Where is Nana Akufo-Addo?

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Floating Voter 11 years ago

This is a great article that should be read by all Ghanaians

This is a great article that should be read by all Ghanaians
KK 11 years ago

You call this stupid badly written article with grammatical mistakes great? If a case is in court, why should the one involved come to make public statements about it? What is wrong with Akufo-Addo talking through his lawyers ...
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You call this stupid badly written article with grammatical mistakes great? If a case is in court, why should the one involved come to make public statements about it? What is wrong with Akufo-Addo talking through his lawyers?
Guv 11 years ago

LAW CERTIFICATE. MATTER BE THIS !!!!!!

LAW CERTIFICATE. MATTER BE THIS !!!!!!
Omanbapa Osei Oy3ade3yie 11 years ago

The whole secret is that Akuffo-Addo actually went to the UK Bar, USING a forged certificate from University of Ghana Law School, where he only studied Econs.

The whole secret is that Akuffo-Addo actually went to the UK Bar, USING a forged certificate from University of Ghana Law School, where he only studied Econs.
Efua 11 years ago

KK you are missing the point. Anyone who looses a certificate get a replacement particularly if you are running for presidency! He should have replaced it as soon as he realised it was missing, The article is spot on and you ...
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KK you are missing the point. Anyone who looses a certificate get a replacement particularly if you are running for presidency! He should have replaced it as soon as he realised it was missing, The article is spot on and you need your head examined!
KK 11 years ago

The commentator is saying this is a great article and I disagree. The argument of the article is not great. The grammar too is not great since there are mistakes. I say there's nothing great about this article and if you say ...
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The commentator is saying this is a great article and I disagree. The argument of the article is not great. The grammar too is not great since there are mistakes. I say there's nothing great about this article and if you say it is great then you don't know the standards an article should reach before it is declared great. You think the article is great only because it supports your view. That is not a standard of greatness.

The writer is saying Akufo must come out and talk. But he doesn't have to. He can talk through his lawyers if he intends to employ a lawyer in court. That us the normal practice if you don't know.

You think I am an Akufo supporter. I am not. But unlike you, I know a great article if I see one. This is simply NOT great because the argument is faulty and there are grammatical mistakes.
R. A. A. A. 11 years ago

If you talk about greatness of grammar, what does the sentence 'That us the normal practice if you don't know.' mean?

If you talk about greatness of grammar, what does the sentence 'That us the normal practice if you don't know.' mean?
KK 11 years ago

How petty can you be? You don't even know when a person has just tapped on the wrong key! This is a forum entry not an article I have put out for general consumption which I have read through over and over again to correct al ...
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How petty can you be? You don't even know when a person has just tapped on the wrong key! This is a forum entry not an article I have put out for general consumption which I have read through over and over again to correct all slips of typing and grammar. Only you will see that "us" was really what I wanted to write!!!
Richard Wright 11 years ago

The targeted key was missing just as the law certificate missed. Whether it is a forum entry or an article, both are meant to be read by the general public. I wonder the validity of your question, 'How petty can you be?'

The targeted key was missing just as the law certificate missed. Whether it is a forum entry or an article, both are meant to be read by the general public. I wonder the validity of your question, 'How petty can you be?'
Mensah Dekportor 11 years ago

This writer is a JSS DROPOUT and fits into the ranks of the NDC Team C Staffers.

This writer is a JSS DROPOUT and fits into the ranks of the NDC Team C Staffers.
LARYEAH 11 years ago

SHUT UP, YOU TROKOSI TOGOLESE WHORE!

SHUT UP, YOU TROKOSI TOGOLESE WHORE!
DANJUMA 11 years ago

What is wrong if Dr. Afri Gyan is also being represented by lawyers of the EC? You think you are the only human beings with brain.

What is wrong if Dr. Afri Gyan is also being represented by lawyers of the EC? You think you are the only human beings with brain.
Wiliam 11 years ago

ASSUMING YOU ARE RIGHT, DID YOU SAY SAME FOR AFARI DJAN WHEN HIS COURT ATTENDANCE CAME UP ON THIS PLATFORM? JUST CURIOUS!

ASSUMING YOU ARE RIGHT, DID YOU SAY SAME FOR AFARI DJAN WHEN HIS COURT ATTENDANCE CAME UP ON THIS PLATFORM? JUST CURIOUS!
PKA 11 years ago

KK, this may not be a great article in terms of grammar but it does make a lot of sense. Nana Akufo-Addo's lawyers are leading Ghanaians on a wild goose chase and that is why the writer raised the question about his whereabo ...
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KK, this may not be a great article in terms of grammar but it does make a lot of sense. Nana Akufo-Addo's lawyers are leading Ghanaians on a wild goose chase and that is why the writer raised the question about his whereabouts. He needs to come out and set the records straight - assuming he has any acceptable and genuine defense.
NanaAddo 11 years ago

This is npp leader begging to be a president for Ghana,he should clear his name even before going to courts for his own goodness,a criminal cannot be given executive powers to rule Gha,u must grow up.

This is npp leader begging to be a president for Ghana,he should clear his name even before going to courts for his own goodness,a criminal cannot be given executive powers to rule Gha,u must grow up.
serlom kofi 11 years ago

so this article is not great for you is it because you do not understand what is written here or you can't put your words together to understand the article here? sorry that you are behaving like an ostrich cos it goes agains ...
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so this article is not great for you is it because you do not understand what is written here or you can't put your words together to understand the article here? sorry that you are behaving like an ostrich cos it goes against your so call nana. someone must show his certificates but nana's missing certificates is ok.
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

Lawrence Appiah in fact you have asked an unanswerable question to Nana Addo,' WHO IS IN-CHARGE OF HIS CERTIFICATES'..........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SIMPLE!!!

Lawrence Appiah in fact you have asked an unanswerable question to Nana Addo,' WHO IS IN-CHARGE OF HIS CERTIFICATES'..........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SIMPLE!!!
OBENG RAGO 11 years ago

TRIBUTE TO THEOPHILIUS DOUGAN BRODIE-MENDS
By Paa Kofi Freeman Amponsa-Dadzie

The death is announced of Mr T. D. Brodie-Mends, Member of Parliament for Cape Coast and Minister of Information, and then Lands and Mineral R ...
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TRIBUTE TO THEOPHILIUS DOUGAN BRODIE-MENDS
By Paa Kofi Freeman Amponsa-Dadzie

The death is announced of Mr T. D. Brodie-Mends, Member of Parliament for Cape Coast and Minister of Information, and then Lands and Mineral Resources, in the Second Republic, under Prime Minister Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia’s Progress Party Government. Mr Brodie-Mends, 83, died in Accra last Saturday, January 19, after a short illness. A statement issued in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency said he was a Journalist, Lawyer and Politician. He was a Member of the 1969 Constituent Assembly and was one-time President of the Ghana Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Funeral arrangements are the following: Friday 12th to 14th April 2013 – Lying in State, Burial And Thanksgiving Service at his maternal ancestral home of Elmina. (Source: GNA)

DESCRIPTION
Mr T D Brodie-Mends was an intelligent, ebony-jet black, tall handsome gentleman of pristine qualities, who will forever be remembered fondly by his children, family, friends, party and supporters including his Maximillian Anastas Brodie-Mends (aka Papa Abew), Maame…

The popular Lawyer and Politician, who lived in Cape Coast in his prime was endearing, loving and humane; dubbed ‘Oburoni Mends’ (by his detractors), he was a well-attired, posh and affable person, who appreciated living in clean, serene surroundings and expected high standards of character from those around him. Uncle Brodie, as we affectionately called him, was demure, introvert, self-reliant and hardworking man, who strived to raise the standards of living of the poor and hungry in society.

He was not only uncorrupted and detested bribery, but championed the ideals of democracy, freedom and liberty Ghanaians enjoy today as Minister of Information, and kept strictly the purse strings of our natural resources as a Minister of Lands and Mineral Resources, in Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia’s Progress Party Government of the Second Republic between September 1969 and January 13, 1972.

T D Brodie Mends was a voracious reader of books and an excellent writer, highly regarded among the pantheon of great men and women in the period of Ghana Gold Standard Education! He was a serious person but also enjoyed good life…and could be hilarious and even comical at times, as he told stories to much fun and delight of his friends (especially the one titled ‘It’s downstairs…’).

T D Brodie-Mends was an orator par excellence but his speeches bore sense and wit than mere demagogy. We would never forget his inspiring and invigorating 1969 political campaign to become Member of Parliament, which was summed up in a typical Cape Coast parlance:
‘Eye Pro; Eye Sure’!!
‘Isuo, Ennsuo…Lawyer aaa no ko…’
‘Se wope…O; se wonnpe…o; onoara na reko 3x…Lawyer Mends ara no ko…’)

HIS EARLY LIFE
T D Brodie-Mends hails from a high seasoned and much enlightened family in Elmina, and linked to the ancestry that first met the ‘Whiteman in Ghana’ in1482. As stated by chronicles, his Mother Madam Victoria Baafour, was the sister to “Dr R P Baafour, the first-born son of Robert Patrick Baffour Andoh and Maria Frederica Adwoa Kane (Okai). Their paternal grandfather was the illustrious Chief Kweku Andoh of Elmina who served in Sir Garnet Wolseley’s military campaign against Prempeh I, Chief of the Ashanti. He was made regent of Edina State upon the expulsion of Chief Kobina Gyan by the British. Their paternal grandmother was the eldest daughter of Yaa Na Yakubu I of the Dagomba tribe named Napari. She was rescued from the Ashanti by Chief Andoh during the campaign against Prempeh and was given the name Efua Yendi. She was also known as Nana Awuyea. Their maternal grandfather was Chief Kofi Nii Okai of the Gbese quarter, Accra, who was commonly known as Joseph H. Kane. He had a career as a scholar and a merchant.”

T D Brodie Mends was a fearsome academic giant as his uncle Dr R P Baafour the father of his cousin Fritz Baafour, NDC member of Government, and the former Chancellor of UST, who inculcated in him the virtues of graft and academic discipline. His maternal family and paternal family were among the first wave of Fantes, who benefitted from education and they excelled in it. They spoke impeccable Fante and English, and led a most civilised life in those days, when high standards of living were well recognised as virtuous.

Born and bred in Cape Coast to Dr Brodie-Mends and Lady Victoria Baafour, he was educated in the famous Methodist Primary/Middle School of Cape Coast, a town renowned for its good education. He went to Mfantsipim School, where he excelled in his studies and won a scholarship to study Law in England, and was called to the Inner Temple Bar of London, England in the late 1950s.

In his time in United Kingdom he became the President of the prestigious Ghana Union of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 1960s, with many a Ghanaian children brimming in intelligence and driven towards joining the struggle to overturn centuries of colonial rule into self-government. Uncle Brodie was a young Labour Party Activist in UK and earmarked for political office before he joined the band of patriots returning home to help their countries at Independence.

LEGAL PRACTICE
Mr T D Brodie-Mends was a very good rich lawyer in his time and rose to become the President of Central Region Bar Association, and Executive Member of the National BAR Association. Having rejected several overtures of the Judiciary to retire to the Bench, he ran a most successful legal practice in his Onitsha house at Kotokuraba, Cape Coast in Partnership with Gaisie, Zwennes & Hughes Legal Chambers. It was awesome sight to see him driving his black leathered Pontiac to High Court in his trademark crisp striped suits, winning landmark cases as recorded in Ghana Law Reports. His protégé and junior partner from 1968 was his trainee BoyeOBoye – E.M Amponsa-Dadzie in 1968, and well before Lawyers Ato Dadzie and Barton Oduro (Members of NDC Govt)joined the legal practice. In his prime Lawyer T D Brodie-Mends shared the luminary company of eminent Peers as Messrs J B Short, Abaidoo, I.K. Abban, Sackeyfio, Forson, Sarpong, Awoonor Williams, Hayfron Benjamin, E.M. Amponsa-Dadzie, CBK Zwennes, ABK Ampiah, Sampson, B J da Rocha, James Mercer etc.

CAPE COAST
Lawyer Mends maternal background is Elmina but he grew up and lived most of his life in his beloved paternal town of Cape Coast, which he represented in Constituent Assembly and Parliament in late 1960s!!!
He served as the District Council Chairman in 1967 -68, and was credited for raising local revenues to clean and sanitise the town, expanded public toilet facilities, street lighting (which was his obsession) and helped in the relocation of fishermen from their zinc houses by the sea to their present location in Ola. He was the main sponsor of the first Cape Coast Electrification Project whose installation gave the town expanded street lights in 1967/68. (I was a witness of this benevolent scheme, with my Brother Egyakow placed in charge of the construction of cement poles). Uncle Brodie was a loyal Nationalist, who would send you with open cheque to the Cape Coast Municipal Council to pay his Poll Tax – saying in his smooth silky voice: “Look, my poll taxes have not been collected; take this crossed cheque to the Municipal Council and asked them to calculate my poll taxes for the year and pay; but remember to bring a receipt, on your way bring my newspapers and read it”).

In early 1970s he was made the Patron of Oguaa Youth Association chaired by his protégé, Lawyer E. M. Amponsa-Dadzie and was credited for their Motto “Wonsuom, Wonye Nyimpa”, with the aim to spearhead the development of the town, under the auspices of the Central Regional Administration headed by his beloved and respectable J A Annobil, Author of ‘Fie Na Skuul” and Central Regional Minister. I pause to reflect on what could have been without the coup.

For a very long time, T D Brodie-Mends was the Co-Chairman and Life Patron of Cape Coast Venomous Vipers Football Club with Mr E A Mensah, during the hey days of brilliant footballers as Madugu, Takyi, Antwi and ‘Anyway’, where the team were well known to play beautiful football but lost matches, leading him to utter the immortal words (Vipers bo ball o…nna oben den?)…

Perhaps his greatest unheralded legacy to Cape Coast was his facelift of the poor, broken and dishevelled fishermen’s village of Inkoom and Bentsir, lying between the old Post Office and Anglican Church: He engineered the destruction of the old dilapidated mud houses for the building of the present Cape Coast High Court, by arguing for its relocation from the chosen premises at Third Ridge near the present House of Chiefs. Uncle Brodie insisted that the building of the High Courts in its present building would create an opportunity to provide the fishermen with low cost houses in Ola, which had few low cost housing then, before the much expanded project that has lived to this day. The twin project was the building of the imposing MINISTRIES BUILDING in Bentsir, which occasioned the singing of the famous song by the fishermen: ‘Yere ko Ola O, keshi, keshi, ye re ko, Ola…oo keshi keshi!
He was also instrumental in the building of the new imposing Regional Office Building in Cape Coast, away from the colonial relic!

Uncle Brodie was a quiet philanthropist, who gave to good causes to Red Cross, his Alma Mater Mfantsipim School and served as a Methodist Lay Preacher, but he was also a gregarious, generous and fun loving man, as exemplified by his legendary 31st December Annual Parties for Cape Coasters held from 1967 to 1981, which will never be forgotten, as people from all walks of life came to ‘Onitsha House’ to eat and drink on this last day of the year, until they descended from upstairs legless with fireworks displayed in the sky… those were good old days.

POLITICS
Like most young intellectuals returning from their sojourn abroad then, the young Nationalist was first co-opted into One Party State of CPP at a time his Uncle R P Baafour wielded enormous influence in the State, but as tyranny, dictatorship and corruption of Nkrumah’s government tore the country asunder, he joined other patriotic intellectuals to cross carpet to the forces of democracy. He was therefore identified among others to take over from the CPP Government after the First Coup of 1966.

He was nominated after a successful Local Council Elections to represent Cape Coast to help draw the 1968 Constitution that gave us Parliamentary Democracy of the Second Republic, where the Prime Minister, elected by his constituency participated in a weekly Prime Minister’s Question Time to deepen Democracy in Ghana. His assured contributions in the Constituent Assembly are logged in the Hansard of the times, for he was great skilful debater and progressive thinker.
He contested the 1969 Elections on the platform of Progress Party, and in a bitterly fought political contest against a famous rich building and road contractor and philanthropist, W.E.D. Acquah, TD won and became the Honourable Member of Parliament of Cape Coast, and inspired the Party to claim all the 15 Seats in Central Region.

The Progress Party won 105 Parliamentary Seats with so many old and intelligent MPs that led to the famous remark of the Prime Minister, Dr K. A. Busia at the time that ‘he needed a quiet place to consider a most progressive Cabinet to deal with the adverse socio-economic situation’. He was appointed Minister of information and empowered to strip down the façade of censorship and promote democracy – with freedom of speech as its swansong! He was a quiet efficient Minister who returned from Parliament with his car boot full of Hansard magazines for circulation.

In a major reshuffle of the Progress Party Government, Dr K A Busia considered his incorruptibility and appointed Mr T D Brodie-Mends as a Minister of Lands and Mineral Resources in 1971, to take charge of the country’s much coveted natural and mineral resources, including the newly discovered Oil. He took over the administration of Saltpond Oil Field, discovered in 1970 after the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) licensed Signal-Amoco Consortium to operate in Ghana’s territorial waters. The initial appraisal of the field showed that the well would produce 3,600 barrels per day (570m3/d) of oil. He led the base for further exploitation of Oil in Ghana that was to be taken over by their forerunning NPP Government that discovered new Jubilee Oilfields of Ghana.

Lawyer Mends was in the finest government Ghana ever had and his close political associates included William Ofori Atta, Kwesi Lamptey, Nii Amaa Ollenu, Emmanuel Ackon Mensah, B J Da Rocha, Richard Ebusuayedom Quarshie, Jatoe Kaleo, J H Mensah, Saki Scheck, Bannerman Victor Owusu, Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, Kojo Mensah, J A Annobil, Dr Safo Adu, Stephen Krakue, Appiah Menka, J A Kuffuor, Oheneba Kow Richardson, A Munufie…

His own idol was Kofi Amponsa-Dadzie, ex-Cape Coast DOMO MP!

Some of his landmark Legislative Instrument:
EXPLOSIVES (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1971 (LI 690)
IN exercise of the powers conferred on the Minister responsible for Lands and Mineral Resources by section 5 of the Explosives Ordinance (Cap. 254), this Instrument is made this 7th day of May, 1971. The Explosives Regulations, 1970 (L.I. 666) are hereby amended as follows:— (a) in the introductory words, by the insertion of 8th September, 1970 as the date on which the Instrument was made; (b) in regulation 13 (2), by the substitution for the word “tract” appearing in the second line thereof of the word “track”.
R. R. AMPONSAH – Minister Responsible for Lands and Mineral Resources
Date of Gazette Notification: 18th June, 1971.
(He enforced this Legislation when he took over from the great old politician)

He was also instrumental in the enactment of the following Legislation:
Ministry of Information:
In 1970, Lawyer Mends repealed Nkrumah’s infamous Newspaper Licencing and Publishing Act, where only the State owned Newspapers and Broadcasting Rights. It was the ‘Rebirth’ of Freedom of Speech in Ghana as he pushed through Parliament, Bills to outlaw Press Censorship, State Ownership and Control of the Mass Media of the last dictatorship. This led to the establishment of Private newspapers such as The Tribune, Palaver, Voice of the People and The Spokesman, ‘which was stridently critical of Busia’s Progress Party Government. (He appointed his young Lawyer EM Amponsa-Dadzie, as a Member of Board of Directors of the New Times Corporation)
In order to popularise Parliamentary proceedings and to provide greater transparency of government, he took it upon himself the Publication and Widespread Distribution of the Hansard – Parliamentary Proceedings to a much wider audience than ever known since the First Republic. The actions of Lawyer T D Brodie-Mends contributed greatly to Democracy in Ghana today! He was with Dr Busia in the University of Cape Coast when a young man rained abuse on them and was arrested by Police but they intervened to set him free, to which Dr Busia famously remarked thus: “If you want to enter Ghana politics, then you have to be ready to stomach nonsense”

At the Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources, he was credited, among others, for the following Legislative Instruments!
• MINING (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1971 (LI 689).
IN exercise of the powers conferred on the Minister responsible for Lands and Mineral Resources by section 11 of the Mining Rights Regulation Ordinance (Cap. 153), and acting on the advice of the Lands Commission, this Instrument is made this 7th day of May, 1971. The Mining Regulations, 1970 (L.I. 665) are hereby amended as follows:— (a) in the introductory words, by the insertion of 8th September, 1970 as the date on which the Instrument was made; (b) in regulations 224 (3) and 298, by the substitution for the word “Commissioner” appearing therein of the word “Minister”; (c) in regulation 299 (1), by the substitution for the words “the Oil Mining Regulations, 1969 apply” of the words “any other law for regulating oil mining applies”.
T. D. BRODIE-MENDS – Minister Responsible for Lands and Mineral Resources
Date of Gazette Notification: 18th June, 1971

• ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1978
IN exercise of the powers conferred on the President by section 11 of the Wild Animals Preservation Act, 1961 (Act 43), these Regulations are hereby made this 20th day of September, 1971.
Regulation 1—Establishment of Reserves
The areas of land the situations and limits of which are specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby established as Reserves, and shall be designated by the following names—
(a) Mole National Park;
(b) Digya National Park;
(c) Bui National Park;
(d) Shai Hills Game Production Reserve;
(e) Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve;
(f) Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary.
By Command of the President
T. D. BRODIE-MENDS – Minister Responsible for Lands and Mineral Resources
Date of Gazette Notification: 5th November, 1971

On 13th January, 1972 the Progress Party Government of 2 years and three months was overthrown in a military coup by Col Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, whose military government arrested T D Brodie-Mends for a singular reason of buying a car with a fridge in the car boot…yes a common Toyota Saloon car with manufactured accessory for a Man, who owned his own Pontiac and Beauc before he entered the dirty business of Ghana politics. He was not implicated in any form of embezzlement, bribery, corruption, stealing or any malfeasance whatsoever, except honouring a government scheme of buying a saloon car and for that matter subjected to….
“Proceedings of the Committee appointed under the Assets Committee (Appointment) Instrument, 1972 (E.I.6) pursuant to the provisions of the investigation and forfeiture of assets decree, 1972 (N.R.C.D. 19): one hundred & fifty ninth sitting, Wednesday 21st March, 1973 : assets of Mr. William Ofori Atta and Mr. T.D. Brodie-Mends, witnesses, 1. Mr. William Ofori Atta, 2. Mrs Mary Ofori Atta, 3. Mr. T.D. Brodie-Mends
Report of the Taylor Assets Committee appointed under N.R.C. (investigation and forfeiture of assets) decree, 1972 (N.R.C.D. 19) to enquire into the assets of scheduled persons.”

He was a politician of immeasurable quality and much liked and trusted as an honest Nationalist, who never abused office and corrupted his position even at the time Ghana was producing its highest haul of Gold, Diamonds, and Bauxite etc. He was incarcerated by Kutu Acheampong for 13 good Months!

He resurfaced to become a Founding Member of ‘Movement for Freedom and Justice’ that opposed Military Rule and its UNIGOV concept, for which he suffered another incarceration by Kutu for three months. Lawyer Mends was not a stubborn and die-hard politician but thought it was an honourable duty to help his country, and therefore accepted again the Invitation to become a Founding Member of Popular Front Party and stood on its ticket in Cape Coast again in the 1979 Elections but lost to Bernasko’s Action Party.

He was a quiet established Founding Member of NPP but then he was getting old. Nevertheless he made a huge contribution to the Party by giving up his Onitsha House as the Party’s Regional Headquarters throughout the period of return to civilian rule from to 1992 to date!

For all his contribution to the politics and development of Ghana, T D Brodie-Mends faced PERSECUTION, which contributed to his painful decline in health!

SOCIAL LIFE
Uncle Brodie loved his MUSIC – and played it to the full in his dimmed-lit lounge, and in the company of his friends and pretty ladies he would play sonorous Jazz, Blues, Hi Life music that attracted the neighbourhood.

FOOTBALL – He was a close friend of Ghana’s Premium Football Star, Legendary Aggrey-Fynn, and a keen benevolent Football enthusiast who invested money in his beloved Venomous Vipers FC of Cape Coast. Even as an MP and Minister, he would find time to watch his Black and Yellow Jersey team in Cape Coast. He was an enthusiastic Lawn Tennis Player at Third Ridge, and loved playing draught among the local fishermen in Idan Guam…

Uncle Brodie’s Talk of the Town 31st December Parties he hosted every year from the 1960s up to the 31st December 1981 Revolution was a joy to behold! He was a loyal person who kept the same company of Family and Friends – benevolent Aunty Mary Mensah (Adu Boahen), Samuel Kweku Lawton Ackah-Yensu, Emmanuel Ackon-Mensah, Kojo ‘Alata’ Mensah, B J Da Rocha, Aggrey Fynn, Yooku Thompson and his beloved protégé Boye o Boye!

For his contribution to the resettlement of Bentsir Fishermen in their present location he was rewarded with his enstoolment as Safohene of Bentsir Asafo Company. His ancestral Tradition also made him a Divisional Chief in his native Elmina; but all that he wanted in life was Ghana’s progress and development.

T D Brodie-Mends was indeed a most loyal and uncorrupted Nationalist imbued with the sense to help the downtrodden from the democratic liberal centre of the right-wing politics; he was a fierce advocate of Parliamentary Democracy and a Minister of State, loved and respected by his peers, especially Prime Minister Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia.

RELIGION
Methodist Lay preacher and later Church of Scientology – no medical treatment was too much for some of us as we even failed to get access to him, but for those who knew him, Uncle Brodie did not need religion because he hardly put a foot wrong: he won’t undermine anyone; never solicited for any favours; content with his lot; modest, honest and a very good man of high integrity with impeccable qualities; introvert but courageous and fearless of high handed men and women; defender of the weak and defenceless; a man of great compassion but eschewed flamboyance and arrogance…he never suffered fools gladly but then accommodated the weakling and held them up to survive the rigours of life.

For us, Amponsa-Dadzie family, we have lost a man who genuinely loved and helped us when our Father was forced into exile in 1958 and assassinated by the CPP government in 1962. Every one of my Mother’s children have had significant relationship with Uncle Brodie: He brought up our late brother as a good lawyer and gave him his resourceful Chambers to practice when he became a Minister of State; he just liked and adored my Sister, whom he would call ‘Maame Aba, Maame Aba…’; my Bro Nab was his chief propagandist during the 1979 Elections when the two alone stood up against Action; Bro Ato shared everything in common with Uncle Brodie including, Methodism; Mfantsipim; Law; Industry and Cape Coast Venomous Vipers; and for me I just held him in awe and no wonder I was always close to Papa Abew, my room-mate of 2 good years in Cape Vars!!!

Brief Testimony of Paa Kofi Amponsa-Dadzie:
I was 9 years old when my late Brother Lawyer, Ekow Miaful Amponsa-Dadzie of blessed memory, invited me to stay with him in the house of Mr T D Brodie-Mends. He was the Junior Lawyer of Mr Brodie-Mends and we had a swell of a time in Kotokuraba. This was the formative years of my life and will never forget the experience. We lived in the ground floor where he had his two legal chambers and two Secretary and Clerical Offices. Lawyer, as we used to call him, occupied the top floor with his son, Papa Abew, and his Cook Raphael (Arafit), ‘and you dare not the Rubicon’. In a systematically organised way, the house fluctuated between a busy hive of activities swarmed by legal clients to a quiet one of few persons all locked up in their room reading, where the sound of a dropped pin could be heard by us all including his nephew Abeeku Ammisang and Dantani, the driver. In this neat surroundings lived this quiet but affable gentleman. He commanded respect and responsibility. We all held our breath in awe as he went through life like a clock. Methodical and punctual, he came down to the office every day at the same time and would leave for Court each day @ the same point of time. He would come home to have his lunch, and returned to end proceedings in Court before he came to have a siesta, with everybody in the house following suit. Uncle Brodie was simply beautiful, and glorious to behold. He had every book for children and gave us access to Encyclopaedia knowledge. He did not need to say much but you will comport yourself in the presence of this strict disciplinarian and exhibit the high qualities of good manners. Uncle Brodie was our hero and taught us to read books– Tintin series, Aladdin series, Snow White, Dictionaries, Children’s Encyclopaedia, and Encyclopaedia Britannica all placed on top of the Book shelf, with his legal books underneath…And we read and read and smiled throughout the afternoon in the quiet surroundings of the top floor of the famous Onitsha House, whilst eating and drinking! Standards have fallen indeed”, as my friend Fiifi Simpson remarked to me, after he went to see the ailing hero of ours…for there will never be another ‘BRODIE’!

My iconic image of T D Brodie-Mends was a Political Rally at Cape Coast Methodist Churchyard, where he stood among Dr K A Busia, B J Da Rocha, William Ofori Atta, Kwesi Lamptey, J H Mensah, J A Annobil, Victor Owusu, Kojo Alata, Saki Scheck, Kow Richardson and all shouted…”Eye Pro…Eye Sure…” As our elders say…’Agor Ko!’ Gone are valiant men of honour who could have turned our lives around…but now we live by straw and vanity…

The Exile of Lawyer T D Brodie-Mends:

Uncle Brodie was detained for so long a time in our wretched dirty prisons by the NRC Military Government because he has bought a Toyota Saloon Car with a Fridge in the car boot. He never liked this and found it difficult to come to terms with it. He virtually became a recluse in Aunty Mary’s House in Accra, and we all thought he won’t return to dirty Ghana Politics.

Then the nebulous concept of Acheampong’s UNIGOV was introduced into Ghana’s politics: He could not bear it and became the main rallying point in Cape Coast and Central Region. In one of the meetings of People’s Movement for Freedom and Justice in his house the place was surrounded by Abongo Soldiers and Zombie Police: They trapped them inside and in a standoff, their supporters engaged the government gendarmerie in bitter exchanges, where Lawyer Nii Amarteifio was stoned by the uniformed men: The abongo boys then stormed the Onitsha House and took away our leaders in huge vehicles into the dark once again…Uncle Brodie returned three months later and went on to lead Cape Coast to a resounding victory against UNIGOV…It was momentous day, as the crowd surged to his house, hailing and shouting his appellations…Lawyer a nook, isuo, ennsuo…lawyer aa noko!

Now, during the Dr Hilla Limann governmet of Third Republic, we all heard of Flt Lt J J Rawlings’ skirmishes to unseat the elected civilian government. One Sunday at Uncle Kwamena Walker’s house my late Brother, Nab and myself met Uncle Brodie; we were all talking about these manoeuvres when he turned to Brother Egyakow and declared thus: “Boye, if there is a coup by this man J J Rawlings again, I would want you to help me to leave this country: I will never return to the dirty prisons of this country, you hear?” Then on 31st December 1981, when he was doing his Annual Party in Onitsha house it was announced that Rawlings has indeed made a coup de tat. Then my late Brother Lawyer set in motion the means to take him out of the country as promised. I knew about it, and was only last month confirmed to me by the third person who travelled with them all the way to Hohoe, and thence to Lome, where he went into exile in Nigeria – London – Nigeria before he returned to Ghana, old, physically ill and exhausted.

Indeed, Ghana is the only country on earth where good and innocent People are persecuted to their destruct and death by very wicked men! Uncle Brodie did not take a penny of Ghana’s money. He only ever brought home copies of Hansard to be distributed to all; but in return he was sent down broken and dispirited!

As all virtuous men witless go, I personally bid farewell to a man of great valour, substance and finesse with John Donne’s Metaphysical Poem:

Death Be Not Proud
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not sue,
For, those, whom thou think’s, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, pore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleeper, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goes,
Rest of their bones, and souls deliveries.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. – John Donne

Damirifa Due!!!!
Rest in Perfect Peace, Uncle Brodie!
Adu Gyamfi 11 years ago

Mr. Obeng Rago,

Your piece about Mr. Brodie-Mends brought tears to my eyes. I have from tme to time wondered where he was, until I pounced on your "bio" of him.

I met Mr. B-Mends back in 1974, as a member of Venomous V ...
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Mr. Obeng Rago,

Your piece about Mr. Brodie-Mends brought tears to my eyes. I have from tme to time wondered where he was, until I pounced on your "bio" of him.

I met Mr. B-Mends back in 1974, as a member of Venomous Vipers, a club I played for (for 2 years)with the likes of Emmanuel Quarshie, Aremeyaw, and Sey. I remember his driver, Dantani, quite well, and hope he's still around. Mr. B-Mends was all that you've said about him, and more. Infact, Mr. B-Mends was instrumental in my remaining in Cape Coast, so I could continue to play for VV, after graduating from Cape Vars in 1974.

Our country has indeed lost a wonderful citizen. My deepest sympathies to the Brodie-Mends family, particularly to his son Max, my former student. Lawyer Mends, nantsew yie!
ABU OKYEMAN .KYEBI 11 years ago

IDIOT SOLVE THE AGITATING PROBLEMS FACING THE JUST DISGRACED GHANA UNDER MAHAMA AND NDC FIRST AND STOP BICKERING ON NANA ADDOS CERT.IT DOES NOT FEED AND SOLVE GHANA PROBLEMS ,SCUMBAG,.

IDIOT SOLVE THE AGITATING PROBLEMS FACING THE JUST DISGRACED GHANA UNDER MAHAMA AND NDC FIRST AND STOP BICKERING ON NANA ADDOS CERT.IT DOES NOT FEED AND SOLVE GHANA PROBLEMS ,SCUMBAG,.
Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 11 years ago

Nana Addo reasoning with sensible men but not idiots like NDC people. Okay?

Nana Addo reasoning with sensible men but not idiots like NDC people. Okay?
LARYEAH 11 years ago

THE WRITER IS A FOOL AND AN IDIOT. AND YOU F.V. WHY ARE YOU SHY OF YOUR TROKOSI TOGOLESE NAME. FOOL!

THE WRITER IS A FOOL AND AN IDIOT. AND YOU F.V. WHY ARE YOU SHY OF YOUR TROKOSI TOGOLESE NAME. FOOL!
FUI 11 years ago

see another GETFUND recipient !!!! funny boy. there is a reason why lawyers exist....

see another GETFUND recipient !!!! funny boy. there is a reason why lawyers exist....
blackboy 11 years ago

Only smart people receive GETFUND. It is am award not a disgrace and they tend to because bosses over laggards. The questions are valid though the writing could have been better.

Only smart people receive GETFUND. It is am award not a disgrace and they tend to because bosses over laggards. The questions are valid though the writing could have been better.
Kwadwo 11 years ago

You can find him in your mother's cunt if care to look. Mother fucker.

You can find him in your mother's cunt if care to look. Mother fucker.
MOHAMMED IDDI AMIN DADA 11 years ago

NO. IN YOUR ASHAWO MOTHERS CUNT.SON OF A BITCH.

NO. IN YOUR ASHAWO MOTHERS CUNT.SON OF A BITCH.
Lutha king jnr,,uds 11 years ago

Lawrence u r right, Nana shud help we who love him by clearing the waves. We know he is a genue lawyer. But i never liked ur attack on lawyer davis.

Lawrence u r right, Nana shud help we who love him by clearing the waves. We know he is a genue lawyer. But i never liked ur attack on lawyer davis.
Agya Kojo Atta 11 years ago

THE MAN WITH ONE THOUSAND NAMES JUST TO DECEIVE AND CHEAT.PLEASE LAWYER AKUFO-ADDO JUST PRODUCE YOUR CERTIFICATE OR START PREPARING FOR NSAWAM PRISON.
YOU CERTAINLY CANNOT DECEIVE THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME AND IF YOUR LATE FAT ...
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THE MAN WITH ONE THOUSAND NAMES JUST TO DECEIVE AND CHEAT.PLEASE LAWYER AKUFO-ADDO JUST PRODUCE YOUR CERTIFICATE OR START PREPARING FOR NSAWAM PRISON.
YOU CERTAINLY CANNOT DECEIVE THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME AND IF YOUR LATE FATHER IS IMPLICATED HIS BONES SHALL BE HANGED LIKE THAT OF OLIVER CROMWELL.
The certificateless 11 years ago

Ye ma mo certificatelessoo, yaa Akufo-Addo
Ye ma mo certificatelessoo, yaa Jake Obetsebi Lamptey
Ye ma mo certificatelessoo, yaa Sheik I.C. Quaye
Ye ma mo certificatelessoo, yaa N.P.P.

Ye ma mo certificatelessoo, yaa Akufo-Addo
Ye ma mo certificatelessoo, yaa Jake Obetsebi Lamptey
Ye ma mo certificatelessoo, yaa Sheik I.C. Quaye
Ye ma mo certificatelessoo, yaa N.P.P.
Abay 11 years ago

Oh so Nana can speak through his lawyers but Afari Djan cannot?

Oh so Nana can speak through his lawyers but Afari Djan cannot?
pays 11 years ago

oh my bro may allah blessed u,so nana can speak through his lawyers but Afari Djan can not,what kind of country are we living ,all is good when it comes from the NPP,but very bad when it comes from else where,NPP sued the Ele ...
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oh my bro may allah blessed u,so nana can speak through his lawyers but Afari Djan can not,what kind of country are we living ,all is good when it comes from the NPP,but very bad when it comes from else where,NPP sued the Electoral commission not Afari dJAN AND YET LAWYERS CANT SPEAK ON HIS BEHAVE ,AND PHEGA JUSTICE SUES NANA ADDO INDIVIDUAL AND LAWYERS CAN SPEAK FOR HIM WHAT A WORLD WE LIVED INN,GOD HAVE MERCY UPON US................HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
ODUMANYE 11 years ago

Wo y3 kwasea paaaaaa. Don't you know that the man Nana Akufo Addo is more sensible than you? Have you ever heard him come out to talk about cases in court? He is not like your NDC stupid lawyers like David Annan. Nana wil ...
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Wo y3 kwasea paaaaaa. Don't you know that the man Nana Akufo Addo is more sensible than you? Have you ever heard him come out to talk about cases in court? He is not like your NDC stupid lawyers like David Annan. Nana will not be drawn into saying anything outside the Supreme Court because he knows better.
pays 11 years ago

BUSTARD U ARE WRONG WAYOOMI CASE IS IN COURT BUT NANA SPOKE ABOUT IT ON THE PLATFORM OF THE IEA DEBATE CHECK BEFORE U TALK IDIOT

BUSTARD U ARE WRONG WAYOOMI CASE IS IN COURT BUT NANA SPOKE ABOUT IT ON THE PLATFORM OF THE IEA DEBATE CHECK BEFORE U TALK IDIOT
odike 11 years ago

ashantis donot reason rationally and it`s all becos majority of them are illiterate.

ashantis donot reason rationally and it`s all becos majority of them are illiterate.
Omanba Pa, Islington-London. 11 years ago

I don't want to insult people on Ghanaweb but sometimes you fools provoke my anger to insult you like the way Asiedu nketiah has taught you idiots.

I don't want to insult people on Ghanaweb but sometimes you fools provoke my anger to insult you like the way Asiedu nketiah has taught you idiots.
afuaghanakumase 11 years ago

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STEVE 11 years ago

What the writer has put across is that, using so-called lawyers to speak on behalf of Akufo Addo legally is accepted but IT IS NOT CONVINCING to any Ghanaian. Ghana is now highly considered as one of the democratic countries ...
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What the writer has put across is that, using so-called lawyers to speak on behalf of Akufo Addo legally is accepted but IT IS NOT CONVINCING to any Ghanaian. Ghana is now highly considered as one of the democratic countries in Africa whereby politics dominates all the issues for discussion. Every prominent politician may use a lawyer but it doesn't work properly in that context. The electorates want to always hear personally from the politician rather than his lawyers. Even in the US when Former president Clinton got a sexual abuse case by Monica lawyce he, Clinton, came out to defend him instead of using lawyers.

The whole issue is that you don't aim to become the president when there is a problem you can't defend yourself unless you use lawyers. Now does it imply that if he comes the president and the public accuse him of poor governance, high inflation rate, unemployment,electricity problems, guinea fowl (a good project) etc he will use his so-called lawyers to defend himself on the media?
goza go toro 11 years ago

The trees of Nana's Under-Tree-School have not only fallen. The roots of all the trees have also been dug out and burnt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The trees of Nana's Under-Tree-School have not only fallen. The roots of all the trees have also been dug out and burnt!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DADZIE AKPENE 11 years ago

We shan't stop asking questions. Even if the tree has fallen together with the roots Nana took photos when he was still studying. We need to see those photos. If he had no classmates his seniors and juniors are there to testi ...
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We shan't stop asking questions. Even if the tree has fallen together with the roots Nana took photos when he was still studying. We need to see those photos. If he had no classmates his seniors and juniors are there to testify. If all these are also dead the security at the university are around.they should be interviewed because Nana can easily be identified. Shaven big head who dresses well.
Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

Why are u saying Nana Addo is not a lawyer . Nana is a FREE LANCE lawyer and he excelled in that profession.

Nana shd rather be applauded for outwitting both the English and Ghana Bars without attending any law school. Na ...
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Why are u saying Nana Addo is not a lawyer . Nana is a FREE LANCE lawyer and he excelled in that profession.

Nana shd rather be applauded for outwitting both the English and Ghana Bars without attending any law school. Nana is a genius. Nana is wonderful and brave man.

Nana shd go into the GUINNESS book of RECORDS, for aspiring to the post of ATTORNEY GENERAL of Ghana WITHOUT a certificate .

Save for God's intervention Nana twice would have been president of Ghana . What an imposter ?.

Clap for Nana William Edward Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo. The BNI shd accoste all those who confined, aided and abetted with Nana Addo to impersonate all these yrs.

Nana as Foreign Minister he addressed the United Nations ?? Nana is a great trickster and a crook. Look how he wins the NPP congress with ease without a law certificate.
Who in the NPP are certicateless. The BNI must find out
gq 11 years ago

HEAR, HEAR!!!

HEAR, HEAR!!!
kosoko 11 years ago

hear hear! we will applaud him if he honestly admit that

hear hear! we will applaud him if he honestly admit that
HAWA YAKUBU 11 years ago

nana is on a suicide watch

nana is on a suicide watch
Ghanaian 11 years ago

Your relentless campaign to distract Ghanaians from the Court action will come back to hit you.

Your relentless campaign to distract Ghanaians from the Court action will come back to hit you.
Stone 11 years ago

Just as a thief is quick to accuse someone as a thief, so it is with an idiot. Isn't it foolish to say a particular group of people are fools? My brother from the home of idiots, bear in mind that it is out of stupidity that ...
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Just as a thief is quick to accuse someone as a thief, so it is with an idiot. Isn't it foolish to say a particular group of people are fools? My brother from the home of idiots, bear in mind that it is out of stupidity that a silly brain may think that a wise brain is also silly. Be a better Ghanaian!
dont speak before you think 11 years ago

Please this platform is for teaching and learning valid and life changing comments and not useless and unproductive messages....if NANA is a lawyer or not,let the Court take its stand.why are truants also trying to act as law ...
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Please this platform is for teaching and learning valid and life changing comments and not useless and unproductive messages....if NANA is a lawyer or not,let the Court take its stand.why are truants also trying to act as lawyers mean while they cant even spell the profession when given the chance to do so.
SUMBRUNGU 11 years ago

This is the deepest cut of all and i'm not sure that Nana Addo will survive it. Historians will record that he was as enigmatic as he was a courageous politician who lived a scandal-plagued life, in spite of the fact that eve ...
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This is the deepest cut of all and i'm not sure that Nana Addo will survive it. Historians will record that he was as enigmatic as he was a courageous politician who lived a scandal-plagued life, in spite of the fact that everything was put at his disposal by his parents, including their immense wealth and unconditional love but he chose to blow everything away.
NanaAddo 11 years ago

God bless u Lawrence,unfortunatly these npp are far from wisdom,wisdom is too high for them n will not get the simple facts of your article.thanks

God bless u Lawrence,unfortunatly these npp are far from wisdom,wisdom is too high for them n will not get the simple facts of your article.thanks
KWASI NTOW 11 years ago

GHANA IS GREAT WITH MORE WISDOM.NANA AKUFFO ENTERED THE BAR THROUGH GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL WITHOUT PRODUCING HIS CERTIFICATE BECAUSE IT WAS LOST AND HE WAS AMICABILY ACCEPTED TO THE BAR. NO PHOTOCOPIES OF HIS CERTIFICATE AND J ...
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GHANA IS GREAT WITH MORE WISDOM.NANA AKUFFO ENTERED THE BAR THROUGH GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL WITHOUT PRODUCING HIS CERTIFICATE BECAUSE IT WAS LOST AND HE WAS AMICABILY ACCEPTED TO THE BAR. NO PHOTOCOPIES OF HIS CERTIFICATE AND JUST BY APPEARANCE. IF THIS CHANCE IS OPERATING IN GHANA THEN IS A GOOD THING.WELL I AM A MEDICAL DOCTOR FROM COLOMBIA BUT CERTIFICATE IS MISSING. I HOPE I WILL BE EMPLOYED IN DUE COURSE . GHANA ALL THE WAY
Whatever 11 years ago

Lets all mount a search for Akufo Addo's supposedly missing qualifying law certificate. We would do it for free

Lets all mount a search for Akufo Addo's supposedly missing qualifying law certificate. We would do it for free
fatuhullahi 11 years ago

I dont blame u lawrence appiah because u have been spornsord by this so called ndc gurus so u have no problem bcus u did not for the flight that send u to where u are

I dont blame u lawrence appiah because u have been spornsord by this so called ndc gurus so u have no problem bcus u did not for the flight that send u to where u are
Kwobia 11 years ago

Nana can stop this brouhaha by for once speaking the truth.His petition is a fabrication.
Now this certificate nonsense.You cannot forever fabricate the truth.

Nana can stop this brouhaha by for once speaking the truth.His petition is a fabrication.
Now this certificate nonsense.You cannot forever fabricate the truth.
Kosoko 11 years ago

Hear hear! I definitely agree! Nana should do the same as Amissah Arthur did to shame his enemies in the NPP

Hear hear! I definitely agree! Nana should do the same as Amissah Arthur did to shame his enemies in the NPP
Bulla 11 years ago

He4is hiding inside wo ni"&*niase so go and f"£* your mother and ferret him out, mm*&^$ f"*cker!

He4is hiding inside wo ni"&*niase so go and f"£* your mother and ferret him out, mm*&^$ f"*cker!
Antwi 11 years ago

A very good references i really like your article well done.

A very good references i really like your article well done.
ATIMPO 11 years ago

tHIEF

tHIEF
Omanbapa Osei Oy3ade3yie 11 years ago

Okwaseato, do you want to tell us that it is a taboo for an Akan to condemn or criticize another Akan; or every person who writes bad about an Akan is non-Akan ....

Oba nyansani, yebu no b3 nanso y3nnka no asem.

Now tel ...
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Okwaseato, do you want to tell us that it is a taboo for an Akan to condemn or criticize another Akan; or every person who writes bad about an Akan is non-Akan ....

Oba nyansani, yebu no b3 nanso y3nnka no asem.

Now tell me I have taken an Akan name and I'll challenge you to a 2000-line Akan Mmebus3m.

The fact is simply this: Akuffo-Addo presented a forged certificate to the Middle Temple, allowing him to practice as a lawyer and the came to Ghana and registered as a Lawyer.
Afadi- Nsro 11 years ago

Akuffo Addo's fate issealed and will be tossed like and envelope

Akuffo Addo's fate issealed and will be tossed like and envelope
HAHAHAHA 11 years ago

HAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHA
Holysinner 11 years ago

U this guy are u well at all?

U this guy are u well at all?
Prince Jnr. 11 years ago

jux look at the messed up state of the country at the moment and instead of finding solutions to it,,u are thinking of someone's certificate....am not rily suprised abwt the existence of people like u...but dont wowi your kin ...
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jux look at the messed up state of the country at the moment and instead of finding solutions to it,,u are thinking of someone's certificate....am not rily suprised abwt the existence of people like u...but dont wowi your kind will be in extinct soon
scarecrow 11 years ago

This Nana Ado crtificate issue is a test case for ghana justice system people who defend Nana Ado on his certificate issue must first test his pause before issues of statements on his behalf is done,it is is a very very very ...
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This Nana Ado crtificate issue is a test case for ghana justice system people who defend Nana Ado on his certificate issue must first test his pause before issues of statements on his behalf is done,it is is a very very very seriouse charges against Nana Ado.
Kofi Asaase Asa--- Mantukwa 11 years ago

A good one there, Mr..... You have sdaid it!

And I quote.

"..When the issue of the certificate for His Excellency....... did the NPP folks not force him to leave his busy schedule and went to the University of Ghana fo ...
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A good one there, Mr..... You have sdaid it!

And I quote.

"..When the issue of the certificate for His Excellency....... did the NPP folks not force him to leave his busy schedule and went to the University of Ghana for it?.."
Daasebre Yeboah-Asuamah, Canada 11 years ago

I wonder why Justice Dotse, was seeking to know the where about of Dr. Gyan, instead of Akufo Addo. Ask again buddy. Where is Nana? I think wherever he is, he has to be arrested right now. My reason is that no one practice la ...
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I wonder why Justice Dotse, was seeking to know the where about of Dr. Gyan, instead of Akufo Addo. Ask again buddy. Where is Nana? I think wherever he is, he has to be arrested right now. My reason is that no one practice law without license. Equally, no one practice medicine without a certificate and no one can operate a vehicle without a driver's license. So the mere fact that Mr. Akufo Addo, has admitted through Justice Kpegah's suit that his certs are missing should carry him to jail. If the police fail to carry on to this job I bet you, I'll do it. How could Nana do this without detection for all these years? Remember, if you are caught by the police for driving without legitimate license, you cannot tell him your license is missing. No way! You'll be given a ticket to answer in the court.Now, Akufo Addo is the driver, who is driving with a missing Certificate. Nana, you can hide but you can't run. It's about time, you do the honorable thing by producing your cert to shame all of us.
Kumi 11 years ago

Think of strategies that will uphold Ghana and make life better for the next generation and stop wasting time on such fruitless thoughts

Think of strategies that will uphold Ghana and make life better for the next generation and stop wasting time on such fruitless thoughts
KWESI-GHANA 10 years ago

OUR EVIDENCE IS THE WORD OF GOD PERIOD
LET THEM GO ALONG WITH THE PUBLIC INTEREST CROSS EXAMINATION AND PROPAGANDA.
THE NDC DOES NOT CRITICIZE THEIR PARTY WHETHER THEY ARE WRONG OR NOT.
THEY DO NOT ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE ...
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OUR EVIDENCE IS THE WORD OF GOD PERIOD
LET THEM GO ALONG WITH THE PUBLIC INTEREST CROSS EXAMINATION AND PROPAGANDA.
THE NDC DOES NOT CRITICIZE THEIR PARTY WHETHER THEY ARE WRONG OR NOT.
THEY DO NOT ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE ELECTION WAS RUN WITH A LOT OF ABNORMALITIES.
WE THE NPP WILL ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET THE NATION FREE

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