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To Hell with the so-called Government-backed pilgrimage

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  • Dumega Prosper Jnr. 11 years ago

    Can the population be hungry, thirsty and no power to liten up their rooms and enable students study and operations are made on patients without interuption and school fees not been easily paid by deserving students and yet s ...
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  • REV AYITEY TSURU 11 years ago

    I DONT TRUST ANY POLITICIAN, BE THEY NDC OR NPP. THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT AND ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES. MAHAMA IS A SURPRISE, BUT THE PROBLEM IS THE PASTORS.

    A GOD-FEARING PASTOR WOULD REJECT THIS OFFER OUTRIGHT. IT IS NOT B ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Rev. Tsuru, you haven't fully identified the problem. The problem is not with the pastors but the FAKE pastors. There are too many people parading the streets of Ghana as pastors who are anything but pastors. These are fake p ...
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  • Tetteh Asagba 11 years ago

    This has nothing to do with pastors, fake or real. After all from the reports that have been heard, the pastors did not go to beg the government to sponsor them. It was the other way around that the government proposed to spo ...
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  • mensah abrampa 11 years ago

    The evil and corrupt pastors are in bed with an evil and corrupt administration. People of that ilk are comfortable with each other and always cooperate on matters of common interests. The Mahama led NDC administration does n ...
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  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    Ghana is neither a christian nor a muslim nation. Our nation is a multi religious state. As a matter of fact the traditionalist have more say even than any other group, because that's where we reference our moral and culture ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Emmanuel, I didn't read your piece otherwise I'd have told u that the intellectual bankruptcy of highly educated Africans has been lamented for a long, long time. Not that being intelligent and skilled in your field of study ...
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  • sbrooks 11 years ago

    Love the fact that you as a man defend the Black race and whether Blacks are more inherently stupid than other races? God bless you for it. What I have always struggled with is the question of whether Blacks are more inherent ...
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  • mensah abrampa 11 years ago

    Andy,it's unfair to put such a big label and make such an unwholesome judgement on a whole race of people just because of the behavior of some among us.I have traveled far and wide and have come to the conclusion that God cr ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Mensah, you really epitomises what others see as the intellectual bankruptcy of Africans? Are you a pastor? Are you trained in divinity? If not, you are trying to intellectualise on a subject your are not trained or educated ...
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  • mensah abrampa 11 years ago

    I'm not a pastor but I can tell the difference between good and evil.Truth has no boundaries and it's eternal.I believe in science but I dont believe in evolution. Do you have any problem with that? Was it not science that to ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    No, Mensah, you don't really believe in science. If you do, you'd believe in evolution!

    And, it was religion that claimed that the earth was flat, thus negating centuries of thought through observation dating back to Gree ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    Andy-K, you did make an attempt to define the term intellectual, but you ended up with a fuzzy definition. For example, the distinction you were trying to make between the intellectual roles of a political science theorist an ...
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  • Nii Akwei 11 years ago

    Mahama and the so called pastors are the same people. Mahama will smell pepper before the of the year.

  • Afram 11 years ago

    I am glad that Mr Owusu-Ansah has made this compelling case against the govt's offer of sending some pastors to Israel. As a Christian it is one of my dreams tovisit Israel and i am pleased that many of my church's pastors ...
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  • Araba Stamp 11 years ago

    We will remain as fools so long we beleived what the white man told us.
    He came and told us we are ancestors of Adam and an Eve so refuse to search for our roots.

  • Davpds 11 years ago

    This gov'ment is confused and crazy
    Supreme court shd save us

  • David 11 years ago

    Shame to NDC/Mahama

  • Nii Joromi 11 years ago

    They waste so much when a few dollars would significantly change the lives of rural communities.

  • KAMM,MINNESOTA U.S.A 11 years ago

    I pity the future of Ghana because of these illiterate N.D.C crooks who ruling Ghana.
    John mahama wants to bribe every influential person in Ghana to show some mercy on him because he wants to be president at all cost. From ...
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  • SYDNEY 11 years ago

    IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE SMALL BOYS IN NDC DONT RECOGNIZE THE NEEDS OF GHANA AS TROKOSIS AND KAYAYEIS SUFFER DAILY THRO HARSH ECONOMIC REALITIES.......THEY EASILY RODE ON JJ'S BACK TO FAME AND POWER SO KIDS LIKE OKUDZETO, FELIX ...
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  • Left Critic 11 years ago

    This problem goes beyond Mahama and the NDC and NPP. The whole nation is in a state rapture 24/7, praying, wailing and citing the bible with nauseating regularity. The politicians and our so-called intellectual are no differe ...
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  • Mike Olongo, USA 11 years ago

    Mr President, this is poor judgment indeed. Please convene an emergency meeting with your Ministers and parliamentarians and repeal any laws backing such sponsorships. Any funds taken from the state coffers to do business oth ...
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  • Mankind 11 years ago

    Emmanuel, as a Ghanaian, the actions of all African leaders make me think that the black race is inferior. All of the are stupid and ignorant. They are a disgrace to humanity!!

  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    No where in our 1992 Constitution is it stated that our tax cedis and pesewas can be used to pay for the pilgrimage of Ghanaians to visit and worship at holy sites or shrines wherever they are on planet Earth.

    Ergo, it is ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    No where in our 1992 Constitution is it stated that our tax cedis and pesewas can be used to pay for the pilgrimage of Ghanaians to visit and worship at holy sites or shrines wherever they are on planet Earth.

    Ergo, it is ...
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  • Ghanatta Ayaric 11 years ago

    Misplaced priorities! Are we surprised many non-Africans have a distorted image of Africa and Africans, when we make ourselves so laughable?

  • Atikopo#1 11 years ago

    Hajj?

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Well stated my good friend. I came across the story of government paying for priest to go on a pilgrimage yesterday. I could not believe the story, if true.

    It is so pathetic that the people of Ghana allow themselves to b ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Useless article. Go and tell America to stop the defense shield program and give the monet ro rhe poor .

    Is the money for u ? Nonsense. Is it govt money ? Nonsense. U damn mother fucker atheist who has made his belly his ...
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