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CARDINAL 11 years ago

Why do these trokosi Asante haters always lie about everything? Afrifa was a leader less than a year. Acheampong ruled for about five years and Kuffour ruled for eight years. Compare the fourteen years rule of the Asantes to ...
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Why do these trokosi Asante haters always lie about everything? Afrifa was a leader less than a year. Acheampong ruled for about five years and Kuffour ruled for eight years. Compare the fourteen years rule of the Asantes to trokosi Rawlings twenty years rule and the fourteen years Asante rule was thousand times better than murderer Rawlings rule.

This dumbass Tamakloe should just tell us 20 of the so called 400 industries Busiah destroyed. What is wrong with these foolish Nkrumah zealots they think they should always lie to prop up that dictator?

How many industries did we have in 1970 for Busiah to destroy 400 of them? Why is this dumbass Trokosi moron Tamakloe not talking about murderer Rawlings who gave Ghanaian factories and industries free of charge to his trokosi people and more than 90 percent of all government scholarships to Canada and USA between 1982 -2001 went to Ewes?

Can these Trokosis who hated Nkrumah and actually led the 1966 coup stop their foolishness trying to rewrite history?
Africa Patriot 11 years ago

I would not use those words to respond to the lies from Kojo Tamakloe but I don't blame you for responding forcefully to such a tribalistic feel good article from an Ewe bigot.

I would not use those words to respond to the lies from Kojo Tamakloe but I don't blame you for responding forcefully to such a tribalistic feel good article from an Ewe bigot.
insight to the bone 11 years ago

we are tired of the reckless willfulness of these leaders from minority tribal groups who only come with corruption in their hearts and hatred of the values and potential of the majority . until nana or whoever comes out in t ...
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we are tired of the reckless willfulness of these leaders from minority tribal groups who only come with corruption in their hearts and hatred of the values and potential of the majority . until nana or whoever comes out in the open with what they really stand for and how they intend to rule , we are wise to remain reserved and keep an open mind . nana's support of criminal PV shows he seriously falls short of being a genuine progressive leader rather he is more likely to be in cohorts with the mafia political oligarchy that has a stranglehold on our people
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

Idiot to the bone!!!

Idiot to the bone!!!
insight to the bone 11 years ago

if the cap fits wear it

if the cap fits wear it
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

Who are you? Another uncircumcised kokoase kuraseni. Get out here.

Who are you? Another uncircumcised kokoase kuraseni. Get out here.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

Ha! ha! ha! He is indeed an uncircumcised philistine! And a mad one at that.

"These Akans" are something else! They see everything through their cloudy tribal prism.

Andy-K

Ha! ha! ha! He is indeed an uncircumcised philistine! And a mad one at that.

"These Akans" are something else! They see everything through their cloudy tribal prism.

Andy-K
Mr. Figure-Out 11 years ago

You eczema infested maggot, a cowardly chickened cocoon who is not even bold enough to call spade a spade. " These Akans", as if your useless nursing home bound ass you are struggling heaven and earth to avoid will come to a ...
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You eczema infested maggot, a cowardly chickened cocoon who is not even bold enough to call spade a spade. " These Akans", as if your useless nursing home bound ass you are struggling heaven and earth to avoid will come to a screeching halt if you nail the nail right on the head and say it as it is. The damn word is Asantes, the porcupines and animal dung eaters as FrancisYaw Kwarteng would put it. Feel free to bring your asininity to the fore, for the porcupine warriors care the least about your empty threats, campaigns and rallies to have them ostracized if not totally annihilated, from the land of their birth. The Asante empire will collapse with Ghana if that is your wish. And Togoland, where your umbilical cord is tied up to, will not survive either. Asante is Ghana and Ghana is Asante. No evil forces of darkness, not even the combine forces of the Atinga-Trokosi alliance( courtesy Professor Sir Ahoofe) can undo what, by His grace and devine providence, the omnipotent God, has vested in the people of Kookoase to lead Ghana to the promise land. Kuffour and Acheampong dispensations in political history is a clear attestation to what the indomitable porcupines of the SubSaharan Afrika are capable of doing. Any equation that factors out the porcupines in our quest to build a formidable Ghana is surely(100%) bound to fail. If the center cannot hold the centripetal forces that bind us together as one people of former Gold Coast( you know what I mean) anarchy would be the likely by-product. Get this straight to your atheistic skull. You smelly Trokosi Swine!
Gye Nyame 11 years ago

I am not Ashanti and I have not heard the saying "Asante or NPP person at the top and all would well" statement before because I think that could not even be a true statement since the Ashantis were the chief opposition group ...
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I am not Ashanti and I have not heard the saying "Asante or NPP person at the top and all would well" statement before because I think that could not even be a true statement since the Ashantis were the chief opposition group when Acheampong was in power. In any case, being from a CPP background myself, though can be objective, I can tell you that many of the industries/enterprises set up by Nkrumah were failing prior to Nkrumah's overthrow. Unfortunately, government enterprises are never run efficiently so are bound to fail or operate at a loss. Compare the electric and water companies operated by government to the privatized telecom sector and understand what I am talking about. China lost the battle of government run enterprises and only saw the daylight when it adopted capitalism. In any case Ghana has been in the hands of socialists/Nkrumaist (Nkrumah, Acheampong, Limann, Rawlings, Mills, & Mahama) for over 42 years and counting, so what system do you think has done damage to Ghana? Why didn't any of the folks mentioned above who came after Nkrumah not revamp the industries if they thought they were viable? At least Busia was bold to downsize government and also throw out the undocumented aliens -- I wish Mahama had half the balls to do some of that considering the sky rocketing salary expense it has and the country being over run by immigrants. I wont comment on the tribal bullcrap because that is all it is BULLCRAP!
Kojo T 11 years ago

Our Growth and survival depends on production of goods and services that are in demand . Let us identify what people need and get on with the job . Let us not fight over how

Come up with IDEAS , not INSULTS

Our Growth and survival depends on production of goods and services that are in demand . Let us identify what people need and get on with the job . Let us not fight over how

Come up with IDEAS , not INSULTS

Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

You may be correct in some respects here but deliberately telling lies by claiming 90% of all government scholarships to Canada and USA between 1982 and 2001 went to Ewes!!! That indeed must be an expression of your anti-Ewe ...
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You may be correct in some respects here but deliberately telling lies by claiming 90% of all government scholarships to Canada and USA between 1982 and 2001 went to Ewes!!! That indeed must be an expression of your anti-Ewe mentality.

You would do me a world of good by publishing the names of those 90% (who were Ewes) and the remaining 10% non-Ewes. It borders on madness for one to rush to press with wild claims purposely to vilify an ethnic group.

And for your information, Ewes never hated Nkrumah as did your fathers. I don't know how old you were or whether you were even in this world when Nkrumah was overthrown. Let it be known to you today that it was your fathers and uncles who hated Nkrumah and master-minded his overthrow through your uncle Afrifa who used a credulous Kotoka as a tool to achieve their dastardly aims. That is the blunt truth and nothing but the truth.

Let it sink into your skull today that nobody is trying to rewrite history here. It is you the infamous Cardinal who is guilty of trying to rewrite history.
Kojo T 11 years ago

The article calls for sensible inputs to Ghana's problems. They have NOTHING tooffer except lies and insults. That is NPP for you. Do you see why ghana's development has stalled? Do not work yourself up as all the people with ...
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The article calls for sensible inputs to Ghana's problems. They have NOTHING tooffer except lies and insults. That is NPP for you. Do you see why ghana's development has stalled? Do not work yourself up as all the people with posts are known tribalists with no brains
CARDINAL 11 years ago

So you have brains? You plagiarist who quoted from many sources and made it look like it is your own ideas, you dumb illiterate.

How can you even talk about intelligence when I wrote one time that Ghana is now a banana re ...
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So you have brains? You plagiarist who quoted from many sources and made it look like it is your own ideas, you dumb illiterate.

How can you even talk about intelligence when I wrote one time that Ghana is now a banana republic and you responded that Ghana is not an exporter of banana so we can't be a banana republic without knowing that phrase is a figure of speech.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

So it was Afrifa who planned the coup and used Trokosi Kotoka, Harlley and Deku, huh? This Trokosi herd mentality does not surprise me. The coup planning went on between the three Trokosis before Afrifa was brought in by virt ...
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So it was Afrifa who planned the coup and used Trokosi Kotoka, Harlley and Deku, huh? This Trokosi herd mentality does not surprise me. The coup planning went on between the three Trokosis before Afrifa was brought in by virtue of him being Kotoka adjuctant. He could not have moved the troops to Accra without Afrifa .

You might not know your history but you trokosis never forgave Nkrumah for rigging the plebiscite vote that made the Ewe part of Volta region Ghana.

The first person to throw a bomb at Nkrumah at Flagstaff house was a trokosi. No Asante ever threw a bomb at him but we just did not like hid party.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

Another lie here!!! Kotoka could have moved troops without Afrifa's support or consent. Secondly, I come from southern Volta which was NEVER part of German Togoland and did not take part in the 1956 plebiscite. Check the hist ...
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Another lie here!!! Kotoka could have moved troops without Afrifa's support or consent. Secondly, I come from southern Volta which was NEVER part of German Togoland and did not take part in the 1956 plebiscite. Check the history. Do you hear?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

You don't seem to be too intelligent. Kotoka as the Commander could have moved the troops but Afrifa being the second in command, Kotoka would then have to temporary hand over the base leaderdhip to him and divulge the troops ...
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You don't seem to be too intelligent. Kotoka as the Commander could have moved the troops but Afrifa being the second in command, Kotoka would then have to temporary hand over the base leaderdhip to him and divulge the troops movement and their mission to him.

Whether the Anlos were part or not part of thepplebiscite, the Ewes hated Nkrumah for it and secondly, the Ewe herd mentality kicked in when Nkrumah accused Gbedemah for stealing.

Stay safe, stay away from the Boko Harem.
SENDERO 11 years ago

Operation Cold Chop, A myth is Broken and The Ghana Coup. Also Kotoka's interview 1 year after the Coup tells a story different from yours

The plotters were as follows

1] Harlley Head of Special Branch (now BNI) Main pl ...
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Operation Cold Chop, A myth is Broken and The Ghana Coup. Also Kotoka's interview 1 year after the Coup tells a story different from yours

The plotters were as follows

1] Harlley Head of Special Branch (now BNI) Main planner

2] He recruited his protégé Anthony Deku

3] In come the following: Seshi, Tevie, Kwashie, Von Backustein, Kattah, Sowu

4] Ankrah is approached to lead the Junta if the coup succeeds

5] Kotoka is told to approach Afrifa

6] Kotoka approaches Ocran

7 The plotters are ready to go!
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

Would you have expected Kotoka to say he was suborned or deceived by Afrifa with the connivance of Nkrumah's opponents?

Would you have expected Kotoka to say he was suborned or deceived by Afrifa with the connivance of Nkrumah's opponents?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

You are definitely not in tune with the history of the coup but your Ewe herd mentality will not allow you to learn.. Kotoka was in danger of being arrested after Nkrumah has told some confidants that, he intends to arrest Ko ...
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You are definitely not in tune with the history of the coup but your Ewe herd mentality will not allow you to learn.. Kotoka was in danger of being arrested after Nkrumah has told some confidants that, he intends to arrest Kotoka and court marshaled him for diamond smuggling in Congo.

Nkrumah's plans to dismiss Harlley and Kotoka's impending arrest was one of the reasons for the coup. If Afrifa was able to deceive the three Anlo Ewes to embark on a coup they didn't believe in, then he was a genius.

You have stayed too long in Agege, Lagos you are imbibing the Boko Harem propaganda.
Nyansasem 11 years ago

Just look at who is 'talking' here. What a tribal bigot.

You spend on your days here spewing nonsense against Asantes and Akyems, yet you support your uncle Woyome for duping Ghana of 51 million and you want us to 'work' t ...
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Just look at who is 'talking' here. What a tribal bigot.

You spend on your days here spewing nonsense against Asantes and Akyems, yet you support your uncle Woyome for duping Ghana of 51 million and you want us to 'work' together for the sake of mother Ghana

How could wise and intelligent people 'work' with such a moron like you. Why don't you help us to retrieve our money from woyome and the rest of your brothers who have not worked in their life time but are now millionaires like that idiot, Ablakwa.

Atta Kruffi 11 years ago

Kojo Tamakloe, who are the patriots, the Ewes who have divided loyalties between Ghana and their brethren in Togo? Ewes are the most unpatriotic tribe in Ghana unlike the Ashantis who don't complain about the natural resource ...
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Kojo Tamakloe, who are the patriots, the Ewes who have divided loyalties between Ghana and their brethren in Togo? Ewes are the most unpatriotic tribe in Ghana unlike the Ashantis who don't complain about the natural resources from their region used by the whole country.

Imagine if the natural resources from Ashanti region were to be from Volta region. The Ewes would have demanded secession or at least half of everything from that region is used in Volta region.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

Where were you when your fathers and uncles demanded secession and Nkrumah clamped down on them? Don't rush in passing judgment on Ewes. Just wait until some natural resources surface there and by their action or inaction, yo ...
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Where were you when your fathers and uncles demanded secession and Nkrumah clamped down on them? Don't rush in passing judgment on Ewes. Just wait until some natural resources surface there and by their action or inaction, you'd be in a better position to judge the Ewe mindset.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Oh shut up, you foolish boy. Asantes have never advocated for secession. Demanding federalist government is not the same as secession.

We know what the Ewes will do if ever any natural resources come from trokosiland. Do y ...
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Oh shut up, you foolish boy. Asantes have never advocated for secession. Demanding federalist government is not the same as secession.

We know what the Ewes will do if ever any natural resources come from trokosiland. Do you remember when they thought oil has been discovered there? The oil that turned out to be a waste product of brake fluid? The Ewes started demanding half and how they don't want any Asante there? You guys are just too tribalistic.
KKO 11 years ago

My grandmother used to say that "When you lie, your lies should at least bear some semblance to facts." Whether you like it or not, for most rural Ghanaians, including Voltarians, the best periods of real human development oc ...
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My grandmother used to say that "When you lie, your lies should at least bear some semblance to facts." Whether you like it or not, for most rural Ghanaians, including Voltarians, the best periods of real human development occurred under Busia (eradication of guinea worms, indegenisation of university lecturers and promotion of indegenes in local petty trade, the stalled Accra sewerage system, etc) and Kufuor.

One of the legacies of the twenty years of your hero is what happened to one of his lieutenants, PV on the Spintex Road on Saturday. Sierra Leone is touted to be one of the poorest countries on earth, but in Sierra Leone, that Good Samaritan taxi driver could have called an ambulance to keep PV going till they got to the nearest hospital.

I hope you get my drift.

You probably have never lived anywhere else in Ghana beyond your Volta Region and its enclave in Ashaiman, but the Asante are the most accommodating people in Ghana. They will not cheat you, they will not let you cheat them, but even more importantly they will not allow you to cheat another person just because you are stronger or bigger!

By 1965, most of the factories in Ghana were operating at less than 25% capacity. I knew of the situation in quite a few of them in the Western Region. How many factories did Ghana have running by 1969, anyway? That is the problem with Pan Africanism, much of it is based on fantasy!
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

There goes another born-again liar. It is mere phantasy to claim Asantes are the most accommodating people in Ghana. Every ethnic group in Ghana is as equally accommodating as the Asantes. You tolerate the sojourners because ...
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There goes another born-again liar. It is mere phantasy to claim Asantes are the most accommodating people in Ghana. Every ethnic group in Ghana is as equally accommodating as the Asantes. You tolerate the sojourners because you derive something from them in return and not necessarily because of some imaginary inborn spirit of hospitality in you folks.
SENDERO 11 years ago

Not only were factories running at 25% we were queuing at Kumasi and Accra stadiums for food. Something those who think Nkrumah was God tend to overlook!

Not only were factories running at 25% we were queuing at Kumasi and Accra stadiums for food. Something those who think Nkrumah was God tend to overlook!
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

Stop peddling those stupid black lies here. You lot are bloody ingrates. Can you remember what Ghana was between 1976 and 1979?

Stop peddling those stupid black lies here. You lot are bloody ingrates. Can you remember what Ghana was between 1976 and 1979?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Is that why you ran to Agege and still there pushing trucks or selling "ACHEMO"?

Is that why you ran to Agege and still there pushing trucks or selling "ACHEMO"?
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Hello Kojo T,

Excellent piece.

Your piece raises many important implicit questions in connection with the bad state of Ghana's political economy.

The piece also identifies where we have gone wrong as a people and i ...
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Hello Kojo T,

Excellent piece.

Your piece raises many important implicit questions in connection with the bad state of Ghana's political economy.

The piece also identifies where we have gone wrong as a people and implicitly identifies the way forward.

In fact, if my reading of it is correct I can certainly say there is nothing "tribal" about the pressing issues you address.

Let us come together as a people, retrace our steps, and do for ourselves what others have relatively successfully done for themselves.

I think you have done a good job on the whole trying to perform a post-mortem operation on a dead organism, Ghana.

We need a rethink as a people. Good job. Keep it up!

Thanks, my brother.
Kojo T 11 years ago

Thanks . It is heartening to knw we still have readers and thinkers. Just ignore the attempts by cardinal and the rest to skew the message

Thanks . It is heartening to knw we still have readers and thinkers. Just ignore the attempts by cardinal and the rest to skew the message

Kwabena 11 years ago

Kojo T, you've almost said it all.
Too many airheads around who won't understand this because they don't have anything better to offer but just hate anything different to what their european masters are dictating.People like ...
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Kojo T, you've almost said it all.
Too many airheads around who won't understand this because they don't have anything better to offer but just hate anything different to what their european masters are dictating.People like that have to be spoon fed always,even in adulthood.
I started farming on a 12 acre land recently planting plantain and onions after leaving my inner city job.Looking at helping to feed Ghana whiles making a living also.Wish me luck hehe.
How does one get in touch with you?
Mr. Figure-Out 11 years ago

Fragrance display of abject stupidity of the cassava grating Togolese Red Monkeys are at its apogee in recent times on this forum. Thanks to that friend of mine, the paternal native of Kookoase-Aduman and a Trokosi wannabe, Y ...
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Fragrance display of abject stupidity of the cassava grating Togolese Red Monkeys are at its apogee in recent times on this forum. Thanks to that friend of mine, the paternal native of Kookoase-Aduman and a Trokosi wannabe, Yaw Kwarteng, for openning the flood gets for some jaded low lives to disrespectfully denigrate the very hands that once fed their Washmen fathers and yokogari selling mothers in their squatting ghettos, slums and shanty towns in the Great Kookoaseland. How on earth can one dabble and wallow in such a mudslinging slurs of mediocrity if you are not a hate filled Trokosi miserable soul. Down sucker let me educate you on the "Alien Conpliance Act" of yesteryears which compel foreigners Without PROPER DOCUMENTATION to leave the country within a gracing period of three month in 1969. It became necessary at that time since the population of Ghana as at independence in 1957 shot up to 6 million from 3 million in 1960 when Ghana became a republic. This was due to the wanton generosity of the Western Showboy, the Father Chrismas of a prime minister at that time, with foreigners( including Togolese Trokosis) forming a little over 20% of the entire population. This trend of our demographics became very alarming as the time of the overthrown of the life president of the then one party State who wanted a continental African Unity but succeeded in separating Asante Region from some parts of Brong, Central and some part of western Regions. He could not even unite Ghanaand could he have achieved the unity of Boko Haram North Africa with the rest of us in the sub Sahara region. So in a nut shell, Busia inherited a broke nation with foreigners haven dominated in the production and manufacturing sectors. Nigerians, Lebanese and Syrians totally commandeered the entire trade industries. The smartest decision at that time was for the native Ghanaian to reclaim his sovereign powers from our neighbors who had then taken advantage of the negligence of the freebies doling kingpin of Ghana-Guinea-Mali fame. Our collective well being was compromised for African Unity which was good for the Black human race except for the radical Afrocentric approach of Nkrumah. Even as we speak now the NDC under Mahama has it's own style of the "alien compliance order". The refugees from the conflict regions of Liberia and Ivory Coast have been asked to live. The Chinese are being deported in their numbers. Ironically and unfortunately Trokosi refugees from Togoland and Wangaras from Upper Volta who are the bane of our economic depression are left to bask in their own glow because the NDC use them as a conduit to rig elections. What about that? Stick your finger into your stinky ass hole and lick if you don't know Malians, Burkinabe and Togolese are always recruited to vote for the NDC. Down sucker. Stay off Ashantis for you hate writings will end up nowhere.
Kojo T 11 years ago

What a shame ?

What a shame ?
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

That's the rantings of another conceited Ewe-phobe. Cassava is the staple food of some Ewes and I am one of them. Cassava is the staple food of Yorubas, Ibos,Brazilians and some other countries in the West Indies. Does that m ...
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That's the rantings of another conceited Ewe-phobe. Cassava is the staple food of some Ewes and I am one of them. Cassava is the staple food of Yorubas, Ibos,Brazilians and some other countries in the West Indies. Does that make them less human than your uncircumcised stock? Therefore labelling Ewes cassava-grating (as posited by the Akyem dog and bastard Ahoofe) can never make them less human than your stock.

If Busia inherited a broke nation, you should hold Afrifa responsible as he was in the driver's seat before handing over to Busia. That story of Nkrumah wrecking the economy was one of the swan songs of his discredited opponents who were (and are still hell-bent) on denigrating the Osagyefo.

The cassava grating Togolese Red Monkeys used their - "fragrance" - flagrant display of stupidity and technical skills to teach you masonry and how to live in rooms instead of trees like tropical rain forest monkey!!! Esia?
Mr. Figure-Out 11 years ago

Idiots are ruling my Ghana today because of people like you, simply because being eloquent and versatile in the queens language is erroneously mistaken for smartness in your own small world. Smart phones does a lot of things ...
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Idiots are ruling my Ghana today because of people like you, simply because being eloquent and versatile in the queens language is erroneously mistaken for smartness in your own small world. Smart phones does a lot of things nowadays and I could have easily notice my mistakes if I really care about some bodies language. Kojo T would be the worst culprit if wrong choice of words is of cardinal importance here. I owe nobody apology since, even as a scientist, I know the difference between flagrant and fragrance. Go to China, japan or India and preach your grammatical correctness to them. I could beat Mahama to the presidency if I was an English major student
Fiwisintin 11 years ago

A very good article that seeks to give Ghana some hope of regaining economic stability - with a few differeing points of opinion from specific readers. Regrettably, your suggestions cannot be executed successfully without fir ...
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A very good article that seeks to give Ghana some hope of regaining economic stability - with a few differeing points of opinion from specific readers. Regrettably, your suggestions cannot be executed successfully without first addressing the crux of Ghana's problems; namely, tribalism. It is a fear based on the unknown, an assumption, or a fear founded on indoctrination - "seeing a boguey where there ain't none?" And how we relish in hurtling insults - the more vulgar, the better - at each other! We are all guilty of it and it must stop!

The other important issue one of your readers mentioned is that we have not yet grasped the art of maintenance. We let factories run down for lack of foresight, interest, or even care. Apparently that is a Black "thang." Well it's time to change that now!

Solution:Even though Ghanaians love to argue and never stop, we must come together to air our grievances face to face so we may bridge the horrific divide between us. Asantes and Ewes must agree to disagree on some points.

Finally, we need to mobilize all conscious Ghanaians to street protests against any corrupt person(s), group or company, irrespective of ethnicity or partisanship. That's what life is all about. However, this ongoing tribal war on Ghanaweb is working to our detriment. Peace and love in Ghana!
military man 11 years ago

Wheew!!!!!

That was really hate-filled, wasn't it?

What are we doing to ourselves as Ghanaians?

We might not always agree on everything but don't you think we are setting ourselves up to kill each other in a civil wa ...
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Wheew!!!!!

That was really hate-filled, wasn't it?

What are we doing to ourselves as Ghanaians?

We might not always agree on everything but don't you think we are setting ourselves up to kill each other in a civil war? Because that's the path we are leading ourselves on if we don't stop and look at the way we resolve issues along tribal lines.

There's good and bad on both sides of the fence and I know some of the issues can be so emotionally charged that they crowd our judgments in the heat of it letting us lose our otherwise cool way of dealing with them.
Wabee 11 years ago

Mr Tamakloe, America is one country, China is One country, but countries in Africa are different countries. Sowhar happen in these countries can not happen in Africa countries.You talk about Busia, even America, Btitain Franc ...
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Mr Tamakloe, America is one country, China is One country, but countries in Africa are different countries. Sowhar happen in these countries can not happen in Africa countries.You talk about Busia, even America, Btitain France these capitalist countries takes five to ten years to develop and implement a project. How do you think Busia should and could have implement his vision in 23 months. Should Acheampong have givben Busia time to finish his 4 year term Ghana would have been diffirent today.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

Different indeed when in less than a year after being in office he built himself a mansion? Nkrumah never built anything for himself but the legacy he left behind after years in power are there for you and me to see.

Different indeed when in less than a year after being in office he built himself a mansion? Nkrumah never built anything for himself but the legacy he left behind after years in power are there for you and me to see.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

This is one of you trokosi lies. Where is the Busiah mansion? Busiah wasfrom the Wenchi royal family and they had their money and houses before Busiah became Prime Minister, stp your trokosi stupid lies.

This is one of you trokosi lies. Where is the Busiah mansion? Busiah wasfrom the Wenchi royal family and they had their money and houses before Busiah became Prime Minister, stp your trokosi stupid lies.
Komla - The Peace Broker 11 years ago

My dear honorable friend Sarpong, I see you are leading the assault on this one. It is just possible to make comments without the tribal insults? Are we ever going to ovecome this tribal insult trading? Could the individual b ...
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My dear honorable friend Sarpong, I see you are leading the assault on this one. It is just possible to make comments without the tribal insults? Are we ever going to ovecome this tribal insult trading? Could the individual be held accountable for what they write as oppose to blaming the person's tire tribe?
Kojo T 11 years ago

Komla they are facts. As for sarpong and the tribalists they will never change. What is it in the writing which is false? Did we not have both military and civilian governments. have we not tried down sizing . Did we not marc ...
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Komla they are facts. As for sarpong and the tribalists they will never change. What is it in the writing which is false? Did we not have both military and civilian governments. have we not tried down sizing . Did we not march to chase away hunger? Please ignore the bigots
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Illiterate bigot, just name 10, of the 400 industries Busiah destroyed. You illiterate trokosi with your herd mentality, why don't you talk about the 300 factories and industries Rawlings sold to his trokosi mafia including t ...
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Illiterate bigot, just name 10, of the 400 industries Busiah destroyed. You illiterate trokosi with your herd mentality, why don't you talk about the 300 factories and industries Rawlings sold to his trokosi mafia including the Blackstar line with 18 ships thatwas lliterally given to the Tsikatas and Awoonor for free. The Abosso Glass factory given to Gilchrist Olympio of Togo for free. What evidence do you have to back your trokosi herd mentality lies.
SENDERO 11 years ago

If the following can use the free market to prosper then perhaps there is more to your garbled and factually inaccurate, poor analysis:

Canada, America, Qatar, Kuwait, Finland, Denmark, Kuwait, Singapore, Japan, Botswana, ...
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If the following can use the free market to prosper then perhaps there is more to your garbled and factually inaccurate, poor analysis:

Canada, America, Qatar, Kuwait, Finland, Denmark, Kuwait, Singapore, Japan, Botswana, Barbados etc etc
Wabee 11 years ago

Are you saying America, France , Germany and co have not prosper. Tell us which country in the world which has prosper more with different method than these countries.

Are you saying America, France , Germany and co have not prosper. Tell us which country in the world which has prosper more with different method than these countries.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

It is simply an illusion to think and believe, in the same manner as to believe that a god created this universe in 6 days and took a rest on the 7th, that the Western countries developed by means of purely the free enterpris ...
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It is simply an illusion to think and believe, in the same manner as to believe that a god created this universe in 6 days and took a rest on the 7th, that the Western countries developed by means of purely the free enterprise system as one reads in the neo-liberal economics text books. That's the fantasy we have been sold and some are hooked on. A study of the political economy of those countries reveal something else.

Fact is, they all did so with a hefty support of state power, resources and intervention in the economy. That's why Karl Marx wrote that "the State was just a committee for managing the whole affairs of the bourgeoisie." The stark reality that the methods the bourgeois of Europe and America used to enrich themselves and develop their countries are simply no longer available or permissible is lost on those who who advocate a free enterprise system. The consequences of using such means in Thailand underpin the crisis in that country since the mid 2000s. Yes, the bourgeois, using the King as a rallying force, managed to beat back and crush the Maoist rebellion with American and Western covert military support but the divisions are indelible.

The dominant roles the state has played and continue to play in the devt of the Asian Tigers, etc. have been documented in articles and books. China, a so-called communist country, stands tall today, with the bastion of capitalism, American, deeply in debt to it! Unless we Africans are weaned off this private free enterprise myth, the better for us.

Andy-K
Komla - The Peace Broker 11 years ago

Dear Kojo, May I suggest you research the facts thoroughly before writing an article so that the Ewe haters will not have an opportunity to insult all the Ewes.

Dear Kojo, May I suggest you research the facts thoroughly before writing an article so that the Ewe haters will not have an opportunity to insult all the Ewes.

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