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Gbevlo-Lartey's Legon invasion is 'lawless' - Vice Chancellors

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  • Agya koo 10 years ago

    Stop with this actions from your side,the uni is to educate and not to show lawlessness,Be wise and let peace prevail in Ghana

  • The mask 10 years ago

    Is an action justified because the gods say it is right or because the gods say that it is justified because it is right.

    Do you trust the police or not? If so why not reserve the troops for more serious things?

    Everyon ...
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  • Krikri,, 10 years ago

    Their bloody war cry since the 70 year old Evil Dwarf was whipped by JDM is that "we shall make the country ungovernable'. Prof Aryeetey and Asabre why don't you put on the elephant colours and go on the platform instead of t ...
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  • nii 10 years ago

    it a historical fact that the NDC was an organisation that was formed through abduction and gruesome murder of innocent people(including even a nursing mother ), unprecedented violence,envy which led to the looting of goods o ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    Any body who is NDC supporter, so-called politicians are rude, arrogant and lawless materials.

  • GIRLZ GIRLZ 10 years ago

    Is rather the perculiar characteristics of the NPP, otherwise a better-for-nothing VC would not have put in place those shameful toll boot and stickers as means of generating revenue for a university

  • Nzema K 10 years ago

    Who are these fools labelling themselves Vice chancellors. Oh Ghana

  • SUNKWA 10 years ago

    PATHETIC DEMONSTRATION OF HERD INSTINCT UNDESERVING OF PERSONS IN THE OFFICE OF VICE-CHANCELLOR. AT THIS RATE HOW CAN WE EXPECT SUPERIOR VALUES IN SOCIETY? THE UNIVERSITY HAD NO CLUE WHAT TO DO UNTIL NATIONAL SECURITY REMOVED ...
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  • Sam 10 years ago

    I totally agree with you my friend, cry for life!

  • KWADWO 10 years ago

    I am surprised that the Chancellors who are supposed to be learned people should be lawless by erecting a structure without a permit and when demolished by the lawful authorities they are crying foul. Did they consult their l ...
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  • Owukua 10 years ago

    You met on 27th february. Why are you now issuing this statement? Give us a break!

  • Alhaji Brutus Germany 10 years ago

    HOW MANY ARMED ROBBERS HAS THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARRESTED SINCE THE NDC CAME TO POWER?

  • KnYc(USMC) 10 years ago

    None. Because they them self are armed robbers, starting from JJ.

  • Garth 10 years ago

    This is a guy Mahama has appointed national security head. He knows nothing about national security except to show us that he has power and can misuse power. Use see, this is where square pegs has been put in round holes.

  • TONY - C 10 years ago

    IS GHANA CAUSED???- LOOK OUT NEXT TIME WHEN I COME OUT OF MY TRANCE FOR MORE INFO. DON'T WORRY MAHAMA WILL GIVE BIG BRIBES TO YOU ALL AND YOU WILL SWEAR ON gods AND VOTE N.D.C. FOR YOU TO SUFFER AND DIE SLOWLY. THE RURAL FOLK ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A panda bear goes to a whorehouse and a Prostitute takes the panda to her room. after some time they finish their business. the panda goes to leave and the prostitute reminds him she has to get paid. the panda stops and loo ...
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  • EDENSU 10 years ago

    Truth is a "hard commodity" to come by in GHANA. The University requested for funds to maintain its roads and the government responded NO FUNDS. The University raised a loan to maintain the roads and install toll booths to ...
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  • Amankwa 10 years ago

    Judges in their own case, they should go to court. The VCs should think again.

  • Isaac Kusi, Bronx, NY. 10 years ago

    I live in New York City where there are a few Ivy League Universities. At least I know Columbia University and New York University are in the city center. They are able to conduct classes despite all the noise from thousands ...
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  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    New York is in America and Legon is in Ghana.Do we have to do what is done in the US?

  • KOKONSA 10 years ago

    Not necessarily, but if you are gearing towards the civilization of the west, then I guess its not out of order to learn from them.

  • Uncle Sam White House 10 years ago

    Although it might not have been right to erect the booth, the undemocratic and provocative way with which the booth was removed by the Col is what is being questioned. Ghana is not under military rule and the old Col should r ...
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  • Amankwa 10 years ago

    Read your law on abatement of emergency public nuisance. The Coordinator was perfectly right at law. And that is exactly what would have happened even in Ohio.

  • BE WISE 10 years ago

    To go & plead with the VC or what? Why shd ppl who do not respect the office of the prez. be respected. The govt said the cost will be paid. Jst after that u go & erect a toll boot. The demolition was the exact action that ne ...
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  • Ben 10 years ago

    There are different levels of noise in US and in Ghana!We dont have to do everything as in Europe or US. It's university for crying out loud...they might have justification for putting it there and these macho behaviour doesn ...
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  • KnYc(USMC) 10 years ago

    Your moron head can't differentiate, when kids need peace to read, and do critical thinking. A whole National Security Coordinator acting like a low class officer. I would have fired him. Low class moron, so call NSC officer.

  • Amankwa 10 years ago

    Just read your law on the matter. Idiot you don't even seem to know what the issues are.

  • JOE-ALIGATOR 10 years ago

    GHANAIANS LIVE AS AMERICANS. RENT AND OTHER BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS ARE ALL PAID FOR IN DOLLARS. SO WHY DO YOU ASK THIS STUPID QUESTION? THE DOLLAR IS THE MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE FOR MORE THAN 12 YEARS NOW IN GHANA. CEDI HAS BECOME ...
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  • Ben 10 years ago

    I can't agree with you more...but i tried to put it politely. LOL. Why we always want to compare foolishly ...i don't understand!

  • ADWEN 10 years ago

    The Universities lecturers have produced most of the rubbish idiots called "leaders" who are the helm of affairs in Ghana.
    These so-called leaders were products of these universities, what did they teach them? These corrupt ...
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  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    Incidentally most of these lecturers were trained in western universities especially America.Most of them too are visiting professors to varsities in the west.They cannot be as useless as you think they are.There are a lot o ...
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  • KB 10 years ago

    If you are going to say something negative about an institution, you should proofed read before you submit. You are a big MORON.

  • Ben 10 years ago

    What is the meaning of this???

  • Osei 10 years ago

    Shame unto the University Council.Crooks in DIRTY ROBES.ROBBERY every where.

  • Adongo 10 years ago

    Any university is a place of teaching, research and generally, a place where things are done logically and scientifically. In the case of Legon, it is not so most of the time. They do things without recourse to logic and are ...
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  • TOMMY 10 years ago

    If this Aryeetey is not sack from that place, the University will become a platform for NPP political propaganda. Is the university an authority of itself? Is Aryeetey the first person ever to head that institutions? The fac ...
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  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    For taking the law into his hands and acting lawlessly Gbevlo-Lartey is right.Actually ghanaians deserve their plight now for truth is a scarce commodity in the country.Evil is equated with good.

  • Ben 10 years ago

    Tommy...i think you're the one making fool of yourself. Do you have to make tribal and political statements with no facts???
    Argue your case. Maybe you should take sometime and find out the questions you've posted here yours ...
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  • WTF 10 years ago

    There is a corrupt cabal of university administrators who are carrying out an NPP political agenda. They named a hall after Busia, a building after Kufuor, and are said to have even restructured one course to reflect the Danq ...
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  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    It is a disgrace to the presidency if a lawless person like Gbevlo-Lartey is still at his post at the Flagstaff House.By failing to take action against such a lawless person the president has tacitly approved the jungle,backw ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    It was a shame the way Lt. Col. Gbevlo Lartey went to Legon to destroy the tollbooth it was like he going there with a hammer to break the head of the Vice Chancellor. It was uncalled for.

  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    If really the VC said this, it shows why our boys and girls dont have jobs. Why cant a VC of a university not think before openning his mouth. What is this VC telling the students.
    ALL the roads in Ghana belongs to the Stat ...
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  • Wisemen2 10 years ago

    I think your level of education is as low as that of a hen.Either you are a school drop out or you failed misearbly in your A-levels and never got a chance to have a university education hence your stupid blabbings.Cant you f ...
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  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    They are complaining about a security post been knockdown by the government. It doesnt matter the time they knocked it down, its whether it was right to be build in the first place.
    When anybody thinks they have the right to ...
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  • BE WISE 10 years ago

    Sorry yr name does not depict wht u are saying. Why are u insulting Donboli? Did he say smthng tht was wrong. Is it not true tht govt maintains all roads in Ghana. Is the VC not paid by govt.? Did he built the UG frm his poc ...
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  • OTCHERE DARKO 10 years ago

    One day, NDC and lawlessness will come to an end.

  • seneior citizen. Braunschweig Germany 10 years ago

    The Government should not allow petty matters like the demolishing of road tolls booth at Legon university to overshadow the most important thing like the dwindling economy in the country.I will say it again,that the Govern ...
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  • Sisko 10 years ago

    Mr. Gbevlo acted in accordance to the law and I bet if I were in his position, I would have gone along to arrest the Vice Chancellor as well.

    The UG Vice chancellor is not above the law. At least he earns his salary from ...
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  • KnYc(USMC) 10 years ago

    When people are traveling 10,000 miles to kick ASS, you are there demolishing booths. Tweeeeeeeeee.

  • Amankwa 10 years ago

    Killing, that is what you are proud of idiot. Just stay and die there idiot

  • still rastafari 10 years ago

    infact gbevlo is a disgrace ............

  • still rastafari 10 years ago

    gbevlo had a difficult upbringing

  • Baafour 10 years ago

    Is the UG trying to find solace or support from a so-called Vice Chancellors... This is only the sign of a defeated dog leaking its wounds. If these so called VCs are worth their label they should set the course by going to c ...
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  • Prof.Johnson 10 years ago

    If the university understand what it means by “right” they should know by now that they violated the public right without due consultation to erect toll boots. Accra is already suffering from vehicular and human traffic a ...
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  • Kanawu 10 years ago

    That is Ghana for you. Unnecessary show of power at Useless issues while vital things go on unresolved.

  • JUJUMAN 10 years ago

    THE VARSITIES BELONG TO GOVT SO THE AUTHORITIES THERE CANNOT DO ANYTHING THERE WITHOUT COVT APPROVAL

  • RAY BREW 10 years ago

    WHAT IS THAT CANNOT BE SETTLE AMICABLE AS THOSE WHO ARE OUR FUTURE LEADERS?

  • Yaw Ampata 10 years ago

    The universities vcs are acting with impunity, Nonsense, we still import tooth picks, what have they been able to produce?. Nonses. They can burn in hel.

  • Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

    These boneheads at the UG vice chancellor offices should ask themselves why it was alright for them to break the law by creating their own rules without prior consultation with Ghana's AG or department of Education but deem t ...
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  • koffie 10 years ago

    NDC THING IS BUGA BUGA ..NO SENCE .

  • k. Agyei 10 years ago

    Foolishness at its peak. Does Legon have powers on the the nearby communities? Tweeeeaaah, no wonder the country is moving backward. What progressive change can they add to our chn. Hmmmm, desperate actions require desperate ...
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  • Ben 10 years ago

    No, it has powers over roads on its property.

  • OKOROMANSA 10 years ago

    THIS GBEVLO LARTEY AGAIN? HERE IS A TYPICAL PRODUCT OF THE NOTORIOUS PDC ERA OF THAT VAGABOND RAWLINGS. AND AFTER THE NONSENSE OF THAT MURDEROUS BATALLION OF THE PNDC, HE IS STILL A KEY MEMBER OF THIS NDC GOVT. SO WITH PEOPLE ...
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  • RPG 10 years ago

    Ghana is under the threat of a rogue party-the NDC gov't led by John Mahama and Amissah Arthur, and the results are there for all to see, a collapsed banana republic, with corruption, thievery and incompetence at an all time ...
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  • Revjay393@yahoo.co.uk 10 years ago

    THERE ARE THOSE WHO DREAM OF A BETTER LIFESTYLE
    AND
    AND THOSE WHO LIVE THEIR DREAMS
    THOSE WHO WONDER WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING
    ...
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  • WTF 10 years ago

    The University of Ghana's action in erecting a toll booth was lawless, arrogant and provocative. It was the desperate action of corrupt administrators (paid with taxpayer's money) who illegally took a loan for which they coul ...
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  • Ewurama 10 years ago

    When universities globally are producing scientists, universities in Ghana can only produce graduates who know how to manufacture traffick lights. They should look at what apostle sarfo is doing. They should see how Nigerians ...
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  • Ewurama 10 years ago

    Correction"apostle sarfo and those at suame magazine are not products from any of the universities in Ghana where the authorities there have inculcated the habit of litigating with government of the day and causing nuisance o ...
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  • Genuine Observer 10 years ago

    NDC party has always been lawless in everything it does. Just like its founder, JJ, who condones force and violence as the ONLY way to move ahead, Gbevlo-Lartey is only following 'protocol' endorsed by all NDCs.

  • HONESTY 10 years ago

    Many of us have passed through the corridors of Legon as students and the use of Legon roads by the public has never disturbed the teaching and learning environment. Meanwhile, did the University authorities obtain a permit b ...
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  • Amankwa 10 years ago

    No permit, absolute impunity and lawlessness. Changing goal posts all the time as to their reasons. Disgraceful VCs more grease to your elbows Gbevlo

  • Brukutu 10 years ago

    President Mahama is so damn stupid to sit mute on this issue. What a president. I,m a staunch NDC comorade but I cannot believe he is ruling Ghana like eating (boforoto)Why mr.President.No revising of ministers and deputies a ...
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  • BE WISE 10 years ago

    At least if not for nothing, no NDC person will insult the prez. the way u are doing. Of course they will criticize him but not this blatant way. U are a typical NPP bushman without respect for authority. Tht is yr trademark ...
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  • Amankwa 10 years ago

    If your VCs have a case let them go to court. Idiot why do you want the President in this case? Is he a judge? Idiot?

  • BIRAHMA 10 years ago

    It seems many people do not know about the powers vested in the National Security.They must find out

  • Kwame Angel 10 years ago

    These were the idiots who graduated from Jerry Rawlings' school of democratization of violence and lawlessness. Gbevlo is just an animal.

  • Mma 10 years ago

    I want more of those please. Time for action, you need to sort them out if they think they can make the country ungovernable. May you live long Gbevlo Lartey

  • Kwaku London 10 years ago

    I am very very happy that our University Chancellors have summoned the courage to confront the National Security Coordinator, the ILLITERATE BULLY and IDIOT, FOR TRESPASSING ON THE UNIVERSITY PROPERTY TO DO WHAT HE DID. This ...
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  • Cynthia 10 years ago

    Waste of public funds on vcs

  • Mma 10 years ago

    Gbevlo Lartey is a graduate and a professional army officer and a lawyer so those ashantis who call him an illiterate should get it right

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    You know what the rest of these vice chancellors were up to? They were playing 'wait and see', looking to if that UG toll booth gamble will succeed so that they will be emboldened to do same at their respective campuses. They ...
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  • Reason well 10 years ago

    Gbevlo was stopping lawlessness. He acted properly to avoid this free for all attitude. If the VCs are convinced that Gbevlo was lawless, then they should go to court. The right thing will always be done !

  • Nash 10 years ago

    Just like it was equally lawless to rect it in the first place. Foolish people.

  • Reason well 10 years ago

    These VCs should go to court if they like. They should not be making noises. If they want to do the dirty work for some political parties, then they should come out plainly and enter the ring.

  • SAQ 10 years ago

    Legon must follow the due process you refered to.
    This foolishness must stop; Legon has no business putting up toll boot that impede flow of traffic.
    Please, national security pull down all structures and arrest all who ...
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  • akwasi sarpong 10 years ago

    if u, ayeetey is concerning about law..did u applied the law when setting up that forking toll booth? foolish

  • Thinking Ghanaian 10 years ago

    Akwasi you can't write english at all. Have you ever been to school? Stay away from this issue.

  • Antiochus - London 10 years ago

    Capo Gbevlo and his cronies should go looking for the KATH missing baby instead of using his Rambo style in doing unnecessary things.

  • Josiah 10 years ago

    NPP will never do such a lawless act. People like this make the country ungovernable . He must be prosecuted for criminal damage. Power power , are you my co equal mentality

  • Kwaku A. Danso 10 years ago

    So why is nobody in court suing the National Security and this man Gbevlo Lartey and instead talking and talking! Oh! Ghanaians! We just have no clue how this democracy works under the rule of laws!!
    Democracy works un ...
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  • Kojo 10 years ago

    VCs ARE RATHER LAWLESS

  • Sammy 10 years ago

    Prof Ayittey is rather lawless

  • sampana 10 years ago

    if this npp known vice chancellor is talking about lawlessness on the part of the national security coordinator then he should also be truthful and tell Ghanaians if he had building permit before building the too booth. one c ...
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