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I turned down Veep position twice – Sam Jonah reveals

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  • INDEPENDENT STATE OF AKANLAND 11 years ago

    Akan people must go to the United Nations with Kofi Annan and announce the declaration of the independence of Akanland (Akan Republic). Upon the declaration of Akanland, Akan people will take their petroleum, gold, diamonds, ...
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  • Old Scottish Bastard 11 years ago

    I can never hail a crook, certainly not one as brash and brazen as Jonah.

    In Africa where wealth is given precedence over integrity, there's no wonder that this thief has been put on a pedestal.

    What have the people of ...
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  • CAPO. 11 years ago

    What did you do f0r Britain before you wer knighted.DO YOU KNOW TINY ROWLAND?YOU ARE A THIEF.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    THESE NPP PINK SHIT IS BOTHER TO GHANA.

  • Nkran 11 years ago

    Tsatsu saved Ghana, On what,? talking from Anus? Tsatsu is making you fools sleeping in court if you dont know. He is the worse lawyer

  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    THE DAMAGE TO NDC IS TOO MUCH, BAWUMIA IS NOW A TORN IN NDC BONES! GIVE HIM A 24 HOUR PROTECTION NOW

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    FOOLS AND IDIOTS.

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

    It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the ne ...
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  • The 11 years ago

    This is an old story, this Independent newspaper journalist has just woken up from slumber. Before Rawlings picked Mills as vice Sam Jonah had rejected to become Rawlings vice as well as Benneh the former VC of Legon. The woe ...
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  • Joe Patriot 11 years ago

    The only place this bloody traitor and shameless freeloader is going to be vice president of is either Nsawam Maximum Security Prison or the Teshie Nungua Firing Range.

    After committing the treasonous crime of delivering ...
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  • I & I 11 years ago

    Look, jealousy, envy, hate and inward-looking is making some of you go crazy. If your evil messiah jerry rawshit, the Dumb and now dead professor and this Akomfem kotokoli could be president, then even a pig and a cow can be ...
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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    Mills avoided many of the slips and mistakes pepeni has made. he has deeped the divisions and championed tribalism , ethnocentrism , ministers based on nepotism and favors rather than on merit and competence , lack of underst ...
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  • Wellington 11 years ago

    What interests me is how some seemingly educated Africans do not feel shame about being awarded knight-hoods and Nobel prizes from palpably racist imperialist countries and govts.

    It would be interesting to know what exact ...
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  • NYANSAFOO 11 years ago

    Ha!ha!ha!! Let me remind you of how stupid your ignorant ass is. You are here chastising and lambasting Sam
    Jonah,because he got knighted by
    the British Throne? Why do you not
    dropped your borrowed English name, Wellington ...
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  • Ato 11 years ago

    Nyansafoo, obviously you do not know what imperialism means if you say that China is the newest imperialist threat as far as Africa is concerned. Indeed, a little learning, as they say, is dangerous.

    You are also so naive ...
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  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    EVEN YOUR STUPID EX CONVICT TSATSU IS AN IDOL TO YOU FOOLS, CAN YOU COMPARE THE INTERGRITY OF SAM JONA TO YOUR EX PRISONER

  • KOFI AHENKORAH-ESSEX-U.K. 11 years ago

    YES!JONAH IS HAILED BECAUSE GHANAIANS ARE THE MOST STUPID AND COMPLACENT AFRICANS YOU CAN EVER THINK OF YET THEY THINK THEY ARE SMART.HOW COULD SOMEONE WHO SOLD THE HEART,GREAT ASSET AND PRICELESS INHERITANCE OF A NATION BE H ...
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  • MUNGO PARK 11 years ago

    I AGREE WITH YOU!!!
    THAT IS WHY THE SLAVE TRADE WAS MOST SUCCESSFUL IN GHANA!! MOST (NOT ALL) GHANAIAN ARE HYPOCRITES!!! AND SUFFER INFERIORITY COMPLEX AND ALWAYS WANT TO BE WHITE!! THESE ARE DANGEROUS PEOPLE!! SAM JONAH ...
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  • NANDOS 11 years ago

    INCLUDING YOU

  • Osei Bonsu 11 years ago

    I always laugh when people discuss Mr Sam Jonah. The truth is that most people have only seen the man on Tv and in news papers.If you want to hear better about Mr Sam Jonah come to Obuasi

  • INDEPENDENT STATE OF AKANLAND 11 years ago

    Akan people must go to the United Nations with Kofi Annan and announce the declaration of the independence of Akanland (Akan Republic). Upon the declaration of Akanland, Akan people will take their petroleum, gold, diamonds, ...
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  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 11 years ago

    GO AND TELL THIS TO THE MONKEYS KINGS IN YOUR REGIONS.

  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    "GO AND TELL THIS TO" HAHAHAHAHA KOTOKOLI ENGLISH?, MR GERMANY WHEN HUMANS ARE DISCUSSING "GERMANY" GET LOST OK? WHAT IS PIMP? I THINK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE USELESS FAMILY ARE PIMPS THATS WHY YOU CANT SLEEP WITHOUT MENTIONING T ...
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  • Ghana 11 years ago

    you were all 4ft tall until you mothers started raping northerners in kumasi to enable you look like proper human beings.
    And yet you still eat shit.
    what makes you people proud beats my imagination.
    Your ladies are all o ...
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  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    ARE YOU AFRAID OF ASHANTIS? AS FOOLISH AS YOU ARE EVERYONE WHO DISAGREE WITH NDC IS ASHANTI? HAHAHAHA NKWASEAFO PARTY NDC! I SHAMO IS NOT AN ASHANTI, I WOULD BE PROUD TO BE ONE BUT IM NOT! SO YOUR INSULT TO ASHANTIS IS MY BAC ...
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  • Alugu 11 years ago

    Ghana is still in the doldrums despite his acclaimed busness mogul status. What is the effect of jis achievement on the economy of Ghana? Is Anglogold better? They are all crooks!

  • CAPO. 11 years ago

    Sam do you remember 1982?WHO WERE YOU AND WHAT WERE YOU.THIEF!

  • LARYEAH 11 years ago

    MAHAMA KILLED MILLS FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

  • AMB 11 years ago

    Am sure you never genuinely passed your exams in school. Only God gives and takes life. Your accusation of the President is stupid and baseless

  • INDEPENDENT STATE OF AKANLAND 11 years ago

    Akan people must go to the United Nations with Kofi Annan and announce the declaration of the independence of Akanland (Akan Republic). Upon the declaration of Akanland, Akan people will take their petroleum, gold, diamonds, ...
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  • Wiafe 11 years ago

    Sam Jonah lost a lot of money for Ashanti Gold. He was lured to invest in derivatives which he did not understand and lost millions.

    As a result his authority in the company weakened and he had to "please" his foreign bos ...
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  • Old Scottish Bastard 11 years ago

    It's refreshing to find someone who understands the mess this snake oil salesman left Goldfields in.

  • INDEPENDENT STATE OF AKANLAND 11 years ago

    Akan people must go to the United Nations with Kofi Annan and announce the declaration of the independence of Akanland (Akan Republic). Upon the declaration of Akanland, Akan people will take their petroleum, gold, diamonds, ...
    read full comment

  • INDEPENDENT STATE OF AKANLAND 11 years ago

    Akan people must go to the United Nations with Kofi Annan and announce the declaration of the independence of Akanland (Akan Republic). Upon the declaration of Akanland, Akan people will take their petroleum, gold, diamonds, ...
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  • SWEET STACKLEBERG 11 years ago

    Who give a fuck about what Sam Jonah claims he turned down?

    Fuck him and his mama!!

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    THE JUDASES OF GHANA.WHY WILL THEY BE KNIGHTED WITH KUFFUOR?
    ARE THEY BETTER THAN GHANAIANS OR ALL OTHER AFRICANS ALL OVER THE WORLD?
    THEY SOLD GHANA'S TREASURE FOR A MEAGER SUM OF MONEY.

  • Egya 11 years ago

    And so What??? Another Stealer!!

  • Akweley 11 years ago

    KUFOUR AND SAM JONA ARE THIEVES AND WERE KNIGHTED BY THIER MASTERS.SHAME!SHAME! SHAME! S T E A L E R S !

  • ABC 11 years ago

    What about your jato julor who came in a pauper and left a richman.you people have the audacity to call somebody with gold and mineral resources in his area a thief and those from dry land honourable men,may God forgive you.

  • Kwabena 11 years ago

    So what you mean is that we should be happy to be producing a lot of thieves as a nation.

    If by your reckoning, jato julor was a thief, so it's good for Sam Jonah to give our heritage to the colonialists just to be given a ...
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  • cha 11 years ago

    Stay in the private sector- we love u Mr Jonah - u make Adisco boys proud

  • Joe Patriot 11 years ago

    He is milking Ghana dry as Vice Chancellor of Oguaa University - that's not a private job. All the thieves have state jobs: Jonah, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Quakye et al.

  • Kwaku Gbloenawo 11 years ago

    You do not bite the hand that feeds you. If Rawlings had not projected Sam Jonah as a citizen of Ghana, where would he be by now? after fleecing Ashanti of resources, you create a finance company and fart in the face so f tho ...
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  • ATTA AYI 11 years ago

    RAWLINGS WHAT PERCENTAGE DID YOU GET FROM SAM JONAS DEAL ? MAYBE HE CHEATED YOU THAT IS WHY YOU YOU ARE CALLING HIM A CRIMINAL.TELL AL GHANAIANS WHAT CRIMINALITY SAM JONAH WAS INVOLVED BEFORE CALLING HIM A CRIMINAL?

  • ODIKRO 11 years ago

    EH THAT MAN COULD HAVE EAT GHANA TO THE BONES. LOOK WHAT HAS DONE TO OUR MINERAL INDUSTRY. INPLAN OF WERSTERN MOGUL TO PAY LIP SERVICE TO HIS PAY WESTERN MASTERS. WHAT HAS OBUASE GAIN FROM AND FOR THAT MATTER GHANA GAIN FROM ...
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  • SHOESHINE BOY 11 years ago

    THIS MAN SAM JONAH IS A CRIMINAL WHO SOLD GHANAS BRAND MINING GOLD INDUSTRY TO SOUTH AFRICANS AND WAS REWARDED HANDSOMELY BY SA!! THE ENGLISH QUEEN DONT HONOR YOU EXCEPT YOU HAVE SERVED THEIR INTEREST TO THE DETRIMENT OF Y ...
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  • torgbe 11 years ago

    DID SAM JONAH'S DEAL HAPPENED WHEN YOU WERE HEAD OF STATE





















    DID SAM JONAH'S DEAL TAKE PLACE WHEN YOU WERE HEAD OF STATES






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  • Awuraba 11 years ago

    Sam Jonah de respected man in Obuasi Datz y a suburb has been named after him

  • KXXX 11 years ago

    Who gives a rat's ass? Tell me something intelligent and interesting. Are we supposed to be impressed by this? Ghana is a failed state, so anyone with a head on their shoulder would want to avoid being its VP. VPs attend ...
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  • BONJIN 11 years ago

    Why are you now saying it? it means you want to be Vice President

  • hoo 11 years ago

    who sold Ghana' for honours? Find out

  • Joe Patriot 11 years ago

    The traitor Jonah doesn't deserve to be the Vice Chancellor of Cape Coast University.

    Why is this man being allowed to milk Ghana dry on a state job? Why can't he create a job for himself in Ghana or go work for his imperi ...
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  • Nana Yaw 11 years ago

    Not a good role model for that nation!
    He must stay in the private business and share his experience with the corporate world. He will bad news in politics!!!!

  • Kasha 11 years ago

    Interestingly,Ghanaians love to shower praises on fraudster s like Sam Jonah.Lets face fact.How did Sam Jonah ,who was working as a chief executive officer of a largely owned state institution become so filthy rich?.How much ...
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  • Efua Bloomberg 11 years ago

    Good for Ghana.

  • GOOD CALL 11 years ago

    Rawlings made this nobody a somebody but got ungratefulness in return. Someone please tell who knows Sam Jonah before 1986. He was a common undergroung shift boss!

  • JASKELE 11 years ago

    Well loook at Asiedu Nkatia telling Rawlings the barking dog has been silenced! well he truely has been!!! once they learn Master tricks they dispen with him!! they all criminals!!

  • NANDOS 11 years ago

    Underground Shift Boss werre not common in 1986

  • KWASI OWUSU 11 years ago

    What did we do that those who murdered us economically are celebrated by the foreign press?

    Obuasi - where billions and billions of gold had and continues to be mined is a devastated, wretched town-village with overwhelmin ...
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  • Dr Kweku Gyampo 11 years ago

    Good job Sam Jonah rejected the veep position because he was vividly aware that all his secrets would be in the open to the wide world particularly, his dubious deals in selling Ashanti Gold Fields cheap to the foreigners for ...
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  • Onslopogas 11 years ago

    Irrelevant..he rejected so what's the need of talking about???

  • Kwabena 11 years ago

    If a company has a market capitalisation of USD63 million in 2006 and is managed or advised by a so-called genius only to be sold for USD 7.4 million in 2011, that genius must only be a con man!

  • KLOA 11 years ago

    WHY CANNT WE THE YOUTH ORGANIS DEMO IN PROTEST OF ALL THESE DEVOID OF POLITICAL AFFILIATION? KUFFOUR SOLD GHANA TELECOM FOR PEANUTS!!

  • MUNGO PARK 11 years ago

    HOW CAN AN EX CONVICT!! BE MADE A LEAD LAWYER IN SUCH AN IMPORTANT CASE AND NO BODY QUESTIONS THAT!! SOMEONE WHO STOLE THE NATIONS MONEY IN MILLIONS OF $ DOLLARS NOW DEFENDING THE RULING PARTY RIGGING OF ELECTIONS!! ONLY IN ...
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  • KWABENA DANSOMAN 11 years ago

    DIVIDENT FROM ASHANTIGOLD IS AN INSULT TO THE SHARE HOLDER.

  • DOMSOR 11 years ago

    RAWLINGS KILLED PEOPLE FOR GH 2,000.00 DURING THE REVO DAYS.
    THIS SAM JONAH FOR SELLING GOLD FIELD WORTH $600M FOR $7M MUST BE SHOT 600 TIMES!!! $100M COULD HAVE PROVIDED FREE EDUCATION AND ANOTHER $200M COULD HAVE GONE ...
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  • Salifu 11 years ago

    Is this not the Sam Jonah who took the law into his own hands and razed down somebody's house a couple of years ago? Is this the person who is 'highly respected' as the paper would want us to believe! Why didn't this cheap Ne ...
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  • YOUTH DEMO 11 years ago

    WHAT GHANA NEED NOW IS ACTIVE AND POLITICALLY SENSITIZE YOUTH WHO ARE READY TO DEMONSTRATE AND FORCE OUR LEADERS TO DO THE RIGHT THING! THIS CAN ONLY HAPPEN IF SUCH AN ASSOCIATION REFRAIN FROM SIDING ANY OF THE POLITICAL PAR ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    The person who wrote this article never read the book. The first offer was made by Jerry Rawlings.

  • kofi abakah 11 years ago

    And so whathat

  • Whatever 11 years ago

    He sickens me

  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    What this writer did not no is that former president Rawlings is not insane to appiont someone only to turn around to go against him. U may ask yourself,how and why would a person employed by the govt of Ghana be considered ...
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  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    Correction- What this writer did not KNOW

  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    What this writer did not no is that former president Rawlings is not insane to appiont someone only to turn around to go against him. U may ask yourself,how and why would a person employed by the govt of Ghana be considered ...
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  • Question Your Mentality 11 years ago

    Blow your horn vuvuzela who are you?

  • Yaw Manu 11 years ago

    Who care about you after you ripped off and betrayed Ghana so you can be knighted. Shame onto you

  • Son Of Man 11 years ago

    THIS MAN HAS CAUSED IRREPAIRABLE DAMAGES TO THE THEN AGC AND THEREFORE MOTHER GHANA AND GHANAIANS.
    GOD HAS PAID HIM PART-PAYMENT BY JAILING HIS DRUG ADDICTTED SON. HIS FINAL PAYMENT AWAITS HIM ON THE DAY OF OUR LORD.
    COMMON ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Goway u Sam Jonah. Damn mother fucker thief. U were knight for selling ur CONSCIENCES and in the process selling our shares in the gold fields.

    Sam Jonah will die a sinner, unless he confesses the evil he has done to Ghan ...
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  • Yaw Graham 11 years ago

    sold agc and now enjoying the loot.
    selfish bastard