NPP is for Ashanti, Akyem, Kwahu and Akwapim. Those are the only tribes in 2 regions that NPP counts on to vote in majority for them.
If Fante, Bono, Ahanta, Nzema are included in Akan then it is not Akan Party, because th ... read full comment
NPP is for Ashanti, Akyem, Kwahu and Akwapim. Those are the only tribes in 2 regions that NPP counts on to vote in majority for them.
If Fante, Bono, Ahanta, Nzema are included in Akan then it is not Akan Party, because these tribes vote for NDC, and that is why NDC wins in CR, WR and BA.
Sabbat 10 years ago
The issue is not which group of ppl chooses to support a party, its rather about ethnic supremacist that had hijacked the NPP party decided to use it as a vessel to carry out personal vendetta at those they disagree with.
... read full comment
The issue is not which group of ppl chooses to support a party, its rather about ethnic supremacist that had hijacked the NPP party decided to use it as a vessel to carry out personal vendetta at those they disagree with.
Sadly most Ghanains are aware of this and that is causing the Npp votes. Personally i prefer NPP economic plans better than those from NDC but do i want to see ppl like yourself or OKoampa come close to any position of influence in Ghana? Absolutely not.
Most Ghanaians will begin to see the NPP as a national party the day the party distances itself from bitter and frustrated souls like yourself.
If you hv a personal vedetta against somebody use your means and leave the party alone, its ppl like yourself with your loose write ups that are betraying the NPP as as a supremacist ethnic conglomerate.
Ewes and Northners may vote massively for the NDC but seems to be willing work with all Ghanains in the party, we havent really seen that level of tolerance in the NPP.
Kofi Dzokpata 10 years ago
Adofo, when would you say something constructive without an insult? Secondly, just like your other NPP sympathisers and supporters, you don't seem to understand the issue. It is simply the behaviour and the attitude of some o ... read full comment
Adofo, when would you say something constructive without an insult? Secondly, just like your other NPP sympathisers and supporters, you don't seem to understand the issue. It is simply the behaviour and the attitude of some of you Asante and Akyem tribe who are claiming supremacy over other tribes and sadly, this is the concern you seem of finding it difficult to understand. By the way the language 'akan' is not only Akyems and Asante but you seem to use it to suit you to embrace or patronise the Fantes, Ahanta, Akwapems, Kwawu's Bonos etc. It sees you even don't know the meaning of AKAN
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Telling It As It Is: The PP/NPP’s Tradition of Tribal Politics
Folks,
Here is the other post from the archives. It should be an eye opener to all those who are claiming that tribal politics started under Rawlings and ... read full comment
Telling It As It Is: The PP/NPP’s Tradition of Tribal Politics
Folks,
Here is the other post from the archives. It should be an eye opener to all those who are claiming that tribal politics started under Rawlings and the PNDC. For others, it should reveal to them the origins of the ethnic foment and ethnic politics in Ghana under the NLC and then under the PP regime. It is that tradition that continues today, with the sympathisers of the NPP with Akan backgrounds being the main culprits.
I wrote the piece in response to Prof. George Ayittey, a major exponent of tribalistic analysis of politics in Africa. He failed to write a response though, since he has none. What I wrote then is still very relevant today and on this forum too. I’ve slightly edited it.
Incidentally, it was this very post Gamal Nkrumah took exception to, as he wrongly thought I was referring to him when I wrote “incestuous Egyptians”. I found out and explained to him that he and present Egyptians were far from my mind, as I was referring to the ancient and real Kemetians. Kofi Ellison, you get this straight, as you’ve been wrongly referring to this from an unknown source who told you I had a clash with Gamal.
Well, this is quite long so I’d leave this with you and for the record.
Date: Wed Aug 05 20:03:14 1998
To: ayittey@, VILLAGE@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
From: Andy K
Subject: Re: [VILLAGE] Ghana Leader Seeks Unity of Black Race
Cc:
Bcc:
Villagers,
This is something I can't pass over. As usual, it is designed to inform you all, not to enter into any discussion with Prof. Ayittey. He may however issue rebuttals to what I have written if false, or not entirely correct. After all, I never make claims to holding the monopoly to the elusive truth. I am just a lonely Seeker after the Truth. (To your information, Prof Ayittey had never taken up the challenge to back up his claims with some facts and I burnt him out the last time he repeated them).
At 19:07 03.08.1998 -0400, George B.N.Ayittey wrote:
>*************
>
>Cinque, and look who's calling for unity of the black race? A "Clarence Thomas":) >Ooops, a Freudian slip :)
>
>Seriously, Cinque, in my view, Rawlings is NOT the person for this job because:
>1. His 17 years in power in Ghana have been the MOST DIVISIVE. Ethnic tension is very >high in Ghana today. Ask any Ghanaian. There is a public perception that key positions in >Rawlings' government are occupied by his ethnic group, the Ewe. Note: I said public >PERCEPTION. Ask any Ghanaian. If he cannot unify his own citizens, how much more >those outside the country?
Andy-K writes in reply:
That ethnic tensions in Ghana are very high, first of all, is an overstatement. Rather, it is high among Ghanaians in the diaspora. Secondly, whatever ethnic tensions are there are not due to Rawlings' doing. Rather, it is the doing of some bankrupt and jaded politicians who have been arousing ethnic hatred against Rawlings mother's ethnic group members, the Ewes, as a political tool to gain power. So far, it has failed resoundingly. In fact, it has backfired so badly the culprits, found mainly in the NPP, which George also belongs to, are now openly writing and saying that they had to reassess their strategy.
The issue is not a "public perception," shared by a majority of Ghanaians. The "perception" is insidiously and virulently promoted by a narrow group of Ghanaians, of whom George indeed is one of them. He clearly and unambiguously promoted this in a mail he posted on Okyeame sometime ago. As to be expected, I took him on and referred him to the English Sociologist, Charles Elliott's book (1975). A great comparative study of poverty and its causes in some "Third World" countries, it presented statistics on the ethnic distribution in different occupations, including the public services in Ghana too. As I told George, the figures show that by 1975, his own ethnic group, the Gas, proportionately have more of their people in higher govt. positions than any other ethnic group in Ghana! I wanted to know whether that has changed since Rawlings assumed office again on 31 Dec., 1981, less than a day to 1982. As to be expected no answer came from him.
Of course, I am aware of newer researches, as that of Richard Jefferies, African Affairs, 92. 331-399:1993, which clearly state that Rawlings has not packed higher offices with Ewes since his second coming to power. (BTW, same accusations were made during his brief first coming of 3 months too). What anyone having the pretensions to being a scholar or an intellectual should do is to read those studies and stop spreading such venomous and virulent lies, which are in fact reminiscent of 1920 and '30s Nazi campaigns against Jews. Or what we Africans get from anti-alien, racist groups and parties in Europe presently. But that is not the way of George. His is abstract empiricism! Just repeat the nonsense ad nauseam without bothering to cross-check!
Anyway, I can recollect that when he posted the same offending post to the Village, he had amended the offending portion about one ethnic group in Ghana dominating to a multiplicity of ethnic groups, thanks to my biting criticism of him (on Okyeame). He left intact that simplistic level of analysis for Nigeria and Kenya, which I also objected to too. Some of you may recollect that post.
What actually is the problem? Is that "perception," (actually it's nothing more than sheer, deep-seated expression of "native prejudice" - my coinage - against Ewes, which stock I belong to), of what they have now dubbed "Ewenisation" a new thing, arising after Rawlings became head of the PNDC? Which PNDC and later NDC Party comprise a cross-section of Ghanaians? Far from it! Indeed, all the political parties in Ghana were represented in the PNDC in its early years, so nobody was excluded. (Interestingly, Kufour, presidential candidate of the NPP, was the rep. for the PFP in the PNDC).
Villagers, it is the confrontation of the source of that native prejudice that recently spilt over into the Village under the title of “Yaa Asantewaa....” We aren't finished yet! So let me take you back just to the late 1960s, not 1900.:-)
From Denis Austin's book, Ghana Observed (1976: 125), Manchester University Press and Africana Publishing Company, we read about the anti-Ewe hysteria prior to the election that brought Dr K.A. Busia's Progress Party to power in 1969. Please bear with my long quote.
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"A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was expressed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this very strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema's reappearance in political life but in relation to events after 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone bust out singing, but when the music died away it was noticed that the NLC was commanded (it seemed) by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankra (a Ga) was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of the Defence Staff, Michael Otu, the evidence to many was overwhelming. It was all an Ewe plot. Soon Ghana would be run for the benefit of an energetic minority, operating first within the armed forces, and now behind Gbedemah. "Appoint an Ewe to a public corporation or to a government department and within a year the entire hierarchy down to the messenger will be Ewe.” So the argument ran.
[MY COMMENTS: As it is still running today, as shown by a piece on the web site of the Ghanaian Chronicle I have posted below - one reason for the ongoing Yaa Asantewaa fracas.].
"And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their barren region, have for many years been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government departments and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be so in view of their number. (MY COMMENT: JUST OVER 13 % OF GHANA'S POP.). But a belief does not, of course have to be true for people to hold it fervently.
Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan-dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable change of fate, leader of the governing party I would be much less apprehensive of my Ewe opponents in front than of the large and expectant following behind. I would be fearful too of the ambitions of those now excluded from power, remembering the Songs of Innocence that:
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar's laurel crown".
Here we end the extended quote!
Wise words indeed! But were the reactionary PP members told then, they would not have paid any heed. After assuming power, after a coup in which some Ewe officers played dominant roles, they set out to dismiss mostly Ewes, some few Gas and others known to be sympathetic to the banned CPP from their posts. They achieved this through the insertion of the first infamous Transitional Provisions in a Constitution of Ghana, attempts to deprive Ewes of their jobs having failed during the latter years of the NLC. This is the backdrop to the struggle Awoonor briefly mentioned in his ‘famous’ book, and for that, he has become an object of insult to all kinds of puny Akan boys and girls with some modicum of literacy. They (PP) did not last even 2 years in office! I can comment deeper on the above quote, since my own father was one key person who gave evidence, and was before then discriminated against after the coup. And there was plenty to tell, since the charges were true. Hope the official, classified documents of the hearing in camera should now be declassified to stop future speculation. I was big enough to know what was happening then, right from the 1966 coup.
My own father, being the most qualified around, was persuaded to forego confirmation for a post he had been acting in for years under the CPP regime (the CPP big-wigs thought only whites could hold the post!), just to allow a Ga to assume it, as Ewes were supposed to be already too many in similar posts! It was indeed a case of jobs for the boys all over again! So there was some sort of Affirmative Action going on to allow newly qualified Akans and others to also assume posts they did not formerly want. I suffered same fate with another Ewe friend too before, in our seeking a simple vacation job in 1976! And to think an Ewe, a father to a dormitory mate in school was in charge of the recruitment! But he explained, and we accepted, that even though far better qualified, they must take some others too, or they'd be hearing complaints again! So they took on 2 Twi-speaking secondary F4 girls while I, a Sixth Former armed with superlative ‘O’ L results and 3 RSA Stage 2 in English, Accounting and Commerce, was turned down! My friend was also an ‘O’L graduate with good grades and teaching part-time in a preparatory school while pursuing the CA then.
Unfortunately, they (PP, now NPP cohorts) have not learned anything from their past folly and are condemned to the political wilderness, raining insults on all and sundry. Most Ghanaians don't trust them any longer.
Anyway, some of us said enough is enough with this ethnic demonisation, while we are not even enjoying the fruits of office. Our region ranks among the lowest on the development ladder, a permanent position of "Number 9" among 10!:-) We gonna respond and do you in proper, exposing you down to your fathers and mentally warped ancestors who passed on to you those kinds of native prejudice; not better than those held by white supremacists we have come to know in our sojourn among white people.
After all, some of us know that white supremacist ideas had origins from ideas held by the incestuous ancient Egyptians about other peoples! They used to call the Greeks barbarians and no Egyptian girl would kiss a Greek ‘cos Greeks eat pork and meat, taboos to Egyptians. The demon in our midst is our own creation! Let us deal with it right from our homes! To UNIFY any people in a meaningful way, some would have to be made to drop their feelings of superiority and prejudices they hold about others within the same group. Period!
I think Rawlings has done enough to remove that image from the eyes of the mass of Ghanaians. In 1966, Kotoka would have been quite unacceptable to most non-Ewe Ghanaians as Head of State. That's why Ankrah was brought out of retirement to be head of the NLC. After all, by 1966, Ewes were just "Ayigbe dzorlor," i.e., "Ayigbe thieves," the pejorative term you Gas had coined for us Ewes, George. And I did not hear crying "you've changed meter band to Number 9," at the sound of Ewe when I was last at home, as was the case in even the early ‘80s. We'd get to the bottom of all this, just wait long enough!
Please find below a "modern" version of the Ewes are dominating us hysteria. Make up your own minds about the import of the purported letter to the "Chronicle."
>Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:17:28 +0200
>To: Okyeame@africaonline.com
>From: Andy K
>Subject: Tribal Conspiracy at Wesley College?
>Cc: africa_think_tank@databack.com
>
>Folks,
>As you can see, they are still at it, the T-mongers! By their words, we shall know them!
>As an Ewe, as you all know of course, I have said no to this kind of demonisation. I have >renounced the "si kpi kporwo" (don't mind them) mentality which our parents, siblings and >elders brought us up with, and is out to confront bare hands, if need be, all who think they >have grievances against Ewes. They have no case!
>That this should be happening within a church organisation is even more pathetic. Read for >yourself this piece of crap found in a national press and put on the web.
>
>Andy Kwawukume
>Norway
>
Tribal Conspiracy At Wesley College
In the November 11, 1997 issue of the "Free Press", Mr. A. Bosompem Boaboduro wrote inter alia:
"That is the reason why a place becomes Ewenized in no time, the moment you put one Ewe there."
In this write-up we intend to prove why and how there has been a conspiracy to subject Ashantis to humiliation, in Wesley College and as a result Ewenize the college. We know that at the end of it all we will be accused of fanning tribalism, but we are sure that whoever reads this article carefully and objectively will sympathise with us, the students of Wesley College and particularly the Ashantis among us.
When a little over two years ago it became necessary for the then Principal of Wesley College, Rev. Kofi Amponsah to retire from the Ghana Education Service, it became necessary for the Methodist Church to recommend somebody to replace him.
Also in 1984 when Rev. Brew-Riverson left the college as principal, two people, Rev. Kofi Amponsah and Rev. M. O. Antwi vied for the post of principal of the college. Rev. Kofi Amponsah eventually got the post and Rev. M. O. Antwi was appointed General Manager of Methodist Schools. Now as General Manager, Rev. M. O. Antwi became the Appointing Officer when Rev. Amponsah was to be replaced as the principal of the college in 1996.
It was at this stage that the conspiracy began. Apparently Rev. M. O. Antwi was peeved because in 1984 an Ashanti was appointed to the post of principal of the college, now that he was the Appointing Officer, he decided to "show" Ashantis, who he had thought, manouvred to side-step him in favour of Rev. Amponsah.
It is pertinent to note that even though in June 1996, a date was fixed for an interview to select a principal for the college, long before the interview many people in GES circles knew that Rev. Ametefe would be the principal of the college. This, the General Manager was capable of doing, because as the Appointing Officer, he was in a position to advise whatever panel conducted the interview on whom to appoint. So eventually Rev. Ametefe got the post after a farce of an interview had been conducted.
Now after Rev. Ametefe had got the post of principal, the scene was set to "show" the Ashantis. In less than two years as Principal of Wesley College, Rev. Ametefe's administration has been so fraught with tribalism and mal-administration that if nothing is done about the situation, Wesley College will lose its glory as one of the best training colleges in Ghana.
Now let me enumerate a few examples of tribalism and poor administration under Rev Ametepe. A few months after taking over the administration of the college, he declared that he could not work any more with the domestic bursar, her assistant, the college store-keeper, all Ashantis. Although, he could not assign any tangible reason for this action, he put so much pressure on the regional office that the two women were transferred from the college. Our information is that he wanted to replace those transferred with Ewes but he apparently met resistance somewhere.
In furtherance of his plan to Ewenize the administrative set-up of the college, Rev. Ametefe has made the college librarian (an Ewe), Gershon Tsadidey, virtually a vice-principal of the college. All construction works are under his care.
Obviously all these are creating tension in the college, and certainly if nothing is done about this, there will soon be an explosion on campus.
We plead with the GES Directorate in Ashanti and opinion leaders in the region to do something about it. We warn that this should not be interpreted as merely crying wolf or making false allegations. Whoever doubts what we have said can conduct his own investigations to find out the truth.
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Now, how can appointing a principal to a school in Ghana be the concern of some students; not even old students? BTW, the Rev. Antwi is most likely an Akan too, as “Antwi” is a common Akan name, though there are some Ewes of Akan origins with Akan names. And there is a whole bunch of an Ewe sub-group with Ga-Fanti origins marrying with Ewes, the so-called Mina-Ewes centred around southern Togo Republic and Benin. Ewes are thus people of mixed linguistic origins, not any single tribal group from the past. Our eventual homeland became the so-called Slave Coast, as some of you surely know already. But that is quite another story, even though it is much a part of the reason for the formation of what I've dubbed "native prejudice" against us by non-Ewe Ghanaians.
Some few other comments on what George wrote.-
>2. His regime has been the MOST BRUTAL and CORRUPT in Ghana's history.
That the PNDC has been brutal in its early years I won't dispute. Much of that brutality was actually directed at each other, in the power struggle between the "super-revolutionaries" and the moderates. The moderates won. That stopped most of the abuses super-revolutionaries were meting out to the public. There was near anarchy in the country. Rawlings himself was nearly several times "devoured by the revolution." Insiders claimed he was not sleeping at the same place twice at a time!
As for the corruption, the PNDC was once one of the cleanest in Ghana's history. Ghana won some few prizes, e.g., for having the lowest pilfering and theft at the ports, and fastest turn around (hence low demurrages) for ships. Since 1990, particularly after 1992, the need to accommodate the vociferous business community and sections of the right-wing opposition, has meant a general laxity and return to the bad ways of the past with a vengeance. It seems the dictum of those people that "corruption is the lubricant which oils the wheels of bureaucracy" has won the day. But Ghana is certainly not the number 6th in corruption level, bypassing even Indonesia, as claimed not long ago. Something must be done to curb rampant corruption though.
>3. He denigrated the sanctity of African heritage by imposing ALIEN
>institutions on the people of Ghana. He blew up indigenous MARKETS,
>stripped and whipped MARKET WOMAN who violated price controls -- an
>alien measure. (Chiefs do not impose price controls on village markets);
>imposed nonsensical revolutionary committees -- an idea which was
>imported from Cuba, etc. etc.
As for this, what the hell does George mean? Which "alien institutions"? BTW, Rawlings is half-Scot, half-Ewe. His present Vice is also called Mills! Alien names, by George! Indeed, aliens are ruling us.:-) What else can we expect?:-)
The rest of the stuff above is just fiction too. I don't know which traditional institutions George has studied. If I begin to quote lengthy sentences to disprove him now, some will begin to say that Andy-K is anti-this or that. Perhaps, he hasn't read any where how the Kings and chiefs imposed very strict fiscal rules over the markets and trade routes, breaking them which can earn man the loss of his/her head! Of course, whole towns and villages could be wiped out for severe violations.
One devastating war the Asantes fought against the Fantis was simply for the reason that some two chiefs failed to send some gold nuggets they found to the Asantehene's treasury! And we know by now how the Asantes control the prices of slaves. Don't we? Well, they locked the "surplus" in their homes and burn them alive, for instance! Cinque, you must be lucky your ancestor got through into the slave boat! I hate myths!
And what dared you grow pepper in ancient Dahomey without permission from the King of Abomey? And can you move a slave or an elephant tusk to the European slave castles in Accra without paying your due to the free-booting Akwamus when they were the mercenaries and guardians of the slave routes for you Gas; or after they had given your ancestors a thrashing and taken over the trade themselves, spilling the slave trade into the world of our ancestors in the present VR?
>4. Surrendered the sovereignty of Ghana to the World Bank and the IMF,
Hmm! As for this, no plenty comments! I don't think much of the Terrible Twins too. But did we ever regain that "sovereignty"? Nkrumah only said everything else (economic independence inclusive) would follow political independence. "Seek ye first the political kingdom ....” Some of his critics, e.g., Prof. A.W. Seidman (1978), said the formula was naive to begin with.
>5. Placed the SEAT of his government in the Castle in Accra, where
>thousands of AFRICAN SLAVES were kept in dungeons before trans-shipment
>to the Americas. Yet, he is the same man who sherperd (sic) black American
>tourists to Elmina Castle, some 80 miles away, for an emotional connection.
>Some tourist guide, eh?
The seat of government has for a long time been the Castle. Rawlings just moved in too.
As for the tourism project, I have my own serious misgivings about it and had expressed them elsewhere - directly to those involved too. In fact, I know some of the key architects very well, including the brain behind. He was my host when I was collecting data early 1993 at Elmina and at Shama. We go a long way back.
However, when I read some of the goings on, apart from making contact with my friend, I made contact with no less a person than one main consultant at Smithsonian Institute and expressed my (our) concerns. I gave permission for everything I wrote to be sent to the powers-that-be in Accra and Cape Coast, where George actually attended his famous "high school" in which students used to sit on the floor.:-) Phew! Some people can spin a yarn for a buck! Sorry! Villagers, pardon my soliloquy.
George, there is a fierce power struggle going on in Ghana (and elsewhere) the surface of which only appears now and then. It all has to do with the UNITY of the Old and New, the historically dispossessed of the African diaspora and that of Africa, and the place of the "privileged" of Africa within that order. That unity of purpose and interest, of course, MUST come into fruition, but upon whose terms and conditions? At this moment, I do not want to write more about this, as I intend to do so elsewhere, sooner or later. But let me just narrate this incidence involving the so-called renovation of the Cape Coast and Elmina Castles.
What apparently turned out to be a "white-washing" exercise, led an African-American to go on hunger strike protest in the Cape Coast Castle. Some of you certainly know the story better than me already. Ghanaians, including those on Okyeame were outraged, claiming that such a publicity gimmick by well-to-do idealists was out of place in a country some people go to bed with only one meal a day! I stepped in to inform Akyeame that even when some of their ancestors (the hunger strikers) were in shackles, they tried to starve themselves to death. That was why the white slavers used to bring special pincers for knocking off the front teeth of those captives seaward-bound refusing to eat so that they could be force fed. After that, we had a fruitful discussion of enlightenment and Re-Awakening of African Consciousness. Akyeame learned that hunger strike as a tool of protest was not something invented by Gandhi! Of course, the incidence brought out some contradictions in attitudes and viewpoints between the various three parties I identified above, which I'd pass over discussing now.
Well, I have been more verbose than intended.:-) Thanks George for giving me the opportunity to let some bile off my chest.:-)
Andy K
ADDENDUM:
So here ended my views on a number of issues, besides the accusation of the T-thing, which generated it. For those dishonestly or ignorantly claiming that Rawlings brought tribalism to the Ghanaian body politic, from now onwards, they should know that we have travelled that blind alley before, and heard it all before! The Busia, PP tradition introduced it into Ghanaian politics! They used it against our fathers, uncles, aunts, etc. We their sons and daughters shall NOT TOLERATE ANY LONGER THIS concoction of BIGOTRY, ENVY AND PREJUDICE FROM ANYONE WHATSOEVER! We Ewes study hard to get jobs we are qualified for, as someone responsible for recruitment in Ghana recently confirmed to me again. Himself an Ewe, he said at times, he tried awarding lower points to the Ewe candidate, only to be overruled by the white boss and others on the panel! That was his way of dealing with the murmurings he has been hearing – attempt to disqualify yet another more qualified Ewe from getting a job his/her struggling parents had sacrificed so much for!
Pelicles 10 years ago
Is anything wrong if NPP is for Akans? Who in his/her right mind will align his/herself with a party that is full of truants, vagabonds, scavengers, thieves etc? Look at the direction of the nation and tell me if the ruling ... read full comment
Is anything wrong if NPP is for Akans? Who in his/her right mind will align his/herself with a party that is full of truants, vagabonds, scavengers, thieves etc? Look at the direction of the nation and tell me if the ruling party has people who think with their head?
Ghana is in the hands of "Koborlors" and what should we expect? I have said many times that those who trooped to follow JJ when he was forming NDC were people who have lost their sense. No sane person will follow JJ just because there will be some leftovers or something will fall over his dinner plate for him/her.
If NPP is for Akans, I feel proud of that. Foolish people do not feel proud of themselves. Tweakai. Yenoa no sen na amene?
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
To begin with, the simple answer to your interrogative caption is: " Because it is illegal; our Constitution prohibits such Parties."
Now, your crudity in describing anyone who followed JJ when he came to power as insane e ... read full comment
To begin with, the simple answer to your interrogative caption is: " Because it is illegal; our Constitution prohibits such Parties."
Now, your crudity in describing anyone who followed JJ when he came to power as insane explains why many reject the NPP. Furthermore, there are various reasons why people choose one Party over the other. Therefore, the choice that one makes could have been the result of a hard, deliberate thoughtful process, contrary to your emotionally driven, irate, insulting claims.
If we go by your reasoning, then John Agyekum Kufuor, the former President, might have been insane, too, when he initially followed JJ.
You see, you act like you are the only folks with brains that defy insanity. Yet, critical examination easily shows how illogical your claims are. I am not any Party's member, neither did I follow JJ. But I just couldn't ignore your ill-advised insults.
As much as we all would wish everyone used the best interests of the Nation as the only criteria for choosing a Political Party, the reality is that some place their personal interests ahead of the Nation's. Such personal interests prominently include financial and familial and ethnic sentiments in differing degrees.
For example, it is almost inconceivable for the children of J. B. Danquah to join the CPP, even if by all indications that Party has the best political agenda and most capable, and trustworthy leaders.
Similarly, we would be expecting too much if we thought Samia and her siblings would run to join the NPP. More, while the Children of Gen. Bawa may be the least likely to embrace any Party that derives its legacy from Gen. Afrifah or Utuka, so would the Children of Afrifah or Utuka be most unlikely to join NDC. These may be the most discernible of the example of sentimental causes for choosing a Party. Following folks with familial sentiments are associates and others sharing organizations or Parties, and to a lesser degree, ethnicities, with the named characters. Can you deny vested interests play much role in the choice of Parties on both sides?
Those who believe their financial success rests more with alliance with a Party line up behind it. If the primary reason for any NDC member was so he or she could attain financial success and that success is attained, how could that person be insane but another who achieved similar aspirations with NPP is not?
The only way you could justify your sanity attribution is by pitching those who value more the Nation's interests against those who do not. In that case all who join any Party for reasons other than the empirically provable interests of the State as in, say, family obligation, would be insane, should we even accept your insulting characterization for anyone at all.
None of the two Parties can claim exclusive infallibility. One is the exact mirror of the other in terms of political behavior. Thus far, the only difference between them is the temporal occupation of their respective Administrations. They are taking turns to loot us, one Administration after another. Buoy, how I wish we had a viable third Political Party!
Do you have any stronger, truer facts to sustain your argument? Then, come again. And when you do, remember, you'd be doing us all a better service by using specific provable facts of ultimate National interest instead of unwarranted baseless insults.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Joe Kojo 10 years ago
Thank you G. K. Berko, you are one of the few wise ones.
Thank you G. K. Berko, you are one of the few wise ones.
HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago
NPPFOUR ARE THE HOME GROWN TERRORIST
NPPFOUR ARE THE HOME GROWN TERRORIST
Antiochus - London 10 years ago
Thank God you've veered your attention from chieftancy litigation to politics. Kudos!
Thank God you've veered your attention from chieftancy litigation to politics. Kudos!
Serious Talk 10 years ago
The Nepotism People's Party is a regional party and that why the only won 2 out of the 10 regions in the last election. They are Ghana Boko Harem. Nkrumah knew that hence the Preventive Detention Act because he know Ghana cou ... read full comment
The Nepotism People's Party is a regional party and that why the only won 2 out of the 10 regions in the last election. They are Ghana Boko Harem. Nkrumah knew that hence the Preventive Detention Act because he know Ghana could never achieve its dreams with these Cokrocaites always sucking the SOUL of the Nation.
It's really time we have a referendum that leads to the establishment of Asante/Akyem Autonominous State of Illusion. Then that SCUM they call Asantehene can asked Nana Dwarf Addo to be the Prime Minister with him as the King. Like Swaziland and South Africa.
They can fund their new State by making Kumasi the #1 transit for drugs in the world and Taxing the Prostitution of Asante/Akyem Women since they're running out of Gold.
Ghana can then achieve its true socioeconomic development without these OFFSPINGS of prostitution alway pulling her down.
TIME TO MOVE ON GHANA
i and i 10 years ago
I beat my cheat any time i hear such useless talk.What can your region offer to the development of the nation? If Asantes and Akyims are not part Ghana, your people would have died by now. you miserable brute what do you know ... read full comment
I beat my cheat any time i hear such useless talk.What can your region offer to the development of the nation? If Asantes and Akyims are not part Ghana, your people would have died by now. you miserable brute what do you know huh? we are praying that a day will come and Ghana will be separate into independent state or region there you will your foolishness.
Serious Talk 10 years ago
The 8 regions are satisfied with each other apart from you SCUMS. The referendum is just to get the Asante/Akyems CANCER that killing Ghana away since Nkrumah failed with the PDA. WHEN COKROCAITES are eliminate, every house P ... read full comment
The 8 regions are satisfied with each other apart from you SCUMS. The referendum is just to get the Asante/Akyems CANCER that killing Ghana away since Nkrumah failed with the PDA. WHEN COKROCAITES are eliminate, every house Prosper. Asante/Ayems are just the major draw back to Ghana's future.
At least you SCUMS get your own state and you can set it up on fire for all I care Boko Harem. Beating your chest does not change the facts
ghana 10 years ago
Ghana will be paradise without trokosi daughter fuckers and child molesters. Volta region should be sprayed with insecticides to fumigate the trokosi lazy faggots.
Ghana will be paradise without trokosi daughter fuckers and child molesters. Volta region should be sprayed with insecticides to fumigate the trokosi lazy faggots.
Serious Talk 10 years ago
I'm from eastern region and I think the kwahus a misguided in the support of the nepotism People's Party. It's about time we move on as a country without Asante/Akyem aka Boko Harem with their fire burning terrorizing us. Ple ... read full comment
I'm from eastern region and I think the kwahus a misguided in the support of the nepotism People's Party. It's about time we move on as a country without Asante/Akyem aka Boko Harem with their fire burning terrorizing us. Please form your own fucking State. Ghanaians are sick of you. National PESKY Party. Only if Nkrumah had PERMANENTLY IMPRISON ur fathers........we won't be dealing with you OFFSPRINGS OF PROSTITUTION
Jnr 10 years ago
You can hate Ewes all you want because they wont vote for your supremacist party. You can hate all you want and they dont care.
You can hate Ewes all you want because they wont vote for your supremacist party. You can hate all you want and they dont care.
i and i 10 years ago
What is good about Ewes that Asantes hate them tweeeeeeeaaaaaaaa
What is good about Ewes that Asantes hate them tweeeeeeeaaaaaaaa
Nii 10 years ago
Amazingly, there's nothing about Ewes that would warrant a hatred from other tribes. So Gas, Northerners, Krobos, Fantes, and others do not hate them. So why do you Ashantis hate Ewes? You tell us!
Amazingly, there's nothing about Ewes that would warrant a hatred from other tribes. So Gas, Northerners, Krobos, Fantes, and others do not hate them. So why do you Ashantis hate Ewes? You tell us!
i and i 10 years ago
who told you that Asantes hate Ewes? come to Asante region and see how Ewes are enjoying life over there, they even prefer to live in Asante region than any other region.Have you ever heard that Asantes are fighting with Ewes ... read full comment
who told you that Asantes hate Ewes? come to Asante region and see how Ewes are enjoying life over there, they even prefer to live in Asante region than any other region.Have you ever heard that Asantes are fighting with Ewes in Asante region before? you check how many Ewes living in Asante region and how many Asantes living in volta region. Is rather the Ewes who hate Asantes. Asantes don't have time for Ewes let alone hating them, this is the last thing Asantes will do. Listen Ewes don't have anything to offer Asantes so why should Asantes hate them? if Asantes hate some people then it should be British not Ewes. Do you know how many Ewes Asantes have helped them to travel outside Ghana? do you know how many Ewes Asantes take care of them even up to date?
Ewes are like our Northerners brothers and sisters Asantes helped and helping them but they always tell us that we hate them. How can Asantes hate Ewes whiles their darling club Asante kotoko is full of Ewes and Northerners . Go to kumasi we have Anloga is Anloga an Asante name? Tell me which part of Ho is called Asante? Asantes are the mother ethnic group in Ghana that is why when the other ethnic group attack us we don't bother ourselves to reprimand them because we know that they are our babies. Take or leave it Asanteman have money than Ghana as a nation just that our Kings are corrupt other than Asante region would have be like any other developed country you can think off. But with time you will see Asante region in a new dimension. Asanteman together we can build our region. Long live Asanteman.
NICHOLAS 10 years ago
The actions and inactions of some people within the rank and file of the NPP clearly gives the party out as Akan oriented. Has Adofo so soon forgotten the infamous "y3n Akanfo" statement by dAkufo-Addo? Wh ... read full comment
The actions and inactions of some people within the rank and file of the NPP clearly gives the party out as Akan oriented. Has Adofo so soon forgotten the infamous "y3n Akanfo" statement by dAkufo-Addo? What impression did such irresponsible statement create in the minds of non-Akans towards the NPP? Your guess is as good as mine. Were you asleep when Kennedy Agyapong called on Ashantis to annihilate Gas and Ewes? Do you expect those group of people to see Kennedy Agyapong and the NPP in good light? The answer is simply no. When one carefully glance through this your write-up, one would not lose sight of the fact that you tried to create the wrong impression that the NDC as a party has been subjugating Akans especially Ashantis at work places. This is completely false. Such reckless statements only make people form the opinion that the fight for supremacy in this country is between some group of people at one hand and Ashantis or Akans at the other end. Until people in the NPP use their heads before coming out with certain pronouncements, the woes of the NPP being perceived as an Akan party would be further deepened.
NANA APINTOHENE OF OBURONIKROM 10 years ago
JJ and his Sogakope Mafia, the architects of this hangover, were the very people who callously overthrew the government of Dr. Hilla Liiman. That the late President Hilla Liiman sank into a state of complete political oblivio ... read full comment
JJ and his Sogakope Mafia, the architects of this hangover, were the very people who callously overthrew the government of Dr. Hilla Liiman. That the late President Hilla Liiman sank into a state of complete political oblivion and died without proper attention by the then Rawlings government, is all too known by many Ghanaians. President Liiman was a northerner. It is therefore interesting for the northerners to believe that they are ever in the good books of the Ewes. Ewe hegemony needs no further emphasising. Their grand design WILL fail abysmally. We are all Ghanaians, have grossly intermarried and must focus on developing the country for all. No ethnic group should entertain any designs for supremacy in our beloved Ghana. That would not help anybody. MERITOCRACY AND NOT ETHNICITY SHOULD BE OUR CARDINAL GUIDING FORCE. LONG LIVE OUR BELOVED COUNTRY.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
I wish you had been fair in chastising both the principal archetypes in this episode of our Tribal animosities, and concluded as beautifully as you did.
You see, the charge of hegemony and wanton farcical claims of superi ... read full comment
I wish you had been fair in chastising both the principal archetypes in this episode of our Tribal animosities, and concluded as beautifully as you did.
You see, the charge of hegemony and wanton farcical claims of superiority has long been alleged by many of the other Tribes against Akans, especially Ashantis and Akyems.
The trend, now, is that Akans have reacted to counter that claim and blame the others, especially, Ewes of the same vicious Nation-wrecking malfeasance. It has, in the last few years, been a pendulum of cyclical mutual finger-pointing to pin the blame on the other. And one incident after another has been used to escalate that antagonism, and pontificating.
Therefore, if we really want to break out of that vicious cycle, we ought to assign the blame to both sides equally and appeal to their deeper conscience to drop that blame game and attend to issues objectively, on merit, to brainstorm for solution to our common national problems.
Better still, we could all just refrain from assigning blames altogether and simply admit our mutual complicity in that destructive behavior and challenge our respect for Human dignity and patriotism to focus on what we need to do to correct the problems. Such problems would have to include our mutual bigotry and discriminating nepotism--(excuse my ostensible oxymoronic verbiage, here). It takes immense courage to call for truce and pursue lasting peaceful resolution of conflicts. We need to admit our mutual failings and put the Country first in order to open the natural valves for constructive consensus to build our Nation together without leaving any part behind.
That brings me back to the conclusion of your comment which I greatly admire and vote to be the summary of all we have to do. Starting with one-sided condemnation, without empirical proof to establish the blame and ending beautifully and poignantly, obscured your best of intentions for solving our problems. The other side then also might react to throw the blame back on us.
Let us reconcile in good faith to tackle our plight together and we would all be winners.
Long Live Ghana!!!
KKO 10 years ago
Well said, Rockson,
It is just an inferiority complex on the part of the “others!” The tragedy of it all is that we have not used our superior capabilities for the betterment of Mother Ghana. The dirt poor in the Central ... read full comment
Well said, Rockson,
It is just an inferiority complex on the part of the “others!” The tragedy of it all is that we have not used our superior capabilities for the betterment of Mother Ghana. The dirt poor in the Central, Western and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana simply do not get it and those of us in the diaspora who ultimately foot their bills when the “others” mess it up for them are not using our leverage to get them to understand their horrible plight.
Love them or hate them but it is the “Public School Boys” whether in Labour or Conservative governments that have made the United Kingdom what it is. In the same way, it is only when the majority Akans either lead or are in the majority in government that Ghana ever makes a headway. Even Acheampong managed to complete the Akusi Dam and Dansoman and Odokor estates, built dual carriage roads in all the regional capitals and constructed traffic lights in them. And the reason is simple, we have cultivated the most successful cocoa, corn, timber and even cassava farms, the most successful businesses, built and or nurtured the best schools in the country. Our forebears mined our gold and diamonds long before the colonialists came.
We have also led the most successful rebellions against both local and foreign oppressors.
We only have to harness that advantage to develop Ghana and the “trickle down effect” will be good for all. So let us go for it openly for "Operation 2016!"
Amma 10 years ago
Brilliance does it! In the words of James Brown, I am Akan and I am proud!
Brilliance does it! In the words of James Brown, I am Akan and I am proud!
koffie 10 years ago
NDC IS EWES PARTY..no ewe vote for npp .
NDC IS EWES PARTY..no ewe vote for npp .
Talantula 10 years ago
Adofo, U dont know(Yabi onye)
Adofo, U dont know(Yabi onye)
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
First off, I am glad that someone has began to demystify the false characterization of NPP as an Akan only Party. However, I would have wished that the Party's leadership had taken up the responsibility to do so, even if less ... read full comment
First off, I am glad that someone has began to demystify the false characterization of NPP as an Akan only Party. However, I would have wished that the Party's leadership had taken up the responsibility to do so, even if less eloquently.
The NPP itself did not do much in the past to help debunk that myth. Then came the "yen Akanfo de...'all die be die' " comment from its Flagbearer, Akufo-Addo. The impact of that statement was grossly underestimated or ignored by the NPP's leadership to the Party's detriment.
Most Ghanaians are often underrated by the Political leadership of our Nation who takes much for granted. Action speaks louder than words but when inaction complements words, the impact is as strong as any relevant expected action.
People look up to the leadership to lead. If any wrong perception is building up against an entity and its leadership fails to manage it and goes further to add words that seem to confirm the perception, folks buy into the perception.
NPP is for Ashanti, Akyem, Kwahu and Akwapim. Those are the only tribes in 2 regions that NPP counts on to vote in majority for them.
If Fante, Bono, Ahanta, Nzema are included in Akan then it is not Akan Party, because th ...
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The issue is not which group of ppl chooses to support a party, its rather about ethnic supremacist that had hijacked the NPP party decided to use it as a vessel to carry out personal vendetta at those they disagree with.
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Adofo, when would you say something constructive without an insult? Secondly, just like your other NPP sympathisers and supporters, you don't seem to understand the issue. It is simply the behaviour and the attitude of some o ...
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Telling It As It Is: The PP/NPP’s Tradition of Tribal Politics
Folks,
Here is the other post from the archives. It should be an eye opener to all those who are claiming that tribal politics started under Rawlings and ...
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Is anything wrong if NPP is for Akans? Who in his/her right mind will align his/herself with a party that is full of truants, vagabonds, scavengers, thieves etc? Look at the direction of the nation and tell me if the ruling ...
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To begin with, the simple answer to your interrogative caption is: " Because it is illegal; our Constitution prohibits such Parties."
Now, your crudity in describing anyone who followed JJ when he came to power as insane e ...
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Thank you G. K. Berko, you are one of the few wise ones.
NPPFOUR ARE THE HOME GROWN TERRORIST
Thank God you've veered your attention from chieftancy litigation to politics. Kudos!
The Nepotism People's Party is a regional party and that why the only won 2 out of the 10 regions in the last election. They are Ghana Boko Harem. Nkrumah knew that hence the Preventive Detention Act because he know Ghana cou ...
read full comment
I beat my cheat any time i hear such useless talk.What can your region offer to the development of the nation? If Asantes and Akyims are not part Ghana, your people would have died by now. you miserable brute what do you know ...
read full comment
The 8 regions are satisfied with each other apart from you SCUMS. The referendum is just to get the Asante/Akyems CANCER that killing Ghana away since Nkrumah failed with the PDA. WHEN COKROCAITES are eliminate, every house P ...
read full comment
Ghana will be paradise without trokosi daughter fuckers and child molesters. Volta region should be sprayed with insecticides to fumigate the trokosi lazy faggots.
I'm from eastern region and I think the kwahus a misguided in the support of the nepotism People's Party. It's about time we move on as a country without Asante/Akyem aka Boko Harem with their fire burning terrorizing us. Ple ...
read full comment
You can hate Ewes all you want because they wont vote for your supremacist party. You can hate all you want and they dont care.
What is good about Ewes that Asantes hate them tweeeeeeeaaaaaaaa
Amazingly, there's nothing about Ewes that would warrant a hatred from other tribes. So Gas, Northerners, Krobos, Fantes, and others do not hate them. So why do you Ashantis hate Ewes? You tell us!
who told you that Asantes hate Ewes? come to Asante region and see how Ewes are enjoying life over there, they even prefer to live in Asante region than any other region.Have you ever heard that Asantes are fighting with Ewes ...
read full comment
The actions and inactions of some people within the rank and file of the NPP clearly gives the party out as Akan oriented. Has Adofo so soon forgotten the infamous "y3n Akanfo" statement by dAkufo-Addo? Wh ...
read full comment
JJ and his Sogakope Mafia, the architects of this hangover, were the very people who callously overthrew the government of Dr. Hilla Liiman. That the late President Hilla Liiman sank into a state of complete political oblivio ...
read full comment
I wish you had been fair in chastising both the principal archetypes in this episode of our Tribal animosities, and concluded as beautifully as you did.
You see, the charge of hegemony and wanton farcical claims of superi ...
read full comment
Well said, Rockson,
It is just an inferiority complex on the part of the “others!” The tragedy of it all is that we have not used our superior capabilities for the betterment of Mother Ghana. The dirt poor in the Central ...
read full comment
Brilliance does it! In the words of James Brown, I am Akan and I am proud!
NDC IS EWES PARTY..no ewe vote for npp .
Adofo, U dont know(Yabi onye)
First off, I am glad that someone has began to demystify the false characterization of NPP as an Akan only Party. However, I would have wished that the Party's leadership had taken up the responsibility to do so, even if less ...
read full comment