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Blame Rawlings for the Current Unprecedented Corruption

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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    here again we see the pepeni try to put cotton wool over our eyes again with his lies and cosmetic moves that solve nothing . as we speak right now there are hundreds of billions worth of projects and investors being frustrat ...
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  • Nii kwartei 11 years ago

    Rockson Adofo, you are an educated fool,,,,why write this..? I am not an NDC man neither am i an NPP person but you enumerated the sins of one party NDC and left the other NPP...Let me tell you all these politicians from both ...
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  • Akpragram 11 years ago

    Yes he needs firing squad because he is a traitor.

  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

    Corruption cannot be eliminated but reduced, you hear that? And JJ Rawlings brought that to a minimal.

    It was only Kronfuor who said corruption was started from Adam and Eve so it was Ok to steal money. From this statement ...
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  • Mina 11 years ago

    Adofo Rockson is not a trokosi so he doesn't drink akpeteshie like you and your father.He take's good liquor if he drinks .How on earth will he live in England and drink ogoglo ,more over he is not NDC.

  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

    Bush Rat, Akpeteshie is brewed in the bush where you and Rockson were brought up so why would you two drink Liquor in place of Ogoglo?

    You Ogoglo smelly Bush Rat, do you not drink Akpeteshie before enjoying your bush soup ...
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  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

    Bush Rat, Akpeteshie is brewed in the bush where you and Rockson were brought up so why would you two drink Liquor in place of Ogoglo?

    You Ogoglo smelly Bush Rat, do you not drink Akpeteshie before enjoying your bush soup ...
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  • Jimakpl3 11 years ago

    Has the shakings in Rawlings head affected his mouth that he cannot talk of the MASSIVE corruption in his NDC govt? And where is his father? Bastard!!! Thief like the two gaymen - Mahama & Amisah Arthur. GAYMEN

  • LARYEAH 11 years ago

    JJ RAWLINGS IS AN IRRESPONSIBLE FOOL, A MURDERER AND AN ARMED ROBBER.

  • EEEEeeehhhuuuooooo!!!!! 11 years ago

    MARK IT ON THE WALL. ANY GOVERNMENT WHICH COMES TO POWER AND WAGE TRIBAL WAR AGAINST ASHANTIS WILL NEVER SUCCEED. THIS TIME, ASHANTIS WILL NEVER SIT DOWN AND WATCH UNECESSARY EXECUTION OF ASHATIS AS DONE TO THE THREE POLISHED ...
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  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 11 years ago

    Yes, I support you 100% and also NDC party must dissolve now. Ghana should have made a law that whosoever mention the word NDC must be prosecuted as well.

  • Alugu 11 years ago

    You see, we all know things are really bad in Ghana but trying to blame it on one person or a political party is the reason corruption will never end in Ghana. Party politics has actually worsen the plight of the ordinary Gha ...
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  • Truth 11 years ago

    Stupid Adofo. Were you one of those unborn fools during Rawlings rule. Ghanaians know better than the rubbish you wrote. Next time you write an article on Ghanaweb, be a little bit sensible, or keep your stinking mouth shut.

  • Mina 11 years ago

    Ayigbefuo mo wo problem inGhana? What at all are you people looking for?

  • Mina 11 years ago

    ...just for your whore mother...and nothing more!

  • Albert Mawutor 11 years ago

    Adofo God curse you forever. Infact God should continue to curse you even into your grave. God curse Adofo forever.
    Stupid idiot. I wish I can get my way. I will kill you Adofo for insulting me for going to the bush to colle ...
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  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 11 years ago

    You are taking God for granted. If God is like a man then he should have killed all of you fools so called NDC as a party and it's stupid greedy bastards in Ghana now. Okay?

    So should better find something vital to say so ...
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  • Albert Mawutor 11 years ago

    Yes. you are the first fool. I mean it when I say I will Kill Adofo. I mean it I will Kill you if IO get you. Again I want to say that I am not a fool to go into the bush to load cocoa for a fool like you. In fact I will kill ...
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  • Mina 11 years ago

    If you have a case against the NPP government why don't you send them to court.They are innocent until proven guilty ,they can send you to court to prove your allegation you need to be very,very careful about stories you have ...
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  • LARYEAH 11 years ago

    MENE SANE, WONYA FIO-FIO!

  • Michael Adzima 11 years ago

    This article is too far fetched and Silly. It is just an exercise in spinning and an expression of hatred and mischief

  • Mina 11 years ago

    Hatred?wow! Do you say hatred?come again .

  • shamu 11 years ago

    I don`t know which of the Rawlings you are talking about. My question is that, do you mean the best leader Ghana has ever got? do you mean the Ghanaian leader who made Ghana to be one of the African tigers during his term in ...
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  • Nii kwartei 11 years ago

    Thanks shamu...

  • Mina 11 years ago

    Do you understand the english word best?or it sound's good to you to use .No wonder some areas on this part of the world will always be backward's if they have people like your type coming from there.

  • AKANMAN NKWASO! 11 years ago

    The harm is already done! Just that at the next coup d'état we should not spare Ft.Lt. Rawlings but line him up together with his cronies; PNDC/NDC regime at the Teshie Firing Squad ranch and shot them up. I mean ALL !!!
    W ...
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  • AKANMAN NKWASO! 11 years ago

    The harm is already done! Just that at the next coup d'état we should not spare Ft.Lt. Rawlings but line him up together with his cronies; PNDC/NDC regime at the Teshie Firing Squad ranch and shot them up. I mean ALL !!!

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  • Obiter Dictum 11 years ago

    Fair point.What is good for the goose is good for the gander.Surely the PNDC men and women must be investigated to establish if they used their positions to amass wealth or for personal gains.

  • kofikofi 11 years ago

    aDofo, you don't make any sense with your stupid article, w'ate. you foolish ashawoba from kumawu, asante. leave Rawlings out of your stupid rantings. where were you when thief Duffour was stealing ghana's money with woyome? ...
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  • Mina 11 years ago

    Send them to court idiots ,you talk from your ass no action ,if I were stupid as you are here wouldn't be the place for me to discurse this,go to court.You cowards who call themselves revolutionalist.

  • Fuad 11 years ago

    Rockson you should know by now that the personalty of President Rawlings is by far too big for ur kind to do any damage to.Indeed you are very ungrateful to the only person who really cared for our dear mother land when it ne ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Rawlings did what for Ghana? Tell me again! This mad man is worshipped by his tribespeople because he is their last tin god.

  • GHANACAN 11 years ago

    No, Akadu, it is probably because he is the last revered king of your promiscuous mother or better still, your absentee father; and if you happen to come from Denkyira then you would at this age be used to accepting slavery ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Duh!

  • Samarin/BOLGA 11 years ago

    listen to this Akadu,the NANA ADDO's ass licker and tin god...TAMPIRI

  • GHANA ba. 11 years ago

    Watch your lips don't blame him, he did the right thing. U better go back to school. Ask yourself how ghana was going at that time, so u better wake up .

  • Nigel Bonny 11 years ago

    Whatever the issue is, we still need to protect mother Ghana

  • Hear it Clear 11 years ago

    Nonsense talk! How old are you? Do you know that at the time Ex President Rawlings came, Ghana was one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

  • KOFI NYANSAPOW 11 years ago

    IT WOULD APPEAR THAT ROCKSON ADOFO IS A CHILD AND DOES NOT KNOW UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS WRITING ABOUT. MAY WE PLEASE TAKE ROCKSON TO "BLAME ROWLINGS-----CORRUPTION", THE PARTS PLAYED BY DANKWA, BUSIA, ETC. UP/PP/NPP, ETC,ETC. ...
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  • Mina 11 years ago

    You are simply stupid ,so called nyansapow.I can't imagine why there are so many fooooools in Ghana now than the 16th century.

  • KOFI NYANSAPOW 11 years ago

    l rather know your father as a bloody fool.BODAM NI BA

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Rockson Adofo, your father will have to be blamed for given birth to an educated fool like you. No something today from me that, we Voltarians will never bow to no Ashanti stoog like Akufo-Addo and we are ready to fight you g ...
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  • Otumfour OT 11 years ago

    Sick mind. When Kuffour's child of 39 years could build a hotel costing $20 million within 2 years. Cocain of 77 parcels could vanish into thin air. When state lands and property were being shared among the cronies of NPP. Wh ...
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  • Mina 11 years ago

    You people hate Ashantis but thank God for given them big hearts to take all these nonsense from fooooooools. Where foolish people are planning evil against them they rather think of how to move Asantiman forward making their ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Volta Region is one of the poorest in Ghana and the reasons are quite obvious. The people in that Region are full of hatred. Pure hatred had eaten their sense of thinking to the extent that they see any hard working person a ...
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  • AMANKWAH 11 years ago

    you are very stupid.

  • Kumankama 11 years ago

    Why don't you use your real name efo kosi?

  • yd 11 years ago

    He must also die the same way he killed others.thief Rawlings,we will come after you.Evil.

  • Frank Mensah, Tikobo No. 2 11 years ago

    Must you add some tribal strokes to an otherwise reasonable article? Must everything in Ghana be seen with either an NDC/NPP or Ewe/Akan eye. That is one of the biggest problem in Ghana and I hope you will look at that in yo ...
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  • SYDNEY 11 years ago

    JJ WAS SINCERE BUT LACKED KNOWLEDGE, IT WAS ATTAMILLS WHO WAS THE WORST CRIMINAL OF ALL BCOS HE WAS ELECTED TO IMPROVE OUR DEMOCRACY AFTER NPP WAS FOUND TO BE CORRUPT UNDER KUFFUOR...BUT ALL WE SAW WAS ATTAMILLS MISUSING THE ...
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  • Okponglo Guy 11 years ago

    NDC has promoted tribalism and corruption in Ghana

  • Nana Egyir Aggrey 11 years ago

    We are ignorant,arrogant,uneducated and that is where our problem is,Ghana has 75% illiteracy-of the 25% who are literates,95% are ignorant. My guestion is,-who is doing the thievery?Who are looting the coffers of the country ...
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  • STEVE 11 years ago

    The title of the article doesn't really correspond with what the content portrays. It tends to insult Rawlings by up rooting the history of the coup de tal embarked on by him. And nothing knowlegable was said about the ma ...
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  • amin 11 years ago

    you fool

  • Nana Egyir Aggrey 11 years ago

    Ghana has 75% illiteracy and 25% literacy,-90% of the 25% are the ignorant politicians and public servants who are doing the thievery and looting the coffers-the greedy bastards as known in Ghana.Rawlings was hungry he couldn ...
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  • kwesi m. 11 years ago

    rockson,
    u r a big fool.r u saying your npp thieves gave us heaven? ur mother.

  • Matthew 11 years ago

    Thanks to GhanaWeb,fools like Adofo have been exposed.

  • pp 11 years ago

    May you live with your unprecedented tauhgts,and may you die a miserable death for. your part you and your hechmen played before Air Marchal Yaw Boakye from Ejisu was executed.You hailed him to kill others and why are you cry ...
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  • Akosua Faibille 11 years ago

    This Rockson or whoever it is parading himself as Rockson Adofo definitely needs psychiatric treatment and urgently too.
    Indeed he is reason we should celebrate Mothers' day because some women carry pregnancy for 9 months on ...
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  • Good citizen 11 years ago

    I Have always had the same pespective as Rockson. It is absolutely true. Rawlings himself realizes this and has tried in the past 5yrs to rein in his NDC. This was clearly visible in his attempt to bring his own party down, b ...
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  • John 11 years ago

    A well written piece, Adofo. I have the same feeling. For GC5.00 Rawlings executed somebody and see what's happening? Tree planting, guinea fowl, wayome, NADMO, sports ministry, president's own overspending etc, etc, etc. And ...
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  • OFORI 11 years ago

    You shall forever remained the dirty monkey that you are.Was it Rawlings who told your foolish semi-illiterate Kufour to loot this country with his family members and tribesmen? You are a curse to humanity you stupid idiot.Go ...
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  • john comey 11 years ago

    is this jj above icc?.

  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Rockson Adolfo, go and burn the big ocean and stop burning ECG installatuons and farms.

    Bcos of the litigation, every fire is being rumored to come from NPP.
    Bcos of ur utterances, it will surprise u that even the water a ...
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  • CAPII 11 years ago

    AFRC/PNDC/NDC I /NDC II. ENTIRE MEMBERS THEN AND NOW ARE CURSED WITH "PSALM 35". NEGATIVE ENERGY WILL CONTINUE IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD AS MANY GENERATIONS. ATTA MILLS GHOST WILL STILL HAUNT NDC II.

  • SAAKA ABUBAKAR 11 years ago

    AHAA GHANIAN ARE NEVER THANKFUL.
    DID RAWLINGS TEACH KUFFOUR TOO ? WHY DO WE HAVE TO ALWAYS GO BACK AND FORTH JUST TO BLAME PEOPLE ? EVERY BAD THING RAWLINGS WHY . WHY DON'T WE START FROM ACHEAPONG IF WE WANNA SHOE DISRESPECT ...
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  • SAAKA ABUBAKAR 11 years ago

    I JUST HOPE YOU KNOW THAT GHANA BELONG TO ANY ONE WHO LEAVES IN IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PEPENI ? IS THAT A NAME ?"
    U KNOW MUCH BUT YOU COULD NOT REACH WHERE IS IS TODAY . IT CAN BE 420 WE WILL RULE YOU. IF YOU DONT WANT JUMP

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    The first person who tried to assassinate Nkrumah, was a Voltarian. Kotoka, a Voltarian, finally toppled Nkrumah and that coup was the beginning of our never ending predicament. Maj Agbo and Col. Serlomey, were the architect ...
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  • Koo 11 years ago

    Yes sir, yes sir, the Ewes are practically worthless as mush as the development of Ghana is concerned. Just look at the result of the 2013 elections, NDC won all the constiuences in the Volta region. Is this true democracy??? ...
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  • JOE KOLOLO 11 years ago

    Rockson,
    Check your facts on the reason for the execution of Yaw Boakye. It was rather Amedume who was executed for taking a loan with collateral security.

  • Peter Dogbe 11 years ago

    And what was the reason for killing Yaw Boakye?

    This collateral security was a privilege that was made available to all Army officers by the SMC regime.

    Even Rawlings used that facility to acquire a C4,000.00 loan from ...
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  • komla tulasi 11 years ago

    Well said Rockson. Rawlings also sought to institutionalise the current insolence in our society. Now what you hear in the media is people heaving unnecessary criticism and insults upon others without any justification. Suc ...
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  • AMANKWAH 11 years ago

    I USED TO DOUBT THE MENTAL CONSTRUCTION OF THIS MAN BUT NOW I'M CERTAIN HE COULD CLASSIFIED UNDER THE GROUP OF ''THE MOST CRAZY LUNATICS IN GHANA'' I BELIEVE WE CAN APPLAUD KUFOUR ''THE SAINT'' HAHAHA

  • Kumankama 11 years ago

    Efo Kosi typical inward looking man.

  • wILLIAM. O 11 years ago

    Adofo u should better. stop this nonsense and used your JOHN knowledge to educate us.

  • money 11 years ago

    to blame a former President for corruption when he hasn't been in office since the 90s. To give some perspective, we are on our 3rd President since Rawlings left office

  • OBOURBA 11 years ago

    Go check the records.Rawlings seized power from a constitutionally elected government in 1981.

  • Albert Mawutor 11 years ago

    What is his name?Mr Adofo Rockson, you are the most stupid Ghanaian to have ever written such a stupids version of your sponsors probably the NPP. Mr Adofo please you rather need to apologise to Ghanaians for your stupidity. ...
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  • OBOURBA 11 years ago

    Massa,blame the Ahwois,Ato Austin and Kwesi Botchwey.They prepared the grounds for Rawlings.

  • Mami Yaadu 11 years ago

    Did Rawlings and his cohorts steal more money than the NPP govt?For your information, Rawlings put Ghana on the world map again so you should be thanking him.If thieves are stealing Ghana's money why blame JJ?

  • Kwame Amankwaah 11 years ago

    Lawlessness has been the order of the day since Rawlings came to the scene,juniour officers loooking downupon their senior officers.It was that time onwards that ignorants entered the politics in ghana,so the seed sown by Raw ...
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