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Ghanaman4 11 years ago

They don't like NPP and their tribalism

They don't like NPP and their tribalism
Kofi 11 years ago

I doubt it, people in Tamale have been killing one another over a long time and most of those killed are their own not from another tribe. You seem not to be following events in the North.

I doubt it, people in Tamale have been killing one another over a long time and most of those killed are their own not from another tribe. You seem not to be following events in the North.
insight to the bone 11 years ago

some people dont realize outspoken people like sir john and ken agyapong dont need some position or party post to build their careers or remain influential . All they need to do is continue speaking the truth and defending th ...
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some people dont realize outspoken people like sir john and ken agyapong dont need some position or party post to build their careers or remain influential . All they need to do is continue speaking the truth and defending the interests of the Akan people and they will remain bigger and better than any fake pepeni president sitting in the flagstaff house . let the fight for justice continue , forward ever backward never the propaganda smears , lies from the engine room of the ndc will never take root as he who feels it knows the truth . we must prepare our people well to overthrow this corrupt ,racist tribalistic anti Akan oligarchy in a revolution of blood . In the NDC the only way to build one's career is the secretly promote hatred of the Akans and facilitate the division among the various tribes of the Akan exploiting on the differences and undermining the natural desire for development and progress.This phenomenon we see with some of the Gas like the mp namoale openly showing his hate here in the hope that he will get a ministerial appointment so he can continue in his extremely corrupt ways like before . the election engineer mathematics goes like this , the Akans are highly democratic in culture and as such will always exist a difference in opinion and divisions so to exploit that they take court idiots and clowns like yaw boateng gyan and gen mosquito and give them empty posts with no real power to chip off on the unity . then use the ahwois with hannah tetteh none who are even Fantis to facilitate divisions among the fantis and mislead the western and central regions. they then work on creating a political atmosphere and climate which says that ewes and northerners must be dominant everywhere as only they have the right to rule over the Akans and can be trusted not to betray the anti Akan agenda . A house divided can never stand this the root cause why NDC can never pool together the potential of the nation to effect sustainable development as without unity there can only be corruption and retrogression . in their so called winning strategy are the elements of their continuous failure as there is no true justice for the people , ultimately and paradoxically they dont see its their own people that will suffer the most and eventually disappear for the face of this planet as if they never were . Long live the republic of Akan
Conqueror 11 years ago

Did I not read here that NPP was going to deply 1000 police and a sizeable number of the military for their Tamale conference? Where are the security personel?

Did I not read here that NPP was going to deply 1000 police and a sizeable number of the military for their Tamale conference? Where are the security personel?
BlindMan 11 years ago

And those that live by SWORD, shall die by it !

And those that live by SWORD, shall die by it !
Jason 11 years ago

Do they cover motor racing as well?

Do they cover motor racing as well?
Wofa Ata 11 years ago

You read it wrong. The security is provided by the state and not the NPP. It is the duty of the state to protect all.

You read it wrong. The security is provided by the state and not the NPP. It is the duty of the state to protect all.
Jason 11 years ago

The NPP is not responsible for security. The government is, and the police are. hink about what you're saying. Remember there was no shooting during the NDC conference the last time.

The NPP is not responsible for security. The government is, and the police are. hink about what you're saying. Remember there was no shooting during the NDC conference the last time.
Homesense 11 years ago

Your line of thinking makes me think you're one of those who have little time to think over what they utter.

Else, how do you explain the 'pepefuor', JUBILATING the presence of the NPP in Tamale and getting maimed by 'enem ...
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Your line of thinking makes me think you're one of those who have little time to think over what they utter.

Else, how do you explain the 'pepefuor', JUBILATING the presence of the NPP in Tamale and getting maimed by 'enemies'?
And what about the Bawumiahs, Afokos, Tedams,Alius etc. in the party?

For your information, the NPP is almost as strong as the NDC in the North.

Travel small and see!
KOLA,LONDON MAIN PROPER 11 years ago

This is how Akuffo Addo wanted to rule using such ninja style to shoot all Ewes, Gas and Northerners. It serves them right.

This is how Akuffo Addo wanted to rule using such ninja style to shoot all Ewes, Gas and Northerners. It serves them right.

koffi parker 11 years ago

why on earth should this happen, taken into consideration the ongoing crisis in Tamale.
It appears this is delibrate and sinister agenda to dramatize and discredit especially President Mahama's government and undeserved att ...
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why on earth should this happen, taken into consideration the ongoing crisis in Tamale.
It appears this is delibrate and sinister agenda to dramatize and discredit especially President Mahama's government and undeserved attention.
Close Observer 11 years ago

THEY DID A SIMILAR THING IN MAY 1995. READ THIS AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THEM BETTER, THEY ARE VERY LAWLESS:
It happened too quickly. The transformation of Ghanaians renowned as peace-loving people into ruthless angels of the ...
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THEY DID A SIMILAR THING IN MAY 1995. READ THIS AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THEM BETTER, THEY ARE VERY LAWLESS:
It happened too quickly. The transformation of Ghanaians renowned as peace-loving people into ruthless angels of the prince of darkness.

At the price "Zoom Zoom" gin, Indian hemp, C5,000, T-shirts hurriedly churned out by ASHTEAD (3,000 pieces personally commissioned by a serving Minister of State), a crude assortment of instruments of death, fellow Ghanaians shot, hacked and stabbed their fellow countrymen to death during last Thursday's Kumepreko Freedom March which witnessed the largest turnout since independence of Ghanaians united against a regime and its cruel economic policies.

Across Accra, unbelievable spectacles of man's inhumanity to man played out in various forms.

A young man lay dying on the side of Rawlings Park, blood oozing out from around his upper body, life seeping out of him as the seconds ticked by. From nowhere another man suddenly went close to him. For a split second, it appeared he was going to his aid. Then the unthinkable happened. He picked up an object, aimed and delivered the coup de grace, following it up with a rude gesture at the dying man. He wore what had come to characterise the symbol of the ruling NDC party - The Mark of The Beast - A T- shirt of the ACDR, Association for the Defence of The Revolution led by their lanky secretary who is just finishing his posh house at Tantra Hills.

When the police came to the scene moments later to pick the body, the grey contents of the man's head lay splattered on the floor, soaked in his blood. He has been shot.

One of the on-lookers was veteran journalist, BBC's Ben Ephson. A toughened character who had seen some of the excesses of this administration from the time when they actually cut the back of Kyeremeh Djan and forced him to eat it while he lay in detention. Even he couldn't stand the sight. (pictures available)

Thirty metres away, another young man lay groaning in pain, blood oozing from his abdomen as he oscillated perilously between life and death, cut down by bullets from the ACDRs who had been commandeered by The Minster for Youth and Sports Mr E. T. Mensah, (also putting finishing touches to his mansion at Prampram) and Said Sinare, an Egyptian Mossi kid who was spawned in Ghana several years ago and has grown to be the dumbest parliamentarian in the country.

The motive was to terrorise and break up the peaceful progress of the now famous Kumepreko march organised to signal the Ghanaian's sense of despair over the biting economic hardships.

The collusion of E. T. Mensah is almost without question as calls after calls and Chronicle's own intelligence reports and eyewitness accounts put him. Said Sinare who drove round in a BMW with no registration number and later pajero with a car registration number known to use monitored the progress of their Hell's Angels.

As in most civil conflicts there were a lot of stray bullets and definite reports of "Collateral damage".

Young Ahunu Honger stepped out of his house that fateful Thursday around Tudu to buy "waakye". He never returned. He caught a stray bullet in his chest, very close to his heart. He fell. A motor cyclist showed up on the scene shortly afterwards, strapped the lad awkwardly on the back of his bike and sped off to Korle-Bu, some five miles away. Unknown to him, the boys feet were jutting out. By the time he got to Korle-Bu, his toes had been eaten away by asphalt.

CHRONICLE correspondent Kobina Amoakwa described the scene at the Korle-Bu teaching hospital with a heavy heart. He had earlier rushed to the CHRONICLE office from his assigned beat at the hospital to collect money to pay for the injured who had no money to pay for their treatment:

"It was reminiscent of Ernest Hemigway's vivid description of the "madhouse clinics" of World War I - a steady stream of wounded to the emergency ward, nurses and doctors barking at each other as they battled to save lives.

A muscular male nurse who received Ahunu at the door as he was off loaded from the bike immediately began efforts to resuscitate the boy with powerful heaves on his chest as people stared anxiously.

But alas, the rhythmic heaving of the nurse, broke into a staggered mode, and finally stopped, not because the nurse was tired, but because the little child of God had joined his Maker at age "14".

"Young man", muttered the matron in charge, "we prayed unceasingly this morning but look at what is happening". Kobina Amoakwa, had not response to that one.

But beyond the din at Korle-Bu, CHRONICLE's second team led by Osbert Lartey stumbled upon a scene straight from the horrors of the Liberian civil war.

IN front of the UTC stores, he saw a young man hoisting a blood soaked ACDR T-shirt. Asked how he came about the shirt, he said they were attacked in the morning by the ACDRs who went about in an orgy destruction. When they were pursued by a growing number of people in the area, they began to flee. Two of them were overpowered and beaten, and left for dead.

"They appeared to be lifeless when I saw them", reports Osbert, "and they had no shirt on but blood stained shorts and trousers. There was no police in sight".

The policemen had been overworked. While they identified with the cause of the marchers, they appeared to be cowed by the ACDRs. They knew they where they were drawing their power from.

They had instructions NOT to disarm ACDRs according to one policeman who obviously begged for anonymity. The police were to pointedly deny the spate of "Psyops" and propaganda press statements that went over the air and were credited to them.

News trickled in a day before the march that the leaders had been targeted for possible elimination, and this filtered through to the leaders, but they courageously defied the temptation to postpone the march.

Approaching Bank of Ghana, Kweku Baako tried desperately to divert the multitude away from the armoured tanks and armed soldiers and policemen who had pitched in front of the Bank. From the shadows, four men stepped out pistols drawn. A policemen rushed to Kweku Baako and advised him to move off because his Kumepreko T-shirt made him stand out as a possible ring leader. He gratefully obliged.

"The men just couldn't be ordinary ACDRs. They moved like trained pros", Kweku Baako was to say later.
NDC is Violent 11 years ago

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Homesense 11 years ago

I agree totally with the police officer that such information must be shared on the quiet between the police and informers. It is commonsense that when names of suspects are thrown into the open, they go underground or build ...
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I agree totally with the police officer that such information must be shared on the quiet between the police and informers. It is commonsense that when names of suspects are thrown into the open, they go underground or build stronger forts around them, making it hard for them to be arrested.

But, the Police would do a better job if they move with speed and force to arrest and prosecute culprits without fear or favor.
PEPENI 11 years ago

GO AND MAKE A REPORT WITH THE POLICE. DONT BE SILLY. YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER.

GO AND MAKE A REPORT WITH THE POLICE. DONT BE SILLY. YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
Whatever 11 years ago

If you suspect someone as the shooter and you put out his name in public, who do you expect to go chasing after him... we the public?

If you suspect someone as the shooter and you put out his name in public, who do you expect to go chasing after him... we the public?
Kofi Kunta 11 years ago

Oh NPP! Is these the technocrats you always boast off?

Oh NPP! Is these the technocrats you always boast off?
koffi parker 11 years ago

Its a set up by Npp to gain favour and attention from the North,who is more bomb throwing,gun trotting and blood thirsty lunatics than NPP.this explain why they knew the suspect already.This appears to be Nana's agenda to gai ...
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Its a set up by Npp to gain favour and attention from the North,who is more bomb throwing,gun trotting and blood thirsty lunatics than NPP.this explain why they knew the suspect already.This appears to be Nana's agenda to gain sympathy.such meetings should be held in Kumasi not Tamale.
KOKU AMEVOR 11 years ago

When NDC STARTED PEDDLING LIES THAT IT WAS NPP AMTI AKUFFO ADDO SHOOTING PRO ALUFFO ADDO TO SHOW THE NPP AS A VIOLENT PARTY, IT IS NECESSARY TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT THE PEOPLE NDC REG MINISTER BEDE ZIEDENG RELEASED AFTER THEIR ...
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When NDC STARTED PEDDLING LIES THAT IT WAS NPP AMTI AKUFFO ADDO SHOOTING PRO ALUFFO ADDO TO SHOW THE NPP AS A VIOLENT PARTY, IT IS NECESSARY TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT THE PEOPLE NDC REG MINISTER BEDE ZIEDENG RELEASED AFTER THEIR PREVIOUS MURDEROUS ACTS ARE RESPONSIBLE.
Helu 11 years ago

A twisted logic of an NDC self-professed intellectual.

A twisted logic of an NDC self-professed intellectual.

Worried Man 11 years ago

BUT IS IT NOT SURPRISING THAT THE POLICE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND AT THE GATHERING? THE POLICE CONTINGENT WAS DEPLOYED IN TAMALE TO ENSURE PEACE. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE A SOOTH-SAYER TO PREDICT THAT TROUBLE MAKERS WERE LIKELY T ...
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BUT IS IT NOT SURPRISING THAT THE POLICE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND AT THE GATHERING? THE POLICE CONTINGENT WAS DEPLOYED IN TAMALE TO ENSURE PEACE. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE A SOOTH-SAYER TO PREDICT THAT TROUBLE MAKERS WERE LIKELY TO STRIKE IF THE POLICE WAS COMPLACENT.
MenayeFUAforiwa 11 years ago

No wonder the Colonial administration in the Gold Coast never allowed these people to taste alcohol in any situation. But Kwame Nkrumah in his benevolence came and repealed this good law. Now look at what is happening over th ...
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No wonder the Colonial administration in the Gold Coast never allowed these people to taste alcohol in any situation. But Kwame Nkrumah in his benevolence came and repealed this good law. Now look at what is happening over there. They slaughter themselves with little provocations. Murder rate is higher in the North than any Region in the country. It is unfortunate Asantes, Ewes and the Northerners were tight bedfellows years ago against Kwame Nkrumah and his CPP but why this time each is on his/her neighbour's throat? Nkrumah must be laughing in his grave. Tweaaaaaaaaaaa, people like these want to rule Nkrumah's Ghana. They shall not PASS.
Asabea 11 years ago

You sound like ursula owusu; foulmouthed and uncouth!

You sound like ursula owusu; foulmouthed and uncouth!
WAYO 11 years ago

Why blame d police. NPP is reaping all die be die

Why blame d police. NPP is reaping all die be die
ADJEI(UDS)WA 11 years ago

I said it, it is only unwise who will say is ALL DIE BE DIE.

I said it, it is only unwise who will say is ALL DIE BE DIE.
Iman Erskine 11 years ago

The violent nature of the NDC is written all over it. THe NDC will use her goons and killers to disrupt the NPP convention. This is a party that came into being trough a violent and murderous insurrection by J J Rawlings. The ...
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The violent nature of the NDC is written all over it. THe NDC will use her goons and killers to disrupt the NPP convention. This is a party that came into being trough a violent and murderous insurrection by J J Rawlings. They will do any thing to discredit thier opponents fo thier selfish gains, and this is a typical example.
AGYEMAN 11 years ago

NPPS ARE THE CAUSE FOR THE SHOOTINGS!Dont blame any ndc Memmbers!

NPPS ARE THE CAUSE FOR THE SHOOTINGS!Dont blame any ndc Memmbers!
jb in tamale 11 years ago

THE LATE ALIW MAHAMA DIED SO THE NPP CAN NOW USED HIM(FORMAL VICE) TO DISEVE NORTHNESS.I THINK THIS IS JUST A POLITICAL GAME OF NANA AND THE KANGAROOW GROUP OF NPP

THE LATE ALIW MAHAMA DIED SO THE NPP CAN NOW USED HIM(FORMAL VICE) TO DISEVE NORTHNESS.I THINK THIS IS JUST A POLITICAL GAME OF NANA AND THE KANGAROOW GROUP OF NPP
Sy 11 years ago

It amazes me how ignorant we've gotten!
For the mere sake of our political affiliations, its ok to take a human life?
How ignorant.
Wake up and smell the coffee, this is the 21st century. We need to make positive changes i ...
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It amazes me how ignorant we've gotten!
For the mere sake of our political affiliations, its ok to take a human life?
How ignorant.
Wake up and smell the coffee, this is the 21st century. We need to make positive changes in our lives to make Ghana better. Shooting each other wont do it.
Royals 11 years ago

It`s so disappointed that not a single person from NDC can make a sensible and reasonable statements. They are only equip with insult, tribalism and hatred. The ewes with their barbarism think they can draw the northerners, a ...
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It`s so disappointed that not a single person from NDC can make a sensible and reasonable statements. They are only equip with insult, tribalism and hatred. The ewes with their barbarism think they can draw the northerners, and the Ga`s into their tribal foolishness. The Asantes/Akans don`t give a demm about their tribal nonsense, they could go "fly a kite".

asiamah 11 years ago

TODAY ITS NPP....RIGHT....TOMOROW IT COULD BE YOU...

TODAY ITS NPP....RIGHT....TOMOROW IT COULD BE YOU...
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

Mahama, this is the time to show your leadership!

Mahama, this is the time to show your leadership!
Asem Beba Dabi 11 years ago

just because they donot support his looting regime. This is a shame. The shooters are from haruna ldrissu's area.

just because they donot support his looting regime. This is a shame. The shooters are from haruna ldrissu's area.
Mankind23 11 years ago

Poloce have to work hard and win the trust if the northerners else chaos in Ghana.

Poloce have to work hard and win the trust if the northerners else chaos in Ghana.
Mark 11 years ago

FUCK , NDC , FUCK YOUR ASS PRES MAHAMA, NO WONDER YOUR ALL ILITRATES, GHANAIANS ARE NOT FOOLS, WE KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR GHANA, AND CALM 2016 , NO ONE WILL TELL YOUR ILLITERATES. NO MORE CHIEFTENCY ISSUE , WE ARE FEDUP. FOOLS.

FUCK , NDC , FUCK YOUR ASS PRES MAHAMA, NO WONDER YOUR ALL ILITRATES, GHANAIANS ARE NOT FOOLS, WE KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR GHANA, AND CALM 2016 , NO ONE WILL TELL YOUR ILLITERATES. NO MORE CHIEFTENCY ISSUE , WE ARE FEDUP. FOOLS.
Mark 11 years ago

LEAVE THE NPP IN PEACE, WE GO IN PEACE AND NEED PEACE. IF YOU FUCK WITH US , WE WILL GIVE BACK YOUR SHIT. PEOPLE ALWAYS REMEMBER WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.

LEAVE THE NPP IN PEACE, WE GO IN PEACE AND NEED PEACE. IF YOU FUCK WITH US , WE WILL GIVE BACK YOUR SHIT. PEOPLE ALWAYS REMEMBER WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.
FUCKING NPP FUCK 11 years ago

This FUCKER fucking thinks he's the only MOTHERFUCKER who knows how to say FUCK! FUCK you mark, YOU FUCKING FUCK!

This FUCKER fucking thinks he's the only MOTHERFUCKER who knows how to say FUCK! FUCK you mark, YOU FUCKING FUCK!
dan 11 years ago

This party is a trouble making party
always struggling fur power by all means they have started

This party is a trouble making party
always struggling fur power by all means they have started
dan 11 years ago

This party is a trouble making party
always struggling for power by all means they have started

This party is a trouble making party
always struggling for power by all means they have started
dan 11 years ago

This party is a trouble making party
always struggling for power by all means they have started

This party is a trouble making party
always struggling for power by all means they have started
SANKARIWA 11 years ago

This is the work of the enemy. NDC doesnt want to see anything good on NPP. This is their work, period.

This is the work of the enemy. NDC doesnt want to see anything good on NPP. This is their work, period.
BULAALAH 11 years ago

IF YOUR SLOGAN IS ALL DIE BE DIE, WHATS YOUR PROBLEM? JUST FINISH EACH OTHER.

IF YOUR SLOGAN IS ALL DIE BE DIE, WHATS YOUR PROBLEM? JUST FINISH EACH OTHER.
NENDOO 11 years ago

IS YOUR FUCKING FATHER WHO IS A FOOL,NO THE PEOPLE IN THE NORTH

IS YOUR FUCKING FATHER WHO IS A FOOL,NO THE PEOPLE IN THE NORTH
Ugly Akufu Addo 11 years ago

Foolish oldman

Foolish oldman
Alfii 11 years ago

Where is the true nation of Ghana and where is this partisan leading the present Ghana to. It is quite a shame to see Ghana becoming apart through partisanship. Politicians should by now be wise, grow and mature with national ...
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Where is the true nation of Ghana and where is this partisan leading the present Ghana to. It is quite a shame to see Ghana becoming apart through partisanship. Politicians should by now be wise, grow and mature with national interest on their agendas for development in order to push ghana forward.
Osei Yao 11 years ago

HOW FOOLISH CAN THE NPP BE? HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ROLE OF THE POLICE? ARE THE NPP NOT PREJUDICING THE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS BY NAMING "SUSPECT" IN ADVANCE OF POLICE INVESTIGATIONS? SHOULD NOT THIS IDIOT BE ARRESTED FOR INTERFE ...
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HOW FOOLISH CAN THE NPP BE? HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ROLE OF THE POLICE? ARE THE NPP NOT PREJUDICING THE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS BY NAMING "SUSPECT" IN ADVANCE OF POLICE INVESTIGATIONS? SHOULD NOT THIS IDIOT BE ARRESTED FOR INTERFERING WITH POLICE INVESTIGATIONS?

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