Kofi Annan: The world has lost a great moral compass

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Tabia. 12 years ago

Kofi is the Mandela of Ghana.

Kofi is the Mandela of Ghana.
OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

Author:-Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu.

...The Government exercised the latter option when we disagreed over the judgment debt and other Gargantuan crimes. The Government, and my colleague Ministers at the time know that there ...
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Author:-Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu.

...The Government exercised the latter option when we disagreed over the judgment debt and other Gargantuan crimes. The Government, and my colleague Ministers at the time know that there was no provision for dismissal under my contract of employment as a Minister or that of any Minster.

I reserve the right as a citizen of Ghana to protect and defend my honour and integrity should this civilized challenge for the truth be ignored.

This is not the price I should be made to pay by the Government of Ghana for defending the Constitution of Ghana in the Waterville and Isofoton unconstitutional payments declared by the Supreme Court.
GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 12 years ago

KWAME NKRUMAH INTL. AIRPORT:
Now there is the Kotoka International Airport attesting to General Kotoka, who was the leader of the 1966 coup. Kotoka is now being honored for distracting Ghana from attaining her vision is now ...
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KWAME NKRUMAH INTL. AIRPORT:
Now there is the Kotoka International Airport attesting to General Kotoka, who was the leader of the 1966 coup. Kotoka is now being honored for distracting Ghana from attaining her vision is now a hero. Now that Ghana knows the truth, the question is, do we need to Honor a lie that abuses the collective sense of a nation. Should Kotoka be honored with a monument?. Another question, who is “Sankara”?. What did he do for Ghana that he as well deserves a circle to be named after him?. Why not after our heroes?. Don´t we have them?. This questions will be left as a chewing stick for our historians and nefarious politicians to chew and tell the nation the taste of it one day.
So what must Ghana do now? Is it not justified to tell Ghanaians the Truth? nothing but the truth?. We cannot wage war against the world’s only superpower America but we shall not stop telling them the truth until they can bear it no more. We will let then understand that they can kill and oppress many nations as possible, but the “Truth will forever prevail” so long as some of them live.
We all know that this coup was a serious lapse in judgment. It is a treason. Unfortunately, this admission has to be made, no matter how uncomfortable it is. Those perpetrators should be brought to book.
We shall prove to those Ghanaians who still want to believe that February 24, 1966 was not a mistake, even after the evidence shows that the core reason was a lie that they have betrayed their motherland. The child has now found out that the tragedy of the period after independence was not the loss of power by Nkrumah and the CPP. The real tragedy was that an initial period of experiment in nation building was truncated prematurely, and thereby the calm for natural growth and development was denied the country.
Today Ghanaians should accept the shame of embracing a coup that was fraudulent. If Ghana looks foolish now, imagine how it will feel like when history remembers that she participated in her own destruction, and 37 years later, still did not know what happened to her!. The man Kotoka who left Ghana naked on the stage is now the hero. General Kotoka is now named after an Airport which his hands and feet never touched.
Fellow countrymen, one more thing is sure; we shall make sure that America renders an apology to Ghanaians one day. Kotoka International Airport and Sankara circle shall be renamed after a leader who deserves it in Ghana. God bless Ghana.
26. WE NOW LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE DOCTORS DESTROY HEALTH, LAWYERS DESTROY JUSTICES, UNIVERSITIES DESTROY KNOWLEDGE, GOVERNMENTS DESTROY FREEDOM, MEDIA DESTROYS OUTFLOW OF INFORMATION, RELIGION DESTROYS MORALS, BANKS DESTROY OUR ECONOMY, FARMERS DESTROY OUR FOOD!......BY CHIS HEDGES
OBIBINI 12 years ago

What makes Kofi Annan the Nelson Mandela of Africa?Did Kofi Annan fight to liberate an african country from western imperialist rule?Did he even have the guts to condemn the West for invading Iraq?

What makes Kofi Annan the Nelson Mandela of Africa?Did Kofi Annan fight to liberate an african country from western imperialist rule?Did he even have the guts to condemn the West for invading Iraq?
kwesi pee 12 years ago

HEHEHEHEHE.. SEE THESE GUYS FIGHTING OVER THIS SMALL THING, GHANAIANS SHALL ALWAYS BE ... WELL I HAVE READ A DOZEN OF THESE COMMENTARIES BUT AM STILL NOT SATISFIED. U NO Y? ORGANIZATIONS, PRESIDENTS, WORLD LEADERS AND NAME TH ...
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HEHEHEHEHE.. SEE THESE GUYS FIGHTING OVER THIS SMALL THING, GHANAIANS SHALL ALWAYS BE ... WELL I HAVE READ A DOZEN OF THESE COMMENTARIES BUT AM STILL NOT SATISFIED. U NO Y? ORGANIZATIONS, PRESIDENTS, WORLD LEADERS AND NAME THEM ARE ALL GIVING TRIBUTE ABOUT THIS SELFLESS MAN THAT EVER LIVED ON THIS PLANET. BUT AM YET TO READ A TRIBUTE FROM AL-SHABAB, ALQAEDA, ALMIGHTY BOKO HARAM ETC...OOPS! DID THEY LIKE HIM?
Kobia Amenfi Oti Akenten 12 years ago

There is now a vacuum in the history of Africa with Mandela's death. MHSRIEP.

There is now a vacuum in the history of Africa with Mandela's death. MHSRIEP.
Kwame Nsiah Afriyie 12 years ago

Yes indeed the sky has fallen and taken one of the greatest man the earht has ever seen.

Yes indeed the sky has fallen and taken one of the greatest man the earht has ever seen.
OBIBINI 12 years ago

The hypocrisy of the western world is exposed by Nelson Madela's death.The man they once referred to as the world's number one terrorist is being showered with praises and adulation by them.This is all because he allowed th ...
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The hypocrisy of the western world is exposed by Nelson Madela's death.The man they once referred to as the world's number one terrorist is being showered with praises and adulation by them.This is all because he allowed those whites who perpetrated horrible crimes against his own black people to get away unpunished with such horrible,inhuman crimes against black south africans.Considering that western countries are still hunting and dishing punishments to nazi war criminals allowing whites who committed crimes agains t blacks in South Africa to go unpunished marked Nelson Mandela as a person who failed to get justice for his own people.Even God punishes wrongdoers.HE(GOD)NEVER ALWAYS FORGIVE SINS COMMITTED BY HUMAN BEINGS.
Aamah 12 years ago

Stop spreading your hateful propaganda and show some respect at this time.

Stop spreading your hateful propaganda and show some respect at this time.
Kofi 12 years ago

Thank you, Aamah!

Thank you, Aamah!

obibini 12 years ago

The truth will always be said no matter what.

The truth will always be said no matter what.
Aamah 12 years ago

The so called truth you talk about was something Mandela was fighting against.

The so called truth you talk about was something Mandela was fighting against.
mugu1 12 years ago

tell them the truth,they would refused but truth will hunt them

tell them the truth,they would refused but truth will hunt them
Adot 12 years ago

May his soul rest in peace

May his soul rest in peace
PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 12 years ago

MAY ALMIGHTY BLESS MADIBA
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AFRIKA WILL BE A GREAT CONTINENT
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THE MANDELA REST IN PEACE
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PROFES ...
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MAY ALMIGHTY BLESS MADIBA
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AFRIKA WILL BE A GREAT CONTINENT
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THE MANDELA REST IN PEACE
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TONY- C 12 years ago

WHAT A SHOCK. MANDELA WAS A REAL AND ONLY AFRICAN LEADER. I REMEMBER VERY WELL WHEN I WAS THEN IN SOUTH AFRICA AND HE WAS BEEN FORCED TO GO A SECOND TERM AS PRESIDENT. THIS IS WHAT HE SAID,"THERE ARE OTHER MEN AROUND WHO CAN ...
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WHAT A SHOCK. MANDELA WAS A REAL AND ONLY AFRICAN LEADER. I REMEMBER VERY WELL WHEN I WAS THEN IN SOUTH AFRICA AND HE WAS BEEN FORCED TO GO A SECOND TERM AS PRESIDENT. THIS IS WHAT HE SAID,"THERE ARE OTHER MEN AROUND WHO CAN CONTINUE WHAT I HAVE STARTED.I WANT TO BE ABLE TO WALK FREELY ON THE STREETS OF SOUTH AFRICA WITHOUT WATCHING MY BACK". A REAL AFRICAN LEADER INDEED. JOHN MAHAMA AND NANA ADDO SHOULD TRY AND COPY SUCH A NOBLE MAN. GOD BLESS HIS SOUL AND THIS IS A MAN GOING TO HEAVEN. AMEN.
CAPTAIN BOB 12 years ago

YES A GREAT LIGHT HAS GONE OUT IN THE WORLD,THE MAN WITH A REMARKABLE LACK OF BITTERNESS,THE PILLAR OF TRUE JUSTICE HAS FALLEN. MADIBA REST IN PEACE

YES A GREAT LIGHT HAS GONE OUT IN THE WORLD,THE MAN WITH A REMARKABLE LACK OF BITTERNESS,THE PILLAR OF TRUE JUSTICE HAS FALLEN. MADIBA REST IN PEACE
KWAKU ASUMAH 12 years ago

The most patriotic son of Africa and a noble son of the world had join the land of our ancestors.He's actually one the great people of Africa that I have taken as role model.He has this famous quotation:" I am ready stand wit ...
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The most patriotic son of Africa and a noble son of the world had join the land of our ancestors.He's actually one the great people of Africa that I have taken as role model.He has this famous quotation:" I am ready stand with anyone who stands right and part with him when he goes wrong." It's the of an old rope that new one is woven, may this generation of ours continue from where he has stopped .
liv 12 years ago

Help your people and you'll be remembered like Mandela.

Help your people and you'll be remembered like Mandela.
CINDY 12 years ago

"The greatest Freedom Fighter Of The Century". Madiba Ghana and the rest of Africa will forever remember you. May the good Lord grant you perfect rest till we meet again. To both the nuclear and the extended family I pray for ...
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"The greatest Freedom Fighter Of The Century". Madiba Ghana and the rest of Africa will forever remember you. May the good Lord grant you perfect rest till we meet again. To both the nuclear and the extended family I pray for The Lord Almighty to shower his mercies and console you now and for ever more.

poma 12 years ago

mr annan, do the same for ur country.

mr annan, do the same for ur country.
Jeff, UK 12 years ago

Busumru, you have said it all, yes the moral compass is gone and irreplaceable.

Busumru, you have said it all, yes the moral compass is gone and irreplaceable.
Doctor 12 years ago

Mr. Nelson Mandela was a great moral compass and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the great African Leader and freedom fighter for all Black race in every part of the world, May His Soul rest in peace!

Mr. Nelson Mandela was a great moral compass and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the great African Leader and freedom fighter for all Black race in every part of the world, May His Soul rest in peace!
MUSA MABASO 12 years ago

I am glad that I was able to see,the conditions that you were subjected to,@Robben Island for me to be free,you never allowed those conditions to make you to loose focus,you taught the whole world not to hate but to forgive.P ...
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I am glad that I was able to see,the conditions that you were subjected to,@Robben Island for me to be free,you never allowed those conditions to make you to loose focus,you taught the whole world not to hate but to forgive.Please dont forget to join the ANC in Heaven.

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