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Ghana Needs A Leader Like Baroness Thatcher

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  • Frank Mensah, Tikobo No. 2 10 years ago

    This writer must be crazy. Thatcher was no JF Kennedy. Even in her own country she was as loved as she was hated. I spent time with a British family who would turn off the Television anytine her "dirty" face was shown. She wa ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    First we by all means reject Akufo-Addo but we hail Thatcher, maybe because she is "OBURONI", or what is the sense behind this?

  • Onipa, USA 10 years ago

    Well said, I have always clamored for a NATIONALISTIC STRONG leader (almost autocratic) in Ghana.

  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    A strong willed person is enough. A person who has the courage to fire his or her ministers when they are caught with their pants down.

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    We had such leaders like Osagyefo and rawlings. Both VERY nationalistic and patriotic. It was your kind with your muddled thinking that messed them up. When Nkrumah took office what was there to privatize. Did rawlings not a ...
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  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    If we solve the land tenure system, and able to bring interest rate down all that you are talking about will be solved. You cannot do commercial farming when the lands are with the stools and skins.

  • mensah abrampa 10 years ago

    You speak for yourself only so don't say "we". Like the writer rightly said we all have faults and weaknesses and still do commit mistakes. Your position is akin to throwing away the baby with the bad water. If some of her po ...
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  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    When she came to power Britain was referred to unofficially as the sick man of Europe, and she had to cure her. Among the diseases was inflation, and inflation is a deadly disease like cancer wreaks devastation and its cure i ...
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  • mensah abrampa 10 years ago

    Kobina don't pay any heed to empty vessels. We gain knowledge and wisdom by borrowing a little here, a little there , until we gain the fulness. You wrote a great piece that should be digested by good spirited and rational mi ...
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  • VNK 10 years ago

    I will be the next Iron Lady in Ghana. You wacth

  • VNK 10 years ago

    An Iron Lady with a scarpel not an axe with a lot of love for the Nation Ghana, that is what Ghana needs.

  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    I will support you only if you will tough and honest

  • Joe Boateng ---Dabaa . 10 years ago

    MR.Philip Baidoo Jnr,You are right but where can we find even one sensible politican in Ghana ,To name a few a person like Asiedu Nketia ,Kennedy Agyapong ,Ofui Gyato Ablkwa. All these craps are ruling Ghana what do expect? ...
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  • Wiseman 10 years ago

    Baroness my foot.WAR CRIMENAL

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    How many heard about the passing of Heath, Callaghan, Wilson and Douglas-Home? Not that many, because they did not make any memorable waves.
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    Not many people heard of their passing because ...
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  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Ghana does not need such a cold hearted bitch like Thatcher who engineered quite many deaths with her drunken policies.Good riddance

  • Odopa.com 10 years ago

    The evil that men do lives after them!!
    Even jesus was condemned.

    One good thing: many people like me was able to buy our council houses without the huge deposit!

    In 1993, the poll tax was replaced by the council tax ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    You sounded very selfish.The fact that you bought your Council House without putting down a huge deposit does not mean Thatcher was fair to the entire citizens of Britain. Lucky you,but how about those who were NOT in positio ...
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  • FRANK,LONDON 10 years ago

    You are one of the few fortunate ones who had the deposit to buy council houses meant for the poor at ridiculously low prices.Margaret Thatcher did not allow rhe proceeds from the sale of the council houses to be invested in ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    Thank you.Her legacies are still hurting people today.

  • USMAN. 10 years ago

    In the UK you cannot be a politician if you are not an accomplished professional. In Ghana people are made to occupy management positions straight from the classroom all because an individual can speak English like a parrot. ...
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  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    When Thatcher entered parliament she was 34 years old, but she learned. The problem with our people is they don’t learn. They are filled hubris and arrogance, and yet they know anything.

  • kweku 10 years ago

    this woman was so much hated that people mostly remember her for the evil deeds she did. that is why she her funeral is only by invitation. we never had any leader as evil as this woman and we denounce our liberal leaders. su ...
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  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    The invitation is only for the St Paul's Cathedral. Everybody is allowed. What about the people lining the streets.

  • Atikopo#1 10 years ago

    Baidoo, Philip Kobina, kwasea!!

    Ko te boto!!

  • J.ZAGURU. 10 years ago

    Even a common voting system is faulty, general election falsified, inaccurate time-table or calendar of events in the civil service,salaries falsified and pay roll of working Ghanaians inaccurate, bonusses gone amiss and you' ...
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  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    What is lacking is the character.

  • Fairness for All Ghanaians 10 years ago

    A very good analytical and intelligent article but how many of our brain-dead ghanaians and Africans would agree with it, because they are all thieves with their mouths in the trough.

  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    Blackman's way of thinking.Always the white person is better than the black person. We just need a leader who understands our problems and is prepared to solve them no matter the opposition and pressures from outside and with ...
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  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    This has got nothing to do with white or black. There are not many white leaders who can measure up with the integrity of Mandela. But for now it is for the memory a very remarkable woman.

  • CHE 10 years ago

    Margaret Thatcher certainly represented the propertied class whose interest she served well by siphoning community and state interests to the profit schemes of her political master who funded her political campaigns.She was a ...
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  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    Your idea is to keep everybody poor. In every society there are some who will always be rich. The society that she left even those who are unemployed are able to own cars.

  • Omanbapa Osei Oy3ade3yie 10 years ago

    This dunderhead does not even know that Maggie Thatcher OPENLY supported Apartheid in S. Africa.!

    I believe Nelson Mandela is strong enough not to collapse on reading/hearing this from a black African

    If Thatcher was so ...
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  • Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

    If Mandela was strong enough he would have come to her funeral. Mandela would commend me for writing this. Try and watch the movie Invictus.