Our Responsibility within the Democratic Dispensation

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• Kwaku 10 years ago

  You are right to admonish Ghanaians to vote people who are knowledgeable and have the right skills to govern over tribalism and crouynism.
  
  Unfortunately some politicians exploit tribalism and croynism, nepotism to get elec ...
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  You are right to admonish Ghanaians to vote people who are knowledgeable and have the right skills to govern over tribalism and crouynism.
  
  Unfortunately some politicians exploit tribalism and croynism, nepotism to get elected to power.

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• sly 10 years ago

  As for this group of people even kwame nkrumah don't no how govern akan and akyeam no how to govern

  As for this group of people even kwame nkrumah don't no how govern akan and akyeam no how to govern

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• sly 10 years ago

  As for this group of people even kwame nkrumah don't no how govern only akan and akyeam no how to govern

  As for this group of people even kwame nkrumah don't no how govern only akan and akyeam no how to govern

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• JKK 10 years ago

  Sorry, SAS. I thought you would go beyond that...
  
  "Democratic dispensation"? Hasn't that overused phrase become a proper cliché by now? Surely, you, of all people, will want to use some more refreshing term and leave that ...
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  Sorry, SAS. I thought you would go beyond that...
  
  "Democratic dispensation"? Hasn't that overused phrase become a proper cliché by now? Surely, you, of all people, will want to use some more refreshing term and leave that hackneyed expression for the JSS guys on this forum...
  
  Lol, lol, lol... Let me hear you laffing... or at least chuckling...

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

  I laughed.
  
  But remember that I try to write for the JSS guys and gals on this forum.

  I laughed.
  
  But remember that I try to write for the JSS guys and gals on this forum.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Many times, it is difficult to figure out exactly where or what Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo stands/for!
  
  Not more that several weeks ago, Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo was on this forum defending political party "spoils system."
  
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  Many times, it is difficult to figure out exactly where or what Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo stands/for!
  
  Not more that several weeks ago, Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo was on this forum defending political party "spoils system."
  
  Among his arguments was that development in any part of Ghana, including those that occurred in only one (1) region, or that benefited just one group, was good for Ghana.
  At that time, we challenge Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo on that notion of "governance": It does not make sense, it is not Ghana-centered.
  
  But now, Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo has changed his tune - he is all for Ghana, and Ghana for all. Now, Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo is singing a new tune in his so-called Part I, about "Elections 2016".
  
  Welcome to to the Ghana-centered club, albeit late, Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo!
  
  THIS, FROM OUR 30 APRIL & 10 MAY ESSAYS (Part II and Complete 1-2-3):
  
  Feature Article of Thursday, 30 April 2015
  Columnist: Prof Lungu KNUST Prof. Amoako Baah's Teaching is Almost Useless (II)
  
  Feature Article of Sunday, 10 May 2015
  Columnist: Prof Lungu Prof. Amoako Baah's Teaching is Almost Useless (1-2.3)
  
  "...As governance goes in Ghana, what is important is the development of a Ghana-centered vision and a coherent road map and plans. Then, the best qualified professionals and technicians are assembled to help build and construct the national project consistent with sound national human - development goals. You do not get to "home" using a spoils system of your political party by doling out jobs and government contracts to "foot soldiers", family members, members of your ethnic group, friends, or those with deep pockets some of it may have been stolen from the people in the first place."
  
  As they say, "Better Late Than Never, Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo!
  
  
  ITEM: We will also add that no position is permanent, even if a person and their entire family "made it through...individual efforts and therefore are better resourced to withstand the most austere of our national circumstances without any government largesse...(today)".
  
  If one truly stands for One Ghana for all, one will recgonize that the concept of "...individual efforts...", has precious little panache.
  
  The University you attended, for example, did not/could not enroll some people your own age, your own "tribe", another "tribe", your own town, another town, your own brother, another brother, your own sister, another person's sister, or mother, or niece.
  
  So, we are left wondering: What does Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo truly believe in this matter?

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

  I do not remember celebrating any "spoils system" in Ghana, or making any statement akin to what you have ascribed to me. Maybe, you misread what I said as usual. Remember that you are an Nkrumaist, so distortion and propagan ...
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  I do not remember celebrating any "spoils system" in Ghana, or making any statement akin to what you have ascribed to me. Maybe, you misread what I said as usual. Remember that you are an Nkrumaist, so distortion and propaganda are your stock in trade. But you may not tailor my statement to suit you narrow view.
  
  Unlike you, a phantom who cannot be identified or verified, I am a visible Ghanaian with a lot of love for my country. I have also performed great service for my country and will continue to do so. And unlike you, one day, I will lead my country, and when I do, I will not misbehave like some other dictators.
  
  
  And you will not have to dissemble anything I say or do in order to commend or condemn me.

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• Saint James 10 years ago

  DR SAS,you have given a vivid description of yourself and your tribesmen. I call this naked hypocrisy. Go back and review all your biased rantings.

  DR SAS,you have given a vivid description of yourself and your tribesmen. I call this naked hypocrisy. Go back and review all your biased rantings.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
  We did commend you for your seeming change of attitude about political "spoils".
  
  Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
  maybe you've been "visible" because you just love to flaunt your "Doctor". You just lov ...
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  Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
  We did commend you for your seeming change of attitude about political "spoils".
  
  Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
  maybe you've been "visible" because you just love to flaunt your "Doctor". You just love to tell everyone you are self-made. You just love to tell everyone about all your degrees, to tell everyone about all your achievements and possessions, about all things that are not germane to any discussion of public policy on Ghanaweb.
  
  So tell us, Mr. Self-Made Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, how did you get to use your "Sibling-Heritage" connection to "earn" a seat at the Kwame Nkrumah School of Theatre/ School of Performing Arts, The University of Ghana, Legon, in the 1980s?
  
  Do you think you were the most qualified, or the most needy?

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

  You see how you have been too busy digging for dirt about me, capsuled in your assumption that your shallow moniker serves your concealment well? No matter how hard you dig, you will not have anything on me because there is s ...
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  You see how you have been too busy digging for dirt about me, capsuled in your assumption that your shallow moniker serves your concealment well? No matter how hard you dig, you will not have anything on me because there is simply nothing I have done in this world that I am ashamed of.
  
  And you, a congenital coward, jealous Nkrumaist and a weed addict, you think that your identity is hidden in the Marianna Trench? How so convenient in a cowardly way?
  
  As for your allegation of "sibling heritage", it takes a true Nkrumaist like you to discount my academic competence which all insightful people will easily acknowledge. And it takes exceptional stupidity like your kind to believe that I did not qualify on my own to enter an institution like the School of Performing Arts where I was the best student in Playwriting. Like Nkrumah, all Nkrumaist need government largese to move on in life; so they think people can never make it on their own.
  
  
  What about the fact that I entered the English Department of the University of Cape Coast all by myself, became Hall President at Casely Hayford Hall, and made the top grades both at the undergrad and graduate levels all by myself? What about the fact that I entered Law School here in the USA all by myself, studied on my own and passed the Bar the first time all by myself while others like your Nkrumah made excuses for failing miserably? Think about the shameful Nkrumaist excuse that Kwame Nkrumah was too busy organizing students and therefore failed his law school exam because he was sacrificing his life for others! How so obstreperously preposterous.
  
  And don't my credentials impress you, a failed scholar incapable of expressing yourself in coherent or grammatical English? A person without a face and without a name hiding in some gutter somewhere and making so much noise?
  
  Of course, I like to tell everyone that I am self-made because I am a self-made man, unlike you Nkrumah and NDC types relying on government welfare to make your names and money. I have sworn never to take a penny from the government of Ghana. All I will do is to send chunks of money to Ghana until the day I die. What about you?
  
  My father died when I was sixteen, and my mother died in 1986 when I was in second year Drama School. And without any help from anywhere, I did it all by myself, and I am very proud of my own self achievements and will forever tell my story my own way and in my own time if only to inspire others. What about you? What have you done with your miserable life? Talk about it if you can......
  
  Ekaa kwaterekwa nko a anka y'egoro Asafo daa.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  You've written a lot and must be getting agitated with so many more insults, and neglected to say exactly how "Sibling-Heritage" got you over at Legon, before you became the "best", at anything.
  
  YOUR: "... Think about the ...
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  You've written a lot and must be getting agitated with so many more insults, and neglected to say exactly how "Sibling-Heritage" got you over at Legon, before you became the "best", at anything.
  
  YOUR: "... Think about the shameful Nkrumaist excuse that Kwame Nkrumah was too busy organizing students and therefore failed his law school exam because he was sacrificing his life for others! How so obstreperously preposterous.
  
  OUR COMMENT: The "obstreperous" and "preposterous" know one, when they think they see one.
  
  Yes, Mr. Self-Made Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, at least you sat in, and profited, from one institution to another, in good health and in bad health, facilities "Kwame Nkrumah (who) was too busy organizing students" built and commissioned.
  
  We must thank Nkrumah on your behalf!

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

  Faceless coward!!
  
  Did Nkrumah build those schools with his own money?
  
  My father was a cocoa farmer who was paid below par so that Nkrumah could build my schools with the taxes he took from him.
  
  
  Nkrumah was a failur ...
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  Faceless coward!!
  
  Did Nkrumah build those schools with his own money?
  
  My father was a cocoa farmer who was paid below par so that Nkrumah could build my schools with the taxes he took from him.
  
  
  Nkrumah was a failure before he was shipped to Ghana on Danquah's largesse. He, like the rest of you lot, never learned how to make it on his own without free money from his friends and the good people of Ghana.
  
  Nkrumah did not help anyone under the sun with any money she made at any time. And his followers can never be better than him. We Danquists are self-made and will remain so forever. You Nkrumaists are social welfare case and will remain so forever. That is what y'all mean when you speak of Ghana centeredness, which simply means depending on Ghana for your survival. You are also fixated on Nkrumah's achievements. We are fixated on our own self achievements, and will never be silenced by you hopeless lot.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  We won that argument about the moniker years ago!
  
  So, why bother, still?
  
  Yes, Nkrumah may have been a failure!
  
  Yet, Nkrumah had vision and "paid below par so that Nkrumah could build (your) schools with the taxes ...
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  We won that argument about the moniker years ago!
  
  So, why bother, still?
  
  Yes, Nkrumah may have been a failure!
  
  Yet, Nkrumah had vision and "paid below par so that Nkrumah could build (your) schools with the taxes he took from (your father)!
  
  Imagine, it was not just your father, even!
  
  Which goes to prove our point, again: Nothing is Free, including "Vision", and taking care of the needs of a "Community", among them schools, roads, hospitals, and such!
  
  All that, you the lawyer should now see, undercuts "Self-Madeness"!

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• Kwadwo 10 years ago

  You hide behind s moniker to spew garbage on this forum yet you think is alright to dig into the academic background of SAS in a vain attempt to vilify him. If your nose is that clean, reveal who you are.

  You hide behind s moniker to spew garbage on this forum yet you think is alright to dig into the academic background of SAS in a vain attempt to vilify him. If your nose is that clean, reveal who you are.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  I find it rather presumptuous on your part to say that to say that "I will lead my country, ..."
  May be or may be not.
  
  I just hope that Ghanaians use their gumption to elect candidates who are patriotic to the bone, ha ...
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  I find it rather presumptuous on your part to say that to say that "I will lead my country, ..."
  May be or may be not.
  
  I just hope that Ghanaians use their gumption to elect candidates who are patriotic to the bone, hardworking, democratic, corrupt-free, thinking beings who are future oriented.

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