Ghana after December 2012, and at 56

Read Article

Comments (16)

This article is closed for comments.

Read Comments Comments (16)

Matthew 12 years ago

My feeling is all Ghanains are corrupt,hence
Many put individual interests above all else.
Even foreign aid groups are aware of the corrupt nature of Ghanains.Democracy is a process not an end in itself.The current petition ...
read full comment

My feeling is all Ghanains are corrupt,hence
Many put individual interests above all else.
Even foreign aid groups are aware of the corrupt nature of Ghanains.Democracy is a process not an end in itself.The current petition
Before the SC is part of the process,and may either push Ghana higher towards democracy
or sink the country into a state of despair.
Matthew 12 years ago

The current petition before the SC will either
push Ghana higher towards democracy or
sink the country into more despair.

The current petition before the SC will either
push Ghana higher towards democracy or
sink the country into more despair.
Nhyiraba 12 years ago

Dude, I want to read your article but the length discouraged me. Are you writing a thesis? The person who will read this probably has no job

Dude, I want to read your article but the length discouraged me. Are you writing a thesis? The person who will read this probably has no job
ONLY GOD. 12 years ago

NDC'S ANTI- ASHANTI RHOTICS TO BRAND ASHANTIS AS THE CAUSE OF GHANA'S WOES TO WIN OVER OTHER TRIBES HAS REKINDLED TRIBALISM IN GHANA. WAYOMI AND THE JUDGEMENT DEBTS HAVE MADE GHANIANS WILD ABOUT CORRUPTION. CHOP-FREE ATTITUDE ...
read full comment

NDC'S ANTI- ASHANTI RHOTICS TO BRAND ASHANTIS AS THE CAUSE OF GHANA'S WOES TO WIN OVER OTHER TRIBES HAS REKINDLED TRIBALISM IN GHANA. WAYOMI AND THE JUDGEMENT DEBTS HAVE MADE GHANIANS WILD ABOUT CORRUPTION. CHOP-FREE ATTITUDE OF MILLS/MAHAMA GOVERNMENT HAS SUNK GHANA
jumbo 12 years ago

It is not true that only jobless will read this long article.I read it not because I am jobless because the article is good.It reveals all the ills in our society and unless we the masses stop being over partissan with regard ...
read full comment

It is not true that only jobless will read this long article.I read it not because I am jobless because the article is good.It reveals all the ills in our society and unless we the masses stop being over partissan with regard to national issues,politicians will always take us for a ride.Unless we the masses change for the better,politicians will never change.

It sometimes beat my imaginations to see we the ordinary Ghanaians jumping to the defense of any politician accused of corruption as if to say (a) that the said politician is incapable of defending he or her self and (b)as if the accused politician or civil servant is not a Ghanaian and as such he or she should have different laws from those that we have in our status books.
Amoale 12 years ago

I am gainfully employed yet had the time to read it. Do you work 24/7? You may be just lazy or just don't comprehend what the article states.

I am gainfully employed yet had the time to read it. Do you work 24/7? You may be just lazy or just don't comprehend what the article states.
Ghanatta Ayaric 12 years ago

The story of Ghana's woes is long, that is why our lamentation tends to be long, too.

The story of Ghana's woes is long, that is why our lamentation tends to be long, too.
Kojo 12 years ago

I have a job but I managed to finish reading it.

I have a job but I managed to finish reading it.
BRO DAN -TRC 12 years ago

NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, I HEREBY APPEAL TO GHANAWEB FOR A SPACE TO ADDRESS THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, -YES, BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, IT ...
read full comment

NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, I HEREBY APPEAL TO GHANAWEB FOR A SPACE TO ADDRESS THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, -YES, BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, IT WAS -EASTER PERIOD, OF APRIL 6TH 2011- APRIL 12, 2011 WHEN SOME POLITICIANS OF GHANA IN THE INTEREST OF BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION GAVE ME OVER TO -CIA MERCENARY, ON THE SOIL OF GHANA WHO KIDNAPPED ME AND WOULD HAVE MURDERED ME IN SECRECY IF GOD HAD NOT STEPPED IN TO SAVE MY INNOCENT SOUL FROM THE HANDS OF THE PERPETRATORS OF SUCH HEINOUS CRMIMES!! AND WHICH CRIMES WERE COVERED UP TO THE TROUBLING OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF OUR INNOCENT PRESIDENT MILLS AND WHICH SAME CRIMES COVERING CONTINUED TO THE SECRET -MURDERING- OF HIS EXCELLENCY -JOHN- EVANS FIIFI ATTA MILLS BY THE CIA, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND SOME POLITICIANS OF GHANA!! AND WHICH SECRET MURDER IS BEING COVERED UP TILL THIS VERY DAY!!
NOW, GHANA, WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE COVERING UP OF THESE HEINOUS CRIMES IS WHAT IS TROUBLING OUR NATION AS IT IS IN GHANA NOW. AND THIS CAN NEVER BE IN THE INTEREST OF OUR DEAR NATION, OUR NATIONAL SECURITY OUR INNOCENT AND DIGNIFIED PEOPLE; THE NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL AND ALL THE NOBLE PEOPLE OF GHANA NEED TO UNDERSTAND.
ONCE AGAIN, THE EASTER PERIOD IS HERE AND THE PERPETRATORS OF THESE HEINOUS CRIMES HAVE ARISEN IN FULL FORCE TO TROUBLING OUR DEAR NATION IN SECRECY!! FOR SURE, IF THESE CRIMINALS ARE NOT STOPPED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT, IT SHALL BE TOO LATE FOR OUR DEAR NATION AGAIN!! IN THE INTEREST OF WHICHEVER PEOPLE IN GHANA IS IT FOR THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OF AMERICA TO TAKE TOTAL CONTROL OF MY RESIDENCE IN AMERICA, SET MY LANDY'MARY' AND ROOMMATE 'SARAH' AND HER GHANAIAN BOYFRIEND 'ALBERT' AS INTERNAL AGENTS? SUCH PEOPLE IN GHANA IN WHOSE INTEREST THIS IS, MUST KNOW THAT THEY ARE SEEKING NOTHING BUT THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR DEAR NATION!! GHANA, THE POLITICAL PARTY WHO PLANTED 'FELIX AKAADOM' AND HIS CO-SECRET AGENTS AGAINST ME ON MY JOB, ARE THE PROBLEM OF GHANA AND -NOT- GOD!! YES, FOR WITHOUT THIS STRATEGY BEING ADAPTED LAST YEAR 2012, WHICH SAME CRIMINIALS ARE UP AGAIN AND ARE DOING, THEY COULD NEVER HAVE SUCCEEDED IN -MURDERING- PRESIDENT MILLS IN SECRECY!! YES, GHANA, GOD IS NEVER THE PROBLEM OF OUR NATION. IT IS SOME FELLOW GHANAIANS WHOSE GREED FOR MONEY, A SO-CALLED OPPORTUNITY AND POWER WHO ARE DILIGENTLY WORKING CEASELESSLY TO TEAR DOWN OUR DEAR NATION!!
HOW CAN GHANA GIVE AWAY THE INNOCENT BLOOD OF OUR BLESSED NATION AND PEOPLE TO BE SPILT TO PLEASE BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION AND FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA TO SEEK TO MAKE A DYNASTY FOR HIMSELF? GHANA, THIS IS TOTALLY INSULTING TO THE DIGNITY OF THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY!! FOR GHANAIANS ARE EQUAL IN DIGNITY TO ALL FELLOW HUMANS AND OUR INNOCENT BLOOD IS AS VALUED AS ALL HUMAN BLOOD. YES, GHANA, I KNOW FOR SURE, THIS GOD AND HUMANITY AGRREE TO.
YES, GOD FEARING ONES, I KNOW CHRIST JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED IN EATER PERIOD!! AND I KNOW IT WAS THE SAME EASTER PERIOD THAT HEROD PLANNED TO -KILL- PETER AFTER HE HAD KILLED JAMES. AND FOR SURE, PETER WORLD HAVE BEEN KILLED ACCEPT FOR -THE CHURCH, ARISEN TO HER CALL!! HOW THEN CAN I TAKE THE ATTEMPT TO GET ME MURDERED DURING EASTER PERIOD FOR A GAME? AND WHY SHOULD GHANA TAKE THE RISEN OF THESE CRIMINALS AGAIN DURING THIS EASTER PERIOD LIKE THEY AROSE IN THE EASTER PERIOD OF 2012 WHICH MADE ME CALL ON THE OFFICE OF UN- SECRETARY GENERAL ON APRIL 18TH, 2012? GHANA, TO YOU I SAY, -LET MY PEOPLE THINK!!
AND BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, I AM NEVER DISAPPOINTED THAT NOT EVEN MY EARNEST CALL ON THE OFFICE OF THE UN- SECRETARY GENERAL FOR AN INTERVENTION OF THE SITUATION OF GHANA COULD SAVE THE INNOCENT LIFE OF PRESIDENT MILLS FROM BEING TAKEN BY THE PERPETRATORS OF THE CRIMES. RATHER, I AM ENCOURAGED TO UNDERSTAND AS TO HOW MUCH THE NEED IS FOR ALL NATIONS TO STAND WITH THE UNITED NATIONS IN ALL ISSUES CONFRONTING HUMANITY ELSE, THE UNITED NATIONS IS AS HELPLESS AS THE PEOPLE AND NATIONS WHICH MAY LOOK TO THE UNITED NATION FOR HELP. IT IS FOR THIS SAME REASON WHICH I WROTE IN "A GIFT FOR TWO NATIONS" AND AGAIN IN "OCCUPY TILL I COME" THAT, -'YOUR EYE, MY EYE, THE UN, I'. PULSE. A TIME TO THINK. THEREFORE, NO STICKS SHOULD BE POKED INTO THE EYE OF THE UN, BY ANY NATION OR PEOPLE, FOR THAT TROUBLES HUMANITY AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. NOW, -LET MY PEOPLE THINK'.
GHANA, AFRICA, AND BLESSED NATIONS OF THE WORLD, WITHOUT MUCH ADO, I CALL FOR THE ADDRESS OF THE -REAL ISSUE- FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. NO MORE POLITICS WITH THE INNOCENT LIVES OF MY TWO CHILDREN; ELIZABETH AND GRACE. PERIOD!! YES, I AM A BIT ANGRY HERE BUT IT IS WORTH IT. AND I HEREBY CALL ON GHANA AND HUMANITY TO ARISE AND TOTALLY CONDEMN THESE CONTINUOUS ATTEMPT TO -MURDER- ME IN SECRECY AND THE PREVENTION OF ME HAVING ANY VOICE IN THE MEDIA REGARDING THE NEVER ENDING CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST ME. YES, PRAISES RADIO ACCESS WHICH I HAVE BEEN DENIED AFTER EXPOSING MY LANDLADY ON THE RADIO ON MARCH 9TH, 2013 MUST BE RESTORED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT! FOR THE SAME PRAISES RADIO ACCESS DENIAL WAS EMPLOYED AGAINST ME BEFORE PRESIDENT MILLS' INNOCENT LIFE WAS TAKEN!! AND ON BEHALF OF HUMANITY, I CONDEMN ANY STIFFULING OF ME HAVING ACCESS TO THE PRESS AND MEDIA AS I AM BEING -MURDER- IN SECREY THROUGH INTELLIGENCE WORK AND BY THE POLITICALLY POWERFUL!!
GHANA, AFRICA AND BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, "IT IS FINISH" THEREFORE "OCCUPY TILL I COME". TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN! GOD BLESS AFRICA. GOD BLESS YOUR NATION AND THE DEAR PEOPLE. AND, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
Akua 12 years ago

so so true.
What an insightful article!

so so true.
What an insightful article!

Limann 12 years ago

Long but full of insight

Long but full of insight
Kofi Ghanaba Amponsa-Dadzie 12 years ago

Thanks again for your patriotic fervour in these last days, Ghanatta. Everything you say here is true but I believe the solutions to the socio-economic problems of Ghana are these two words: IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE. I can se ...
read full comment

Thanks again for your patriotic fervour in these last days, Ghanatta. Everything you say here is true but I believe the solutions to the socio-economic problems of Ghana are these two words: IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE. I can send you a copy of an abridged version of my research through Ali, the Zongoman. I can assure you that the UNDP and NEPAD and MYSELF concur that only agricultural development can save Ghana. We need to divert our water resources onto our arable lands to produce food and cash crops to eat, sell and turn them into industrial products.
Why this has not been achieved is POLITICAL. YES! POOR and WEAK UNINSPIRING LEADERSHIP; CORRUPTION; SOCIALISM, PROPAGANDA and TRIBALISM all promoted by the power-mad left-wing politico-military zealots of Ghana Politics, Ghanatta! You know it, my friend, but let me give you a historic perspective as you know I was a Major student in our old Cape Vars.
"Ghana has been ruled by the same group of left-wing politicians for over 50 good years, since we assumed our own Business of Government in 1951 under Kwame Nkrumah! Yes! CPP began to rule Ghana in 1951; the 1957 Independence thing was a mere ceremonial event. Nkrumah was asked to rule the country by the British when he won the 1949 elections! Therefore we have had self-government for 62 years...6 Decades+...and I present to you the chronology of events:

CPP Government: 1951-1966 = 15 years

NLC Government: 1966-1969 = 3 years

PP Government 1969-1972 = 2+years

NRC Government: 1972-1977 = 5 years

SMC Government: 1977-1979 = 2 years

AFRC Government: 1979-1980 = 4months

PNP Government: 1979-1981 = 2+years

PNDC Government: 1981-2000 = 19years

NPP Government: 2000-2008 = 8years

NDC Government: 2008-2013 = 5years

THE TOTAL OF LEFT-WING RULE IS 51 YEARS!!!! (HALF A CENTURY)

THE RIGHT WING RULE IS ONE (1) DECADE!

The same group of left-wing politicians in the above governments are the same people ruling Ghana today as NDC Governmnet. They come in different shapes and sizes and colours, but the value is the same. John Mahama is the son of Edward Adama Mahama of CPP’s First Northern Regional Minister covering all the present 3 Regions. Check the profile of personalities who have ruled the country to confirm that the same strand of ideologues have remained in the same politico camps. Whether military rule or not, its the same line up.

NDC Government is the same as PNDC/AFRC/PNP/SMC/NRC/CPP...they are the same people who have destroyed a fine country...

You saw these people ruling us in Ghana at Cape Vars...Totobi Quakyi, EKT Addo, Kofi Awoonor, Ama Atta Aidoo, Tony Aidoo, Gardiner, Samora Turkson, Jehu Appiah and their counterparts in Legon namely Fui and Tsatsu Tsikata, Ahwois, Djangmah, Atta Mills, and so on and son. These are the richest people in Ghana now. Go home and see where they live...Tootobi has an encommienda and all that he has done in his life is politics...Kofi whingeing Awoonor is a fabulously rich man now. Tsatsu Tsikata used to lead all these beret wearing, bearded, car tyre sandals, Che Guevara T shirt and faded attered jeans socialists in our Universities in their long held beliefs of power to the masses. They have ruled our country and torn it into shreds, Ghanatta.

Book tells no lie, my dear. Check records of persons who have ruled Ghana and the rfacts are indelible: They are the strong, loud mouthed, intelligent pseudo socialists. They orchestrated the revolution that killed, exiled, scattered all of us across the globe after their investigations, vettings prosecutions and confiscations of properties. Your Huudu Yahyam Atampugre, BB Bayor, Mumuni, Martin Amidu, Ayariga, and now Bagbin and John Dramani maham, who could talk without end with their superlative English Language are the same people who have ruled Ghana over and over again.

Polarisation of thought is democratic but I do not support political dichotomy. I want resolution of conflict and debate but we do not need Union Government. The non attendance of Parliament is not what will provide toilets for Northern Ghanaians and jobs for Southern Ghanaians.

The fact is sacred: That the same ideologues you know well are the same people who have ruled Ghana since Singapore disassociated itself from Malaysia and went on its way to development.

Ghanatta: You will learn the hard way when you go home and see the cemetaries full; poor sanitation and destruction of our once beautiful secondary schools by your friends in the left wing governments of Ghana that have ruled us over and over again with their corruptive influenceces and politicalchicanery. That is why we all talk and talk for no end and weep into our brukutu...

God Bless you and more anon! But if Ghana wants to develop the two magic words are the following: IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE.

Tell your Northerners to invest in Irrigation to develop agriculture to help our country!
OBENG RAGO 12 years ago

THIS IS FROM THE HORSES OWN MOUTH,GHANATTA, MY FRIEND!

A QUOTE FROM THE OLD BOY - WIKIPEDIA

"Britain organized the first general election to be held under universal franchise on 5–10 February 1951. Though Nkrumah was ...
read full comment

THIS IS FROM THE HORSES OWN MOUTH,GHANATTA, MY FRIEND!

A QUOTE FROM THE OLD BOY - WIKIPEDIA

"Britain organized the first general election to be held under universal franchise on 5–10 February 1951. Though Nkrumah was in jail, his CPP was elected by a landslide, taking 34 out of 38 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. Komla Agbeli Gbedemah is credited with organizing Nkrumah's entire campaign while he (Nkrumah) was still in prison at Fort James.[10] Nkrumah was released from prison on 12 February and was summoned by Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor, and asked to form a government on 13 February. The new Legislative Assembly met on 20 February, with Nkrumah as Leader of Government Business, and E.C. Quist as President of the Assembly.

A year later, the constitution was amended to provide for a Prime Minister on 10 March 1952, and Nkrumah was elected to that post by a secret ballot in the Assembly, 45 to 31, with eight abstentions on 21 March."

THEREFORE OUR BELOVED COUNTRY, GHANA, BEGAN TO RULE ITSELF UNDER DR KWAME NKRUMAH AND HIS CPP VERANDA BOYS IN 1951.

1951, NOT 1957...Ghanatta Ayaric...We are 62 years old; not 56 years, old boy!

HISTORY IS THE RECORD OF PAST EVENTS; AND CANNOT BE CHANGED BY A GUILLOTINE, ASSASSIN'S BULLET OR NDC PROPAGANDA...

CPP RULED FOR 15 YEARS - FROM 1951 TO 1966

THEIR PEOPLE INSTIGATED THE OVERTHROW OF BUSIS'S GOVERNMENT IN 1972

GEN AKUFFO OF SMA FAME IS A CPP MAN...HIS FAMILY ARE CPP

RAWLINGS IS A FORMER MEMBER OF YOUNG PIONEERS OF CPP FAME...

BOAKYE DJAN IS FROM A CPP BACKGROUND...A DYE IN THE WOOL CPP...THEY BANNED VICTOR OWUSU FROM THE 1978 CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY; THEN RIGGED THE 1979 ELECTIONS FOR PNP UNDER DR HILLA LIMANN, WHO BECAME THE LEADER OF PNP AT THE BEHEST OF IMORU EGALA, THE FORMER SECRETARY OF INDUSTRIES OF NKRUMAH'S CPP GOVERNMENT, UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF JAMES QUARTEY WHO STOLE GHANA'S MILLIONS AND JAILED BY HIS OWN NKRUMAH AND RESURFACED AS OKUTWER BEKOE...THE WELL KNOWN PRO-NKRUMAIST PNP WERE WERE OVERTHROWN BY PRO NKRUMAIST RAWLINGS, WHO APPOINTED CPP PEOPLE NAMELY P V OBENG, EBO TAWIAH, JUSTICE D F ANNAN, IDDRISU MAHAMA INTO THEIR 20 YEAR PNDC GOVERNMENT OF ...

THE PNDC IS THE SAME AS NDC LED BY ATTA MILLS WHO WENT TO KWAME NKRUMAH IDEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, A CLOSE FRIEND OF PRO NKRUMAIST AHWOIS AND TSIKATAS AT LAW SCHOOLS...AMISSAH ARTHUR'S FATHER WAS A WELL KNOWN CPP MEMBER...THEY ARE ALL FROM THE SAME WOMB...CPP OR AFRC OR PNP OR NRC OR SMC OR PNDC OR NDC...KWESI ANSAH THE SAME...OR AS THE FANTES SAY...'APONKYE IS A GOAT'

THE LEOPARD DOES NOT CHANGE ITS SKIN...

OUR GOLD, DIAMONDS, TIMBER, COCOA, YAMS, COPRA, MANGANESE, BAUXHITE, RUBBER, KOLA NUTS, AND EVERY RESOURCE GHANA HAS EVER HAD INCLUDING THE NPP DISCOVERED OIL HAVE BEEN CONTROLLED BY THE SAME FAMILIES OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGUES...THEY COME LIKE GHOSTS AND LEAVE A CEMETARY BEHIND..THEY NEVER STOP ABUSING THE RESOURCES OF STATE WITH MUCH IMPUNITY...THE SAME THIEVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHO BUILD GATED MANSIONS BUT TURN ROUND TO PERSECUTE INNOCENT RIGHT WING POLITICIANS...FROM NZEMA TO ASANTE NKAWIE TO HO/KETA SCHOOL BOYS BACK TO TARKWA AND NOW ROCK BOTTOMED AT BOLE..BAMBOI.

THEIR VALUE IS THE SAME...
Fidelis 12 years ago

I hope someone somewhere is listening. Ghanatta you hit the nail right on the head. Kudos my brother.

I hope someone somewhere is listening. Ghanatta you hit the nail right on the head. Kudos my brother.
Ghanatta Ayaric 12 years ago

Ghanabee, Thanks for your comments, my brother. Let's link up via email. I hope we will be able to meet again in London very soon.

Ghanabee, Thanks for your comments, my brother. Let's link up via email. I hope we will be able to meet again in London very soon.
Kofi Ghanaba 12 years ago

Hi Ghanatta Ayaric, my friend...I normally do not use my name on these Ghana websites as I prefer to weigh in with my ideas, but I wished to greet you through this forum when I read your fine article. You are really concerne ...
read full comment

Hi Ghanatta Ayaric, my friend...I normally do not use my name on these Ghana websites as I prefer to weigh in with my ideas, but I wished to greet you through this forum when I read your fine article. You are really concerned about these things and commend you highly for it, for it's good to talk about issues affecting our beleagured country.

I say the same thing over and over again and wont stop saying it over and over again that Ghana is in this parlous state because of deadweighted socialists who have now become hegemonists like Totobi Quakyi and Kofi Awoonor.

It shocks me...that these same people who restlessly pursued power are the same people who have destroyed a fine country as ours!

Therefore what was the point of all the revolution, Ghanatta?

I will meet you in London..Jah Be Praised

16 Comments

Welcome,

SIGN IN

Welcome,

RESET PASSWORD

Hello,

Terms and conditions

REGISTER

Ghana after December 2012, and at 56

Read Comments .st0{display:none;fill:#14BDD3;} .st1{display:none;} .st2{display:inline;fill:#FC0F0F;} .st3{display:inline;fill:#FFFFFF;} .st4{display:inline;fill:none;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:6;stroke-miterlimit:10;} Comments (16)

Read Comments Comments (16)