Fallout of Polling Station Elections
Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang, Asante Bekwai-Asakyiri
(Free SHS Ambassador) Official blog: (www.katakyie.com)
Accra, Nov. 28 .......It would be recalled that the New Patrio ... read full comment
Fallout of Polling Station Elections
Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang, Asante Bekwai-Asakyiri
(Free SHS Ambassador) Official blog: (www.katakyie.com)
Accra, Nov. 28 .......It would be recalled that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came out with many innovations within the party right after the 2008 electoral defeat. This was codenamed the 3 R's - Reflecting, Rebuilding and Recapturing power.
Key among such reforms was the expansion of the electoral college for the flagbearership contest. The proponents of the reforms were of the view that the expansion was the most ideal way of giving power to the grassroots and mobilising grass root support for general elections.
Since it was the considered opinion of many that general elections are won at the polling station level, there was a general consensus within the party that the reforms were long overdue.
Hence, the expansion of the electoral college from around 2000 voters to 115,000 in 2010. The NPP thus went into the 2012 elections in unity as there was no break-away faction within the party.
Fellow Kukrudites, permit me to share with you my perspective on the polling station elections. I have been to 6 different constituencies to observe proceedings.
But, all I can say for now is that, the NPP's Polling Station Executive Election is "Democratically Undemocratic". It is thus imperative for the party to make further reforms/innovations to reduce the challenges associated with it.
First, it is democratic because elections are being conducted somehow. However, it is undemocratic because of the way and manner the elections are being conducted.
• In some constituencies, the incumbent executives in collaboration with MPs decide the kind of people who should have access to the NPP nomination forms.
• A few, if not none of the favoured contestants actually paid for the forms or the filling fee. This problem was evident in some remote areas. Personally, I had to pay for the passport photographs of certain contestants in my hometown.
• There was widespread shortage of application forms, and this coupled with the limited time of filing, pushed many would-be contestants out. For me, the shortage was artificial as those behind it knew what they were doing.
• In some constituencies, court injunctions have been placed on the polling station elections because some aggrieved party members believe they were not given any hearing by the Constituency or Regional Executives.
• In other areas, elections were held as early as 5am with the sole purpose of denying others the opportunity to participate in the elections,
• In others, only 5 nomination forms were just given to incumbent polling station chairpersons for distribution to party members, who would genuinely vote for them when constituency and other elections are held.
Those perceived to belong to other factions were denied the opportunity to either buy a form or file their nominations. This means that the incumbent polling station executives who are not popular in their towns and villages still retained their positions.
• Not much publicity was given to the sale of nomination forms. However, those preferred candidates were aware of the election procedures.
• Over 98 per cent of the polling station executives in the villages are illiterates, and the highest educational qualification of the remaining 2 per cent was Middle School Leaving Certificate (M.S.L.C.).
Conclusion:
• The expansion of the electoral college is good on paper, but practically, it is very undemocratic.
• It is the breeding ground of apathy within the party as most people I interviewed swore not to vote for the NPP because of the apparent cheating.
To some, those 'elected' polling station executives can remain in that position, but the NPP cannot win power.
• Unless anybody who has the ambition to unseat the incumbent MP budgets for not less than GHC2m (2bn old cedis), it is a foregone conclusion for the incumbent MPs to be re-elected.
• Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is poised to win the next primaries. I'd be surprised if he fails to secure over 90 per cent of the total valid votes in the next flagbearership slot. This is because everything is cooked for him at the grassroots.
• However, as to whether Nana could beat John Mahama or not is another food for thought. This is because many people at the grassroots are aggrieved with the polling station election procedure. They believe they have been unfairly treated.
• The fracas between Hon. Ursula Owusu and her Constituency Chairman is a case in point.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago
KT Hammond handed over the US$3.5m to Chief Thief Kufuor, so how can he open his mouth and say it? The only way out for the Looting Brigade is to marshall the NPP rented press to mislead the public in order to lessen the disg ... read full comment
KT Hammond handed over the US$3.5m to Chief Thief Kufuor, so how can he open his mouth and say it? The only way out for the Looting Brigade is to marshall the NPP rented press to mislead the public in order to lessen the disgrace. They hope that another scandal emerges so this this scandal is swept under the carpet. And Kweku Baako & Co will do everything to invent something on NDC just to equalise and confuse the issue.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago
AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....
It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the ne ... read full comment
AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....
It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the next flag bearer of the Party by excluding them even before the mortal remains of the demised President were interred. It is also symptomatic of how political party elites in Ghana and Africa worm their way into the confidences of persons perceived as likely to ascend to power positions for purposes of eventual personal economic gain at the expense of the generality of the mass of Party members and the Nation which every President swears to serve under the Constitution...
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago
When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ... read full comment
When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
facts 10 years ago
Please do not remind ghana of the painful Woyome led create, loot and share story which has broken Ghana down. It has become a puzzle too difficult for Mahama to solve. Let there be a change of government today and the money ... read full comment
Please do not remind ghana of the painful Woyome led create, loot and share story which has broken Ghana down. It has become a puzzle too difficult for Mahama to solve. Let there be a change of government today and the money will come out for sure.
vv 10 years ago
desist from dirty politics,one day w'll be judged by wat we av done n said.Let ur conversation be ye or nay nay.lets be truthful to ourselves n our motherland.Truth is always the best.if k.t hammond has embezzled Ghana's mone ... read full comment
desist from dirty politics,one day w'll be judged by wat we av done n said.Let ur conversation be ye or nay nay.lets be truthful to ourselves n our motherland.Truth is always the best.if k.t hammond has embezzled Ghana's money he will av to cough it out n the same thing goes to woyome.God will judge all of us.Amen
Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago
No dought about that,the time is almost here for revelation,he will talk under pressure as a criminal.This
is not a Court but a probe to find out
and the result will come,and there he
will see.
No dought about that,the time is almost here for revelation,he will talk under pressure as a criminal.This
is not a Court but a probe to find out
and the result will come,and there he
will see.
Honesty-the best policy! 10 years ago
Well said! This guy, K. T. Hammond has come to the point to "overstand" the biblical admonition that, "Judge not, that ye not be judged. For...K. T. it is your turn to dance to the music you have been playing for others.
Well said! This guy, K. T. Hammond has come to the point to "overstand" the biblical admonition that, "Judge not, that ye not be judged. For...K. T. it is your turn to dance to the music you have been playing for others.
Ghana First 10 years ago
Betraying their ignorance
Betraying their ignorance
GEORGE 10 years ago
We just want to know the whereabout of the money in question.That is all. NPP is full of thieves including President Kufuor.The deserve to go to jail if they fail to give proper account of the money.Ghanaians are suffering.fo ... read full comment
We just want to know the whereabout of the money in question.That is all. NPP is full of thieves including President Kufuor.The deserve to go to jail if they fail to give proper account of the money.Ghanaians are suffering.fools
mohammed 10 years ago
it is not about npp or mdc. ghana want her money from both Kt hammond and woyomi. it is not right to steal public money in your trust. period. no matter your party affiliation.
it is not about npp or mdc. ghana want her money from both Kt hammond and woyomi. it is not right to steal public money in your trust. period. no matter your party affiliation.
OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago
This is a classic political gamemanship well crafted to procure revenge. I am of the opinion that if anybody acted wrong against the state he/she must face the law. However, the pace at which appointment of a SOLE commissione ... read full comment
This is a classic political gamemanship well crafted to procure revenge. I am of the opinion that if anybody acted wrong against the state he/she must face the law. However, the pace at which appointment of a SOLE commissioner with unchallenged discreationary powers to recommend prosecution amidst public outcry against frivilous payments of judgement debts by the NDC administration draws to memory an anecdote of a Russian prince whose ascension to a throne was at behest and promise to his mother to exercise revenge for murder of her lover friend .
With all the national outcries over the Wayomes, Betty Iddrissus, Gyeedas and Isofotans the curious mind wonders why the bait hooked at an old nemesis in the offing - Akuffo Addo
Rawlings had wined and dined with Tsatsu Tsikata during his tenure of presidency. He had consulted him all measures needed to bring his administation in line with the law. He had been a displaying part of his opulent societal decorums at all invitations to state functions ; a trusted friend and political confidant. His inclusion to all stately lists was an assured quod erat demonstrandum against all odds and doubts. Thus when the vacancy of Chief Executive Offialdom of GNPC fell vacant none seemed so suitable as Tsatsu. A position specially reserved to manage Ghana's oil - Money ! Here money transactions and nefarious contractual dealings were off limits to public knowledge and understanding. And that's where all things began.
But Tsatsu gambled with his entrusted responsibilty to incur national debt, a premise upon which his ignominy was built to the chagrin of J J Rawlings particularly because it was Under Kuffuor's Justice department his trusted Tsatsu had suffered humiliation and imprisonment - a pill Jerry could hardly swallow.
Thereafter his campaign to seek revenge slowly gathered momentum through the halls of the castle under Mills. A silent coup detat without the blast of a gun.
When Mills impassionately turned down request for revenge JJ mounted one of the fiercest opposition against a colleague of his own political party - ever seen in the annals of Ghanaian politics.
Mills died mysteriously and with little official desire to investigate or explain cause of his death to the public.
Then comes John Mahama a gentleman with loads of promises to pacify disgruntling party echelons over Mill's reticence and compromising approach. Upon gaining sound assurance to draw a dagger of revenge JJ threw his entire weight, even ignoring his wife's stand, in support of Mahama's wavering campaign.
It is safe to think he was instrumental in securing Atuguba, a justice he had handpicked to join the Courts, a position of chairmanship of a panel to adjudicate the election dispute - a controversial stewardship.
Then comes a one man commissioner to investigate NPP wrongdoings ! It is a baboon politics of revenge !
Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago
CEO's are now social commentators.
CEO's are now social commentators.
PK 10 years ago
This buffoon of a CEO spends more time doing political propaganda in the media than managing the Free Zones Board. If his passion is politics, he should resign from his current post and ask Mahama to send him to join the prop ... read full comment
This buffoon of a CEO spends more time doing political propaganda in the media than managing the Free Zones Board. If his passion is politics, he should resign from his current post and ask Mahama to send him to join the propagandists at the Ministry of Information. How can anyone expect this guy to take dispassionate and commercial sound decisions for the Free Zones Board?
THE PATRIOT 10 years ago
Why should a knowledgeable person refrain from explaining issues to educate the public on important issues? That would be depriving society of the potential in people. And Kojo Twum Boafo is a brilliant young CEO and I encour ... read full comment
Why should a knowledgeable person refrain from explaining issues to educate the public on important issues? That would be depriving society of the potential in people. And Kojo Twum Boafo is a brilliant young CEO and I encourage him to continue educating the masses. For example, I did not know that it was KT who composed the Woyome Woyome song.
There is a saying that if you have a long and hairy tail you don't jump over fire. Unfortunately for KT, his tail is extremely long with cotton wool dipped in petrol tied to it. He forgot of the flammable load on his tail and decided to jump over a bond fire! Let's sit back and watch the unfolding drama.
mohammed 10 years ago
Are you sure of what this goon is saying is knowledge? we are not only going to mock at thieves of woyomi calibre, we shall jail or execute them after they are guilty and cannot retrieve the money with interest and corruption ... read full comment
Are you sure of what this goon is saying is knowledge? we are not only going to mock at thieves of woyomi calibre, we shall jail or execute them after they are guilty and cannot retrieve the money with interest and corruption charge.
Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago
What knowledge is he impacting?
What knowledge is he impacting?
ORIGINAL PEACE MAKER 10 years ago
MR. BOAFO PLEASE WISE UP TO BE RESPECTED. YOU ARE EXONERATING K.T IF INDEED HE HAS COMMITTED ANY CRIME. PLEASE WISE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
MR. BOAFO PLEASE WISE UP TO BE RESPECTED. YOU ARE EXONERATING K.T IF INDEED HE HAS COMMITTED ANY CRIME. PLEASE WISE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
kagee 10 years ago
How low Ghana has sunk to have such a creature as CEO of its free zones board. Only politics can make apes reign over humans.
How low Ghana has sunk to have such a creature as CEO of its free zones board. Only politics can make apes reign over humans.
JAMREAH 10 years ago
BUT MR KNOW-ALL, KWEKU BAAKO HAS PRESENTED A FAKE PRINTED CHEQUE TO THE NATION THAT THE MONEY WAS OFFICIALLY DISBURSED. LET KWEKU BAAKO JR CLARIFY ONCE AND FOR ALL DOCUMENTS OF FINAL PAYMENT AND THE NATION WILL GO TO SLEEP SO ... read full comment
BUT MR KNOW-ALL, KWEKU BAAKO HAS PRESENTED A FAKE PRINTED CHEQUE TO THE NATION THAT THE MONEY WAS OFFICIALLY DISBURSED. LET KWEKU BAAKO JR CLARIFY ONCE AND FOR ALL DOCUMENTS OF FINAL PAYMENT AND THE NATION WILL GO TO SLEEP SOUNDLY.IS HE A JOURNALIST OR THE SPOKESMAN FOR NANA ADDO? EVEN MR KUFFOUR'S SPOKESMAN IS NOT TALIKING WHY KWEKU BAAKO JR.WHERE ARE THE NPP LEADERS? GHANAIANS HEAR TO SPEAK THE TRUTH. GO TO CHINA, RUSSIA NORTH AMERICA AND JAPAN, NO ONE
GOES SCOT FREE WITH GOVT MONEY. IT IS TIME WE POINT OUT THE SO-CALLED OR ALLEGED CORRUPT MPS AND OFFICIALS IN GOVT. NO GHANAIAN WAS BOLD ENOUGH TO POINT OUT CORRUPT MPS AND OFFICIALS IN THE EIGHT YEARS OF NPP RULE. COWARDS.
John Asankomah Quarshie 10 years ago
SAYING THE TRUTH IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM .. . ....WE ARE FED UP WITH THESE SO CALLED POLITICIANS..... THEY ARE CROOKS AND INHUMAN... GOD WILL PUNISH ALL OF THEM IN NO TIME..... U WILL VOMIT IT....NONSENSE!!!
SAYING THE TRUTH IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM .. . ....WE ARE FED UP WITH THESE SO CALLED POLITICIANS..... THEY ARE CROOKS AND INHUMAN... GOD WILL PUNISH ALL OF THEM IN NO TIME..... U WILL VOMIT IT....NONSENSE!!!
TONY 10 years ago
Evil P/NDCs want to divert the attention of their exposed corrupt criminalities towards former NPP ministers so that the already poisoned Ghanaian public take their horrible lies seriously. These P/NDCs'were all copied from I ... read full comment
Evil P/NDCs want to divert the attention of their exposed corrupt criminalities towards former NPP ministers so that the already poisoned Ghanaian public take their horrible lies seriously. These P/NDCs'were all copied from IRAN state by Mahamah
Chris 10 years ago
When is the funeral for KT Hammonds mother coming on? I hope to be there to comfort him. Her mother is more important than our drillship,more so the $3.5million usd.THIEFMAN,kenkey seller. You steal your mothers kenkey money, ... read full comment
When is the funeral for KT Hammonds mother coming on? I hope to be there to comfort him. Her mother is more important than our drillship,more so the $3.5million usd.THIEFMAN,kenkey seller. You steal your mothers kenkey money, now you want to steal Ghana money.
Drill Sheep 10 years ago
You have made my day!
You have made my day!
Akwasi 10 years ago
Kwadwo do you appreciate when you see one
Kwadwo do you appreciate when you see one
NANA 10 years ago
A CHILDISH POINT MADE BY A SO-CALLED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER.
A VERY CHILDISH POINT INDEED.
HE DOES NOT QUALIFY TO BE AN OFFICE MAMAGER.
A CHILDISH POINT MADE BY A SO-CALLED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER.
A VERY CHILDISH POINT INDEED.
HE DOES NOT QUALIFY TO BE AN OFFICE MAMAGER.
Wahome 10 years ago
Mr Twum Boafo is a highly intelligent fellow,check his academic background.What is childish about what he said? don't compose songs if you cannot listen to tunes played by others
Mr Twum Boafo is a highly intelligent fellow,check his academic background.What is childish about what he said? don't compose songs if you cannot listen to tunes played by others
zungu 10 years ago
academic background my foot
academic background my foot
fire exit 10 years ago
more qualified to loot
more qualified to loot
mohammed 10 years ago
Is woyome not a thieve? what is wrong with telling the truth? if KT also is guilty of the drill-ship why is it wrong for both to be punished. Every politician who steal or rob the nation day will come. ghana first.
Is woyome not a thieve? what is wrong with telling the truth? if KT also is guilty of the drill-ship why is it wrong for both to be punished. Every politician who steal or rob the nation day will come. ghana first.
Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago
It takes more than a chain of degrees. What did he do before the political appointment?
It takes more than a chain of degrees. What did he do before the political appointment?
KOJO 10 years ago
Nana don't be skinpain
Nana don't be skinpain
Asea Ho 10 years ago
This is the best response so far on the Check bearer Saga
This is the best response so far on the Check bearer Saga
SHAKAMORA 10 years ago
stupid fool what do u know twum boafo kwasea gyimigyimi ofui
stupid fool what do u know twum boafo kwasea gyimigyimi ofui
Kojo! 10 years ago
Woyome no cry for court oooo, ibi you dey there dey cry like a sick baby
Woyome no cry for court oooo, ibi you dey there dey cry like a sick baby
Peace 10 years ago
TO THIS END FOOLS, AND FOOLS ARE IN THE GOVERNMENT. IS THIS WHAT A SENIOR OFFICER OF GOVT WILL SAY. 50 + MILLION CEDIS AGAINST $3M? TODAY MR BOAFO THINKS OTHER GHANAIANS (APART FROM NDC PPLE) ARE FOOLS. THANK YOU NDC.
TO THIS END FOOLS, AND FOOLS ARE IN THE GOVERNMENT. IS THIS WHAT A SENIOR OFFICER OF GOVT WILL SAY. 50 + MILLION CEDIS AGAINST $3M? TODAY MR BOAFO THINKS OTHER GHANAIANS (APART FROM NDC PPLE) ARE FOOLS. THANK YOU NDC.
Ns3mhuhuarakwa 10 years ago
The truth,so help him God! "Woto aduro bone a, ebika woano"!; to wit,treat others the way you want to be treated. I hope and pray to the Almighty Allah that,this hitherto obscure character, has enough of the loot he stashed a ... read full comment
The truth,so help him God! "Woto aduro bone a, ebika woano"!; to wit,treat others the way you want to be treated. I hope and pray to the Almighty Allah that,this hitherto obscure character, has enough of the loot he stashed away left, to give that poor old woman a fitting burial!
Being an old-fashioned Asante male,I was proud,joyful and relieved when the Man upstairs granted my wish,and permitted me superintend over burial and funeral arrangements of my 100+ year-old mother!
Kwame 10 years ago
He farmer who sold his hoe and went to beat his son for buying cooking utensils and making shed in the farm. NPP led by Kufuor committed that absurdity.
He farmer who sold his hoe and went to beat his son for buying cooking utensils and making shed in the farm. NPP led by Kufuor committed that absurdity.
kpakpo onukpa 10 years ago
We all know how the money was disbursed. If KT won't talk, he is a coward n a fool. When he is languishing on jail by himself then he will wake up. Maybe the chief thief he is protecting will visit him n take care of his mot ... read full comment
We all know how the money was disbursed. If KT won't talk, he is a coward n a fool. When he is languishing on jail by himself then he will wake up. Maybe the chief thief he is protecting will visit him n take care of his mother. All the players must be punished nade to repay with interest. It is time for fear n deterrence to be imposed on Ghanaians. Enough of the impunity, greed n abuse of the country.
Ametsitsi 10 years ago
Kwadjo Twum Boafo, just have patience. How Tsatsu Tsikata ran GNPC, how he dolled our monies to Cuba, and what kind of agreement he entered into with Societe General without Board approval will all come out and there you will ... read full comment
Kwadjo Twum Boafo, just have patience. How Tsatsu Tsikata ran GNPC, how he dolled our monies to Cuba, and what kind of agreement he entered into with Societe General without Board approval will all come out and there you will see whose buttocks smells bad. You wait.
Bernard 10 years ago
Brain dead, Ametsitsi. Please, answer this simple and straight forward question. If you could not then, i will suggest you seek help from the psychiatrist. Question: Was Tsatsu Tsikata jailed because he sold the drillship an ... read full comment
Brain dead, Ametsitsi. Please, answer this simple and straight forward question. If you could not then, i will suggest you seek help from the psychiatrist. Question: Was Tsatsu Tsikata jailed because he sold the drillship and pocked the balance of $3.5m? (2) Who and under whose government was drillship sold and $3.5m could still not be accounted for till today? Thank you.
Bernard 10 years ago
Brain dead, Ametsitsi. Please, answer this simple and straight forward question. If you could not then, i will suggest you seek help from the psychiatrist. Question: Was Tsatsu Tsikata jailed because he sold the drillship an ... read full comment
Brain dead, Ametsitsi. Please, answer this simple and straight forward question. If you could not then, i will suggest you seek help from the psychiatrist. Question: Was Tsatsu Tsikata jailed because he sold the drillship and pocked the balance of $3.5m? (2) Who and under whose government was drillship sold and $3.5m could still not be accounted for till today? Thank you.
oyinasky 10 years ago
This Twum Boafo guy is so stupid I am ashamed he is an Akuapem man. What warped logic is this?
This Twum Boafo guy is so stupid I am ashamed he is an Akuapem man. What warped logic is this?
Kwame Safo 10 years ago
Wonder where we are going when all people think of is how to get back at others. The national interest pales as a shadow as individuals especially politicians look to settle scores. It is a sad era in our political history. T ... read full comment
Wonder where we are going when all people think of is how to get back at others. The national interest pales as a shadow as individuals especially politicians look to settle scores. It is a sad era in our political history. That public office holders are more concerned about their partisan positioning and ignore the public interest. This whole GNPC saga is a charade. Tstatsu the main player came and intimidated the panel with his oratory and they were taken in by him and let him loose. Those who by perception have acted in the public interest (I do not say that they made the correct decision per say) are paying the price for trying at least to save the public purse. Then the likes of Kwadwo Twum Boafo with their warped judgement will put pen to paper and defend the indefensible. Is it not disheartening to fire Vicky Hammah for a conversation in which she reveals vile intentions and to ignore Asiedu Nketia for openly boasting he has rights to owning an overtly rich estate because he has been inpolitics for 8 years. He is appointed a board chairman to Bui Dam and then he turns supplier to the Project and so on .... all shows how confused our leadership is .....
KKO 10 years ago
How idiotic! Woyome had no contract with anybody. Selormey, Sipa Yankey, Kwame Peprah and Tsatsu all stole from the people of Ghana! Is this nincompoop saying that nobody should have talked or complained about Woyome's stolen ... read full comment
How idiotic! Woyome had no contract with anybody. Selormey, Sipa Yankey, Kwame Peprah and Tsatsu all stole from the people of Ghana! Is this nincompoop saying that nobody should have talked or complained about Woyome's stolen millions?
GNPC had been run aground by Tsatsu to the point it was indebted to every organisation in Ghana. Several of the corporation's accounts had been garnisheed by debtors. The SG litigation had already cost GNPC over £500,000 and there were outstanding bills. Ghana as a country was broke in early 2001. How was anybody going to continue the litigation?
KT Hammond went and negotiated and brought down the indebtedness and sold a rig that had already been mortgaged to SG. The remaining $3.5m has now been traced to a Ghana government account. So what wrong did KT commit?
NPP are their own worst enemies. Their science and technology policies are hopeless. Otherwise I cannot understand how they have allowed this simple matter to run and run!
AKONFEM MAHANI 10 years ago
WE NEED GYEEDA,ISOFO,AKONFEM,WATERVELL,OIL,MAHANI EI WHERE IS THE MONEY???
WE NEED GYEEDA,ISOFO,AKONFEM,WATERVELL,OIL,MAHANI EI WHERE IS THE MONEY???
TomTom 10 years ago
Thank God, I know definitely it's my turn to stand for Adansi Asokwa NPP "vacant" to be seat.This guy is definitely going to jail for more than 40 years.Stupid you are crying because your stupid Fanti moslem mother is dying, ... read full comment
Thank God, I know definitely it's my turn to stand for Adansi Asokwa NPP "vacant" to be seat.This guy is definitely going to jail for more than 40 years.Stupid you are crying because your stupid Fanti moslem mother is dying, who cares.
mohammed 10 years ago
May i know why being a moslem or fanti make you stupid? I am highly disturbed about your reasoning and want to know more about your back ground. tell me more about yourself.
May i know why being a moslem or fanti make you stupid? I am highly disturbed about your reasoning and want to know more about your back ground. tell me more about yourself.
TomTom 10 years ago
Mohammed, you are a little bit shallow minded, my insult is not directed towards moslems or fantis but excusively towards KT's mother you idiot shallow minded animal.Your understanding of Enlish is too hollow.
Mohammed, you are a little bit shallow minded, my insult is not directed towards moslems or fantis but excusively towards KT's mother you idiot shallow minded animal.Your understanding of Enlish is too hollow.
Genevieve 10 years ago
Twum Boafo,
This comment is in bad taste.
Twum Boafo,
This comment is in bad taste.
mohammed 10 years ago
Woyomi of all thieves in ghana and you are sympathizing with? are you in your mind at all? when is it going to be accountable to the nation all the loots of politicians against the people? you are a disgrace to the ghana free ... read full comment
Woyomi of all thieves in ghana and you are sympathizing with? are you in your mind at all? when is it going to be accountable to the nation all the loots of politicians against the people? you are a disgrace to the ghana free zone. your calibre of leadership is pathetic.
kintinka 10 years ago
REUBEN TWUM BOAFO HAS BEEN SHIFTING GEARS ON THIS DRILL SHIP SAGA.THE LOSS OF $3.5M DID NOT STICK NOW WHAT WHAT IS GONNA STICK. freak
REUBEN TWUM BOAFO HAS BEEN SHIFTING GEARS ON THIS DRILL SHIP SAGA.THE LOSS OF $3.5M DID NOT STICK NOW WHAT WHAT IS GONNA STICK. freak
FIAGYANIBA 10 years ago
Kwadwo Twum Boafo, what is the basis of your comparing argument? This proves your stupidity. Woyome should have been left to walk free so you think? The law is no respecter of persons and must take it's course. How do you def ... read full comment
Kwadwo Twum Boafo, what is the basis of your comparing argument? This proves your stupidity. Woyome should have been left to walk free so you think? The law is no respecter of persons and must take it's course. How do you define corruption? The ' Kokofu ball ' attitude in Ghana should come to an end.
Peekay 10 years ago
No wonder kwadwo Twum Boafo pulled a gun on his own father when he was caught pants down sleeping with his father's wife who happens to be his own step mother.
No wonder kwadwo Twum Boafo pulled a gun on his own father when he was caught pants down sleeping with his father's wife who happens to be his own step mother.
maggie 10 years ago
oooooohhhhh my goodness.....so this k t boafo really was caught by his dad whilst sleeping with his step mother......???? what the fuck.....no wonder fire is burnig ghana everywhere....we have demonic forces in power...ide bi ... read full comment
oooooohhhhh my goodness.....so this k t boafo really was caught by his dad whilst sleeping with his step mother......???? what the fuck.....no wonder fire is burnig ghana everywhere....we have demonic forces in power...ide biii keke..
DICKSON 10 years ago
Eeebeeiiiii NDC how can this boafo man justify woyomization with this drill ship......I AM SORRY 4 GHANA.....
Eeebeeiiiii NDC how can this boafo man justify woyomization with this drill ship......I AM SORRY 4 GHANA.....
Dumega Prosper Jnr. 10 years ago
Ghana is not and should not rush!! If we were going to become oil producing nation and have prospects of exploring further afiled by 2010 and then we sell a drill ship as a country by 2001, what is more stupid and wicked tha ... read full comment
Ghana is not and should not rush!! If we were going to become oil producing nation and have prospects of exploring further afiled by 2010 and then we sell a drill ship as a country by 2001, what is more stupid and wicked than this?? So that we invite others to drill the oil for us and we accept that because we don't have the technology, the drillers should come and drill and over 25 million souls will just take 13% shares and 3 of our friends take 5%??
Ghana must be calm!! Even if we see whoever took the balance of $3.5m, there are many more questions to be answered!!! Some NPP guys involved in this shady deal will however be exposed and possibly severely punished!!!
Under NPP Ghana lost it big!!!!
No more Ghana Airways??? How was /were the property sold or dissipated?? Mind you, when the glorious man, the Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was establishing the Ghana Airways single handedly in 1958, the NPP, offshoots of the dastardly Mate Meho executionists were throwing bombs at innocent citizens of our dear nation, the children were maimed and killed, Osagyefo suffere part of the grand agenda (UP/Mate Mehu programme of intimidating government!!
They the NPP must answer a whole lot!! Where and how did Kuffour single handedly sell the Ghana telecom which is supposed to be richer than even the Gold we have in name!!!
Patience is highly needed here to microscope the disease of pilfering the state, among others state bungalows, the state lands at prime areas and monies that people don't account for with impudence in impunity!!! Most Politicians instead of delivering the people, the poor citizens who are beset ith painful underdevelopment issues of no food at times, diseases, lack of meaningful lives and promise for good future life are rather being left in the mud!!! AS Ghanaians, no two wrongs are good!! Woyome or whoever is squandered $3.5m will vomit the money, even if it will be with blood from the person's stomach!! We need to follow the law of CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE and turn back to how the late Prof Mills rather protected those who stole from mother Ghana to bring back any monies or property we as Ghanaians can remember!!! We need to know who secretely withdrew the money from the London account!!!! And why??? And why didn't they follow due dilligence??
Agya-ba Virginia USA 10 years ago
HOW CAN A NATION WITH PEOPLE OF BOAFO'S NATURE PROSPER, EXHIBITING CLEAR HATRED AMONG THEMSELVES IN THE POLITICAL ARENA.NO NEED FOR SUCH COMMENTS. IF OUR JUDGES WILL BE FREE AND FAIR GUYS, THE LAW WILL CLEAR ISSUES, THE LAW W ... read full comment
HOW CAN A NATION WITH PEOPLE OF BOAFO'S NATURE PROSPER, EXHIBITING CLEAR HATRED AMONG THEMSELVES IN THE POLITICAL ARENA.NO NEED FOR SUCH COMMENTS. IF OUR JUDGES WILL BE FREE AND FAIR GUYS, THE LAW WILL CLEAR ISSUES, THE LAW WILL TEACH SUCH PEOPLE LIKE WAYOME, TK HAMMOND OR WHO EVER. ALL THE PREVIOUS JAILED NDC GUYS WERE JAILED SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF THE LAND. THERES NO NEED FOR THIS STUPID FREE ZONES MINISTER TO MAKE SUCH INSINUATED COMMENTS.
Papa Yaw 10 years ago
How
How
Kwesi Agbenu 10 years ago
the rapist idiot. he needs to purge himself, sorry he is from decent Akuapemland
the rapist idiot. he needs to purge himself, sorry he is from decent Akuapemland
goofy 10 years ago
MR. TWUM BOAFO WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND WEATHER IS MR. ALFRED WOYOME OR K.T HAMMOND THEY ALL WILL PAID WHAT IT BELONG TO GHANA MAY BE YOU BE NEXT ENJOY YOUR SELF NOW WHILE IT LAST
MR. TWUM BOAFO WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND WEATHER IS MR. ALFRED WOYOME OR K.T HAMMOND THEY ALL WILL PAID WHAT IT BELONG TO GHANA MAY BE YOU BE NEXT ENJOY YOUR SELF NOW WHILE IT LAST
Fallout of Polling Station Elections
Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang, Asante Bekwai-Asakyiri
(Free SHS Ambassador) Official blog: (www.katakyie.com)
Accra, Nov. 28 .......It would be recalled that the New Patrio ...
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KT Hammond handed over the US$3.5m to Chief Thief Kufuor, so how can he open his mouth and say it? The only way out for the Looting Brigade is to marshall the NPP rented press to mislead the public in order to lessen the disg ...
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AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....
It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the ne ...
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When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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Please do not remind ghana of the painful Woyome led create, loot and share story which has broken Ghana down. It has become a puzzle too difficult for Mahama to solve. Let there be a change of government today and the money ...
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desist from dirty politics,one day w'll be judged by wat we av done n said.Let ur conversation be ye or nay nay.lets be truthful to ourselves n our motherland.Truth is always the best.if k.t hammond has embezzled Ghana's mone ...
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No dought about that,the time is almost here for revelation,he will talk under pressure as a criminal.This
is not a Court but a probe to find out
and the result will come,and there he
will see.
Well said! This guy, K. T. Hammond has come to the point to "overstand" the biblical admonition that, "Judge not, that ye not be judged. For...K. T. it is your turn to dance to the music you have been playing for others.
Betraying their ignorance
We just want to know the whereabout of the money in question.That is all. NPP is full of thieves including President Kufuor.The deserve to go to jail if they fail to give proper account of the money.Ghanaians are suffering.fo ...
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it is not about npp or mdc. ghana want her money from both Kt hammond and woyomi. it is not right to steal public money in your trust. period. no matter your party affiliation.
This is a classic political gamemanship well crafted to procure revenge. I am of the opinion that if anybody acted wrong against the state he/she must face the law. However, the pace at which appointment of a SOLE commissione ...
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CEO's are now social commentators.
This buffoon of a CEO spends more time doing political propaganda in the media than managing the Free Zones Board. If his passion is politics, he should resign from his current post and ask Mahama to send him to join the prop ...
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Why should a knowledgeable person refrain from explaining issues to educate the public on important issues? That would be depriving society of the potential in people. And Kojo Twum Boafo is a brilliant young CEO and I encour ...
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Are you sure of what this goon is saying is knowledge? we are not only going to mock at thieves of woyomi calibre, we shall jail or execute them after they are guilty and cannot retrieve the money with interest and corruption ...
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What knowledge is he impacting?
MR. BOAFO PLEASE WISE UP TO BE RESPECTED. YOU ARE EXONERATING K.T IF INDEED HE HAS COMMITTED ANY CRIME. PLEASE WISE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
How low Ghana has sunk to have such a creature as CEO of its free zones board. Only politics can make apes reign over humans.
BUT MR KNOW-ALL, KWEKU BAAKO HAS PRESENTED A FAKE PRINTED CHEQUE TO THE NATION THAT THE MONEY WAS OFFICIALLY DISBURSED. LET KWEKU BAAKO JR CLARIFY ONCE AND FOR ALL DOCUMENTS OF FINAL PAYMENT AND THE NATION WILL GO TO SLEEP SO ...
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SAYING THE TRUTH IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM .. . ....WE ARE FED UP WITH THESE SO CALLED POLITICIANS..... THEY ARE CROOKS AND INHUMAN... GOD WILL PUNISH ALL OF THEM IN NO TIME..... U WILL VOMIT IT....NONSENSE!!!
Evil P/NDCs want to divert the attention of their exposed corrupt criminalities towards former NPP ministers so that the already poisoned Ghanaian public take their horrible lies seriously. These P/NDCs'were all copied from I ...
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When is the funeral for KT Hammonds mother coming on? I hope to be there to comfort him. Her mother is more important than our drillship,more so the $3.5million usd.THIEFMAN,kenkey seller. You steal your mothers kenkey money, ...
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You have made my day!
Kwadwo do you appreciate when you see one
A CHILDISH POINT MADE BY A SO-CALLED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER.
A VERY CHILDISH POINT INDEED.
HE DOES NOT QUALIFY TO BE AN OFFICE MAMAGER.
Mr Twum Boafo is a highly intelligent fellow,check his academic background.What is childish about what he said? don't compose songs if you cannot listen to tunes played by others
academic background my foot
more qualified to loot
Is woyome not a thieve? what is wrong with telling the truth? if KT also is guilty of the drill-ship why is it wrong for both to be punished. Every politician who steal or rob the nation day will come. ghana first.
It takes more than a chain of degrees. What did he do before the political appointment?
Nana don't be skinpain
This is the best response so far on the Check bearer Saga
stupid fool what do u know twum boafo kwasea gyimigyimi ofui
Woyome no cry for court oooo, ibi you dey there dey cry like a sick baby
TO THIS END FOOLS, AND FOOLS ARE IN THE GOVERNMENT. IS THIS WHAT A SENIOR OFFICER OF GOVT WILL SAY. 50 + MILLION CEDIS AGAINST $3M? TODAY MR BOAFO THINKS OTHER GHANAIANS (APART FROM NDC PPLE) ARE FOOLS. THANK YOU NDC.
The truth,so help him God! "Woto aduro bone a, ebika woano"!; to wit,treat others the way you want to be treated. I hope and pray to the Almighty Allah that,this hitherto obscure character, has enough of the loot he stashed a ...
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He farmer who sold his hoe and went to beat his son for buying cooking utensils and making shed in the farm. NPP led by Kufuor committed that absurdity.
We all know how the money was disbursed. If KT won't talk, he is a coward n a fool. When he is languishing on jail by himself then he will wake up. Maybe the chief thief he is protecting will visit him n take care of his mot ...
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Kwadjo Twum Boafo, just have patience. How Tsatsu Tsikata ran GNPC, how he dolled our monies to Cuba, and what kind of agreement he entered into with Societe General without Board approval will all come out and there you will ...
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Brain dead, Ametsitsi. Please, answer this simple and straight forward question. If you could not then, i will suggest you seek help from the psychiatrist. Question: Was Tsatsu Tsikata jailed because he sold the drillship an ...
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Brain dead, Ametsitsi. Please, answer this simple and straight forward question. If you could not then, i will suggest you seek help from the psychiatrist. Question: Was Tsatsu Tsikata jailed because he sold the drillship an ...
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This Twum Boafo guy is so stupid I am ashamed he is an Akuapem man. What warped logic is this?
Wonder where we are going when all people think of is how to get back at others. The national interest pales as a shadow as individuals especially politicians look to settle scores. It is a sad era in our political history. T ...
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How idiotic! Woyome had no contract with anybody. Selormey, Sipa Yankey, Kwame Peprah and Tsatsu all stole from the people of Ghana! Is this nincompoop saying that nobody should have talked or complained about Woyome's stolen ...
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WE NEED GYEEDA,ISOFO,AKONFEM,WATERVELL,OIL,MAHANI EI WHERE IS THE MONEY???
Thank God, I know definitely it's my turn to stand for Adansi Asokwa NPP "vacant" to be seat.This guy is definitely going to jail for more than 40 years.Stupid you are crying because your stupid Fanti moslem mother is dying, ...
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May i know why being a moslem or fanti make you stupid? I am highly disturbed about your reasoning and want to know more about your back ground. tell me more about yourself.
Mohammed, you are a little bit shallow minded, my insult is not directed towards moslems or fantis but excusively towards KT's mother you idiot shallow minded animal.Your understanding of Enlish is too hollow.
Twum Boafo,
This comment is in bad taste.
Woyomi of all thieves in ghana and you are sympathizing with? are you in your mind at all? when is it going to be accountable to the nation all the loots of politicians against the people? you are a disgrace to the ghana free ...
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REUBEN TWUM BOAFO HAS BEEN SHIFTING GEARS ON THIS DRILL SHIP SAGA.THE LOSS OF $3.5M DID NOT STICK NOW WHAT WHAT IS GONNA STICK. freak
Kwadwo Twum Boafo, what is the basis of your comparing argument? This proves your stupidity. Woyome should have been left to walk free so you think? The law is no respecter of persons and must take it's course. How do you def ...
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No wonder kwadwo Twum Boafo pulled a gun on his own father when he was caught pants down sleeping with his father's wife who happens to be his own step mother.
oooooohhhhh my goodness.....so this k t boafo really was caught by his dad whilst sleeping with his step mother......???? what the fuck.....no wonder fire is burnig ghana everywhere....we have demonic forces in power...ide bi ...
read full comment
Eeebeeiiiii NDC how can this boafo man justify woyomization with this drill ship......I AM SORRY 4 GHANA.....
Ghana is not and should not rush!! If we were going to become oil producing nation and have prospects of exploring further afiled by 2010 and then we sell a drill ship as a country by 2001, what is more stupid and wicked tha ...
read full comment
HOW CAN A NATION WITH PEOPLE OF BOAFO'S NATURE PROSPER, EXHIBITING CLEAR HATRED AMONG THEMSELVES IN THE POLITICAL ARENA.NO NEED FOR SUCH COMMENTS. IF OUR JUDGES WILL BE FREE AND FAIR GUYS, THE LAW WILL CLEAR ISSUES, THE LAW W ...
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How
the rapist idiot. he needs to purge himself, sorry he is from decent Akuapemland
MR. TWUM BOAFO WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND WEATHER IS MR. ALFRED WOYOME OR K.T HAMMOND THEY ALL WILL PAID WHAT IT BELONG TO GHANA MAY BE YOU BE NEXT ENJOY YOUR SELF NOW WHILE IT LAST