Open letter to JJ Rawlings: Stop your political wedge schemes

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NTAMKESE 12 years ago

HE BETTER SHUT HIS EVIL MOUTH ONCE AND FOR ALL OR WE SHUT IT FOR HIM! AND TO THINK THAT THIS BASTARD OF A BUTCHER HAS FOLLOWERS JUST AMAZES ME! THANK YOU MR BOTTAH AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

HE BETTER SHUT HIS EVIL MOUTH ONCE AND FOR ALL OR WE SHUT IT FOR HIM! AND TO THINK THAT THIS BASTARD OF A BUTCHER HAS FOLLOWERS JUST AMAZES ME! THANK YOU MR BOTTAH AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
CARDINAL 12 years ago

As a matter of fact, if Rawlings has a conscience, he might be feeling guilty for Ya Na's death because it was his Rawlings advice that lead to Ya Na's killing.

The Npp government at the time wanted to move Ya Na to Accra ...
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As a matter of fact, if Rawlings has a conscience, he might be feeling guilty for Ya Na's death because it was his Rawlings advice that lead to Ya Na's killing.

The Npp government at the time wanted to move Ya Na to Accra temporary until the warring gates have been made to smoke the peace pipe but Rawlings told Ya Na not to move to Accra because doing so will allow the Npp to install an Abudu as a Ya Na. Rawlings guilty conscience is troubling him or Ya Na's ghost is haunting him.
Peter Touch 12 years ago

Oyokoba, why are you allowing emotions and anger to cloud your judgement? yes murders took place during the revolution and must be regretted by all but the truth must be told as it was. Some of us are tired of your of lies wh ...
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Oyokoba, why are you allowing emotions and anger to cloud your judgement? yes murders took place during the revolution and must be regretted by all but the truth must be told as it was. Some of us are tired of your of lies which you cleverly do by hiding behind age old tribal biases that had existed long b4 Rawlings was born.

A) "And you must have guessed right, that it goes back to your wanton destruction of their businesses and the murdering of 3 Akan judges and a retired mayor, on June 30, 1982, for the sole political calculation to intimidate the judiciary, the only remaining arm of government that had survived your unconstitutional coup of December 31, 1981"

The killing of the judges was pure retaliations, They were the same judges that found him and his boys guilty in the first failed coup, sentenced them to death and he came out and paid them back in their own coin for supporting a Kalabule regime. Nothing about targeting Akan judges

B) "You intimately know the wedge between Akans and Ewes (no fault of theirs) started from that point, since our peoples tend to fall back to their tribal groupings when weak state institutions had collapsed or failed to protect them"

No! This so called wedge b/n Akans especially Asantes and Ewes started long b4 Rawlings was born. Asantes having controlled the rest of the Akans for so long would naturally love to see the status quo remain so but the arrival of the next largest group, the Ewes meant that an alliance b/n Ewes and any group would quickly change things. The Fantes who were the natural opponents to the Asante dominanace b4 the arrival of the Ewes knew this and Nkrumah had a reason for forcing German/French controlled Transvolta Togoland to join Ghana and also separating BA from Ashanti.

C) "In your twisted and hateful mind, you have come to the conclusion that your political survival and legacy depends on finding a counterbalancing wedge to split Akans, especially Ashantis and Akyems - from the rest of the tribal groupings in Ghana."

Another false assumption, There is no scientific evidence to back these allegations. Even if there was any evidence of truth in your assertions JA Kuffuor had the golden opportunity to right the wrongs by uniting the nation when he took over yet he failed miserably by deepening the tribal divisions during his reign by forcing almost all Ewe, Northern and suspected Rawlings sympathizers to proceed on leave when he took over. More was expected from him since he was much more older and experience, more educated and more exposed to have done better. Besides what do we currently see among the Akyems and the Asantes in the NPP? Intolerance to the nonsense degree that should be blamed on a culture of intolerance and arrogance instead of an individual. Rawlinsg does not have that kind of power or influence to deceive a nation of 20 something million ppl. Talk to Ayikoi Otu, your own party lawyer.

D) "You rightly know these two peoples are not inclined to kiss up to your murderous ass, so your tact has been to split Akans from their cousins from the north, and form a new political alliance between Northerners and Ewes/Gas with unsuspecting Fantes as political hitches"

Oyokoba, you are wrong. The Danqua/Busia fraternity had struggled with the above since the days of Nkrumah long before Rawlings was born. NPP better deal with it or run away from it by blaming it on others and you would be disappointed to realize that nothing may change concerning the above even after the death of Rawlings.

Come back and lets debate, no insults, Happy New year to you all.
Problem 12 years ago

It's about time Ashanti/Akyems put this murderous JJ Rawlings where he belongs. The guy has had his free will for a long time You have to do everything possible to silence this tribal king. Tribalism becoming a problem in Gha ...
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It's about time Ashanti/Akyems put this murderous JJ Rawlings where he belongs. The guy has had his free will for a long time You have to do everything possible to silence this tribal king. Tribalism becoming a problem in Ghana was started by this bastard. He knew he cannot overcome or fool Ashanti/Akyems and so such has to discredit them, separate them from the other tribes by preaching hatred against them. You have to counter him in anything that he says and does. He is afraid that an Ashanti/Akyem man is the only person that can silence him, hence he doesn't want to see any person from among them rise, but he lies bad. He can only fool some tribes but not all the tribes.
Ghanabiya 12 years ago

I think the government of President Kufour was the one to silence Rawlings. Why did he and his people not do it but now?

Go ahead and silence Rawlings. Nobody is stopping you.

I think the government of President Kufour was the one to silence Rawlings. Why did he and his people not do it but now?

Go ahead and silence Rawlings. Nobody is stopping you.
ALUTA CONTINUA 12 years ago

ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS

ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

At least you have pumped some sense and knowledge into brother Oyokoba's skull.

At least you have pumped some sense and knowledge into brother Oyokoba's skull.
KOO DWOMO 12 years ago

J.J Rawlings can only be remembered in the history of Ghana as the former murderer, not a former President. He still does not believe that he no longer holds political power. He goes on to do the only thing he does better, th ...
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J.J Rawlings can only be remembered in the history of Ghana as the former murderer, not a former President. He still does not believe that he no longer holds political power. He goes on to do the only thing he does better, the creation of confusion, and dusting the eyes of a few illiterates in Ghana. His day of reckoning will soon dawn, Kofi Awoonor's to many years, yet he received it, Why not J.J Rawlings? One thing remains clear, "crime against the state never grows old". Only time will tell, my dear friends, J.J Rawlings can only be remembered in the memories of Ghanaians as a former murderer, not a former President.
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

Nonsense!! Even your witchcrafts are too weak to approach JJ RAWLINGS. Get this into your coconut!!
Your cowardly acts and perceptions will not resonate. Fools!! JJ is a human being but did rule to his best. If you don't lik ...
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Nonsense!! Even your witchcrafts are too weak to approach JJ RAWLINGS. Get this into your coconut!!
Your cowardly acts and perceptions will not resonate. Fools!! JJ is a human being but did rule to his best. If you don't like it go get drowned in the sea!! Your diabolical wishes will consume you and your family as Revenge is sole God's!! Apes!!!
Joe 12 years ago

You see it is people like you who keep jj talking because he knows he has the ears and support to listen to him. People like you are either Young and did not experience what Rawling inflicted on Ghanaians, or you, your parent ...
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You see it is people like you who keep jj talking because he knows he has the ears and support to listen to him. People like you are either Young and did not experience what Rawling inflicted on Ghanaians, or you, your parents or some close relative of yours were some of the few who benefited from his treacherous regime; or you are a tribalist or like many a Ghanaian who are plain stupid who refuse to critical think of what information they are fed. Please get it into your skull that JJ Rawling is a murderous conman who think he is better than all Ghanaians because he is a half witted bastard half-cast. What a pitty$%##@. What I hate is the way he talk down on all Ghanaians, Please go as ask about who jj rawlings is from someone who went to achimota school with him. He was an envious bratt who thought every old guy who comes to visit their children in a car was stealing from the govt., that was why his mother did not had one.

Osofo 12 years ago

A stinky imbecile trokosi child molester who fuck his own daughter calling people apes.

A stinky imbecile trokosi child molester who fuck his own daughter calling people apes.
Julor Agyekum Kwakwe JAK 12 years ago

How can you write stupid article like a mad smelly ugly animal? Is it because the ashantis are backward and ugly looking or they are just miserable lunatic fools roaming Accra streets and their women as prostitutes all over t ...
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How can you write stupid article like a mad smelly ugly animal? Is it because the ashantis are backward and ugly looking or they are just miserable lunatic fools roaming Accra streets and their women as prostitutes all over the world?
ghanaba 12 years ago

NO PLACE FOR TRIBALISM IN GOOD GHANA.ONE GHANA ONE PEOPLE ONE COUNTRY

NO PLACE FOR TRIBALISM IN GOOD GHANA.ONE GHANA ONE PEOPLE ONE COUNTRY
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

Botha, they call him must be tried one day for telling lies under oath!! If you tell lies and there is a civil war in Ogyakrom (which will not happen anyway, as there is no one winner nor one loser)will Botha's conscience be ...
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Botha, they call him must be tried one day for telling lies under oath!! If you tell lies and there is a civil war in Ogyakrom (which will not happen anyway, as there is no one winner nor one loser)will Botha's conscience be clean!! The stereotyping and anachronistic perceptions of the Akans and the Ewes not being good friends had been there for long before JJ was even born. Bothat is just interested in cutting corners to history! He must know that the people who carried out the revolution will never ever regret for having done so!! And so will most Ghanaians who were matured before the 1979?? They were eye witnesses to the moral decadence of nearly weekly change of governments with bottom power being the weapon of development at the Castle!! Besides single ladies could take £86,000 for shopping spree in Britain when there were no medicines in the hospitals for the sick!! Botha must search his soul while being emotional here!! Rawlings alone didn't single handedly rule Ghana! He was swift and decisive and clear about what he was doing!!Even those who hate his tribe accord him the socia;l justice and sense of pride that came gradually upon the Ghanaians!! So the regretable barbaric killing of the 3 judges and the army officer cannot be superimposed on the cowardly and barbaric and stone age killings that happened with AK 47 and no single soul was arrested and punished"!!! So if Botha has the evidence why have we all been around since 2002 or so without helping with the investigations to get the "brothers" that Botha's theory seems to be proposing caused the primitive killings!!!! Why wouldn't Botha wait till JJ mentions Kuffour before he jumps on his throat!! Is that democratic enough!! Botha is just behaving as if it is NPP that is in power, as the NPP hates dissensions!! You can only punish Wereko Brobbey and may be Dr. Apreku but never and not JJ Rawlings!! Didn't Botha know the motive for which unfortunately Amartey Kwei was implicated!! When he self confessed, you are too late to be implicating others several years after!!! Why?? Sheer hatred clouded your thinking and your analysis portrayed the usual diatribe of those kokoase products who happen to be suffering immensely from zenophobia and dereliction of their warped deranged brains who rather think it was others who were sick!!! Where in the world will 40 strong people murdered in the broad daylight will the government of the day nip it in the bud with the expalanation that it was brothers who fought!!! Ooooo!! Too cheap a solution and an explanation. Take away your emotion and you might see a bit clearer, man. To stop here,I will like to inform you and others that the critical essence for which JJ Rawlings wrote the 1992 constitution with his blood is NOT for him to run away from the stubborn facts!! He and others will continue to question the way Ghana is run until ad infinitum, brother!! He is not the coward you think he is!! How old were you Botha when JJ and others took jsut psitols for want of ammunition to stage a coup on the 15th May 1979?? You cannot use this wrong forum to be character assassinating people!! The courts have not been closed yet!! Ok
ADWEN 12 years ago

Those who live in glass houses do not throw stones, so the saying goes.
JJ Rawlings, has forgotten that he has committed more heinous crimes than anyone else in the history of Ghana.
We need to expunge or do away with that ...
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Those who live in glass houses do not throw stones, so the saying goes.
JJ Rawlings, has forgotten that he has committed more heinous crimes than anyone else in the history of Ghana.
We need to expunge or do away with that Indemnity clauses in our hijacked constitution to bring this dimwit to book if he has forgotten his crimes so soon.
I wonder why the families of those he killed - Achempong, Utuka (for old GHS50,000 LOAN), Akuffo, Afrifa, etc, are still quiet and can't hold this man accountable. A man whose mantra is Probility and Accountability but fails his own criteria everyday he is alive. JJ Rawlings keep quiet.
Ghanabiya 12 years ago

Why are people who are after Rawlings always hide under the guise of Indemnity Clause in the constitution for sparing him?

I think the Ashantis/Akyems had their chance to deal with Rawlings during Kufour's time, why did th ...
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Why are people who are after Rawlings always hide under the guise of Indemnity Clause in the constitution for sparing him?

I think the Ashantis/Akyems had their chance to deal with Rawlings during Kufour's time, why did they not do it?
nana badu 12 years ago

Who threw bombs at Dr Nkrumah? was it JJ? NPP has been in killing business for decades. That is why u will never win any clean and fair elections in Ghana. STOP THIS SHAMEFUL ACTS.

Who threw bombs at Dr Nkrumah? was it JJ? NPP has been in killing business for decades. That is why u will never win any clean and fair elections in Ghana. STOP THIS SHAMEFUL ACTS.
okofo 12 years ago

Rawlings is a professional MURDERER who murdered his way to FAME, POWER and WEALTH albeit filthy one, pure and simple. I have ONLY one verse for him from the Holy Bible:

"He who kills by the sword will DIE by the sword" I ...
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Rawlings is a professional MURDERER who murdered his way to FAME, POWER and WEALTH albeit filthy one, pure and simple. I have ONLY one verse for him from the Holy Bible:

"He who kills by the sword will DIE by the sword" It shall come to pass that Rawlings will be Fawlings despite immunity !!!
Ghanabiya 12 years ago

Can this above verse from the Holy Bible be applicable to Gen. Afrifa?

Can this above verse from the Holy Bible be applicable to Gen. Afrifa?
GAbaa 12 years ago

npp has nothing to do with this, my friend. The ass hole killed people

npp has nothing to do with this, my friend. The ass hole killed people

Ghanabiya 12 years ago

NPP is the legitimate heir of the Danquah/Busia tradition and they were the group that was throwing bombs around Ghana killing and maiming people.

NPP cannot run away from that dastardly and horrible past of their ancestor ...
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NPP is the legitimate heir of the Danquah/Busia tradition and they were the group that was throwing bombs around Ghana killing and maiming people.

NPP cannot run away from that dastardly and horrible past of their ancestors.
aj-usa 12 years ago

another foooooooooooooooooooooooooool to da core.i didnt want to come in here but if any damn fool want to speak for Dr Nkrumah it`s makes me sick.nana badu who was kotoka.is he not da one who plan da coup which lead to da o ...
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another foooooooooooooooooooooooooool to da core.i didnt want to come in here but if any damn fool want to speak for Dr Nkrumah it`s makes me sick.nana badu who was kotoka.is he not da one who plan da coup which lead to da overthrow Dr Nkrumah and the british warded kotoka with bronze statue,and also name him after our only international airport,was kotoka an Ashanti or npp...hell no.dont bring ur useless ndc,npp stuffs to Dr Nkrumah issues let him rest in peace.
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

There is a scream from the bedroom.The husband runs in and there is a guy leaping out of the window.
His wife says what,that guy called Junior Jesus just fucked me twice"
He says"twice"Why didn't you call me in after he fuc ...
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There is a scream from the bedroom.The husband runs in and there is a guy leaping out of the window.
His wife says what,that guy called Junior Jesus just fucked me twice"
He says"twice"Why didn't you call me in after he fucked you once?
She says"Because i thought it was you,until he started fucking me for the second time"

MANY GHANAIAN PEOPLE ARE LIKE THIS WOMAN IN THE STORY.SHE WAS VERY HAPPY AND QUIET WHEN JUNIOR JESUS CAME FOR THE FIRST TIME BUT NOW SHE STARTED SCREAMING WHEN HE CAME FOR THE SECOND TIME.
RAWLINGS WIFE IS AN ASHANTI SO SHE IS LOVED BY ASHANTI,S TOO.
Joe Durex.. 12 years ago

Konadu Rawlings mother hails from Akuse in Krobo. the FATHER HAILS FROM ASHANTI AND HE GAVE KONADU TO HIS MOTHER TO RAISE IN ASHANTI LAND SO PRINCE WILLY GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT. ASHANTIS ARE MATRILINIAL SO KONADU CAN NEVER QUAL ...
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Konadu Rawlings mother hails from Akuse in Krobo. the FATHER HAILS FROM ASHANTI AND HE GAVE KONADU TO HIS MOTHER TO RAISE IN ASHANTI LAND SO PRINCE WILLY GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT. ASHANTIS ARE MATRILINIAL SO KONADU CAN NEVER QUALIFY AS AN ASHANTI.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

THEN ARE YOU ALL BASTARDS? A FATHER DENYING HIS DAUGHTER THAT FATHERLY CARE? VERY STRANGE INDEED.

THEN ARE YOU ALL BASTARDS? A FATHER DENYING HIS DAUGHTER THAT FATHERLY CARE? VERY STRANGE INDEED.
Kojo 12 years ago

When people like you blame the followers of NPP as the culprits in the bomb throwing incident against Dr. Nkrumah, it follows that you're only following your warped feelings against the NPP. To date there has been no conclus ...
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When people like you blame the followers of NPP as the culprits in the bomb throwing incident against Dr. Nkrumah, it follows that you're only following your warped feelings against the NPP. To date there has been no conclusive charges brought against the UP that was blamed for that act. But we do know conclusively that Dr. Nkrumah's fierce enemies were his own insiders - Adamafio, Cpl. Ametokpe, Gbedemah etc. please note that none of the names mentioned here was a UP follower. Rather they were die hard CPP elements. Nkrumah's tight Cuban cum Chinese security agents was impenetrable except for his own insiders who had the wherewithal to commit the crime that UP followers are wrongfully accused of. The bouquet of flowers in which the bomb was alleged to be planted couldn't have been accomplished by anybody except for an insider. You do know that Nkrumah brought most of the problems he later encountered as a leader when he abrogated to himself too much power like President for life, one party system, the Preventive Detection Act and a host of others to maintain his dictatorial rule. Ghanaians are smarter than that so as our national anthem goes we must resist the oppressors rule.
Ghanabiya 12 years ago

The wrongs of Kwame Nkrumah you listed above means that innocent Ghanaians deserve to die in the hands of UP/NLM terrorists and bomb throwers.

Everyone knows that these groups were terrorizing Ghanaians. You cannot re-wri ...
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The wrongs of Kwame Nkrumah you listed above means that innocent Ghanaians deserve to die in the hands of UP/NLM terrorists and bomb throwers.

Everyone knows that these groups were terrorizing Ghanaians. You cannot re-write history.
OBIBA-JUDAS 12 years ago

JJ WILL ONE DAY DIE LIKE A FOWL IN GHANA HERE>TIME WILL SURELY TELL ONEDAT

JJ WILL ONE DAY DIE LIKE A FOWL IN GHANA HERE>TIME WILL SURELY TELL ONEDAT
YAA 12 years ago

SHUT UP RAWLINGS FOR THE LAST TIME.

SHUT UP RAWLINGS FOR THE LAST TIME.
Kwame Gyasi,Abomosu 12 years ago

AND GOD IS AROUND WATCHING ALL OUR DEEDS

AND GOD IS AROUND WATCHING ALL OUR DEEDS

BONSO 12 years ago

THE DEATH OF SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM IS SO LAUGHABLE: Polish, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, East Germans, and now Romanians and Bulgarians, and all the rest of the Former Socialist Republics are tumbling down from their darken ...
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THE DEATH OF SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM IS SO LAUGHABLE: Polish, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, East Germans, and now Romanians and Bulgarians, and all the rest of the Former Socialist Republics are tumbling down from their darkened sinking holes to the bright lights of the Capitalist West, in such abject poverty and plain sorry sight. You see them inhabiting deserted dilapidating houses, crevices, open plains, and park benches, hiding in holes as foxes to get some warmth for the cold wintry. You won't even believe they are also WHITES as their coarse skin appear broken in peach and pale revealing years of dirt and grease from negligence and sheer impoverishment. East Europeans is what they call them. They are not only a laughing stock but worth pitying for its not their fault! Oh Socialism!!! Broken and so dishevelled like the countries they have left behind in sorrow and desolation. They said Socialism was the last Political philosophy to redeem the world and so our Fathers suffered so much in Ghana, for opposing such a bankrupt political ideology. Kwame Nkrumah led the assault . He and his followers proclaimed Socialism to all mankind, shouting on top of their voices - 'you have nothing to lose but your chains of oppression'; aluta continua; workers brigade; operation feed yourself, and the sheep followed blindly. Those who opposed Socialism were imperialist lackeys or CIA Agents, who must be detained, exiled, killed and chained to die. How they suffered all over Ghana and Africa as loud-mouthed corrupt men claimed to implement socialism even in Ghana, and rest of Africa. Socialism. Communism. Egalitarianism. Lenin. Trotsky. Mao Tse Tung. Castro. Che Guevara. Brezhnev...and their tiny despots in the persons of great Kwame Nkrumah and his veranda boys. Nyerere and his Ujaama. Sekou Toure. Lumumba...As far back as 1974, I will observe these socialists parading Cape Vars and Legon, when I visit my brothers: I would ask - "Who are these students in faded jeans, long beards, Che Guevara berets, dirty T shirts, car tyre sandals and so unkempt? They are socialists, they would answer me. Totobi Quakyi, Kwamena Ahwoi, Late Yorke, Kwame and Kwasi Adu, Atampugre, Philip Gardiner, Obre, Satan, Addo Aikins, Akrasi Sarpong, Ama Atta Aidoo, P V Obeng, Ato Dadzie, Kofi Portuphy, Yieleh Chiereh, Hamilton, Oteng Agyei, Kofi Awoonor, the Tsikatas, EKT Aidoo, Mahamas, Bagbins, and every ambitious student leader must have to be a socialist as they put their recommended books aside to read legions of hard cover works of Leninism and Communism brought here by Olof Palme and Erik Honecker and the International Socialist League. They will seek to indoctrinate me and everyone and truly most of my friends were socialists - Ali Bhutto, Kosoko, Alonzo, Sofo, Cotopaxi, Milwaukee, Ghanatta, Alhaji, Mukhtarr, Karl Marx, Samora, Kiki...it was indeed fashionable to recite socialist mantra than recite Lords Prayer. They used to laugh at me for not believing in the modern political philosophy and will blame my Father, a UGCC apologists. They were so full of themselves and predicted the downfall of the Capitalist West - the poor or proletariat will take over the bourgeoisie, and guillotine them as Robespierre did in the French Revolution. I was afraid of such a centralised, dogmatic, dictatorial bankrupt political ideology that slams people behind bars for decades - to stifle internal reactionaries, and become a bulwark to external aggression in the shape of western imperialists, they cried out aloud...these filthy thieves called Socialists...I never trusted them as their forebears in CPP had left power with tens of Mansions to their property portfolio...Socialism...socialism and more socialism they chanted day and night looking for political power until they got it in the shape of a most bogus revolution led by a semi-literate soldier, who gave them 19 years of unbridled dictatorship to implement all their so-called socialism and communista policies but failed woefully...All of these people including all my socialist friends are now top notch capitalist entrepreneurs - very rich and educating their many children free in the same Western capitalist countries as USA, England, France, West Germany, Holland, Denmark etc. they hated and cursed under their bated breath, and there are Millions of them...and not ashamed but muttering under their breath their guilt of cursing the west...and so what happened to this SOCIALISM? Why has Socialism fallen apart like pack of cards? The Russian Proletariat became the Fathers of BILLIONAIRES. Yes the real original Bolshevik communista turned out to be thieves who have stolen their country's monies for their children to live it big in the same Capitalist world. In Ghana, the children of socialists now own Aeroplanes; Warehouses; have bought the same State Hotels and ruined their country's economy. Socialists in Ghana Politics always rule the country because they tell the poor they are their representatives, but in power they do nothing for them and rather send them to their graves far early by their bad economic policies that make them hungry, sick and so desperate as these East Europeans. Socialists have ruled Ghana from 1951 to 1966; 1972 to1979; 1979 to1981; and 1981 to 2000; and still ruling from 2008 to 2014...its the same clique of old Socialist Entrepreneurs ruling and ruling Ghana all the time because they can lie and lie as all socialists and communista do...And so Ghana has become as poor as Romania, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and its people ran away to the same old Capitalist West...the same old Capitalist West...the same countries they wanted the proletariat to take over and kill their bourgeoisie...the same bourgeoisie are the benefactors of these wretched people from these many Socialist Republics of East Europe and Africa, notably Ghana...SHAME ON SOCIALISM...COMMUNISTA LAY IN RUINS AS LENIN'S BROKEN STATUE IN LENINGRAD OR ST PETERSBURG...I HOPE GHANAIANS STAND UP TO THE OLD COMMUNISTA NOW TURNED BILLIONAIRE POLITICIANs IN the NDC......(I thought am gone away from writing on the FB but maybe after this as there is nothing more to write after winning the argument without shedding any blood as predicted by the talkative socialists brigade...Our Fathers have been killed in vain by the Old Communista...but we can walk tall as Victors...) NPP - the Best! —
Bushay Buei Boston/MA -USA 12 years ago

Jj Rawlings is insane that is why his own party (ndc) people have caged him like a dog. He only barks when he is open from the cage for his foolish cronies and stupid followers to hear him that he is alive STUPID IDIOT jj raw ...
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Jj Rawlings is insane that is why his own party (ndc) people have caged him like a dog. He only barks when he is open from the cage for his foolish cronies and stupid followers to hear him that he is alive STUPID IDIOT jj rawlings
Ghanabiya 12 years ago

If Rawlings deserve your insults, why his supporters?

Don't you wish his supporters should have been supporting your party?

If Rawlings deserve your insults, why his supporters?

Don't you wish his supporters should have been supporting your party?
Mankind 12 years ago

True! True! True!! J.J. is a murderer, a tribalist, corrupt, and a looter. only Ewe's think he is a saint!!!!!

True! True! True!! J.J. is a murderer, a tribalist, corrupt, and a looter. only Ewe's think he is a saint!!!!!
Ameera-Amen 12 years ago

Yes these are the bear facts!

Yes these are the bear facts!
Kwadwo 12 years ago

Thanks for putting that butcher in his place. You said it all. Happy New Year.

Thanks for putting that butcher in his place. You said it all. Happy New Year.
JOHN 12 years ago

Thanks a lot. May God richly bless you. Happy New Year.

Thanks a lot. May God richly bless you. Happy New Year.
HABLUTA SENYO 12 years ago

I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT ERIC BOTTAH
DO NOT KNOW HISTORY.LET US NOT FORGET THAT ASHANTES ARE THE VERY PEOPLE WHO SOLD MILLIONS FELLOW AKAN INTO SLAVERY
THAT IS THE MOST BRUTAL CRIME IN HUMAN HISTORY.

I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT ERIC BOTTAH
DO NOT KNOW HISTORY.LET US NOT FORGET THAT ASHANTES ARE THE VERY PEOPLE WHO SOLD MILLIONS FELLOW AKAN INTO SLAVERY
THAT IS THE MOST BRUTAL CRIME IN HUMAN HISTORY.
Sintim 12 years ago

Go and ask your grandfather in dahomey and he will tell you about his slave raiding canoe.

Go and ask your grandfather in dahomey and he will tell you about his slave raiding canoe.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Idiot, ask your she-ape grandmother about the relationship between the Ashanti General Adu Bofo and the Ewe business mogul Chief Geraldo Attiogbe d'Lima.

Idiot, ask your she-ape grandmother about the relationship between the Ashanti General Adu Bofo and the Ewe business mogul Chief Geraldo Attiogbe d'Lima.
Houdini 12 years ago

Hahahaha, you this smelly trokodi vermin has a lot of wishes and therefore lives in a mirage land. Ewe mogul? That is a paradox. Mogul in sexually assaulting his own daughter?

Hahahaha, you this smelly trokodi vermin has a lot of wishes and therefore lives in a mirage land. Ewe mogul? That is a paradox. Mogul in sexually assaulting his own daughter?
rangerman 12 years ago

I don't think this is fair akan people for what your comments are not helping the issues when did GH became akans and the rest..

I don't think this is fair akan people for what your comments are not helping the issues when did GH became akans and the rest..
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

You see, that's their mentality. Once you don't speak any Twi word, forget it. No regard for you as a Ghanaian.

I look forward to the day when Twi will become the official language in this country; when all government busi ...
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You see, that's their mentality. Once you don't speak any Twi word, forget it. No regard for you as a Ghanaian.

I look forward to the day when Twi will become the official language in this country; when all government businesses would be transacted in Twi; when Ghana's delegations to international meetings would speak Twi to delegates from other nations to whom Twi sounds like the language of animals; when Ghana's delegation to either the UN General Assembly or the Commonwealth would address the gathering in Twi; when a visiting foreign head of state would be addressed in Twi!!!!!

That's indeed the height of absurdity.
kofikofi 12 years ago

Asanteni aboa. you don't even know your fathers. Asante women are prostitures in Europe and America.

Asanteni aboa. you don't even know your fathers. Asante women are prostitures in Europe and America.
@kofikofi 12 years ago

And that is your point, moron.

And that is your point, moron.
Tango & Cash 12 years ago

If the yardstick that Rawlings used to murder the Generals, the Judges and others was applied to him today, I am certain he would have been tied to the stakes at Teshie and popped off longtime ago.
Ya Na needs justice and s ...
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If the yardstick that Rawlings used to murder the Generals, the Judges and others was applied to him today, I am certain he would have been tied to the stakes at Teshie and popped off longtime ago.
Ya Na needs justice and so are the many who Rawlings is undoubtedly responsible and accountable for their murders because all happened under His watch and regime.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Reckon Boakye Djan was sleeping when those Generals were done in!

Reckon Boakye Djan was sleeping when those Generals were done in!
razak seini 12 years ago

For the records---Alhaji molbila never went to any polling station with a gun. YOU ARE MIXING IT WITH THE CASE OF "RED" OF NPP FAME. Alhaji reported to the police because he was falsely accused of hoarding some guns in a hous ...
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For the records---Alhaji molbila never went to any polling station with a gun. YOU ARE MIXING IT WITH THE CASE OF "RED" OF NPP FAME. Alhaji reported to the police because he was falsely accused of hoarding some guns in a house: those guns were searched for n never found. He was a true Ghanaian of burkinabe descent
Tinaabs 12 years ago

People should be careful! We can never get a perfect human being in planet earth. We those who criticizes have more foul plays, evil intention and murderous agenda than those we criticize.May God have mercy on us.

People should be careful! We can never get a perfect human being in planet earth. We those who criticizes have more foul plays, evil intention and murderous agenda than those we criticize.May God have mercy on us.
FIAFI 12 years ago

HOW CAN YOU LEAVE IN A GLASS HOUSE AND THROW STONE ?

HOW CAN YOU LEAVE IN A GLASS HOUSE AND THROW STONE ?
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

Who told you that people don't know that the perpetrators of the diabolical and barbaric killers of the Dagbon overlord should be brought to book???

JJ will continue to press home his point, anyway!!!

Who told you that people don't know that the perpetrators of the diabolical and barbaric killers of the Dagbon overlord should be brought to book???

JJ will continue to press home his point, anyway!!!
still rastafari 12 years ago

rawlings is afflicted by many disorders

rawlings is afflicted by many disorders
Ghanabiya 12 years ago

Mr. Bottah, today Dagombas are the cousins of Ashanti/Akyems but tomorrow, they will be Pepeni, Ntafo, Teni and all the derogatory terms Ashantis/Akyems can think about.

Your people's condescending attitudes towards Northe ...
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Mr. Bottah, today Dagombas are the cousins of Ashanti/Akyems but tomorrow, they will be Pepeni, Ntafo, Teni and all the derogatory terms Ashantis/Akyems can think about.

Your people's condescending attitudes towards Northerners is not the making of Rawlings. Nobody is a fool. Your article will not achieve the desire results unless your people actually decide to treat others the way they want to be treated.

Northerners know about this your double standards long time. We are only silent observers but we cannot be taken for granted.
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

This writer of Eric Bottah alias Oyokoba seems to know more than the rest of the Ghanaian populace. I read the statement made by JJ Rawlings at Bawku and haven't seen most of the encomiuns added by this writer of Bottah in or ...
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This writer of Eric Bottah alias Oyokoba seems to know more than the rest of the Ghanaian populace. I read the statement made by JJ Rawlings at Bawku and haven't seen most of the encomiuns added by this writer of Bottah in order to defend, if it were some implications for Kuffour in the cowardly and barbaric massacre of the dagbon overlord and his over 40 people at his court!!! If the barbaric way the judges were murdered and culprits were found and punished severely, why can't the cowards and people who used AK 47 in the henous murder be re-investigated and the pepetrators found culpable be tried and punished as well!!! If you have those things you are saying, and you think you are convinced abiout the veracity of what you are spewing here, what really prevents you from taking your case to the law courts and we all see the aftermath!!
You impune a whole lot of issues here, at best might be a figment of your imagination!! You claim you even know people's mindset and what they have in their gumshions when they behaved this way or that!

Where in the recemnt statement was it mentioned categorically that JJ was referring to Kuffour as the one who did this!! Or if I may ask, when people cause henouis actions to be done during the regime of someone, then it's tantamount to the regime leader being the perpetrator of the act??
You have many contradictions here, man!! Why were you using this forum if you believe in what you saying!!
The law courts would have supported you if you have overwhelming reasons and facts to support your ananse case!! Do you think 3 judges were better than the 40 people dasdarly killed in cold blood at the Dagbon overlords court!! Where were the AK 47 guys which no private individuals own in Ghana!! Why were the security forces not pro-active when they heard of what was going on for hours and even days as they sat aloof???
If a government knows some people are vulnerable for attacks from would be assailants, should the security not protect life and property, even if an individual refuses to be protected?? In your view, don't you think Kuffour's government ought to have hailed in the people who did commit this heinous crime?? Should the pepertratiors not be found even if it were 1000 years after the dastardly act?? If it were the Ashantihene who unfortunately killed, would you this writer think the way you are doing???
Shouldn't anyone talk about the pain and the anguish caused by the villaiins who killed innocent people who were found at the court of the Dagbon overlord!! Does it mean when such barbaric acts are committed by brothers, so it lessons the gravity of the criminal act carried out??? If you know it was the brothers who killed each other, why were you not willing to report to the authorities incognito if you were afraid of your life??? You cannot speak for Rawlings, neither can you add to his thoughts!! He speaks when he wants as a citizen of a countrey that is going through democracy!! What you spewed here is not worth its salt. This forum as we all are witnessing , is just a public opinion forum and cannot be equated to any court of competent jurisdiction! In the Amartey Kwei's case, you allege he was a sacrificial lamb!! You could not explain how he was used when in fact, people who were close to the issues the babaric abduction and execution of the 3 judges say that Amartey kwei addmitted having done the killing. Was Amarte Kwei not TUC leader who were summarily dismissed by these or some of the judges killed??? Was Kojo Tsikata and Rawlings maltreated anytime at all by any of these judges??? Why would Kojo T and Rawlings not seek vengeance with those MI guys who were harassing them, chasing them 24 hours but instead abduct and kill innocent judges of which one was a nursing mother???

Rushing jobs are never done right?? If after the investigations that were conducted and Armatey Kwei and others found and executed and you are not satisfied, it would be reasonable to get down to the courts with your new investigation so that the assumed people ypou are4 imagining can be brought to book!! I think if you have the facts, no one other person will be bolder to take the case to court as they might not be privy to the gargantuan "evidence" you might adduce!! Other than that, the reading public will know that you are only speculating and showing your hatred which unfortunately will never ever come to anything if you don't wake up to challenge what you believe in!! The reading public I believe sincerely are more knowlegeable than ofthen the people writing some of the sensational but sensitive issues that they do not have facts on!! Who are we individuals who claim what we believe in are the sacrosancts!!We might not know it all!! So when brothers kill each other, should they be left off hook?? You must be a suspect when you know some "facts " and sit on them without saying them or letting the autorities know it them!!!! Most of us are really tired of this empty and hallucinated perceived Ewe-Akan fracas or acrimony. There are some Akan women who will want to die if they don't marry Ewes and there are other Ewes who feel same. You people should come down your ivory towers to see the reality on the ground!! The Rwanda Tutsis and whatever will never ever happen in Ghana!!! The day it happens , Ghana will become desert!! There is no winner and no loser!! People who feel important or more important than others must have this in their coconuts!!! If members of the NPP for example can open their maggot infested mouths to say categorically that the Ewes and Gas in the Ashanti region should be beaten and slaughtered and that if it hadn't been for Nkrumah's Educational policies the northerners will be herders of cattle and you would sidestep these vexacious and calculated attempts to show off "empty pride" and twerp megalomania sickness/feelings of insecurity "y3n akanfuo" etc., for a serious and analytical purposes, the writer would have know to what extent people are prejudiced against others but not the serious but humble call for justice to be done and not forsaken!!! Our evil mindedness and sheer hatred due to our dissenting views of governance or personalities cannot wish away the truth!!! Yana's killings cannot be swept under the carpet!! This is uncompromising!!!
TEE 12 years ago

Ebottah@hotmail.com bless you . You said it all and I respect you for everything you said about evil Rawlings and his intention to bring conflict between we the origin Ghanaians and his Togolese Northerner into fight. RAWLING ...
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Ebottah@hotmail.com bless you . You said it all and I respect you for everything you said about evil Rawlings and his intention to bring conflict between we the origin Ghanaians and his Togolese Northerner into fight. RAWLINGS is so evil and i am still worry why this guy still walking free in Ghana. This is the mistake KUFOUR did during his reign. We have to give this mad donkey Rawlings to ICC period
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

Are you sure you know the history??
You even came to the colony long after 1900!!! By then, the Fort Prizenstein was built at Keta where the Anlo Ewes were under the powers that controlled the whole coast from Keta to Axim ! ...
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Are you sure you know the history??
You even came to the colony long after 1900!!! By then, the Fort Prizenstein was built at Keta where the Anlo Ewes were under the powers that controlled the whole coast from Keta to Axim !! You no know ting> Shut up!!! Rawlings like any other person has right to know, just as the barbaric Mate Meho villains and bushmen who killed innocent people in your regions and got away with it!! The Dagbon over-Lord will not go un-investigated, man!! What power has this Botha to shout anyone down?????
Funny!!!! Is Botha the class prefect of Ghana to write rubbish and ask anyone to keep quiet!! He doesn't even know the truths and facts!! Leave JJ alone before you get hypertension!! You are too weak and infinitesimal to call JJ to order!! OK. Go burn the sea. The rubbish you wrote here is nothing more than the ploy that Kuffour's government attempted during the so called "reconciliation" process but he dared not!! No one will touch JJ just as no one ever touched Madiba!! Botha is no one, he is just one individual!! Why should he exaggerate lies and feel important here!!

Is Ghana web a court of law today?? I hate cowards who hide and will like to use the pen or the PC to discredit others!! Tweah!!!!!!!!!!!
Houdini 12 years ago

When will you smelly trokosi child molesters stop worshipping this bastard son of a whore called Rawlings?

When will you smelly trokosi child molesters stop worshipping this bastard son of a whore called Rawlings?
owuomposuro 12 years ago

a good one there. facts are facts

a good one there. facts are facts
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

Too many lies as it were!! The emotions in the thrash has worsened any proper reasoning !!!

Too many lies as it were!! The emotions in the thrash has worsened any proper reasoning !!!
Kuoro 12 years ago

Was Rawlings able to stop corruption in his Government when he violently removed Hilla Liman from office. He was power hungry after the June 4 uprising. Shame Rawlings and shut up. You are a disgrace to Ghana.Yes Akans are co ...
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Was Rawlings able to stop corruption in his Government when he violently removed Hilla Liman from office. He was power hungry after the June 4 uprising. Shame Rawlings and shut up. You are a disgrace to Ghana.Yes Akans are cousins to Northerners, read your history were they came from.
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

No two wrongs can be right on earth planet!! The lies and here-says in this thrash of article are based on some old venom and not based on critical truths! Go away you, you self righteous and drunk man!!! JJ has the right to ...
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No two wrongs can be right on earth planet!! The lies and here-says in this thrash of article are based on some old venom and not based on critical truths! Go away you, you self righteous and drunk man!!! JJ has the right to ask for why the perpetrators of the heinous crime, this time not 3 people, but over 40 innocent souls were murdered in cold blood and you want Ghanaians to bury this pains!! How, man!! Think again!!

Or go to court and put more injunction on citizens coming to ask for the bastardly and very cruel killings that were done with AK 47????? SHUT UP!!! You no know ting!!!!!!!!!!!! Botha, go to your south Africa where you belong with your wicked Apartheid policy!!
Houdini 12 years ago

The word is trash not thrash, trokosi skunk.

The word is trash not thrash, trokosi skunk.
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

Thanks but you are a bushman!!1
Kokoase ape!!!How many of you know book past the Ewes!! You wouldn't be able to correct my grammar, I bet you!!!!!

Thanks but you are a bushman!!1
Kokoase ape!!!How many of you know book past the Ewes!! You wouldn't be able to correct my grammar, I bet you!!!!!
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Shame on you Sir!

Shame on you Sir!
wizman Quansah 12 years ago

Foolish article from the son of an ugly prostitute.

Foolish article from the son of an ugly prostitute.
abaq 12 years ago

JJ WANT TO SEPARAT3 US ...

JJ WANT TO SEPARAT3 US ...
ghanaba 12 years ago

I think we can talk sense without bringing in tribalism into it.we are all ghanaians.we should not divide the country like others do.we are in the 21 centry therefore we need to unite for the good country GHANA not to divide

I think we can talk sense without bringing in tribalism into it.we are all ghanaians.we should not divide the country like others do.we are in the 21 centry therefore we need to unite for the good country GHANA not to divide
Chabba 12 years ago

Kudos, Botta Eric for this insightful article. Rawlings, you think your are the smartest man on earth, just wait your time of reckoning before God is near. God knows how to deal with human-king Herold-foxes like you.

Kudos, Botta Eric for this insightful article. Rawlings, you think your are the smartest man on earth, just wait your time of reckoning before God is near. God knows how to deal with human-king Herold-foxes like you.

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