Rawlings: Some Ghanaian academics now political stooges

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dissapointed citizen 11 years ago

GO PREACH TO YOUR PARTY
NOT US - WE ONLY FOLLOW WHERE WE RE LED - AS WE HAVE DONE FOR THE LAST 30YEARS OF PNDC / NDC NONSENSE

GO PREACH TO YOUR PARTY
NOT US - WE ONLY FOLLOW WHERE WE RE LED - AS WE HAVE DONE FOR THE LAST 30YEARS OF PNDC / NDC NONSENSE
toto-bi 11 years ago

Mr.archbishop reason small or better still go back, read again and i guess u will see loads of sense in what he said. you pple fool too much.

Mr.archbishop reason small or better still go back, read again and i guess u will see loads of sense in what he said. you pple fool too much.
Kay 11 years ago

And Prof. Nii Moi Thompson. He's trying his best but it's not enough.

And Prof. Nii Moi Thompson. He's trying his best but it's not enough.
JAH LOVE 11 years ago

DR AMOAH

DR AMOAH
insight to the bone 11 years ago

no academic , just mahama , his brothers and his corrupt mafia are what needs to be removed . jj listen to konadu as she seems to be the only one in your family with some brains to distance herself from this corrupt regime

no academic , just mahama , his brothers and his corrupt mafia are what needs to be removed . jj listen to konadu as she seems to be the only one in your family with some brains to distance herself from this corrupt regime
Cpl Giwa 11 years ago

Tsatsu Tsikataaaaaah

Tsatsu Tsikataaaaaah
Ali 11 years ago

Go where you are led because you are like sheep. follow they leader

Go where you are led because you are like sheep. follow they leader
gla 11 years ago

who caused it this? was it not you who surrounded yourself with academics to deceive the peole of ghana between 1982 and 2000? what legacy did they leave behind? greed, anarchy,corruption,hatred, lies, and indiscipline. if yo ...
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who caused it this? was it not you who surrounded yourself with academics to deceive the peole of ghana between 1982 and 2000? what legacy did they leave behind? greed, anarchy,corruption,hatred, lies, and indiscipline. if you want to be sure of these traits, check the party you formed to unleash hardship on this once cherished country.
Nii Lartey Nartey 11 years ago

If the Ghanaian academics were not political stooges, how come the likes of Tsatsus, Professor Kofi Awoonors, Kwesi Botwes, Dr. Ibn Chambers, Spio Cabrahs, Professor Mills and co shamelessly served a semi illiterate zombie bi ...
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If the Ghanaian academics were not political stooges, how come the likes of Tsatsus, Professor Kofi Awoonors, Kwesi Botwes, Dr. Ibn Chambers, Spio Cabrahs, Professor Mills and co shamelessly served a semi illiterate zombie bisexual drug addict bloody junior military officer like your stinky self leading of this once noble country to destruction?

You have grown grey and sick and if I were you I will be wise not to open my stinky mouth to indulge in any social political mess.

For long before independence some Ghanaian academics had prayed positive roles in our political dispensation. One of such is the lat Professor Adu Boahene who bravely took you by the horn and confronted your bloody tyrant rule which violently violated the Ghanaian human rights and silenced the entire nation.

Professor Adu Boahene's braveness sent a signal of national awareness for others like Kwesi Pratt, Nana Akufo Addo and co to join him to demand for freedom of speech and expression which led to the intervention of the international community forcing you to stop the senseless revolution for democracy which Ghanaians enjoy today.

Be aware that the political change over that happen in Argentina and to Chileans monster Pinochet will certainly happen right here in Ghana, soon and very soon.
Pelicles 11 years ago

You are spot on Nii Lartey Nartey. Thank you.

You are spot on Nii Lartey Nartey. Thank you.

Kofi 11 years ago

I wrote a similar response before seeing yours. I'm not posting mine because you have said it better. When academic institutions start awarding undeserved doctorates to coup makers of Africa, yes they have become political st ...
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I wrote a similar response before seeing yours. I'm not posting mine because you have said it better. When academic institutions start awarding undeserved doctorates to coup makers of Africa, yes they have become political stooges!
Mensah 11 years ago

What a continent! They have cheapened honorary doctoral awards.

What a continent! They have cheapened honorary doctoral awards.
AKATA PORE 11 years ago

NII THANKS

NII THANKS
O(BIBA-JUDAS 11 years ago

WHQT YOU JERRY SOW IS NOW NDC REPING

WHQT YOU JERRY SOW IS NOW NDC REPING
Ghana-ba 11 years ago

MY BROTHER I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR AN UPRIGHT CONTRIBUTION. WHAT I CAN READ FROM JJ'S RECENT SAYINGS ARE SIMPLY THIS: HE HAS SEEN THE WRITING ON THE WALL: THAT QUITE SOON, NOT TOO FAR FROM NOW HE WILL BE SHOT AND KILLED LIKE ...
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MY BROTHER I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR AN UPRIGHT CONTRIBUTION. WHAT I CAN READ FROM JJ'S RECENT SAYINGS ARE SIMPLY THIS: HE HAS SEEN THE WRITING ON THE WALL: THAT QUITE SOON, NOT TOO FAR FROM NOW HE WILL BE SHOT AND KILLED LIKE GHADDAFI FOR THE ATTROCITIES HE COMMITTED AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GHANA. TODAY HE IS TALKING AGAINST "WINNER TAKES ALL", BUT WAS OKAY WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT. HE TALKS ABOUT "INDISCIPLINE", BUT DOES NOT REALISE ....REMOVING CONSTITUITIONALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT WAS NOT INDISCIPLINE AT THAT TIME. HE TALKS ABOUT !UNITY" BUT HAS FORGOTTEN WHAT HE DID TO AKANS ESPECIALLY ASHANTIS, PLEASE JJ WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE? BB BISMACK, SIAW OF TATA BREWERY, MR. BOATENG OF CHRISTIAN BOOKSHOP, KUMASI. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON... I USED TO WORK AT SCHOLARSHIP SECRETARIAT DURING HIS SO-CALLED REVOLUTIONARY DAYS.CAN HE ANSWER TO HOW MANY AKANS WERE GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS AGAINST EWES, NORTHERNERS? DOES HE KNOW WHAT IS TRIBALISM? "OBED ASAMOAH WAS THE ONLY GHANAIAN SO QUALIFIED TO BE FOREIGN MINISTER FOR OVER 18 YEARS." HE IS JUST LIKE THE PROVERBIAL OSTRICH.IN SHORT, JJ HAS COME TO REALISE THAT HIS END IS JUST ROUND THE CORNER AND SOON HE WILL GO JUST LIKE HE DID TO OTHERS. THIS WILL JUSTIFY THE BIBLICAL TRUTH... IF YOU DRAW THE SWORD YOU WILL ALSO GO BY IT.
NTIKUMA ANANSE 11 years ago

HE FOUNDED A CRIMINAL, CORRUPT, LAWLESS ORGANISATION AND HE IS HORRIFIED BY AN EVOLVING AND UNCONTROLLABLE MONSTER; THE NDC PARTY.

HE FOUNDED A CRIMINAL, CORRUPT, LAWLESS ORGANISATION AND HE IS HORRIFIED BY AN EVOLVING AND UNCONTROLLABLE MONSTER; THE NDC PARTY.
mahamanomics 11 years ago

nii moi thompson, kpessah whyte and clement apaak are classic examples

nii moi thompson, kpessah whyte and clement apaak are classic examples
Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 11 years ago

It looks as if all those bedroom academics are in his own backyard. The country churned out those stooges while he was the dictator.

It looks as if all those bedroom academics are in his own backyard. The country churned out those stooges while he was the dictator.
NTIKUMA ANANSE 11 years ago

WONDERS SHALL NEVER END!!!!!!!!! THE DEVIL IS NOW THE ANGEL OF LIGHT, PREACHING TO GHANAIANS ABOUT CONSCIENCE AND INDISCIPLINE IN SOCIETY. WHO INTRODUCED INDISCIPLINE, LAWLESSNESS, DISRESPECT INTO GHANAIANS SOCIETY????????

WONDERS SHALL NEVER END!!!!!!!!! THE DEVIL IS NOW THE ANGEL OF LIGHT, PREACHING TO GHANAIANS ABOUT CONSCIENCE AND INDISCIPLINE IN SOCIETY. WHO INTRODUCED INDISCIPLINE, LAWLESSNESS, DISRESPECT INTO GHANAIANS SOCIETY????????
INTERESTING 11 years ago

SIMPLE LOGIG

SIMPLE LOGIG

Yahaya 11 years ago

A stooge, a murderer, and a thief.

A stooge, a murderer, and a thief.
JESSE BERKLEY 11 years ago

JJ U HAD THE CHANCE TO GO UNIVERSITY BUT U CHOSE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE IN A DIFFERENT WAY. NOW U ARE HAPPY TO ACCEPT ALL SORTS OF ACCOLADES INCLUDING DOCTORATES FROM UNIVERSITIES. INSTEAD BEING GRATEFUL U ARE INSULTING THOSE WHO ...
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JJ U HAD THE CHANCE TO GO UNIVERSITY BUT U CHOSE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE IN A DIFFERENT WAY. NOW U ARE HAPPY TO ACCEPT ALL SORTS OF ACCOLADES INCLUDING DOCTORATES FROM UNIVERSITIES. INSTEAD BEING GRATEFUL U ARE INSULTING THOSE WHO STUDIED AND TOILED FOR THEIR QUALIFICATION AND WHO ARE MORE DESERVING OF ACADEMIC TITLES. YOU CERTAINLY DON'T DESERVE ANY OF THE TITLES U ARE SO GLADLY COLLECTING. GOD WILL COME BACK ONE DAY AND WE SHALL ALL BE WITNESSES. SUCH WICKED PEOPLE.
INTERESTING 11 years ago

YOUEXPRESSED IT BETTER THAN I DID.
GO TO WINNEBA YOU MIGHT GET A phd. Note Lower case.

YOUEXPRESSED IT BETTER THAN I DID.
GO TO WINNEBA YOU MIGHT GET A phd. Note Lower case.
Adjoa 11 years ago

Hypocrite, you started using using leaders in your government. Now Mahama is using all the untested former student leaders as ministers and we are sinking because they have no experience in life. The small boys are able to ta ...
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Hypocrite, you started using using leaders in your government. Now Mahama is using all the untested former student leaders as ministers and we are sinking because they have no experience in life. The small boys are able to talk to their former lecturers anyhow.
ZoRRo 11 years ago

JJ, all we are saying is for your wife to refund the $4M unsubstantiated judgement debt paid by the Ghana Government ASAP !

JJ, all we are saying is for your wife to refund the $4M unsubstantiated judgement debt paid by the Ghana Government ASAP !
Dr Robert K Glah 11 years ago

Priceless conscience and reason speech
This is a mature and responsible speech by the former President.

Whether you love or hate him, you must credit him for this masterpiece speech for a change in Ghana.

Priceless conscience and reason speech
This is a mature and responsible speech by the former President.

Whether you love or hate him, you must credit him for this masterpiece speech for a change in Ghana.
NTIKUMA ANANSE 11 years ago

WORDS WITH NO DEEP HEARTED BELIEF AND PRACTISE OF SAME WORDS, MEANS NOTHING, AND AMOUNTS TO HYPOCRISY. THE PHARISEES KNEW THE OLD TESTAMENT AND COULD QUOTE IT WITH PROFICIENCY, YET DID NOT BELIEVE AND DID NOT PRACTISE IT, HEN ...
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WORDS WITH NO DEEP HEARTED BELIEF AND PRACTISE OF SAME WORDS, MEANS NOTHING, AND AMOUNTS TO HYPOCRISY. THE PHARISEES KNEW THE OLD TESTAMENT AND COULD QUOTE IT WITH PROFICIENCY, YET DID NOT BELIEVE AND DID NOT PRACTISE IT, HENCE THEIR HYPOCRISY.
Kofi Atta Panyin 11 years ago

Action speaks louder than words. The masterpiece speech upon a serious analysis is a self-indictment. Just make a list of students and academics who actively participated in his various regimes and you will realize that this ...
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Action speaks louder than words. The masterpiece speech upon a serious analysis is a self-indictment. Just make a list of students and academics who actively participated in his various regimes and you will realize that this phenomenon started with Rawlings. Ghana is harvesting what Jerry planted.
NTIKUMA ANANSE 11 years ago

YOU MADE MY DAY WITH CLEAR, INCISIVE THINKING AND INDICTMENT OF RAWLINGS. TO AVOID POVERTY HE STARTED ALL THAT HE IS NOW COMPLAINING ABOUT.

YOU MADE MY DAY WITH CLEAR, INCISIVE THINKING AND INDICTMENT OF RAWLINGS. TO AVOID POVERTY HE STARTED ALL THAT HE IS NOW COMPLAINING ABOUT.
KWAA 11 years ago

The saying goes "you reap what you sow".Rawlings sowed this very seed he is complaining about,and now it is all coming back to hunt all of us including Rawlings.
I wish God will grant him a very long life,so he can experince ...
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The saying goes "you reap what you sow".Rawlings sowed this very seed he is complaining about,and now it is all coming back to hunt all of us including Rawlings.
I wish God will grant him a very long life,so he can experince and feel all what he did in the name of a socalled Revolution.

Cocoa Krachie 11 years ago

The seed for indiscpline was sown by him Rawlings. So call academics are the very one's who propagate the pettiness.

The seed for indiscpline was sown by him Rawlings. So call academics are the very one's who propagate the pettiness.
kofi (usa) 11 years ago

You made them stooges from 1979 & 1981
1992 results were available before elections . Remember ketu south & bantama

You made them stooges from 1979 & 1981
1992 results were available before elections . Remember ketu south & bantama
Ghanaba 11 years ago

I wrote something about the academia in Ghana only last week.Most Ghanaians have blamed any negative thing on politians.We are all part of the problem but l thought the academia could do something positive by helping
mother ...
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I wrote something about the academia in Ghana only last week.Most Ghanaians have blamed any negative thing on politians.We are all part of the problem but l thought the academia could do something positive by helping
mother Ghana instead they are the worst .NDC AND NPP CANNOT HELP YOU GHANIANS CHANGE
our style of voting is like crazy people at asalym.You see those people over there, they do not think straight , they keep doing the same mistake. Thàt's why we call them Abodamfo Ghanaians wake up.Try other parties. That's the beauty of democracy.
Dodowa 11 years ago

Stuff like this could only come from the conceited self-anointed mouth piece of the downtrodden. Rawlings had no problem whatsoever when the Ahowis, Tsikatas just to mention a few were acting as his lickspittles and singing d ...
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Stuff like this could only come from the conceited self-anointed mouth piece of the downtrodden. Rawlings had no problem whatsoever when the Ahowis, Tsikatas just to mention a few were acting as his lickspittles and singing doxologies in his honor. He saw nothing wrong with students parading the streets of the country and singing “WE NO GO SIT DOWN MAKE THEM CHEAT US EVERY DAY” Rawlings should start talking about the Woyome scandal which has his name embedded deep in the graft. Making casual statements about what Mahama should do would not cut it. He is deeply mired in the pelf scandal of our time. Rawlings should do us a favor by speaking for his family ONLY.
Kofi Atta Panyin 11 years ago

This phenomenon started from the era of Rawlings. Take a look at the number of academics and students who actively participated in the June 4 Uprising, December 31 Revolution and the PNDC/NDC during his time. Without a shadow ...
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This phenomenon started from the era of Rawlings. Take a look at the number of academics and students who actively participated in the June 4 Uprising, December 31 Revolution and the PNDC/NDC during his time. Without a shadow of doubt, Ghana is reaping what Rawlings planted. He is a major part of the problem and, therefore, must be a major part of the solution.
Akwasi 11 years ago

You accept the invitation to be honoured with a degree by academicians in Universities you describes (i) political stooges, (ii) unconscionable tools of the political pettiness of our day, (iii)and the University as a breedi ...
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You accept the invitation to be honoured with a degree by academicians in Universities you describes (i) political stooges, (ii) unconscionable tools of the political pettiness of our day, (iii)and the University as a breeding grounds for decadence. What does that make you.
Yahaya 11 years ago

It makes him an unconscionable stooge, a man without integrity. Not surprising, you know!! He is also an honored armed robber.

It makes him an unconscionable stooge, a man without integrity. Not surprising, you know!! He is also an honored armed robber.
Wansema Pobee 11 years ago

I say it again. Ghanaians have finally become intellectually dysfunctional.

I say it again. Ghanaians have finally become intellectually dysfunctional.
USMAN 11 years ago

You see what the semi-literate Zombi is telling the useless academicians. The guy has hired the services of academicians for well over 20years and he knows how useless they are. For those who don't know, the work of an academ ...
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You see what the semi-literate Zombi is telling the useless academicians. The guy has hired the services of academicians for well over 20years and he knows how useless they are. For those who don't know, the work of an academician is primarily to write books but unfortunately for us in Ghana they have abandoned their core duties and rather chasing juicy jobs only to go and display their ignorance and incompetence. We have so many professors in our midst who cannot even write books yet they are quick to look down on others. Until academician in Ghana learn to respect other people as partners in development, their incompetence will always be exposed. This is how far our useless university education has brought us.
Kwame-Dublin 11 years ago

can someone tell this idiot of a man to shut up -- what did he do in his 20 year rule -- when others used that time to industrialise their country he messed us up and we went to hipic and yet this man always talks bull shit a ...
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can someone tell this idiot of a man to shut up -- what did he do in his 20 year rule -- when others used that time to industrialise their country he messed us up and we went to hipic and yet this man always talks bull shit as if his time was the best
Dr Robert K Glah 11 years ago

JJ is a reformed ex President. The responsible speech proved it.

He will never be a President of Ghana again.

We can accept or reject his advice.
He filled the gap years with honour and dishonour

JJ is a reformed ex President. The responsible speech proved it.

He will never be a President of Ghana again.

We can accept or reject his advice.
He filled the gap years with honour and dishonour
konfanko 11 years ago

I normally disagree with JJ but you wonder where have the conscience students gone? In our student days we fought Unigov-Demostrated various governments when they veered from their commitment to the people of Ghana. But stude ...
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I normally disagree with JJ but you wonder where have the conscience students gone? In our student days we fought Unigov-Demostrated various governments when they veered from their commitment to the people of Ghana. But student leaders have sold their souls and consciences.
Kwame 11 years ago

Now if you fight a gov't student leaders are labelled political. It's not a problem with students only but a national tragedy; everything has been politicized.

Now if you fight a gov't student leaders are labelled political. It's not a problem with students only but a national tragedy; everything has been politicized.
Ugly Akufo Addo 11 years ago

This man is having brain

This man is having brain
Razak Seini 11 years ago

Papa j has said it all. God bless our homeland Ghana

Papa j has said it all. God bless our homeland Ghana
Kwame 11 years ago

Less speak more action, please papa J, tell the Prez.

Less speak more action, please papa J, tell the Prez.
BUMBEBO London 11 years ago

WHEN WILL THIS ANTI-PEACE JJ MAN STOP POINTING ACCUSSING FINGERS AT PEOPLE WHO COULD DO BETTER THAN HIM? WERE SUCH PEOPLE NOT LEAVING GHANA, RUNNING AWAY FROM HIM WHEN HE WAS KILLING EVERYONE BIGGER, WISER PROSPEROUS THAN HIM ...
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WHEN WILL THIS ANTI-PEACE JJ MAN STOP POINTING ACCUSSING FINGERS AT PEOPLE WHO COULD DO BETTER THAN HIM? WERE SUCH PEOPLE NOT LEAVING GHANA, RUNNING AWAY FROM HIM WHEN HE WAS KILLING EVERYONE BIGGER, WISER PROSPEROUS THAN HIM! EFO KWASI, GIVE US A BREAK. GHANA IS FOR GHANAIANS, ALL HANDS SHOULD BE ON DECK. CAN'T YOU SEE HOW MUCH YOU HAVE WRECKED OUR NATION?
Brobbsnet 11 years ago

This anti-Christ has Done Such harm and damage to Ghana than any leader.He should be sitting in solitary confinement prison instead of his stinking message.

This anti-Christ has Done Such harm and damage to Ghana than any leader.He should be sitting in solitary confinement prison instead of his stinking message.
KWAME-BELGIUM 11 years ago

J.J. you have just hit on another nail.

J.J. you have just hit on another nail.
Kofi Dankwah 11 years ago

Jerry, I normally don't agree with you on principal but on this front, I agree with you fully. Our so called academics are now discredited, they have become a class of laughing stocks with, performing at a degradingly mediocr ...
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Jerry, I normally don't agree with you on principal but on this front, I agree with you fully. Our so called academics are now discredited, they have become a class of laughing stocks with, performing at a degradingly mediocre level in all the sectors of our nation. Having said that they are very good at hiding behind their qualifications.
Lopez 11 years ago

Stupid talk.

Stupid talk.

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