Ghanaian caught at Detroit airport smuggling $400,000 worth of heroin

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Mathew 12 years ago

These Akans will never stop fast money track with their covering up of NPP!!!!!

These Akans will never stop fast money track with their covering up of NPP!!!!!
Opeimua 12 years ago

Nana Addo's last money is gone.

Nana Addo's last money is gone.
TerriblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

EEEI AKUFFO ADDICT, AKUFFO ADDICT. YOU WANTED THE PRESIDENCY SO BADLY SO THAT YOU COULD CONTINUE WITH YOUR DUG BUSINESS WITH AMOATENG WHEN HE RETURNS 2014. NOW WE HAVE STOPPED YOU AND STALKED YOUR BUSINESS. GO AND COME BACK N ...
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EEEI AKUFFO ADDICT, AKUFFO ADDICT. YOU WANTED THE PRESIDENCY SO BADLY SO THAT YOU COULD CONTINUE WITH YOUR DUG BUSINESS WITH AMOATENG WHEN HE RETURNS 2014. NOW WE HAVE STOPPED YOU AND STALKED YOUR BUSINESS. GO AND COME BACK NO MORE.
ZAMIA N22 LONDON 12 years ago

If the above story is TRUE then those arrested must perish in jail.

So it's TRUE that Nana Akufo Addo is heavily indebted and will do anything under his capabilities to cut down the deficit of his wasted campaign loans.
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If the above story is TRUE then those arrested must perish in jail.

So it's TRUE that Nana Akufo Addo is heavily indebted and will do anything under his capabilities to cut down the deficit of his wasted campaign loans.

Haaba! Nana 'animguase3 nfata kani ba' look @ what you have done to your stupid self! Okuampa Ahoofe jato julor jj Rawlings should come to your rescue now!

The word is WORK AND HAPPINESS not dealing in ILLICIT DRUGS. HUUUUUU!!
TerriblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

THAT IS THE MAIN REASON WHY THE ADDICT IS IN COURT.

THAT IS THE MAIN REASON WHY THE ADDICT IS IN COURT.
ZAMIA N22 LONDON 12 years ago

Nana addict Addo was ready to insert all Ghanaians cocaine for smuggling to finance his FREE SHS. Aww nana how could you think of a thing like that?

Nana addict Addo was ready to insert all Ghanaians cocaine for smuggling to finance his FREE SHS. Aww nana how could you think of a thing like that?
NEMESIS, UK! 12 years ago

NEMESIS HAS CAUGHT UP WITH THESE STUPID GHANAIANS DRUG DEALERS IN USA. IMAGINE IF IT HAPPENS IN GHANA, THESE FOOLISH PEOPLE WILL BLAME IT ON FOREIGNERS, PARTICULARLY NIGERIANS.
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NEMESIS HAS CAUGHT UP WITH THESE STUPID GHANAIANS DRUG DEALERS IN USA. IMAGINE IF IT HAPPENS IN GHANA, THESE FOOLISH PEOPLE WILL BLAME IT ON FOREIGNERS, PARTICULARLY NIGERIANS.
GHANAIANS HOLIER THAN THOU HYPOCRITES HAVE MET THEIR WATERLOO IN USA, JUST LIKE THEIR MOTHERFUCKER DRUG DEALER MP ERIC AMOATENG, SERVING JAIL TERMS IN PENSILVANIA, USA, FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING. WHAT A SHAME!
SHAMO 12 years ago

THE REST WILL TURN INTO FLOUR AT NDC HEADQUARTERS! FOOLS

THE REST WILL TURN INTO FLOUR AT NDC HEADQUARTERS! FOOLS
ATSU, HO 12 years ago

NO INSULTS HERE PLEASE THIS IS REAL.
BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A CASE ON HAND. IT TOOK THE FINANCIAL CUM LEGAL WIZARD, TSATSU LED LEGAL TEAM A WHOLE TEN DAYS MANDATED FOR THE PRESIDENT TO RESPOND. WE MAY BE LAUGHING AT THE W ...
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NO INSULTS HERE PLEASE THIS IS REAL.
BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A CASE ON HAND. IT TOOK THE FINANCIAL CUM LEGAL WIZARD, TSATSU LED LEGAL TEAM A WHOLE TEN DAYS MANDATED FOR THE PRESIDENT TO RESPOND. WE MAY BE LAUGHING AT THE WRONG SIDE OF OUR SHARP TEETH IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL.
no body 12 years ago

mr no name and mr no body

mr no name and mr no body

NEMESIS, UK! 12 years ago

BARONS......
Happy reading:

Drug Barons Bankrolled NPP
General News of Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Source: The Enquirer

…Shocking revelation of Pamela Bridgewater

As former United States of America (USA) Preside ...
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BARONS......
Happy reading:

Drug Barons Bankrolled NPP
General News of Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Source: The Enquirer

…Shocking revelation of Pamela Bridgewater

As former United States of America (USA) President George W. Bush was constantly massaging the ego of former President J. A. Kufuor as the best to have ever happened to Ghana, his Ambassador to Ghana was busy sending cables to the US State Department on how rotten Mr. Kufuor’s empire was, as far as illicit drug trade was concerned.

Pamela E. Bridgewater, US Ambassador to Ghana under the Bush administration, on Tuesday October 9, 2007, sent a damning cable under the subject Government of Ghana not doing enough to combat narcotics.

The cable, indeed, confirmed the lack of political will on the part of the Kufuor government to fight the narcotic drugs trade in Ghana.
In the said cable, which was to be declassified on 10 April, 2017, she stated that narcotic drug barons are generally large supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Ambassador Bridgewater said in the cable that she was told by an official of the Narcotic Control Board that the NPP had no plan of pursuing some eight drug barons, even though many of their identities were known.
Interestingly, Raymond Amankwah, who happens to be the brother-in-law of Nana Akufo-Addo, the flag bearer of the NPP, had his assets that were confiscated returned to him when Nana Addo was the Attorney General and Minister of Justice.
In the said cable, the US Ambassador said that the NACOB official who spoke with her even suggested that drug barons had penetrated the NACOB by recruiting officers of that outfit to keep them informed.
Eric Amoateng & NACOB
Ambassador Bridgewater said in the cable that NACOB, according to one of its higher ranking officials, is motionless.
She said in the cable that the NACOB official said the government of Ghana had effectively neutered NACOB since the embarrassing arrest in the US of the NPP Member of Parliament in 2005.
“All of the high ranking officials during that time have been removed. He said that the government of Ghana was upset with NACOB since it cooperated closely with the US government on the case, which resulted in Amoateng’s guilty plea and subsequent imprisonment in the US.
The NPP administration continued to pay Amoateng for 18 months after his arrest in the US.
Ambassador Bridgewater revealed in the cable that the NACOB official said no one at NACOB was ready to rock the boat, including the new Director Ben Botwe, who lacked experience with narcotics enforcement.
Ben Botwe was appointed to head the NACOB after Mr. Kufuor fired all the top men after the arrest and imprisonment of Amoateng. Before his appointment, he was working with the Food and Drugs Board.
She went further in the cable to state that the Deputy Director of NACOB, Mark Ewuntomaah, was also a problem, and that Gary Nicholls even told her that the Secretary to President Kufuor at the time commented that Ewuntomaah should have stayed as a retired police officer rather than being recalled to NACOB.
According to her, the US Embassy also had cause to worry about Ewuntomaah’s apparent unresponsiveness and general incompetence, adding “Despite repeated promises, Ewuntomaah was unable to even organize a tour to the airport for poloff.”
Ursula Owusu & NACOB
Surprisingly, all that was contained in the cable took place under the nose of one of the loud-mouthed NPP members, Madam Ursula Owusu, popularly known as Vuvursla, who was a Board Member of the NACOB.
Madam Owusu last week went berserk on various radio stations attacking the current administration for not doing enough to fight the illicit drug trade.
She even went on to ask the President to come out with names of members of his government, whom he said he was aware were dealing in drugs.
Observers say that it would be very crucial for Madam Owusu to tell Ghanaians of what she knew was going on at NACOB before asking President Mills for such names.
Interesting Notes
Under the NPP administration led by Mr Kufuor, three women who were residing at Dzorwulu, a suburb of Accra, were arrested at the Kotoka International Airport with large quantities of cocaine but they were not prosecuted.
It is instructive to know that their dockets got missing at the Attorney General’s Department at the time Nana Addo was the A-G and Minister of Justice.
Again, 77 parcels of cocaine mysteriously got missing under the watch of the NPP.
Apart from that, the NPP government sent sniffer dogs that had been brought into the country by the British Government to help fight drugs at the Kotoka airport back with the excuse that the dogs were eating too much.
It was under the NPP that the confiscated assets of Raymond Amankwah, a well known drug baron, who is the brother in law of Nana Addo, were given back to him.
Amankwah got his assets back when Nana Addo was the A-G.
Under the NPP, a quantity of cocaine got missing at Tema port and the police headquarters.
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General News of Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Source: The Herald
Ex-Minister Cited In Cocaine Spread

By Larry-Alans Dogbey

It has emerged that Ghana witnessed at record level of the influx of cocaine during the tenure of Albert Kan-Dapaah as the Minister of Interior under the erstwhile Kufuor administration because he was “dismissive and irritated” when he was presented with problems on the dangerous narcotic drugs in the country by foreign experts who were determined to rid Ghana off drugs.

The ex-Minister’s “dismissive and irritated” have left doubts in the minds of British government over his role in the arrest of the infamous MV Benjamin shipping vessel which carried the 77 parcels of the cocaine into Ghana, which disappeared leading to the setting up of Georgina Wood Committee on the orders of Mr. Kan-Dapaah.

“The U.K. recently shared intelligence with the GOG on a vessel coming to Ghana from South America suspected to be carrying cocaine. King said a vessel left from Tema to provide the suspect ship with fuel and water. According to King, however, the Ghana navy failed to find it and may not have even tried (although it is not clear to us that the navy received the U.K. information),” the British were quoted to have said.

Mr. Kan-Dapaah’s reprehensible attitude towards combating the narcotic drugs forced Ghana’s partners in the fight against the canker conclude in June 2007, that the government of Ghana had become more disinterested in the fight unlike the period of Papa Owusu Ankoma as Interior Minister.

A Lagos-based British Serious Organized Crime (SOCA) Officer, John King reached the damning conclusion which he subsequently later disclosed to officials of American Embassy in Accra soon after his encounter with Mr. Kan-Dapaah.

The disclosure comes on the heels of the an earlier revelations Mr. Kan-Dapaah was questioned at the National Security Secretariat during the tenure of the exiled ex-National Security Minister, Mr. Francis Poku, by officials of the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB).

The probe followed disclosures by the disgraced ex-New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament, Eric Amoateng who was jailed in the US for narcotic drugs trafficking in that country that he that ceramic pots in which he conceal the drugs were shipped to the minister and colleague MP, Mr. Dapaah, back home in Ghana.

Mr. Kan-Dapaah, had publicly said indeed he took delivery of some ceramics which he took to his constituency in the Ashanti Region and shared amongst his constituents.

These shocking revelations were made in one of the leaked secret diplomatic letters called cables written about Ghana by the American intelligence officers and sent to the United States of America (USA) and published by the Wikileaks, a website dedicated to disclosing diplomatic secrets worldwide.

Diplomatic secrets correspondence between the US Embassy here in Ghana and the US State Department on drug related issues in Ghana from 2007-2009.

An earlier cable had stated that an official told agents of the US Embassy in Ghana that the barons are generally supporters of the NPP and he suggested that the ruling party had no plans to pursue these individuals even though many of their identities are known”.

A higher-ranking official, of NACOB said the body was motionless, the document said, pointing out that the official whose name was withheld said that the Government of Ghana effectively neutralized NACOB since the embarrassing arrest in the US of NPP MP Eric Amoateng in 2005.

All the high-ranking officials during that time were been removed. This was because the GOG was upset with NACOB since it co-operated closely with the USG on the case, which resulted in Amoateng’s guilty plea and subsequent imprisonment in the U.S.

*Ben Ndego, Papa Owusu Ankomah And What Happened At NACOB*

Meanwhile, a former Deputy Director of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), has discounted claims by leaked US diplomatic cables suggesting the government in 2007/08 lacked the political will to fight drugs in the country.

Mr. Ben Ndego, who called into Joy FM’s news analysis programme, Newsfile last Saturday, said it was rather some individuals in the previous NPP government who worked systematically to undermine efforts at fighting the drug menace.

The confidential US cables and quoted a December 2007 cable as saying “Embassy contacts in the police service and the president’s office ‘have said they know the identities of the major barons,’ but ‘the government of Ghana does not have the political will to go after [them]’”.

Mr. Ndego who had by that time been interdicted as part of investigations into the disappearance of some 5kilograms of cocaine from NACOB offices however said the claims of government complicity was false.

He maintained that certain individuals – whose names he wouldn’t mention – deliberately made it difficult if not impossible for the fight against drugs to succeed.

He singled out former Interior Minister, Papa Owusu Ankomah for praise because he worked tirelessly to deal with the trafficking of drugs through Ghana.

The former Deputy NACOB boss however did not have as much commendable words for Mr. Owusu Ankomah’s successor at the Interior Ministry, Albert Kan-Dapaah.

“…good people like Papa Owusu-Ankomah… the then Minister of Interior – who… left, and a week later Kan-Dapaah came and removed us, nobody has ever spoken to him about the good effort… he [made] to help Narcotics Control Board to operate efficiently,” he said.

He claimed the fight against drugs took a nosedive when the new interior minister interdicted him and his boss.

Mr. Ben Ndego, who is back at NACOB, accused Mr Kan-Dapaah – the Member of Parliament for Afigya-Sekyere – of recruiting his constituents who neither had the experience nor the willingness to vigorously fight the drug trade.

“The political will was there and the political will always be there in government at the top level, but unfortunately you will have individuals within the system who have their personal motives,” he said.

Mr. Ndego claimed there was a conspiracy to demonize him and his boss to prepare the grounds for their dismissal. NACOB under their (he and his boss) direction, he noted, was “targeting some individuals that was hurting.”

He emphasized the need for a concerted effort at dealing with the drug problem because the challenge of drugs was a formidable one since “drug dealers walk in the corridors of power and sponsor people to become politicians.”

*US SECRET DOCUMENTS*
Abena. 12 years ago

They are even Nogeria residing in Ghana with Ghana passports,nemesis if its shame why are nigerians doing drugs?Doesnt the whpole world know this?Leave our country and go back to ur dirty country without lights but only 99.5% ...
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They are even Nogeria residing in Ghana with Ghana passports,nemesis if its shame why are nigerians doing drugs?Doesnt the whpole world know this?Leave our country and go back to ur dirty country without lights but only 99.5% criminals.In every country there will be one or two criminals but not 99% of the country in criminal acts.
NEMESIS, UK! 12 years ago

@ABENA, A STUPID GHANAIAN LIKE WAS THE REASON WHY MAJORITY OF YOUR PEOPLE ARE DYING OF 'IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY.' IGNORANTLY TAUGHT BY SHIFTING BLAME OF YOUR WRONG DOINGS AND EVIL ACTIONS WOULD STOP THE 'DEPRAVITIES AND MORA ...
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@ABENA, A STUPID GHANAIAN LIKE WAS THE REASON WHY MAJORITY OF YOUR PEOPLE ARE DYING OF 'IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY.' IGNORANTLY TAUGHT BY SHIFTING BLAME OF YOUR WRONG DOINGS AND EVIL ACTIONS WOULD STOP THE 'DEPRAVITIES AND MORAL DECADENCE' GOING ON IN YOUR 'BANANA REPUBLIC OF GHANA.' NEED I SAY MORE!
NEMESIS, UK! 12 years ago

Source: The Guardian, UK
WikiLeaks: Ghana police 'helped drug smugglers evade security

Drug Courier Dec2010

A £1m taxpayer-funded anti-trafficking campaign to stem the flow of cocaine into the UK through Ghana's busie ...
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Source: The Guardian, UK
WikiLeaks: Ghana police 'helped drug smugglers evade security

Drug Courier Dec2010

A £1m taxpayer-funded anti-trafficking campaign to stem the flow of cocaine into the UK through Ghana's busiest airport is beset by corruption, with drugs police sabotaging expensive British-bought scanning equipment and tipping off smugglers, leaked US embassy cables reveal.

Ghana president John Atta Mills even worried that his own entourage could be smuggling drugs through his presidential lounge at Accra's Kotoka airport and asked a senior UK customs official last November for help to screen them "in the privacy of his suite to avoid any surprises if they are caught carrying drugs", according to the US embassy in Accra (cable 234015).

The US embassy reported what it had been told by Roland O'Hagan, the British head of Operation Westbridge – a joint UK-Ghanaian anti-smuggling operation.

The cable said: "President Mills had expressed interest in acquiring itemisers [sensitive, portable screening devices] for the presidential suite at the airport in order to screen his entourage for drugs before boarding any departing flight."

The extraordinary request reveals the depth of the crisis in the bilateral operation to crack down on wholesale drug trafficking into the UK through an airport which has become a main transit hub for South American drug cartels channelling hard drugs into the UK and Europe after the authorities successfully blocked routes from the Caribbean.

Drugs worth £100m have been seized so far, amid growing international concern expressed in the cables that drug trafficking is becoming "institutionalised" in west Africa.

The UN has estimated that up to 60 tonnes of cocaine, worth £1.3bn, is smuggled through the region each year.

According to the cables, Ghanaian narcotics control board (Nacob) officers working in collaboration with British officials:

•?actively helped traffickers, even telling them the best time to travel to avoid detection (164939)

• ?sabotaged sensitive drug scanners paid for by British taxpayers •?channelled passengers, including pastors and bank managers and their wives, into the security-exempt VVIP lounge despite suspicions they were trafficking drugs.

Smuggling has become so blatant that on one flight last year, two traffickers vomited up drugs they had swallowed and subsequently died (234015), while parcels of cocaine were found taped under the seats of another KLM plane even before boarding (125133).

Mills had publicly pledged to crack down on trafficking into the UK via the airport and won the presidency with an anti-drugs platform.

But in June 2009 he told the US ambassador to Ghana, Donald Teitelbaum, "he knows elements of his government are already compromised and that officials at the airport tipped off drug traffickers about operations there (214460)."

Embassy contacts in both the police service and the president's office "have said they know the identities of the major barons," but "the government of Ghana does not have the political will to go after [them]", a December 2007 cable said (135389).

A UK official overseeing Westbridge had observed Nacob agents at the airport directing passengers away from flights receiving extra scrutiny, a confidential US embassy cable revealed in August 2008 (164939).

"On one occasion, [the official] returned unexpectedly to the airport at 4am to screen a flight. An arrested trafficker told the UK official that the trafficker had been told that Westbridge was not operating that night. A test by Westbridge officials of the cellphone SIM card of a trafficker found the phone numbers of senior Nacob officials."

He said two itemisers were incapacitated by sabotage, remarking "the knowledge required to remove the filters exceeded the basic knowledge of the operators". The cable concluded: "The government of Ghana does not provide the resources necessary to address the problem and, at times, does not appear to have the political will to go after the major drug barons."

Operation Westbridge began in November 2006 and the UK government has trumpeted its success.

Last year the minister responsible for drug trafficking, Alan Campbell, told a parliamentary inquiry the scheme was a "very good example" of how to tackle the cocaine trade, while the Home Office said in a written statement that "these operations meet our drugs strategy commitment to intercept drugs and drugs couriers before they reach the UK".

A different picture emerges in the cables. Kim Howells, a Labour Foreign Office minister, delivered a "stern message" to the Ghanaian government in October 2007 about its lack of co-operation and responded "testily" to a request from Ghana's interior minister for more scanning equipment, saying: "If a 'criminal' is operating equipment, it is worthless," according to the US embassy.

Three months later the embassy reported that "seizures in Accra drop to almost zero when the Westbridge team ... is back in London (135389)".

In November 2009 O'Hagan told the US embassy that Nacob believes that the airport's VVIP lounge has been a source of drugs leaving the country.

"Nacob placed two officers in the lounge to screen departing passengers, and the number of passengers using the VVIP lounge has decreased," the embassy reported O'Hagan saying late last year.
Drug Trafficking .Detroit bust 12 years ago

This guy has had it !!!!
remember your cup will get full one day and so it has happened.
listen up.....those who want to make fast monies and cruise the streets of Accra with jeeps and Hummers and Porsches. THE DEA is no ...
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This guy has had it !!!!
remember your cup will get full one day and so it has happened.
listen up.....those who want to make fast monies and cruise the streets of Accra with jeeps and Hummers and Porsches. THE DEA is not sleeping and they have their agents embedded deeply in Accra and know exactly what u guys are up to.......... they wait and bust u and here u are ..... Jail in The USA ......... u will never get ou and your Ass will get whacked every day by the prison hoodlums........
lucy anane 12 years ago

Blive me these are Nigerians with Ghanaian passports.These people will tarnish our name

Blive me these are Nigerians with Ghanaian passports.These people will tarnish our name
NEMESIS, UK! 12 years ago

2. Benjilo was a hardened drug dealer in the 1990s. That criminal was jailed and his drug-funded property in Accra confiscated. During the 8 years of NPP rule, part of which Nana Addo served as Attorney-General, Benjilo's pro ...
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2. Benjilo was a hardened drug dealer in the 1990s. That criminal was jailed and his drug-funded property in Accra confiscated. During the 8 years of NPP rule, part of which Nana Addo served as Attorney-General, Benjilo's property was deconfiscated. Did Akuffo Addo know that drug-dealing was a crime when he championed the deconfiscation of Benjilo's property?

3. Why did Akufo-Addo, as Attorney General, oversee the de-confiscation of frozen assets of Raymond Amankwah, a world reputed Cocaine Baron? And why was Richard Amankwah roaming the world with Ghana's diplomatic passport in his backpocket?

4. Did he not know that by literally presiding over that act, a terrible example was set and cocaine barons all over the globe were sent a signal that the new government of Ghana had no problem with the trafficking of narcotic drugs?

5. Did the fact that Raymond Amankwah was a relative of Akufo-Addo in anyway influence that decision?

7. Was Raymond Amankwah until his arrest in Brazil, not associated with Akufo-Addo's 2008 campaign?

8. Was Akufo-Addo not the Attorney General in the year 2001, when the state prosecution of Frank Benneh was suddenly discontinued?

9. Why did he so mysteriously stop a case that NDC's Deputy Attorney General, Martin Amidu prosecuted so relentlessly until NPP took over the reins of office?

10. Does Akufo-Addo know that the discontinuation of that famous case was another strong signal of his own lack of political commitment to fight the drug menace and the indication of the weakness of NPP's resolve to deal with the canker?

11. What about the three NPP Dzorwulu branch executives who were busted with narcotics at Kotoka in February 2002 when Akufo-Addo was AG?

12. Is it not interesting that under his tenure as AG, all those three arrested NPP drug queens just vanished into thin air? Their dockets also just disappeared like magic?

13. What did Nana Addo do about that case to send a strong and clear message to Ghana and the world that his government was dead set to punish anyone, regardless of proximity to the ruling class, who dares engage in the dangerous narcotic trafficking?

14. Was Akufo-Addo not the parliamentarian who was pushing hard for a law (described by Ghanaians as Amoateng Bill) to be passed that will essentially allow Ghanaian drug offenders, languishing in Thai jails among others to be sent back to Ghana to complete their term?

15. Does Nana Akufo-Addo still believe in the Amoateng Bill? Does he think that it will be useful to bring back to Ghana, top NPP drug financiers like Eric Amoateng and Raymond Amankwah?

16. Why does Nana Addo think that the accusation of drug addiction has never been leveled against any other leader or potential leader of his party, (Busia, Victor Owusu, Adu Boahen, J.A. Kufuor, Alan Kyeremateng) but only him? Is it just a coincidence?
CHARCOAL SELLER. 12 years ago

Here is a very serious problem that can cast a shadow, and create problems for all Ghanaians who travel to foreign countries, rather than examining the seriousness of the issue, the regular Ghanaweb clowns see fit to tribali ...
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Here is a very serious problem that can cast a shadow, and create problems for all Ghanaians who travel to foreign countries, rather than examining the seriousness of the issue, the regular Ghanaweb clowns see fit to tribalize and politicize that which can seriously damage the image of beautiful Ghana.

Drug dealers neither care about country nor political party, they are driven by capitalist greed and the illusion of wealth, influence and power, no political party can be blamed for the behavior of lumpen hustlers and criminals.

Wise up guys, this is serious criminal business that has nothing to do with politicians or political parties
SHADY BLUE niagara falls, ontario 12 years ago

JANUARY 11, 2013 AT 10:50 AM
Heroin worth $400K found in passenger's luggage at Detroit Metro
BY TOM GREENWOOD THE DETROIT NEWS COMMENTS
Romulus — An alert customs agent at Detroit Metropolitan Airport discovered nearly ...
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JANUARY 11, 2013 AT 10:50 AM
Heroin worth $400K found in passenger's luggage at Detroit Metro
BY TOM GREENWOOD THE DETROIT NEWS COMMENTS
Romulus — An alert customs agent at Detroit Metropolitan Airport discovered nearly four pounds of heroin in the belongings of a passenger who had just arrived from the Netherlands on Tuesday, authorities said.

According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, the narcotic was found in the luggage of a Ghanaian citizen who flew in from the Netherlands.

The heroin weighed 1.8 kilograms and had a street value of $400,000, officials said.

"The relentless efforts and dedication of frontline CBP employees has resulted in the interdiction of these illicit drugs, preventing them from reaching the streets and doing harm," said Devin Chamberlain, CBP port director.

The alleged smuggler was arrested, turned over to U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agents and will be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's office.

This isn't the first time significant drug busts have occurred at the airport.

In January 2010, agents seized five suitcases that contained nearly 300 pounds of marijuana and 35 pounds of cocaine from a flight arriving in Detroit.

In January 2011, a Nigerian woman flying into Metro Airport from Germany was found to be carrying 91 balloons of heroin inside her body.

After admitting she was carrying the drugs, the woman was arrested and then taken to a hospital, where 2½ pounds of heroin were recovered.

In April 2011, criminal complaints were filed against 12 baggage handlers at Metro Airport, charging them with conspiracy to smuggle drugs into Detroit from airports in Houston and Jamaica.

According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the handlers were paid to steer certain packages from international baggage belts to carousels for arriving domestic flights.

tgreenwood@detnews.com

(313) 222-2023
DAN 12 years ago

was Mahatma Rice's suitcase!

was Mahatma Rice's suitcase!

MAHAMA GBAGBO MAHAMA 12 years ago

fools the NDC party is a criminals organization.That born out of a coup d'etat to kill,loot and enriched them self fools

fools the NDC party is a criminals organization.That born out of a coup d'etat to kill,loot and enriched them self fools
George UK 12 years ago

WHOEVER YOU ARE I SUGGEST YOU CHECK YOURSELF IN THE MENTAL HOME FOR CHECK UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL. PLS,PLS,PLS LETS STOP THESE UNWANTED COMMENTS

WHOEVER YOU ARE I SUGGEST YOU CHECK YOURSELF IN THE MENTAL HOME FOR CHECK UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL. PLS,PLS,PLS LETS STOP THESE UNWANTED COMMENTS
hmmmmmm 12 years ago

I THINK YOUR RESPOND SOUND LIKE YOU ARE RATHER A MAD PERSON. I DON'T SUPPORT THE GUY AND ANY OF THE COMMENTS ON SO FAR ON GHANA WEB. BUT I THINK GEORGE, YOU HAVE A BIG MENTAL PROBLEM.

I THINK YOUR RESPOND SOUND LIKE YOU ARE RATHER A MAD PERSON. I DON'T SUPPORT THE GUY AND ANY OF THE COMMENTS ON SO FAR ON GHANA WEB. BUT I THINK GEORGE, YOU HAVE A BIG MENTAL PROBLEM.
kweku 12 years ago

I swear these r nigerians with Ghana passport.

I swear these r nigerians with Ghana passport.
KOFI 12 years ago

ei Mathew,

ei Mathew,
Nii Odoi 12 years ago

How does this get reported with no name listed as to who the Ghanaian " resident " is ? This is poor journalism.

How does this get reported with no name listed as to who the Ghanaian " resident " is ? This is poor journalism.
JOHN MAHAMA 12 years ago

MATHEW AKANS ALWAYS BRING MONEY AND FAME TO GHANA LIKE KUFOUR AND HIS OIL APPAH MENKA AND HIS SOAP,SIAW& TATA BREWERY BUT YOUR EWE FOLKS STEAL FROM GHANA WAYOMI,TSATSU TSIKATA AND CO.

MATHEW AKANS ALWAYS BRING MONEY AND FAME TO GHANA LIKE KUFOUR AND HIS OIL APPAH MENKA AND HIS SOAP,SIAW& TATA BREWERY BUT YOUR EWE FOLKS STEAL FROM GHANA WAYOMI,TSATSU TSIKATA AND CO.
Oheneba 12 years ago

Point of correction:Oil exploration in Ghana started way back before ex-president Kuffour, i.e even before independence Just Google and read. Ex-President Kuffour, who I have a great deal of respect for continued where others ...
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Point of correction:Oil exploration in Ghana started way back before ex-president Kuffour, i.e even before independence Just Google and read. Ex-President Kuffour, who I have a great deal of respect for continued where others left off and deserves commendation as well as those before him. Intellectual dishonesty and massaging of history must be shunned by all! I am from an inter-ethnic background and Akan and Ewe combinations are marvelous, lets continue the mixing.
Ross 12 years ago

U were whipping girls in school, when visionaries were studying to be what they are. Encourage your children to study so the hatred and jealousy in your heart will fade away.

U were whipping girls in school, when visionaries were studying to be what they are. Encourage your children to study so the hatred and jealousy in your heart will fade away.
True Patriot 12 years ago

It is true but what did the leaders befoire Kuffuor do?

Especially the know Nothing Talkative JJ Rawlings?

Bui dam was there even b4 Acheampong but Kuffuor started it.

We need such leaders who do what is good for Gha ...
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It is true but what did the leaders befoire Kuffuor do?

Especially the know Nothing Talkative JJ Rawlings?

Bui dam was there even b4 Acheampong but Kuffuor started it.

We need such leaders who do what is good for Ghana as as Country and not ethnic and party Politics.
Give Kuffuor his due.

me 12 years ago

How do u know the writer is Ewe...Ewephobia will kill some of you

How do u know the writer is Ewe...Ewephobia will kill some of you
MAAME YAA 12 years ago

nonsense!cocainmoney.

nonsense!cocainmoney.
kwesi miinta 12 years ago

who no know them?

who no know them?
MAHAMA GBAGBO MAHAMA 12 years ago

good points there Oheneba. The Sheep Ewes are the downfall of Ghana because they are lazy and always steal when they are in government

good points there Oheneba. The Sheep Ewes are the downfall of Ghana because they are lazy and always steal when they are in government
OH GHFUO, WE R SO FAR BEHIND! 12 years ago

ATO QUARSHIE, WOYOME, KOTOKA, TSIKATA, RAWLINGS THE BIGGEST PLUNDERS OF GH. IM SURE THERE ARE MORE LIKE THESE WHO R FLOWING UNDER THE RADAR. IT SEEMS LIKE THE NON AKANS ARE THE ONES MESSING UP GH THE MOST. I SWEAR, I WONT HES ...
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ATO QUARSHIE, WOYOME, KOTOKA, TSIKATA, RAWLINGS THE BIGGEST PLUNDERS OF GH. IM SURE THERE ARE MORE LIKE THESE WHO R FLOWING UNDER THE RADAR. IT SEEMS LIKE THE NON AKANS ARE THE ONES MESSING UP GH THE MOST. I SWEAR, I WONT HESITATE TO HANG THESE MONKEYS. IM NOT AGAINST SUCH PPL, BUT WATCH THEM WITH EAGLE EYES. THEY DONT MEAN WELL, AND I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY.....

TO THOSE EWES N GAS(NOT ALL, BUT MOST) WHO WISH TO CRUCIFY GH. WE WILL DEAD U SONS OF BITCHES WITH FIRE N CAR TYRE....
Kofi 12 years ago

Childish

Childish
Afua 12 years ago

ABOA BEN NI?

ABOA BEN NI?
Lin 12 years ago

The U.S. has the largest prison population of any nation on the face of the earth. You don't want to get entangled in its judicial system. It jails everyone from paupers to millionaires. This person is in trouble big time. On ...
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The U.S. has the largest prison population of any nation on the face of the earth. You don't want to get entangled in its judicial system. It jails everyone from paupers to millionaires. This person is in trouble big time. One more thing. State crime sentences tend to be lighter than federal crimes which this is. Parole in a U.S. federal prison? Ha! The law dictates that everyone has to serve 80% of the sentence no matter how well they've behaved. So let's say someone is sentenced to thirty years, which isn't unusual. They must serve a minimum of twenty-four years before
they're eligible for early release.
I'm told there are exceptions but I can't say. Don't break the law in America.
Kyere Bob 12 years ago

I know them, they want quick money to bank roll Nana Akufo Addo bankrupcy. They will do anything to get rich quick.

I know them, they want quick money to bank roll Nana Akufo Addo bankrupcy. They will do anything to get rich quick.
GAWUKO 12 years ago

I know a number of people, among them Ewes, who are indulged in the drug business. A lot have already served their prison sentences and many more will follow. I know you just want to pull the leg of the Ashantis so we shall n ...
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I know a number of people, among them Ewes, who are indulged in the drug business. A lot have already served their prison sentences and many more will follow. I know you just want to pull the leg of the Ashantis so we shall not take your tribal comment serious.
Dampong Asankare 12 years ago

After pomping heavily CASH into election 2012 and lost,they ought to pay back their creditors so this is not surprising. Stay tune for more arrest. Reflect on why Ken Agyepong was missing from Parliament when he was duty boun ...
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After pomping heavily CASH into election 2012 and lost,they ought to pay back their creditors so this is not surprising. Stay tune for more arrest. Reflect on why Ken Agyepong was missing from Parliament when he was duty bound to be sworn in. Asem be ba Dabi
Massa 12 years ago

we are our own enemies.Ewe man will no t even crticise if it is one of them.We are dying of envy

we are our own enemies.Ewe man will no t even crticise if it is one of them.We are dying of envy
OH GHFUO, WE R SO FAR BEHIND! 12 years ago

WHY SHOULD AN EWE CRITICIZE ANOTHER IN SUCH A SITUATION LIKE U HVE SAID? IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE, ABI?

WHY SHOULD AN EWE CRITICIZE ANOTHER IN SUCH A SITUATION LIKE U HVE SAID? IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE, ABI?
yaw osafo marfo 12 years ago

i know the guy..he used to work for akuffo addo's cousin.

i know the guy..he used to work for akuffo addo's cousin.
miki 12 years ago

IGNORANCE GO STRAIGHT TO THE ARTICLE IN QUESTION AND STOP THIS POLITICS AND TRIBALISIM IM DONE .THE VICTIM IS IN GREAT PROBLEM

IGNORANCE GO STRAIGHT TO THE ARTICLE IN QUESTION AND STOP THIS POLITICS AND TRIBALISIM IM DONE .THE VICTIM IS IN GREAT PROBLEM
OH GHFUO, WE R SO FAR BEHIND! 12 years ago

U THINK U ARE SO SMART BUT U SEEM TO FORGET THAT WAT GOES AROUND, WAT U SOW. IS WAT U WILL REAP. I WONT DEAL WITH YOU. I DONT DESEVE TO. I WILL LEAVE IT FOR THE GOD WHOP CREATED ME TO DEAL WITH YOU N YOUR PSEUDO TRIBALISM HAT ...
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U THINK U ARE SO SMART BUT U SEEM TO FORGET THAT WAT GOES AROUND, WAT U SOW. IS WAT U WILL REAP. I WONT DEAL WITH YOU. I DONT DESEVE TO. I WILL LEAVE IT FOR THE GOD WHOP CREATED ME TO DEAL WITH YOU N YOUR PSEUDO TRIBALISM HATE. U WANT TO DESTROY WAT GOD CREATED? U GOT SOME NERVE. GOOD LUCK BUD
BBC NEWS!!!! 12 years ago

Those Npp Europe guys should stay far away from any state in America with their drug trade.

Those Npp Europe guys should stay far away from any state in America with their drug trade.
YAW 12 years ago

THIS YEAR WILL NOT BE GOOD FOR NANA. ONE OF HIS ERRAND BOYS HAS BEEN ARRESTED.

THIS YEAR WILL NOT BE GOOD FOR NANA. ONE OF HIS ERRAND BOYS HAS BEEN ARRESTED.
EMEFA 12 years ago

STOP "TRIBALIZING" THE ISSUE, IT DOES NOT PROMOTE THE PEACE WE ARE PREACHING!!

STOP "TRIBALIZING" THE ISSUE, IT DOES NOT PROMOTE THE PEACE WE ARE PREACHING!!
lydia usa 12 years ago

stop that shit the politic and
the tribalism check the nigerias they
are using our names in their pass port

stop that shit the politic and
the tribalism check the nigerias they
are using our names in their pass port
Bonsoe 12 years ago

Please Nana, give up. You can't be there because you aren't destined to what you were thinking. Just give up

Please Nana, give up. You can't be there because you aren't destined to what you were thinking. Just give up
Frank Mensah, Tikobo No. 2 12 years ago

This is how Ghana immigration officials have degraded. I am told they now charge as much as $5000 to issue Ghanaians passports to Nigerians. And this is what the holders do with them.

This is how Ghana immigration officials have degraded. I am told they now charge as much as $5000 to issue Ghanaians passports to Nigerians. And this is what the holders do with them.
Uzman BELLO 12 years ago

You are an idiot of the highest order. must you always bring in Nigerians in every criminal activities of Ghanians, majority of you guys are criminally minded but pretends to those you can deceive. Most of us are not and will ...
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You are an idiot of the highest order. must you always bring in Nigerians in every criminal activities of Ghanians, majority of you guys are criminally minded but pretends to those you can deceive. Most of us are not and will never be deceived by your pretence. Criminals, defilers, cocaine turn to sodas, rapes, murderers etc...
Azumah Nelson 12 years ago

This guy has to be an Asante.

This guy has to be an Asante.
.com 12 years ago

why do you say that

why do you say that
Agya Oheneba 12 years ago

Nketsia Asiedu -- are u listening or have u heard or did u know !!!.Fair Distribution of National Cake Patriotic enthusiastic determined ghanaian will not disgrace or put the Nation into disrepute.The other day it was USB gha ...
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Nketsia Asiedu -- are u listening or have u heard or did u know !!!.Fair Distribution of National Cake Patriotic enthusiastic determined ghanaian will not disgrace or put the Nation into disrepute.The other day it was USB ghana citizen spiralling Stock Market into abyss of World Financial Crisis in London.What do u make of this !!. oohhh ghana citizen with penchant of Fraud & Lies eehh Deceit - vigour to be where it's impossible to tread & tell the whole world that ghana is Law Abiding Nation.
GOAHEAD 12 years ago

NPP ARE BEHIND THIS DEAL.

NPP ARE BEHIND THIS DEAL.
AKWELE 12 years ago

The result of looking for quick money.

The result of looking for quick money.
Athur 12 years ago

All the comments are from Togolese and Fulani people so never mind

All the comments are from Togolese and Fulani people so never mind
Ghanaba 12 years ago

When will you,Shoe shine boys, stop embarrasing hardworking Ghanaians?

When will you,Shoe shine boys, stop embarrasing hardworking Ghanaians?
??? 12 years ago

From a Ghana resident deosnt necessarily mean he's a Ghanaian. He could be anybodyliving in Ghana.

From a Ghana resident deosnt necessarily mean he's a Ghanaian. He could be anybodyliving in Ghana.
.com 12 years ago

why are we so tribalistic why dont we stick to the issue instead of blaming it on this group and that group

why are we so tribalistic why dont we stick to the issue instead of blaming it on this group and that group
https://www.facebook.com/pages/HEMPGH 12 years ago

GHANAPEOPLE,

ENOUGH OF THE PRETENSE&PREJUDICE,OK? LETS BREAK THE TABOO,SHALL WE?! WE'VE BEEN PLAYING OSTRICH FOR FAR TOO LONG WITH THIS VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC. EACH-ONE-TEACH-ONE THIS TOPIC. WHAT ARE WE AFRAID OF? LETS STOP ...
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GHANAPEOPLE,

ENOUGH OF THE PRETENSE&PREJUDICE,OK? LETS BREAK THE TABOO,SHALL WE?! WE'VE BEEN PLAYING OSTRICH FOR FAR TOO LONG WITH THIS VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC. EACH-ONE-TEACH-ONE THIS TOPIC. WHAT ARE WE AFRAID OF? LETS STOP BEING HYPOCRITES. ITS NOT ALL ABOUT GANJA GANJA GANJA AND SMOKING IT :-( THERE IS A SERIOUS ACADEMIC DEBATE OUT THERE AND I WANNA LEARN MORE.

THIS IS NOT A PAGE TO PROMOTE MARIJUANA SMOKING!!! ITS ABOUT ITS INFOTAINMENT & EDUCATION USING ALL THE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE & ACCESS TO INFO TO SHED NEW LIGHT ON A TOPIC WE KNOW SO LITTLE :-(

CHALEY, WEYTIN YOU SABE ABT HEMP? NOT MUCH, YOU SEE .....;-)
ALL WE ALL KNOW IS - "ITS FOR BAD KOBOLO RASTABOYS, AND IF YOU SMOKE YOU'LL GO MAD".

SO THE DEBATE IS OPEN.......................AKWAABA AKWAABA!
Ghana 12 years ago

Another Idiot disgracing hardworking and honest Ghanaians.

Another Idiot disgracing hardworking and honest Ghanaians.
Fo Kofi 12 years ago

they said GHANAIAN! so all Ghanaians MUST feel ashamed and bow our heads in shame!!!

they said GHANAIAN! so all Ghanaians MUST feel ashamed and bow our heads in shame!!!
Natural Mystic 12 years ago

A 'Ghana resident' is not necessarily a Ghanaian.

A 'Ghana resident' is not necessarily a Ghanaian.
marty 12 years ago

The resident is a Ghanaian period.

The resident is a Ghanaian period.
RITA 12 years ago

QUALITY BRAND LIPSTICKS JUST ARRIVED @ WHOLESALE PRICE. INTERESTED PLEASE CALL RITA. LIMITED SUPPLY ONLY. CALL NOW

QUALITY BRAND LIPSTICKS JUST ARRIVED @ WHOLESALE PRICE. INTERESTED PLEASE CALL RITA. LIMITED SUPPLY ONLY. CALL NOW
Mornah Sarichi 12 years ago

NDC wil export Ghana to the chinese soon. Where you crying wolf about NPP so that you will take over the drug trade?

NDC wil export Ghana to the chinese soon. Where you crying wolf about NPP so that you will take over the drug trade?
Bogga, Germany 12 years ago

This ihas been happening for long time now.

This ihas been happening for long time now.
Maame serwa 12 years ago

I know at least 2 ex boyfriends who dealt in drugs. It's a shame that they come to Ghana and show off like millionaires

I know at least 2 ex boyfriends who dealt in drugs. It's a shame that they come to Ghana and show off like millionaires
WALA 12 years ago

A GHANAIAN WITH NO NAME ARRESTED AT DETRIOT AIRPORT .THANKS

A GHANAIAN WITH NO NAME ARRESTED AT DETRIOT AIRPORT .THANKS
coal pot 12 years ago

MONEY FOR THE FREE SHS GONE. HE'S ONE OF AMOATENG'S FOOT SOLDIERS. AN NPP CARD FOUND ON HIM.

MONEY FOR THE FREE SHS GONE. HE'S ONE OF AMOATENG'S FOOT SOLDIERS. AN NPP CARD FOUND ON HIM.
anayomi 12 years ago

HE DESERVE TO BE CAUGHT . FOR WHAT HE DID,IN THE USA HE WILL GET LIFE THEY DONT PLAY
THERE

HE DESERVE TO BE CAUGHT . FOR WHAT HE DID,IN THE USA HE WILL GET LIFE THEY DONT PLAY
THERE
ERICUS-ERICUS 12 years ago

THE NDC ATTRIBUTES ALL CRIMINAL EVENTS TO THE NPP BUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO JAIL EVEN ONE PERSON. WAIT AND SEE; TOMORROW IT WILL TURN OUT THAT THIS PERSON UNDER DISCUSSION WILL BE A KNOWN NDC PERSON and ALL NDCs WILL KEE ...
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THE NDC ATTRIBUTES ALL CRIMINAL EVENTS TO THE NPP BUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO JAIL EVEN ONE PERSON. WAIT AND SEE; TOMORROW IT WILL TURN OUT THAT THIS PERSON UNDER DISCUSSION WILL BE A KNOWN NDC PERSON and ALL NDCs WILL KEEP MUTE.
MAHAMA IS CORRUPTS 12 years ago

MAHAMA NDC CRIMINALS AGAIN,OH MY GOD,SINCE NDC MAHAMA ATOPAHENE CAME TO POWER,BLOOD,DRUGS,KILLING PEOPLE,OH NDC ASEM BEN NI MAHAMA IS SINKING GHANIANS,NSEM PII

MAHAMA NDC CRIMINALS AGAIN,OH MY GOD,SINCE NDC MAHAMA ATOPAHENE CAME TO POWER,BLOOD,DRUGS,KILLING PEOPLE,OH NDC ASEM BEN NI MAHAMA IS SINKING GHANIANS,NSEM PII
ATOPAHENE MAHAMA 12 years ago

NDC TALK TOO MUSH,WHY???? MAHAMA ANANSE GOVT,GOD WILL PUT NDC CRIMINALS TO BE ASHAM,FOR GHANIANS TO FREE FROM THIS GANGATUAN CRIMINALS HADS FOR GOOD

NDC TALK TOO MUSH,WHY???? MAHAMA ANANSE GOVT,GOD WILL PUT NDC CRIMINALS TO BE ASHAM,FOR GHANIANS TO FREE FROM THIS GANGATUAN CRIMINALS HADS FOR GOOD
lordina mahama 12 years ago

WHEN THE PREZ WAS SWEARING IN ON JAN 7 2013 AN AIRPLANE FULL OF GHANA GOLD WAS TAKING FROM THE NATION TO GOD KNOWS WHERE IT WAS GOING AND NOW CAKE FROM GHANA TO DETROIL GOD WILL SUERLY PUNISH YOU ALL

WHEN THE PREZ WAS SWEARING IN ON JAN 7 2013 AN AIRPLANE FULL OF GHANA GOLD WAS TAKING FROM THE NATION TO GOD KNOWS WHERE IT WAS GOING AND NOW CAKE FROM GHANA TO DETROIL GOD WILL SUERLY PUNISH YOU ALL
MARY 12 years ago

BIG BRO MAHAMA SEE WHAT IS GOING ON TO THIS GREAT NATION OF AFRICA GHANA IS GOING PLS WE DON,T WANT ANY MORE DISGRACE AT ALL YOU NEED TO DISMISS YOURSELF AS SOON AS POSIBLE U HAVE BEEN CUSE THERFORE WE DON,T NEED UR ABORMIN ...
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BIG BRO MAHAMA SEE WHAT IS GOING ON TO THIS GREAT NATION OF AFRICA GHANA IS GOING PLS WE DON,T WANT ANY MORE DISGRACE AT ALL YOU NEED TO DISMISS YOURSELF AS SOON AS POSIBLE U HAVE BEEN CUSE THERFORE WE DON,T NEED UR ABORMINATION ON US
soso 12 years ago

i hope he is indeed a ghanaian

i hope he is indeed a ghanaian

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