Mahama's crocodile lamentations about ethnicity

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• Kwame Rought 11 years ago

  Like his kind due to inferiority complex, they have to be in charge!

  Like his kind due to inferiority complex, they have to be in charge!

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• Azumah 11 years ago

  Where were you when Kofour left out Ewes, Northerners,etc. from his govt and development agenda? Not a single district up north was connected to another by tarred road under NPP despite the fact that they boasted of massive r ...
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  Where were you when Kofour left out Ewes, Northerners,etc. from his govt and development agenda? Not a single district up north was connected to another by tarred road under NPP despite the fact that they boasted of massive road construction. The north was left out in kofour's President's Special Initiative and in the area of rural electrification, the NPP created a wide deficit in the North. I wander how many people from the three regions of the North benefited from govt scholarship to study abroad under kofour. What would have informed the NPP to marginalize the North if not their hatred for Northerners. Their attitude towards Ewes wasn't any different. Now we have a govt that is working to fix the deficit that was intentionally created by the NPP rather being accused of tribalism. Are you not being tribalistic yourself? How come all the examples you cited have to do with Asantes and Ashanti Region? Are all other tribes satisfied?
  Regarding the issue of the international airport, on the very month the construction of the Tamale airport was commissioned, a loan of 200 million dolars, two times taht which is being spent on the Tamale airport, was approved for the construction of the Kumasi market. What prevented Asantes from demanding that 100 million of that amount be used to upgrade the Kumasi airport into an international airport if they were so jealous of the Tamale airport?

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• Alhaji sule 11 years ago

  I doubt if this writter reason beyond his nose.Are u saying that Ewes n northerners are not ghanaians or what.plz ghana is not for only one tribe.come out of ur colonial thinking.ghana first

  I doubt if this writter reason beyond his nose.Are u saying that Ewes n northerners are not ghanaians or what.plz ghana is not for only one tribe.come out of ur colonial thinking.ghana first

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• Doobia 11 years ago

  Below is an account of a Christian missionary when he came to Gold Coast. Stupid fool read your history well. What has become of Ashanti is not as result of your efforts. You were just lucky the whiteman wanted Cocoa and not ...
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  Below is an account of a Christian missionary when he came to Gold Coast. Stupid fool read your history well. What has become of Ashanti is not as result of your efforts. You were just lucky the whiteman wanted Cocoa and not Sheanuts. Had he came for Sheanuts, the North would have far more developed than now. Learn to be humble!
  
  Bowdich, T. E., Mission from Cape Coast to
  Ashantee 1819 (notes)
  177 7 days from Sallagah NE according to the
  Moors through the Inta town of Zongoo is Yahndi
  (Yendi) the capital of Dagwumba.
  178 Yahndi is described to be beyond comparison
  larger than Coomassie, the houses much better
  built and ornamented. Ashantees lost themselves in
  the streets. The King Inana Taquanee, has been
  converted by the Moors, who have settled there in
  great numbers. The markets at Yahndi are
  described as animated scenes of commerce,
  constantly crowded with merchants from almost all
  countries of the interior. Horses and cattle
  abound. Yahndi is named after the numeral one,
  from its pre-eminence.

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• CONDOM 11 years ago

  U CALL THIS USELESS MAHAMA PRESIDENT?GOD WILL PUNISH HIM WAA.IDIOT MAN WITH COCONUT HEAD,

  U CALL THIS USELESS MAHAMA PRESIDENT?GOD WILL PUNISH HIM WAA.IDIOT MAN WITH COCONUT HEAD,

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

  I really don't have the time and energy today to devote this rambling, unsupportable claims and finger-pointing laced with the usual ethnocentric bias and prejudice President Mahama was speaking against.
  
  We have been hear ...
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  I really don't have the time and energy today to devote this rambling, unsupportable claims and finger-pointing laced with the usual ethnocentric bias and prejudice President Mahama was speaking against.
  
  We have been hearing the accusations about the alleged Ewe dominance of State bodies since the late 1960s when the PP made it the main thrust of its campaign against Gbedema's NAL. Nothing substantially has changed from those claims, except attempts to tag on some other ethnic groups which are also allegingly benefiting in this presumed tribalistic aganda against Asantes. Why it is always Asantes who are discriminated against is not made clear. Ghana has over 60 linguistic groups, and the Asantes form a fraction of the Akan ethnic group of abt 47%, that's about 16% (same as the Dagbani/Mole); not much larger than the Ewe ethnic group which forms about 13%. So are the accusers claiming the Fantis, Akuapems, Kwahus, Brongs, Sefwis, Akyems, etc., etc. don't suffer tribal discrimination perpetrated by even the likes of Mills (an Akan) and Mahama(a Gonja) to benefit Ewes? Can someone explain this to us?
  
  It is a pity that the state bodies thus accused don't find it necessary to refute these allegations with the correct information. The Ewes, especially those in executive positions, who work in them to feed their families and themselves are themselves very foolish and think the response to such malcontents feeding on ethnocentrism is to brand them as "gbemelawo" - bush people - don't mind them! Only people who have time waste it replying to them! So, when I met senior Philip Fiadzomor, now deceased, here in London (he was also asked to proceed on leave while forensic audit was undertaken and never recalled), I expressed my joy at their being sacked in such a manner by Kufuor and his regime.
  
  Now let me cut my time wasting!
  
  Andy-K

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• YALIMAWA 11 years ago

  In one breath you were advising President Mahama against tribalism but in another breath you showed your total dislike for the Ewes and Northerners. Left to people like you there would have been a civil war in Ghana but for o ...
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  In one breath you were advising President Mahama against tribalism but in another breath you showed your total dislike for the Ewes and Northerners. Left to people like you there would have been a civil war in Ghana but for one thing, Asantes are descending and the majority of Asantes don't think like you. National development should be total and encompassing and not centered in only two or three cities as you are demanding of President Mahama.
  
  Brother please come again because I am certain that you are not an Asante.

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• USELESS MAHAMA 11 years ago

  What argument is this? The writer did not say he hates EWES and Northerners. The writer clearly showed the two faced Mahama. I think the import was to tell Mahama to stop the discrimination against Ashantis. That does not mea ...
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  What argument is this? The writer did not say he hates EWES and Northerners. The writer clearly showed the two faced Mahama. I think the import was to tell Mahama to stop the discrimination against Ashantis. That does not mean he hates EWES. You are upside down Yalimawan

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• King 11 years ago

  Wonders they say will never end, was it not this president who during the 2012 elections said that because is from the North, electorates from the 3-Northern Regions should vote for him and what of the NDC secretary who just ...
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  Wonders they say will never end, was it not this president who during the 2012 elections said that because is from the North, electorates from the 3-Northern Regions should vote for him and what of the NDC secretary who just yesterday said that before one can become a president, the person would have to marry from his home Region? Indeed Ghanaian have short memories.

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• mky 11 years ago

  I guess when you try to address the ethnic problem in Ghana, you are tagged a blubbering liar....John's comments are patently false and misleading.....Ashantis are dominant in every sphere of life in Ghana by virtue of their ...
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  I guess when you try to address the ethnic problem in Ghana, you are tagged a blubbering liar....John's comments are patently false and misleading.....Ashantis are dominant in every sphere of life in Ghana by virtue of their sheer numbers, determination and zeal....it therefore goes without saying that it is about time other ethnic groups get the opportunity to advance themselves.....

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

  Here is news item announcing the formation of the new Board for the Ghana Immigration allegedly having 80% Ewes as staff. Here's chance for all to spot the Ewes appointed to the Board too, to seal off the Ewe dominance.
  
  An ...
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  Here is news item announcing the formation of the new Board for the Ghana Immigration allegedly having 80% Ewes as staff. Here's chance for all to spot the Ewes appointed to the Board too, to seal off the Ewe dominance.
  
  Andy-K
  
  Cletus Avoka Heads Ghana Immigration Board
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  10-Dec-2014
  
  
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  Mr Cletus Avoka, Member of Parliament for Zebilla Constituency and a former Minister of the Interior has been appointed to head a nine-member Board of Ghana Immigration Service (GIS).
  
  Other members are: Dr Ahmed Abdulai Jinapor, Mr John Owusu Amankrah, Mr Robert Orraca Tetteh, Nana Essilfuah Boison, Commissioner of Police Dr Peter A. Wiredu, of GIS, Mrs Adelaide Anno-Kumi, of the Ministry of the Interior and Mr Alexander Grant Ntrakwa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.
  
  Mr James Agaga, Deputy Minister of the Interior, who inaugurated the Board charged members to work assiduously to remove any rancour within the service.
  
  The Deputy Minister administered the official oath of office and secrecy.
  
  Mr Avoka thanked President John Dramani Mahama for the honour done them and assured him of their preparedness to work hard in building a responsible Immigration Service.
  
  He also assured the staff and management of their resolution to assist the service to enhance its performance and operations.
  
  “We need the cooperation of the ministry, management and the staff to enable us perform because the board alone cannot do anything,” he added.
  
  Mr Avoka noted that Ghana Immigration Service plays a key role in selling the country because they are first to see foreigners entering into the country and the last to see them out of the country.
  
  This, he said, calls for professionalism, discipline and compartment on the part of the personnel to portray a positive image of the country.
  
  He said during his tenure of office as the Minister of the Interior, he proposed the arming of the Border Patrol Unit and it had been approved by the National Security Council but due change in government the decision had not been implemented.
  
  He assured that the new board would revisit the decision and see how to fast track it.
  
  On accommodation, Mr Avoka said government alone cannot build office accommodation throughout the country and called for private partners to assist.
  
  He said there is the need to lobby the Metropolitan, Municipal and District assemblies to assist in their small ways.
  
  “I know they have been doing that for some government institutions and they can as well assist the Immigration Service,” he added.
  
  Source: GNA

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• I Boateng, New York 11 years ago

  So what prevented Prez Kufuor from constructing the Accra Kumasi road?

  So what prevented Prez Kufuor from constructing the Accra Kumasi road?

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• Kwadwo 11 years ago

  Butt head

  Butt head

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• KING BRIGHT (USA) 11 years ago

  Does anybody still listen to that good for nothing Mahama? My ears would not even permit me if I should make that mistake .

  Does anybody still listen to that good for nothing Mahama? My ears would not even permit me if I should make that mistake .

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• YOOMOBEGA 11 years ago

  John Yawose, How much were you paid by NPP to write this?
  What follows next?

  John Yawose, How much were you paid by NPP to write this?
  What follows next?

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• USELESS MAHAMA 11 years ago

  Mahama is BAD omen for Ghana. H e is very vindictive and a pretender. He hates Ashantis well well. He said Asantes cant speak english

  Mahama is BAD omen for Ghana. H e is very vindictive and a pretender. He hates Ashantis well well. He said Asantes cant speak english

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• Odotobiri 11 years ago

  The iniquities of John Mahama will definitely be punished by God

  The iniquities of John Mahama will definitely be punished by God

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• Maame Abenah 11 years ago

  Truth must be told. Mahama is bad news for the Asantes.
  Sooner than later, Mahama will be voted out,else he will destroy Ghana.
  Mahama is a bigot.

  Truth must be told. Mahama is bad news for the Asantes.
  Sooner than later, Mahama will be voted out,else he will destroy Ghana.
  Mahama is a bigot.

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• akosua Afrakoma 11 years ago

  Mahama and his boss Mills capitalized on ethnic politics to win but now he is hypocritically talking against it.He should rather appologizee to Ghanaiana.Shame.

  Mahama and his boss Mills capitalized on ethnic politics to win but now he is hypocritically talking against it.He should rather appologizee to Ghanaiana.Shame.

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