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Ghana 4 Ghanaians 12 years ago

No it not the SC verdict on this elections, it was rather the deliberate packing of the SC to overturn a Tsatsu Tsikata victory over NPP which pave the way for NPP to jail Tsatsu Tsikata.

No it not the SC verdict on this elections, it was rather the deliberate packing of the SC to overturn a Tsatsu Tsikata victory over NPP which pave the way for NPP to jail Tsatsu Tsikata.
KOLA THE IDIOT 12 years ago

LISTEN TO THIS IDIOT, WHEN INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ARE MAKING BALANCED AND SENSIBLE CONTRIBUTION, BLOOD CLOT MUTHERFUCKER OPENS HIS DIRTY STINKING MOUTH TO BABLE, SHUT THE FUCKUP OFUI!!!

LISTEN TO THIS IDIOT, WHEN INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ARE MAKING BALANCED AND SENSIBLE CONTRIBUTION, BLOOD CLOT MUTHERFUCKER OPENS HIS DIRTY STINKING MOUTH TO BABLE, SHUT THE FUCKUP OFUI!!!
insight to the bone 12 years ago

Foolish pepeni could not support obama when it was time to show we at least have people with brains and integrity . mills was able to begin dismantling nkrumah foreign policy so was killed . he had the good sense as a true Ak ...
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Foolish pepeni could not support obama when it was time to show we at least have people with brains and integrity . mills was able to begin dismantling nkrumah foreign policy so was killed . he had the good sense as a true Akan king and reestablish better relationships with all including isreal but the corrupt fools around him insisted on warped/perverted deals with koreans , chinese , turkish , lebanese etc. pepeni and arabs are always liars as even their interpretation of their religion encourages so look the syrian assad has admitted he has these chemical weapons as a true coward he realizes obama like a true Akan King and son of africa president can not be fooled. mills saw the alliance with arabs and islam nkrumah pushed us into was worthless and destructive to the future generations and its best we remain alone . Fantis of the western and central regions gave warriors to the west who fought on the side of justice and humanity in Burma yet our pepeni idiot today could not even offer 10,000 of his troops who today are running around accra in full body armor to our son of the civil rights movement in America , shame on you you miserable lying rats . all his ministers can do cry because the stole 2 billion less of ghana's money than they had planned during the last 8 months , stupidity supreme but what can one expect from pepeni and ayigbe toxic idiots ? now he says he is going to the UN , lets pray his plane has trouble and explodes in the air with all his alajih ministers in it . long live the republic of Akan
ZoRRo 12 years ago

You'd expect educated people to have a general and open mind of their own. Not in the case of this George Ayittey who is so blinded by his political affiliation that he finds it difficult to see anything good about any other ...
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You'd expect educated people to have a general and open mind of their own. Not in the case of this George Ayittey who is so blinded by his political affiliation that he finds it difficult to see anything good about any other political party. What a pity !
Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 12 years ago

The abbreviation S.C. just means Supreme corruption.period !

The Taliban judge Atubugabuga led panel told the whole world that the Supreme Court had decided to set two issues for the trial.

These are whether or not the ...
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The abbreviation S.C. just means Supreme corruption.period !

The Taliban judge Atubugabuga led panel told the whole world that the Supreme Court had decided to set two issues for the trial.

These are whether or not there were statutory violations, ommissions, irregularities and malpractices in the conduct of the elections held on December 7 and 8, 2012 and also whether or not the said violations, omissions, irregularities and malpractices affected the outcome of the elections.

So if not for the sake of supreme corruption, how come that the Supreme Court final judgement was not based on those 2 issues that it told the whole world that was what was at stake ?

Were the taliban judge Atubugabuga and his fellow 'legal junkies' too blind to even see the statutory violations, omissions, irregularities and malpractices which even Afari Djan admitted in court ?

Were the taliban judge Atubugabuga and his fellow 'legal junkies' too corrupt that they couldn't even determine that
the said violations, omissions, irregularities and malpractices affected the outcome of the elections ?

And isn't it risible that though these Taliban judges claimed to have found none of the said violations, omissions, irregularities and malpractices that affected the outcome of the elections, they called for reforms ?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!

For the killer-gangster clique that has been looting the nation since 1982 and which is so obsessed with power, that it planted its apologists in the Electoral Commission and security forces just to maintain its hold on power, one day and just one day,they will witness that wrath of fearless true blue Ghanaians, who love their country than anything else.

With God on our side, we shall continue to resist oppressors' rule with all our will and might evermore.

Insha Allah !
Toxic 12 years ago

I blame NPP. They shd have stood their ground to have Atuguba changed on the sc judges. Snake Atuguba was biased from day one of sitting. He threatened to even jail the prez for contempt not knowing he is corrupt and not a ju ...
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I blame NPP. They shd have stood their ground to have Atuguba changed on the sc judges. Snake Atuguba was biased from day one of sitting. He threatened to even jail the prez for contempt not knowing he is corrupt and not a judge in the real sense
BISHOP 12 years ago

“They Are Still Our Slaves’ – A White Man’s Perspective On Black People"

We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they ...
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“They Are Still Our Slaves’ – A White Man’s Perspective On Black People"

We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.

Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, “The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book.

We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.

GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%).

Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.

They would rather buy some new sneakers than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, and they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them “Status” or that they have achieved their Dream. They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.

With the help of BET, and the rest of their Black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn’t want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They’ll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.

SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture.”Talented Tenth” he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some “form” of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn’t read that the “Talented Tenth” was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life.

Instead, that segment has created another class, Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance.

When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community.

They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)

They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own , as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.

Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are “helping” their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don’t worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, ‘THEY DON’T READ!!!!

Now that you have read this, I want to get an ongoing discussion on the topic. I want everyone who reads this to post your opinions of this letter. Do you feel that is true. If so, in what ways? How can us as the African race get away from these stereotypes or accusations that are raised within this text?

The evidence is provided in this letter. Did this letter take you aback as it did to us? Let us know what you think. Tell your friends to read this also. Remember that in order to have progress you must address the issues pertaining to your people so please keep this in mind and educate your friends and most importantly educate yourselves.

The African American situation is not different from that of blacks the world over.
fatman 12 years ago

REMEMBER ATUBIGA HAD ONLY AND ONLY ONE VOTE IN ALL THE CASES. HOW COME WE STILL HAD 9:0, 9:0,9:0 IN FAVOUR OF THE RESPONDENTS??? THE TRUTH SHALL ALWAYS STAND

REMEMBER ATUBIGA HAD ONLY AND ONLY ONE VOTE IN ALL THE CASES. HOW COME WE STILL HAD 9:0, 9:0,9:0 IN FAVOUR OF THE RESPONDENTS??? THE TRUTH SHALL ALWAYS STAND
KOKU AMEVOR 12 years ago

To you NDC stooges anything that does not agree with your way of doing things is bad. Thay's hoe jaundiced NDC has become, and this is why it is most dangerous for our nations future.Have you forgten the revolution adage, " y ...
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To you NDC stooges anything that does not agree with your way of doing things is bad. Thay's hoe jaundiced NDC has become, and this is why it is most dangerous for our nations future.Have you forgten the revolution adage, " you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time?", Does it ring a bell? Is it sinking in? As JJ would have said then.
william 12 years ago

Should judges think the same? In the US where he is chilling off are the judges not divided? Give our judges a break!

Should judges think the same? In the US where he is chilling off are the judges not divided? Give our judges a break!

Joy 12 years ago

Zorro, but the sister is an NDC Minister of State.

Zorro, but the sister is an NDC Minister of State.
Mensah 12 years ago

Yes, social democrats indeed. NDC is like you have two cows, the government take the two cows and give you the milk. Grow up short guy.

Yes, social democrats indeed. NDC is like you have two cows, the government take the two cows and give you the milk. Grow up short guy.
Ghana 4 Ghanaians 12 years ago

This idiot of a prostitute bitch's son has been hit so badly by the truth he wants to enter the belly of the earth. Naniama, butumbanza.

This idiot of a prostitute bitch's son has been hit so badly by the truth he wants to enter the belly of the earth. Naniama, butumbanza.
J.J. LAWRENCE 12 years ago

THE WHOLE WORLD IS NOW AWARE THAT WILLIAM ATUGUBA IS BIAS AND CORRUPT.

THE FOOLISH LOOKING ZONGO MAN IS ONLY INTERESTED IN MONEY AND NOT IN THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF GHANA.

LIKE MAHAMA SAID "WE HAVE COME WITH THE PRINCIP ...
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THE WHOLE WORLD IS NOW AWARE THAT WILLIAM ATUGUBA IS BIAS AND CORRUPT.

THE FOOLISH LOOKING ZONGO MAN IS ONLY INTERESTED IN MONEY AND NOT IN THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF GHANA.

LIKE MAHAMA SAID "WE HAVE COME WITH THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF CHOPPING MONEY". AND THAT IS THE MOST REASON WHY HE, MAHAMA KILLED MILLS.
G. K. Berko 12 years ago

Your insults do not take away his right to express himself as he deems fit. They do not obliterate his right and willingness to vote a certain way. So do you think those insults could coerce him to side with you ?

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Your insults do not take away his right to express himself as he deems fit. They do not obliterate his right and willingness to vote a certain way. So do you think those insults could coerce him to side with you ?

I wish we all would cut this uncouth attitude and treat others with decency even if we disagree with them.

And I would dare challenge you that Prof. Ayitteh's Article was not a balanced one. Besides, don't let the Professorial stature he poses suck you in to believe everything he says as some Gospel truth, even if you share his implied political view.

Long Live Ghana!!!
OKUDZETT 12 years ago

Any time l listen or read comments on this past 2012 election petition and verdit the more confused it is to note that we as a nation have refused to have an Citizen identification data system from birth to Death. The Foundat ...
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Any time l listen or read comments on this past 2012 election petition and verdit the more confused it is to note that we as a nation have refused to have an Citizen identification data system from birth to Death. The Foundation of every well coordinated society is who are the Citizens of that nation-state.
How are we identified as a People. What nationally recognised identification system do we have. If we have so many People now boasting as professors, lawyers administrators, politicians but we sweep under carpet the need to have a sound identification system from birth to Death then make no mistake of future continued exploitation of errors that might emerge whenever NPP loses election.

Lets do the right thing first to begin to have a nation wide identification system of all Citizens as permanent feature of Our nationhood to protect us from NPP arrongancy-YOU AND I ARE NOT THERE-

Remember the NPP and Anthony Karbo are still coming to make problems at the polling station in the NeXT coming elections if we refuse to find a solution to a permanent national data Storage of identification of the quaracter of Our population and Citizens identification
TUN TAI LA 12 years ago

Trokosis are the last to question who a Ghanaian is. Stop ENVYING the Akan People

Trokosis are the last to question who a Ghanaian is. Stop ENVYING the Akan People
Joe Turkey 12 years ago

To some of you, everything must be either Akan or Ewe. What idiocy

To some of you, everything must be either Akan or Ewe. What idiocy
GHFUO, change ur thinking 12 years ago

READING THE NUMEROUS COMMENTS ON THIS FORUM LEADS ME TO FINALLY BELIEVE AND UNDERSTAND THE ILLITERACY AND NAIVETY OF THE ORDINARY GH. MANY OF THE COMMENTATORS ON THIS THREAD HAVE MINDS OF A JSS DROP OUT!

WHY CANT U UNDERST ...
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READING THE NUMEROUS COMMENTS ON THIS FORUM LEADS ME TO FINALLY BELIEVE AND UNDERSTAND THE ILLITERACY AND NAIVETY OF THE ORDINARY GH. MANY OF THE COMMENTATORS ON THIS THREAD HAVE MINDS OF A JSS DROP OUT!

WHY CANT U UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PROF IS SAYING HERE? ARE U PPL DEVOID OF BASIC REASONING? EVERYTHING THE PROF HAS WRITTEN HERE IS PURE FACT! NO KOOLAID.
NANA 12 years ago

See who is talking about nationality,by the way where would you be if there should be proper national identification?

See who is talking about nationality,by the way where would you be if there should be proper national identification?

nana 12 years ago

OKUDZETT not only for elections it can also help check corruption and crime.so tell your people
to do the right thing

OKUDZETT not only for elections it can also help check corruption and crime.so tell your people
to do the right thing
KG 12 years ago

Thank you Mr Ayittey,I think it is time NPP should change their strategy
by putting that gentility aside and deal with such issues like elections and their champagne.If NPP had led the whole nation and the supreme court knew ...
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Thank you Mr Ayittey,I think it is time NPP should change their strategy
by putting that gentility aside and deal with such issues like elections and their champagne.If NPP had led the whole nation and the supreme court knew that we all saw what happened in the court so if the verdict is not in their favour, then we should blame the SC,I think they will consider those statue in the forth court and rule wisely. Atuguba saw that NPP are weak so if he rule against them nothing will happen only talks. Next time NPP should adopt a system that will put fear to the SC Judges and the entire nation that they not do it like before I think that will help ease all this fraud. The Judges got the chance to show the whole world that rig a election is not a good practise in Africa but they sold their integrity.
Kas 12 years ago

Empty talk examine ur head b4 writing article ,

Empty talk examine ur head b4 writing article ,
Kwame 12 years ago

A man who only serves the interest of the Brenton Woods institutions much to the the disadvantage of his own country also want to open his mouth on this issue.
He should tell us on how many occasions the Supreme Court has u ...
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A man who only serves the interest of the Brenton Woods institutions much to the the disadvantage of his own country also want to open his mouth on this issue.
He should tell us on how many occasions the Supreme Court has unanimously ruled on an issue before it and whether on occasions like the Tsatsu case when the court ruled by six to five it showed that the bench was polarised? TWERP like him. Ordinary Ghanaians are very discerning and can think better than these so-called elite.
Nana 12 years ago

It is only you, the few so called elite, who know the supreme interest of the nation. Well, you personal interest and that of the nation as a whole are dimetrically opposed. Leave Ghanaians in peace. Deep on staying there.

It is only you, the few so called elite, who know the supreme interest of the nation. Well, you personal interest and that of the nation as a whole are dimetrically opposed. Leave Ghanaians in peace. Deep on staying there.
New York Ghana Wise man 12 years ago

Who ask your stupid self for all this nonsense, where were you when all this started, madafaka if you had some kenkey to eat ahh, just sit some where and relax stupid fool ant no body got time for that.

Who ask your stupid self for all this nonsense, where were you when all this started, madafaka if you had some kenkey to eat ahh, just sit some where and relax stupid fool ant no body got time for that.
Isaac Kusi, Bronx, NY. 12 years ago

Is there any difference from the US supreme court where there is a 5to 4 split between Republicans and Democrats. There is no difference. The only difference is in the US Supreme Court we have 5 permanent Republican leaning j ...
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Is there any difference from the US supreme court where there is a 5to 4 split between Republicans and Democrats. There is no difference. The only difference is in the US Supreme Court we have 5 permanent Republican leaning judges and four permanent Democratic leaning judges. In Ghana they are 11. So don't make any biased statements or throw dust in our eyes.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 12 years ago

I cannot believe the renowned Ghanaian Professor Ayittey wrote this article because his arguments are baseless.

For example, he claims among others as follows, "it is important to distinguish between short-term partisan in ...
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I cannot believe the renowned Ghanaian Professor Ayittey wrote this article because his arguments are baseless.

For example, he claims among others as follows, "it is important to distinguish between short-term partisan interest and long-term national interest. The national interest is supreme and should trump partisan interests. Political parties come and go but Ghana, as a nation, endures. Unfortunately, the August 29 ruling serves short-term political interest but not the supreme national interest. As such, there is still unfinished business to accomplish. It would have made little difference if the Justices had ruled the other way, i.e. in favor of the petition.
Further, in their precedent-setting ruling, they have thrown their doors wide open to adjudicate all future electoral litigation.

The ruling does not serve the national interest on several fronts. First, the nation was hungering for peace and unity. As such, any sort of “compromise” ruling would have brought the nation together".

Is the professor seriously suggesting that a compromise ruling as he recommended would have brought the country together? He is totally wrong because that would have increased the political tension in Ghana and further deepened the political divide.

Again, a further delay in deciding who rules Ghana for another year or two for fresh elections to be organised would not have been in the national interest because investors would be reluctant to invest in Ghana with political and leadership uncertainty hanging over the country for that long. In fact, that would have been against the national interest. Even the nine months of the petition caused serious damage to the economy and it will take at least another nine months, if not more for recovery. As an Economist he should have known this.

Last but not the least, it is naive for him to even think that his suggested compromise ruling would have ended or curtail future presidential election challenges. In fact, the contrary is more likely with his suggestion because a candidate who fails to win the presidential election is more likely to challenge it at the SC since that would give him/her a second chance. With a 5-4 majority, though that will not end presidential election petitions, it is not an open door invitation for future challenges since such petitioners know that if the evidence is not strong the potential challenge is more likely to fail.

His suggestion that the SC should have asked the EC to organise fresh presidential and parliamentary elections in a year's time is the most ridiculous I have ever heard from an intellectual. That would have been an abrogation of the duties of the Justices because such a judgement would have served no one's interest. That also is not best way of even asking or compelling the EC to reform.

The Professor states again as follows, "an electoral rule accepted by all parties was that no one should be allowed to vote without biometric verification. NBNV was the slogan accepted by all parties. Another electoral rule related to over-voting, where the number of votes cast exceeded the number of registered voters. Still another electoral rule is the polling station results must be certified with the signature of the presiding officer. None of the three was unanimously upheld".

The Prof wrongly assumes that because something is agreed by political parties, it is the law or it becomes lawful. Again, what is wrong with the Justices having divided opinions on the three claims? Does he not know that in the US where he has resided for many years, the US Supreme Court Justices are often divided on matters of constitutional and national importance?

I have heard a lot about Prof Ayittey but this article is very disappointing to come from a person of his caliber. Some of his arguments are too weak, baseless and simplistic to be coming from a professor of that experience in socio-economic affairs. To say the least, I am shocked.
Apatupr3 12 years ago

On hearsay or second-hand information.
Gorge Ayittey,the brother of Shirley Ayittey,the current Min of Health in the Mahama administration, is a dyed-in-wool member of the NPP. please put your enormous google talents to use ...
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On hearsay or second-hand information.
Gorge Ayittey,the brother of Shirley Ayittey,the current Min of Health in the Mahama administration, is a dyed-in-wool member of the NPP. please put your enormous google talents to use,as you have done in the past,and you`ll neither be shocked nor disappointed!
Btw, how is your friend Kwaku Azar faring these days? We not heard a whole lot from him lately. How come?
Has he passed on the mantle to the likes of Kwasi Prempeh (of Seton Hall),Ayittey, Agyemin Boateng and others who have constituted themselves into a preatorian guard of ssorts, ready to hoodwink Ghanaians with their own version of the truth!
With all his connections wthin the beltway,particularly during the tenure of Bush II Whitehouse,what has George Ayittey been able to accomplish for his motherland?
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 12 years ago

Apatupre, I read the article with an objective mind and was not interested in his political affiliation or family connection. I based my observations purely on the contents (the analyses and and conclusions).

Apatupre, I read the article with an objective mind and was not interested in his political affiliation or family connection. I based my observations purely on the contents (the analyses and and conclusions).

Joy 12 years ago

Kofi, I disagree with your comments on George. You miss the big picture of what he is trying to capture in his article. The bottom line is that, as a body, the SC did not rise to the occassion. There was an obvious biases and ...
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Kofi, I disagree with your comments on George. You miss the big picture of what he is trying to capture in his article. The bottom line is that, as a body, the SC did not rise to the occassion. There was an obvious biases and lazy intellectual aptitudes which George is trying to address and bring out.

Ghanaians expected more than this flimsy judgement. The fact that the case was sent to the SC implied that we expected justice and fair play from the Judges, not outright biases we witnessed. The Peppeni Atubuga should have reclused (removed) himself from the panel because of his conflict of his brother being so close to the head Peppeni of the country. I do not buy your logic that the SC should not have explicitly asked for reforms of the EC. They could at a minimum asked for that. The Judges on the losing side at least asked for something like that. In this regard, I side with George.

Also, I am shocked that you are shocked(?) about George. I have debated George before in the media (Radio) in the DC area, and his talent to poke fun and trouble to African States, including Ghana has no end. Just listen to him on TED and you will see what George is all about. Nonetheless, I do not find him producing "too weak, baseless and simplistic" ideas. That I do not agree with you, Kofi.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Ha! ha! ha! Kofi, Welcome to reality! That's all you'd get from Prof. George Ayittey. He is all fluff and nothing else. I read the piece this morning, i.e., yesterday, thought of writing something brief but more serious issue ...
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Ha! ha! ha! Kofi, Welcome to reality! That's all you'd get from Prof. George Ayittey. He is all fluff and nothing else. I read the piece this morning, i.e., yesterday, thought of writing something brief but more serious issues beckoned.

I know the man very well, having read at least his major book on Africa and several of his writings, and declared him as someone who indulges not only in abstract empiricism but also intellectual dishonesty and falsification, which I termed as "false empiricism", to support his outlandish claims. I had debated him extensively and exposed not only the flaws in his reasoning but the empirical inaccuracies in his claims.
But having invested so much into propagating such falsehood, he finds it very hard to give up.

I was going to taunt him by posting an article he wrote in the 90s condemning Kufuor titled The Moon Shines Brightly. That was after the 1996 election when it turned out that the vehicles K4 "donated" to the NPP were actually credited and not paid for and the car dealers wanted the NPP to pay for them. Dodgy people, they are, you know? Bcos of that article, K4 hates George and he was sidelined when the NPP came to power.

Andy-K
BIG IDEAS 12 years ago

so called prof,stop that skin pain act ,you might be one of those who contributed heavily for NPP in cash.you are now lost.try next time,,,,,yankyman

so called prof,stop that skin pain act ,you might be one of those who contributed heavily for NPP in cash.you are now lost.try next time,,,,,yankyman
GHANAVIA 12 years ago

Kwame,are you asking who is George Ayittey?
If you don't know him, I can be of little help. Sure, he is more patriotic and level-headed than corrupt and insidious Atinga Atonguba, of the S/C.

Kwame,are you asking who is George Ayittey?
If you don't know him, I can be of little help. Sure, he is more patriotic and level-headed than corrupt and insidious Atinga Atonguba, of the S/C.
Kwame 12 years ago

I guess you are really exposing your ignorance here, Ghanavia or whoever you are. If you are educated, just do little check on the man and then go check the meaning of patriotism and level-headedness. At least "Atinga Atuguba ...
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I guess you are really exposing your ignorance here, Ghanavia or whoever you are. If you are educated, just do little check on the man and then go check the meaning of patriotism and level-headedness. At least "Atinga Atuguba" is in Ghana serving his people.
DONBOLI 12 years ago

I dont think you respects our Supreme Court, if you did, you would been talking as if you dont anything about our Supreme court.
Its our final court of Law and when it decide anything that thing is final and cant be change. ...
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I dont think you respects our Supreme Court, if you did, you would been talking as if you dont anything about our Supreme court.
Its our final court of Law and when it decide anything that thing is final and cant be change. Until Ghanaians respect the supreme court stupid writer like you will mislead them.
John Mahama was made the president not by Electoral Comission but the Supreme Court. People turn to forget when the Supreme Court make a decision, that decision cant never be change. January 2013 the Supreme Court made John Mahama the president and that can never change in the eyes of our Supreme Court. Those people who dont understand what Supreme (god) Court is for and do are those making stupid noises about the Judges who sat thru the petition hearing. These Judges cant change what the Supreme Court had already decided in January 2013. Whether the decision is wrong or right as far as the Supreme Court made a decision it cant be overturn by any Judges.
The judges at the Supreme Court are not the Supreme Court and most people dont understand it. Leave the nine Judges who sat thru the petition alone, they have done what we expected of them. We and judges knew the election were not correct and had a lot of errors and that ends it because they change the decision Supreme Court had already made only nine months ago.
Will anybody call our Supreme Court Supreme when it cant decide things right? Whether it wrong or right supreme court decision is final.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Duh!

Duh!
Kojo Billy Duncan 12 years ago

Some of the so-called elite are mis-educated and intellectually dishonest. Patriotism is not part of their make-up. We will not allow them to disrupt the peace we are enjoying. In the 2004 and 2008 elections, which NPP won, t ...
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Some of the so-called elite are mis-educated and intellectually dishonest. Patriotism is not part of their make-up. We will not allow them to disrupt the peace we are enjoying. In the 2004 and 2008 elections, which NPP won, these hypocrites were silent even when it was obvious that some polling stations recorded voter turn-out of over 100%. They honestly have no shame. It is now clear to all smart Ghanaians that the biometric registration system has put paid to these shenanigans and therefore the chances of the NPP coming to power in the next 30 years is slim. What kind of people are these? Nkrumah whipped them at the polls at least three times before independence and they still arrogantly maintained that the voters were wrong. Ghanaians will show them how disdainful they are of them, when they decimate the NPP votes further. The campaign will start after the development programmes of the government are in place. It will be relentless. So many Phd's and Masters but nothing manufactured here.
Kojo Billy Duncan 12 years ago

Correction: 'In the 2000 and 2004 elections'

Correction: 'In the 2000 and 2004 elections'
KOpoku 12 years ago

we are fed up with this book long profs. what can he do as person to help deepen the democracy in Ghana. when you want justice with a party mind set, you would never accept any verdict that would not go in your favour. NPP is ...
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we are fed up with this book long profs. what can he do as person to help deepen the democracy in Ghana. when you want justice with a party mind set, you would never accept any verdict that would not go in your favour. NPP is reading verdict with a political lens but legal lens.
John,Tema 12 years ago

Soon we will be having NPP & NDC rainfalls,NDC & NPP harmattan.You go to the chop bar you demand NPP akrantei,NDC banku etc.We are so confused and to make matters worst our intellectuals are also not helping us.

Soon we will be having NPP & NDC rainfalls,NDC & NPP harmattan.You go to the chop bar you demand NPP akrantei,NDC banku etc.We are so confused and to make matters worst our intellectuals are also not helping us.
the bones 12 years ago

see you people if you have gotten any skills in nation in nation building must leave america and come home to help the nation with your professorial skills and stop writing all these nonsense from your base. do you know how p ...
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see you people if you have gotten any skills in nation in nation building must leave america and come home to help the nation with your professorial skills and stop writing all these nonsense from your base. do you know how people have prayed and fasted and suffered to see the nation this far. if the prayers of the people and our tolerance did not work, we would have seen disaster. too know people.hai!!
ASABE 12 years ago

TELL HIM ALSO TO PASS HIS JUDGEMENT

TELL HIM ALSO TO PASS HIS JUDGEMENT
KWAME 12 years ago

What is your judgement. When will Ghanaians stop doing politics and face facts and speak the honest truth. Atugubah said over-voting case is ballot stuffing and not over-voting that is why he dismissed that case. Ballot stuff ...
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What is your judgement. When will Ghanaians stop doing politics and face facts and speak the honest truth. Atugubah said over-voting case is ballot stuffing and not over-voting that is why he dismissed that case. Ballot stuffing is an act but what does it result? Overvoting of course. As it happened the stuffing of ballots resulted in more ballot papers than the actual voters and that sensibly is overvoting. Atuguba was just dishonest and insincere to the whole nation. In fact, I share with the judges for dismissing the first three and not the other three. Atuguba and the likes made education useless because my illiterate old man in my village would more just in the ruling of this case than what Atuguba and his likes did. What about NVNV as said by Afari Djan himself; the voice was played at the court. What about the constitutional requirement that the Presiding officer at the polling station should sign. Ghana can never progress if we do not for once start facing facts as they are.
KOO 12 years ago

Why do people like you not seem to understand this Prof.The man is simply saying that there was a chance to correct some irregularities in our election process but the court failed to do that.It is quite obvious that there wi ...
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Why do people like you not seem to understand this Prof.The man is simply saying that there was a chance to correct some irregularities in our election process but the court failed to do that.It is quite obvious that there will be problems come 2016.
Kweku 12 years ago

It is not obvious. That is what you want to happen. By his grace nothing will happen. We will live and declare the glory of God.

It is not obvious. That is what you want to happen. By his grace nothing will happen. We will live and declare the glory of God.
Joe Kojo 12 years ago

We people understand this prof perfectly. We understand that he himself is partisan in his submission. We also know that our electoral system has been undergoing reforms for as long as we ahve operated it. We have gone from o ...
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We people understand this prof perfectly. We understand that he himself is partisan in his submission. We also know that our electoral system has been undergoing reforms for as long as we ahve operated it. We have gone from opaque through transparent ballot boxes, non photo id cards, black and white photo id cards to coloured photo id cards, ordinary voters register, suspeted to be bloated and all that, to biometric voters register, which can detect and expunge any form of multiple registration. All this reforms, we have carried out without the "too known big english" of the prof.

If he has any suggestions to push our reforms forwatrd he should bring it. If he thinks that the only elections in Ghana in which there was no complaint was in 2000, then he should also be honest to tell us that that was the time the NPP won elections and therefore they would have no reason to fight against itself, because they believe they have the sole right to rule Ghana and not any one else.

Tell this prof to leave us alone to think over our problems.
Canthappenhere 12 years ago

its not complicated. its the corporate new world order in action. They have what is called Agenda 21 which is a system which the corporation
fund the scams.They own the courts and they will own the governments of the world. ...
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its not complicated. its the corporate new world order in action. They have what is called Agenda 21 which is a system which the corporation
fund the scams.They own the courts and they will own the governments of the world. They have installed the diebold voting scam in Ghana this is how they bring you this corporate new world order system which is evil and is all about control poverty and depopulation and its all done with hard core deception. infowars.com for a degree in the new world order
G. K. Berko 12 years ago

No, Sir, it is folks like you who do not understand but fail to learn. FYI, it is not the SC's role to correct anything in our Electoral System. At best, they only have to prove what is unconstitutional and let the appropria ...
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No, Sir, it is folks like you who do not understand but fail to learn. FYI, it is not the SC's role to correct anything in our Electoral System. At best, they only have to prove what is unconstitutional and let the appropriate National Institutions fix the problem.

The Supreme Court might not have stipulated that we needed Electoral Reforms. But their intention for errors to get fixed to avert recurrence of the Petition case was plain enough. That makes Professor Ayitteh's criticism of the Court for not explicitly calling for reforms needless and uncalled for.

In the most likely scenario, the Court might have considered the exposed problems fixable without a total overhaul of the Electoral process and left it for the Parliament to decide how to fix the problems. It is some of us in the Public who think a whole Reform may be needed. But do we claim to know any better than the Court? The Court has done what it could and it is up to us and the Parliament to work for the necessary corrections. If we did not trust the Court to do Justice why did we send the case to it? For a smoke screen to portray us as being more law-abiding?

We better listen to the Arthur Kennedy's, Tarzans, Nyaho Tamakloes and Kwame Pianims, if we really want to change anything in Ghana for the better.

He, Ayitteh, could not have done any better on the Court, with his kind of dangerous ideological leaning.

He has no streak of balanced objectivity in his bones.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Joy 12 years ago

G.K. I disagree with you. The fact that the case was sent to the SC implied that we expected justice and fair play from the Judges, not outright biases we witnessed. The Peppeni Atubuga should have reclused (removed) himself ...
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G.K. I disagree with you. The fact that the case was sent to the SC implied that we expected justice and fair play from the Judges, not outright biases we witnessed. The Peppeni Atubuga should have reclused (removed) himself from the panel because of his conflict of his brother being so close to the head Peppeni of the country. I do not buy your logic that the SC should not have explicitly asked for reforms of the EC. They could at a minimum asked for that. The Judges on the losing side at least asked for something like that. In this regard, I side with George.
curious 12 years ago

are your biases showing here?

are your biases showing here?
Kobena 12 years ago

Very insightful!
The Electoral Commission is a real mess like most of the other institutions of state of Ghana. The President/Parliament might not wish to heed warnings to reform the EC for parochial reasons. It is for all ...
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Very insightful!
The Electoral Commission is a real mess like most of the other institutions of state of Ghana. The President/Parliament might not wish to heed warnings to reform the EC for parochial reasons. It is for all of us Ghanaians everywhere to come together to ensure that the right thing is done NOW because not doing so could be our undoing as nation.

The Supreme Court's hotch-potch ruling has only bought us peace for the short term!
Daniel Kwadwo Bimpeh 12 years ago

The 5 justices were corrupt who took bribe and sold justice. God's judgement awaits them soon.

The 5 justices were corrupt who took bribe and sold justice. God's judgement awaits them soon.
Kweku 12 years ago

Gods judgement awaits people like you who are intolerant.

Gods judgement awaits people like you who are intolerant.
Kweku 12 years ago

Dear professor,
You are making all these up. Because the judgment did not suit you parochial interest you are writing righting to amenurate your pains and destroy our institutions.
Don’t try to destroy our country for ...
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Dear professor,
You are making all these up. Because the judgment did not suit you parochial interest you are writing righting to amenurate your pains and destroy our institutions.
Don’t try to destroy our country for us. You are contributing to the development of other countries whilst we are here trying to build Ghana.
If you care to know the judgment was 6-0. Not what you are contemplating. The 4 other judges voted 3 in favour of the petitioners and 3 against. 5 judges voted 6 against the petitioners. So what are you saying. Leave us only here in Ghana and deal with the people you are helping build their society. If you think you love Ghana came and teach our University students instead of Americans.
You are the one dividing Ghana not the SC Judges. You did not trust the EC; you have virtually destroyed it now the focus is on the Judiciary. It is people like you who called on the President to accept the verdict whichever way it goes. But you are not prepared to accept. Rather chose to destroy our institutions. Really Shameful.
You call yourself a professor.
Nana addo. U.k. 12 years ago

Who is this humanbeing... Where where you we dont want anymore troubles. Are you a judge or what do you konw about the sc.... So shut up

Who is this humanbeing... Where where you we dont want anymore troubles. Are you a judge or what do you konw about the sc.... So shut up
BIG IDEAS 12 years ago

POSTING THE PHOTOS OF THE SC JUDGES TO GHANAWEB IS BAD.

POSTING THE PHOTOS OF THE SC JUDGES TO GHANAWEB IS BAD.
Kwabena Twumasi-Ankrah (London) 12 years ago

Prof, God bless you. You've said it all. Those who have ears must listen.

Prof, God bless you. You've said it all. Those who have ears must listen.
ALOMELE KEKELI 12 years ago

I am very surprised that, this day and era people cannot see the doom the nation is being plunged into with politicization of everything we do or say. The comments being left here leaves much to be desired. What do we learn f ...
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I am very surprised that, this day and era people cannot see the doom the nation is being plunged into with politicization of everything we do or say. The comments being left here leaves much to be desired. What do we learn from the formal education we get in Ghana?. Lets put aside the spectacles of various political parties and begin to think for once for the future of this nation that few people are bleeding to death. Those of you criticizing the author should ask whether what he has written are false or they are daylight truth. Ghana first please, please, please.
SYLLAH 12 years ago

The truth depends on the type of glass u wear

The truth depends on the type of glass u wear
Tonga Tonga 12 years ago

Thank you! You are right, many of the comments in this forum show that a great number of people badly need education; with a certain amount of education, they would have realized that the author truly has a point.

Thank you! You are right, many of the comments in this forum show that a great number of people badly need education; with a certain amount of education, they would have realized that the author truly has a point.
Samuel Ofori-Sey 12 years ago

The quality of the site management may be the real issue instead of the comments - I am not for censorship but re-arranging the comments to isolate insults from the genuine objective opinions from all sides on this web site ...
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The quality of the site management may be the real issue instead of the comments - I am not for censorship but re-arranging the comments to isolate insults from the genuine objective opinions from all sides on this web site will be helpful.
niifio 12 years ago

Keep on dreaming prof

Keep on dreaming prof
Akosua Tabuwaa 12 years ago

You forget there was no polarisation in preserving the people's vote.By 9-0 ven those who thought that NPP had a case said the people's vote should be preserved and that there should be re-voting in the areas affected where t ...
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You forget there was no polarisation in preserving the people's vote.By 9-0 ven those who thought that NPP had a case said the people's vote should be preserved and that there should be re-voting in the areas affected where the NPP was super strong.The Petitioners however said they did not want re voting and the votes in question should be thrown away.Nada said all the Judges.
john 12 years ago

the 5 justices are disgrace to our nation

the 5 justices are disgrace to our nation
USA- 12 years ago

SO CALLED PROF.IN USA FOLLOWING DIRTY AND PRIMITIVE POLITICS IN GHANA.I WONDER WHAT LECTURE YOU ARE GIVING TO YOUNG AMERICANS,BUT WE WILL FOLLOW YOU

SO CALLED PROF.IN USA FOLLOWING DIRTY AND PRIMITIVE POLITICS IN GHANA.I WONDER WHAT LECTURE YOU ARE GIVING TO YOUNG AMERICANS,BUT WE WILL FOLLOW YOU
SYLLAH 12 years ago

You are right may be ,and it also exposed polarized so called George Ayittey? The brother of a minister in this current administration , if am right she is Shelley Ajittey. U know the reason I brought her in to show even wi ...
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You are right may be ,and it also exposed polarized so called George Ayittey? The brother of a minister in this current administration , if am right she is Shelley Ajittey. U know the reason I brought her in to show even with the same blood, but they defer. From ideology, not to talk of supreme judges do u expect them on the same ruling ,but am not suprise an economic interpretating the law. It's a shame, And for this so called writers, you are part of it all the polorize society and u even deepening it because we regard u as independent but that's not the case u are even more political than even some of us. It's a shame........
Analyst 12 years ago

From the onset, the SC justices were not interested in getting to the truth of the allegations. Some of them only followed their biases in listening to the arguments of the parties involved in the case.
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From the onset, the SC justices were not interested in getting to the truth of the allegations. Some of them only followed their biases in listening to the arguments of the parties involved in the case.
Basing everything on the pink sheet was a big mistake.For instance, if in a family record book you have the age of the father recorded as 50, and the age of the son recorded as 100, it does not mean the son is older than the father because this is clearly, an error. It was this type of clerical errors that resulted in what the petitioners are calling over-voting. There was one particular instance when the number of votes issued to the polling station was left blank and this was interpreted by the petitioners as zero hence any number recorded as having voted was interpreted by the petitioners as "over voting" - so ridiculous.
Concerning non-signatures, all that the SC needed to do was to bring the presiding officers to explain why they did not sign. There is no way a presiding officer can have issues with records he/she him/herself produced. If there were issues, it is party's agents who are supposed to protest by not signing and provide written reasons.
The EC claimed every voter voted by biometric verification except for the "face only" voters. All that is needed to check verify this is to take the biometric machines and check the last counts. Also the petitioners could be made to bring a certain number of voters who did not go through biometric verification to testify.
The good thing about our election is that, the votes are counted and declared in public at the polling stations. From there every party can compile its own tallies alongside the EC. The data base at the polling stations can always be used to check what is transferred into the final results tally.
Now everybody is talking about reforms. Yes reforms are good. But there is no reform that can make every candidate win an election. There will always be one winner (for presidential elections) and many losers. That is why it is not reasonable to put one's whole life and hope into into an election. For instance taking a gargantuan loan to campaign knowing that you will win by all means is very dangerous.
GHANA FIRST 12 years ago

This piece of write up is confused and confusing. Many of our so-called learned or luminaries are more dim in thoughts than we know them. The writer Prof Ayitey does not not understand voting in Ghana. If he does he would hav ...
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This piece of write up is confused and confusing. Many of our so-called learned or luminaries are more dim in thoughts than we know them. The writer Prof Ayitey does not not understand voting in Ghana. If he does he would have known that the petition's best gain for Ghana is to ensure that the right things are done at every election in Ghana not to overturn the result of 2012 elections because the winner was genuinely elected. In every election in Ghana, 2012 election being the best ever election held in Ghana, there was no need at all for NPP to go to court but to say that EC should ensure things were done properly. Our prof is just making himself heard. He has nothing to offer Ghana.
Mike 12 years ago

Prof Ayyittey, Let me keep it simple. Pls stick to your Economics and don't expose your ignorance, bias and hypocrisy to the world. Legal matters are best understood and 'commented' on by those who have the knowledge and ex ...
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Prof Ayyittey, Let me keep it simple. Pls stick to your Economics and don't expose your ignorance, bias and hypocrisy to the world. Legal matters are best understood and 'commented' on by those who have the knowledge and expertise.

With your alleged intelligence and opportunity to be objective you could have found out before writing your article that in every court that is presided over by a panel, members sometimes rule differently, without any sane person, at least not an alleged professor of economics, claiming they re 'polarised'.

You ought to know this, so your claim shows not only your intellectual and moral bankruptcy, but total insult of the collective intelligence of Ghanaians. Obviously your aim is to poison the peaceful atmosphere in the nation by generting anger against the EC and current government.

You heve not done yourself any favours by your stance. I wonder if anybody, including your academic colleagues, will be proud of you in light of your true character that you have exposed by this ill-advised article.
BABA 12 years ago

A professor who cannot think and write objectively has his credentials to question

A professor who cannot think and write objectively has his credentials to question
Hate nDC 12 years ago

Frafra Justice Atuguba kote boto kcte bctc

Frafra Justice Atuguba kote boto kcte bctc
Akosua Tabuwaa 12 years ago

At least he does not eat otwi shit

At least he does not eat otwi shit
OWUSU 12 years ago

Please attack the issues and not the personality

Please attack the issues and not the personality
OKUDZETT 12 years ago

Any time l listen or read comments on this past 2012 election petition and verdit the more confused it is to note that we as a nation have refused to have an Citizen identification data system from birth to Death. The Found ...
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Any time l listen or read comments on this past 2012 election petition and verdit the more confused it is to note that we as a nation have refused to have an Citizen identification data system from birth to Death. The Foundation of every well coordinated society is who are the Citizens of that nation-state.
How are we identified as a People. What nationally recognised identification system do we have. If we have so many People now boasting as professors, lawyers administrators, politicians but we sweep under carpet the need to have a sound identification system from birth to Death then make no mistake of future continued exploitation of errors that might emerge whenever NPP loses election.

Lets do the right thing first to begin to have a nation wide identification system of all Citizens as permanent feature of Our nationhood to protect us from NPP arrongancy-YOU AND I ARE NOT THERE-

Remember the NPP and Anthony Karbo are still coming to make problems at the polling station in the NeXT coming elections if we refuse to find a solution to a permanent national data Storage of identification of the quaracter of Our population and Citizens identification.
Bla 12 years ago

I agree with you 100%. We even have foreigners who pass off as Ghanaians and are a potential threat to our National security but politians don't want to address this issue. They don't even think the I.D issue is a priority.

I agree with you 100%. We even have foreigners who pass off as Ghanaians and are a potential threat to our National security but politians don't want to address this issue. They don't even think the I.D issue is a priority.
BOY KOFI 12 years ago

The cardinal interest of Ghana is peace.We all prayed that God gives the judges courage to give verdict that will that will be acceptable to parties involved in the petition.Fortunately,the judges did just that,so what's your ...
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The cardinal interest of Ghana is peace.We all prayed that God gives the judges courage to give verdict that will that will be acceptable to parties involved in the petition.Fortunately,the judges did just that,so what's your problem?Thank you.
Woman's wisdom 12 years ago

Stop the wrangling around of issues. You yourself know definitely well that Atuguga lied in his deliberations of the SC verdict. Atuguba lied by saying that 6 of the justices dismissed three of the petitioner's case but in ac ...
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Stop the wrangling around of issues. You yourself know definitely well that Atuguga lied in his deliberations of the SC verdict. Atuguba lied by saying that 6 of the justices dismissed three of the petitioner's case but in actual fact, 5 of them did accept the petitioners case. Something like no verification no vote, voting without biometric verification and unsigned signatures of presiding officers. How could we spend 75million dollars to purchase machines that were not virtually used for the elections. How could any reasonable thinking judge find nothing wrong with this even as kojo Afari Gyan himself admitted all these flaws and irregularities. Ghana will never be well because even Atuguba of all judges is a criminal.
J Ananga 12 years ago

This is just another of our pseudo intellectuals. You may know (Breton Woods)economics but not our politics. Your analysis is not only bogus but polarizing as well. People cry foul when the EC results are not favourable to th ...
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This is just another of our pseudo intellectuals. You may know (Breton Woods)economics but not our politics. Your analysis is not only bogus but polarizing as well. People cry foul when the EC results are not favourable to them and therefore are hell bound to destroy it. The court case has shown that Ghanaians are ungrateful for what we have and need is no need for foreign observers since we don't even accept what they tell us. The SC has come out with their verdict but you the pseudo intellectuals are at it again. Remember that 50.74% of Ghanaians voted for a particular candidate and we must respect their choice as a democracy. So the Sc should have subverted this in favour of the minority (49.26%)? Grow up Mr intellectual and come again. This one you have misfired
Ada Boy 12 years ago

At least he writes intelligible english grammar,Ahoofe, Adolfo and Daniel Pryce should read this.

At least he writes intelligible english grammar,Ahoofe, Adolfo and Daniel Pryce should read this.
Joe Turkey 12 years ago

Remember how in 1982 Jerry Rawlings and his (P)NDC lined up the High Court Judges (including a nursing mother), killed them and burned them to ashes. The Supreme Court judges of 2012 want to avoid that. That is the destructio ...
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Remember how in 1982 Jerry Rawlings and his (P)NDC lined up the High Court Judges (including a nursing mother), killed them and burned them to ashes. The Supreme Court judges of 2012 want to avoid that. That is the destruction Jerry Rawlings has caused to justice and democracy in Ghana. Quote me.
KWAKU 12 years ago

SIMILAR SITUATIONS PERSIST IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD,RIGHT UNDER YOUR SWOLLEN HYPOCRITICAL NOSE (AMERICA). AMERICANS ARE DIVIDED ON ANY ISSUE AND POLICY DIRECTION OF A SITTING GOVERNMENT AT ANY MATERIAL AND GIVEN TIME. THEY ARE EV ...
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SIMILAR SITUATIONS PERSIST IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD,RIGHT UNDER YOUR SWOLLEN HYPOCRITICAL NOSE (AMERICA). AMERICANS ARE DIVIDED ON ANY ISSUE AND POLICY DIRECTION OF A SITTING GOVERNMENT AT ANY MATERIAL AND GIVEN TIME. THEY ARE EVE DEVIDDED ON SYRIA.
SO MR AYITTEH, THE FACT THAT OUR JUSTICES DID NOT SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE AND, THE FACT THAT ALL THE JUSTICES DID NOT SEE THE ARGUMENTS AS PRESENTED BY PETITIONERS AND DEFENSE IN THE SAME LIGHT DOES NOT TAKE THE SHINE OUT OF THE WHOLE PROCESS. WE HAVE GOT A LOT TO BE PROUD OF AS A PEOPLE. YOU OBVIOUSLY LOVE YOUR AMERICA AND ALL THE HYPOCRISY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS IT REPRESENTS. WE LOVE OUR OWN (GHANA) TOO
Dougie1 12 years ago

THIS WHOLE STUPID STORY IS FULL OF BULLSHIT... BUNCH OF LOSER CRYING PAIN......AHAHAHAHAHAHA........GO TO HELL.......MORONS... FUCKING SORE LOSERS

THIS WHOLE STUPID STORY IS FULL OF BULLSHIT... BUNCH OF LOSER CRYING PAIN......AHAHAHAHAHAHA........GO TO HELL.......MORONS... FUCKING SORE LOSERS
Samuel Ofori-Sey 12 years ago

George's observation on the split during the ruling by the SC(Ghana) on the Ghana 2012 election is absolutely correct but viewed in too narrow a technical competency. Naturally, a supreme court is a split place representing a ...
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George's observation on the split during the ruling by the SC(Ghana) on the Ghana 2012 election is absolutely correct but viewed in too narrow a technical competency. Naturally, a supreme court is a split place representing all shades of a nations major political opinions (not parties) but it is it's ability to rule favourably for peace or war in situations like these that matters - And at this stage, the Ghana SC has ruled that Ghanaians are not yet prepared for war. That situation may change if the political institutions in the nation do not react to a window lifeline which appears to be getting shorter with time- in a winner takes all political system, everyone loses (everything) eventually.
Joe Turkey 12 years ago

To some of you, every thing must be Akan or Ewe. What stupidity?

To some of you, every thing must be Akan or Ewe. What stupidity?
AREA TINK TANK 12 years ago

IN FACT UR ENTIRE ARTICLE IS SERIOUSLY DEVOID OF LOGIC, COMMON SENSE AND WORSE OF ALL WASTE OF DE READING PUBLICS TIME.IT IS TIME U TOILET CLEANING IDIOTS WHO CLAIM TO BE IN FOREIN UNIVERSITIES AND WORSE OF ALL DECEIVING UR S ...
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IN FACT UR ENTIRE ARTICLE IS SERIOUSLY DEVOID OF LOGIC, COMMON SENSE AND WORSE OF ALL WASTE OF DE READING PUBLICS TIME.IT IS TIME U TOILET CLEANING IDIOTS WHO CLAIM TO BE IN FOREIN UNIVERSITIES AND WORSE OF ALL DECEIVING UR SELVES THAT U ARE LECTURERS GIVE US FORKIN A BREAK. WO YE KWASIAA PAPAPAPPAP
Ozymandias 12 years ago

I am surprised at your reasoning. The judges lost credibility because they rules this way ? Well, you said it yourself.
They would have lost it either way.
Fact is, there was no problem with the electoral system. The same ...
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I am surprised at your reasoning. The judges lost credibility because they rules this way ? Well, you said it yourself.
They would have lost it either way.
Fact is, there was no problem with the electoral system. The same system with all its imperfections was used to declare Kuffour winner two times.

The big problem with the NPP and its acolytes is that they think the system is fine when THEY win but rotten when they lose.

It does not matter what system you have, a bad loser will always cry foul.
And by the way, why do you think justice is only served when the NPP loses ?
Agbozo 12 years ago

YOU shall know them by their talks. NDC hates the truth. Just imagine the way the comment. Its a pitty.

YOU shall know them by their talks. NDC hates the truth. Just imagine the way the comment. Its a pitty.
Nii Amanor 12 years ago

Aabahh, what ahhhhh? The case is over let's move on.
NDC won and that's it.

Aabahh, what ahhhhh? The case is over let's move on.
NDC won and that's it.
MAXIMUS 12 years ago

In my humble opinion gathered from reading this article, the NDc has taken Ghana hostage from way back.
The NDC rigging is of old, it did not just start this past election.
They will continue to rig because, that is the on ...
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In my humble opinion gathered from reading this article, the NDc has taken Ghana hostage from way back.
The NDC rigging is of old, it did not just start this past election.
They will continue to rig because, that is the only way they could rule Ghana.
Nana Akufo-Addo gave them the challenge but stop short just because, Nana decided for peace and not bloodshed.
There is fake peace in Ghana, because, not until electoral rigging is stopped, real peace will never take place in Ghana.
Koo the boy 12 years ago

Prof you are legend of politics

Prof you are legend of politics
Ghanaian 12 years ago

I don't blame him because he leave outside Africa for long, to start with did he made any notice on what to be change, or is just the usual use of the English word reform, Please let me tell you something you can bring Americ ...
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I don't blame him because he leave outside Africa for long, to start with did he made any notice on what to be change, or is just the usual use of the English word reform, Please let me tell you something you can bring American system here in Africa not only Ghana but if you fail to change the mindset of the people in charge I can assure you that there will not be any different, and you don't punish the voter after authorities failure to complier with the rule of their own game, at least common sense should tell us we don't need to be judge to know this. For we are being reforming our system always even the current one happens to be the best among all yet we had problem more than all. Thank GOD those Judges chose to stay in the Country to change the wrong.
KWAKU KYERETWIE 12 years ago

ASHANTI NATION NEEDS INLAND PORT AND THE KUMASI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ASANTEHENE OTUMFUO MUST DWELL ON SOLELY TO DEVELOP ASHANTI NATION. AFARI GYAN AND THE EC CAN GO TO HELL. NO MORE POLITICS IN ASHANTI NATION.

ASHANTI NATION NEEDS INLAND PORT AND THE KUMASI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ASANTEHENE OTUMFUO MUST DWELL ON SOLELY TO DEVELOP ASHANTI NATION. AFARI GYAN AND THE EC CAN GO TO HELL. NO MORE POLITICS IN ASHANTI NATION.
kodjo 12 years ago

No reference to the three 9-0 votes?? All supreme courts show their biases, don't bastardise ours whilst sitting in the comfort of DC!!

No reference to the three 9-0 votes?? All supreme courts show their biases, don't bastardise ours whilst sitting in the comfort of DC!!
Mix Breed (NPP-NDC) 12 years ago

Are you sure you are a professor? IN US of A? I doubt. Your argument was not on point. Read it yourself and you will see how politically polarized your view is. You are just an NPP man and not a Ghanaian who wants anything go ...
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Are you sure you are a professor? IN US of A? I doubt. Your argument was not on point. Read it yourself and you will see how politically polarized your view is. You are just an NPP man and not a Ghanaian who wants anything good for Ghana. Did you see how you never saw anything wrong with the two elections that NPP won? looks like those two elections were organized by either you or some angels but not Afari Gyan and his independent EC. YOu started talking from 92 and from 96, I thought you will be objective and think critically as a professor to go to 2000 and 2004. But you just jumped straight to 2010 an 2012. That is a week argument. You just speaking what favors you and NPP. I think there is something seriously wrong with Ghanaians because we cannot think properly. Our judgments are also so blinded by political affiliation.
AT 12 years ago

Kwasea biaa se oy3 professor! Look at the thrash de so called professor is spewing, hw dare him talking this type of nonsense! Metweeeeeeeeeeee wo!

Kwasea biaa se oy3 professor! Look at the thrash de so called professor is spewing, hw dare him talking this type of nonsense! Metweeeeeeeeeeee wo!
Jwayire 12 years ago

It is my considered view that, the SC did well by not making the coup that the petitioners so much wanted. On the issue of presiding officer's signatory, the remedy should have been to go for a compelling order (mandamus) to ...
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It is my considered view that, the SC did well by not making the coup that the petitioners so much wanted. On the issue of presiding officer's signatory, the remedy should have been to go for a compelling order (mandamus) to compel the officers to perform their statutory duty. Signatures don't add votes. The SC should have thrown out this very point (signature of officers) in the first place.
pulinjasco 12 years ago

A useless prof. Why in USA and not in Gh

A useless prof. Why in USA and not in Gh
tk 12 years ago

This professor is not well educated no where in the world does divergent opinions mean polarization.

This professor is not well educated no where in the world does divergent opinions mean polarization.
NPP 12 years ago

LISTEN TO THE WHITE MAN MUGU.

LISTEN TO THE WHITE MAN MUGU.
seth 12 years ago

I thougt this man was a professor of law. How this man can spew out such a shallow and one sided article beats my imagination. Ghana is indeed in big trouble with this selfish element in our academia class. When the court sai ...
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I thougt this man was a professor of law. How this man can spew out such a shallow and one sided article beats my imagination. Ghana is indeed in big trouble with this selfish element in our academia class. When the court said the petitioners could not prove their case, this man is saying different thing. What a dishonest man?
Boateng 12 years ago

Did you read the full content of the ruling and the various precedents used in the ruling?

Who made some of the "grievances" of greater impact than the others? In your words, "There was no unanimous ruling on the three m ...
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Did you read the full content of the ruling and the various precedents used in the ruling?

Who made some of the "grievances" of greater impact than the others? In your words, "There was no unanimous ruling on the three most cardinal elements of the electoral rules: Biometric verification, over-voting and signatures of presiding officers."
You simply show your biases and inconsistencies by ignoring that they were unanimous on three of the “grievances” and then calling out the other three that they had different opinions on as the “most cardinal”. Did you catch the fact that they admit the three issues they had different opinions on are those they wrote much on using other precedents in the country and elsewhere?

You have shown your own biases by your article. You wanted the SC Justices to "compromise". Shame on you! You head Justice Owusu right? On the signature issue for example, she would not compromise; neither would any of the other Justices. Each of them ruled as they understand the law and believe their conscience is free. Justice Owusu was very balanced in her ruling as I see it. She took into consideration the voter's right and the constitution and thought it right to rule for re-run which you disagree with.

Dear professor, you want the country to go through another national election so you would have three national election in 4 years! Were you going to foot the bill?

The fact is that majority voted in one direction and we as a country must respect the ruling and the rule of law and move on!
abongo 12 years ago

another npp stupidity

another npp stupidity
okukuseku 12 years ago

The real truth about the election is what happened at the voting and counting at the polling stations not on technicalities of signatures and biometric verification. The ivory tower people should give us a break.

The real truth about the election is what happened at the voting and counting at the polling stations not on technicalities of signatures and biometric verification. The ivory tower people should give us a break.
charles 12 years ago

I think the Prof is making sense, lets put politics aside and take his advice.

I think the Prof is making sense, lets put politics aside and take his advice.
Paa Osei 12 years ago

If our electorial system is not changed or improved to elect leaders based on their merits which in turn reflect on their performances, we will continue to have presidents who only pay their ways out and leave us with empty p ...
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If our electorial system is not changed or improved to elect leaders based on their merits which in turn reflect on their performances, we will continue to have presidents who only pay their ways out and leave us with empty promises.The good professor has made a genuine observation to expose that our Sc could continue to give biased and polariced judgement which not in any way backed by regulations or laws whether entrenched or not. I know NDC will not make any take on that except a away out there to make their usual propaganda.
G. K. Berko 12 years ago

No fair-minded Ghanaians would deny the need for Electoral Reforms. The errors have persisted too long in the system, and we might just be lucky to have escaped a horrible reaction by the aggrieved losers of the Petitition. ...
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No fair-minded Ghanaians would deny the need for Electoral Reforms. The errors have persisted too long in the system, and we might just be lucky to have escaped a horrible reaction by the aggrieved losers of the Petitition.
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However, the presentation of the facts and figures to support Ayitteh's claims seems to be one-sided in faulting only the NDC Administrations for our Electoral malpractices. That does not reflect the call for Justice and the deserving Reforms he is adding his voice to.

I am no NDC member but I could discern the Profesdor's subtle skewed criticism of only the NDC for either benefitting from or perpetrating our electoral errors. I deplore the behavior of some of our Intellectuals who want to appear purely unbiased and honest but show their steep biases via their gullible unbalanced selectivity for facts they present.

Ayitteh has long been an anti-Nkrumah, anti-NDC, anti-Rawlings, anti-Africanism. He is not a middle-of-the-road Political entity but a radical Danquah-Busia-Dombo ideologue. So, folks must not simply take his word for all that it seems.

Ayitteh or anyone else has every right to have the kind of political views he has. However, folks deserve to know his ultimate political stance, and need to be mindful of the dangers of his radicalism to our Nation.

He therefore ought to have identified himself correctly, politically, for readers to fully make sense of where he is coming from.

Where was he in-between the Elections, from 1992 to the present, to offer his observations to correct all the long list of faults in our Electoral system?

Why did he not encourage the 8-year long NPP Administration under Kufour to fix most, if not all, of these anomalies he mentions about our system, if he even thought he would not be heard by a corrupt NDC Administration? We might not have gone through all that we just went through with the Elections. Or, he only now finished his research to reveal all these faults, many of which he places way back in 1992?

It was the same Electoral Commission that supervised our Elections to usher in President Kufuor's Administration and that Administration's second term. It is therefore disingenuous for Ayitteh to dump all our cumulative electoral faults on only one Party, the NDC. That is not helpful in our current search for a peaceful and honest way forward.

What we need to focus on is that now that Akufo-Addo has helped us congeal the mass of our electoral problems, the proper and deserving Reforms must begin in earnest. We need not now apportion the blames to figure out who took a greater advantage of those inherent or deliberately-introduced errors in the electoral system. Hindsight is always twenty-twenty and many of us can easily play the proverbial 'Monday Quarter-Back' that Prof. Ayitteh is playing.

The NPP at home would know best all that is wrong with our electoral system that needs to be fixed promptly. Hopefully, it would leave no stone unturned to fix them before the next elections. We do not need any professorial pricking of our political wounds now to stir up any divisive tendencies.

If Ayitteh sees a particular fault that the rest of Ghana has not found yet, even after the Petition case, let him just table it for thorough analysis and remedy. He should stop the shadow-boxing he so loves to engage in to promote his favor among the USA Conservative circles, tarnishing our country's image in the end.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Apatupr3 12 years ago

because they do not mean well for Ghana! Look, George Ayittey who can properly be described as a political-economist,has warmed his way into conservative circles in Washington by repudiating his own,Africa.
Do you think he w ...
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because they do not mean well for Ghana! Look, George Ayittey who can properly be described as a political-economist,has warmed his way into conservative circles in Washington by repudiating his own,Africa.
Do you think he would have uttered a word, had the pedulum swung the other way? Not a chance in hell,trust me!
My deep worry is that we seem to have cultivated a new breed of 'pseudo- intellectuals' and part-time proxy fighters who are willing to turn commonsense on its head, just to suit the parochial interests of a select few in this country. Unless we all rise up and confront this 'evil phenomenon' Ghana will not make any headway!
Chris Kwame Awuyah 12 years ago

As usual, Prof. Ayittey is pandering to the radical conservative white man. He has made a career of becoming the mouthpiece for vocalizing the warped sentiments of racist against blacks, especially Africans, to the delight of ...
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As usual, Prof. Ayittey is pandering to the radical conservative white man. He has made a career of becoming the mouthpiece for vocalizing the warped sentiments of racist against blacks, especially Africans, to the delight of ultra conservatives. Does Prof. Ayittey understand that President Mills had had to contend with two elections irregularities and yet the late president never traumatized Ghanaians by subjecting them to such panic as we have witnessed the last eight months.
Mr Ayittey wants election reforms. Where was he during the successive rule of President Kufour? If Prof Ayittey looks far from his office at the American Univ. in Washington D.C., he would see the US Supreme Court, whose recent ruling threatens the voting rights of the poor who are mostly persons of color. Has Prof. Ayittey cared to comment of such infamy in one of the most democratic nations of the world?
Ghana has shown courage and maturity in introducing biometric verification. There are teething problems, inevitably. However, the blatant self-centered approach of defeated candidates who want selective adjudication would drag Ghana toward the edge of an abyss. Subjective self-promotion as has characterized Prof. Ayittey’s report creates needless political tension and social chaos.
The responsibility of a fair election is shared by all Ghanaians and good will persons across the world. It is disingenuous for Prof. Ayittey to claim to be an objective commentator, when over three decades now he has exhibited antipathy toward one political party. There is no credibility when he is self promoting, if not promoting one party. There is nothing wrong if only Prof. Ayittey would courageously declare that he’s a spokes person for NPP or even Akuffo Addo. Readers would then measure the logic and veracity of his narrative. Why is Prof. Ayittey silent on the chaos perpetuated in the country by Akuffo Addo in the wake of the December 2012 elections? Democracy in Ghana has remained steady in spite of, not because, of the organized efforts to dislodge and sabotage the country.
EZEKIEL 12 years ago

FUNNY but TRUE.....Africa's PROBLEMS START and END with the EDUCATED !!!!!!
The Educated have made the Continent IMPOTENT instead of showing the way.....because of GREED and SELFISHNESS !!!!!!
Which electoral System did Gha ...
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FUNNY but TRUE.....Africa's PROBLEMS START and END with the EDUCATED !!!!!!
The Educated have made the Continent IMPOTENT instead of showing the way.....because of GREED and SELFISHNESS !!!!!!
Which electoral System did Ghana use to declare Kufour 2x winner ??? Those times EVERYTHING was in order ???Shit!
Kofi 12 years ago

Are are ever going to learn?

Are are ever going to learn?
DJ DAABODAABO. GHANA 12 years ago

GHANA IS FULL OF DARKNESS IN THE STATE OF ATUGUBARIASM. TRUTH IS LIKE BLADE SLASHES ONLY LIES. A STATE FAILED TO THAT IS IN DARKNESS NO THREAT.

GHANA IS FULL OF DARKNESS IN THE STATE OF ATUGUBARIASM. TRUTH IS LIKE BLADE SLASHES ONLY LIES. A STATE FAILED TO THAT IS IN DARKNESS NO THREAT.
Dagadoo Zengka-ulu 12 years ago

Lawyers, Judges, Courts, SC, Attorneys, etc. are there to interpret the laws or Statutes, explain it in a professional way to your best understanding. A case can be up held or rejected based on a precedence case (previous cas ...
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Lawyers, Judges, Courts, SC, Attorneys, etc. are there to interpret the laws or Statutes, explain it in a professional way to your best understanding. A case can be up held or rejected based on a precedence case (previous cases) or Statute case (fixed). Stop bothering the SCJs and go to the EC (has the constitutional right) to resolve election issues. Only PMs can pass laws.
Ghanain 12 years ago

I agree with you. But they are also human with blood runing through their veins

I agree with you. But they are also human with blood runing through their veins
Teddy 12 years ago

United Ghana is possible and it all begins with you and me. Just make your contribution and hope that it is remembered. Don't ask that man/woman about his/her tribe - just know she's a ghanaian! Be the first to say Hi - no ma ...
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United Ghana is possible and it all begins with you and me. Just make your contribution and hope that it is remembered. Don't ask that man/woman about his/her tribe - just know she's a ghanaian! Be the first to say Hi - no matter how hateful the other guy seems. Just adopt a positive attitude
TONY 12 years ago

what an exellient talk.Thank you proffesor

what an exellient talk.Thank you proffesor
fakum 12 years ago

Togbaee professor

Togbaee professor
KUTRIKU 12 years ago

EWE FOOLS AND NDC STOOGES DON'T UNDERSTAND AND WILL ALWAYS CRITICIZE WISDOM LIKE THIS. BY NEGLECTING SUCH WISDOM GHANA IS ONLY POSTPONING THE DANGER BREWING IN THE POT. TO FIX THE PROBLEM, AFARI GYAN MUST BE BOOTED OUT IMMEDI ...
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EWE FOOLS AND NDC STOOGES DON'T UNDERSTAND AND WILL ALWAYS CRITICIZE WISDOM LIKE THIS. BY NEGLECTING SUCH WISDOM GHANA IS ONLY POSTPONING THE DANGER BREWING IN THE POT. TO FIX THE PROBLEM, AFARI GYAN MUST BE BOOTED OUT IMMEDIATELY AND THE EC RESHUFFLED.
les 12 years ago

anything that is against npp is not right. this fools think they are born to rule

anything that is against npp is not right. this fools think they are born to rule
Seymour Gray, LL.B. (USA) 12 years ago

It is difficult to read a comprehensive rendering of how biased the Ghana 2012 election was. When the troubled facts are listed the election looks as if it was a polarized card game set up to allow the NDC to win. This is no ...
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It is difficult to read a comprehensive rendering of how biased the Ghana 2012 election was. When the troubled facts are listed the election looks as if it was a polarized card game set up to allow the NDC to win. This is no way to run a democracy. It is impossible to have democracy with cheating elections.
Nana Essandoh. 12 years ago

We need to embrace the advice by Prof. Ayittey. It is a step in the right direction. Lets not politicize this one also. God bless our homeland Ghana.

We need to embrace the advice by Prof. Ayittey. It is a step in the right direction. Lets not politicize this one also. God bless our homeland Ghana.
Baffour Kyei - New Jersey 12 years ago

Prof. Ayittey, I give you thumbs up in your submission. I would like to encourage you to wage a crusade to champion a cause for Ghanaians abroad to be allowed to vote in 2016. This will be a big breakthrough for the 2016 elec ...
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Prof. Ayittey, I give you thumbs up in your submission. I would like to encourage you to wage a crusade to champion a cause for Ghanaians abroad to be allowed to vote in 2016. This will be a big breakthrough for the 2016 elections. The other day the Ghana ambassador in New York was urging Ghanaians in the U.S. to register to know how many Ghanaians are here at an Odwira/Ohum festival in Newark but did not encourage the Ghanaian populace to get ready to register to vote in the near future. We will give you all the support needed to champion this course. This will erradicate some of the bottle necks in the Ghanaian elections. The current government knows for sure that he will be voted out if Ghanaians abroad are allowed to vote, But with your advocacy we shall succeed. Bravo!!! Prof Ayittey.
OWUSU 12 years ago

We all know where you belong to.

We all know where you belong to.
BOMBER 12 years ago

COME HOME AND USE YOUR BRAIN TO DEVELOP GHANA. YOU CAN ONLY BE THERE AND OPEN YOUR MOUTH AT ANY ANGLE AND SAY WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW. DISAPPOINTED ELEPHANTIASIS PROFESSOR.DISAPPOINTED IDIOT. ARE SURE YOU ARE EVEN A TRUE PROFESS ...
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COME HOME AND USE YOUR BRAIN TO DEVELOP GHANA. YOU CAN ONLY BE THERE AND OPEN YOUR MOUTH AT ANY ANGLE AND SAY WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW. DISAPPOINTED ELEPHANTIASIS PROFESSOR.DISAPPOINTED IDIOT. ARE SURE YOU ARE EVEN A TRUE PROFESSOR? PROFESSOR IN SENSELESS TALK? BUT NOT IN GHANA.
DJAN AHMED 12 years ago

I don't think what the justice did is faire to all Ghanaians. I personally now don't believe in any court any more

I don't think what the justice did is faire to all Ghanaians. I personally now don't believe in any court any more
NOKWARE YE DE 12 years ago

What crime at all has George Ayittey committed? I have intentionally put his professorship aside to discuss this issue to "let him be one of us". Some of the commentators don't even have the JSS education but are castigatin ...
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What crime at all has George Ayittey committed? I have intentionally put his professorship aside to discuss this issue to "let him be one of us". Some of the commentators don't even have the JSS education but are castigating him because his article speaks the truth. Warped brains are angry. Political veranda boys with acid mouths are angry. Like someone said, they also can go to the cafe and rent a computer to feel educated.
Pro. George Ayittey is not the proverbial ostrich. The Bible says, the cunning man sees the evil (danger) approaching and flees from it, but the foolish one (moron) stays around to be overtaken by it. Issues have been raised with the judgement of the Supreme Court on the election petition. We were all clamouring for peace. We have it now (though). Senior Citoyen Mr. Sydney casely-Hayford says, nobody can fix a problem with a car which is in motion - ref: GYEEDA. We all know the inherent problems with the EC. We are glossing over the issues and problems of the EC. If over voting strenthens democracy in Ghana, we live to see. If NVNV is useless and must be overlooked, fine, we live to see. If presiding officer can refuse to sign election results and these results are counted valid, fine again, we live to see. I support all the issues raised in Prof. Ayittey's article under scrutiny. Do not gloss over the mistakes and say, they do not matter.
Let me tell all and sundry the truth. Come what may, the 2016 GE will expose Ghana to bloodshed if care is not. Somebody will call me dooms day guy. Aparently, trust and faith in the legal system is dead. The justice system could not uphold the truth, so people will settle electoral issues on the spot. NO MORE COURT. BUT INSTANCE JUSTICE. This the simple message Prof. George Ayittey is telling the nation Ghana. He is right and I agree with him. You can question his academic credentials, but where he is now, 100% of people who are destroying him cannot be there. He has made it to be there. A simple question for sceptics - Why is the EC now calling for inputs to fix its problems? The EC has conceded that it needs help and must its doors wide open for views from all. The EC must start monitoring the comments of people on radio stations, tv talkshows, newspaper comments, etc. This is no partisan matter. Our dear beloved country needs help and we all must work to deliver our country from any problems that have been diagnosed.
Prof. George Ayittey, God bless you and God bless everybody. Amen!
Sly 12 years ago

You see them when it don't favour them then it is dad

You see them when it don't favour them then it is dad
Ugly Tsatsu 12 years ago

The haste with which AtuguBRIBE flew to the US to collect his $5m bribe disgraces Ghana's Supreme Court and the judiciary which has become a haven for corrupt judges.

The haste with which AtuguBRIBE flew to the US to collect his $5m bribe disgraces Ghana's Supreme Court and the judiciary which has become a haven for corrupt judges.
joe kalala 12 years ago

the very day the court started and lwatch the behavior of atuguba l knew that he in particular is against the petitioners.the man was an ndc apparatchik.this court case has given me the clue why a lot of people will not sen ...
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the very day the court started and lwatch the behavior of atuguba l knew that he in particular is against the petitioners.the man was an ndc apparatchik.this court case has given me the clue why a lot of people will not send their cases to court.propriety will forever hunt atuguba and his gang of fraudulent so callled judges fire burn all of them.when we stand up we say we need peace.how can there be peace when there is no justice?
Friday 12 years ago

A GOOD PIECE WORTH READING BY ANY GHANAIAN WHO HAS THE FUTURE OF GHANA AT HEART!

A GOOD PIECE WORTH READING BY ANY GHANAIAN WHO HAS THE FUTURE OF GHANA AT HEART!
Joe 12 years ago

I wonder whether the writer is really a prof. He has allowed his political identity cloud his thinking as a prof. So, if kufour had not won 2000 election there would have been no fair election in Ghana. Very sad. Whether you ...
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I wonder whether the writer is really a prof. He has allowed his political identity cloud his thinking as a prof. So, if kufour had not won 2000 election there would have been no fair election in Ghana. Very sad. Whether you like it or not, the verdict will stand and it is time to speak the truth.
Whatever 12 years ago

The SC verdict wasn't 5-4. The aggregate was 6-3 and 7-2 so stop misleading readers because it wasn't even close. If members of the bench hold a different view that does not mean they are polarised? Stop imputing political mo ...
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The SC verdict wasn't 5-4. The aggregate was 6-3 and 7-2 so stop misleading readers because it wasn't even close. If members of the bench hold a different view that does not mean they are polarised? Stop imputing political motives into a purely judicial view if you are truly worth your american professorship
Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 12 years ago

Are you living on planet Mars, my stepson ?

13 days after the Supreme Court's verdict, you have still not heard that the Supreme Court has corrected its 'error judgement' by claiming that it was a 5-4 and not a 6-3 in favo ...
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Are you living on planet Mars, my stepson ?

13 days after the Supreme Court's verdict, you have still not heard that the Supreme Court has corrected its 'error judgement' by claiming that it was a 5-4 and not a 6-3 in favour of the respondents on the issue of voting without verification ?

Read below and enlightened yourself, lil one -

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The President of the Supreme Court Judges who dismissed a landmark Election Petition challenging the legitimacy of President John Mahama erred in delivering the judgement.

Justice William Atuguba in his landmark ruling yesterday named Justice Baffoe Bonney as one of the judges who dismissed the case of voting without biometric verification- one of the electoral irregularity cited by the Petitioners; he is also on record to have named the same judge as having upheld the voting without biometric verification irregularity.

A member of the legal team of the Petitioners, Godfred Dame noticed the anomaly in an interview with Joy News shortly after the ruling.

Joy News can confirm the Supreme Court has moved to correct the anomaly.

On the specific case of voting without biometric verification, the new ruling as secured by Joy News reads: "Atuguba, Adinyira, Dotse, Gbadegbe and Akoto-Bamfo, JJSC dismiss the claim relating to voting without biometric verification."

"...Baffoe-Bonnie JSC grants the claim of voting without biometric verification, cancels the votes involved and orders a rerun of the areas affected."

With the correction, four of the judges have been deemed to have upheld the Petitioners' claim of voting without biometric verification, bringing the decision to 5-4 in favour of the Respondents, instead of the 6-3 (in favour of the Respondents) earlier announced by the presiding Judge.

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joe 12 years ago

God will pun.u

God will pun.u
Paa Kodwo 12 years ago

A NOISY PROFESSOR WHO HAS NOTHING IN HIS SLEEVES TO OFFER TO THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOMENT OF GHANA.

HE LIVES IN A COUNTRY WHOSE CITIZENS WORKED HARD TO BUILD IT AND FOR HIM TO BE THERE TO BE A PARASITE ON THEIR ENDU ...
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A NOISY PROFESSOR WHO HAS NOTHING IN HIS SLEEVES TO OFFER TO THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOMENT OF GHANA.

HE LIVES IN A COUNTRY WHOSE CITIZENS WORKED HARD TO BUILD IT AND FOR HIM TO BE THERE TO BE A PARASITE ON THEIR ENDURANCE; SWEAT AND TOil.

JUDGEMENT ON THE ELECTION RESULT OF 2012 IS OVER, NOW IS THE TIME FOR GHANAIANS TO DEDEICATE THEMSELVES IN BUILDING THE NATION.

SUCH ANALYSIS ARE WASTE OF TIME, IRRELEVANT AND IRRATIONAL.

HAS THIS MANS SO CALLED ECONOMIC TITLES PLAYED A ''DENT''IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA.

A PROPHET HAS NO HONOUR EXCEPT IN HIS OWN COUNTRY.
steveB 12 years ago

Ghana's civil war has just been postponed. The parties needed a precedent as battle ground and that is exactly what Aatuguba and his friends have provided.Mark this.

Ghana's civil war has just been postponed. The parties needed a precedent as battle ground and that is exactly what Aatuguba and his friends have provided.Mark this.
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The nation's watchman 12 years ago

I have taken a great deal of time to read the prof's piece and also the comments passed by our fellow friends. I have counted and examined the comments (pink sheets ) and the only thing I can say is that God should indeed ha ...
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I have taken a great deal of time to read the prof's piece and also the comments passed by our fellow friends. I have counted and examined the comments (pink sheets ) and the only thing I can say is that God should indeed have mercy on Ghanaians. A lot of work need to be done on most of us Ghanaians . Who does know that our institutions are not working? bribery and corruption everywhere, police on the roads, police at charge officeS, immigration officers at the border posts, Elubo, Aflao, passport offices, recruitment in all security services, all full of bribes, nursing in hospitals, headmasters , vice chancellors , school authorities , full of bribes, go to harbours and ports, government ministries every where smell. No thinks of his or her pay, all they think of is connexions .YOU know it so do not pretend . The prof has said it all , lets think of reforms and stop our political blindness.Awake Ghana.
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BRO DAN -TRC 12 years ago

Comment: -"OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN"
Author: BRO DAN -TRC
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Comment: -"OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN"
Author: BRO DAN -TRC
Date: 2013-09-11 10:36:06
Comment to: Churches urged to help grow national economy

BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, -THE CHURCH- IS GOD'S INSTITUTION FOR ESTABLISHING -HIS WILL- ON EARTH: "THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN" SELAH. IN LIKE MANNER THE ROLES OF- ALL INSTITUTION, AND BODIES: PRIVATE, GOVERNMENTAL, NON-GOVERMENTAL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, ARE A -MUST- 'IF' THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD ARE TO COME OUR OF -THIS- GLOBAL MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE" ENGINEERED BY SOME -FELLOW MEN- FOR MANKIND AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. AND WHICH SUCH -ENGEINEERING- CAN, -'NEVER'- BE BLAMED ON GOD, "WHO SO LOVED THE WORLD" AND LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR ALL MANKING, THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WITHOUT ANY VARIANCE. PULSE. NOW, -'LET MY PEOPLE THINK' FOR "IT IS FINISHED" THEREFORE, "OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA. GOD BLESS -HIS CHRUCH- ON EARTH TO BE "STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" AGAINST "THE INTELLIGENCE" AT WORK-ACCORDING TO -THE BOOK OF "DANIEL" AND IN-THIS- ATROCIOUS TIMES OF GLOBAL MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE". GOD BLESS YOU TO BE "STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" TO "WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION IN TREMBLING AND FEAR" AS YOU LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE FOR YOUR NATION AND YOUR FELLOW MEN. AND, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.

NOTE
BECAUSE THE -TWO POSTINGS- I MADE TODAY WERE PUPOSELY REMOVED INTO ACHIEVES IMMEDIATELY FOR -COVERUP- REASONS, I -MUST- FOR THE SAKE -"TRUTH", THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF GHANA, HUMANITY AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, RE-POST BOTH "POSTING REMOVED INTO ACHIEVES".

COMMENT TO:
CHURCHES URGED TO GROW NATIONAL ECONOMY.
Sakate-kuntu 12 years ago

Fool, u don't pay any tax in Ghana, so u were expecting re-run to waste the nation's money,....aboa te s3 wo.
NPP has no case....period! U can go and burn the sea, mr stupid profesor!

Fool, u don't pay any tax in Ghana, so u were expecting re-run to waste the nation's money,....aboa te s3 wo.
NPP has no case....period! U can go and burn the sea, mr stupid profesor!
GREAT NANA ANTWI 12 years ago

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idrisu 12 years ago

wait you will see

wait you will see
CALALA 12 years ago

AN ILLITERATE PROFESSOR, OR, IS PARTYSANSHIP CLOUDING A SICK BRAIN? IT IS NORMAL IN ALL JURISDICTIONS TO HAVE DIVIDED OPINIONS WHEREVER MORE THAN ONE JUDGE SITS ON A CASE. HE SHOULD KNOW THAT. BUT COMMON SENSE CAN BE ELUSIVE. ...
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AN ILLITERATE PROFESSOR, OR, IS PARTYSANSHIP CLOUDING A SICK BRAIN? IT IS NORMAL IN ALL JURISDICTIONS TO HAVE DIVIDED OPINIONS WHEREVER MORE THAN ONE JUDGE SITS ON A CASE. HE SHOULD KNOW THAT. BUT COMMON SENSE CAN BE ELUSIVE.
EVEN IN THE ECONOMIC HAVEN THE PROF IS HIDING IN JUDICIAL PANELS OFTEN COME UP WITH DIVIDED OPINIONS. LIFE IS NOT A STRAIGHT LINE.
IF WE HAD SINGLE VIEWS OR SINGLE STRINGS OF LOGIC IN ALL CASES, THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR AN APPEAL SYSTEM, AS THE SAME VERDICT WOULD HAVE TO GO UP THE CHAIN, TO THE SUPREME?
HAS THE COLD OUT THERE FROZEN HIS BRAIN?
CERTAINLY, HE DID NOT BECOME A PROF IN ACADEMIC ARMAGGEDON IN YEKROM?
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A BIT SMARTER THAN THIS JUNK I HAVE NOT READ BEYOND THE TITLE.
COME BACK, BELOVED PROF.
Woman's wisdom 12 years ago

To tell such a big lie in presence of the whole world, is tantamount to death without trial. Justice Atugua must explain why he lied to us about the SC verdict itself. I am so shocked, disturbed and highly amazed by this. Loo ...
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To tell such a big lie in presence of the whole world, is tantamount to death without trial. Justice Atugua must explain why he lied to us about the SC verdict itself. I am so shocked, disturbed and highly amazed by this. Looking at how angry he was in sentencing Ken Korankye and the rest, and then again, this same man comes to tell a lie in the face of the whole world. This is beyond my understanding. Atuguba must die. Atuguba must be punished severely and be put to jail himself. Such a fool is given a title as a justice not even in any ordinary court but the whole Supreme court. what a wicked man to continue living. Atuguba will rot for a whole year before he dies.
Woman's wisdom 12 years ago

Atuguba will have one of his eyes uprooted by another wicked man like Afari gyan and or Asiedu nkatia.

Atuguba will have one of his eyes uprooted by another wicked man like Afari gyan and or Asiedu nkatia.
Kwame Addo 12 years ago

Prof. George Ayittey: Look Who’s Talking By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
Posted: June 30, 2012 - 01:34

George Ayittey
Columnist: Correct Me If I Am Right By Rudolf Okonkwo
(In light of Prof. George Ayittey’s criticism of Pr ...
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Prof. George Ayittey: Look Who’s Talking By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
Posted: June 30, 2012 - 01:34

George Ayittey
Columnist: Correct Me If I Am Right By Rudolf Okonkwo
(In light of Prof. George Ayittey’s criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan, I republish this July 2000 article originally called Africa, Yucky Yucky. I hope it will help readers to get an insight into the views of the Ghanaian intellectual.)

Africa is a continent of many stories. Over the years, Africa's stories have resisted attempts by historians to bring them all together to make sense. They are like tissues that refused to be stitched together. Because Africa's stories do not yet make sense, African plight is always difficult to dissect and diagnose. One of those Africans in the forefront of marshalling out solutions to African numerous maladies is George B. N. Ayittey. Ayittey - a Ghanaian economic professor at American University in Washington who uses his columns in The Wall Street Journals to propound solution to Africa's problems. Some of his solutions are far from being palatable.

One of Ayittey's most controversial recommendations is that some African countries should establish what he called "free economic zone" where big businesses would be enticed with tax breaks and waivers on duties. Such countries would in return, give up sovereignty over such territories. For those countries that would not be interested in giving up territory, Ayittey suggested that they should lease out parts of their territories for some years in return for debt forgiveness. What Ayittey wants to see are lots of Hong Kongs in Africa. Nigeria for instance can give up the Sharia States to Microsoft and Coca-Cola. International business interest will then descend on those lands and turn them into an economic miracle. Apparently, it appears that to people like Ayittey, there really is no hope that Africa, left on its own, can crawl out of its predicaments.

Ayittey and his likes are only giving intellectual backing to those who are more and more concluding that Africa is once again lost and as such needs another dose of colonization as the only way to bring about 'civilization' to our once again darkening continent. This trend of portraying Africa in a bad light is exploding every other day. The Economist of London recently put Africa on its cover and declared Africa "A Hopeless Continent". And in America, policy makers picture Africa as a case of "wall-to-wall incompetence, disorder and danger." Despite the protest of a few that understands the complexity of the forces acting in Africa, these labels are sticking.

Many Africans are beginning to think that probably we chased the Europeans out too early. Some Africans are so disillusioned that they are nostalgic about those days when the Europeans were in absolute control. Africans have joined the rest of the outside world to refer to their homeland as a lost cause. An African man after a recent visit called his homeland "bush" and swore never to step in there again. He had thrown in the towel and turned his back permanently. Other Africans, who still care, do so reluctantly. Some are just waiting for their parents to die off before they finally slam the door on Africa. For the rest, it is a constant prayer that the immigration office will one day let them bring out their loved ones. Once that is accomplished, it is goodbye Africa.

Over three decades after most of Africa achieved their political independence, the trials and tribulations of the African have worsened. Why? Why? Why? Who failed Africa? Who lost Africa? Who will save Africa? Who will rescue her? Why is Africa, the motherland, the cradle of civilization, the home of all of humanity in such a huge despair? We know the usual suspects: Colonization, slavery, IMF, the West, AIDS, corruption, 'the Wasted generation', illiteracy, ignorance, ethnicity, religion, drought, flood, famine, Mobutu, Moi, Mugabue, malaria, mad cow disease, Ebola, Eyadema, soldiers, Obasanjo, Gaddafi, Abacha, warlords, witches, water-babies, mermaids, Ogboni and what have you. But what about you and me? Are these impediments insurmountable? Have we tried with all our might? Have we exhausted all our options?

It has been suggested that international donors and western nations and their financial institutions should tie aid to African nations to human rights observations and improvements in democratic institutions. Currently, that suggestion is being implemented. Ayittey has taken it a step further. He wants American aid to be tied to the existence of a strong central bank, independent media, courts and security forces. He wants war-torn countries like Sierra Leone taken over by the United Nations. To pay for the cost of running the country, clearing up the mess brought about by warlords and International Diamond businesses backing them, Sierra Leone's diamond deposits would be sold off.

Obviously, to the likes of Ayittey, the struggle to save Africa is an emergency situation that requires emergency measures. It is more or less a case of 'by any means necessary'. When one listens to the reports about AIDS and the devastation it causes; one is shaken up. The common phrase is that a generation of Africans is being wiped off the face of the earth. If nothing is done, by the time AIDS finished with Africa, there will not be anyone standing. The warlords will call for war and nobody will come out to carry their AK47. Drought will come and there is nobody to force into relocation. Leaders who are used to driving to the Central Banks and loading millions of dollars into trucks will not have children to give the money for safe keeping. The shadow of death will be all over Africa.

What is to be done? Mortgage Africa? For the second time? Are the results out? Did the colonial masters do better than African leaders?

The implications of Africa's failure are so unimaginable. The survival of the black race is tied up with the survival of Africa. If Africa shines, the black race shines. But if Africa remains on its knees, so shall all blacks all over the world. No black man will be able to stand tall and raise his head high with all boldness until Africa is on the path to progress. Nothing is as pathetic as seeing that there is no glimmer of hope anywhere in Africa. South Africa, with its comparative advantages is devastated by violence and AIDS. It also has the misfortune of having a president that TIME magazine recently tagged "a dissident."

The search for answers is proceeding unabatedly in every direction. The other day, Nigeria's Senate President, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo suggested that Nigeria should abandon the written constitution and adopt the unwritten code of conduct - a kind of indigenous democracy -which means that we may not have heard the last from medicine men and juju priests. In a different suggestion, the Eastern Mandate Union (EMU) abroad has called on Bill Clinton to use the opportunity of their meeting in August to compel President Obasanjo of Nigeria to call a National conference. As more African nations fight their first civil wars, and some prepare for their second, it is becoming clear that National Conferences may be the only way to go. Such a conference is needed in other to set up structures of nationhood and administration to be agreed upon by all nationalities and socio-political forces in these African countries. The exploitation of structural flaws in Africa's present nation-state by the ruling elite has been the bedrock of Africa's problems.

The needs of ordinary Kikuyu man eating Ugali in Nairobi or the ordinary Igbo man eating akpu in Sokoto are all the same. They all want a safe continent where there is hope and an opportunity for them to maximize their potentials. In their desperation, they may not care how that is achieved. But they have never forgotten how we got into this mess in the first place. It is therefore the duty of African intellectuals, especially the drive-by types who live outside Africa, to make responsible choices for Africans. In their anger and despair, they should not prescribe a remedy that in the long run will short change Africa and be worse than illness whose cure was being sought. Africa should not be short-changed and undersold. The greatest help will always be the self-help. The danger in assuming that Africa's survival can only be found in the laps of foreigners amount to an acceptance of Africans' inferiority. If the Indians, the Malaysians, the Brazilians, the Mexicans, the Hungarians, the Iranians are digging out rather than selling out, the Africans should have the courage and the decency to hang in there and dig out.

Do the likes of Ayittey consider the fact that exchange of flags did not end colonization? As they chunk out solutions the West should implement, did they consider the fact that the West has always been involved and often indicted in African tragedies? They plan the coups, bring up governments and bring down governments. They start wars and end wars. Have the West changed? Where did they find the milk of human kindness to come to Africa just to do good? What did they do with their self-interest that have always overridden their sense of what is right and what is wrong? What makes the likes of Ayittey develop so much trust for the same people who killed Patrice Lumumba?

An African-American kid was reported to have been asked by his teacher what he thought about Africa and he responded, "yucky, yucky". The same expression he uses when his mother asks him to taste broccoli or uncooked tomatoes. If we do nothing to rescue Africa ourselves, tomorrow, this African-American kid that will call Africa yucky, yucky, may be yours or mine. As for his children and his children's children, they will read our stories of today and declare our days, the dark ages.

Doesn't that possibility make you feel yucky?
Kwame Addo 12 years ago

When I read Ayittey assessment about SC verdict, I wondered why he was biased in looking through his own lens. Up there I copied and pasted full rejoinder about his his view about Nigeria and therefore Africa. Below will proo ...
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When I read Ayittey assessment about SC verdict, I wondered why he was biased in looking through his own lens. Up there I copied and pasted full rejoinder about his his view about Nigeria and therefore Africa. Below will proof Prof Ayittey dislike of NDC because he is affiliated with NPP. It's therefore no wonder he posted his bias assessment. READ BELOW:
Q&A with African economist George Ayittey Posted on 08 February 2010. Tags: crisis, government, investment, leadership
Q&A with African economist George Ayittey

Q: I agree with you that our governments are a joke. What do people like you and I who may have very little by way of social or political capital do in the meantime?
A: What would save Africa are three things: reform, reform, reform. We need reform in many areas: political, economic, intellectual and institutional. Political reform requires the institution of real democracy (free, fair, transparent elections). Economic reform entails the re-institution of economic freedom (free markets, free trade, free enterprise, etc.) Intellectual reform involves removing the shackles on freedom of expression, of thought, of movement, etc. And institutional reform involves establishing an independent judiciary (for the rule of law), an efficient civil service (to provide basic social services), a neutral and professional security forces, etc. These reforms will help establish in Africa the enabling environment that you need for investment. It is fine to encourage Africans to return to their home countries but they won’t invest in a country that is riven with civil strife, massive corruption, or cannot supply basic social services such as clean water and electricity. In other words, such a country does not have an enabling environment.

Q: But all you’ve mentioned still sounds like the individual is helpless and it’s all riding on the hands of the government.
A: No one person alone can successfully push for reform in all the areas I listed above. One must choose one area and work with others in civil society. In my case, I chose political reform in Ghana. What I found was that the political leadership was not only a failure but the opposition parties were utterly useless. This is a problem encountered in too many African countries. The opposition – or agent of change – is weak, fragmented and prone to bickering. I, together with a group of about 100 Ghanaians, managed to rope all the opposition parties into a formidable election alliance. That was how we managed to toss out the brutal Rawlings regime and establish true democracy in Ghana in 2000. If President Obama chose Ghana to visit as a model of good governance, I can partially claim credit for it. The former president of Ghana, John Kufuor, was a personal friend of mine. We helped put him in power. He offered me a cabinet post in his government but I declined it. I did not wage that struggle for my own personal benefit.

Q: What exactly did you do?
A: For that effort, we mobilized Ghanaians in the diaspora into a group called Ghana Cyberspace Group (GCG). After the 2000 elections, we transformed this group into an investment club – to mobilize capital and invest in various projects in Ghana. Their current project is Gateway Technology Park that will take advantage of outsourcing. A group of us (about 12) formed the Alliance for Change with the sole objective of roping all the opposition parties into an alliance. We set up a corresponding group in North America, which morphed into the Ghana Cyberspace Group. Watch his TED Talk.
At the personal level, I have mobilized and signed up about 25,000 peasant farmers to produce palm fruit. I am raising investment capital on my own to establish mills and process the fruit into palm oil. I have registered a company and its name is – you guessed it! – Cheetah Palm Oil.

Q: Yes, we need the enabling environment that only a reformed government can provide, but Ricardian ideas of political economy suggest that trade and commercial activity have historically led to political centralization and that this centralization then attracts even more economic activity. Is it far-fetched to think that regardless of the unfavorable conditions on ground, encouraging trade and investment – whether local or by investments from diaspora – will lead to the reforms we seek?
A: Of course, there are several ways to skin a cat. The Ricardian ideas about trade and commerce may work too as long as:
1. The government supplies basic social services such as electricity, clean water, sanitation, etc. Otherwise, your businesses would have to supply these themselves.
2. The country does not implode and descend into civil strife or war, in which case all your investments would be wiped out.
I am raising these possibilities because the political situation, as you already know, is tenuous in many African countries. Whoever thought Ivory Coast would implode? As long as you have a safe and stable African country to invest in, I have no qualms with your strategy.
Nyankonwu 12 years ago

judges

judges
Kakyire 12 years ago

The American U Prof Ayittey teaches in most likely is situated in the US where many Supreme Court decisions are rendered with a 5-4 majority. George Bush and Al Gore's fight to the finish was similarly decided. Yet still, the ...
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The American U Prof Ayittey teaches in most likely is situated in the US where many Supreme Court decisions are rendered with a 5-4 majority. George Bush and Al Gore's fight to the finish was similarly decided. Yet still, the US remains one of the most stable democracies.
Let the prof stop looking for windmills where none exists
venom 12 years ago

So highly disappointed in this opinion and analysis by this professor of economics on this election petition. As a scholar you can't be so one sided on such sensitive issues without the support of uncontested facts. Please do ...
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So highly disappointed in this opinion and analysis by this professor of economics on this election petition. As a scholar you can't be so one sided on such sensitive issues without the support of uncontested facts. Please do not risk putting your academic integrity at stake. You may belong to the NPP but your academic work should transcend party leanings. The polarization of the sc which reflected in their decision is nothing surprising at all. Who in Ghana and for that matter in academia will not comprehend such an outcome in the case? It is so obvious that the motivation of the NPP to pursue this case at the sc was due to the composition of the court and thought that with the system parked with party loyalist, the verdict will be theirs.Just like you I am shocked to see a split verdict on the three most salient issues raised by the petitioners. The decision of course was politically motivated. It should have been a 9-0 down vote and as a no case verdict. The whole exercise was not conducted in secrecy. We had all the referees and officials to monitor the whole process and non raised any red flag and you come out later making a case in the face of pink sheets? And you are not calling for a recount of ballots, not questioning why the two days of voting period and not considering how the delay of presiding officials in announcing results in future elections could raise tensions. Very absurd. Anyway future elections will tell.

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