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US-based Ghanaian accused of trying to smuggle guns to Ghana

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  • Nana Kwaku 8 years ago

    What for Ghana is not safe my friends,Ivory Coast,Liberia,Sierra Leone,Guinea,Burkina Faso,Togo etc have all had their turns will it be Ghana next time?

  • Douglas. Bristol-UK°` 8 years ago

    he is a known narcotics peoples party NPP member. jail this Ashanti idiot 50 years

  • kako 8 years ago

    Idiot NPP gun man....he go..go jail ..son of a bitch.

  • MANSON UK 8 years ago

    There is Guns everywhere in Ghana,this is not a news.

  • Saint Ghfuo: FREE YOUR PSYCHE 8 years ago

    HE WAS BEING MONITORED BCOS HE BOUGHT TOO MANY GUNS FROM ONE SPOT. AND THEN HIS INFO WAS SENT TO FBI BY THE STORE THAT SOLD HIM THE GUNS. NEXTIME, BUY BITS AND PIECES FROM HERE AND THERE.....

  • Protect Yourself. 8 years ago

    He is selling them to law abiding citizens who want to protect themselves against armed robbers because in Ghana armed robbers operate with impunity. Fuck the Ghana police.

  • SENIOR MAN 8 years ago

    Only narrow-minded Ghanaians politicize and tribalize every issue.How on earth can people assume that this Attah guy is an Ashanti and that he is an NPP member.
    What these people are saying is that all Attahs are Ashantis an ...
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  • Asebu 8 years ago

    What is the basis of your comment? Are you just pathologically born an ASSHOLE. You have a bucolic mindset.

  • charles mensah 8 years ago

    Shame u to who has been u ur father's houseboy?well,all what I kno is that every ewe chief is circumcised .

  • METCHEEEEEW 8 years ago

    In fact some ewes have problems, so Douglas stupid Bristol-UK do you think this hate will hurt Ashantis? and do you think this hate will let you match them never, ever you wasting your energy and destroying your heart muscles ...
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  • charles mensah 8 years ago

    Shame,plz know this that all ewe chiefs ar circumcised

  • kboat 8 years ago

    If now seems you are jealous of Asante People, saw your stupid comment on the Opoku Ware school. .you are stupid,colonial person, stupid ass.

  • charles mensah 8 years ago

    Why bring in tribe?say the wrong done

  • HamiltonF1. UK 8 years ago

    I guess Akuffo Addo is the clearing officer. ...Nonsense

  • Eric Darko 8 years ago

    Shout the fuck up bitch ass nigga.u aint got no idea so stop fucking judging.

  • NANAÖ MOTHER !!! 8 years ago

    Your comment show how stupid you are.Ewe bitch no matter Mahama was using you and your family as guinea pigs for Ebola test.

  • Kofi, USA 8 years ago

    HAHA HAHA HAHA, STUPID ASS HOLE DEVIL TERRORIST AKUFO UGLY OLD MAN DWARF IS VERY DANGEROUS AND TERRORIST FULL OF SHIT. HE IS BEHIND ALL THESE.

  • Ali Natasha Ali 8 years ago

    Jail him if possible.he will point out his accomplies here in Ghana. You want to destroy Ghana

  • Antwi 8 years ago

    This guy should be waterboarded yo show those with whom.he deals with in Ghana here. Trying to cause war in this country and run away yo enjoy your criminal life in the US. God punish this criminal. May he be jailed and die i ...
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  • Mr, Akomia Lawson UK 8 years ago

    He should be sentence to life in presonment because l feel and know that he was odered by NPP party to bring if since all die be die is their slogan and it's an election period

  • KWAKU 8 years ago

    GO BACK TO SCHOOL, AKOMIA LAWSON.

  • Nana kwesi 8 years ago

    All we hear everyday is bad news about Ghana.

  • kako 8 years ago

    All die be die news....lol

  • Joseph Cabo Verde islands 8 years ago

    Let him go to hell, Ghana need peace.

  • 2020 8 years ago

    ARREST DOUGLAS BRISTOL UK THAT HIS ACCOMPLICE

  • BLACK-NINJA-ASIA... 8 years ago

    STUPID PEOPLE'S WHY DON'T YOU FOOL'S INSULT MAHAMA CUM. NDC'S,,,SINCE MAHAMA BECAME PRESIDENT EVERYTHING,GOE'S WRONG,WICKED PRESIDENT BAD LUCK...I JUST SEE ON NEWS NOW,KINTANPO ACCIDENT,IS BEEN SHOW ALL OVER THERE WORLD,LOOK ...
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  • Rambo 8 years ago

    Okay we will Arrest him .but Ghana will never see War Insha Allah

  • Concerned Citizen 8 years ago

    We have to thank the U.S authorities for stopping this deal. They should send him to the hardest of prisons in the U.S.

  • The Boy 8 years ago

    Did he think he can get away with it in the US? Did he not know the FBI was monitoring him? He can get away with it in Ghana, or African countries but not in the US.

  • Nana Yenka masem. 8 years ago

    This gun deal can be trace right down to NPPians door steps, the recent visit of Nana shortingo to the US raises eyebrow, The security agents in Ghana must wake up to their task , I don't know why we are still entertaining th ...
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  • Foreigner 8 years ago

    This man was making money.

    It's easy to buy an unlimited number of guns and ammunition without being on anyone's radar. I'm sure he was selling them back in Ghana to whomever. Some may be going to people wanting to defen ...
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  • Nana Yenka masem. 8 years ago

    Anyway , but I smell a big elephant in this dealings, Npp is capable of doing anything, they are good in fabrications, lies, killing, stealing, insult and many more for power, anything that can bring them back to power to con ...
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  • kotoo 8 years ago

    Why do you want God to intervene,this is stupid.We always do bad things in the name of God

  • ATTA KOFI 8 years ago

    Take him up,and let show us where he sells his stuffs.

    They the are the same people,shouting ghana is burning.

  • ASHANTI MONLEYS BABOONING EVERYWHERE 8 years ago

    FOOLISH ASHANTI BABBOONS AGAIN. DISGRACING GH EVERYWHERE. TODAY ITS RAPE OF LESBIAN, TOMORROW IS COCAIN SMUGLLING, THE NEXT ITS KILLING OF MP NOW GUN SMUGLING TO FIGHT FOR ELECTION AND YET A FEW TAFO ZONGO YOUTH PLACE YOUE WH ...
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  • Canada 8 years ago

    Haha Ashanti's are the most respected tribe by the African diaspora infact apart from Zulus we have the most written history according to European historians. Lol bum.

  • AGBOGBA 8 years ago

    NO DOUBT.ASHANTI FOOL.

  • Eric Darko 8 years ago

    Your ancestors and your parents are fools idiot.pussy ass stinky ass ewe or who ever tribe u from.read history abt Asantes bitch ass stinky creature

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 8 years ago

    This poor guy will be going to prison but his big masters in Ghana are moving about free. We must be alert and never forget ALL DIE BE DIE.

  • Kwame Bonsu. 8 years ago

    The all die be die mantra.

  • puoo 8 years ago

    It is business ,many guys are doing it.His cup is full.since we have lose custom.He brings this arms to Ghana without paying kobo.Our system is too weak..God save Ghana..aye huhuhu

  • Seabreeze 8 years ago

    The dude simply should have gotten his license as a arms dealer. To me, he found a way to make money as many are now doing by shipping all kinds of items in Ghana. His problem is that, he chose to go into the export business ...
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  • epepe 8 years ago

    Greed,Kofi wayo did it legally exporting arms ...he didn't want to pay us tax

  • peeeee 8 years ago

    Its about money,why are stupid people talking politics??wayo my hero

  • ghanaman 8 years ago

    There are a lot of ghanaians living in the U.S.A. who does these business,it started over 10 years ago, they have smuggled alot of guns and arms into Ghana, they hide it in car doors,they dismantle the door panels put a whole ...
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  • tkn 8 years ago

    No, why must he be jailed. Those intruders in Ghana are claiming brave than we Akans, saying we are cowards. Let them wait a while and they will run and leave their dirty cloths behind. We are preparing for the them, them fu ...
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  • peeeee 8 years ago

    You are stupid and jealous of your friend!!Scarface will say you haven't got the balls to be what you want to be!!either u join him,report him. Or shut up!!!

  • obi 8 years ago

    to kill who and why has the US sale so much guns to him. why not one one they should take all the guns back fin him and put him in jail ,and if possible who sent him to buy the guns

  • Dirty Ghana 8 years ago

    These are the criminals destroying Ghana. Ghana is full of guns because of these evil criminals. Then they will turn round and blame Mahama
    I hope he rots in jail. I trust America to nail him very hard.

  • Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

    This is precisely why I say the enemies of Ghana are the Ghanaians living outside Ghana. Here is a greedy jackass who, for riches, is willing to sell weapons of death to Ghanaians while he and his ignorant family enjoy their ...
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  • Constable Joy 8 years ago

    ....ON TOP SUCH IDIOTS OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY WANT TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.TWEA

  • Ahmed 8 years ago

    If this guy is owing Muslim name,,,the headline will be jihadist,Islamic terrorist, extremist but wen the coin turn to the other side,he is called by his name not Christian terrorist

  • simson 8 years ago

    Job well done, America! Who in Ghana is funding this guy.

  • G. K. Berko 8 years ago

    Abeeku, don't you remember Frema Busia's accusation against the former Kufuor Administration's Security Capo, Francis Poku a few years back?

    She alleged that the guy was involved in some illicit proliferation of small arm ...
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  • Adjei 8 years ago

    I get surprised at people who God has blessed to enable them live outside Ghana like the States, earn good dollars and can not ship down small machines for productive enterprises like food processing to improve our GDP. if th ...
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  • ananseba 8 years ago

    Recently there was a report that arms were found at the NPP HQ. That news has gone under the radar. There has been arms related arrests in Kumasi and other parts of the country. But typical of Ghana nothing happens, no action ...
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  • ibrahim-tafohene(our land) 8 years ago

    Jxt by seeing the headings i know for sure he will be an ashanti man.
    and through to my words he was,dis dwarfs like quick money.

  • YAW MAN 8 years ago

    I LIVE HERE IN CHARLOTTE WITH HIM THATS HIS BUSINESS HE HAS BEEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF GHANAS LOOSE AND CORRUPT SYSTEM TO MAKE MONEY HE LIVES IN HIS DADS HOUSE NO POLITICS

  • AFRICAN PRIDE 8 years ago

    He makes money this way, but when you go back home, your own relatives will compare you with him and call you a LOSER and all sorts of names.

  • peeeee 8 years ago

    His only mistake was to hide it,market is about supply and demand,,,

  • Saint Ghfuo: FREE YOUR PSYCHE 8 years ago

    ITS PURE BUSINESS. HI MISTAKE WAS BUYING TOO MANY GUNS FROM ONE SPOT. THAT TRIGGERED AN ALARM AND HIS INFO WAS SENT TO FBI.....LO GREEDY MOTHERFUCKER.

  • Sumaila Atolai. 8 years ago

    Thank you.I just posted a similar comment on Ghanaweb regarding the Tafo unrest in Kumasi.Islam will survive.If you leave Islam Alone, it will grow and if you bother Islam,it will grow even bigger .Insha Allah.

  • dinno 7 years ago

    36 of guns are no where to be found. Which means its in Ghana. Where will it be and for what. ?

  • Asebu 8 years ago

    Do we have scanners at our ports to detect these guns being shipped to Ghana? These are the arms that the armed robbers are using in killing innocent Ghanaians. The guns sold must be used on the relatives of these STUPID gun ...
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  • Polo 8 years ago

    Armed Robber go end up in jail!

  • Jackson 8 years ago

    In this time of terror threats against the peaceful people of the world and the US,it is naive for this idiot to think that the vigilance eyes of the US law enforcement officers will go unnoticed. Thank God for the arrest of ...
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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 8 years ago

    This fool is bringing guns to crime-ridden Ghana just to make selfish money and run away to the US. Jail this bastard for 50 years.

  • RUN UR MOUTHS AND ADD UR FEET WHEN WA 8 years ago

    FOOLISH ASHANTI ANIMALS. U RUN YOUR
    LOUD MOUTHS BUT USE YOUR FEET TO
    RUN WHEN ITS TIME FOR ACTION. NO
    WONDER YOUR FATHERS RUN AWAY FROM
    WAR FOR YOUR WOMEN TO FIGHT IN
    1900. WE BEAT YOUR MEN, SLAP YOUR
    CHIEFS, BURN YOUR ...
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  • Pac 8 years ago

    Come On Man, I Feel You. Hahahahahaha

  • Master & Commander 8 years ago

    My breakfast sandwich is still sitting on the table,” Sampson Attah pointed out. “I haven’t been able to eat all day. IAOTFLMAO

    Sampson Atta must be fond of food. Why would he complain about a mere breakfast sandwich ...
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  • Anna 8 years ago

    thank the Lord he has been caught, lets use him to catch more.

  • BlackMan5 8 years ago

    This is no " laughing matter." The security agencies should collaborate with their US counterparts to find out who the intended recipients were and what the weapons were intended for.

    Finally, its about time the government ...
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  • Sanfofa 8 years ago

    Mr Adjei your suggestion for Ghanaian outside to buy small mavines to boost GDP.it's a good idea but let me ask you. Are you aware how the government task people who brought things like you mentioned But the custom duty will ...
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  • WISE UP MAN 8 years ago

    Comments like that of Douglas.who claims to be at Bristol,shows how some people think. The next time there is an earthquake in Japan blame Nana Addo for it.Tell your parents that they wasted the mid night oil trying to get yo ...
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  • Prophet USA 8 years ago

    this guy is an NDC agent in Charlotte North Carolina, so do not say things you don't know. he is a disgraced to the Ghanaian community in Charlotte and his family Mr akoto a bus driver here

  • Zayki 7 years ago

    did u really have to add his father's profession to make a point?..smh

  • Charlie Brown 8 years ago

    I'm also in United States, if it's true, I wish he will be jail for life, already, we having problems in ghana, but smuggling gun to ghana, that's not kool. We still love our mother. Fuck u, asshole! !

  • ato kwamina U.S 8 years ago

    The same guns you sent will be used in killing your family if war breaks out and now that you've been busted you going to rot in JAIL..why is it that some people don't want to work for genuine money???

  • Freddie 8 years ago

    That stupid fucker called Atta must be punished for trying to smuggle Arms to Ghana.

  • Sammy 8 years ago

    And they say nigerians are bad!!!...it is really refreshing to confirm dat ghanaians are even worst dan others...

  • oppong london 8 years ago

    it,s the work of ndc,they are importing every evil thing into the country,syrian terrorists ,yemen al qaeda group,every evil thing into ghana,beware of ndc the most evil party in ghana.

  • STEPHEN OSEI,NORWAY 8 years ago

    SMUGGLE GUNS TO GHANA FOR WHAT,GOD WILL PUNISH YOU

  • charles mensah 8 years ago

    Shame ,plz know this that all ewe chiefs are cicumcised OK?

  • witch hunter 8 years ago

    These are the people breeding armed robbers in the country just jail him

  • Kwame 8 years ago

    This man! This man!! You traveled far from your village, town and Ghana. Then you turn around to smuggle guns, a source of death to your own people? Have you no conscience? Must you make money at any cost even if it means th ...
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  • Class of 2000, Anglican Secondary Sch 8 years ago

    He is my friend from High School. I believe he was just trying to make money. This dude loves money and women. That's it.

  • KASS 2000 8 years ago

    Oh Akotozxy, hope a thorough investigation is done, and he is pardoned. Probably was trying to make some extra cash.
    School mate from KASS.

  • Philip Narty 8 years ago

    Ghana is very safe for all. We must not create needless impression that our country is not safe...since when did we realise that people smuggle guns into Ghana? We cannot for the sake of an oldman who wants to president at al ...
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  • royman 8 years ago

    Anybody that allow himself to be used by a politician will jailed or killed

  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 8 years ago

    THE NORTH CAROLINE COURT SYSTEM SHOULD GIVE THIS MAN A VERY HEFTY JAIL SENTENCE. HE MUST HAVE BEEN PLANNING A TERRORIST ATTACK. HAVE NO MERCY ON THIS GUY, AT ALL. PUT HIM AWAY FROM SOCIETY. ADD ANOTHER THIRTY YEARS TO HIS AGE ...
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  • Lulah 8 years ago

    Just look at the comments. Ghana is obviously choked full of extremely STUPID people. That is why you've been tricked into having a utterly useless government and pretend to love it.

  • FELICIA 7 years ago

    this Richmond Attah guy has really embarrassed Ghanaians.

  • FELICIA 7 years ago

    WHAT A SHAME THIS GUY IS A DISGRACE OO