Celebrating the Bui Dam minus Kufuor?

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Eddie, London 12 years ago

We need leadership that unites rather than the one that makes division ion. Honour should be given where it is deserved. It is unbelievable as we strive to go forward as a nation action like this is still taken. We have more ...
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We need leadership that unites rather than the one that makes division ion. Honour should be given where it is deserved. It is unbelievable as we strive to go forward as a nation action like this is still taken. We have more evidence that since the first president of te nation, actions of this kind has taken us backward. We have to voice out our protest so that this kind of action will never be repeated and also for those in authority to realise they are there to serve the interest of the total population of Ghana and not only their personal and political interest alone.
IET 12 years ago

IT IS ONLY UNDER EMERGANCY TEST

IT IS ONLY UNDER EMERGANCY TEST
STONER KOBYLYNTON 12 years ago

And a whole President going for an emergency test why not the Energy Minister?

And a whole President going for an emergency test why not the Energy Minister?
peace 12 years ago

koffour and his ilk are jealous and will jump at any opportunity to criticise. i pitty the old man. in any case this dam would have been built by the great nkrumah had it not been danquah busiah dombo kuffour------tradition

koffour and his ilk are jealous and will jump at any opportunity to criticise. i pitty the old man. in any case this dam would have been built by the great nkrumah had it not been danquah busiah dombo kuffour------tradition
GHANAVIA 12 years ago

Bokor, NDC is your soul mate and bedfellow; you know them for taking credit for others' output and surely you know them as nincompoop(s, why express this fake surprise?

Shut up, find some sodabie,akple and bobi tadi, eat a ...
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Bokor, NDC is your soul mate and bedfellow; you know them for taking credit for others' output and surely you know them as nincompoop(s, why express this fake surprise?

Shut up, find some sodabie,akple and bobi tadi, eat and retire in your bed.
Don't you waste our ears. Have you ever written anything positive about President Kuffour?
OSEI ASSIBEY-UNI OF PHOENIX-USA 12 years ago

I thought Mahama was humble and smart, but I think I made a mistake.

Kuffour did not only show maturity and good statesmanship, but also showed Mahama respect and honor by honoring his invitation during his inauguration ...
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I thought Mahama was humble and smart, but I think I made a mistake.

Kuffour did not only show maturity and good statesmanship, but also showed Mahama respect and honor by honoring his invitation during his inauguration and this is the favor he gets in return?

We all know Dr. Nkrumah cultivated or envisaged this very noble idea till president Kuffour came resurrecting it. Hence, why sideline him during this very august day and ceremony? What crime did he commit?

Mr President, if this is the way you are going to administer this very country, then am sorry you have already failed in your quest!
Ka na Wu 12 years ago

I don't think this article was writen by Bokor. Does the Bokor I kno has the brain to be that objective and yet fail to think most of the time?

I don't think this article was writen by Bokor. Does the Bokor I kno has the brain to be that objective and yet fail to think most of the time?
Kodwo 12 years ago

I have the same view as you Ka Na Wu.

I have the same view as you Ka Na Wu.
peace 12 years ago

the dam is not completed akan solidarity

the dam is not completed akan solidarity
STONER KOBYLYNTON 12 years ago

Doc., you have said it all and it is a great missed opportunity by Mr. Mahama and this has proved that he is lack of wisdom if it is not one of political antics he is displaying. His subordinates won't be spared the blame as ...
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Doc., you have said it all and it is a great missed opportunity by Mr. Mahama and this has proved that he is lack of wisdom if it is not one of political antics he is displaying. His subordinates won't be spared the blame as they are all irresponsible individuals like Mahama himself who are there for their own selfish interest. I will say that a wedded man who goes around and unzipping his pants and breeding like a rabbit cannot be trusted. He is a con man and people who voted for him are out of their senses.

It is 47 years ago since Late Nkrumah's government ended and with successive governments that we have had, PNDC/NDC government have had 23 years out of the 47 years since Dr. Nkrumah's overthrown and PP/NPP have had 11 years on the throne. What can the country boast of under the rule of PNDC/NDC governing body? Absolutely nothing significant other than killings and confiscating of individuals assets under Kangaroo Courts. Just think about Nsawam to Suhum road which was started by Kuffour administration, up to date the road is still uncompleted. By the way go to Koforidua, the Housing Project started by Kuffour's government has been abandoned to rot. Is this the way to rule a country? Absolutely not. I think if the Bui Dam had not been of total national interest, believe you and me, it would have been left waste - any way Asiedu Nketia is benefiting from it and beefing NDC's monetary chest. Had Progressive Party(PP)of late Busia not toppled by late General Acheampong in 1972, the filth and choked gutters Accra Metro is witnessing today would have been no where. Successive governments are to put Country first attitude and continue with projects left by their predecessors and not leave them to rot. Shame Mahama, Shame NDC. E&OE.

Hear it Clear 12 years ago

NDC lost a great opportunity to promote unity in the country, and to win public support.

NDC lost a great opportunity to promote unity in the country, and to win public support.
Frank 12 years ago

Honestly, I think this is much ado about nothing, and I am surprised that Mr Kuffour, who I respect very much, made a big deal of a kind of emergency preliminary switching on of part of the functions of the dam to help deal w ...
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Honestly, I think this is much ado about nothing, and I am surprised that Mr Kuffour, who I respect very much, made a big deal of a kind of emergency preliminary switching on of part of the functions of the dam to help deal with the energy crisis, while awaiting the real inauguration.
I do think that the government should not have made a big deal of the ceremony either, and should have rather emphasised the need to quickly bring the current operational portion of the dam into operation to alleviate the energy situation in the country to some extent, while waiting for the real inauguration.
It will be a pity if, at the real inauguration Mr Kuffour is invited but fails to turn up.
This project was Nkrumah's baby, and Kuffour had the vision to reactivate it, and Mahama has done the right thing to switch it on even before the other parts of it are ready. We should revel in this continuity of leadership by Ghanaian leaders for the benefit of the country.
But I was particularly surprised when Mr Kuffour wondered whether it was worth the trouble for him to have made all the efforts to initiate the project just because his sensibilities were hurt by the lack of invitation to the preliminary inauguration. I think he knows better that he did a yeoman's job in being far sight about this, which is now helping his successor to deal with an energy crisis in the country. That is where his efforts were worth it, and not the pointless issues of partial inaugurations and who attended them. Thicker skin please to our leaders, past and present.
But Mr Mahama should also learn from this that we are all human beings and that symbolisms do matter to us all.
IET 12 years ago

THE BUI DAM IS NOT YET COMPLETED:

THE BUI DAM IS NOT YET COMPLETED:
Guitar Boy 12 years ago

WE CAN'T READ OR WRITE SO GIVE US FREE SHS PLEEESE.WE DON'T NEED DUMSOR WHEN THE PROMISE WAS "BETTER GHANA " OR DID U MEAN "BITTER GHANA"?

WE CAN'T READ OR WRITE SO GIVE US FREE SHS PLEEESE.WE DON'T NEED DUMSOR WHEN THE PROMISE WAS "BETTER GHANA " OR DID U MEAN "BITTER GHANA"?
FORTUNE TELLER 12 years ago

If we are for a second to side with the lunatic, inward-looking rantings of the resident Say It Loud IDIOT, ZEO, the worshipper of mortals, then it is appropriate to say that the overthrow of Dr. Hilla Limaan by the imbecile ...
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If we are for a second to side with the lunatic, inward-looking rantings of the resident Say It Loud IDIOT, ZEO, the worshipper of mortals, then it is appropriate to say that the overthrow of Dr. Hilla Limaan by the imbecile Rawlings was driven along by pure tribalism.

Will the buffoon Zeo and his sidekicks tell the whole world while all the invisible hands , and faces that instigated 'designed' and implemented the unnecessary coup were Ewes?

Then again how come after the coup all the soldiers who participated in the cold blood murder of the three High Court Judges and the Retired Major all Akans were Ewes?

Now do you see why your kind must be the last to label anyone tribalistic? If Ghana is at the brink of tribal catastrophe don't look any further from your kind who for nineteen years of Rawlings misgovernance, deepened the tribal chasm.

It is only those suffering from political correctness and hypocrisy who would deny that your kind had been a major contibuting factor in destroying good tribal relations in our country

Have you heard the name Kofi Awoonor and now the decrepit Kpegah the Section 8 resident?
peace 12 years ago

mr kuffour this is only the beginning you will cry some more. you similar things to jer but he did not cry.

mr kuffour this is only the beginning you will cry some more. you similar things to jer but he did not cry.
FORTUNE TELLER 12 years ago

SO THE "smallest brain" HAS BEEN ABLE TO EXECUTE AND COMMISSION THE VISION OF THE "small brains"(OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH), AFTER IT HAS BEEN REVIVED BY the "smaller brains". So after all there is something good in everybod ...
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SO THE "smallest brain" HAS BEEN ABLE TO EXECUTE AND COMMISSION THE VISION OF THE "small brains"(OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH), AFTER IT HAS BEEN REVIVED BY the "smaller brains". So after all there is something good in everybody. NO ONE SINGLE PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS CAN CLAIM TO BE KNOWLEDGEABLE IN EVERYTHING AND THEREFORE MUST BY ALL MEANS BE THE ONE OR ONES TO BE ALLOWED TO BE PRESIDENT OF, OR TO RULE GHANA.
Habib 12 years ago

Bui dam not commissioned yet.......only one turbine.....he will be part of the main commission in November

Bui dam not commissioned yet.......only one turbine.....he will be part of the main commission in November
STONER KOBYLYNTON 12 years ago

And the thing took a whole gang of senseless to accompany him to turn on one turbine. Why not the Energy Minster?

And the thing took a whole gang of senseless to accompany him to turn on one turbine. Why not the Energy Minster?
Kodwo 12 years ago

The NDC did not want to remind Ghanaians that it was Kuffuor who brought back Nkrumah's Project, given that the NDC cannot put a single "BIG" project to its name.

Considering that Nkrumah and Kuffuor were on the opposite s ...
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The NDC did not want to remind Ghanaians that it was Kuffuor who brought back Nkrumah's Project, given that the NDC cannot put a single "BIG" project to its name.

Considering that Nkrumah and Kuffuor were on the opposite sides of the political divide, they both showed that they were Ghanaians first and not Party first.

Mahama has proved he cannot overide bad advise.

Tamkloe 12 years ago

Indeed has the many projects initiated by The NPP.

Indeed has the many projects initiated by The NPP.
CONCERNED CITIZEN 12 years ago

BOKOR, WE HAVE ,MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN INVITING KUFFOUR TO THIS CELEBRATION. WHAT WAS HE GOING TO DO THERE? SHAKE HANDS, HUG THE OFFICIALS AND GO FOR THE KEBAB AFTER THE CEREMONY. IN FACT SOME OF THESE CEREMONIES AR ...
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BOKOR, WE HAVE ,MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN INVITING KUFFOUR TO THIS CELEBRATION. WHAT WAS HE GOING TO DO THERE? SHAKE HANDS, HUG THE OFFICIALS AND GO FOR THE KEBAB AFTER THE CEREMONY. IN FACT SOME OF THESE CEREMONIES ARE USELESS. I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ASKED TO GO AND PERFORM THAT DUTY AND I WOULDN'T HAVE INVITED KIFFOUR BECAUSE HE IS HOLDING A WALKING STICK AND SHOULD FIND SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT TO DO.
Bernard 12 years ago

Congratulations Dr. Bokor for winning the 26th Edition of the Prestigious David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching. By winning this award, you have become the first Ghanaian and African, for that matter to have won this ...
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Congratulations Dr. Bokor for winning the 26th Edition of the Prestigious David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching. By winning this award, you have become the first Ghanaian and African, for that matter to have won this award since it,s establishment in 1988. Moreover, you are the first and only Ghanaian and African to be recruited as full_time faculty member of the Department of English of the Richard L. Connolly College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Brooklyn Campus since the establishment of Long Island University in 1926. Ayeeko!!! Dr. Bokor. You have made Ghana Proud.
TKD 12 years ago

...that he was not invited but turned down the invitation as they normally do?

...that he was not invited but turned down the invitation as they normally do?
Kwame 12 years ago

We were to celebrate Bui Dam in 1967, but Busia and Kufuor subverted it.

We were to celebrate Bui Dam in 1967, but Busia and Kufuor subverted it.
Victor, Kumasi 12 years ago

Every Ghanaian knows the originator of the Bui Dam. The Akosombo Dam is a brainchild of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and everybody hails and adores him for that.Prez. Kufuor facilitated the Bui Dam and Prez. Mahama should have acknowled ...
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Every Ghanaian knows the originator of the Bui Dam. The Akosombo Dam is a brainchild of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and everybody hails and adores him for that.Prez. Kufuor facilitated the Bui Dam and Prez. Mahama should have acknowledged that by inviting him to its inauguration bcos the man is still alive. How beautiful it would have been. Prez Mahama, I am afraid you did not get it right at all. What a missed opportunity to demonstrate to Ghanaians that Ghana is a nation that is worth toiling for. Prez. Mills brazed the same trail (changing the Jubilee House to Flag Staff House) and public opinion went against him. The way these NDC people are going - always trying to reap where they have not sown)- we shd not be surprised if we wake up one day only to hear that the Bui Dam has been named after Prez Mills or Prez. Mahama himself.
papillon 12 years ago

Kuffour can go to hell....how many times did he do likewise to JJ?

Kuffour can go to hell....how many times did he do likewise to JJ?
veep 12 years ago

is this an admission of guilt or what? i thought when you return you'd definitely continue with exposing NADAA. how come you've returned with this article? the duration in which you released articles were shorter when you wer ...
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is this an admission of guilt or what? i thought when you return you'd definitely continue with exposing NADAA. how come you've returned with this article? the duration in which you released articles were shorter when you were busily castigating the man. you even succeeded in releasing two articles a day sometimes. at other times you also dropped articles with intervals of 2 to 5 days. how come you've gone into hiding for almost 2 weeks? remember what our elders say: every deed of man, be it good or bad, shall always precede him. beware!!!!
GHMA 12 years ago

DID THE DAM BELONGS TO KUFUOR? OR DID HE USE HIS MONEY TO PAY FOR IT WHY DID HE WANT TO CREDIT FOR IT SOUND TO LIKE BEING MAD FOR THIS MATTER THUS NOT MAKE ANY SENSE

DID THE DAM BELONGS TO KUFUOR? OR DID HE USE HIS MONEY TO PAY FOR IT WHY DID HE WANT TO CREDIT FOR IT SOUND TO LIKE BEING MAD FOR THIS MATTER THUS NOT MAKE ANY SENSE
Tee 12 years ago

Mr. Bokor, it was a bad thing for the government to do that but can you recall when UDS wanted to honour Mr. Rawlings and the same Kuffour rejected it even though the UDS was a brain child of Mr. Rawlings. The world is like t ...
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Mr. Bokor, it was a bad thing for the government to do that but can you recall when UDS wanted to honour Mr. Rawlings and the same Kuffour rejected it even though the UDS was a brain child of Mr. Rawlings. The world is like that..do unto others......God Bless Ghana and God bless you Mr. Bokor

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