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I’m the Elisha of our time – Kufuor

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  • Fe 10 years ago

    Is he sure about that?

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    where did he steal the money from

  • Fe 10 years ago

    Do you know the details - hotel kronfuor. Go ask his son. What about Vodafone? The list is endless.

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  • julu 10 years ago

    Dr Busia was complicit in the overthrow of Dr Nkrumah and he was ineffective as a president. Ghana's economic woes got worse under Kofi Busia and I am sick of people immortalising this man as if he achieved anything. Under Ku ...
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  • VOLUNTOR CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    SNOWDEN:
    The charracter of the person has three main authority figures in his life; they are immidiate earthly family head, governments head and from the creator.The decision this charracter of a person made comes from his i ...
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  • Gaby Bruk 10 years ago

    EVIL BUSIA: Achievements:
    ACO: (which discriminated against fellow Africans, mostly Nigerians. He robbed them of their human rights, stole their properties and VIOLENTLY DEPORTED to Nigeria). He introduced the acts of "BL ...
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  • PAA 10 years ago

    Thieves. What npp are looking for is to come to power to loot the nation's resources. Now where is the npp communication team? No more useless responses. Npp thinks Ghanaians have soon forgotten when they were stealing gold, ...
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  • KOKOFU 10 years ago

    K4 WILL BE REGRETING IN HIS HEAD NOW BY NOT MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR NANA TO TAKE AFTR HIM AS PREZ. WAS IT DUE TO TRIBALISM?

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    SIN HAS COME UPON GH SO ALL THESE SO CALLED KOOBI LEADERS MUST BURN...

  • BUSIA WAS GHANA'S NIGHT MARE! 10 years ago

    You are just right Mr Kufuor. you are just a mess like your messiah Busia!!

  • Yaa Nkosuo 10 years ago

    When will our Leaders and past leaders in this instance stop Hero-worship, revering ancestors and glorifying past leaders and not stick to WHAT their achievements have been and WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR THE COUNTRY to make it a be ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    Go way you with this trash.

  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    I do not judge KWAME NKRUMAH'S PERFORMANCE by his INDUASTRIAL CAPABILITY BUT BY THE VOLUME OF NATURAL RESOURCES OUR COLONIAL RULERS LEFT AT OUR DISPOSAL.
    IF TODAY GHANA STANDS TODAY,AS A NATION ENDOWED WITH: OIL,GOLD,DIAMOND ...
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  • Albert 10 years ago

    Nonsense! How did you sign the VODAFON agreement?

  • GILLY 10 years ago

    It is a fact that Kufour presided over the golden era; the best economic booming era in the history of mother Ghana. Oil was discovered and the boom in construction and business cannot be compared to that of any government. F ...
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  • Gaby Bruk 10 years ago

    Ghanaians, Ashantis+rats and flies.

  • william 10 years ago

    wHAT YOU HAVE SAID ABOUT NKRUMAH IS WHAT YOU SHOULD HATE! VERY MISLEADING! WHO TOLD YOU HE WANTED TO BE AFRICA'S PRESIDENT? Where did you get the idea he wanted to turn Africa to Russian domination? What a pity. When the corr ...
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  • Mawuena 10 years ago

    I don't think you were born or were old enough to know the leadership of Dr. Busia. If you were, you should have known that Dr. Busia was not a President but a Prime Minister. The then President was Nana Akuffo Addo's late fa ...
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  • Jack 10 years ago

    This man is useless.

  • COCONUTHEAD 10 years ago

    This man adorns himself with medals; another Idi Admin. He traveled outside Ghana (Mr. Per Diem) more than all our past presidents combined. Normally when a head of state travels abroad and there is a calamity in his or her ...
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  • Oppong 10 years ago

    Coconut-head, I am not a fun of KOUFOUR, but lets face facts, he was a very good administrator. And he is not hiding his secrets; he learnt well from Dr. Busia.

  • BIG GEORGE 10 years ago

    IF BUSIA = ELIJAH : THEN NKRUMAH = JESUS !! NKRUMAH NEVER DIES

  • Sikamanba 10 years ago

    I agree, Julu, I agree.Busia was the worst of our presidents. It is pathetic what these npp guys are doing. In fact they are insulting our intelligence. This will not stand. Busia' s body needs to be exhumed and tried in the ...
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  • Oppong 10 years ago

    Spare that mmoasem, julu! You are not well imformed. Busia was a socio-economist, do you know what that means? When Busia came to power the economy of ghana was going down the drain, due to Nrumahs gigantuan economic policie ...
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  • agaagya 10 years ago

    you are talking trash,you don't even know what you are talking about ,aboaba. Upon what statictise are basing you stupid argument on, nonsense!

  • KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

    And he calls himself Elisah, May God forgive Kronfuor Kuffuor, a free masonry man who ruled with JuJu.

  • Sikamanba 10 years ago

    I know Elijah and I know Elisha.Busia is no Elijah and Kuffour is no Elisha.At best they are Barack and Ballam.
    Busia was the worst elected president ever of our nation.
    When well educated and well trained managers by the ...
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  • moyo 10 years ago

    The man who praise himself for being the best of everything. He can even go to the extend given himself the best award. I am not fan of Danquah-Busia. I remember my used to say Busia was a very intelligent and honorable man. ...
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  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    HE IS SURE, Fe. HE EVEN DID WORSE THINGS THAN BUSIA.
    BUSIA WAS A USELESS PM, BUT KUFUOR BEAT HIM BY BEING EVEN MORE USELESS THAN BUSIA. ASIDE FROM BEING THE THIEF OF ALL THIEVES AS PRESIDENT, KUFUOR ORCHESTRATED THE MURDER O ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    So what did the Ya Naa do to Busia and Kuffuor that you think made them do all this? You see, it would have been better if you had explained yourself the cause of these actions. Without that, it makes you look like a blatant ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    These clowns fron baffour Akoto to Busia who devasted the economy are now hero. Busia will meet the people he sent to die in the Biafra war and South Africa. He was loth to change his mind , the trait of a fool

  • WEAR 10 years ago

    J. H Mensah took Ghana VC 10 plane to Egypt and Ghanaians never heard of it till today. He was among the terrorist in the country at the time a visionary man Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was fighting tool and nail developing th ...
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  • Sikamanba 10 years ago

    So sad.So pathetic!!.Poor management of our economy has been the brain of our poor situation now.When people who do not have the right knowledge and credibility to manage are appointed as a reward due to ethnicity or party af ...
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  • avola lartey 10 years ago

    fools beget foolishness. No wonder, kuffour gave GT away to Vodafone. Ghanaians have learnt their lesson. No more NPP government. They are nation wreckers

  • DADDY 10 years ago

    FULL OF HIMSELF

  • ASANTEHENE 10 years ago

    MAHAMA IS THE PRESIDENT OF ASANTEHENE

  • Abu Issaka 10 years ago

    look at this criminal who looted almost everything from his people calling himself Elisha. Fiafitor moyibor!

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Am so tired of our leaders and this religious bull that they blow up citizens xxxx all the time. Only the theives always make such comparisons

  • Fo Kwaku - Tanyingbe 10 years ago

    ???????????REMEMBER THE SACKING OF EWE CIVIL SERVANTS? REMEMBER " NO COURTS NO COURTS"

  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    And Busia shouted,no court,no court when the Supreme court ruled in favour of salah in the Apollo 565 case against Busia's government.A man who disrespected the highest court of the land is now being portrayed as a democrat.

  • OBIBINI 10 years ago

    Busia is Elijah and you Elisha?That is why christianity has now become a jokey religion.

  • OFRI JATO 10 years ago

    With Mahama telling his subjects that Ghana is on the right path and that God ANNOINTED him to lead his people.

  • pepi 10 years ago

    why is kufour always fighting to be recognise.

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    he knows he is fake

  • kojo ayomah 10 years ago

    this is the man who has been praised by all leaders of the world because of his good leadership and good vision,god bless ya'

  • Adwoa smart 10 years ago

    It is on record that Busia was the most useless head of state Ghana has ever had. The next useless one was kufuor. They are not Elijah and Elisha, but the useless pair. Elisha indeed! I bet, if Elisha were to be this useless ...
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  • yaw 10 years ago

    ADWOA SMART I YAW APPROVED YOUR MESSAGE.

  • Nana Addo 10 years ago

    Busia was the most useless leader Ghana has ever had. Kuffour why letting NPP down?

  • TA USA 10 years ago

    Kufour you are right. You are the Ghana Elisha miraculously produced Cocain Ministers in his Government; His Master Busia was the wicked Elijah who executed the Allien Compliance Order thereby willfully causing the death of i ...
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  • Fe 10 years ago

    A thief calling himself Elisha!!! This is Christianity for you. I now understand what the bible says. 'Evil people will quote the bible to support their evil deeds' Remember Jesus and Satan and the 40 days and 40 nights fas ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    How can a criminal and thief like Kuffor compare himself to Saint in the Bible?
    Busia was your mentor that`s why you were a clueless president who was only good at one thing,thievery.

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    What did he steal? Why is your Ndc government not dragging him to court to recoup what he stole? Unlike Rawlings, he has no indemnity clause in the constitution protecting him from prosecution.

    We all know Rawlings couldn' ...
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  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    We all know Rawlings couldn't even afford a furniture but he is now a 50 million worth millionaire who stole Star hotel now called La Palm beach Hotel.

    Nana Ansah; As for Kufuor and Busia the least said about them the bett ...
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  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    We all know Rawlings couldn't even afford a furniture but he is now a 50 million worth millionaire who stole Star hotel now called La Palm beach Hotel.

    Nana Ansah; As for Kufuor and Busia the least said about them the bet ...
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  • Pompy 10 years ago

    Master, let's reason. JJ was a pilot and the best there was at his time. If he hadnt become head of state, he couldnt afford a furniture by working as a pilot? I just don't get it. Even if he was to work as a cleaner in 1979, ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    JJ himself said in 1979 that he used to credit Akpeteshie and Yokogari in Accra. He explained that life was made unbearable for ordinary Ghanaians by the former leaders and that's why he staged the coup and killed them. If he ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    Nana Ansah you are right. At the end of it we are one people and thanks for the clarity.

  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    Nana Ansah, despite the fact that you are one of the most intelligent people on this forum, I think you have not always been truthful, and sometimes you support blindly. You are right that we are the same family but our unity ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Who is talking about La Palm Royal Beach Hotel? Do you know that there is La Palm Hotel and La Palm Royal Beach Hotel? Labadi Beach Hotel is what is known now as La Palm Royal Beach Hotel.

    Goand do your research and you wi ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Well Done, Cardinal!
    You really know your facts! There are many Ghanaians who come to this forum with third class weak "apo" to deceive equally credulous Ghanaians who take their "latrine news" as gospel truth and start maki ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Thank you Kobena. Nana Ansah and his Ndc supporters know Rawlings is a kleptomaniac. Rawlings tried to give Pwalugu Tomatoes factory to one Irish businessman, O'Reilly in exchange for the man to educate his children in Irelan ...
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  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    Hey, How can Someone so Corrupt as you Claim all of a sudden be looking for someone to Pay for his kids education Abroad..??? hahahaha Delusions at its Best..ScholarShips were thrown at all Rawlings' kids to Educate Abroad..U ...
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  • Osei Yaw 10 years ago

    What a fool. Do you know how much it cost to attend school in Ireland? Fool, have you been living in a hole? If Rawlings children had scholarships to attend school in Ireland, why did he tell Ghanaians a friend sponsored his ...
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  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    So now, Rawlings Children Education Is What is hunting You People Now..???
    So the Schools In Ireland Are Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia??? What a Bunch of Idiots...

  • Mohammed 10 years ago

    Fool, read your comment again and see how stupid and funny you sound. Are you in a Psychiatric ward?

  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    Hey. .Rawlings Will Continue dealing with you Fools...Until thy Kingdom Come..There Is absolutely Nothing you can do about It..Bunch of Animals from the JUNGLE

  • Yarney 10 years ago

    Crawl back into whatever hole you crawl out of, you dumbass.

  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    Cardinal, still there is no Hotel on the Accra - Tema road called La Palm hotel. It is called La Palm Royal hotel. Google map can help you

    There are only La Palm Royal hotel and Labadi Beach hotel and thereafter comes Ne ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Nana Ansah, did you read my response? There is no La Palm Hotel anymore because SSNIT Seized that property after. Rawlings money man Tamman failed to pay.

    If you want to be patriotic, find out how the Star Hotel was acquir ...
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  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    This is what you wrote:

    We all know Rawlings couldn't even afford a furniture but he is now a 50 million worth millionaire who stole Star hotel now called La Palm beach Hotel.


    who stole Star hotel now called La Palm ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Enjoy your weekend too. Rawlings acquired Star hotel fraudulently through SSNIT funds which was never paid, that is the point.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    What do the St Louis Cardinals and Billy Graham have in common? A: They both can make 40,000 people stand up and yell "Jesus Christ there goes the Tilapia and pen thieves"

  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    Illiterate fool and a Retarded Baboon.. Rawlings the President Now Stole through his Wife...hahahaha Just listen to Your twisted and Unsubstantiated stories..It seems You have run Out of Substance, Words, and Superficial fame ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    Rawlings being your hero doesn't make any difference. What has changed in Ghana? Nothing, there is still corruption everywhere. Stop fooling yourself, even a chimp in Ghana knows JJ and his wife duped Ghana, but that's Africa ...
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  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    What has Changed in Ghana Is you enemies of Progress destroying anything Good to move Ghana forward..Kufuor Came to give Acheampong, Busia, and Akuffo State Burial...He took 188 trips OverSeas for What?? Only God knows..He bu ...
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  • Yarney 10 years ago

    Listen to this son of a whore with his dumb comment.

  • voga 10 years ago

    You are SO SMART!

  • Oppong 10 years ago

    ...don't mention ACHEAMPONG, he is the most stupid leader GHANA has ever had, a real dunderhead. He totally collapsed within 6years of his rule. KOUFOUR deserves credit, he managed GHANA well. He will go down in history as on ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Do you know the meaning of Bastard? Look in the mirror and you will see bastard written all over your face.

    You dumb illiterate trokosi moron is parading yourself in the forum as having an Asante father at the same time c ...
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  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    How did they rate Kufour and his brother, Just after 8yrs?? My question to you fool Is How could Rawlings Steal through his Wife and Not the Other Way around if you even made Sense at All..hahahahaha Delusional Puppet.....Raw ...
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  • Mohammed 10 years ago

    How could it have been other way? Usually people who have power use their relatives to hide their ill gotten money as we have seen Rawlings using his wife to steal Ghanacan.

  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    Just blame Somebody...That's Why You blame even God for your Woes..So everything that Rawlings has was through his Wife Right....Nana Konadu Rawlings is such an Angel without Blemish Right..??? A typical Black will never make ...
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  • Mohammed 10 years ago

    Sorry, Rawlings is a thief, live with it, you asshole.

  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    Illiterate fool, How can Someone soo Rich as you Claim, 50 Million Dollars Worth be the Same time Worthless....Lord have Mercy..hahahaha.. you just Confirmed my Suspicion of lunacy about You all along..Crazy Bastard..

  • Mohammed 10 years ago

    Worthless can mean many things. You can be as rich as Bill Gates and be worthless as a human being, you dumb illiterate.

    If I call you worthless idiot, it does not mean you don't have money. You are really stupid.

  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    Hey, Take a good look at Rawlings, his family and his Achievements and Call him Worthless... You are a Worthless Piss of Shit.. COW DUNG IS EVEN BETTER THAN YOU PEOPLE TALKING ILL ABOUT HIM...

  • Yarney 10 years ago

    You really sound like an illiterate retard to believe that to tell somebody is worthless means he or she doesn't have money. Where were you educated? You really sound like an idiot. Worthless can mean a fool or idiot.

  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    You Call, An Ex-President who has the most beautiful family in Ghana and who has achieved so Much plus Is responsible for the Democracy you Animals are enjoying today Worthless...??? COW DUNG IS EVEN BETTER THAN YOU.. Worthl ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Where did you trokosi get the name Nana Appiah?

  • Osei Yaw 10 years ago

    Do you know you are not making an iota of sense? Check your brains, it might need to be calibrated.

  • African Patriot 10 years ago

    Did you forget to pay your brain bill and your reasoning shut off? In Ghana people in power steal through their relatives hiding their looted properties in their family names.

    Konadu could not have stole anything without R ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Cockroach, are you not the guy who don't know who his father is and is now calling somebody bastard?

  • Maame Akua 10 years ago

    Mr Cockroach, you are back again. How did it go? I mean the DNA test to find who your father is.

  • ABU 10 years ago

    You stated Kuffuor never crafted out the indemnity clause to protecthim from indictment or prosecution,but the provision was crafted in the 1992 constitution by the then PNDC military regime of Rawlings to protect every thiev ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    "You could rather have asked Kuffour to expunge that indemnity clause"

    Are you that stupid? Really, are you that stupid? Do you think any President in Ghana has the power to expunge a clause in the constitution? Do you k ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    As stupid as you are than me you are not knowing how to go about addressing issues than insulting.Wise one read and understand my comments based on what the initiator's very comment before showing your naughtiness and ignoran ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Just write a coherent English so that you can participate in a discourse. Below is what you wrote and this jibby-jabbering about "my comments based on what the initiator's very comment". What the hell are you illiterate moron ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    CARDINAL"ABU HOW DID YOU GET THAT INK STAIN AFTER MESSING WITH THE TILAPIA AND KETA SCHOOL BOYS?
    ABU"I WAS FUCKED BY AN OCTOPUS"

  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    This is what you wrote:

    We all know Rawlings couldn't even afford a furniture but he is now a 50 million worth millionaire who stole Star hotel now called La Palm beach Hotel.


    who stole Star hotel now called La Palm b ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AKADU'S PEN THIEVES AND CARDINAL'S TILAPIA PEN THIEVES?

  • THE LONE PROPHET OF JEHOVAH 10 years ago

    Kuffour did biblical Elijah and Elisha stole the God place in their procession? Therefore I beseech you by the mercies of God and be not wise in your own conceits.You planted nepotism and tribalism in our country which has le ...
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  • yaa 10 years ago

    tell that to yr mum

  • Ekow 10 years ago

    Kufuor was president 2001 to 2008 not 2012!

  • NPP 10 years ago

    KUFFOUR IS THE ONE DAMAGE BUSIA REPUTATION,KUFFOUR IS TRIBALISTIC,HE ONLY SELECT ASHANTIS FOR MINISTERS,HE GAVE ALL HIS FAMILY MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT,NPP IS NOT FOR ASHANTIS,THE PARTY IS FOR BRONGS AND DARGATI AND AKYEMS,ASH ...
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  • oppong london 10 years ago

    kuffour was really jesus christ himself in ghana all time,the introduction of nhis is a real big thing for ghanaians,that one alone saves all life.

  • Styx 10 years ago

    He was worse than Alibaba. And a worse womanizer than Kufuor should be in chains because the person must be mad. Mama Tess had to go on to a plane to drop a journalist with a fat waist line intending to travel with Kufuor to ...
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  • Abongo 10 years ago

    Another stupid Ashanti man

  • Oppong 10 years ago

    ....AND WHAT DID THIS JESUS OF GHANA SAY?...HE LEARNT HIS EFFECTIVENESS AND INTELLECT FROM A BRONG MAN, DR. BUSIA.

  • nana addo dankwa akufo addo 10 years ago

    This is just the typical self-praising kufuor who wants to be seen everywhere, to be adored and worshiped like a god. Left to him alone, he is even more important than GOD himself! Was this not the man who created an award fo ...
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  • TOGOMAN 10 years ago

    GHANA SURFAR B,COS RAWLESS AND CO PUT GHANA AS A COLATRA FOR CUBA BLOW OIL FROM NIGERIA FOR 43 M AKS TUAISTU

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    When you ban one of the two major parties, you effectively have a one party state so the man in charge cannot be described as a democrat.Kufuor needs to learn to be a little humble and leave others to praise him. He did quite ...
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  • ODIKRO 10 years ago

    SO MR KUFFOUR WHY DO YOU PUNISHED THE SON YOUR MENTOR FOR EXPOSING YOUR CORRUPT GOVT.-AMA BUSIA

  • KAY DE 10 years ago

    YOU CAN HATE HIM BUT HIS RECORD IS THERE FOR ALL TO SEE. NHIS, BUI DAM, ROADS, MIDDLE INCOME ECONOMY, ALWAYS ATTENDING G8/G20 SUMMITS ETC, ETC, ETC.

  • TRUTH PREFECT 10 years ago

    DID NKRUMAH NOT PLAN AND MAKE ROADS TO THE DAM SITE? WERE MACHINERY NOT TAKEN THERE TO START THE BUILD? THE ROADS ARE STILL THERE MORE THAN 50 YEARS DOWN THE LINE. WHICH PEOPLE OVERTHREW NKRUMAH AND WHAT DID THEY DO ABOUT THE ...
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  • Wwahla 10 years ago

    I am surprise.
    reason: You imported dog chains to honour yourself and now this!
    where are we going. this man is suffering from amnesia

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    DURING BUSIA'S REGIME, KUFUOR'S MENTOR, 33 MEMBERS OF THE YA NAA'S FAMILY WERE SLAUGHTERED UNDER THE COMMAND OF PROGRESS PARTY OPERATIVES IN YENDI AT THE YA NAA'S PALACE IN 1969.

    WHEN KUFUOR BECAME PRESIDENT, HE COMMANDED ...
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  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    BUSIA WAS A USELESS PM, BUT KUFUOR BEAT HIM BY BEING EVEN MORE USELESS THAN BUSIA. ASIDE FROM BEING THE THIEF OF ALL THIEVES AS PRESIDENT, KUFUOR ORCHESTRATED THE MURDER OF INNOCENT GHANAIANS UNDER THE REPUBLIC. ONE DAY, SOON ...
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  • SUMBRUNG 10 years ago

    Outright pomposity and haughtiness of a failed leader. Now we can understand why Kufuor was such a failure. Holding out people like Yuan Kew Lee of Singapore, Mahathir Mohammed of Malaysia and indeed our own unbeatable Nkruma ...
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  • ODIKRO 10 years ago

    I HAVE HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE BLOWING THEIR OWN HORNS BUT A MAN BLOWING HIS OWN BUBUZELA? (forget the spelling.) I will not make any comments. IT HAS BLOWN MY MIND. WHAT MODESTY? AND WHO MIGHT BE THE ANANIAS, CAIN, JUDAS etc.?

  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    I have always wondered where this man was brought up and who trained him as a child. You might think he would learn his lessons from the fallout of Gold Chain he presented himself, but hell NO

    Not that honoring our heroes ...
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  • LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

    I find ex-President Kufour's inability to recognise that the stage/occasion is for honouring Dr Busia's intellectual rigour, political and philosophical beliefs, not for him[Kufour's] arrogant self promotion.

    Elisha indeed ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    He just needs to learn to shut up. The hour was for Busia not him

    Did he not join Rawlings briefly and does he think Busia would have joined a military rule? Or, did he read it somewhere Elisha join his enemies

  • voga 10 years ago

    What do you expect if a child is trained by a woman as is the culture of the asante/akyems?

  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    Naturally, women are trainers. Don't we have single mothers raising great men and women in society?

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    KUFUOR IS THE ELISHA WHO MURDERED MORE OF THE YA NAA AND HIS FAMILY MORE THAN HIS MENTOR BUSIA DID IN 1969. DURING BUSIA'S ERA 33 OF THE YA NAA'S FAMILY MEMBERS WERE MURDERED. DURING KUFUOR'S ERA THE YA NAA AND 40 OTHERS WER ...
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  • noble 10 years ago

    please tell kufour not to compare himself at all to Elisha in the bible,let him know that elisha is not a criminal,thief,serial killer or ritualist please tell him that.tell him Elisha is not self seeking and intimidative lik ...
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  • TRUTH PREFECT 10 years ago

    RE ELISHA or JESUS, DID EITHER OF THEM RELEASE ARMED ROBBERS FROM PRISON IN THEIR LAST DAYS? KUFFOUR DID. HE GRANTED AMNESTY TO THEM. NOW, THE SEED HAS BEEN SOWN, THE CROP IS YEILDING. LOOK AT THE ROBBERRIES, MURDERS, DECAPIT ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    How can somebody declare himself "saint and angel"? why are Africans so full of complex? And somebody like this had ruled Ghana for 8 years while he even does not believe in his country, his mother land, his ancestors and pre ...
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  • NAA4U 10 years ago

    ELIJAH AND ELISHA INDEED! WHEN JOHN MAHAMA WAS SAYING HOW HIS WINNING OF THE ELECTION GOD MADE, HE WAS ACCUSED OF TALKING TOO MUCH AND BLASPHEMING, TODAY HE SOMEBODY LIKENING HIMSELF TO ELISHA. DO THEY THINK WE DONT READ THE ...
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  • NO WOMAN NO CRY 10 years ago

    Elisha? Do we have to trust Christians at all? Sikadie ne nkontompo; making you the father of all corruption, nepotism and greed. ; the head and source of all greed in Ghana. So what is the meaning of this biblical connection ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    Dr. Busia was a brilliant leader who happened to be in a wrong political party. He was a true democrat and a patriot. President Kuffour learnt a lot from him. I am not sure who pushed him to kick our Nigerians brothers and si ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    Dr. Busia was not an angel and former president Kuffour is by no means saying they are perfect human beings. The comparism with Elijah and Elisha in my opinion, is a mere reference to the handing of the baton and less to do w ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    Everything you said here is the truth. About the Nigerians, I believe you don't understand what happened probably because you were not born yet, or you were too young to understand. I don't know exactly why Busia did that but ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    Ghana was the first country to have enacted such a cruel act in Africa, followed by Idi Amin's Uganda. I was told Dr. Busia had a big heart but I can never find it in my heart to justify that historically horrible stain on th ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    Why didn't the military carry out with the mass deportation before handing over, if having the Nigerians in our midst was a security threat?

  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Nana Yaw,
    The Aliens' Compliance Order was not in itself a bad policy. If you go to Makola today, the Nigerian Petty ttraders are back in full force, kicking everybody's backside. It was exactly what happened to the Indans u ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    Many people don't understand that, no Nation can progress without a strict immigration laws. It is only black Africans that believe that their doors should be opened for everyone to enter, rape and abuse them.

    If we are go ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Exactly! That is my point!!

  • Oppong 10 years ago

    I support your case. It's not easy to live with NIGERIANS, they are just criminals. Lets throw them out again. We don't need them, look at what they did to us in Nigeria, when our economy was collapsed because of ACHEAMPONG. ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    I can not erase that inhumane treatment of fellow human beings from my mind with clear conscience but I can understand what was done by the politicians at that historical time. If it was right in Ghana, then Idi Amin was geni ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Nana Yaw,
    What is the difference between giving somebody 15 mothns to regularise his/her papers or go back to where he/she came from and arresting illegal aliens on the street/factories and putting them in detention centres ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    You and I were not a factor in Churchill and Truman's dealings with Hitler. Immediately after the second world war, those who professed to be champions of human right and individual Freedoms turned their warships on Africa an ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    The problem is beginning all over again in Ghana. We have started by deporting the illega Chinese galamsey operators. Most Ghanains see it as very humane. Tthe Chinese see it otherwise. It was the same with the Ghanaians in " ...
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  • Oppong 10 years ago

    Busia had to throw the NIGERIANS out, and it was good, it has really helped us, or else GHANA would be flooded with NIGERIANS. Nigerians don't know birth control, they give birth like pigs, no control. GHANAIANS, at least thi ...
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  • Albert 10 years ago

    I'm very much inspired by modest character of the Prime Minister Busia and also the life & wisdom of President Kufour.

  • Nana 10 years ago

    Continue to be inspired by the Ghana Elisha, you will become criminal and ritualist soon. But God won't save you from your sins.

  • A concerned citizen 10 years ago

    Ex-PrEz Kuffour became President of Ghana at the right time when Ghana was fed up with the NDC

  • Abongo 10 years ago

    You are a fool, what do you know? The sale of GTC to Vodafone is in court and we will soon see if he was a good ruler.

  • ASONA BA BEKOE ATUO - USA 10 years ago

    MAY HE REST IN PERFECT PEACE. A GALLANT PATRIOT, A SELFLESS INDIVIDUAL WHO LIKE HIS FOREBEARS IN THE UP TRADITION, WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY THE LITTLE MINDS IN POLITICS OF GHANA.

  • OMANGHANABAPA 10 years ago

    that's true cus both steal our wealth b4 our own eyes and go free,Busia ask Ghana to pay him his 4yrs salaries b4 he became PM of Ghana,thief + 419 is satanic profects ELIJA & ELISHA

  • Pompy 10 years ago

    The dude couldnt survive 3 yrs after his people overthrew Nkrumah. What is worth celebrating about him? I'd rather celebrate J. B. Danquah (another unpatriotic man)just because he was patriotic until hatred & jealousy of Nkru ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A couple had two little boys known as Busia and Kuffuor, ages eight and ten, who were excessively mischievous.
    The two were always getting into trouble after Elisha died in Ghana and their parents could be confident that if ...
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  • Frimpong, USA 10 years ago

    Thanks my friend.

  • akyea 10 years ago

    or Mahama? You will know if your pockets are full.

  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    Different times call for different syle of leadership. Former president Kuffour could not have survived as a leader during our trying times in the cold war era. Former president JJ Rawlings' syle of leadership would not be we ...
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  • AUTO 10 years ago

    Busia was one of the most celebrated tribalists in the history of our country.
    My old grandmother used to tell us what the name "Busia" really meant:
    Eveawoo mibu sia!!!

  • The same/Salutation. 10 years ago

    Listen to the old fool talking

  • Tikobo Ail 10 years ago

    John A k. Fooling itself, servant sex leader
    Of all time.

  • DANGAMA 10 years ago

    IF NOBODY PRAISES YOU KRUNFUOR KUFUOR, YOU HAVE TO PRAISE YOURSELF.

    IT'S JUST LIKE NOBODY HONOURED HIM WITH GOLD "BLING, BLING" REGALIA, SO HE HONOURED HIMSELF WITH GOLD REGALIA AT A TIME WHEN THE VAST MAJORITY OF GHANAIA ...
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  • Onipaba 10 years ago

    Dr.Busia was the best President Ghana ever had.

  • DANGAMA 10 years ago

    IF NOBODY PRAISES YOU KRUNFUOR KUFUOR, YOU HAVE TO PRAISE YOURSELF.

    IT'S JUST LIKE NOBODY HONOURED HIM WITH GOLD "BLING, BLING" REGALIA, SO HE HONOURED HIMSELF WITH GOLD REGALIA AT A TIME WHEN THE VAST MAJORITY OF GHANAIA ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    Busia was one of the most hopeless leaders we ever had.He led a delegation to London and appealed to the British Gov`t not to grant Ghana independence.His slogan was"The Gold Coast wasn`t fit for independence".But the British ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Sir,
    How old are you? Those of us the older ones ought ot set good examples to the younger generstion of Ghanaians but not to bend the truth in matters concerning our dear country!

    Busia's 27 months in office was porbably ...
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  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Why sabotaged factories already built and functioning to start village factories? Why burned books and closed down Wineba college for governance where Ghanaians are being trained to love their country?
    Busia and co turned ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Which factories did Busia sabotage? Because of their very nature with very little raw material base, by 1965, apart from Nsawam Canaries (Orange and pineapple), Takoradi Paper Conversion and Cocoa Products (wood and cocoa, re ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    Dear Kobina, it will interest you to know that I am 76 years old and know a lot of Ghana`s history. For me, Busia was a big flop and Acheampong was right to overthrow him.Whom did the UNO elect as the African Personality of ...
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  • Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

    OPAYIN WILLIAM ACQUAH:

    THIS IS A WELL WRITTEN COMPRENSIVE ANYLYSIS OF A MAN, WHO NEVER KNEW WHERE HIS ROOTS WERE IN GHANA AND AFRICA WERE.

    HE WAS ONE OF HE MOST DANGEROUS ANTAGONIST AND ANTI-ELEMENT GHANA HAD IN ITS POL ...
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  • Eddie 10 years ago

    What did he teach you? How to steal Ghana money for your personal used

  • OBURUMANKUMA 10 years ago

    the present NPP is far inferior to both the PP and PFP, in terms of quality of leadership and conduct.

  • Apia 10 years ago

    Not till 2012!

  • kwame 10 years ago

    THIS IS PURE BLASPHEMY FOR THIS THIEF
    AND A CROOK WHO LOOTED THE COUNTRY TO LIKEN HIMSELF AND BUSIA TO HOLY PROPHETS WHO DID NOT STEAL FROM THEIR PEOPLE.THIS STATEMENT CAN ONLY BE MADE BY A MEGALOMANIA A SURE SIGN OF THE BE ...
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  • Julor Kromofor 10 years ago

    Elijah didn't steel from the poor. This is a blasphemy

  • Hmm... 10 years ago

    It can season or make food taste good. A mouth does not praise itself that it can speak well rather it is the ear of another person that judge this neither does an ear praise itself that it hears well rather it is action's du ...
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  • LORDSON JUSTICE KOTO 10 years ago

    Nothing wrong if you Pro. Busia was your mentor. The truth is you people destroyed Ghana and you are still on it.
    You "re too much self centered and keep on praising your self over everything. Those of us who carefully watc ...
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  • Cut the Crap ! 10 years ago

    He - Kufuor - said the late Busia was not a "tribalist".

    This sounds very defensive and apologetic to me. Why should Kufuor have to defensively say that Busia was not a tribalist ?

    Does Kufuor know some things which the ...
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  • yaovi 10 years ago

    Mr. Kuffour served ghana as president from 2001-2009 (8yrs).

  • Leslie Barnor USA 10 years ago

    Kufour, please give me a break, no wonder they say show me your friend'' you couldn't find a better person because you are just as worse like Busia, one of most useless leader of our time, you could have perhaps use Liman, th ...
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  • Non Partisan Ghanaian 10 years ago

    So Kufuor, you told Busia you wanted to go to Oxford ( and you did),you were deputy minister of Foreign Affairs in Busia's PP govt.,you were also in JJ's govt, and you became President of Ghana ( New PP govt) for 8 years!!!! ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    We never felt any extra -ordinary quality in the leadership of Kuffuor that he will today be blowing his horns to high heavens,neither that of Busia.Although there were some improvements here and there during the former's reg ...
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  • ADABRAKA 10 years ago

    Apuuuuu toooooooo!!!!!!!!

    His ex-gratia request says it all.$1m seed money for his foundation.

  • Koo Gee 10 years ago

    Ghanaians don`t deserve democratic leadership.They deserve cruel and dictatorship leaders who can kill, torture and jail them. Does why late Nkrumah and Rawlings are the nations heroes.

  • Akufoooooooooooool Addue 10 years ago

    AN OLD FOOL WHO KNOWS NOTHING TO SING PRAISES TI HIMSELF

  • osei yao 10 years ago

    Why extol a hypocrite. Here was a man who shouted about democracy but sneaked to power via a coup d'tat. He could win election only after persuading the military to ban the most popular political party -CPP. As Prime Minister ...
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  • 911 10 years ago

    YOURE FUCKING WITH GHANAIANS AGAIN. YOU TAKE US FOR FOOLS.

  • kofi 10 years ago

    HELLO KUFFOUR,Elisha did not steal from his people. STOP making yourself a laughing stock.

  • GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

    ARE YOU IN NEED OF A FAST POWERFULL SPIRITUALIST?THEN GOOGLE OR GO TO www greatnanapowerfullspiritualist blogspot.com

  • JAH 10 years ago

    YOU ARE JUDAS OF OUR TIME

  • DOKORDOKOR 10 years ago

    YOU ARE THE OPAPUO OFF OUR TIME.

  • Cephas 10 years ago

    Stop praising and giving yourself awards. Where is the HIPEC money? Where is the 14.5% of the oil exploration going to? What made your brother to rise from common clinic owner doctor to the richest person in Ghana?

  • Kwawu Agbemenu 10 years ago

    Mr. Kufuor was President of Ghana from 2001 to 2008; not from 2001 to 2012. Let's remember one can hold that office for only two consecutive terms!

  • Sam Ayi-Kwabena Marfo 10 years ago

    We all make mistakes and it is human, Dr Busia was a man with vision to build Ghana from the drainage tunnel from the bottom of our feet to the very streets that we walk and drive.But most politician have a very short sight a ...
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  • Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

    HERE IS MAN WHO NEVER HAD A CHAMBER IN HIS LFE TO PRACTICE LAW IN GHANA.

    TO HIM, POLITICS WAS A WAY AN OPPORTUNIY BECOMING A FANTASTIC PENSION FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE TIME.

    DOES THE GREEDY PENSION RECOMMENDED MRS CHINE ...
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  • zomabi 10 years ago

    SHUT UP YOU INCOMPETENT THIEF,GHANA IS STILL POOR AND UNDERDVELOPED INPSPITE OF YOUR ELISHA NONSENSE

  • shakara 10 years ago

    K4 IS THE CREEP WHO STOLE OUR MONEY.
    SHAME UNTO YOU

  • Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 10 years ago

    He did 0 nothing!....opayin Busia, to the benefit of the nation Ghana....our belover motherland Ghana, Ogyamanase yi speaking in great name of Jesus! nd Amen!, nhkyera mmbra oman gana do since....some are doing correction nd ...
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  • T L G 10 years ago

    Kuffuor's regin was from 2001 - 2008, not 2001 - 2012 as u wrote, if that then what about Late President Mills regin, lear how to write good articles and Kuffuor cant be Elisha of our time

  • EFIA 10 years ago

    SOONER OR LATER HE WILL SAY HE IS THE ALMIGHTY GOD AND WITHOUT HIM GHANA IS NOTHING

  • G. Dart. (US) 10 years ago

    Yes "a selfless, littleman, and a selfish giant of a man" A'int it SOMETHING! And if he was sturdy and uncompromising, why did he not fire J.H Mensa in the 1970-71 outbursts of arrogance? Oh, I missed the word ALMOST, that pr ...
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  • Nee Osabu Anokwafo 10 years ago

    JUST A FUCKING UGLY THIEF, TAKE THE STOLEN MONEY FROM HIM AND HE WILL BECOME THE SATAN OF ALL GHANAIANS.BASTARD

  • THE LONE PROPHET OF JEHOVAH 10 years ago

    JUDAS OF OUR TIME-KUFOUR

  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    You said it all,Hebrew of Hebrews JAK.

  • nunana 10 years ago

    THOSE WHO EXALT THEMSELVES WOULD BE HUMBLED...AND THOSE WHO HUMBLED THEMSELVES WOULD BE EXALTED.

  • Kwaku Boachie 10 years ago

    Please change the stetament Elija and Elisha story is not Christian story Tora Jewish

  • Richard opoku 10 years ago

    Anytime I read a comments from some people who are insulting our leaders I fill so bad, sometimes I wonder what kind of education the parents of those people give them at home, because insult is not part of our couture. You c ...
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  • TAGSKOPF 10 years ago

    THIS MAN AGAIN?

  • Richard opoku 10 years ago

    Who are u talking about , can u be specific.

  • Rasy 10 years ago

    KEEP DELUDING YOURSELF. ELIJAH HAD PASSION FOR THE PEOPLE WHICH TILL DATE NO GHANAIAN PRESIDENT HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT LEVEL OF PASSION FOR THE NATION APART FROM THE MAN WHO FOUGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE. WE NEED HUMANITARIANS, LEAD ...
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  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    Busia espoused the doctrine of garnering the support of the largest tribe in the country to attain power. So how does Kufuor assert that Busia was not tribalist?

    By contrast Nkrumah built a mass national organisation which ...
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  • SolJa 10 years ago

    who else just came straight to the comments?

  • Lalata 10 years ago

    You are the devil of all time no wonder you have awarded yourself with medals useless man

  • Non Partisan but Aligned Ghanaian 10 years ago

    Well Elijah and Elisha did spectacular feats!!!.What did Kuffour do? He had all!!! Busia came to U and U told him U wanted to go to Oxford (and U did). You became Busia's Foreign minister ( part of those who destroyed Nkrumah ...
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  • kakaminamor 10 years ago

    Busia came ridding in a VW. Just as Gehazi's greed made him to run after Naaman for the gold Elijah rejected so did you persue the affluence and riches tha Busia rejected. Even your bankrupt kids are now billionaires. Shut up ...
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  • Okoe 10 years ago

    Change old Ghana Cedis into new Ghana Cedis and you become rich.

  • KK 10 years ago

    Kuffor did well to devalue Ghana's cedis by 10,000 times to make its "equal" to the dollar. The greatest nonsense of the century and the new cedis was printed in China of all places and huge amounts were stolen by NPP officia ...
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  • NANA KWAME 10 years ago

    WHO IS A CHRISTIAN

  • Dzidzorm 10 years ago

    Mr. Kufour did not serve this country from 2001-2012. For Christ sake this is the country's website. We should edit whatever article we have for the website and stop writing lies.

  • KK 10 years ago

    Does Kuffour rememeber Prof Busia of the Classic Department of the University of Ghana, as Primister of Ghana took a 4 year salary advance and worked for less than 3 years in Office? During his time, Ghana started experiencin ...
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  • Kwasi 10 years ago

    N. Appiah look we Ghanaians we spit on you tweaahkayi you are devilish aboa prako kwiiiii.

  • MOBYDICK 10 years ago

    So you are Elisha? Fortunately, some do not think so. You have the right to dream and wish all the best in life, however!