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Rawlings is the greatest demagogue alive today

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  • don`t care !!! Hmmmmm! 10 years ago

    Damptey, Daniel Danquah!your stupid father name is missing from your list.

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    NDC PROPAGANDA MACHINE no matter what you do the people are slowly waking up to the reality that is ndc . ndc is a mafia criminal organization with extremely malicious intent which thrives on fueling conflicts between brother ...
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  • Mullah Omar 10 years ago

    Fellow Ghanaian compatriots, please desist from replying, commenting and giving this usurping Scottish bastard the oxygen of publicity he still so craves. He was tragic accident of our history whose unintelligible rhetoric is ...
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  • Mullah Omar 10 years ago

    to boast other than the murderous slaughter of court judges, barbaric flogging of his fellow citizens, mass execution of his perceived superiors, persections and wanton vindictiveness on behalf of his microscpic brain in the ...
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  • Ben, US 10 years ago

    Unfortunately we created and worshiped this monster for close to twenty years. We cheered him on when he killed our leaders. We clapped when flogged our women. We sang praises to him when seized and took our bank savings. He' ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    Thank you Ben you've said everything that I wanted to say.The Ghanaian society is too docile,our hypocritical nature brought this to ourselves.We shd not blame Rawlings but ourselves.

  • TEE 10 years ago

    THANK YOU DANIEL I AM SPEECHLESS AND I WILL GET IN TOUCH TO YOU LATRE. I CAN'T OPEN MY MOUTH. MAYBE I WILL COMMENT ON THIS TOMORROW BCOS MY FEELINGS OF HURTS IS NOT ALLOWING ME TO THINK STRAIGHT. INFACT IS A MIXED EMOTIONAL. ...
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  • rkka.78 10 years ago

    stomach direction politician,u are neither a saint.Idiot

  • Ibrahim Hardi 10 years ago

    Today, Ghana is laughing loud and thankful to God for using Jerry John Rawlings to emancipate the country. Love him or hate him, his place in history is surely guaranteed. Besides our first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, no pol ...
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  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    PURE NONSENSE OF EMOTION!! Was the writer born then?? This write up is imbued with the usual hate language for which some of your grandfathers became pure CIA agents and beneficiaries of the secret and open anti people gest ...
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  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    Author:
    Ibrahim Hardi

    Date:
    2014-02-03 02:35:40

    Comment to:
    Rawlings is the greatest demagogue alive today


    Today, Ghana is laughing loud and thankful to God for using Jerry John Rawlings to emancipate the co ...
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  • VOICE FROM AFAR 10 years ago

    The writer of this story is just a mad person. If he knows what Rawlings has done for Ghana, he won't write these silly things. In the time of Rawlings did you see armed robbers in Ghana? now all politicians in Ghana have tur ...
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  • joe canada 10 years ago

    There was no armed robbers in Ghana during Rawlings time?. The fucking guy was running the whole armed robbery show!!. Idiot it seems you are getting fed by the crumps of this mad dog call Rawlings. Just shut up and stay in y ...
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  • OMANBA 10 years ago

    You are really a voice from afar.Did you live under Rawlings as a revolutionary and a civilian president?Rawlings is now a rich person owning lands and houses and even educated his children overseas.A true honest revolutionar ...
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  • kofi 10 years ago

    Trouble is, nobody has ever named the schools RAWLINGS"S children attended abroad.

  • Pastor Josiah 10 years ago

    Dear Writer, you don't need to insult Rawlings to tell the whole wide world who and what you know him to be.

  • OMANBA 10 years ago

    Nonsense!!!.Rawlings has been insulting people here and there.What respect does he deserve?

  • KKO 10 years ago

    It is said that every society deserves the leaders it gets. Rawlings is just one of those bad accidents of Ghana's history. As for his idiotic rantings, it is part of his steady march to the mental asylum. The law of Karma is ...
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  • G. K. Berko 10 years ago

    Only one thing bothers me with this Article at the moment. Almost every single allegation made in the Article against the former President, J. J. Rawlings, is nothing new. But why is the Author publishing them again, now?

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  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    Some of your NPP members must answer the questions surrounding the Driller ship!! We will have to know!! You will run away with your so-called article but the truth will be always preponderant here!! What criticall and realis ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    My friend G.K Berko, can you tell Rawlings too to ease on Kuffour because Kuffour is a statesman acknowledge all over the world but he JJ is not.

    If this article will galvanize the base of Ndc to vote for Mahama again des ...
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  • Jt 10 years ago

    Mr writer u wrote a lot but let me make it clear to u, no amout of writing can convince majority of Ghanaians Rawllings came a savior and is regarded as such.

  • Pressman 10 years ago

    This is real education and revealing piece on the demagogue.

  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    Your parents and uncles and cousins in the NPP took the pink sheet to court to over turn the decision of the majority of the citizens of Ghanaians who voted massively for thwe young and more intelligent His excelolency, JD Ma ...
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  • Francis 8 years ago

    Late Squadron Leader Victor Bannerman's plane crash must be investigated. An inquiry into his death must be fully approved by the Ghana government. This is by far the greatest conspiracy within the Ghana military and governme ...
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  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    wHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?? bECAUSE YOU WROTE ALL THE FALSEHOOD??
    iS YOUR WRITING BASED ON ANY EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE??
    wHY THIS PURE HATRED??
    yOU ARE NOT ANYONE'S GOD, MIND YOU!!!!!

  • Sethoo 10 years ago

    You see how you are struggling to defend your hero,how many times do you want to comment on this article?The Rawlings story is just too bad to defend.

  • Maame Serwaah, Guildford. 10 years ago

    Very good answer to this inward looking, inferiority complex trokosi Rawlings worshipper called Dumegah.He could have used his trokosi, eczema infested, akpeteshie addicted, cat thievery parents to sacrifice for this trokosi ...
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  • Kwesi, Takoradi 10 years ago

    Without the Tsikatas, Awoonors, PV Obeng, Kwesi Botchway and others Rawlings wouldn't be alive today. Yet they are all now his enemies. He even called the Tsikatas and Awoonors thieves. According to Rawlings' distorted mind, ...
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  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    yOU ARE JUST ONE OF THOSE WHO THROUGH YOUR EVIL WISHES AND WITHERY WILL EVER THINK THE WORSE WILL HAPPEN TO JJ!! yOU MUST HAVE BEEN KIDDING TOO MUCH!! yOUR IRRESPONSIBLE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION EFFORTS HERE WILL BE REWARDED O ...
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  • Agya Osei Barima 10 years ago

    You forgot to mention " do you know me syndrome and wo be year( you will get lost). Just don't waste your time on this guy. All those who doesn't know him are what Bob Marley said" fools die for want of wisdom"

  • Dynamite 10 years ago

    He killed Yaw Boakye, Amedome, afrifa and others for having more than three toilets in their various houses. Now after his reign of 20 years, he has 6 houses including one at Tefle and a multi billion dollar mansion at Adjiri ...
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  • Nana K 10 years ago

    The writer is very stupid.

  • odei 10 years ago

    I blameEX_PRESIDENTS Liman and Kuffour
    to let loose JJ.He still considers himself as the best man to rule the country.
    How was he able to educate his children outside the country.His wife
    able to acquire Nsawam cannery.
    G ...
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  • kaketonti 10 years ago

    KEEP ON ENJOYING THE 4TH REPUBLIC ESTABLISHED BY RAWLINGS AND WRITE NONSENSE.NOTE THAT THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF RAWLINGS AROUND.UNLIKE THIEF K4 HE DOESN'T LIVE IN A GLASS HOUSE.A SPADE IS A SPADE.

  • kaketonti 10 years ago

    COWARD-SIMPLETON;HOW OLD ARE YOU?WHEN YOU MISS THE BALL; DON'T MISS THE MAN.AFRIFA AND CO FAILED TO KILL RAWLINGS. RAWLINGS HAD THE UPPER-HAND.PERIOD

  • Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

    It is one thing to rain insults based on facts unto J.J. Rawlings but it is altogether an insult to the intelligence of readers like me to talk about the legacy of Kufour as noble and or admirable.
    Should in case you fail t ...
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  • TOHUGU 10 years ago

    Call him all the names you can regurgitate out of your uncoothed and uncultured mouth, the fact still remains that he rescued Ghana from you , your parents and those of you who during the seventies blind folded her(Ghana and ...
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  • Cantankerous 10 years ago

    Why bother with a mentally unstable character like Rawlings? The man's days are numbered. Once the protection he will become fair game for his numerous enemies.

  • TEE 10 years ago

    THANK YOU MR. DANIEL DANQUAH DAMPTEY. I THINK WE STILL SEE RAWLINGS AS BTTER THAN US AND THIS IS THE PROBLEMIN GHANA. GHANA IS TOO WEAK, WE HAVE YO TASTE WAR THAN WE WILL BE ALL AWAKE PERIOD

  • TEE 10 years ago

    BCOS AKUFO ADDO IS THE ONLY MAN IN GHANA WHO CAN PUT RAWLINGS INTO TRIAL PERIOD

  • HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

    AKANS WILL NEVER LEARN IN THEIR LIFE TIME.THIS IDIOT KNEW VERY WELL THAT
    CORRUPTION IS WHAT DESTROYED OUR NATION GHANA BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE ECONOMIC CRIMINALS ARE AKANS FOR THAT REASON THEY HATE JERRY TO THE BONES.

  • Francis 8 years ago

    The Ghana government and military have totally lost their credibility for failing to establish a full report into the death of Squadron Leader Victor Bannerman, the best pilot Ghana has ever produced. Its been over 33 years n ...
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