Where in Ghana’s History will Chairman Rawlings be?

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KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 12 years ago

.... The story of Ghana is like the story of the biblical Moses and the Jews. It required a certain J.J Rawlings to play the role of the powerful Hebrew. It is a story of emancipation, bravery and patriotism. A story of belie ...
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.... The story of Ghana is like the story of the biblical Moses and the Jews. It required a certain J.J Rawlings to play the role of the powerful Hebrew. It is a story of emancipation, bravery and patriotism. A story of belief, national commitment, sacrifice, hardwork and honesty to fellow citizens.
Ft Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings Liberated the west African country from militarism, mis-governance, economic paralysis, hunger, and perpetual doom when he publicly executed the likes of Gen. Afriffa, Gen Akuffo, Gen Acheampong, and all those who plunged Ghana into untold hardship. Today, Ghana is laughing loud and thankful to God for using J.J to emancipate the country.
Worse still, American congressmen have cautioned that Nigeria is on the verge of collapse and disintegration. In the last twelve months, some conglomerates have closed their plants in the country and relocated to Ghana. Among them are Dunlop and Mitchelen Plc. Only recently, more companies have informed the general public they would soon be folding operations in Nigeria to resettle in Ghana. The excuse of these companies is the same, energy crisis and political instability. Nigeria’s inability to stabilize the energy sector is the cause of her dwindling fortunes
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KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 12 years ago

.....is Pull Him Down. You try to mention some of the good things of the Emperor JJ Rawlings and very quick to criticize the same, what have you in your entire life contributed to Ghana apart from writing 'Pull Him Down' bigo ...
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.....is Pull Him Down. You try to mention some of the good things of the Emperor JJ Rawlings and very quick to criticize the same, what have you in your entire life contributed to Ghana apart from writing 'Pull Him Down' bigoted articles?

Have you been able to follow the community spirit which this Greatest one, JJ Rawlings exemplified through out the communities in the days? Just that would be a great contribution by you to uplift the poor souls in your community but here you are writing thrash when you are rather worse.

You could have 'adopted' a dirty gutter to clean every week, that alone could reduce mosquito bites and Malaria in your poor village instead writing nonsensical articles as if you know how to do it all, fool!!
TEACHER 12 years ago

Hey, illiterate idiot, stick to cut and paste.

1. Instead of the Community spirit as used in your sentence, write,

COMMUNAL SPIRIT.

2"Just that would be a great contribution by you to uplift the poor souls in your co ...
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Hey, illiterate idiot, stick to cut and paste.

1. Instead of the Community spirit as used in your sentence, write,

COMMUNAL SPIRIT.

2"Just that would be a great contribution by you to uplift the poor souls in your community but here you"

What kind of grammar is that? BE A GREAT CONTRIBUTOR not CONTRIBUTION

3"you are writing thrash when you are rather worse."

DO YOU KNOW THE MEANING OF THRASH? THE WORD YOU NEED IS TRASH, DUMMY.
GHANA 12 years ago

JJ DID HIS BEST BY CLEARING ALL THOSE MONARCHYS IN GHANA AND PAVING WAY FOR DEMOCRACY

JJ DID HIS BEST BY CLEARING ALL THOSE MONARCHYS IN GHANA AND PAVING WAY FOR DEMOCRACY
BRUTUS de ROMA 12 years ago

WHATEVER THE AIM OF THE WRITER IS, I THINK HE HAS FAILED WOEFULLY. JJ RAWLINGS HAS A SIGNIFICANT AND VERY POSITIVE PLACE IN GHANA'S HISTORY. THOSE OF YOU WHO THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPER HUMAN BEINGS AND THAT EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD B ...
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WHATEVER THE AIM OF THE WRITER IS, I THINK HE HAS FAILED WOEFULLY. JJ RAWLINGS HAS A SIGNIFICANT AND VERY POSITIVE PLACE IN GHANA'S HISTORY. THOSE OF YOU WHO THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPER HUMAN BEINGS AND THAT EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD BE YOUR SLAVE AND LICK YOUR BOOTS LOST IT ALL WHEN JJ RAWLINGS STEPPED IN. AFTER OSAGYEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH IT IS JJ THAT COMES NEXT IF YOU TALK ABOUT LIBERATION AND BUILDING THIS NATION ON GROUNDS OF EQUALITY AND TRUST. HE KICKED OFF THE MONARCHS AND MADE EVERYBODY FEEL IMPORTANT....THE DOWN TRODDEN HAILED HIM AND STILL HAIL HIM DESPITE HIS MISTAKES HERE AND THERE. THE FACT IS THAT HIS GOOD DEEDS FAR SUPERSEDE HIS MISTAKES. SO LET ME TELL YOU THAT JJ RAWLINGS HAS ALREADY OCCUPIED EVERYWHERE IN GHANA'S HISTORY. AND THOSE OF YOU WHO WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE AND RE-WRITE HISTORY AND FILL IT WITH LIES WILL NEVER SUCCEED. RAWLINGS WAS THERE YESTERDAY, HE IS HERE TODAY AND WILL BE THERE TOMORROW AND FOREVER IN THE HISTORY OF GHANA AS LIBERATOR AND A FREEDOM FIGHTER. (I, BRUTUS de ROMA, do not care who gets hurt by this comment and I feels good because I had courage to speak my mind)
Ganaba 12 years ago

Your problem is not equality as you are trying to portay here. The Rotational RULE which you are cowardly advocating, lacks integrity. As for Jato Julor, the only thing I will tell you is that history repeats itself.
By the ...
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Your problem is not equality as you are trying to portay here. The Rotational RULE which you are cowardly advocating, lacks integrity. As for Jato Julor, the only thing I will tell you is that history repeats itself.
By the way, how do you find your ENGLISH TEACHER ?
WHO DARES WIN 12 years ago

Even a Kindergarten child can reason, reflect and contribute better that this writter called Adreba Kwaku Abrefa Damoa. What a load of rubbish?

Even a Kindergarten child can reason, reflect and contribute better that this writter called Adreba Kwaku Abrefa Damoa. What a load of rubbish?
HAWA YAKUBU 12 years ago

JJ will be next to Nkrumah in Ghana,s history.But he watered his position down with his uncouth behavior after he handed over to K4 the gold chain President.Depending on what Mahama does to Ghana for the next 8 years.He might ...
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JJ will be next to Nkrumah in Ghana,s history.But he watered his position down with his uncouth behavior after he handed over to K4 the gold chain President.Depending on what Mahama does to Ghana for the next 8 years.He might beat JJ for the second position.
aj-usa 12 years ago

hawa,well u have said ur part.i will not say much but how can u next jj to nkrumah after his 23yrs for taken the nation backwards.if we dont get behind us all these kind of tribal hoops.then '''''''.

hawa,well u have said ur part.i will not say much but how can u next jj to nkrumah after his 23yrs for taken the nation backwards.if we dont get behind us all these kind of tribal hoops.then '''''''.
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

Unfortunately some of you just used the word "backward" for the sake of it without any understanding.
If you really knew the state of Ghana before Rawlings you wouldn`t use the word backwards.
At least under his leadership, ...
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Unfortunately some of you just used the word "backward" for the sake of it without any understanding.
If you really knew the state of Ghana before Rawlings you wouldn`t use the word backwards.
At least under his leadership,Ghanaians for the first time had good roads and electrification to rural areas including your village.Before Rawlings a jorney from Accra to Tamale takes 3 days but today you can make it in few hours.
How old are you?

Pelicles 12 years ago

Nkrumah ruled Ghana for nine years and never had any vice. Imagine he died in office, don't you think there would have been a constitutional crises?

Nkrumah was the only leader in our history who never had a vice president ...
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Nkrumah ruled Ghana for nine years and never had any vice. Imagine he died in office, don't you think there would have been a constitutional crises?

Nkrumah was the only leader in our history who never had a vice president and what exactly was his point? He was a bad leader.
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

If you really have a job to go to you wouldn`t have time for this trash of an article.
Are you idiots not tired of Rawlings this,Rawlings that?
There are pressing problems facing this country where serious minds are needed ...
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If you really have a job to go to you wouldn`t have time for this trash of an article.
Are you idiots not tired of Rawlings this,Rawlings that?
There are pressing problems facing this country where serious minds are needed to find solutions to them not petty idiots writing nonsense all the time.
NII LARTEY NARTEY 12 years ago

Where will Ralings be in Ghana history? No where. Period!!

Rawlings will be only remembered as a criminal hungry man who violently took the entire nation hostage by the gun and robbed us our national enterprises after kill ...
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Where will Ralings be in Ghana history? No where. Period!!

Rawlings will be only remembered as a criminal hungry man who violently took the entire nation hostage by the gun and robbed us our national enterprises after killing any one who stood his dubiously monster ways and shared the state properties for free by his heartless associate murderer wife and his criminal cohorts in a fake revolution. Period!

His death will even pay for his misdeeds, one day.
CUT & PASTE INSIDE LONDON 12 years ago

JATO JULOR RAWLINGS IS NOT POWERFUL AS KOLA IS BRAGGING. JATO WAS CAUGHT, ARRESTED, HANDCUFFED AND PUT INTO CELL MEANT FOR CRIMINALS.
JATO JULOR OWES HIS LIFE NOT TO A GA-TROKOSI BUT TO AN AKAN WHO THIS ILLITERATE KOLA HATES ...
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JATO JULOR RAWLINGS IS NOT POWERFUL AS KOLA IS BRAGGING. JATO WAS CAUGHT, ARRESTED, HANDCUFFED AND PUT INTO CELL MEANT FOR CRIMINALS.
JATO JULOR OWES HIS LIFE NOT TO A GA-TROKOSI BUT TO AN AKAN WHO THIS ILLITERATE KOLA HATES AND DESPISE.
shaft 12 years ago

Mr A.K. Abrefa Damoa, I dont know what you intend to express but in short the only person to bring the freedom Ghana enjoys today is Rawlings(JJ)i should think you are old enough to know much about coups in Ghana from 1966 ti ...
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Mr A.K. Abrefa Damoa, I dont know what you intend to express but in short the only person to bring the freedom Ghana enjoys today is Rawlings(JJ)i should think you are old enough to know much about coups in Ghana from 1966 till 1981/82. You should also know that reasons for take over of goverments in Ghana mostly comes from the behaviour of the civil adminstration look at the current state of goverment in Ghana now and ask how long did we gain independance.
Rawlings at his turn in office did some good jobs in Ghana light, roads, aand most the elections of civil goverments, his choice of men came to lead Ghana since. pay him his dues as it befits him for he did his best.You mentioned in your statement you mentioned the killing of persons tell me what will you do today with some of the NDC members.To your question JJ rawlings should be seen as the only one to bring about democracy in Ghana good or bad.
NII LARTEY NARTEY 12 years ago

Rawlings fake bloody revolution indeed derailed Ghana's democracy by violently overthrowing the internationally acclaimed most successful and the most peaceful democratic elections ever held in Ghana and Africa for that matte ...
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Rawlings fake bloody revolution indeed derailed Ghana's democracy by violently overthrowing the internationally acclaimed most successful and the most peaceful democratic elections ever held in Ghana and Africa for that matter, that elected the first ever Northerner President, Dr. Hillah Limann and took the entire people and country hostage by the gun and ruled with fixed iron hands sending a lot and lot innocents to their untimely deaths and a lot more still recorded as missing including the Aburihene, B.B Bismark for over 19 years.

At the end of his military cum civilian misrule, if Ghana is made better or not you and me are all witness to the social economic mess we found ourselves.

Carefully take a look around yourself. Can't you, honestly see divisive tribal politics which has divided the once united country on bitter tribal lines? don't you travel or drive on the poor roads that is turned into death traps, don't you feel pity for the rate of maternal deaths recorded and our hospitals turned to death transit halls, can't you see our youth hopelessly and homeless walking the streets without any organized youth training programs? don't your feel sorry for the uncontrolled teenage pregnancies, rapes and abortions resulting to untimely deaths of our otherwise future mothers? the chaotic security mess, armed robberies and corruption all over the places with filthy smelly environments producing avoidable diseases killing our people?

Don't you feel that Ghana is today without no excuse neo-colonialized by the unscrupulous and disrespectful racist Chinese all over the places including 419 Nigerians, Indians and despicable American and Western homosexuals and pedophile criminals sinking the image of our country with impunity?

Are the above the achievements of the fake P/NDC Rawlings revolution that only came to privatized our national enterprises to be owned today by the heartless wife and the criminally campus poor rats and unkept socialist crooks who are today the rich in our society?

Don't be daft, open your eyes to see Ghana we knew is pathetically gone.
Kwaku 12 years ago

It derailed your fathers way of thinking that is why he gave birth to an asshole like you.

It derailed your fathers way of thinking that is why he gave birth to an asshole like you.
Shaft 12 years ago

Nii lartey, the question would have been where would Ghana have been without Rawlings. And being daft that am not but think with reason stay blessed my friend for you know not what you say,

Nii lartey, the question would have been where would Ghana have been without Rawlings. And being daft that am not but think with reason stay blessed my friend for you know not what you say,
Pelicles 12 years ago

Rawlings is fake, liar, thief, evil, devil, Satan etc, etc. The man never paid any taxes while in office while taxing the poor. Here is the reason. The current situation was written under his nose and he was happy to be giv ...
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Rawlings is fake, liar, thief, evil, devil, Satan etc, etc. The man never paid any taxes while in office while taxing the poor. Here is the reason. The current situation was written under his nose and he was happy to be given tax exemption status. Who should pay taxes to raise revenue for the nation?

This man is fooling those who cannot think for themselves as a savior while he is turning his "skin" to fool his environment.

The current economic mess ie mass unemployment in the nation, was the result of his SAP economic program he introduced.

How long did JJ rule the nation and imagine him receiving his salary intact without paying a pesewa. If this man tells you he is poor, the first question that should be asked is, what exactly did you do with your tax free salaries for all these years?

The man is a liar. He is worse than the Biblical Satan.
Kwaku 12 years ago

He stole your fathers brains before he gave birth to you that is why you can not think as a humanbeing. How old were you in 1979. You are an ass hole.

He stole your fathers brains before he gave birth to you that is why you can not think as a humanbeing. How old were you in 1979. You are an ass hole.

Pelicles 12 years ago

I was a year old in 1979 but was able to see that man as fake. You came from a broken home hence, your knee jerk attitude on this site. You love JJ and that is your problem. I will never love or like anyone who usurped pow ...
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I was a year old in 1979 but was able to see that man as fake. You came from a broken home hence, your knee jerk attitude on this site. You love JJ and that is your problem. I will never love or like anyone who usurped power through the barrel the of the gun. JJ is savior to some of you but not all of us.

You are smart to rain insults on those who see that man as fake but let me ask you this question. Where in our constitution did it say that an army officer cannot take a loan from the bank and doing that is a crime punishable by death?

When your idol took office with his "quack revolution" he killed those he hate personally including that army who is not my relative but does it make sense to act with such impunity?

I am not and will not be a fan of JJ and I do not care what others say. I saw Nkrumah, Kotoka/Afrifa, Busia, Acheampong's government and trust me, JJ was worse among them.

I am telling you that your idol never paid any taxes while in office and if you have or know anyone who has a copy of our constitution, read through it and you will see that there is a clause in it that says that our leaders should have tax exemption status and does it make sense?
BONSAM 12 years ago

." I saw Nkrumah, Kotoka/Afrifa, Busia, Acheampong's government and trust me, JJ was worse among them."

You were born in 1978, how old were you then to have witnessed the reign of the above leaders?

Its now clear as the ...
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." I saw Nkrumah, Kotoka/Afrifa, Busia, Acheampong's government and trust me, JJ was worse among them."

You were born in 1978, how old were you then to have witnessed the reign of the above leaders?

Its now clear as the case has always been JJ stopped the easy corrupt money your parents were making, your parents hated him and passed it onto you.

That has always been the case of most JJ haters. His coming was a momentuos time in Ghana. To those who had to que long lines to obtain basic goods like soap, milk, sardines, toilet rolls etc he will always be a saviour.

To those who were connected to the corrupt ellites at the time and lived like kings whiles majority suffered, to thos women that had big booties to go for Acheampongs Golf cars he will always be their thier great Satan.

In other wwords no one can convice you so you cant also convice those on the other side, so shall it be till the end of time.
Pelicles 12 years ago

My comment was in response to the guy above me and trust me, I am old enough to sieve through the caff. I do not like JJ because he usurped power through the barrel of the gun and reign with clenched fist. JJ is nothing but ...
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My comment was in response to the guy above me and trust me, I am old enough to sieve through the caff. I do not like JJ because he usurped power through the barrel of the gun and reign with clenched fist. JJ is nothing but fake. He ruled all these years without paying taxes and killed or destroyed the businesses of those who he said evade taxes. Government raised taxes through taxation so, who the hell is he for not paying taxes? He was the brain behind the current constitution and made sure he and the leaders who will come after him, will not pay taxes. Does it make sense to you? Dispute that and I will tell you to get a copy of the constitution and read it yourself. How many good leaders will love to be clothed in such a stupid clause concerning taxation?

JJ did not touched my parents and the reason is they are farmers who earned their living through their sweat. I am a son of a cocoa farmer and trust me, parent raise all of us through their hard earned money.
Monitor 12 years ago

Though the said administration was beset with squabbling, poor abysmal performance with naked inefficiency and corruption, his interference that decapitated a ‘toddling democracy’ was unwelcome and unwarranted yet who dar ...
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Though the said administration was beset with squabbling, poor abysmal performance with naked inefficiency and corruption, his interference that decapitated a ‘toddling democracy’ was unwelcome and unwarranted yet who dared challenge when ‘drugged-crazy’ paranoid soldiers were set on rampage with the blind support of "good for nothing ignoramuses in Ghana"?
Do you see why many of the 'ignoramuses' that make up the majority of Ghana, failed to exercise their brains to elect your elite and 'specially-born-to-rule' party to power. Left to you alone, you the elite should have power in your toilets while the child in the remote village should not have a light bulb, with ahich to study. That is the type of Ghana you dreamt for us. And we refuse it big time.
Azumah Nelson 12 years ago

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