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Occultism rocks university campuses

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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    This is how far our useless university education ha brought us.

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  • Gaby Bruk 10 years ago

    Ghanaians are not civilised people, Ken Kuranchie
    General News of Tuesday, 16 July 2013
    Source: peacefmonline

    Chronicling the events that unfolded during his incarceration, Ken Kuranchie has expressed doubt about the civ ...
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  • ghjons 10 years ago

    well said sir, its really getting out of hand, our government need to address this sensitive and critical issue before it gets out of control again, this is what their fathers or forefathers did,and the outcome is still there ...
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  • william 10 years ago

    Relevant Parliameentary committee should have open hearing when summon university authorities to explain measures being taken to stop this evil before it is too late. See what it is doing to a neighbouring country because it ...
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  • bliss 10 years ago

    So long us nigerians are admitted in Ghanaian institutions ,we wil see worse things.That is what nigerians are.

  • Paul 10 years ago

    u are right Bliss

  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    ONLY DESPERATE IGNORANT PEOPLE BELIEVE IN OCCULTISM. IT DOES NOT WORK. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE ANYWHERE THAT OCCULTISM WORKS.

  • bliss 10 years ago

    The whole of nigerian universities are full of Ocultism,they have brought it to Ghana.Nigerians are in all the universities in Ghana.Why cant nigerians educate their children in nigeria?We need those vacancies for our childre ...
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  • 4 wise Johns in Ghana 10 years ago

    BLAME THE ADMINISTRATORS...THIS CULTISM IS FROM NOWHERE THAN NIGERIA....CHECK THIS NIGERIAN STUDENTS VERY WELL..IF NOT THEY WILL TURN OUR UNIVERSITIES UPSIDE DOWN AS THEY HAD DONE IN NIGERIA.
    THEY HAVE FINANCIER FROM TERRORI ...
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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    This canker will soon spread to the basic schools. Thanks to our useless university education.

  • 4 wise Johns in Ghana 10 years ago

    I know them very well because i had taught in Nigeria for about 7 years, They have group like, Seadogs (The Pirate confraternity), Eiye,The Buccaneers, Black Axe,The Vikings, Red Beret,Double(2.2) and female dominated groups ...
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  • SUSU BIRIBI 10 years ago

    If our presidents find solace in their "prophets" and soon TB Joshua is going to own a soccer team in Ghana, well too bad and a little too late, we have to deal with it. The Nigerians even get admission to the universities be ...
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  • eeby 10 years ago

    Tell us now Susu, what is wrong in that? Are Ghanaians not in Nigeria doing well in their various lines of business?? pls dont bring that scrap here? ask your government why??

  • eeby 10 years ago

    do I blame you basket mouth ghanaians? hell no! you pple can open your rotten mouth now and say anything about Nigeria. Its all government fault..... government that cant put its house (country) in order. Foolish Ghanaians ...
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  • Gye Nyame 10 years ago

    Really! Has Nigeria put its house in order? I think it is time for another aliens compliance order to get rid of the Nigerians and Chinese who have become parasites on the Ghana system. If Nigeria was that great would you all ...
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  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    U CAN ONLY ACHIEVE THRU HARD WORK AND USING UR BRAINS. OCCULTISM DOES NOT WORK. IT IS USELESS AND FAKE.

  • the truth. 10 years ago

    that is the truth and the NATION should WAKE UP.
    The earlier better.

  • PAUL AFFUL 10 years ago

    what did u expect from the nigerian students....they will destroy ghana like a small fly if we dont sit up.....they are dangerous.

  • Yaw Manu 10 years ago

    We need not to pretend as if occultism is not on campus. Ask the Ghana High Commissioner in Abuja and you will know the ugly story prevailing on campus of Nigerian universities.A day is coming and it's already at the corner w ...
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  • Kobina 10 years ago

    You don't mean it.Define the word and
    tell me from which sphere of knowledge
    you are writing.Translate the word
    into your local language and draw your
    conclusion.Occultism shows itself in
    every sphere of the GH culture. ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim Central, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi said as a lecturer at the university, he witnessed students in groups parading naked on the campuses at the night.

    SO U ENJOYED ALL THIS FOR ALL THES ...
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  • eeby 10 years ago

    Foolish Hon Yeboah, shame on you! Now that your son was involved, you could shout now!
    You tell us what is alien to Ghanaians as regards occultic practices? You are telling us now that itsnot been practice in Ghana and it ...
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  • a a 10 years ago

    repatrate all foreign tsudents

  • FRANK 10 years ago

    FOOLISH PEOPLE NIGERIANS THEY ARE KNOW EVERY WHERE IN WORLD FOR THEIR SHITS, BUT IN GHANA WE WILL STOP THEM ONE TIME.

  • OBIBINI 10 years ago

    Why the fuss about this?This is an example of globalization.There are ghanaians who are Buddhists but Buddhism is not our culture.Is christianity our culture?Yet most ghanaians are christians.This is freedom of worship and as ...
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  • xyz 10 years ago

    The problem with occultism is that ....

    ...they use spirits

    ...they use magic

    ...they force people to obey their laws

    ...they threaten to kill you if u want to quit their group.
    ...
    u always have to make sacrif ...
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  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    Absolute nonesense! Occultism or Idol worship does not exist, its just a derogatory term, to deny the fact, tht we had a highly sophisticated and native religion before the coming of the Europeans.

    How dare you to describe ...
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  • xyz 10 years ago

    Nana bawuah

    One cannot say I embrace my culture, but I reject the spiritual aspect of it.

    But nowadays many african ethnic groups both t home and in the diaspora have these divisions. For example the Hausa they have t ...
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  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    This is what they chose to, does not mean its right! However,the main difference is that,the Hausa are genetically linked to the Chadic and Berber people. Islam has been part of their culture as early as the 11th century. As ...
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  • AFRIKABI 10 years ago

    WE LOST OUR GOD AND RELIGION BECUASE THE WHITE PEOPLE CONQUERED US. THE CONQUISTADORES DID THE SAME IN THE AMERICAS. WHEN YOU ARE MILITARILY CONQUERED, YOUR GOD AND RELIGION IS CONQUERED TOO.

  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    Yes, we (Asantes) lost the last war against the British, due to previous civil wars and traitors amongst our midst, but they did not conquer the spirit of the Asante nation. It must be noted that most of the Amantuo Num (big ...
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  • Paul 10 years ago

    Westerners say we Africans our polygamy culture is not good but for them legalizing same sex marriage is good.Their more evil than we are.We should get back to our root black people.

  • Aduanaba 10 years ago

    My Brother your theory fails the litmus test when you consider slaves in Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica who have maintained their traditional customs. In Cuba for instance, the Santaria religion simply adapts Christian Gods. Such acti ...
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  • xyz 10 years ago

    So the question is: How did the present day Akans and other african groups such as the Ewe , Ga etc convert to Cghristianity if they had a highly evolved religion.

  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    The missionaries set up school to recruit and convert native people. There it was drilled in the head of the people to abstain from cultural, social and spiritual activities of their people. They even discouraged contact with ...
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  • xyz 10 years ago

    Personal question?
    So what should the akan people do now? Convert back into abosom? or bring abosom into the church?

    What is your relationship with the traditional akan religion?

  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    You see, this is the problem with you people you talk about things you have not the slightest clue of.

    The Supreme Being of the Akan people appears in the triad of Nyame-Nyankopon-Odumankoma. Nyame is the female aspect of ...
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  • Love fufu 10 years ago

    Interesting article, Nana;
    One correction: Christians don't worship their religion. Christians worship God though their religion.
    Christians ask Jesus Christ to intercede, when they pray to God the father; in much the same ...
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  • AFRIKABI 10 years ago

    EUROPEANS HAD THEIR OWN NATIVE RELIGION WHICH WAS FORCE OUT BY CHRISTIANITY. THOSE WHO HEL ON TO IT WERE BRANDD AS WITCHES AND KILLED AND ELIMINATED.

  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    The largest religion in Europe for at least a millennium and a half has been Christianity. Christianity was conquered by the Europeans and not the other way around.Witch hunting did not start with Christianity it was already ...
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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    I really love this intellectual discourse.

  • AFRIKABI 10 years ago

    The largest religion in Europe for at least a millennium and a half has been Christianity.

    THAT WAS NOT THE CASE FOR THE DLONGEST TIME. EUROPEANS HAD THEIR ZEUS. APOLLO, THOR ETC. THEY HAD THEIR EARTH GODESS. CHRISTIANITY ...
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  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    The early popes were all of hebrewish origin, this changed when the europeans came and converted the bible into latin. Yet, with all their modern day technology and knowledge they cannot figure out how the pyramides in Egypt ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 10 years ago

    Afrikabi and Nana Bawuah, are dropping some heavy bombs here, you Brothers have my brains popping. Here's my two cedis, Europe produced zero religion, Zeus, Apollo, Osiris, Isis, Horus etc. are all African Ancestral Gods that ...
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  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    I didnt want to go there, but good that you raise that point.

    The father of Akan from whom most present days Asantes descend is called Saka (bibli cal Issakar), the younger brother of Juda, the father of most of the Akyem. ...
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  • AFRIKABI 10 years ago

    THE STORY OF THE ARK PREDATES JUDAISM . tHIS IS A STORY TAKEN FROM OTHER CULTURES. BE CAREFUL WHEN USING THE BIBLE AS A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. IT DOES NOT STAND ACADEMIC SCRUTINY.

  • Paul 10 years ago

    Nana Bawuah i feel you waaa,I agree with you,can i have your email so that we talk more on that.I'm an Ewe and i want to get back to my root just as my grandfather was a strong fetish priest.

  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    You are welcome, my email address is as follows: nka@arcor.de

    Best regards

    Nana Kwabena Agyeman (Nana Bawuah)

  • PARAHINDO UDS 10 years ago

    Now that his son is concern he try to send it to parliament, they only concern about themselves, their wifes and childrens. God will judge u all. he thought of our security untill he son was threaten. i wish he was killed so ...
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  • Daniel Kwadwo Bimpeh 10 years ago

    What do u expect more from nigerians? We must portion the blame on Government who so much delight in educating nigerians than Ghanaians. Nigerians are sinking Ghana now. How many Ghanaians do u see in the nigerian Universitie ...
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  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    Why do many people BLAME Nigerians as soon as any"Vice" is mentioned occuring in Ghana?? Does it mean Ghanaians are STUPID,Cannot THINK,are NOT CREATIVE ???
    Where many humans live,there are those of GOOD(acceptable) behaviou ...
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  • Togbe 10 years ago

    If these practices are on the college campus or premises then the university must be held accountable. I'm sure the university has a student code of conduct for each student and any violation should be dealt with by the unive ...
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  • ANAPAC 10 years ago

    ARE U BLIND ? CANT U SEE ? MY FRIEND DEY ARE DESTROYING OUR NATION. DEY ARE EVERWHERE LIKE DE CHINESE. OUR S .H .S ETC AND THEY IN FACT MOST OF THEM UNDERPERFORM

  • ghjons 10 years ago

    hey xenophobia,u have gone insane with hatred,the universities are open anywhere in any country only if you can afford it, how does it affect you if majority of them can afford the foreign tuition outside their country, your ...
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  • GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

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

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

    When some of us were students far back in the 70s and early 80s, we did enjoyed a well managed transport system of the Universities with full security checks at the campuses, coupons to attend to the restaurants and bars, we ...
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  • Blay Miezah 10 years ago

    Our universities need money to run. But i am afraid of the number of Nigerian students in our universities and the way majority of them behave. We need to take a drastic action before it is too late.

  • kojopoku 10 years ago

    If our nation and our universities can grow or mature our administrators must stop addimiting the evil nigerians in our schools. occultism is legal in nigeria widout fear and they do it right in the eyes of their authorities ...
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  • Nana Butubutu Kantanka 10 years ago

    The Ghanaian university I knew were universities where patriotic and progressive political groupings for the left or right could be found and certainly not the tribal or the "torkosi" "antoa" "mame-water" "osun" voodoo occu ...
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  • john datson.. 10 years ago

    hmmmmm we always have bad leaders in this country..they dn't think about this country..sometimes nigeria's think they wise but later they became foolish..this is Ghana they have to learn more and know

  • concern ghanian 10 years ago

    THE PROBLEM WITH OUR LEASERS IS, THEY ARE BUSY STEALING MONEY SO THEY DONT READ NEWS. HOW CAN YOU ALLOW NIGERIANS CHANCE TO YOUR UNIVESITIES? THE REASON THEY SENT THEM THERE IS HIGHLY OCCULTISM IN THEIR UNIVESITIES, WE READ, ...
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  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    Has ANYBODY thought of the amount of Foreign Exchange these Naija students bring us ?? Ghanaians are NOT BETTER IN ANY WAY than the Naija students!!
    The Unis have ETHICAL CODES and instead of that MORON and STUPID Mp reporti ...
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  • Nana Sampson 10 years ago

    walking naked as part of a dare when being initiated into a college fraternity is not occultism. More misdirected efforts to try and fit into the supposed 'cool' gang. College practices in Ghana are worrying because of the cu ...
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  • KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

    You sit there for years before your SON became a victim, and than you want to ACT. Wasting tax payers money on the floor of Parliament. The article said "The MP for Fanteakwa South and MP for Amenfi Central, Kofi Okyere-Agye ...
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  • Kantika 10 years ago

    The MP should have been explicit that the culture is from Nigeria and it is about time the University leadership stood firm to eradicate it.

  • akyea 10 years ago

    norm of the day. The MP's son has tasted what folks had suffered in the pass and smart contributors insulting him here and there. i think most folks have DDT in their head so all they do is type insults.

  • KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

    Yes I myself I have DDT in my head, but I will not sit there for that MPs to add theirs to my own.

  • kk 10 years ago

    b,cos it happen to his son that is why we are hearing all this bla bla bla, the am robbers have could include his father`s car so that they will know how the poor suffer

  • Agyaku NYC 10 years ago

    Ghana is a weak nation which bare to the supremacy of their foreign counterparts with their (Ghanaians) giggling specialty. The Universities must enforced the campus rules that will expel any student who violate it with a re ...
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  • Patrick Adzadu 10 years ago

    Sad to hear this negative report

  • Gandalf 10 years ago

    WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND THAT SATAN GOES EVERYWHERE A DOOR OPENS. EVEN WHEN UNINVITED HE WILL GO. SOLUTION? WE FIGHT DARKNESS WITH LIGHT. LET THERE BE AN INTENSIFICATION OF OUTREACH BY EVANGELISTS AND OUTREACH CHURCHES. THE PO ...
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  • OSUMAN MOHAMMED. 10 years ago

    MY DEAR LEADRES OF OUR BELOVED COUNTRY GHANA ,PLEASE STAND UP STRONGLY FROM TODAY AND FIGHT THIS NEW LIVE THAT BEEN BROUGHT TO OUR UNIVERSITIES FRON NO WHERE OTHER THAN OUR BIG FRIEND NIGERIA, PLEASE STAND UP AND FIGHT HARD ...
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  • Zaby 10 years ago

    Stupid MP,bcos his son got robbef he wants security

  • JOEDUSU@yahoo.com 10 years ago

    WHEN LEADERSHIP FAILS THAT IS WHAT YOU GET. ANY UNIVERISTY WITH STRONG LEADERSHIP WILL NOT DEGENERATE AS LEGON HAS

  • osei yao 10 years ago

    How much is Parliament voted for private security on students hostels this academic year? It hurts when your son is attacked. How many other attacks have come to the notice of Hon. Yeboah? Was his son attacked for filthy disp ...
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  • Themis, Goddess of justice 10 years ago

    Human war will not happen in Ghana but war among Ancients Gods, you call myth and false gods claim to be creators will begin from Ghana which some of you call the end of human race I'm not going to say much let wait and see w ...
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  • Themis, Goddess of justice 10 years ago

    And what do you mean by foreign can any of you tell and show which religion in Africa in a whole is not a foreign religion a side from the cultures you have which use to be your main African religion

  • Akwasi Michael 10 years ago

    I'm so disgraced to our members of parliament. this is because if such incidence didn't happened(armed robbers attack his son),he and his colleagues wouldn't get the sense to talk about the security on universities.All what t ...
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  • CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

    Until we stop this false and grandeurs assertion that we Ghanaians have a superior or well crafted culture better than other Africans, and further diagnosed into even certain ethnic cultures more refined than others within ou ...
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  • KOW Amisah 10 years ago

    Too much talk. Government must take action. There are so many examples around the world that we can learn from. Some countries have university policemen not these dirty looking security men.

  • Marion Jeff 10 years ago

    This has been going on for a while now but they never talked about it, now that they (legislatures) have family member as a victim they raise the issue…..this so called leaders never care about the masses, until they are af ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 10 years ago

    Many of you who blame Nigeria for every Ghanaian problem, need to get a life. Occultism is a world wide phenomenon, Ghanaian students studying abroard have experienced worst behaviors there, than anything at Ghanaian campuses ...
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  • BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

    -O' THOU LORD GOD OF -GIDEON-, BE THOU THE HELP OF -THE FEW- AGAINST RISING -MULTITUDES.' BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, THIS IS MY PRAYER FOR THE -INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA- AND GOD IS M ...
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  • KWAME 10 years ago

    When Kwaku Dua kills 100 sheeps to satisfy the over 100 gods of our Ashati kingdom, is that Christianity?



    Osei Tutu ii A LARGE number of sheep were slaughtered at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, the official seat of the ...
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  • ULTIMATUM 10 years ago

    Thanks for exposing the hypocrisy in Ghana. This is definitely not christianity.

  • J H New York 10 years ago

    Its pitiful to note that, despite the higher academic levels of some MPs,some of them make statements on the floor not worthy of a legislator.
    A good example is those MPs suggestions on Security and Occultism in Schools ...
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  • J H New York 10 years ago

    The suggestions by the MPs,is another version of what Anita de Sooso and Boateng Gyan said.
    I doubt if the NDC could take us to cross the Red Sea.Because I can conclude by their utterances that they don't have the people wit ...
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  • PAPA GAGA 10 years ago

    bcos your son was attacked you are serious about security on our university campuses,hypocrites and satanic elements who do not care until it explodes into their faces.As long as Nigerians are the Fabricators of occultism,41 ...
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  • AMPOMEASONO 10 years ago

    This is a serious issue which needs to examined and addressed so why all these insults? Are you guys victims of occultism? Please our culture prevents us from insulting others in public so please let us call it a day and sta ...
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