‘Rawlings and I don’t see eye to eye’

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Remove Indemnity Clause 10 years ago

Please Mr.Blay leave that monster alone.

Please Mr.Blay leave that monster alone.
ENTWI 10 years ago

what can he do to JJ?your moth

what can he do to JJ?your moth
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 10 years ago

AUTHOR: MR. FIGURE-OUT----------------
It is only in Ghana would such a dishonorably idiot be on the government pay roll. Professor Mill should be solely blamed for imposing those criminals on us. After Mills found Betty Mou ...
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AUTHOR: MR. FIGURE-OUT----------------
It is only in Ghana would such a dishonorably idiot be on the government pay roll. Professor Mill should be solely blamed for imposing those criminals on us. After Mills found Betty Moulds guilty of judgement debt payments the only thing he could do was to move her to the Education dept to continue her looting. Readers would recall that Betty Mounds was the one who awarded SCHOOL building contracts at a triple price of the existing contract sum of some GH 80,000.00. And this happened at a time when they claim inflation was in the single digits. Could you imargin how foolish these criminal liars were. Kuffour built similar structures with 80,000 at a time when inflation was around 14.8% and under Mills it was 240,000 at a rate of 8.8%. And these buffoons turn around to blame the fall of the cedi on some mysterious dwarfs. I don't blame those African countries that have been ripped apart by civil unrest because if you have such buffoons in power who always turn our local elections into a West Africa one
by contracting Togolese Trokosis, Burkinabe and Wangaras from La Cote D'ivoire to vote for them, the " Road To Kigare", is sometimes, a likely option to kick their ass from power.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

FORGIVE JJ AFTER ALL HE SUFFERED FOR THE GREEDY BASTARDS TO ENJOY, CAN YOU IMAGINE MADAM ASIEDU NKETIA TELLING JJ TO RE APLY TO BE A MEMBER OF NDC?

FORGIVE JJ AFTER ALL HE SUFFERED FOR THE GREEDY BASTARDS TO ENJOY, CAN YOU IMAGINE MADAM ASIEDU NKETIA TELLING JJ TO RE APLY TO BE A MEMBER OF NDC?
Mahmoud 10 years ago

Author: Kafui Ama
Date: 2009-07-23 01:44:06

Please be patient and read this to the end.

By Craig Murray, former Deputy British High Commisssioner to Ghana | Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009

... It was Novembe ...
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Author: Kafui Ama
Date: 2009-07-23 01:44:06

Please be patient and read this to the end.

By Craig Murray, former Deputy British High Commisssioner to Ghana | Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009

... It was November 1999 and I'd been Deputy High Commissioner in Ghana for almost a year - the culmination of 15 years' Foreign Office service in Nigeria, Warsaw and the equatorial Africa department in London.

I'd always been passionate about Africa and had immersed myself in its minutiae. Nevertheless, my father, who had a timber yard in Ghana in the Sixties, offered a little extra counsel before I departed, aged 40. 'If you see any good-looking girl, aged about 30, light skinned, whatever you do, don't touch her - she could be your sister!'

Not that this was a big concern for me. My most pressing duty was the 1999 State Visit by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Enhanced Coverage Linking the Duke of Edinburgh, -Search using: Biographies Plus News, Most Recent 60 Days, accompanied by Robin Cook, the then Foreign Secretary. It was a three-day blur of activity, the teeming crowds displaying an uncomplicated and old-fashioned reverence.

A warning that the Duke was averse to looking at things without useful purpose proved absolutely right. As we stood looking at the strip of brass laid in a churchyard that marked the line of the Greenwich Meridian, he said to me: 'A line in the ground, eh? Very nice.'

Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana was richer than Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia or Singapore. Today, those countries are at least ten times as wealthy.

Corruption, cronyism, economic mismanagement, irresponsible lending by the West and the dumping of cheap food all did for Ghana. When I arrived with my wife Fiona and children Jamie and Emily, Ghana had been ruled for 20 years by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

The son of a Stirlingshire pharmacist and a local woman, he seized power in a coup in 1979, but claimed to have won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, despite allegations of vote-rigging.
In his early years, Rawlings unleashed a political terror on Ghana. His campaign against the middle classes resembled Mao's Cultural Revolution. People were persecuted for having savings or two indoor lavatories. Market women were sometimes killed for 'profiteering'.

The Queen's visit delighted Rawlings, who craved international respectability. I, too, was determined to make the most of the trip, by helping ensure Rawlings gave up power by the start of 2001, as the constitution required because he had served two four-year terms.

The Queen's speech to the parliament in the capital, Accra, was to be the focus of the visit and I had contributed to its drafting. It contained the usual guff about a future based upon partnership, but there was a sting in the tail. 'Next, year, Mr President,' the Queen intoned, 'you will step down after two terms in office in accordance with your constitution.' The opposition benches went wild and the Queen stopped, looking in bewilderment at the hullabaloo.

Afterwards, Robin Cook was furious. 'It's a disaster. Who the hell drafted that?'

'Er, I did, Secretary of State,' I said. 'I might have guessed! Who the hell approved it?' 'You did.' Cook's Private Secretary had to dig out the draft he had signed. After the State banquet, I retired to a hotel bar with the Royal Household. The senior staff had withdrawn to allow the butlers, footmen and hairdressers to let off steam.

The party appeared, to a man, to be gay. Not just gay, but outrageously camp. We'd taken the hotel for the Royal party, but allowed the British Airways crew to stay. Now three cabin stewards, two Royal footmen and a Royal hairdresser were grouped around the piano singing hits from Cabaret. I was seated on a sofa and across from me in an armchair was a member of the Household who seemed out of place. The valet looked to be in his 60s, a grizzled NCO with tufts of hair either side of a bald pate, a boxer's nose and tattoos on his arms.

He was smoking roll-ups. I turned to the old warrior and said: 'Don't you find all this a bit strange sometimes?' He lent forward, put his hand on my bare knee below the kilt I wore on ceremonial occasions and said: 'Listen, ducks. I was in the Navy for 30 years.' I think he was joking, but some things are too weird even for me. The lower reaches of the Royal Household are one of them.

One enjoyable aspect of our time in Ghana was the constant stream of visitors. Among them was Peter Hain, the Minister for Africa. Hain, a good footballer, agreed to play in a charity match between children from a community football scheme and the High Commission.

Unfortunately, the ground was hard and the opposition turned out to be super-fit professionals. After a heavy tackle, I went down. Result: a dislocated shoulder. I couldn't move my arm for eight weeks. Other visitors included Clare Short, at the time Secretary of State for International Development.

She was in Ghana to try to persuade it to join a debt relief scheme. At a dinner for her, a Minister had made a speech about how much Ghana had learnt from the British Empire. Short stood up and expostulated: 'The British Empire! Don't tell me about the British Empire. I know about British colonialism. My father was Irish and we know about British colonialism. I'll tell you what the British did to your country. They exploited it, that's what they did. They exploited it.' After a few moments of stunned silence, the dinner continued.

On another occasion we were joined by Bobby Charlton, who came to Ghana seeking support for England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup. He was still an astounding player at 60 and it was good of him to get on the pitch for a local community football programme. Nevertheless, I found Charlton disappointing. He was self-centred and ratty - one of those heroes you wish you hadn't met.

Conversely, Roger Moore, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, was charming and suave, just as you would expect, with a fund of brilliant stories beginning with lines such as: 'One day, Frank, Dean, Tony and I decided to play a trick on Marilyn ... ' He was also well briefed about children's issues in Ghana and was prepared not just to do PR, but to get his hands dirty helping in refugee camps without a camera in sight.

I was less taken with Jamie Theakston.

The BBC were filming a wildlife programme in Ghana, looking at the endangered green turtle population near Ada. A group of young volunteers had accompanied the BBC team to help the newly-born turtles to reach the ocean. But one girl, in her mid-20s, had streams of mascara running down her cheeks. She claimed Theakston had just broken up with her - yet here he was, surrounded by young women, enjoying the adulation.

I had bigger concerns, however. Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections were due in December 2000 and there were signs that its 11 million voters might be preparing for a change of government. Enthusiasm for politics was everywhere. Even in the meanest village, people gathered under the banyan tree listening to FM stations on a battered transistor and arguing about the coming change.

In the West, tired of our politicians' deceit, we no longer much value democracy. It is wonderful to see a people exercising for the first time their power over those who would govern them. Our job was to see the elections were free and fair, with Britain funding a £10 million programme for photo-ID cards to reduce electoral fraud. The exercise eradicated one million fake names.

Another practical new weapon was indelible ink: when somebody voted, their thumb was painted to stop them casting more than one vote. India was the only source of a truly permanent ink that could not be washed or rubbed off. I had also persuaded the Foreign Office to provide experts from the Electoral Reform Society. Further valuable additions were two British MPs, Roger Gale and Nigel Jones.

Rawlings's party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), put up the vice President, John Atta Mills, as its presidential candidate. The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) fielded John Kufuor. There is a tribal element in Ghanaian politics: the Ewe people vote overwhelmingly NDC; the Ashanti overwhelmingly NPP.

It was clear the governing party would not abandon power easily. Alarmed that it would lose, it had the high court declare the ID cards illegal because they disenfranchised legitimate voters. But the ruling was to no avail - the people took over. Polling station officers decided they were going to use ID cards anyway.

When first- round votes on December 7 were tallied; Kufuor had 48.4 per cent against Atta Mills's 44.8 per cent. The opposition was heading for a small majority but, with no candidate exceeding 50 per cent, a run- off was required. Ghana's 30 or so FM stations were vital in bringing democracy, so it was no surprise that the NDC moved against them.

On the evening before the poll, I took Roger Gale and Nigel Jones to visit Joy FM, possibly Ghana's most influential station. We were sitting in the office when an armed posse of Rawlings's security men arrived, saying they were closing the station on the President's instructions.

‘Good evening,' I said. ‘I am Craig Murray, Deputy British High Commissioner, and these gentlemen are Mr Roger Gale MP and Mr Nigel Jones MP, members of the British Parliament.' Gale added: ' Obviously there has been some mistake.

I thought I heard you say that you were closing down the station, but we are here to visit our fellow democracy, Ghana, and democracies don't close down radio stations.' The goons left. Joy FM never was closed. However, the NDC started to think I was a part of their problem and they assigned a secret service team to follow me around.

As the second round on December 28 approached, we discovered a problem: not enough Indian ink. We had paid for more, but it had to be specially made and would not be ready until December 24. This was cutting it tight and action was needed. Chartering a private plane to set off from India on Christmas Eve was easier said than done. Whitehall was in festive mode and unlikely to sanction spending quickly, so I used the Embassy's budget to pay for it.

Ghana's government did not want the Indian ink to get in and I was concerned it would be delayed by customs officials. So on Christmas Day 2000, instead of eating turkey, I stood baking on the airport tarmac. When our plane taxied in, we unloaded the boxes of little ink bottles on to two trucks. I escorted these out of the VIP gateway, helped by a substantial tip to the guards.

The truck drivers then delivered the ink to regional centres for distribution to constituencies. This was a game being played for high stakes, with real danger of civil war.

Hotheads in the ruling party might claim electoral fraud and mount a military takeover. The Ashanti could also react violently to losing. Every embassy was updating evacuation plans. Around 1am, the results started to come in. There was a more or less consistent swing to the opposition candidate, John Kufuor. You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife.

The coolest man in Ghana that night was the wry, chain-smoking Electoral Commissioner, Kwadwo Afari- Gyan, who received constant threatening phone calls instructing him to fix the result. Each time, the Electoral Commissioner replied: ' The result will be what the result will be. I am just making sure it is fairly counted.' Then, taking his umpteenth call, he stiffened. He summoned me to listen: it was his wife. Soldiers had come to their bungalow, taking her and his children hostage and threatening to kill them if he did not deliver the ' right' result.

Kwadwo barked down the phone: ' Put their leader on.' ‘Listen you little *****,' he snarled. 'How dare you come to my house and threaten my wife and children. I am sitting here with the British Deputy High Commissioner and he knows what is happening. Now get out of my home before we have you thrown into jail!' The soldier said: ' Yes, sir; sorry, sir.' Kwadwo then told his wife not to worry and calmly returned to his work.

By 3am on the second night only two constituencies were still to declare. Even if every voter there went for Atta Mills, Kufuor could still not be beaten.

The opposition had won - an African country ... had shown that democratic change could be achieved peacefully. Kufuor's eight years as President saw economic growth of more than 70 per cent - the first prolonged period since independence when Ghana was not getting poorer. But Ghanaians chose to exercise their democratic right to change and earlier this month narrowly elected Atta Mills.

Ghana is the only country in Africa to achieve the democratic norm of power alternating peacefully between parties at successive uninterrupted elections.

As I look back on my involvement with Africa over 30 years, I remain most proud of helping Ghanaians to attain democracy. It is an example that sadly, the rest of the continent has so far done little to follow.

But Ghana remains there - a glimmer of hope, an example to others and a rebuke to cynics who claim democracy is not possible in Africa.
Aduana Atwea 10 years ago

We need more intellectual posts like this one. Thanks

We need more intellectual posts like this one. Thanks
Yaw 10 years ago

Blay failed to tell us why he was imprisoned for a year. And thats what all criminals never say. I remmeber when a soldier came to the national reconciliation commision and accused some soldiers of massive torture.

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Blay failed to tell us why he was imprisoned for a year. And thats what all criminals never say. I remmeber when a soldier came to the national reconciliation commision and accused some soldiers of massive torture.

All the members of the commision sympathised with him and gave him all the most encouraging words. The next day, the leader of the soldiers who tortured him was called to the commision to testify, where he gave an account of why the soldiers dealt with that man the way they did.

Apparently, this man accusing other soldiers of torture WAS LOOTING POOR PEOPLE OF THEIR PROPERTIES, EVEN TORTURED A PREGNANT WOMAN AND DID THE MOST EVIL THINGS U COULD EVER IMAGINE.
But guess what? They'll never tell u what they did to warrant their predicament. If they do, their answer is normally "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING?"
Tom 10 years ago

Freddie clearly mentioned why he was imprisoned. He said he attempted to overthrow an illegal government. aka He attempted a coup.

Before you start waving the red flag and point to his coup attempt as enough reason to inc ...
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Freddie clearly mentioned why he was imprisoned. He said he attempted to overthrow an illegal government. aka He attempted a coup.

Before you start waving the red flag and point to his coup attempt as enough reason to incarcerate him, remember our constitution mandates all of us to forcibly remove any illegal government. He was obeying our constitution. He is a hero and those that jailed him need to pay
SALINSA 10 years ago

i like this

i like this

NANA BEDIAKO 10 years ago

WHO CARES BLAY TRAITOR NKRUMAH WILL TURN ON HIS GRAVE AGAINST YOU BLAY

WHO CARES BLAY TRAITOR NKRUMAH WILL TURN ON HIS GRAVE AGAINST YOU BLAY
Nii Nortey (New York) 10 years ago

Who cares if he was imprisoned. He deserved it

Who cares if he was imprisoned. He deserved it
Aduana Atwea 10 years ago

Pease learn to report on important news.

Pease learn to report on important news.
Truth 10 years ago

who cares. nonsense senseless so-called leaders. do what's necessary for the country and stop this childish amateur attitude. stupid fool

who cares. nonsense senseless so-called leaders. do what's necessary for the country and stop this childish amateur attitude. stupid fool
Truth 10 years ago

how will that add to the life of the ordinary ghanaian, the unemployed graduate and the business men in ghana. idiots, fools, abodamfou.

how will that add to the life of the ordinary ghanaian, the unemployed graduate and the business men in ghana. idiots, fools, abodamfou.
Onua Ben 10 years ago

Shouldn't you devote your time, energy and journalistic space to report on more important news that affect the lives of average Ghanaians? Why are we always so caught in sensationalism? Who cares if Freddie Blay and Rawling ...
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Shouldn't you devote your time, energy and journalistic space to report on more important news that affect the lives of average Ghanaians? Why are we always so caught in sensationalism? Who cares if Freddie Blay and Rawlings are not on good terms.
dan 10 years ago

need resolution in Ghana do we have to worry about which bozzo of leaders and ex politicians get on or don't get on. POLITICAL MEN SO CALLED BEHAVING BADLY. GET OUT OF OUR FACES. I thought they were going to talk about the ro ...
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need resolution in Ghana do we have to worry about which bozzo of leaders and ex politicians get on or don't get on. POLITICAL MEN SO CALLED BEHAVING BADLY. GET OUT OF OUR FACES. I thought they were going to talk about the road from accra-nsawam-kumasi and when this is going to be completed; instead we have this whinging
Joe Turkey 10 years ago

The only person the semi-literate, Jerry Rawlings, listens to is himself. He is such an infallible and egoistic idiot.

The only person the semi-literate, Jerry Rawlings, listens to is himself. He is such an infallible and egoistic idiot.
palmwine seller 10 years ago

So why is this idiot crying to have Rawlings love him or what all this idiots are suckers on the system. Monkeys looking for love.

So why is this idiot crying to have Rawlings love him or what all this idiots are suckers on the system. Monkeys looking for love.
Truth 10 years ago

sir / madam, there are more serious issues to be addressed and talked about than this pettiness. all the so called leaders of the country are behaving like kids, always engaging in childish and mediocre arguments. who cares

sir / madam, there are more serious issues to be addressed and talked about than this pettiness. all the so called leaders of the country are behaving like kids, always engaging in childish and mediocre arguments. who cares

Sam 10 years ago

Joe, you got it all wrong. Stop disgracing yourself. If I were you, I would have shut my mouth.If Rawlings is a semi-literate and you are literate and JJ ruled you, then.......I reserve my comment. Why not Blay said what lea ...
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Joe, you got it all wrong. Stop disgracing yourself. If I were you, I would have shut my mouth.If Rawlings is a semi-literate and you are literate and JJ ruled you, then.......I reserve my comment. Why not Blay said what lead him to imprisonment? Was JJ also ever not been imprisoned with all his ten fingers nails freshly removed because of the inhuman hardship Ghanaians were going through? Do you even know this fact about JJ at all, despite your so-called literacy? Who has ever said this humiliation JJ passed also through on ghanaweb.com? Please, as coin has two sides, let us all think by judging two sides before we open our mouth to talk. By the way, Joe, what is your current educational attainment at all, if I may ask? If a semi-literate ever ruled you a literate, then you should know how people will assess you from far so please think otherwise. It's a humble advice anyway. Thanks
Dean 10 years ago

I can easily say Rawlings ideas were similar to Hitler to castrate one particular group bcos of sheer jealousy but he failed miserably.

I can easily say Rawlings ideas were similar to Hitler to castrate one particular group bcos of sheer jealousy but he failed miserably.
Dean 10 years ago

His bloody head should have been chopped off instead of his mere fingers.Rawlings don't deserves any mercy he is pure evil.Go to Togo.

His bloody head should have been chopped off instead of his mere fingers.Rawlings don't deserves any mercy he is pure evil.Go to Togo.
Obah 10 years ago

give him the second chance

give him the second chance
Dean 10 years ago

The whole of Rawlings body shakes as if he is masturbating. Thief where is my 50 cedis you collected.Good for nothing opportunists liar.You've lost yr respect long time.man.

The whole of Rawlings body shakes as if he is masturbating. Thief where is my 50 cedis you collected.Good for nothing opportunists liar.You've lost yr respect long time.man.
Koo Nimo 10 years ago

Starfmonline, please get your facts right and stop feeding us with "apor fii". Rawlings never staged a coup in 1983. The coup was in 1981. Or are you referring to Freddie Balay having staged a coup in 1983?

Starfmonline, please get your facts right and stop feeding us with "apor fii". Rawlings never staged a coup in 1983. The coup was in 1981. Or are you referring to Freddie Balay having staged a coup in 1983?
Johnny 10 years ago

As for our young journalists the least said about them the better

As for our young journalists the least said about them the better
TANII BA! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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jah 10 years ago

You are a thief that was the reason you went to prison

You are a thief that was the reason you went to prison

Fiction 10 years ago

Blay who are u to rawlings ur paper wrotes all kind of nest stories abt him in de past bt he neva bothered de least abt u n ur evil wife wat more is there for u to say idiot I dnt support ndc bt I admired n cherish rawling ...
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Blay who are u to rawlings ur paper wrotes all kind of nest stories abt him in de past bt he neva bothered de least abt u n ur evil wife wat more is there for u to say idiot I dnt support ndc bt I admired n cherish rawlings so much
kash 10 years ago

Who cares u exchange even bullets with him, idiot

Who cares u exchange even bullets with him, idiot
MATIGARI 10 years ago

IF YOU HAVE SEEING PEOPLE AND THET DO NOT KNOW OF IT YOU ARE JUST PINISHING YOURSELF. YOU WERE IMPRISONED DURING THE REVOLUTION. WHAT DID YOU DO? ISMIT NOT PROPER YOU TELL US. AFTER THAT YIOU SEE RAWLINGS AND SQEEZ YOUR FACE. ...
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IF YOU HAVE SEEING PEOPLE AND THET DO NOT KNOW OF IT YOU ARE JUST PINISHING YOURSELF. YOU WERE IMPRISONED DURING THE REVOLUTION. WHAT DID YOU DO? ISMIT NOT PROPER YOU TELL US. AFTER THAT YIOU SEE RAWLINGS AND SQEEZ YOUR FACE. WHO IS SUFFERING THEN?
ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

stupid fool

stupid fool
KWAME-BELGIUM 10 years ago

Mr. Man, you must just forget about that and remember that you were jailed because of your kalabule past.

Mr. Man, you must just forget about that and remember that you were jailed because of your kalabule past.
LAST DON 10 years ago

Fredie Blay get lost and Rawlings is more clever. You want to be his friend Eh? Just stay where you are and admire him. AKY3K3 BOY

Fredie Blay get lost and Rawlings is more clever. You want to be his friend Eh? Just stay where you are and admire him. AKY3K3 BOY
Haile Mengistus Manasseh V11 10 years ago

Folks ! This Ghanweb Forum is a product of " Daily Guide " under the directorship of Gina Blay the wife of Freddie Blay. Gina is a Voltarian.The reason Daily Guide will never support anything NDC or Rawlings is the fact that ...
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Folks ! This Ghanweb Forum is a product of " Daily Guide " under the directorship of Gina Blay the wife of Freddie Blay. Gina is a Voltarian.The reason Daily Guide will never support anything NDC or Rawlings is the fact that Freddie and Gina were vehemently opposed to the 31st Dec. Revolution. Freddie ! please you failed to tell the whole world why you were imprisoned at Ho and in the Usher Fort. Was Rawlings who personally ordered your imprisonment for personal reason or your actions were counter to law and order?
Che 10 years ago

If you don't see eye to eye, only the two of you know why. Why didnt you say why you were imprisoned? And after all, what does your cordial relationship with Rawlings brings us...absolutely nothing. Spare us next time this sh ...
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If you don't see eye to eye, only the two of you know why. Why didnt you say why you were imprisoned? And after all, what does your cordial relationship with Rawlings brings us...absolutely nothing. Spare us next time this shit.
Abbie 10 years ago

Shame on all those making comments that they don't care about Mr Blay. Would they have made the same comments if it was their father, brother or husband who was imprisoned without trial? Why? The man was interviewed and was j ...
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Shame on all those making comments that they don't care about Mr Blay. Would they have made the same comments if it was their father, brother or husband who was imprisoned without trial? Why? The man was interviewed and was just telling his story. We are fast becoming a nation of insensitive people.
BabaUS 10 years ago

And so what? How does this affect our national problems?

And so what? How does this affect our national problems?
Efo Kwaku Canada 10 years ago

NDC guys on this site always prove stupidity at its highest level , anything about their stupid founder JJ is okay for them , tell him to remove indemnity clauses and you FOOLS will see what will happen to that idiot , peopl ...
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NDC guys on this site always prove stupidity at its highest level , anything about their stupid founder JJ is okay for them , tell him to remove indemnity clauses and you FOOLS will see what will happen to that idiot , people were treated as animals during his 19 years dictator rule , but there are more Courage Quashiga's left in Volta region who doesn't follow tribal politics but looking forward for Ghanaians better future ,not just Volta region but Ghana as a whole
Kofi 10 years ago

Why don"t you start campaigning for the removal if the indemnity clause? You only need 60% of Ghanaians to agree with you.June 4TH was a cruel necessity.I am not a fan of Rawlings but I was old enough to see why it happened.I ...
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Why don"t you start campaigning for the removal if the indemnity clause? You only need 60% of Ghanaians to agree with you.June 4TH was a cruel necessity.I am not a fan of Rawlings but I was old enough to see why it happened.I am of the fervent opinion that the corrupt officials who burned the Medical Centre should be hanged.Ghana was like that in the 70s.We should have a relentless desire to stamp out corruption.
Kofi Kwateng 10 years ago

Does Rawlings like anybody?

Does Rawlings like anybody?
Opuku, Akyem 10 years ago

The is hope for you

The is hope for you
I & l 10 years ago

Don't exchange anything with that evil bastard. He is a thug,serial coup maker, murderer, tyrant, thieve, tribal divider, confusionist, and anything worse one can think of. That pig arsonist must be treated as outcast with t ...
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Don't exchange anything with that evil bastard. He is a thug,serial coup maker, murderer, tyrant, thieve, tribal divider, confusionist, and anything worse one can think of. That pig arsonist must be treated as outcast with the utmost disdain.
I & l 10 years ago

Don't exchange anything with that evil bastard. He is a thug,seriabutl coup maker, murderer, tyrant, thieve, tribal divider, confusionist, and anything worse one can think of. That pig arsonist must be treated as outcast wit ...
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Don't exchange anything with that evil bastard. He is a thug,seriabutl coup maker, murderer, tyrant, thieve, tribal divider, confusionist, and anything worse one can think of. That pig arsonist must be treated as outcast with the utmost disdain.
Y T Wayo 10 years ago

Blay, you are not a small boy, why can't you reconcile with JJ if you are peace loving citizen . The ball is in your court .

Blay, you are not a small boy, why can't you reconcile with JJ if you are peace loving citizen . The ball is in your court .
bobo 10 years ago

Mr blay dont do it,the man is a dog.he had kept quite as if he dont see what is happing in ghana with his criminal friends NDC.

Mr blay dont do it,the man is a dog.he had kept quite as if he dont see what is happing in ghana with his criminal friends NDC.
Asem se be 10 years ago

Yes a typical Ghanaian thing, is either one side supporting NPP or NDC or/and either an Ewe or Ashanti tribal nonsense. One side supporting Rawlings and the other Kuffour while we swallow in abject destitution. Where have w ...
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Yes a typical Ghanaian thing, is either one side supporting NPP or NDC or/and either an Ewe or Ashanti tribal nonsense. One side supporting Rawlings and the other Kuffour while we swallow in abject destitution. Where have we left our brains? I'm ashamed by our low level of thinking. How can a nation develop this way? Ghana our dear is one of the least developed places on earth. Rawlings and Kuffour are extremely rich from stealing from me and you, our money, our children's future. Ghana is 10x worse off than 50 years ago. One cannot even boast a good drinking water in Ghana today but all we do is praise and support criminals who have created the mess.
???? 10 years ago

Word

Word
K Boye 10 years ago

Who cares!!!!!!!

Who cares!!!!!!!
nzema koto 10 years ago

Change your bad character to be liked by all you blay

Change your bad character to be liked by all you blay
Annorwuo 10 years ago

Will go to sleep in the same room as this 'political turncoat',who calls himself Freddie Blay, with both eyes shut! I sure hope Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyepong also see this character through a similar lense.

Will go to sleep in the same room as this 'political turncoat',who calls himself Freddie Blay, with both eyes shut! I sure hope Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyepong also see this character through a similar lense.
Mike frm Ho. 10 years ago

This Blay man jast want to divert peoples attention from the trouble he is slowly creating for THE NPP. Hope the real NPP MEMBERS will soon discover this.

This Blay man jast want to divert peoples attention from the trouble he is slowly creating for THE NPP. Hope the real NPP MEMBERS will soon discover this.
Yaw 10 years ago

He failed to tell us why he was imprisoned for a year. And thats what all criminals never say. I remmeber when a soldier came to the national reconciliation commision and accused some soldiers of massive torture.

All the m ...
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He failed to tell us why he was imprisoned for a year. And thats what all criminals never say. I remmeber when a soldier came to the national reconciliation commision and accused some soldiers of massive torture.

All the members of the commision sympathised with him and gave him all the most encouraging words. The next day, the leader of the soldiers who tortured him was called to the commision to testify, where he gave an account of why the soldiers dealt with that man the way they did.

Apparently, this man accusing other soldiers of torture WAS LOOTING POOR PEOPLE OF THEIR PROPERTIES, EVEN TORTURED A PREGNANT WOMAN AND DID THE MOST EVIL THINGS U COULD EVER IMAGINE.
But guess what? They'll never tell u what they did to warrant their predicament. If they do, their answer is normally "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING?"
GoodMan 10 years ago

YAW YOU ARE RIGHT.MOST GHANAIANS BEHAVE THAT WAY.THEY WILL NEVER TELL YOU THEIR BAD SIDE OF THE STORY AND UNFORTUNATELY THEY WILL GET SOME PEOPLE O BELIEVE THEIR FRAMING STORIES.

YAW YOU ARE RIGHT.MOST GHANAIANS BEHAVE THAT WAY.THEY WILL NEVER TELL YOU THEIR BAD SIDE OF THE STORY AND UNFORTUNATELY THEY WILL GET SOME PEOPLE O BELIEVE THEIR FRAMING STORIES.
ABROKWA ,HOUSTON, USA 10 years ago

MR. BLAY DO NOT WORRY. AS LONG AS YOU LOVE HIM AS A PERSON, YOU ARE OK.

MR. BLAY DO NOT WORRY. AS LONG AS YOU LOVE HIM AS A PERSON, YOU ARE OK.
BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ> 10 years ago

PLEASE, THE ABOVE LAWSUITS IS COMING ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015 AT THE HIGH COURT FAST TRACK COURT IN ACCRA.

OPEN LETTER !

DEAR READING PUBLIC OF GHANAWEB.COM,
THIS IS TO RESPECTFULLY GIVE THIS RELATED "NOTICE TO WHOM ...
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PLEASE, THE ABOVE LAWSUITS IS COMING ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015 AT THE HIGH COURT FAST TRACK COURT IN ACCRA.

OPEN LETTER !

DEAR READING PUBLIC OF GHANAWEB.COM,
THIS IS TO RESPECTFULLY GIVE THIS RELATED "NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN" THAT I HAVE OBSERVED WITH DUE DILIGENCE THAT SOME UNKNOWN PERSONS ANY TIME I FILED DOCUMENTS AT THE COURTS REGISTRY THAT MY DULY SOLICITOR/PRACTITIONER'S LICENSE NO.GAR 09190/14 WOULD BE MYSTERIOUSLY CHANGED TO "GRA 09190/14" TO THE GREATEST EMBARRASSMENT OF OUR CHAMBERS LEGAL SECRETARY AND MYSELF.
THAT AS THIS IS NOT SUFFICED THE UNKNOWN PERSONS MYSTERIOUSLY ALSO RESORTED TO DELETING "LETTERS AND WORDS" FROM THE CASE THAT I DULY FILED.
THAT INTERESTINGLY THE SAME PEOPLE WILL RESORT TO BE SCANDALIZING MY PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS "WHETHER YOU AND KPEGA ARE FROM THE SAME TOWN? BUT HE WRITES A BETTER ENGLISH---" AND OTHERS.
THAT I WILL LIKE TO BE ON RECORD THAT I HAVE DULY COMMENCED LAWSUITS AGAINST THE FOLLOWING FOR A CLAIM OF LIBEL AND SEEKING RELIEFS OF TWO MILLION GHANA CEDIS (GHC 2,000,000.00) AND THE DEFENDANTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
(i) WESTERN PUBLICATION LTD, PUBLISHER'S OF DAILY GUIDE NEWSPAPER
(ii) MRS. GINA AMA BLAY
(iii)FREDDIE BLAY
(iv) OFORI ADENIRA
(v) DAILY GUIDE NEWSPAPER
THAT THE CASE CITATION IS:

BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI } PLAINTIFF
VRS
(i) WESTERN PUBLICATION LTD, PUBLISHER'S OF DAILY GUIDE NEWSPAPER}
(ii) MRS. GINA AMA BLAY }DEFENDANTS
(iii)FREDDIE BLAY
(iv) OFORI ADENIRA }
(v) DAILY GUIDE NEWSPAPER

THAT THE CASE IS AT THE HIGH COURT FAST TRACK COURT IN ACCRA.
THAT EVERY ATTEMPTS WAS MADE NOT TO PUBLISH THE CASE AND THE CASE IS BEING HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC.
THEREFORE, I AM RESPECTFULLY INFORMING THE PUBLIC TO BE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT LITIGATION IS ONGOING AND TO BE ALERT TO READ FROM OTHERS PURPORTED ACTIONS, THERETO.
GOD BLESS GHANA AND AMERICA.
VERY TRULY YOURS,
BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI
INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT
GoodMan 10 years ago

BLAY SHOULD TELL US WHAT EXACTLY CAUSED THIS.YOU WERE IMPRISONED DURING THAT ERA AND WAS LATER RELEASED.BLAY DID YOU ATTEMPTED A COUP AFTER YOU WERE RELEASED FROM PRISON

BLAY SHOULD TELL US WHAT EXACTLY CAUSED THIS.YOU WERE IMPRISONED DURING THAT ERA AND WAS LATER RELEASED.BLAY DID YOU ATTEMPTED A COUP AFTER YOU WERE RELEASED FROM PRISON
GOBE DESERT 10 years ago

Ghanaians have to remove the indeminity clause and then all the evil deeds of JJ Rawlings will explode ; it is long overdue because till today Rawlings think he was the saviour of Ghana ; on the contrary he is the cause of ou ...
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Ghanaians have to remove the indeminity clause and then all the evil deeds of JJ Rawlings will explode ; it is long overdue because till today Rawlings think he was the saviour of Ghana ; on the contrary he is the cause of our current problems today ; the question is what would have happened if JJRawlings had not intervened .
Nima Old Soldier 10 years ago

Blay it's better for you to still keep your distance. The adage say to dine with the devil you need a long spoon. This killer Rawlings has no regrets and will ever remain such a heartless man till death.

Better keep your g ...
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Blay it's better for you to still keep your distance. The adage say to dine with the devil you need a long spoon. This killer Rawlings has no regrets and will ever remain such a heartless man till death.

Better keep your good name than try to re-associate with such a wicked criminal man.
SALINSA 10 years ago

blay's wife is gina

blay's wife is gina
Curteous 10 years ago

who even knows you!!!

who even knows you!!!
Ibrahim Hardi 10 years ago

I don't even think Rawlings is aware of what this man is saying.

I don't even think Rawlings is aware of what this man is saying.
Mark 10 years ago

JJ is diying a sad slow death, look at him

JJ is diying a sad slow death, look at him
Rawlings the MURDERER 10 years ago

tweaaa

tweaaa
ex cpl ATIA Naagode 10 years ago

Forget about Rawlings handshake. Be on your guide and serve the Party you had long cherished.Even his wife is far off from him(Rawlings)whiles his former houseboy Seikwa asiedu nketia is insulting and teasing him.asiedu stand ...
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Forget about Rawlings handshake. Be on your guide and serve the Party you had long cherished.Even his wife is far off from him(Rawlings)whiles his former houseboy Seikwa asiedu nketia is insulting and teasing him.asiedu stands among Ghana's 20 top influencial men,where do you we place JJRawlings? A backing dog in a cage
Egblewogbe. Dzikunyawonye 10 years ago

Cause and effect what did you do to warrant your going to prison be honest let the world know now .

Cause and effect what did you do to warrant your going to prison be honest let the world know now .
Obah 10 years ago

pls give him the second chance

pls give him the second chance
Sir Onaasis 10 years ago

Is not only you have been experiencing this kind of situation. Some of us, our family has been true before so be quite ok

Is not only you have been experiencing this kind of situation. Some of us, our family has been true before so be quite ok
SISTER SOULJAH 10 years ago

Who cares if Blay and Rawlings don't get along? This is not important or newsworthy information. What practical effect does their not getting along have on the daily lives, needs, and welfare of citizens, why is this news w ...
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Who cares if Blay and Rawlings don't get along? This is not important or newsworthy information. What practical effect does their not getting along have on the daily lives, needs, and welfare of citizens, why is this news worth reporting. Blay is a bloated idiot who is practically a retard; he has no idea what it means to be a leader, so who gives a rat's ass if he doesn't get along with another loose canon, Rawlings.
braimah 10 years ago

Why were you imprisoned...becos of your kalabule behaviour....ugly kwaku aka moda fucker. .

Why were you imprisoned...becos of your kalabule behaviour....ugly kwaku aka moda fucker. .

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