Corruption In Ghana - 1957-1966

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VIDA 12 years ago

i thought this idiot was a man with balls.....little did i know that he has no balls btwn his thighs.....john mahama is very corrupt to the core and yet clement fears to admit this...he wants abeiku santana to mention what na ...
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i thought this idiot was a man with balls.....little did i know that he has no balls btwn his thighs.....john mahama is very corrupt to the core and yet clement fears to admit this...he wants abeiku santana to mention what names.....we are all in ghana and he certainly must know best that john mahama nd his cohorts are criminals CREATING LOOTING AND SHARING OUR SCARCE RESOURCES.....MEANWHILE THE CENTRAL VOLTA AND NORHERN REGIONS ARE DYING FROM POVERTY WHILST JOHN MAHAMA ND HIS COHORTS LOOT OUR CASH AND PROPERTY......and mind u, john mahama used tribalism and corruption to win the elections,,,,,,he used 8.5 billion ghana cedis over expenditure of our budget to win the elections and this is why we are suffering now....IS THIS CLEMENT THAT STUPIIID THAT HE CANT SEE THIS OBVIUOS FACT?.......MAHAMA DIDNT BEAT NANA ADDO, HE LOOTED OUR CASH TO PAY HIS WAY TO WIN THE ELECTIONS SO GET THIS INTO UR STINKING HEAD CLEMENT........WE ARE BLACKS AND WE ENJOY OUR SUFFERING SO I DONT CLEMENT TO EVEN SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH JOHN MAHAMA AND HOW HIS CORRUPTION IS DEEPENING THE POVERTY OF THE NORTH, CENTRAL AND VOLTA REGIONS....ide biii keke....leave abeiku santana alone if u cant see the truth and point out the criminals in the ndc.......theives, juloi.....long live martin amidu and jj....
Concern Ghanaian 12 years ago

If this studid writer would have told ghanaians what evil their Rawlings had done to us by selling all the factories Kwame Nkrumah built with a vision of making us self suffecient.I thought he will talk about the Angel Rawlin ...
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If this studid writer would have told ghanaians what evil their Rawlings had done to us by selling all the factories Kwame Nkrumah built with a vision of making us self suffecient.I thought he will talk about the Angel Rawlings who encouraged his wife to loot govt lands,govt factories,govt hotels like Star hotel.GNTC and also tell us how she colapsed Bank for Housing and Contruction.He forgot to talk about all the money Rawlings seized from hard working business men and women of our land.
My message to this writer is that we know that NDC party members are all enemies of progress group.Their envy for rich men and women in the country has seen rather foreigners taken over our economy.Instead of given business to ghanaians they would prefer an outsider.they destroyed our education and our still making serious effort to make sure that we never educate ourselves massively,so that they can lie to farmers and illiterates and blame their inefficiencies on opposition.It will not cost much to make life okay for ghanaians but they will not do it.their interest is in stealing and lieing their fathers name" corruption".
VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR. 12 years ago

In the days of cadrehood, ghana had no money to be stolen. Loans were had to find and Ghana had no monies for cadres to steal, so the corruption was brutalities metted out by cadres to traders and citizens.

Many Ghanaian w ...
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In the days of cadrehood, ghana had no money to be stolen. Loans were had to find and Ghana had no monies for cadres to steal, so the corruption was brutalities metted out by cadres to traders and citizens.

Many Ghanaian writers cannot see beyond flips. For instance 2+2=4, in different equations or arguments 3+1=4; 5-1=4; 6-2=4 and so on with different scenerios.

This is the problem of our educated people. Dogmatic thinkers.
GHFUO, change ur thinking 12 years ago

GH BLACK ZOMBIES
WE FOLLOW WITHOUT THINKING AND CAREFUL OBSERVATION. WE ARE CORRUPT N STEAL MONIES. NOT TO BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL TO SEE BUT TO BUILD STADIUMS N SKYSCRAPERS IN OUR BELLIES.
WE ARE AFRAID TO BE INNOVAT ...
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GH BLACK ZOMBIES
WE FOLLOW WITHOUT THINKING AND CAREFUL OBSERVATION. WE ARE CORRUPT N STEAL MONIES. NOT TO BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL TO SEE BUT TO BUILD STADIUMS N SKYSCRAPERS IN OUR BELLIES.
WE ARE AFRAID TO BE INNOVATIVE.
WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO START BEFORE WE FOLLOW...WAA LOOK!?
AN EDUCATED POPULACE WILL TRIUMPH OVER ALL. THE MAJORITY OF US ARE UNEDUCATED, SO WE RESORT TO PRIMITIVE FORCE, NEGATIVE ENERGIES LIKE FOOD POISONING, COUPS, ETC TO SETTLE OUR DIFFERENCES.
..NKRUMAH DIDNT KILL, JJ KILLED...BUT BCOS THE POPULACE WERE UNEDUCATED AND STILL IS. MANY FAVOR JJ OVER NKRUMAH, EVEN TILL TODAY. INSPITE OF ALL THE MAJOR FOUNDATIONS DR NKRUMAH LAID DOWN
FOR GH. "Unless we establish African Unity now, we who are sitting here today shall tomorrow be the victims and martyrs of neo-colonialism." Kwame Nkrumah 1963 OAU Conf. Addis Ababa
And how right was Nkrumah. Nkrumah saw it coming. Nkrumah was the man who saw tomorrow. One coup after the other removed all the leaders who were at the time in Addis Ababa from power
because they failed to listen to the prophet. To be honest, I weep each day because our economic and industrial development was arrested by a disgruntled few in 1966.
Therefore, the real people behind that bloody coup de’tat in February 1966 were NOT COL. KOTOKA, MAJOR AFRIFA AND OTHERS BUT THE AMERICANS WHO BRIBED THE COUP LEADERS WITH 13MILLION DOLLARS
before drawing up” THE INFAMOUS NKRUMAH PROJECT” led by William P. Mahoney. Col. Kotoka and Major Afrifa were cowards who could not have overthrown Dr. Nkrumah by themselves, however,
they managed to SELL GHANA OVER A DINNER TABLE TO THE BLUE EYED LONG NOSES OF BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES AND GHANA’S OFFICIAL CORRUPTION STARTED FROM THERE AND CONTINUED UN-ABATED
UNTIL JUNE 4, 1979 AND THE 31ST DECEMBER REVOLUTION IN 1981. SO MY QUESTION TO THE GH GOVT IS THIS. WHY DO WE HAVE A TERRORIST IN KOTOKA;S NAME ON THE AIRPORT IN ACCRA?
ARE WE SOMEHOW LEGITIMIZING COUPS BY KEEPING HIS NAME ON A STRUCTURE BUILT BY DR NKRUMAH? AH...!
Kweku Boateng Jnr. 12 years ago

Clement, do you that there days in Conakry when the Nkrumah family had no food? Do you that it was June Milne now in her 90s in England who used to buy medical drugs for Nkrumah at her old expense? Do you that Nkrumah was so ...
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Clement, do you that there days in Conakry when the Nkrumah family had no food? Do you that it was June Milne now in her 90s in England who used to buy medical drugs for Nkrumah at her old expense? Do you that Nkrumah was so broke that, he could not afford basis necessecities? Castro provided the white dresses he wore, Nyerere gave him 10,000 dollars some years, so did Kamuzu Banda and Kenneth Kawuda of Zambia.
Now, do you that Chris Atim, Bawah Mahama, Dr Asamoah of Cape Coast University, Zaya YEEBO and co used to return their unspent DSA to the Bank of Ghana in 1982. Why did they leave the PNDC government? Your Rawlings is very corrupt, neo colonialist and stooge of western imperialism. Clement, go get Zaya's book Ghana the struggle for popular democracy, 1991 and you would stop this blind support to this armed robber known as Rawlings. Where did Rawlings get the money to educate his children in the best universities in Europe? Please answer.
The majority of the non corrupt elements in the June and December coups found themselves in exile, why? Let all those named in this article declare their assets and there would be a political coup. Fighting corruption demands all to declare their assets for the public to judge. How many Ghanaian pay ground rent? How many use government vehicles over the week end? Stop this massive corruption and Ghana would be peaceful. Forward Ever
kate 12 years ago

You shouldnt have written this article. You only want recognition but u too affraid. You are not a man.
Secondly, your heading show 1957-66 now; you rushed like a rat to 2001-2008.
Confused

You shouldnt have written this article. You only want recognition but u too affraid. You are not a man.
Secondly, your heading show 1957-66 now; you rushed like a rat to 2001-2008.
Confused
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

How many prominent politicians went to jail during Dr Nkrumah's CPP from 1957 to 1966??? I only know of DC Kwame Kwakye of Akim Oda for stealing from a Nigeria lottery ("the UK pool lottery") winner and Kwabena Abora Wiafe of ...
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How many prominent politicians went to jail during Dr Nkrumah's CPP from 1957 to 1966??? I only know of DC Kwame Kwakye of Akim Oda for stealing from a Nigeria lottery ("the UK pool lottery") winner and Kwabena Abora Wiafe of Kwahu for stealing from the Akosombo Volta project. Anyone knows some names and for what crime?
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

How many politicians did go to jail during the CPP regime from 1957 to 1966?

How many politicians did go to jail during the CPP regime from 1957 to 1966?
Paa Kojo 12 years ago

Clement, this unbalanced article and your portrayal of NPP as corrupts has exposed your vain attempts to defend your Northern brother, JDM. You failed to mention a single corrupt practice from 1992 to 2000, yet you were in fu ...
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Clement, this unbalanced article and your portrayal of NPP as corrupts has exposed your vain attempts to defend your Northern brother, JDM. You failed to mention a single corrupt practice from 1992 to 2000, yet you were in full flow with unsubstantiated claims of corrupt practices against NPP in 2008. Oh, Ghana, when can we eschew blind loyalty on tribal lines and allow objective analysis? Clement-what a weak narration. Could have done better. Work harder next time!!
Kwaku Manu 12 years ago

One thing this useless and unbalanced writer must know is that majority of Ghanains are only interested in the betterment of Ghana and not about the party who is ruling or had ruled Ghana. This liar of a writer want to tell u ...
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One thing this useless and unbalanced writer must know is that majority of Ghanains are only interested in the betterment of Ghana and not about the party who is ruling or had ruled Ghana. This liar of a writer want to tell us that there was no corruption in the Nkrumah's govt? What about the NLC, Busia's and especially the military govts including that of AFRC and PNDC were not corrupt to the core? What about NDC one and current NDC ? Sangaparee has established himself as a weak-minded person who should find some basic job which does not involve any serious analysis to do and instead of dreaming about Ghanaian politics.

NDC TAYEISII 12 years ago

WHAT IS HE WRITING ABOUT...SUCH USELESS PEOPLE RULE GHANA SINCE 1951

WHAT A MAD MAN

WHAT IS HE WRITING ABOUT...SUCH USELESS PEOPLE RULE GHANA SINCE 1951

WHAT A MAD MAN
NANA APINTOHENE OF OBURONIKROM 12 years ago

Dear Clement, thanks for your shine on Nkrumah's good. Any reference to the 1950 POSITIVE ACTION must indeed and in fact rekindle our thoughts about all of the BIG SIX; men of integrity and vision, with authentic commitment t ...
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Dear Clement, thanks for your shine on Nkrumah's good. Any reference to the 1950 POSITIVE ACTION must indeed and in fact rekindle our thoughts about all of the BIG SIX; men of integrity and vision, with authentic commitment to develop Ghana. Of all Nkrumah's achievements, he also laid the foundation for the present rotten body politic in our country . His one party state agenda was unhelpful to say the least. Kwame Nkrumah gagged the press and radio and made them organs of frenzied adulation. With the press proclaiming his infallibility, he stifled fundamental human rights and gathered around him upstart nobodies, illiterates and semi illiterates who paid him continuos and exaggerated praise. He revelled in that. Kwame Showboy intimidated the cream of Ghanaian intellectuals. Dr. J B DANQUAH, the doyen of Ghana politics, occasionally referred to as the best president Ghana never had, sank into a state of complete oblivion through a campaign of vicious and calculated vilification , thrown into jail and "DIED" in jail. WILLIAM OFORI ATTAH, affectionately known as PAA WILLIE, who was also nicknamed "Odiaboo" stone eater, because he survived all the onslaughts of the stone throwing brigade of the CPP varanda boys was not spared and imprisoned on frivolous cranked up charges. The fate of OBETSEBI LAMPTEY in prison is sad to recall. Nkrumah instituted a terrorist organisation, euphemistically designated as the SECURITY SERVICE, a replica of Adolt Hitlers' GESTAPO. These ministers of darkness who roamed our streets, markets and all our public places in different shades and forms terrorised and inyimidated Ghanaians to accept forcibly the doctrine of the infallibility of their master. Those who held different views were thrown into his concentration camp, the dreaded Nsawan Medium Security Prison then. I can go on and on, but that will not solve our problems today. This journey back to memory lane is to remind us of some of the post colonial mistakes. Had Nkrumah not abolished the opposition and had he embraced constructive criticisms and advice, Ghana's story line would have been different. We would have been on the same level as the South Koreas, the Singapores and Malaysias of today, just to mention a few. The prescriptive measure is simple. John Mahama can creep out of the mess by wholeheartedly involving and embracing all of the opposition. Partisan and tribal sways will not solve the problems. He should not and must not make the same mistakes as Nkrumah who retrospectively regretted rather too late. Those closest to him in his last days are privy to his remorse. He would have done things rather differently. Read the book" VOICE FROM CONAKRY"
We need one prosperous Ghana and must strive to achieve that. LONG LIVE ALL THE POLITICAL PARTIES in Ghana .
GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
Joyce mensah 12 years ago

This is to bring the performance of the Director of Human Resource directorate to your attention. Director of Human Resource was appointed to the position about a year ago. And his first activity covered recalling of the la ...
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This is to bring the performance of the Director of Human Resource directorate to your attention. Director of Human Resource was appointed to the position about a year ago. And his first activity covered recalling of the last appointment letters carried out by the previous Director of Human Resource. He recalled the appointment letters of all including people even working at the head office -MOFA and asked them not to report to work again. His reasons were the dismissal were that, they were not properly recruited/replaced, and again the government did not have money to pay them. This action came to the attention of the then Minister of Food and Agriculture, who after investigation asked him to reverse his action. Today the Director of Human Resource is giving appointment letters without interviews. This is verifiable.
I did not personally understand why certain persons have been transferred from his Directorate and my investigation found out that, the accountant asked him to transfer certain persons so that the management of Capacity Development Mechanism Project (CDMP) fund could be well controlled.
Kindly find out financial reports presented by the Director of Human Resource on all training programmes carried out under the Capacity Development Mechanism project for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Trainings carried out in ‘two days’ have been reported to have been carried out in ‘six days’ and huge monies are being shared by him and the accountant. This is verifiable. Pick an agricultural college, and find out how many days the training under the CDMP took place. Find out the history of the Australian volunteer posted to the Human Resource Directorate to strengthen the HR needs of MOFA, and why she has been reposted from the Directorate to the Public Services Commission. This is bad for MOFA,
Currently the Director of HR is struggling to transfer another staff working closely with him and this is unacceptable. Why is he transferring all the senior and technical people from the directorate? ARREST HIM NOW.....
GhanaBA 12 years ago

curruption is curruption, it doesnt matter whether it was committed by party A or B. curruption is curruption period!
whoever is found guilty of curruption is simply currupt and must face the law.

curruption is curruption, it doesnt matter whether it was committed by party A or B. curruption is curruption period!
whoever is found guilty of curruption is simply currupt and must face the law.
SAMMY 12 years ago

IF OUR LEADERS BECOME AS HONEST AS NKRUMAH, THEY WOULD SET A GOOD EXAMPLE TO THEIR FOLLOWERS.SO, OUR LEADERS ARE ADVISED TO ESCHEW CORRUPTION AND LEAVE A GOOD NAME FOR THEMSELVES.
REMEMBER THAT "GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN RICH ...
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IF OUR LEADERS BECOME AS HONEST AS NKRUMAH, THEY WOULD SET A GOOD EXAMPLE TO THEIR FOLLOWERS.SO, OUR LEADERS ARE ADVISED TO ESCHEW CORRUPTION AND LEAVE A GOOD NAME FOR THEMSELVES.
REMEMBER THAT "GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN RICHES".
VIDA 12 years ago

NDC n John MAHAMA too corrupt but STUPIIIIIIIIIID asangapare is still speaking of NPP.....KWASIA....

NDC n John MAHAMA too corrupt but STUPIIIIIIIIIID asangapare is still speaking of NPP.....KWASIA....
vincent yiriyele 12 years ago

there you are, come again homeless clement. idiot, no place to sleep, no wife. beggar like you.go and eat dog.

there you are, come again homeless clement. idiot, no place to sleep, no wife. beggar like you.go and eat dog.
TAWIAH,NY 12 years ago

Mahama government the worst Ghana ever had.

Mahama government the worst Ghana ever had.
TAWIAH,NY 12 years ago

Borrow 34 billion dollas within 5 years and nothing to show off

Borrow 34 billion dollas within 5 years and nothing to show off
tiger shark 12 years ago

corruption has been part ofghana since Independence.Corruption is not
only about extortion of Money and acquaring of property through dubious means.Nkrumah actually favoured cossuption by introducing the one Party System wh ...
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corruption has been part ofghana since Independence.Corruption is not
only about extortion of Money and acquaring of property through dubious means.Nkrumah actually favoured cossuption by introducing the one Party System whereby cpp Party functionaries had it all.Nkrumah himself might not have acquiered any properties but he did not prevent those around him and cpp big shots from doing so.CPP was one corrupt entirty.We do not have an effective System of dealing with corruption.
Over the years government officials,accused of corruption always got away.In other countries they have a System which deals with corruption Independent of who is in power.We do not have that in Ghana so we will continue to have corruption

kwaku USA 12 years ago

Stupid liar. 31st December Movement wasn't formed by Mrs Rawlings

Stupid liar. 31st December Movement wasn't formed by Mrs Rawlings

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