, everlasting pain. The "so-called one party state" would have given us better development and better lives today. Kotoka was visionless, lacked cap ...
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  • Kofi uk 1 month ago

    Bullshit write up, houpho bouyen from Ivory Coast ruled for more than 20 years, was he also a dictator and made C I a one party state?

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  • Quabina-Apontua Yeboah, California-USA 1 month ago

    I couldn’t agree with you more.
    America with a population of over 340 million got only 2 main parties, and what’s wrong with Ghana been one party state?

  • Whiteman 1 month ago

    You are just being biased, a year after the coup he realized they couldn't do quarter of the things Nkrumah did, so he wanted to hand over to Nkrumah then his colleagues coup d'etators killed. Why should he then be named afte ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 month ago

    Ghanaians are foolish people by and large go there and look around you.

  • NKRUMAH LEFT GHANA BROKE! 1 month ago

    Nkrumah misused our resources, all in a vaingloroius attempt to prove to the white man the blackman was capable of managing his own affairs. He squandered all the millions left behind after independence and built all manner o ...
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  • Master P 1 month ago

    You are a fool and damn ignorant indeed

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 month ago

    Kwasia and what did akuffu addo build? Using gh monies to build assets and going broke as you isn't that way better that constructing a cathedral n chopping the money? How much money did Dr Nkrumah steal?

  • Kojo poku-London UK 1 month ago

    @ Nkrumah left Ghana Broke

    Are the MAD or insane?
    After the 2nd World War, Great Britain was Broke and the same with ALL EUROPE IN 1945. GREAT BRITAIN WENT TO BORROW FROM THE USA AND CANADA. THERE WAS NO MONEY LEFT BY ...
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  • Acragirly 1 month ago

    And we are still broke !

  • Francis Mccarthy 1 month ago

    Very very FOOLISH TALK.Kwame Nkrumahs' 9 years, we had factories, schools, ships, houses etc etc. Can you FOOLISH PEOPLE tell Ghanaians, JUST ONE SINGLE GUTTER BUILT FROM MATCH 1966--to--1972. From Gen. Ankrah, Gen.Afrifa and ...
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  • Justice 1 month ago

    You are right!

  • Peter 1 month ago

    This family member better shut up.

  • ARNOLD ARYEE 1 month ago

    It is one of the most common lethargy in our nation :

    Tribalism has raised one of its ugly heads against Kotoka , one of the engineers of the 1966 Coup.

  • Donatus 1 month ago

    Like kotoka, like family and chiefs.

  • Oprege 1 month ago

    Good point by the family but coup was not a solution !

  • Sam, Worcester-MA 1 month ago

    Stupid Man, which stability did Kotoka establish?

  • Hanson K.K 1 month ago

    FOR TRUTH, HISTORY TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY. HOW MANY OF THEM IN PARLIAMENT TODAY ARE 65 YEARS AND ABOVE THAT HAVE KNOWN KWAME NKRUMAH, THE TYRANT RULER .
    HISTORY A VITAL SUBJECT IS NO MORE TO EDUCATE THE YOUNG ONES .
    KOTOK ...
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  • Bawumia 1 month ago

    Hanson in fact you sound very foolish like your stupid father. Kwasia bi ba like you.

  • Justice 1 month ago

    Better to be ruled by a tyrant with prosperity for all than to be in the so called democracy with mass poverty and the state money going into the pockets few greedy bastards.

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 month ago

    Look at china one party state no elections economic atomic prosperity Nkrumah even had elections its adom otchere who uses his platform to misinform he should in ite black rasta and Oliver to his show if he has balls adom otc ...
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  • BoboDibo 1 month ago

    Your stupidity is very well acknowledged, you can go to sleep now. yakam3

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 month ago

    Be there for your friends as they have been there for you

  • The The 1 month ago

    That would have been a million times better for Ghana.

  • Justification 1 month ago

    What is the justification for this casuistry?

  • Gaskia 1 month ago

    I'm sure it won't be a problem if Gen Kotoka is honoured in his part of the Volta Region, where his relatives claimed he planned the developments, maybe with a statue and some other places named after him.

  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 1 month ago

    I agree with you.

    All the developments of Kotoka was around his hometown. Check well and see.

  • ADOMBIRE CLINTON 1 month ago

    You people think that one party State is a devil? There must be reasons like many people working with Dr kwame Nkrumah were practically working against him and Ghana without any particular reason. Dr kwame Nkrumah realized th ...
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  • Justice 1 month ago

    Ask these gullible people again and again.

  • MO KWAME NKRUMAH NO 1 month ago

    The one party state could have been beneficial to Ghanaians, it could have led the country to develop like China

  • Dwarf 1 month ago

    It is only gullible UP/NPP with low IQ who will believe this cock and bull story. Apart from embezzled state funds and resources, what is NPP’s contribution to national development?

  • Justice 1 month ago

    Thank you for your question to these people. They are nothing but nation wreckers.

  • Psd 1 month ago

    Is China not a one-party state? Dubai, Qatar, etc, are they not one-party or even no party states? What is wrong with a one-party state? Has Europe told the Gulf nations to become multiparty? Today we talk of Kagame and Rwand ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 month ago

    The royals on England don't they practice one parry? Every prime minister answers to the royal family

  • BoboDibo 1 month ago

    Chiefs and family collect money from Afenyo Markin to talk shit. Where's your fucking dignity, if you have any.
    FYI, your son regretted the coup and asked that power be given back to Nkrumah, what the are you talking abou ...
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  • Ewvevi 1 month ago

    Honestly, I have heard that story about Kotoka regretting the coup and calling for the return of nkrumah. How true is that? Don't get me wrong. I truly want to read about that. Any reference material to read from please?

  • Kwame Angel 1 month ago

    Go wey you! You can name your house after him if you think your traitor is a hero.

  • Tito 1 month ago

    That was best for ghana because Nkruma wasn't criminal thief like those from 1992 till date

  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 1 month ago

    When you say Ofori Atta is a thief the same people will ask, what is the evidence, today I'm also asking, what was the evidence that Nkrumah wanted to turn Ghana into one party state ? they over thrown Nkrumah to loot the st ...
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  • Justice 1 month ago

    Brother, with what we are witnessing today as democracy, especially in NPP governance, one party state would have been better for us.

  • No pain no gain 1 month ago

    Stop chatting rubbish

  • No pain no gain 1 month ago

    Kotoka family, plesse stop chatting rubbish

  • Sul 1 month ago

    THE MOST STUPID FAMILY WE HAVE IN GHANA NOW IS KOTOKA FAMILY.

  • Justice 1 month ago

    They just wanted to invite some few insults. We are already peeved about NPP government and they do not know it. Brother, please forgive them; they do not know what they are talking about.

  • Abudu 1 month ago

    In fact toilet self is far far far better than Bawumia

  • Justice 1 month ago

    Eeii!

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  • Kojos 1 month ago

    Back off. The disgrace of the century and the major contributor to Ghana's woes.
    Kwame Nkrumah was not with shortcomings, but he was voted the Millennium Personality of Africa in the year 2000 ahead of even Nelson Mandela.

  • Isaac Kusi, Bronx, NY. 1 month ago

    Many years ago, when Kuffour was in power, he visited Malaysia. The Prime
    minister asked him why they overthrew Kwame Nkrumah. Kuffour gave the reason for the coup and the Prime Minister told him that they were all following ...
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  • Kwasi 1 month ago

    These guys are baloneys. Are they real? During Nkrumahs' time, schools were free including tertiary education. Ominibus service was free for school children, school pupils were treated free at all hospitals. Text books and s ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    Some of Kwame Nkrumah’s Achievements to Ghana in the space of 6 years Ghana 60's

    - University Of Cape Coast (UCC)
    - Ghana National College, Cape Coast
    - Mfantsiman Girls' SHS
    - Winneba secondary school
    - Apam Seconda ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    The White man and woman CAME TO AFRICA TO SCAM US, TO STEAL, TO DEPLETE OUR RESOURCES-MINERALS-HENCE GOLD COAST and THE SLAVE TRADE.
    The Whites or England left Ghana with NO EDUCATION FOR OUR MASSES AND MASSES OF OUR PEOPLE. ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    Kotoka TOOK CIA SPY BRIBES OF 10 MILLION US DOLLARS TO BETRAY MOTHER GHANA. KOTOKA MUST DIE BY FIRING SQUAD. A TRAITOR AND AN UNPATRIOTIC SELFISH MAN. KOTOKA HATED GHANA BECAUSE HE IS FROM THE TOGOLAND.
    Kotoka is a MURDERER ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILD ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
    read full comment

  • Shai 1 month ago

    That would have better than this vote buying democracy. Goid governance is better than western democracy. Look at Mexico, over hundred years if democracy and nothing to show for. Look at tbe gulf nations without democracy. Lo ...
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  • Wise 1 month ago

    See another fool eulogizing kotoka. Kotoka in fact truncated Ghana road to success.

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 month ago

    Please please Dr Kwame Nkrumah was NEVER A COMMUNIST. DR KWAME NKRUMAH WAS NON ALIGNED. GHANA WAS A NON ALIGNED COUNTRY. THERE WERE OVER 80 NON ALIGNED COUNTRIES AND GHANA WAS ONE OF THEM.
    LET ME ENLIGHTEN YOU. USA IS NOW IN ...
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  • ERRANT NONSENSE 1 month ago

    Nkwasiasɛm ara kwa!! Mtcheeew!!!

  • John 1 month ago

    And so what

  • Ewvevi 1 month ago

    When I see and hear Ewves chanting nkrumah's name, I just quietly shake my head. Whilst acknowledging his high aptitude and acumen for political leadership and unparalleled national infrastructural development, we lose sight ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 month ago

    Ewevi shame on you it's never too late to do the right thing now you are calling for Ewes to separate n build their own nation? Have you forgotten history n how Ewes from Togo became part of Ghana? You talk emotional shame in ...
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  • Ewvevi 1 month ago

    Did you just ask me who is jealous of Eves? Aaaboa. How do you call atta Akyea when we all heard him live on a tapped phone call during the 2008 December elections run off, instructing some thugs to go and fetch dead bodies f ...
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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 1 month ago

    Nonsense.

  • Dumega 1 month ago

    I will burn the stupid grave of kotoka if
    l go to his hometown. That man brought to a complete halt the forward mat h of Ghana. He will never rest in peace. Fucking kotoka.

  • Armah 1 month ago

    Had it not for the bomb throwing and assassinations attempts by JB Danquah and his gang of CIA agents Nkrumah would not have introduced it.

  • Kotoka CIA agent 1 month ago

    Kotoka was a CIA agent

  • Asakramitoga 1 month ago

    Who is this fool. He can erect a statute in Kotoka' honour at Alakple. As for the airport, the name will be changed. Foolish Voltarian. May be you only read about Nkrumah from history books

  • Sam Fante warrior. 1 month ago

    Kotoka family won mame ni twe, mboa ni ba nkwaseful.

  • Ujah 1 month ago

    My comrades the insults are too much to bear, spare them ignorance for me. They are our ownoooh. Forgive them, they won't do that next time. Some don't even know what one party system governments are busy doing in their count ...
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  • noble uk 1 month ago

    I am old enough to say that Nkrumah was far worst than what Adom-Otchere wrote recently. Not just a political despot He was cruel, barbaric, timid and afraid of his own shadow. He thought everyone was after his life and pos ...
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  • Look at another useless NDC idiot 1 month ago

    @ Nonsense, you must be an intolerant tyrant who hates your own personal freedom and change. Nkrumah’s political ideology of Nkrumaihsm was nothing but pure Chinese communism which would have made all Ghanaians his perpetu ...
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  • Look at another useless NDC idiot 1 month ago

    If you people truly believe that the Chinese enjoy living under their oppressive communist regime with its so called technological advancement ask yourselves why do most Chinese citizens want to emigrate to the USA and the We ...
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  • my eyes everywhere. 1 month ago

    dont mind kwasi pratt & co nkrumah is not a SAINT ,the more they sing nkruma never dies the more we also sing Kotoka never dies.The airport nane will never change today or tomorrow.

  • Future Generation Fuo 1 month ago

    NKRUMAH LIVES FOREVER

  • Samuel Ansah, New York City 1 month ago

    This change from Kotoka International Airport to Accra International Airport has long been overlooked.What did Ghana benefit from what did ? He was just used by the CIA and dumped. Mere mention of his name is pain in our hea ...
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  • Acragirly 1 month ago

    So ? How you really know that ?
    Because of your comment, we should name Kotoka to an international airport ?

  • Agbelimor Paris 1 month ago

    Nkrumah was a wicked man, he was a supporter of coup d'etat in Togo and a prime suspect in assassination of Sylvanus Olympio in 1963 and Ethiopia, Nigeria and Liberia snubbed him with his greedy obsession of United States of ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

    Complete fabrication. Kotoka was not the master-mind of the coup; that coup was orchestrated by Dr. Busia and his buddy Major Afrifa, and these two men were the ones who worked closely with the USA and its CIA. Kotoka and Ank ...
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  • Frank 1 month ago

    Scumbag, full of trash

  • JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

    I bet your ashawo mother and stupid village idiot moron father are the very ones you just described. I hear you inherited your gross ignorance from those two pathetic dumb parents of yours.

  • Akhosua 1 month ago

    How many political parties contest your chieftaincy titles? have you not declared yourselves royal blood among your clans and held onto power forever? We even need to start voting to fill vacant skins and stools loooool

  • As if a One-Party State is a death sentence 1 month ago

    Today most Ghanaians hail china for their development. China is a one party state. When they started, they encountered difficulties like Osagyefo did including hunger. Today they are enjoying.

  • Nana 1 month ago

    Senseless and primitive Ghana could have been better under the one party state Kwasia kotoka family

  • Agbelimor Paris 1 month ago

    Look at this idiot,imbecile!Go and ask Ashantihene why he is using that Jamaica flag-like in a republic of Ghana?Go and find out why Volta region is not developing to the standard it supposed to be? If Nkrumah really wanted t ...
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  • Nana Kyeame 1 month ago

    Today's politics is devoid of objectivity and based significantly on emotions and tribal bigotry. Those of us who lived under Nkrumah's capricious rule shall forever be grateful to KOTOKA.

  • Paa Pee 1 month ago

    The fact is the General were asked by the CIA to remove Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to save the country from moving to socialism like Russia and China. We hailed them as heroes and sung in schools praising them and vilifying Nkrumah be ...
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  • Stone 1 month ago

    Why should you be consulted before renaming our own Airport? Are you serious?

  • Kojo poku-London UK 1 month ago

    Please please Dr Kwame Nkrumah was NEVER A COMMUNIST. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was a NON ALIGNED and Ghana was NON ALIGNED COUNTRY and there were over 80 COUNTRIES who were NON ALIGNED COUNTRIES AND GHANA WAS ONE OF THEM.
    Gbedemah ...
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  • Anna 1 month ago

    What did Acheampong prevent?

  • Mahama 1 month ago

    Your arguments does not merit an international recognition as this one.

  • Odewale 1 month ago

    Ewes will stupidly vote for NDC

  • Blema Duade 1 month ago

    Law abiding? How come he masterminded d assassination of Gen Barwah? Look at China now, a one party state, they are far advanced in everything. It seems u are ignorant or u don't want to accept d truth.
    Gbeho, Prof Allotey, ...
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