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Rawlings' 'Let the blood flow' birthed mob justice - Ex-captain

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  • insight to the bone 6 years ago

    Really what a tragic comedy of a joke banana republic Ghana is.We have an arch criminal JJ running his mouth with cholera shit propaganda boasting of crimes any normal human being would be ashamed of.We talk of reconciliation ...
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  • GIDIGBA 6 years ago

    There you have it. The truth without a drop of the fake news that has become the Ghanaian way.

  • Talahi 6 years ago

    Most of these lynching lunatics were mere toddlers in 1979!

  • PAPOE 6 years ago

    NDC IDIOTS

  • Wambo 6 years ago

    Have we forgotten the All Die be Die mantra? Don't twist history.

  • NANA KASA 6 years ago

    Anybody who remembers Taku(6 pence coin)in the past can testify that the fact police started collecting this coin as bribe to set criminals and law breakers free. This has gone on unchecked to this day. Judges and Magistrates ...
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  • Last warrior 6 years ago

    Yes it may be true but what did you plan to do to tackle the high rate of posch criminals Who have taken over every where police government,judiciary,police like what's happening now after people took ur advice.GHANA did not ...
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  • kofi 6 years ago

    the army will pay dearly if the go doing galamsey these land were fought with the blood of our forfathers.we will kill if anyone what take over by force let them jail all of us

  • Joe 6 years ago

    mob justice has been in the system long before you were born. or you just want to score political point by attributing to a particular regime. look, this kind of analysis suggests that some of you are trying as much as poss ...
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  • KWABENA 6 years ago

    Thank you Col rtd. you have heat the nail right on the head. I was thinking same. God bless you but it could be sent back to the period of the first overthrow when indiscipline entered into our society

  • Yaw A. 6 years ago

    That was our civil war. Am old enough to witness it. We thank God it consumed just a handfull... Ask the Nigerians about Biafra, ask the Sierra Leonians and the Libarians about their civil war or better still Paul kigamy's pe ...
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  • Akwesi Ampofo 6 years ago

    Just be fair this mob action in Ghana now is president Akufo Addo creation. His all die be die. His creation of lawless delta force. He can't control. Why are some Ghanaians so stupid. They can go to every length to protect t ...
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  • Johnson 6 years ago

    100% true. It is when stripping people naked started, when armed robbery and all sorts of killing innocent people started.

  • George, Leyton, London 6 years ago

    Blacks are noted for lying.Lynching is in all African countries.Dzulor, dzulor , dzulor at makorla existed before the Honourable Saviour Rawlings was born. Africans and lies.

  • Truth 6 years ago

    You are right. As a teenager in 1974 l remember a thief being lynched. This was way before the 1979 revolution

  • Last warrior 6 years ago

    Left to you GHANAIANS should sit and defend these corrupt officials whilst they comfortably enjoy their loot buying SUV's whiles the poor stand and watch our useless authorities who no one seems to be leading.today go out and ...
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  • ASIEDU NKETIA, TAIN 6 years ago

    June 4 brought disrespect for the elderly, mob violence, vigilantism, armed robbery, murder, etc. Blame Rawlings & NDC for all these

  • Truth 6 years ago

    You don't even feel ashamed spewing these lies.

  • Kay 6 years ago

    No it is never true because nobody will ever try this killing in the revolution time not even in the days of Rawlings as a civilian president
    The "all died be died" mantra plus the Delta force untouchable action is what mak ...
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  • EMMANUEL AGBESI 6 years ago

    Why are people crying for Mahama's death? He had a gun on him, why did he not kill them? The clock has turned on them. The blood of the army must flow. They have humiliated us for too long. More must follow soonest. Idiots

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  • ALL DIE BE DIE 6 years ago

    Lawless JJ is still a problem. Can we return him to his father in Scotland?

  • anna 6 years ago

    thats the truth we now reaping the seeds jj soen ndc theives killers

  • Abu- Adam Tamale 6 years ago

    EVERY TREE BEAR FRUITS AM ASKING WHAT DO WE OBTAINED AFTER THE LET THE BLOOD FLOWS WHAT I CAN LEARN IT THAT BROUGHT NDC AND AT THE END THE FRUITS IS GIG CORRUPTION CREATE LOOK AND SHARE J.J. WHO SHOULD BE BLAME.

  • Kofi Oppong 6 years ago

    So, do we need another revolution to track the country back regarding these current decay of lawlessness and wanton corruption by politicians back to where we fell off?

  • Kofi adu 6 years ago

    How could this sowu guy be the only sensible man in the country. You hit the nail on the head. Rawlings is a foolish man. Adjei boadi is idiot.

  • Oteng 6 years ago

    One distict one dam

  • King Solomon 6 years ago

    He's become too Archaic !!!!

  • G. K. Berko 6 years ago

    If J. J. concedes he and his cohorts knew some of the Generals were innocent but still had to be executed as part of the purge he talked about, then he admits to have joined others to knowingly kill innocent people. And that ...
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  • Odikro 6 years ago

    It can't be any clearer than this. Jerry Rawlings turned this nation into a lawless, primitive nation of instant-justice executioners.

  • Bishop blay 6 years ago

    Leave Rawlings out of this.The popular mantra ' let the blood flow' was the euphoric feeling among majority of Ghanaians at that time as a result of the spate of corruption in our society.

  • ANANE 6 years ago

    Dear Captain Sowu you hit the head of the nail precise. That is what Rawllings called Positive Defiance. And that is what we are reaping. The solution is bring back civic education in our schools starting from the first grade ...
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  • KOFI TAGOE 6 years ago

    Stupid Soldier. How can you say that. Look at the ages of the people who are committing these unspeakable act of mob action, they are all young people. How old were they during the "let The Blood Flow days. And this is a sold ...
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  • Papa J step is my nigger 6 years ago

    I love papa J, he was a great governor

  • Yaw 6 years ago

    Ghana was very very peaceful before June 4.asiedu what is good to lean Ghana history before u pick that job

  • Sufian James 6 years ago

    Yes captain you could be right but mind you also that it was supported by will meaning Ghanaians and Not the Likes of you in denkyira boasi.Daaniima