I think you are far from right. You did not hit the nail on the head. What do you say about the NPP members who criticise Nana? The problem is nothing tribalistic. The problem is within the NPP. Accept criticism and find bett ... read full comment
I think you are far from right. You did not hit the nail on the head. What do you say about the NPP members who criticise Nana? The problem is nothing tribalistic. The problem is within the NPP. Accept criticism and find better solutions to your problems
Kondua 10 years ago
Bobby, you deviated from the issues raised by the writer. It is common knowledge that the NDC wins elections by playing the tribal card and character assassination. They have never won on competence and vision and we all know ... read full comment
Bobby, you deviated from the issues raised by the writer. It is common knowledge that the NDC wins elections by playing the tribal card and character assassination. They have never won on competence and vision and we all know that. It is this tribal games that continues to draw Ghana back because most Ghanaians see elections as an opportunity to punish some tribes instead of a means to choose competent leaders to improve their lives. That is why our leaders are corrupt because they believe that no matter the evil they commit against the people, they will continue to enjoy support from some section of the population. And the sad aspect of this is that it is the poorest section of our Ghanaian society that vote for the incompetent ones.
Toffee Man 10 years ago
All his mind is wired around tribe, he thinks tribe in the morning, afternoon and evening. People like you who cant reason outside of tribalism make the NPP and everything you stand for extremely repulsive.
Some of the mos ... read full comment
All his mind is wired around tribe, he thinks tribe in the morning, afternoon and evening. People like you who cant reason outside of tribalism make the NPP and everything you stand for extremely repulsive.
Some of the most inflamatory articles ever written here on Ghana web were written by NPP leaning Akans especially Ashantis. Does that confirm something people had always suspected?
Let the people be the judge. People who voted NDC didnt vote for the NDC because they think NDC can do a better job. They did so to keep evil folks like you who are so abundant in the NPP at bay. You dont do politics, you do tribalism and tht is very dangerous.
Your aim is to hide behind the NPP and cause mayhem in Ghana but most of the people are very smart than you. Shame on you, and you call yourself a Bible believing Christian worshiping with the so called minorities every Sunday?
Not until people of your caliber start doing politics instead of tribalism the NPP will always struggle outside of its stronghold of Ashanti and Eastern.
God Bless Ghana
Toffee Man 10 years ago
Even in the NPP anti Asante sentiments are growing not because people just hate Ashantis but the arrogant pronouncements like the shit you wrote here. I doubt if fools like you would ever learn to grow up.
Even in the NPP anti Asante sentiments are growing not because people just hate Ashantis but the arrogant pronouncements like the shit you wrote here. I doubt if fools like you would ever learn to grow up.
Kondua 10 years ago
Mr Toffee, in all your rantings you didn't say any tangible thing. Please tell us exactly what the writer said which is not true or why you disagree.
Mr Toffee, in all your rantings you didn't say any tangible thing. Please tell us exactly what the writer said which is not true or why you disagree.
insight to the bone 10 years ago
long live the republic of akan!!! the rest of ghana can go straight to HELL!!!!
long live the republic of akan!!! the rest of ghana can go straight to HELL!!!!
NAKED 10 years ago
The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ... read full comment
The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get.
We are being told repeatedly in recent months that something supposedly calling itself Al Qaeda—the organization officially charged by the US Government as responsible for pulverizing three towers of the World Trade Center and blowing a gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001—has regrouped.
According to the popular media account and statements of various NATO member country government officials, the original group of the late Osama bin Laden, holed up we are supposed to believe somewhere in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has apparently adopted a modern business model and is handing out Al Qaeda official franchises in a style something like a ‘McDonalds of Terrorism,’ from Al Qaeda in Iraq to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya and now Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Maghreb.
I’ve even heard reports that a new Al Qaeda “official” franchise has just been given, bizarre as it sounds, to something called DRCCAQ or Democratic Republic of Congo Christian (sic) Al Qaeda. [7] Now that’s a stretch which reminds one of an equally bizarre sect called Jews for Jesus created back in the hippie days of the Vietnam War era. Can it be that the architects of all these murky groups have so little imagination?
If we are to believe the official story, the group being blamed in Mali for most all the trouble is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM for short). The murky AQIM itself is actually a product of several behind-the-scenes workings. Originally it was based in Algeria across the border from Mali and called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC according to its French name).
In 2006 Al Qaeda’s head guru in absence of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, publicly announced the granting to the Algerian GSPC the Al Qaeda franchise. The name was changed to Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Mahgreb and Algerian counter-terror operations pushed them in the past two years over the desert border into northern Mali. AQIM reportedly is little more than a well-armed criminal band that gets its money from running South American cocaine from Africa into Europe, or from arms dealing and human trafficking. [8]
A year later, in 2007, the enterprising al-Zawahiri added another building block to his Al Qaeda chain of thugs when he officially announced the merger between the Libyan LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).
The LIFG or Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was formed by a Libyan-born jihadist named Abdelhakim Belhaj. Belhaj was trained by the CIA as part of the US-financed Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside another CIA trainee then named Osama bin Laden. In essence, as the journalist Pepe Escobar notes, “for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one and the same – and Belhaj was/is its emir.” [9]
That becomes even more interesting when we find that Belhaj’s men – who, as Escobar writes, were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the so-called Tripoli Brigade—were trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. [10]
LIFG played a key role in the US and French-backed toppling of Libya’s Qaddafi, turning Libya today into what one observer describes as the “world’s largest open air arms bazaar.” Those arms are reportedly flooding from Benghazi to Mali and other various hotspot targets of destabilization, including, according to what was suggested at the recent US Senate Foreign Relations testimony of outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by the boatload from Libya to Turkey where they were being channeled into the various foreign terrorist insurgents sent into Syria to fuel the destruction of Syria. [11]
Now what does this unusual conglomerate globalized terror organization, LIFG-GPSC-AQIM intend in Mali and beyond, and how does that suit AFRICOM and French aims?
Bobby 10 years ago
The author of this article should read the article "NPP has no..." by one Akilu Sayibu. You will understand the NPP problems better.
The author of this article should read the article "NPP has no..." by one Akilu Sayibu. You will understand the NPP problems better.
Psquare 10 years ago
bunkum is sarpong justice's word, did you ask permission before using it?
bunkum is sarpong justice's word, did you ask permission before using it?
AMA 10 years ago
Is Tony Aidoo Ewe? Besides, the Akans always claim that they are in the majority in Ghana so what do they have to lose if Ewes don't vote for an Akan? What does it matter? Common sense, please. This is not about Ewes. If ... read full comment
Is Tony Aidoo Ewe? Besides, the Akans always claim that they are in the majority in Ghana so what do they have to lose if Ewes don't vote for an Akan? What does it matter? Common sense, please. This is not about Ewes. If it's only Ewes that refuse to vote for Nana, then he will win all the time. But we know that is not the case.
Kondua 10 years ago
Ama, the issue is not about Ewes and Akans. It is Asantes. The NDC has successfully managed to set every tribe in Ghana against the Asantes whiles the NPP looked on unconcerned. I believe Nana Addo would have won only Ashanti ... read full comment
Ama, the issue is not about Ewes and Akans. It is Asantes. The NDC has successfully managed to set every tribe in Ghana against the Asantes whiles the NPP looked on unconcerned. I believe Nana Addo would have won only Ashanti Region if he were an Asante.... because it becoming increasingly clear that even in the NPP, anti-Asante feeling is growing stronger. That is why there is always an aggressive attitude towards Alan and any Asante who oppose Nana Addo.
Even though Apraku has always been in Akufo-Addo's camp, the personal attacks on him after his criticisms of him was amazing. Even Kufuor has virtually become a "nobody" in the NPP.
Julius 10 years ago
I am a pround Ewe and I swear by everything that I will neve and never vote for a dirty tribalistic idiot like Akufu Addo. Leave the Ewes alone you mother fucker shit eaters!
I am a pround Ewe and I swear by everything that I will neve and never vote for a dirty tribalistic idiot like Akufu Addo. Leave the Ewes alone you mother fucker shit eaters!
Kwadwo 10 years ago
Your piece was strait to the point and I enjoyed it. You have said it all. Good job.
Your piece was strait to the point and I enjoyed it. You have said it all. Good job.
Tony Boat. 10 years ago
You, said it right it's all tribal.
You, said it right it's all tribal.
Abuakwa Bob Marley 10 years ago
Has this writer ever read articles from TARZAN, Arthur Kennedy, Dr Apraku and others from his NPP? Your problem is not tribal. "ye wo homework ye3 wai.
Has this writer ever read articles from TARZAN, Arthur Kennedy, Dr Apraku and others from his NPP? Your problem is not tribal. "ye wo homework ye3 wai.
Oboy Kwasi 10 years ago
I think this piece is well written and the facts are also correct. Nana is a gentleman and also one politician who is not corrupt and those who don't like him are the corrupt ones. The NPP problem is not Nana but rather triba ... read full comment
I think this piece is well written and the facts are also correct. Nana is a gentleman and also one politician who is not corrupt and those who don't like him are the corrupt ones. The NPP problem is not Nana but rather tribal and its time they confront the NDC and match them word to word. God bless Nana, God bless the NPP.
Abuakwa Bob Marley 10 years ago
Continue to be in the ostrich state and come the next elections you will loose again.
Continue to be in the ostrich state and come the next elections you will loose again.
Gagantuan Ganaman 10 years ago
People never talk or see the good side of a person, only the odd or bad perception becomes snack for the public.Nana has an enviable good record and the ability to do better among the current crop of leaders we have in ghana ... read full comment
People never talk or see the good side of a person, only the odd or bad perception becomes snack for the public.Nana has an enviable good record and the ability to do better among the current crop of leaders we have in ghana now. The writers assesssment on tribal disadvantage in Ghanas politics is true. Most Ghanaians vote not on policies.
pink sheet president 10 years ago
John,
Tony Aidoo just said what he thinks is true about Akufo Addo.He did not bad mouthed him either.If you were a visitor for the first time in Ghana on the day of the IEA debate,and having watched the debate,you will have ... read full comment
John,
Tony Aidoo just said what he thinks is true about Akufo Addo.He did not bad mouthed him either.If you were a visitor for the first time in Ghana on the day of the IEA debate,and having watched the debate,you will have only one conclusion for the Npp candidate !
I am only calling your attention to something you seem to have forgotten so soon.So the issue is not about the akan proverb you are siting.The problem of nana addo is real.Dr. Apraku was more generous, but he said the same thing,but with some diplomacy.
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago
Personalities matter John, ask anyone with insight. We have had people from NPP insult Ewes and Ghana's Northerners like there is no tomorrow but you John cannot take comment about "body language" serious. In politics those p ... read full comment
Personalities matter John, ask anyone with insight. We have had people from NPP insult Ewes and Ghana's Northerners like there is no tomorrow but you John cannot take comment about "body language" serious. In politics those perceived to be arrogant do fail because of failure to connect with people.
Kondua 10 years ago
Abeeku, we have also had people from the NDC who insult Asantes and Akans and even northerners as if there was no tomorrow. The difference is that some tribes in Ghana have an inferior mentality so they carry such emotions in ... read full comment
Abeeku, we have also had people from the NDC who insult Asantes and Akans and even northerners as if there was no tomorrow. The difference is that some tribes in Ghana have an inferior mentality so they carry such emotions into elections. So they express their resentment and frustrations against those they deem as "oppressors" during elections. In effect competence and ability is never considered by such people, no, it is VENGEANCE.
The funniest aspect of this drama is that these "oppressed and insulted" people easily forget the insults and happily come to live among their "oppressors". I believe God works in mysterious ways... that explains why the NDC after 25 years in govt cannot compare to NPP's 8 years. Even with abundant resources they still cannot find their way but come back to the people every 4 years to fuel tribal sentiments.
Remember the Bible teaching that a nation without a vision goes astray.
TEI 10 years ago
I have also known that NDC wins elections by tribal card. They will never for expediency let it seem tribal so as the writer said, they will use mundane matters as like the MASALACHI example for politics to let Akufo Ado look ... read full comment
I have also known that NDC wins elections by tribal card. They will never for expediency let it seem tribal so as the writer said, they will use mundane matters as like the MASALACHI example for politics to let Akufo Ado look bad. I agree the real reason why NPP is not voted for is anti-Ashanti NOT anti-Akan.Ashantis are being persecuted
Kondua 10 years ago
One day I was in Kintampo and happened to engage in this NPP/NDC argument in a pito bar. As I was pointing out the differences in the competences and achievements of the 2 parties, some guys who obviously didn't like my line ... read full comment
One day I was in Kintampo and happened to engage in this NPP/NDC argument in a pito bar. As I was pointing out the differences in the competences and achievements of the 2 parties, some guys who obviously didn't like my line of argument asked me "wo ye Asanteni, me boa anaa?, which translates "you are an Asante, aren't you?" I answered that I'm a Ghanaian but he insisted on knowing my tribe. For them the issues, policies, vision, capacity and evelopment didn't matter but rather my tribe. And sadly, they think every ordinary non-Asante should rather speak in favour of NDC.
So the NPP problems is not really about being predominantly Akan but its association with Asantes. After the 2012 elections was declared, I heard one northerner declare that until Asantes stop insulting, the NPP will continue to lose. So I asked him 2 questions "is NPP and Akufo Addo Asantes?" "are Asantes the only tribe you know that insult?" He pondered over this for some few seconds..... but he couldn't provide me with any answer and walked away.
All I'm driving at is that there is a strong anti-Asante sentiment out there, even among all other Akan ethnics and this did not start yesterday. It has only deepened with the the introduction of the 4th Republic when the NDC made it their business to fan it. Like I tried to say earlier, Akufo-Addo won the Eastern Region because he is not an Asante. Otherwise, he would have lost in the Akyem areas. I am yet to establish whether other Akan tribes see Asantes as threat or rivals. I sincerely don't think it is envy because they share almost everything in common-education, culture, economic features, sports, music, entertainment, etc. You cannot watch five Akans and discover a difference.
Finally, nobody can convince me that the NDC loves northerners or other tribes more than the NPP does. At least the evidence is clear for all to see. But I have come to realize what tribal and religious emotions can do to man's ability to think. If you are not careful it will cloud your reasoning. That is the problem of Ghanaians.
It is pure malice and mischief which is drives the evil campaign of one tribe against the other and every Ghanaian must wake up and rebel against any form of persecution by political parties against any tribe whether Asantes, Ewes, Dagombas, Frafras or Akyems. Tomorrow the scales could turn and your tribe could be at the receiving end. Politics should elevate our dignity and existence. God bless Ghana.
Emma 10 years ago
If you think all tribes even other Akans do not quite like Asantes then there must be a reason for that. I guess if all tribes learn to mind their business and stop bad mouthing others no one will be suspected.
By the way ... read full comment
If you think all tribes even other Akans do not quite like Asantes then there must be a reason for that. I guess if all tribes learn to mind their business and stop bad mouthing others no one will be suspected.
By the way Asantes and some also hate Ewes with a passion and its no secret so for those two tribes to hated there must be a reason for that.
They need to look into themselves and so a self assessment.
Brother 10 years ago
Brother KonduaAkufo, your statement speaks volumes-'Addo won the Eastern Region because he is not an Asante. Otherwise, he would have lost in the Akyem areas'. So are you saying the Akyems did not vote for President Kufour. M ... read full comment
Brother KonduaAkufo, your statement speaks volumes-'Addo won the Eastern Region because he is not an Asante. Otherwise, he would have lost in the Akyem areas'. So are you saying the Akyems did not vote for President Kufour. Much of what you said had a lot of substance anyway. However, it is the duty of NPP to debase that stereotype but not to fan it. The intolerance now is alarming.
Armah 10 years ago
Until NDC talks about and discusses competence and qualities of Presidential candidates, Ghana will never make good choices. Our generation is doomed with the consideration of shortness, body language and english accents of c ... read full comment
Until NDC talks about and discusses competence and qualities of Presidential candidates, Ghana will never make good choices. Our generation is doomed with the consideration of shortness, body language and english accents of candidates. The fact is everybody has a n offensive body language. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
I think you are far from right. You did not hit the nail on the head. What do you say about the NPP members who criticise Nana? The problem is nothing tribalistic. The problem is within the NPP. Accept criticism and find bett ...
read full comment
Bobby, you deviated from the issues raised by the writer. It is common knowledge that the NDC wins elections by playing the tribal card and character assassination. They have never won on competence and vision and we all know ...
read full comment
All his mind is wired around tribe, he thinks tribe in the morning, afternoon and evening. People like you who cant reason outside of tribalism make the NPP and everything you stand for extremely repulsive.
Some of the mos ...
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Even in the NPP anti Asante sentiments are growing not because people just hate Ashantis but the arrogant pronouncements like the shit you wrote here. I doubt if fools like you would ever learn to grow up.
Mr Toffee, in all your rantings you didn't say any tangible thing. Please tell us exactly what the writer said which is not true or why you disagree.
long live the republic of akan!!! the rest of ghana can go straight to HELL!!!!
The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ...
read full comment
The author of this article should read the article "NPP has no..." by one Akilu Sayibu. You will understand the NPP problems better.
bunkum is sarpong justice's word, did you ask permission before using it?
Is Tony Aidoo Ewe? Besides, the Akans always claim that they are in the majority in Ghana so what do they have to lose if Ewes don't vote for an Akan? What does it matter? Common sense, please. This is not about Ewes. If ...
read full comment
Ama, the issue is not about Ewes and Akans. It is Asantes. The NDC has successfully managed to set every tribe in Ghana against the Asantes whiles the NPP looked on unconcerned. I believe Nana Addo would have won only Ashanti ...
read full comment
I am a pround Ewe and I swear by everything that I will neve and never vote for a dirty tribalistic idiot like Akufu Addo. Leave the Ewes alone you mother fucker shit eaters!
Your piece was strait to the point and I enjoyed it. You have said it all. Good job.
You, said it right it's all tribal.
Has this writer ever read articles from TARZAN, Arthur Kennedy, Dr Apraku and others from his NPP? Your problem is not tribal. "ye wo homework ye3 wai.
I think this piece is well written and the facts are also correct. Nana is a gentleman and also one politician who is not corrupt and those who don't like him are the corrupt ones. The NPP problem is not Nana but rather triba ...
read full comment
Continue to be in the ostrich state and come the next elections you will loose again.
People never talk or see the good side of a person, only the odd or bad perception becomes snack for the public.Nana has an enviable good record and the ability to do better among the current crop of leaders we have in ghana ...
read full comment
John,
Tony Aidoo just said what he thinks is true about Akufo Addo.He did not bad mouthed him either.If you were a visitor for the first time in Ghana on the day of the IEA debate,and having watched the debate,you will have ...
read full comment
Personalities matter John, ask anyone with insight. We have had people from NPP insult Ewes and Ghana's Northerners like there is no tomorrow but you John cannot take comment about "body language" serious. In politics those p ...
read full comment
Abeeku, we have also had people from the NDC who insult Asantes and Akans and even northerners as if there was no tomorrow. The difference is that some tribes in Ghana have an inferior mentality so they carry such emotions in ...
read full comment
I have also known that NDC wins elections by tribal card. They will never for expediency let it seem tribal so as the writer said, they will use mundane matters as like the MASALACHI example for politics to let Akufo Ado look ...
read full comment
One day I was in Kintampo and happened to engage in this NPP/NDC argument in a pito bar. As I was pointing out the differences in the competences and achievements of the 2 parties, some guys who obviously didn't like my line ...
read full comment
If you think all tribes even other Akans do not quite like Asantes then there must be a reason for that. I guess if all tribes learn to mind their business and stop bad mouthing others no one will be suspected.
By the way ...
read full comment
Brother KonduaAkufo, your statement speaks volumes-'Addo won the Eastern Region because he is not an Asante. Otherwise, he would have lost in the Akyem areas'. So are you saying the Akyems did not vote for President Kufour. M ...
read full comment
Until NDC talks about and discusses competence and qualities of Presidential candidates, Ghana will never make good choices. Our generation is doomed with the consideration of shortness, body language and english accents of c ...
read full comment