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Ashanti Region is a cow .....

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  • mike 9 years ago

    johm you are the biggest fool what are you talking about ashantis are cow u are a maron go to a psychast hopital and and go and check yr fucking nrains you idiot

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    Recent events especially the demonstration in Kumasi show that there are competent capable NPP youth who do not hesitate to do the right thing , strategies and planning on scale almost as perfect as a war effort yet remain hu ...
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  • Truth Razor 9 years ago

    No 1 is trying to brk e Akan spirit, you see the problem we r having is that too much Ethnic politics is being played by this two parties, NPP is not Akan party but a political party from Ghana doesnt matter who it founding f ...
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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    time will tell , i agree with you when you say something is wrong with the NPP and their flag-bearers as obviously the elders there are no more in touch with the realities on the ground , even this successful demo was organiz ...
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  • Charles 9 years ago

    Dis your dumb ass take the time to read the entire story ?

  • VOTER 9 years ago

    NDC would loose the elections p3333. With the way they are talking, Kofi Wayo, Omane Boamah, Murtala, Attivor, Obimpeh, Ahi, Allotey Jacobs, Apaak, Tandoh, Ofosu kwakye, Sawyerr etc, etc, I have no doubt in my mind. They will ...
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  • layman 9 years ago

    The writer is whipping up tribal sentiments and emotions.That is not how to go about it.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    Apparently, Mr Yawose is behaving like the proverbial ostrich, pretending that he couldn't see the ethnocentric danger chasing him by sticking his head into the sand.

    No one whatsoever is against people in the Asante Regi ...
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  • Mensah 9 years ago

    I know from your postings on this forum that you hate Asantes, but answer this question. Was it fair for Atta Mills/ John Mahama to single out Ashanti Region their discriminatory NHIS Capitation system where sick people in th ...
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  • ANDY-K 9 years ago

    That can only be a figment of imagination from a fevered mind!

    The Ash/R is inhabited not only by Asantes but pple from all the regions of Ghana. Are they exempted from the trial Capitation system and whatever tribulation ...
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  • ronaldo 9 years ago

    Are you really true C. Y Andy? Did ewes or Voltarians not complain under Busia administration in 1969 and Kufuor in 2001/2007 that they were discriminating against Ewes or Volta region? By then were there not other tribespers ...
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  • Armajero 9 years ago

    You are asking Andy fair questions. I hope he comes back again

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    Indeed, I am the same and only C.Y. Andy-K, the albatross hanging on "these Akans".:-)

    You qs are simple to answer. In the case of Busia, and to a large extent Kufuor (he was member of Busia's cabinet too), there was concr ...
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  • Ama Grace 9 years ago

    You these filthy chap of an Ewe bastard think that you speak for most Ewes! What do you mean by these Akans?

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    Are you really a woman?

    WHAT MADE YOU THINK THAT I AM FILTHY? AND THAT I AM A BASTARD?

    And where did you read me claiming that I speak for most Ewes? What about if I do?

    As for what I meant by "these Akans", I had ...
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  • $$$ (TOGBE OHENE I ) 9 years ago

    $$$ >>> JOHN YAWOSE IS WELL EDUCATED, AND A TRUE SCHOLAR

    >>> ONLY FOOLS DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS SCHOLARLY PIECE

    ASHANTIS, LIKE [ALL] GHANAIANS, HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMONSTRATE, AND TO EXPRESS THEIR GRIEVANCES

    BY Togbe Oh ...
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  • Alhassan Baba Somed 9 years ago

    Is npp not ndc.ashantis there want to couse promblem in ghana there mas wach and see

  • Ewes are not the only tribes I 9 years ago

    The Osie of Avatime is not an Ewe chief. You might have made your point. However, your ignorance of the fact that not all people of the Volta Region are a Ewes,dilutes an otherwise good posturing,
    Free education, from Hohoe ...
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  • Diversions 9 years ago

    Just substitute EWE in the article with Voltarians and it will be clear. Diversionary tactics will kill you

  • Obiba J.K 9 years ago

    so kwasi pratte from N.P.P party who said this that its a tribalism demonstration is also is lying,oh N.P.P if someone tells true you dont like only the one that will fever that you will accept,hmmmmmm owners of Ghana.

  • UP, PP, PFP, NPP, ALL 9 years ago

    Yes, ashanti aggros are all cows with complete bovine and siege mentality. If you did not know this earlier, then you have now been told. Look at them and you can predict a UP, PP, PFP and NPP
    unidirectional mentality

  • Alex London 9 years ago

    This is an objective analysis of the situation in Ghana regarding public demonstrations. The truth really hurts. The negative responses to this piece boil down to INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Don't worry Asantes are used to it. "Wo s ...
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  • oheneba 9 years ago

    John couldn't have said it any better. we in ashantI region have the right to demonstrate like any other region. Ghana must not be like George Orwell's animal farm where four legs good n two legs bad. All these so called mini ...
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  • CAPII 9 years ago

    THE GOSPEL TRUTH IS,ASHANTI REGION ALONE SCARES NDC.THEY CAN NEVER BE BOUGHT POLITICALLY AND SPEAK THEIR HEARTS & MINDS WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR.MAHAMA'S GOVT IS MOST CORRUPT AND WORST ECONOMIC MANAGERS.

  • NASH 9 years ago

    A very stupid and useless aimless shit eating and ampit smelling rat.You called your smelling self John! Who gave you that name? Why not one of your primitive names! Listen to the nonsense you churned here and see if you are ...
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  • Tweaaa 9 years ago

    In short, what's e problem. Address issue and stop e insults

  • NASH NASH 9 years ago

    The truth has been put out by the writer. Looks good. Nash cant counter the truth with superior arguments hence resort to abuse. Well done Yawose

  • Tweaaa 9 years ago

    ******** in short ************
    "NDC should tell us why it is criminal and tribal if Ashanti Region MPs protest. "
    Through all your analysis, u never mentioned how e demo was disorganized, how some placards where tribal, an ...
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  • Truth Razor 9 years ago

    ******** in short ************
    "NDC should tell us why it is criminal and tribal if Ashanti Region MPs protest. "
    Through all your analysis, u never mentioned how e demo was disorganized, how some placards where tribal, and ...
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  • NASH NASH 9 years ago

    If a demo is disorganised it does not make it tribal? This thinking is just like giving a dog a bad name and killing it. What about the violent WA YOUTH demo? Was it disorganised and were they given permission? Truth Razor yo ...
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  • Truth Razor 9 years ago

    All that I wanted to say was the writer should have made the point without touching on tribal emotions. Like why does he say Asantes instead 8f Ashanti nus a region. I enjoyed the piece though and us I've stated above if the ...
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  • NASH NASH 9 years ago

    The thrust of the writer was on tribalistic tendencies wrongly associated with Ashante Region anytime the region does something.. The writer rightly concentrated on that. The issue of violence was just peripheral and needed n ...
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  • olu 9 years ago

    John Yawase, if you take your time to listen to the speakers who addressed the demonstrators that day, you will understand where Mutala and co are coming from. The leaders made tribal comments and reduced the demonstration to ...
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  • Obiri 9 years ago

    You will always hang a dog by giving it a bad name.

  • Ghanaman 9 years ago

    I like this article. NDC tribal propaganda is the problem, its eating the country up except Asanteman.

  • Bad NDC 9 years ago

    NDC are now exposed. They dont like Ashantis . They want to threaten and punish Ashantes. Ashanti MPS must speak up in parliament.

  • Abele 9 years ago

    Dumb NPP parliamentarians in Ashanti Region

  • KKO 9 years ago

    John,
    You are right. It boils down to an inferiority complex, and anyone can tell from the individuals concerned. Kofi Wayo is just an illiterate, loud mouth idiot. What happened to the oil refinery, petroleum exploration co ...
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  • Jacubu 9 years ago

    If the demonstration is triabalistic
    Baba Yara Sports stadium,the name schould be changed.As it was named after Yara no body said Ashantis are
    trialbalistic.Wayo schould he lived in
    the States and there people do Demonstr ...
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  • nabia 9 years ago

    When the eastern corridor road is completed then we shall use it. No sane person will pass through kumasi on the way to accra.

  • NASH NASH 9 years ago

    Nabia, you are confirming what the writer is saying that Ashantis are being haunted by revealing the secret behind Eastern Corridor.. So we know why you are not doing Accra Kumasi Road---to cut off Ashanti from the Rest of Gh ...
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  • IB 9 years ago

    Brilliant analysis. Ghanaians should not accept anybody with anything that creates tribal tensions.

  • npp nima 9 years ago

    Nonsense

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    Tribalistic feature article

  • ronaldo 9 years ago

    Thats the diversionary mentality. Those practising tribalism are left free. Those criticizing those practicing tribalism are rather the tribalists

  • kaketonti 9 years ago

    Too much of everything is BAD

  • Captain canada 9 years ago

    duck and it isn't a human being in a duct suit, then it is a duck!!
    Your problem is refusing to acknowledge that the motivation for the demonstration in Kumasi was based on tribal grudge. Ashantis have declared war on those ...
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  • KK 9 years ago

    I wish you all peace and restrain. Take a hard look at where you are today. If you think you can start a war in Ghana and win it. Think again. It will only go down hill from there. You will not appreciate what you have until ...
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  • KK You are mad 9 years ago

    Stop this nonsense, KK. who is beating war drums? Read the text carefully and understand how Ashanti Region is a cow. Every region runs. Anytime Ashanti Region runs then people have problem

  • KK 9 years ago

    When an Ashanti say Ghanaian, what does he really mean?