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Jerry Rawlings' $89,000,000 Ananse Web of Nothingness!

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  • Yahaya Abugri 8 years ago

    Mr Prof, don't target Rawlings in this. Accra Problem, is right from the colonial regime to the present. Have you ever travelled abroad and see how cities are designed? Compare how the colonial regime designed our cities to t ...
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  • NTRA SAKYI 8 years ago

    It's not targeting Rawlings. Rawlings had 19 years at the helm of affairs of the country. During his time were there floodings in Accra? Was something done about it? Was it adequate? Why do we still have it? The white ma ...
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  • AKRANTIE-BINI-EATER 8 years ago

    19 Years of JJ and so what? Were your FUCKING tutu "2-LAILA" Mothers and Sisters in Nigeria not dumped on him? JJ has to take them back into Ghana and re-integrate them. Was JJ the one who sent them there to Nigeria? Did you ...
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  • Military Man 8 years ago

    Do you really understand the topic being discussed here or you are just too dumb to grasp the essentials?

    The guy ruled for a total of 19 years for fuck's sake !!!!

    19 years of plundering the nation's coffers by RAWLING ...
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  • AKRANTIE-BINI-EATER 8 years ago

    19 years and so what? Do you know what was happening i Ghana at the time?
    Fuck off you, Were you and your sisters and mothers not fucking around in Nigeria at the time? Why dont you also make COUP and rule 19 years? Talk i ...
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  • TROKOSI INCESTUOUS CHILD MOLESTER 8 years ago

    Man Fathers 9 Kids With Daughter, Pleads For Forgiveness







    Agbofa Yao Hateka, the 47-year-old fetish priest who fathered nine kids with daughter has pleaded with a Sogakope circuit court to forgive him his sins ...
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  • TROKOSI INCESTUOUS CHILD MOLESTER 8 years ago

    General News of Wednesday, 30 March 2011
    Man Arrested For Having Sex With 7 sheep
    29, GNA -

    A 36-year-old carpenter was on Tuesday sentenced to 36 months imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for carn ...
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  • EEK-A-MOUSE (RAT) 8 years ago

    Hahaha so you are a Military Man? Why dont you make a coup and rule for 19 years? Then we can compare. Hahaha.. What is stopping you Military Man? Hahaha

  • Military Man 8 years ago

    Most importantly, I'm NOT an attention-seeking addict or a fake revolutionary who would use a coup d' tat to gain prominence and feed my twisted ego?

    Is that good enough answer for you or you still think all military men ...
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  • EEK-A-MOUSE (RAT) 8 years ago

    Excuses Excuses Hahahaha

  • AKRANTIE-BINI-EATER 8 years ago

    Nobody says make a coup and steal. Make a coup and lets see how better YOU can develop Ghana in 19 years.

  • TROKOSI INCESTUOUS CHILD MOLESTER 8 years ago

    TROKOSIS IN SHEEP FUCKING RAMPAGE

    General News of Wednesday, 30 March 2011
    Man Arrested For Having Sex With 7 sheep
    29, GNA -

    A 36-year-old carpenter was on Tuesday sentenced to 36 months imprisonment in hard lab ...
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  • LAWYER 8 years ago

    You are implying Rawlings is a thief.
    Which propert of yours has he stolen? If you really are serious and know for a fact that he has stolen, why did you not sue him? Kufour ruled Ghana for 8 LONG years, why did they not jai ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    LAWYER,
    Your response to Military Man's comment has no bearing on what Military Man said.

    One does not have to be a "THIEF" to be "UNACCOUNTABLE", especially when one parades around on the high horse of "ACCOUNTABILITY". ...
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  • Military Man 8 years ago

    19 years as compared to 8 years.

    Who would have had more time to steal the most?

    I'm not a great fan of Kufuor either but just be real and tell me who put Ghana on this rough ride of massive stealing and corruption, not ...
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  • Kojo, San Antonio, TX 8 years ago

    Military Man, I am with you 100% and totally agree with the writer. Unfortunately, we have lots and lots of fools who don't have brains to reason nor appreciate simple logic behind the article.

    Whether the flood preexiste ...
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  • TROKOSI INCESTUOUS CHILD MOLESTER 8 years ago

    Idiot son of an incestuous relationship between a father and daughter, you piece of trash, your filthy people were in Agege with your stinky selves stealing cats.

  • AKRANTIE-BINI-EATER 8 years ago

    1)
    A misunderstanding between two brothers over cat meat has resulted in one of them being in critical condition at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). For causing unlawful harm to his brother, Eric Fobih, 28, a mason ...
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  • TROKOSI INCESTUOUS CHILD MOLESTER 8 years ago

    Your first story has no meaning. Fobuh is not an Asante name so the what is your point?

    The second story is a lie because it was a cobcoction by Ayigbe daughter fuckers for equalization because there is no town near Tepa c ...
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  • TROKOSI INCESTUOUS CHILD MOLESTER 8 years ago

    TROKOSIS ON INCESTUOUS RAMPAGE









    Man Fathers 9 Kids With Daughter, Pleads For Forgiveness







    Agbofa Yao Hateka, the 47-year-old fetish priest who fathered nine kids with daughter has pleaded wit ...
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  • LARYEAH 8 years ago

    YOU ARE A FOOL AND LACK WISDOM, SHUT THE HELL UP AND LET REAL GHANAIANS TALK. RAWLINGS IS PART OF THE REASON WHY WE ARE SUFFERING TODAY. RAWLINGS IS IGNORANT AND BRUTE. HE BROUGHT CORRUPTION AND LAWLESSNESS INTO THE NATION WI ...
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  • MAWULI 8 years ago

    Not entirely true. Accra was designed to look like LONDON-by the British. The model of Accra at the time may be still be at Survey Dept near 37 Station. It is the Governments that came after the British that messed up. They ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    MAWULI,
    Your pithy comment says a lot, actually!

    Given the "model of Accra at this time", imagine what Accra would be like if Kwame Nkrumah had not had the foresight to develop Tema, and Akosombo Dam. You know, all those ...
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  • Aku 8 years ago

    Mawuli

  • SARPONG 8 years ago

    Nonsense, now that we are getting the history of Rawlings corruption, you fools who worship the kleptomaniac hypocrite want us not to talk about Mr Accountability corruption.

    Not only did he take the $71 million loan for a ...
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  • EEK-A-MOUSE (RAT) 8 years ago

    Hahahah. Asantehene got 30 millions for educational fund. Where is the money?
    He is even wanted in Canada for chopping people's money and running away.Hahhaha

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    EEK-A-MOUSE (RAT),

    You sound off your riddim with your attempt to change the subject. To be clear, you are straining from our "Wa Do Dem" riddim!

    ITEM: This essay is about Mr. Jerry "Accountability" Rawlings. It is not ...
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  • LARYEAH 8 years ago

    FOOL! NO ASHANTI WORSHIP ASANTEHENE AS YOU WORSHIP RAWLINGS AND THAT IS THE DIFFERENT.

  • SARPONG 8 years ago

    Idiot, what has Asantehene 30 million educational fund got to do with it? Why don't you send your trokosi chief to world bank to access a grant and see if they will even give him a pen to write as a courtesy.

    If Canada wan ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    READ: "... now that we are getting the history of Rawlings corruption...//...South Korea government gave Ghana a grant of $37 million to construct culverts in Accra in 1997..."

    WE SAY: Another revelation!

    We all must h ...
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  • Klinker 8 years ago

    Prof. Wat did u say at that time. Even npp's 8years wat did they do? Please let us leave the politics and think as a people about How to solve this perenial problem. Name calling cannot solve this problem.

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Klinker,
    Not so fast!

    This is not "Name calling" in any objective book.

    But, if we must be real, the person actually doing the "name calling" on a grandiose scale is Mr. Jerry "Accountability" Rawlings, himself.

    Fur ...
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  • funny 8 years ago

    Lungu are u sure ur hands are clean? ur mother ok.

  • JKA 8 years ago

    we should leave the politics? someone takes huge sums of money for a project and never accounted for it, now citizens are dying needlessly, someone ask the question about it and it is politics! No wonder Mahama has mismanaged ...
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  • kutsii 8 years ago

    Professor Lungu Lungu ! Continue playing ur Ludo. "Six me ludo" . Fool.

  • Solja 8 years ago

    the best comment so far. kudos.

  • koffi kokodoko 8 years ago

    My dear,just say that you don,t like the man.Because you are an NPP member,instead of wasting our time.

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    koffi kokodoko,
    You are a conjecturer!

    Be real!

    Measure Mr. Jerry "Accountability" Rawlings words with his record, and paper trail, aside from the emotions and loud "boombastics".

    A man must play fair, most of the t ...
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  • Abra Kuma 8 years ago

    Professor Lung,

    You have embarked on a gargantuan task here because for you to demonstrate your complete Ghana-centeredness,unbiased research skills, and your desire to inform the nation about effective/ineffective regime ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Abra Kuma,
    You must know that the Jerry Rawlings case is a special one. Hence our interest.

    1. He is alive
    2. He has the Indemnity Clause enshrined in the Constitution
    3. He owns assets previously the property of Ghan ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    SOURCE/DETAILS ABOUT $71,000,000 LOAN:

    www.ghanahero.com/Visions/Nkrumah_Legacy_Project/documents/rulers/Ghana_Borrows_71_million.pdf

    1996 - The World Bank Loan

    "...The Project consists of the following parts, subjec ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago

    Assuming what Prof. Lungu has incontrovertible evidence, it becomes incumbent for the World Bank to acknowledge this 1996 loan that P/NDC administration received for the sole purpose of solving Accra's perennial flooding.

    ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    MARCUS AMPADU,
    Thanks for your comment.

    If you still want to articulate to these discussions, we suggest you visit our website, www.GhanaHero.com now, and often.

    For instance, we've posted the entire 1996 World Bank P ...
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  • Ato capso Manchester 8 years ago

    R u wiser than ghanaians when that money was taken n diverted or misappropriated. R u one of Kwaku baako who chased Rawlings even to Swiss with taxpayer's money which resulted in empty ghost hunting. Please leave rawlings o ...
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  • SARPONG 8 years ago

    P/NDC was no more in power. Ndc under Rawlings leadership was in power in 1996. Why should world bank be complicit for a loan they gave to Ghana?

    You live in USA, if you show good credit and a bank approve a loan for you, ...
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  • hot head 8 years ago

    You're just another fool. Your analysis depicts your very low IQ. Give us a break foolish evil bastard. Idiotic, barbaric moron. Ghanaians in general are responsible for this calamity. Dumping garbage in the gutters and what ...
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  • mahama 8 years ago

    he did better the so call president frm 2000

  • Quami 8 years ago

    Think like a professor, even my 10 year old son thinks you're talking thrash.

  • Dan 8 years ago

    Apuu, a website u created to propagate your lies and u call it a source

  • Hard Listerners 8 years ago

    71 million dollars in 1996 is worth over 300 million dollars in today since dollar was about 60 pesewas back then and now over 4 cedis. do the calculations well.

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Hard Listerners,
    Nice try!

    You've neglected the "time value" of money!

    Interest!

    Inflation!

  • jj rawlings 8 years ago

    Oh Jerry Rawlings you did not know nothing about government.You stage a coup just please the populice about accountability.????.Now after 20 years in Power ghana has nothing to show for.You are a disgrace and to all human eti ...
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  • Nii Nmai,Dallas,TX,U.S.A. 8 years ago

    One thing old ladies don't like is the mentioning of bones.
    A lot of people that were shouting probity and accountability now get scared when same is mentioned. What do they do ? They attack.
    They have erased those words ...
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