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Rousing Welcome For Eric Amoateng

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  • Viv 11 years ago

    A red carpet for a drug pusher? Something is wrong with our political parties, both NDC & NPP.

  • Akos 11 years ago

    Why would anybody believe this trash paper called Al-Hajj is beyond me.

  • don`t care !!! © Hmmmmm! 11 years ago

    Akans,NPPians..“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of people you are.”

    “Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.”

    Hmmmmm!Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

    Hmmmmm! sh ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

    EVEN THAT THIEF WOYOMI WHO WICKEDLY STOLE OUR MONEY HAVE FULL NDC SUPPORTERS IN THE NAME "LEAVE WOYOMI ALONE" SO WHAT IS WRONG FOR COLLEAGUES GIVING A HERO'S WELCOME TO SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER STEAL GHANA MONEY? AMOATENG WELLCO ...
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  • George Oteng. 11 years ago

    He may not steal BUT killed innocent people by supplying them with drugs.
    So which is more serious? Think again BBC NEWS.

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 11 years ago

    Burukutu journalism at its best.

    The man with a face that only a mother donkey adores,Alhaji Banza Bature,is at it again.

    With his brother-in-crime, Akoto ghanaweb and his website at his disposal, Alhaji Banza Bature wh ...
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  • Fonka 11 years ago

    I will choose Amoateng over Wayome anytime, anyday. Amoateng did not steal from Ghana, like betty, oduro, mahama, and countless ndc thieves.

  • facts 11 years ago

    For Bature to call Amoateng a jail bird is abusive. How many times has he referred to Rawlings as a jail bird? That may be his first crime while most of our politicians in key positions today are broad day light thieves, dail ...
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  • Hide amoateng 11 years ago

    I do not believe is true, but NPP should not even try this disgusting gesture at this sensitive period.

  • GHANAian 11 years ago

    THE CID & NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE SHOULD JUST LOCK THIS COCAINE TRAFFICKER. THIS IS SIMPLE. ITS A MATTER OF LOCKING HIM AGAIN AND SENTENCE HIM TO ANOTHER 10 YEARS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AND DISGRACING GHANA. ALSO ANYONE WHO ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    I can assure you that the NPP leadership of NPP are not so dumb to officially give Amoateng a rousing welcome at almost a political season. Amoateng has very close friends and relations within the party who may want to welcom ...
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  • They Say They Say 11 years ago

    Do you have any concerns about Ghana's reputation he robbed? Why stealing is all about cash? This idiot was a member of ghana parliament and traveled on Diplomatic Passport of Ghana using Ghana's image to gain access into no ...
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  • ICONIC-07 11 years ago

    EVEN A ONE-DAY CHILD BORN IN GHANA AND AFRICA KNOWS THAT ASHANTI-AKYEMS ARE GREEDY CORRUPT AND INWARD-LOOKING.

    THE ASHANTI-AKYEMS ARE THE YUROBAS IN GHANA, THEY WORSHIP MONEY AND WILL KILL IN THE NAME OF MONEY.

    GIVING ...
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  • They Say They Say 11 years ago

    People of Ghana is the biggest threat to it's development. The love for money by any means necessary without regard to moral value is what have robbed this country of its glory. Talk about politicians, civil servants, drug pe ...
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  • NAA AYELEY 11 years ago

    WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? NDC'S

  • Rocky 11 years ago

    Even Dan Abodakpi the ex-convict is noe an NDC legend and they adore him

  • SAINT 11 years ago

    MAHAMA WILL BE DE FIRST FORMER PRESIDENT OF GHANA TO BE JAILED.

  • Okyesco 11 years ago

    This Editor of the trash Al-hajj paper is the biggest fool on this planet Earth.

  • Francis Buahin 11 years ago

    The Alhajj could not give a name to any of the so-called "sources" within the party that gave them that spurrious "information". From all indications, the story was cooked up by the paper just to tarnish the image of the part ...
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  • Nana Kwaku 11 years ago

    When on earth will Ghanaians be smart? Do you expect a newspaper to name sources? What a joke! All you have to do is just wait and see if it happens, then you can lambast the paper all you want. I've noticed that whenever thi ...
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  • Said 11 years ago

    You wish you were a member of the NPP family. Keep going on with your gutter journalism.

  • Aban 11 years ago

    Can't this useless paper for think of something is credible

  • Concerned Person 11 years ago

    Oh shut up you sad gullible people who believe this rubbish! Instead of fixing Ghana, NDC members are bent on looking for any excuse to condemn the opposition. Get on with the business of govt and stop disturbing us with stor ...
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  • Alhaji BB ATUGUBAH 11 years ago

    ALHAJI BATURE CAN'T YOU FOR ONCE ENGAGE IN DECENT NON-_PARTISAN JOURNALISM? YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO YOUR PROFESSIO AND TO YOUR PARENTS FOR SENDING YOU TO SCHOOL (credit Ofosu Kwakye). The use of ILLICIT DRIGS IS ENDEMIC IN THE ...
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  • Alhaji BB ATUGUBAH 11 years ago

    Perhaps a brief excursion into the history of the Carnegie Foundation in USA will help Ghanaians to better understand the Amoabeng saga. The man who set up this foundation, Carnegie, was a contractor who worked on many railwa ...
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  • Kwame Kumi 11 years ago

    It's the likes of you who encourage Sanitary Papers like Al-Hajj to continue publishing anything they fish out from the Odaw gutter. What makes you believe that what you read from Bature is true? In fact, I'm beginning to h ...
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  • XUMXUM 11 years ago

    A rousing welcome for Eric Amoateng by the NPP would be reason enough for me or any Ghanain NOT to vote for the NPP as it would by this act appear to condone and approve of his wicked deed.

  • pin 11 years ago

    the ganja smoking dwarf is the next

  • Esi Atta 11 years ago

    If this is true...

  • Annorwuo 11 years ago

    With a cross-section of the residents of the area,with many volunteering to walk from Nkoranza to Kumasi Airport to give their 'Robin Hood',a rousing welcome!
    The only disclaimer I might add here is that some of these news ...
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  • PHILTY McNASTY 11 years ago

    In fact this Bature newspaper deserves nothing but shit-bombed to stop it for dumping false made-up stories on the public. What a butum banza he is.

  • AGYAAKU 11 years ago

    Which part of the facts in the write-up is/are false? Was Kennedy Agyapong not carried shoulder high and covered from head to toe with talcum powder to the party HQ? Was Kennedy Korankye not accorded same heroic treatment whe ...
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  • Tosh 11 years ago

    Now, akufo why can't you demand that Amoateng be audited just like the voter register.He Amoateng funded and initiated your political campaigns. Now, that he is back I hope you get more lot from his hidden stash to make anoth ...
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  • Only the Truth 11 years ago

    This is not new NDC Welcomed ex -con Chikata, thief and money launderer.

  • kofi boye 11 years ago

    When Rawlings was put into jail for subversive activities against Ghana......what did his supporters do when then they forced and brought him out of jail......they elevated him to become the head of state of the same country ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Kofi Boye, reason logically before you write. You've written: "When Rawlings was put into jail for subversive activities against Ghana......what did his supporters do when then they forced and brought him out of jail......the ...
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  • Kofi Boye 11 years ago

    When some soldiers wanted to subvert Rawlings for same reason he used....what did he do....why did Jj turn around to sell state property to his wife....maybe u did not go to school so u dont know what u r saying.....

  • Kwabena Gyamfi 11 years ago

    If it comes to "organizing heroic welcome for party folks anytime they have a brush with the law", Alhaji Bature's NDC has no co-equals in Ghana's body politic. The are countless examples in our recent history that clearly sh ...
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  • AGYEBOTBWA 11 years ago

    For all the NPP EUPHORIA AND THE HEAPINGS OF PLATITUDES ON THIS HONOURABLE MAN, WHY NOT NOMINATE HIM AS THE PARTYs presidential candidate?

  • Francis Buahin 11 years ago

    SHAME ONTO BATURE

  • Pink Sheets 11 years ago

    Ghanaians made the greatest mistake to make NPP taste the power by voting for Kuffour. That is why all this crap.

  • DR KUFFOU 11 years ago

    What do one expects from NPP? The guy Eric was carrying the drugs in the name of NPP. Kuffour, Akufo Addo, Ken Ageypong were all middle men in that deal.

  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 11 years ago

    The man has served his time. Leave him alone and stop this senseless politics.

    Unlike your bunch who are stealing from Ghanaians in the name of SADA GYEEDA, WOYOME FRAUD and the other fraudulent schemes to loot Ghana's tre ...
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  • NTIKUMA ANANSE 11 years ago

    HOW BATURE CAN LIE AFTER FASTING FOR ONE WHOLE MONTH AND PRAYING FIVE TIMES A DAY, FACING MECCA IS BEYOND ALL REASON. TO WHICH ALLAH DOES BATURE PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY AND ALSO MANAGE TO LIE SO MUCH IN HIS NEWSPAPERS AND ON RA ...
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  • Agyaaku 11 years ago

    There are more important issues affecting Ghanaians than this one. What if the man is give a rousing welcome? Does that make the country richer or poorer? Illiterate journalists, you about unnecessary things and leave the imp ...
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  • kkd 11 years ago

    foolish man aliji banza bature .talk about n.d,c, wai. mahama is afool and you can not tell . never ever talk about npp anymore ,kwaseia man like you

  • PRAGMATIST 11 years ago

    SO WHAT. THIS NEWS PAPER CANNOT FIND ANY NEWS WORTHY STORY.

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  • Ericus-Ericus 11 years ago

    Is Bature truly a journalist???

  • kwabena 11 years ago

    Fool if you dont have anything to write please give us a break.

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 11 years ago

    Look at Akufo Addo, Kennedy Agyapong , Amoateng Eric, Lebaron , Afoko , n so on

  • gyan 11 years ago

    I will register and vote against NPP b/cos of drugs.

  • Inusah 11 years ago

    vote against ndc because of corruption

  • Obama tells Republicans: 'Stop hating 11 years ago

    Obama tells Republicans: 'Stop hating all the time'

  • kontonkyi 11 years ago

    Is Bature really a jounalist or a spokesman for NDC?

  • Alhaji Brutus Germany 11 years ago

    ALHAJI BATURE IS IT YOUR UGLINESS THAT MAKES YOU WRITE ONLY NONSENSE IN YOUR ROTEN NEWSPAPER ?

  • Observer 11 years ago

    Reliable information reaching us indicate that Bature's Al-Hajj newspaper will lose its licence by the end of the year because of the lies the paper propagates. This decision has been annaounced early so that readers and adve ...
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  • HE`S NOT AFRAID 11 years ago

    rousy welcome for eric amoateng

  • Senchi 11 years ago

    Rented Press indeed!!!!

  • Me 11 years ago

    Whoever wrote this article is stupid and very peevish.

  • Victor 11 years ago

    Gargantuan lies by this paper,and diversionary from the hardship we are going through.

  • Francis 11 years ago

    Misleading headline

  • NII OTU 11 years ago

    ALL HIS PROPERTIES AND ASSETS MUST BE CONFISCATED!

  • NII OTU 11 years ago

    ALL HIS PROPERTIES AND ASSETS MUST BE CONFISCATED TO SERVE AS DETERRENT TO OTHERS!

  • Dan 11 years ago

    I think that law to confiscate properties of drug peddlers has been abrogated by NPP to make it easier for them to stay in business.

  • FIFI TOWF 11 years ago

    One more of the KESSBEN-like fellow is back. Ghana should watch out. NPP has more devilish plots to hatch. NPP creates the hardship, yet they shout the loudest. 'ANOMA KONEKONE'.

  • KQ 11 years ago

    WE ALL KNOW WHAT YOU DO TO FINANCE YOUR PARTY,AND BECOS MAHAMA IS NOT GIVE YOU CHANCE TO SELL DRUGS YOU ARE SABOTAGING HIM.

  • Ampofo 11 years ago

    I hope the United States embasy is taking notice of the activities of the npp,the drug party. This is the man Akufo Addo was buldozing his way to have him brought to Ghana so he can release him just blike he did tp Benjilo an ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    History witnessed how NPP protected Amoateng when he was facing trial in the U.S. NPP under Kufuor's government continued to pay Amoateng his salaries when he was absent from parliament not on health grounds, but on charges o ...
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  • KAY 11 years ago

    THE BUSINESS WILL START SOON.GHANA SECURITY AGENCIES MUST WAKE UP BECAUSE NANA,S BOY IS BACK.

  • Janet Asibi 11 years ago

    He must be arrested immediately at the airport and prosecuted for disgracing Ghana for another 10 years at Nsawam.

  • GhanaBA 11 years ago

    this news paper publish this story with malicious intent period.

  • john kwesi 11 years ago

    WE LOVE CRIMINALS IN OUR PARTY. PERIOD

  • GHANA FIRST 11 years ago

    Rousing welcome for DRUG ADDICT and PUSHER into our fold? This our party is full of addicts and pushers. You are welcome, one of our lot, Amoateng 12 years veteran drug prisoner.

  • WONDER BOY 11 years ago

    Yes the one bug that stings the NPP so painfully is the allegations of drug dealing. Any time the isuue is thrown up in the public the NPP begins to feel jittery and adopt all kinds of defence mechanisms. bature continues to ...
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  • zion wa 11 years ago

    People should not take the alhaj news paper serious. All they do is I learned, credible information, an? our source. In all these they never get it right.

  • JAMES Y 11 years ago

    Of course, NPP will always grace drug pushers and corruption in their mix!

  • JAMES CONGO 11 years ago

    They know themselves.That was the only business they were doing when they were in power.

  • Cassava 11 years ago

    Am NPP member but its morally wrong to award this convict a hero welcome. its wrong and they should scrap that.

  • Dery 11 years ago

    pull me down alhaji. your story is bogus and untrue. be circumspect.

  • NANA ABC 11 years ago

    Oh NPP you guys are happy and boasting of a jail bird who was imprisoned in America for arrested on DRUG charges? NO WONDER NPPIANS YOUARE A DISGRACE TO GHANA

  • asiedu nketsiah 11 years ago

    EVERY HUMAN BEING ON EARTH HAS A FAMILY AND SO WHATS YOUR BEEF ON HIM BEEN WELCOMED BY HIS PEOPLE HE SOLD COCAINE TO HELP.WAS DAN AKBODAPI NOT WELCOMED BY HIS FAMILY WHEN HE WAS GRANTED AN AMNESTY,WAS TSATSU TSIKATA NOT WELCO ...
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  • STEVE 11 years ago

    If the NPP are planning a rousing welcome for Amoateng "drug pusher", then is a concrete fact that the NPP was engaged in drug handling within their 8 years tenure. In my opinion Amoateng is not ellegible to hold any public o ...
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  • Original Ghanaba 11 years ago

    When and where was the rousing welcome?

  • ZoRRo 11 years ago

    Looking at the economic mess created by the current government doling out millions of dollars of public funds to their cronies as JUDGEMENT DEBT; one would prefer cocaine financing to judgement debt financing. Amoateng used h ...
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  • bashings 11 years ago

    the only place that evil people will be denied will be in heaven!

  • Kramo 11 years ago

    folks are you surprised? they have done it before and they can do it this time. what I know is that we celebrate people who have duly paid their dues to the society in rightful manner but now we are celebrating deviants, mi ...
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  • XUMXUM 11 years ago

    Is Eric Amoateng, Ghana's Pablo Escobar the ex drug king pin? The NPP would be mad to associate itself with this convicted drug dealer.

  • Bone Shaker - BS 11 years ago

    Like the son of the rich man who spent his possession and returned home. The father killed the best of his sheep to welcomed him home.
    The Al-Hajj paper must be NDC paper, like the NDC it represent, it is a garbage reporting ...
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  • CAPII 11 years ago

    INSTEAD OF COMING OUT WITH IDEAS TO HELP INCOMPLETE,INCOMPETENT MAHAMA'S GOVT ON THE ECONOMY,YOU STUPIDLY WRITE-UP UNIMPORTANT JAIL STORIES. GHANAIANS CARE ABOUT RISING COST OF LIVING. STUPID FOOOOL.

  • Kk 11 years ago

    Where does this foolish man get his stories from! Idiot.

  • Kwame Amoani 11 years ago

    For me, if it happens, this will intimate the kind of group the NPP are. That will be stupidity and shameful. They should not do it. A word to a wise is enough. They should revisit their decision if they have already decided. ...
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  • Akwasipapa 11 years ago

    Foolish newspaper no wonder Nima boys taught u a good lesson

  • Nana Yaw 11 years ago

    This is pathetic journalism on the part of the so called Al-Hajj news report. They are just trying to belittle the NPP as a whole. If you have nothing worthwhile to report on, please shut up. Enough of this nonsense. Al-Hajj, ...
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  • LOGOLIGI 11 years ago

    While the Ayigbe party NDC rolled red carpet to a thief like Woyome, what do you expect The Akan party to do to Amoateng. I have always maintained that I prefer coaine money to that of monies stolen by government officials th ...
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  • New On Ghanaweb 11 years ago

    Al-Hajj is a disgrace to Ghana. How can a news media in Ghana (an English speaking country) write such a erroneous sentence.
    "While may would have thought former jail bird Eric Amoateng will sneak into the country after comp ...
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  • Journalism and Courts in Ghana 11 years ago

    Judges and Journalists of Ghana what is your Standards ?

  • Whatever 11 years ago

    Not surprising because we know that part of the funding of that party, some comes from cocaine business

  • Dontege 11 years ago

    Only in Ghana criminals are celebrated...i bet you this country is such a joke

  • KWAME, BELGIUM 11 years ago

    IF ALL THAT IS WRITTEN HERE IS VERY CORRECT, THEN the NPP is not a political party that must be taken serious. This will then mean that all that were said about the leadership of the party about drugs were correct. The new le ...
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  • Nana 11 years ago

    Am waiting for e day you write something reasonable. Just once in your life time.

  • Francis, Obuasi 11 years ago

    What a pity! Rousing welcome for a cocaine dealer! I'm shock.

  • curiae 11 years ago

    ALHAJI OR WHOEVER YOU CALL YOURSELF, GO AND GET A LIFE BRO. YOU ARE TOOOOOOOOOO FOOL,NDC HAS BLINDED YOUR INTELLIGENCY, YOUR PROFESSION,YOU ARE NOT NEAUTRAL ANYMORE AS EXPECTED FROM A PERSON IN YOUR POSITION.YOU STUDIES FREEL ...
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  • curiae 11 years ago

    AMOATENG WELCOME HOME, THIS IS WHERE YOU BELONGS.

  • Philips 11 years ago

    I never knew that there are some fools in Ghana. This is a man who has disgraced himself. his family. his party -NPP and indeed Ghana and he is going to be accorded a hero's welcome from prison.This is clearly an indication ...
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  • adom 11 years ago

    this is cheap journalism.