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Ghana@58: We’ve made several mistakes - Akilagpa Sawyerr

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  • KWAME 10 years ago

    HMMMMMMMMMMMMM

  • HUMANISM 10 years ago

    YOU CANNOT HIDE OUR OWN FOLLIES UNDER THE UNITY THEME.
    WHEN PEOPLE ARE BENT ON BECOMING HEADS OF STATE BY ALL MEANS POSSIBLE .... AND THEY GET THERE AND THEY START SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE LEGS .... AND YET THEY REFUSE TO ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AF ...
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  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    ''We have been vice presidents for far too long, it is time you make ONE OF YOUR OWN President.'' John Mahama.

    WHAT ARE THE REST OF US TO JOHN MAHAMA?

    THE USELESS NDC IS TURNING ONE TRIBE AGAINST ANOTHER
    TURNING ONE RE ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    It is because, Ghanaian People some of them are not sensible otherwise no one
    would have followed NDC, let us all read
    the Holly Gospel according John Chapter
    10 v 1-10, will tell us why all these mistakes you are talking ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    Politicians made too many mistakes, and continue to make them. To say Ghana is on a sound track just tells you even this so-called Prof likes to believe his own lies.

    Just which sound track are we on? The numerous Professo ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    this r the wicked men behind the scenes milking ghana dry. kwasia man u here talking abt mistakes. profesor my nyass tooth pick seff u no fit do. walking around with big titles yet doing nothing. look at Safo Nyame no title p ...
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  • Dr effrlm 10 years ago

    learn to respect and grow
    Why did we
    Overthrow Nkrumah
    Busia Lemman.de

    Beginning of our wows

  • KWAME 10 years ago

    TWAEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Who called you 'kwame'?

  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 10 years ago

    I AGREE WITH PROF. SAWYER BUT IT IS THE MIND OF THE GHANAIANS WE MUST APPEAL TO , A CHANGE OF MIND IS NECESSARY, BECAUSE EVEN THE IMPERIALISTS AND THE COLONIALISTS WERE SURPRISED BY THE BIG HEART THEY FOUND IN THE INHABITANT ...
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  • Marquis 10 years ago

    It is true and they are all part of our development process. We are getting there and we will get there

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    I hope not!
    We are moving in the wrong direction. But whoever dares point that to our dishonest leaders are labelled 'nation wreckers'. And, like sheep, we follow the leader.
    Yes, very soon, we will get to the slaughter ho ...
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  • KOO 10 years ago

    Yes,we made mistakes right from the day of independence.What and where did it go wrong?.Instead of teaming up with our colonial masters to master the administration of countries we chose to confront them and fight them on eve ...
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  • DHURUWAH 10 years ago

    The very first mistake was a bunch of soldiers overthrowing Nkrumah, PERIOD. After that. they did not know what to do or how to run a country. Ghana's down fall started from that day, followed by vision-less leaderships ever ...
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  • Truthiness 10 years ago

    Has it occured to you that Ghana was broke by 1965 and that is why all projects had to be dropped? Nkrumah approached the IMF and was denied the 1 billion pounds loan he was seeking. That was when all ongoing projects stopped ...
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  • Dr effrlm 10 years ago

    We did not only say freedom we started industry plantation education ie technology but because I brought nkrumah and he is popular than me
    We must move heaven and earth to bring him
    Down
    The beginning of our woes

  • Neasack 10 years ago

    Ghana should elcte only individuals who have already worked their socked off and built their own properties to become MP's . As electing or appointing those with assest leads to greed and corruption to the highest level as we ...
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  • YIKRA 10 years ago

    Apart from corruption these are way money and resources are lost forever. Lack of planning and disorganization by employees(goro boys and girls at all places of work) is BIG cause of POVERTY.

    Plus retrogressive attitudes c ...
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  • Dr See Little 10 years ago

    Prof. Sowyerr has spoken the simple truth. Politics appears to be the most important thing Ghanaians concern themselves with. Other important and development related events/persons are simply either ignored or barely mentione ...
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  • Kwadwo 10 years ago

    prof you were Rawlings man, were you able to councel him so I entreat you tostop these speeches as a man who was the chairman of his council of state and he ruled for about 18 years, messed about our ghana, looted the state w ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    NO, Rawlings was not the problem. The Problem is Ghanaians!

    Let's assume the coup that brought him was a mistake: WELL, he was in already, shouting accountability and corruption on top of his voice. All we should have don ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Sorry, mate.
    Had Rawlings allowed Limann to rule for four years, and, had Rawlings contributed by 'shouting' his accountability, we would not have been here.
    Rawlings ruled for 19 years, not because of any developmental ach ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    Sorry mate, one thing rotten about Ghanaians and which continues to threaten the survival of everything we have including our values, integrity, economy is our denial that we all are completely responsible for what remains of ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Vuvu, I'm glad you do not deny the obvious. But you would help educate many uninformed, and misled folks if you judge the crimes against the nation by our leaders on their merits, irrespective of whodunit, and without knowled ...
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  • Dr effrlm 10 years ago

    Who started it all with little knowledge
    In political adms he
    Hijack our GH THAT was pregnant with a future dat Uk
    Us
    China were afraid of

  • Rastero 10 years ago

    I hardly can take any Christian in the right sense of the word seriously who uses the Bible to justify one political party over another. The reason is that all these political parties shed blood and enter into some demonic bo ...
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  • The mask 10 years ago

    Political parties in power tend to reward communities they like and neglect others. This is usually based on ethnicity or votes garnered.

    Some communities have had this problem since Independence. A certain phenomenon can ...
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  • KWAME KWAME 10 years ago

    Professor Sawyer, one of the most humble Ghanaians you will ever come across. He exerted a lot of power yet he made sure he could be at the level of all people. You demonstrated that leadership should be done with HUMILITY. ...
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  • 0265217070 10 years ago

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  • Man of Character 10 years ago

    Hmmm, Professor, the problem is with our leaders. Apart from Dr. Nkrumah, everybody comes in and loot state money and leave without thinking of the country he ruling. The problem is looters who call themselves leaders. The co ...
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  • KWAKU ANANSE 10 years ago

    THE NDC PARTY ALONE RULED FOR 26 YEARS AND THEY ALWAYS STEAL THE NATION'S RESOURCES, MAKE GHANA BANKRUPT AND PLACE GHANA INTO HIPC STATUS. THAT IS THE` NDC PARTY WHICH YOU BELONG TO.

  • Dr effrlm 10 years ago

    The cause of
    Our suffering after God blessing us with every thing GH need u
    Der declared GH hipc oñly to enrich your selfishness n party
    Confess and pray for sympathy GH

  • kre 10 years ago

    ......and we keep making the same mistakes by electing the wrong people to lead us. Ghana's problem is poor leadership. 58 years after independence and Ghana is still in darkness. That is unacceptable!

  • HAZOR 10 years ago

    The mistakes we refuse to acknowledge and keep on repeat the same mistake show how inferior human beings we are.Our leaders refuse to acknowledge the importances of supporting research,technongy and innovation.Kwame Nkrumah s ...
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  • WOJAFFO 10 years ago

    Come on prof,did you say sound track? Please don't by into that nonsense and call a spade a spade,,,for once. Where do you see the right track? How come the rest of the citizens don't see it?
    Ghana is 58 miles away from t ...
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  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    Yes!! Prof, Ghana had given the World a great picture of decadence on my view. Incredulously, the country had chalked a gargantuan achievements considering the number of coups that came and gone. These tags went on testostero ...
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