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It's not a crime for Chiefs to support political parties - Gbese elders

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  • John,Tema 7 years ago

    Which traditional chief in Ghana has ever gambled with his stool?Its only a coup maker chief who would do that.

  • aikins 7 years ago

    No wonder you have sold all your lands to Akans and sleep on our roads in your own town. If such Fools are your elders then I pity the up and coming ga youths, Iam sorry but that is the truth.

  • KOFI YESU 7 years ago

    Yes, it's the fundamental human rights of any living person to support what they like including chiefs...but to swear with the Gbese stool and threatened to step down is a far more serious and disrespectful to the spirits and ...
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  • Onaapo 7 years ago

    IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THEY TRY TO ROUND THE EDGES IN THIS CASE,THE CAT IS ALREADY OUT OF THE BAG AND THE CHIEF HAS LOST CREDIBILITY AND RESPECT NATIONWIDE.HE HAS BECOME A JOKE AND HIS STUPID PUBLIC VOW TO ABDICATE IS ON TAPE.

  • Biney 7 years ago

    He has become a joke.Nothing was funnier than seeing him weaving his massive body trying to hide from the press cameras at the thanksgiving service.Priceless!I don't think he has to abdicate though.We all make mistakes and th ...
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  • Nana Sam 7 years ago

    It is a crime for a chief or king publicly endorsed a Presidential candidate openly as Tommy Okine did. He must abdicate his kingship before he can do that.

  • kai 7 years ago

    useless,nonsense talk.a shame a i'm a GA,
    see their faces like ghost

  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    It's extremely unwise stupid childish and Stupidity for a chief to engage in partisan politics....

  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    How can chiefs support this criminality by JOHNMAHAMA.....


    ... Alhaji Bature...all NDC gurus and spokespeople kept only Insulting Nana Addo whilst Nana Addo continued to beg GHANAIANS to vote for him to come and save Gh ...
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  • Nkrumah 7 years ago

    It is morally indefensible. A traditional ruler projects respect, leadership, impartiality and unity among his people. Once any display of stupidity from his/her utterances comes to the fore and brings his reputation into dis ...
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  • Philip 7 years ago

    Stop the nonsense of maki g everything a mor question. The only issue bordering on (not bothering on) morality is his failure to keep his word. Chiefs should not OPENLY engage in PARTISAN politics, as a matter of STATEGY. Not ...
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  • Nkwaseasem 7 years ago

    Who is that illiterate speaking?

  • Kobi 7 years ago

    Who is that literate madman?

  • GBESE 7 years ago

    He said he will step down and it seems you conveniently forgot that part.
    He cannot pick and choose which one he wants to go by. You support and declare the party and candidate don't win you will abdicate, you will surely a ...
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  • Don1 7 years ago

    And he will not step down. That is what he is saying now. So what will you do? Cry? Hahaha.

  • Kwakwe Binuu 7 years ago

    Nii Ayi Bonte is A BIG DISGRACE to GBESE. He is not only a joker but thinks he can even install the Ga Paramount Chief. How can a Divisional Chief do that?. His cup of ignorance and respect for Laws of Ghana, has finally catc ...
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  • Nii Okai 7 years ago

    GA`s we really have a problem. Are all these dudes ELDERS! No wonder such speech is coming from there. We live on our land but yet still in poverty. It shall continue like that. Stupid Fool!!!

  • Obra 7 years ago

    These demented so-called leaders should think far. It is up to a chief who wants to do politics and as our politics is done they would equally be insulted as anybody else. And the worse thing is that the person who insults t ...
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  • Derek Sangari 7 years ago

    This is a part of the reasons why people don't respect our chiefs in the southern sector of the country. Don't let this come a debate and do the honorable thing and abdicate the stool. So that the little respect left for our ...
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  • Nana Adwoa New York City 7 years ago

    Is it a concorted story or for real?I now understand why ....... Is in such a messy state?
    If he really is a chief and for that matter a well elected one who understand the culture and true meaning of the chieftancy act?
    I ...
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  • Odikro 7 years ago

    I know Gas don't read much but do these elders have a copy of Ghana's constitution? It may have been written by hairdressers, tailors and butchers but it still contains a few things of commonsense. It clearly bars chiefs from ...
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  • Nii 7 years ago

    Where from this useless people, they are disgrace to the ga tribe. They have let the ga people down.

  • Papa Usmanu 7 years ago

    This stupid GA elders don't know that chiefs are not allowed by the constitution to be patissan. An idiot like Ayi Bonte who is supposed to go to sea is now a chief. No wonder his subjects are so ignorant.

  • KWAAMPONG, TEMA 7 years ago

    NO ONE PUT THE WORDS OF ABDICATION OF HIS STOOL INTO HIS MOUTH (GBESE MANTSE). If he is a principled Chief, the the wisest thing for him is to keep to his words. Who asked to brag anyway? The Gbetse mantse is one of the stoma ...
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  • Fine boy 7 years ago

    This Ga people should stop misleading themselves. We are saying as a chief MUST abide by his promised. Is even big shame for the chief to keep waiting for people to him to vacate the stool.

  • Senior Citizen .BS Germany. 7 years ago

    The youth have not declared the Gbese Mantse guilty for suporting NDC,even though the constitution has empatically deplored any chief openly endorsing any presidential candidate.What they are saying is that,the Gbese Mantse c ...
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  • KUNTU BLANKSON 7 years ago

    Everybody in Ghana will now understand why Gas are not respected in Ghana, they ve sold all the lands left for them by their ancestors, and they now living in the most poorest neighborhoods in Accra, A king foolishly put his ...
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  • Philip 7 years ago

    Kuntu Blankson is you nom de plume. Nobody is fooled. Only passing yourself for a Ga. Now yell us how can you assert thst nobody respects Gas? Because of the mistakes of a few amongst them, as we have in every tribe? Pleade, ...
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  • Paul 7 years ago

    Gbese elders are disgrace to the stool. What kind of chiefs do you produce? SHAME

  • Simon prebi 7 years ago

    Like father like son hmmm respect your position before you talk nobody put gang on him please respect GA people so that people will respect the peopleGa that is all the good people of Ga are saying

  • Agya Odi Asempa 7 years ago

    .....in view of their importance to national unity, peace and development that article 276 (i) stipulate that “A chief shall not take part in active politics: and any chief wishing to do so and seeking election to Parliamen ...
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  • TULA 7 years ago

    THIS IS WHY THEY GAS SHEET ON BEACHES AND SLEEP ON STREETS WHILST THEY HAVE RENTED THEIR HOUSES TO AKANS FOR STORES WHILST THEY SLEEP AND SHHET IN GUTTERS ; THESE GA UNEDUCATED ELDERS SHOULD FIND TIME TO GO AND READ THE CONST ...
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  • Nii 7 years ago

    I'm a Ga from Gbese and appalled by the fact that you are defending this chief.

    He said he will stand down let him just do so. A chiefs word should not fall to the ground

  • Ama Texas 7 years ago

    They will always take you pple for grant lets face fact what he said was wrong you shouldn't cover up with unnecessary excuses he has to come out nd apologize to cut it short than what you are trying to do is a big sh ...
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  • Akuapim Maanan 7 years ago

    No it's not a crime to support a political party. But you are hanged by the words of your own mouth. It is for this reason that Chiefs should be Apolitical. He should step down!

  • P.O. Addai 7 years ago

    Elders, elders, elders. Please remain elders and don't put your integrity on the line. He called for it without anybody forcing him to vow with his stool. Let him take responsibility for his irresponsible tantrums in public.
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  • John B 7 years ago

    He gambled with his stool. No one asked him not belong to a party but the extent of declaring to abdicate his stool should NDC lose

  • edem 7 years ago

    Don.t try to justify the indefensible.Wrong is wrong.Of course we all have our favourite political parties but the extent of his involvement is the problem

  • Ekow Samuel. 7 years ago

    Yes it is not and never a crime for supporting the party he need to be suport once he is in the country so he deserv to share his and he is a rigth for that for his comments to the nation ghana's election time as he gives his ...
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  • Togbui Delavi 7 years ago

    Brofoyedru

  • Joe Pasaasa 7 years ago

    Heyyy my guy, hahaha. Ekow, you are a very very wicked guy spewing this kind of English. How are we going to get your point. You are just combining words k3k3, I got headache self.

  • Last warrior 7 years ago

    Not all GA PEOPLE agree with you and if there is another foolish chief who has done the same that does not give you Chiefs the Wright to deceive the children,he would have set a good example if he was a good chief by advising ...
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  • Chichis 7 years ago

    Did some body ask him to say what he said. U made such stupid comment and u talking about chiefs can support a party. Chiefs are not suppose to come out and say which party they support.

  • Concerned 7 years ago

    Nobody is saying he cannot express his political opinion as a chief. Rather he said he would abdicate if NDC lost the election. So he is being asked to follow through his own stinky words. Do these "elders" also think like th ...
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  • dunaa 7 years ago

    This Nii Ardafia (sic), ought to be ashamed of himself. All of Ga Mashie ought to be ashamed that they have such a chief as the Gbese Mantse! But then of course, in Ghana, there is no shame. People do stupid things and then p ...
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  • Kobe 7 years ago

    Who cares with your weak tradition

  • Ben 7 years ago

    But this guy made a statement and any serious person will laugh at him whenever he makes any statements in future. I am not interested in what chiefs do in private or in public when it comes to party politics but can you imag ...
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  • Ali Mahama 7 years ago

    It is a Crime.Go and read Ghana's Constitution with open mind, All Çhiefs who openly endorsed Nana and Mahama are shallow-minded hence the Great disgrace and Shame Unto You.All of you need to be punished severally. How much ...
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  • Halkett Kitz A. 7 years ago

    It is of course not crime, you can support any political party you like. You can be Green party member no problem. But do not render any party as people joining it are useless. Your mouth and your useless talks will lead you ...
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  • GHANA 7 years ago

    ANY USELESS THIEF CALL HIMSELF CHIEF WILL TAKE SIDES WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICS. A CHIEF IS FOR ALL THE COMMUNITY NOT THESE THIEVES WHO BEG FOR TRACTORS FROM POLITICIANS.

  • Kofi K. 7 years ago

    Its not too surprising. This can Happen ONLY in ACCRA. The WORD of a chief????
    CHAI! he wouldn't do That! ONLY GA chief