The battle lines are drawn for Election 2016

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GORGORDUTOR 10 years ago

Bokor, can't you idiot see how you are defaming and deforming (we) Ewes with your tribal and partisan primitive attacks?

Bokor, can't you idiot see how you are defaming and deforming (we) Ewes with your tribal and partisan primitive attacks?
GORGORDUTOR 10 years ago

MinorCase, MATEMEHBob, emiDutor, NLCshabi, what a pity CASTRATED POLITICAL FOOLS!! Can't argue, can't think, can't show your face!!! Lie Steal fabricate oh sure!!! I am waiting on your suicidal moves following the danquist de ...
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MinorCase, MATEMEHBob, emiDutor, NLCshabi, what a pity CASTRATED POLITICAL FOOLS!! Can't argue, can't think, can't show your face!!! Lie Steal fabricate oh sure!!! I am waiting on your suicidal moves following the danquist defeat by the NDC!!! Original kwesibroni slaves defeat by Johnny come lately dupes!!
KWEKU MFANTSE 10 years ago

Bokor, it is very clear to me and all discerning forumers that you are heavily biased in favour of Mahama/NDC and against Akuffo Addo/NPP. Rawlings and Nana Konadu have also said that a new voters' register is a must even bef ...
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Bokor, it is very clear to me and all discerning forumers that you are heavily biased in favour of Mahama/NDC and against Akuffo Addo/NPP. Rawlings and Nana Konadu have also said that a new voters' register is a must even before Kuffour also chipped in but you covered up the Rawlingses' pronouncement and only castigated Kuffour. I have lost every respect for you and whatever Ph.D. you profess to be holding. You are too biased.
Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor 10 years ago

I do not hold you captive as far as your personal quests are concerned. You are free to read any kind of meaning into my opinion pieces. After all, as I keep saying, meaning is made by the reader, not the writer of texts. If ...
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I do not hold you captive as far as your personal quests are concerned. You are free to read any kind of meaning into my opinion pieces. After all, as I keep saying, meaning is made by the reader, not the writer of texts. If you are a good reader, you should know how to critically read texts and form your opinions thereby. You won't allow the writer to impose his/her opinions on you as the fait accompli.

From your comments, I can infer that you are a young, undeveloped reader. Do a lot more.

And, indeed, as a writer, I am a writer in politics. And every writer in politics has a stance. Once you know that fact, you won't lose sleep; but you will do so if you fail to read comprehensively.

Let me refresh your memory (whatever is left of it). I have said it more than necessary times that I am no lover of anything Danquah-Busia. Forget about the afterthought on "Dombo". What do you expect me to do or say, then, especially if I am writing to condemn what I see as a negative move being made by that political tradition (TRASH)?

For your information, I didn't buy my Ph.D. I fought for it. I have my certificate (diploma) in hand and can produce it anywhere at anytime unlike your Akufo-Addo who couldn't and can't still produce his so-called law qualifying certificate.

In line with the late Steve Biko's philosophy/principle, I write what I like. Take it or leave it; Okay?
KWEKU AYIGBE 10 years ago

Bokor, you are talking a total nonsense, the writer must make sense in what he wants his readers to know.

You can not write any rubbish an expect for instance only your Ewe or NDC folk to understand. That is Silly!!!

Bokor, you are talking a total nonsense, the writer must make sense in what he wants his readers to know.

You can not write any rubbish an expect for instance only your Ewe or NDC folk to understand. That is Silly!!!
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Hey Mr. Gargantuanstupor or what the f that name is , I do not use other people's names okay ? After all I can write what ever I want. Why should I use such cursed and filthy name ?

Hey Mr. Gargantuanstupor or what the f that name is , I do not use other people's names okay ? After all I can write what ever I want. Why should I use such cursed and filthy name ?
Kojo T 10 years ago

Who do you think you are, using an Ewe name to write such stuipd comment?

Who do you think you are, using an Ewe name to write such stuipd comment?
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Gorgordutor, don't hide behind an Ewe name to write your silly comments. Dr. J.K. Bokor is a real Ewe, if you care to know.

Gorgordutor, don't hide behind an Ewe name to write your silly comments. Dr. J.K. Bokor is a real Ewe, if you care to know.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Listen, C.Y. ANDY-K, GORGORDUTOR, just like J.K. Bokor or any other person can and he is free to express his views, regardless his ethnicity, so where is your problem.

Listen, C.Y. ANDY-K, GORGORDUTOR, just like J.K. Bokor or any other person can and he is free to express his views, regardless his ethnicity, so where is your problem.
Ken Ntiamoa 10 years ago

Why are you and NDC so afraid of a new Voters' Register? After all, you say that a new register does not guarantee an Akufo-Addo victory. So, what's your problem?

Ken

Why are you and NDC so afraid of a new Voters' Register? After all, you say that a new register does not guarantee an Akufo-Addo victory. So, what's your problem?

Ken

francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Once an Ewe always a primitive folk!

Once an Ewe always a primitive folk!
Frank 10 years ago

Once an armpit smelling primitive and animal shit eating idiot Kwarteng, always the same uncircumcised fool. GBE Mela. Curse on you mother fucker son of as asshole

Once an armpit smelling primitive and animal shit eating idiot Kwarteng, always the same uncircumcised fool. GBE Mela. Curse on you mother fucker son of as asshole
Richie Agambire 10 years ago

Aboafunu! is it the first time you are seeing this!

Aboafunu! is it the first time you are seeing this!
Kofi 10 years ago

You are bloody idiot. How many people are in the volta by statistics. You are guys close your eyee s to facts when it comes to NDC affairs.

You are bloody idiot. How many people are in the volta by statistics. You are guys close your eyee s to facts when it comes to NDC affairs.
oheneba adjei 10 years ago

This is another FOOL.Even Mahama is not being insulted for all the senseless things he has been doing and saying.Dont be silly and write readable articles next time not this senseless thing.

This is another FOOL.Even Mahama is not being insulted for all the senseless things he has been doing and saying.Dont be silly and write readable articles next time not this senseless thing.
DUTOR 10 years ago

It is only an old retard wench like Bokor that will write such a stupid article.

It is only an old retard wench like Bokor that will write such a stupid article.
Odoi 10 years ago

Seeing is believing

Seeing is believing
klinker 10 years ago

The pink sheets were unable to solve the problem so may be a new electoral roll may do. My free advice for Alhaji Dr Pink Sheet is that they should start training their illiterate polling agents now and not macho men who will ...
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The pink sheets were unable to solve the problem so may be a new electoral roll may do. My free advice for Alhaji Dr Pink Sheet is that they should start training their illiterate polling agents now and not macho men who will be stealing ballot boxes. A word to the wise is enough.
klinker 10 years ago

The pink sheets were unable to solve the problem so may be a new electoral roll may do. My free advice for Alhaji Dr Pink Sheet is that they should start training their illiterate polling agents now and not macho men who will ...
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The pink sheets were unable to solve the problem so may be a new electoral roll may do. My free advice for Alhaji Dr Pink Sheet is that they should start training their illiterate polling agents now and not macho men who will be stealing ballot boxes. A word to the wise is enough.
Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor 10 years ago

Folks, all of you responding to my opinion piece in diverse ways seem not to grasp the import of my concerns.

The voters register is not a problem to waste energy and resources on. The real problem for Ghana's democracy is ...
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Folks, all of you responding to my opinion piece in diverse ways seem not to grasp the import of my concerns.

The voters register is not a problem to waste energy and resources on. The real problem for Ghana's democracy is the impatience, intolerance, and anachronistic "rogue" politics being done by those who consider themselves as the bona fide power brokers but can't win the voters' trust to be elected into office. They are all over the place, led on the leash by Akufo-Addo and his NPP cabal.

A democracy that is dominated by characters of this sort who expend energy causing needless trouble than contributing concrete input to improve the situation won't endure. That is why the NPP people are quick to talk about VIOLENCE if things go against them. The will of the people is what matters.

At election time, can't vigilance solve the problems of impersonation or anything that the NPP people are killing themselves for without making any headway? If the so-called millions of unqualified voters show up at the polls, why can't they be exposed and dealt with?

I think that John Ndebugri's challenge to the LMVCA anf Akufo and his NPP cabal says it all. If they think they have any genuine matter against the current voters register, they should go to court and fight it there.

Even in answering their useless petition at the outcome of Election 2012, the Supreme Court had nothing to say against the current voters register. So, what are these NPP self-righteous, empty braggarts talking about?

Causing public disaffection for the EC won't put them in power. They had better devise better strategies to reach out to the electorate. Otherwise, they will suffer humiliation at Election 2016. Then, when they go out of their way to misbehave, the full force of state power will be brought down heavily on them. We are waiting!!

HolyGhost 10 years ago

Spot on Dr Bokor you've said it all, you're very enlighten person and continue with your intelligent writing, and don't give a damn about those bush people who try to insult you. We all know that Npp folks are calling for new ...
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Spot on Dr Bokor you've said it all, you're very enlighten person and continue with your intelligent writing, and don't give a damn about those bush people who try to insult you. We all know that Npp folks are calling for new register in other to bloat it with forge names and register minors as they did in Kufour's time all over in Kumasi.
T Tony 10 years ago

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN!!!!
I am Tony Eshun, I ve been following yur
concerns n In my humble opinion the issue of
this our voter register is an issue we the
citizens of Ghana shd be one accord n fight for
bt I can't reall ...
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN!!!!
I am Tony Eshun, I ve been following yur
concerns n In my humble opinion the issue of
this our voter register is an issue we the
citizens of Ghana shd be one accord n fight for
bt I can't really understand the reasons why all
d prominent PEOPLE in Ghana ve. kept quite
.As we are all witnesses in our various
societies, after when there is a NEW KING,this
new king sometimes invite all land owners for
to review their ownership moving forward!!! so
I don't quite get it!!! I don't know why this
woman can't do same to even save the
problems that the previous chairman left her
with.????I am HUMBLY !!HUMBLY!! appealing
to the leadership of this movement to leave no
stone on turn with this issue, we should
explore all avenues, we shd petition all those
who talk n preach about peace! peace!!! only
when ever we are going for election :the
AGLOW Women movement, christian council of
Gh,the traditional council, l mean everyone
who matter in our democratic development.
we don't want any situation whereby things will
ride its ugly heads before they come n
bombard us with all there peace! peace!! talks
whiles they saw it coming but kept mute!!!!!!
Labira was once referred to as "Sweet labira"
bt wat do we c. today????
Truth Be Told 10 years ago

I am a Voltarian and can see that the NDC has been taking 90% or more of our votes and going ahead, each time to take us for granted. What has NDC done for the Volta Region? Poor, man-hole filled roads all over the Reg capita ...
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I am a Voltarian and can see that the NDC has been taking 90% or more of our votes and going ahead, each time to take us for granted. What has NDC done for the Volta Region? Poor, man-hole filled roads all over the Reg capital, Ho is our lot. As for Ho-Tokor (on the Aflao-Accra man road) and Ho-Hohoe road are stark reminders that NDc does not have our interest at all. No factories to provide jobs for our youth who drink pito daily to assuage their hurt. ND has imposed hardships, yet when we stand up we say NDC. Fuck NDC, fuck all those still singing NDC. We should teach NDC a bitter lesson, come 2016. All those politicians in Volta supporting NDC are thieves and self seekers. The Reg NDC Executives are all thieves. Find out how they got money to build mansions and filling stations along the border so fuel can be smuggled into Togo. Fuck NDC!!!!
Richie Agambire 10 years ago

Useless PHD. When are you going to publish in a peer-reviewed journal.

Useless PHD. When are you going to publish in a peer-reviewed journal.
Richie Agambire 10 years ago

You are not serious! Even the statement that you are the first African employed to teach English in some Long island University underscores your half-baked education. There are Africans teaching Englishes in better known univ ...
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You are not serious! Even the statement that you are the first African employed to teach English in some Long island University underscores your half-baked education. There are Africans teaching Englishes in better known universities around the world. You can google my name and compare my publications with yours and you would take my advice. In fact, from my considered opinion, anyone who would invite to give a talk or contribute an article based on what you write on Ghanaweb must be nuts! You earned Associate Professor for doing what in that backyard university? How many books do you have? Book reviews! My foot! Publish in top-notch journals and stop boasting. At your age and bloating self, you must have a body of scholarship, not shallow essays, uninformed by theoretical perspectives on Ghanaweb! Thank God, Ghanaweb publishes any trash!
JoEY L0nDoN 10 years ago

What are your achievements? If you are not pleased with his piece then the simplest thing to do is to write a rejoinder.

What are your achievements? If you are not pleased with his piece then the simplest thing to do is to write a rejoinder.
Bernard 10 years ago

Dr. Bokor, I find it amazing that as of today, the EC or other State institutions have not bothered to investigate the 76000 Togolese on the Ghana voters register as alleged by NPP and it's surrogates. And NDC, is equally gu ...
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Dr. Bokor, I find it amazing that as of today, the EC or other State institutions have not bothered to investigate the 76000 Togolese on the Ghana voters register as alleged by NPP and it's surrogates. And NDC, is equally guilty for allowing this propaganda to continue without calling on the EC to conduct an investigation and put bed the lies by NPP and being seized upon by our ignorant folks. Instead the impression is being created as though the NPP'S case was true.
Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor 10 years ago

The EC is the repository of everything that has to do with Ghana's electoral system.

What the NPP's Dr. Bawumia led that team to work on and to make so much noise about has generated a lot of public concern. I have derided ...
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The EC is the repository of everything that has to do with Ghana's electoral system.

What the NPP's Dr. Bawumia led that team to work on and to make so much noise about has generated a lot of public concern. I have derided it as useless and a desperate attempt to find fault where there is none. Did the NPP people know of the 76,000 or the millions that they are now tarnishing as unqualified voters at the time they were fighting their useless petition at the Supreme Court? If they didn't, then, what does it say about them?

Again, how could the NPP expose such "fallacies" without the EC's being aware of them since the EC was and still is the authority on the voters register. Is the NPP telling us that it has a more credible list/register of voters than what the EC provided for Election 2012?

Indeed, I would have been very much excited to hear from the Togolese authorities on their voters register that the NPP used for their kind of comparative analysis.

Again, here is a more pertinent aspect. How come that it was only the NPP that could have access to both registers of Ghana and Togo? If the NPP felt it had a genuine case, why didn't it give the EC a copy of the Togolese regiwster that featured in its analysis?

Remember that the EC had asked all the political parties to submit reports/proposals to help it move ahead in cleaning the electoral roll. Even before the NPP could submit its proposal/report, it had gone the extra mile to create the impression that the EC was complicit in electoral malpractices on the basis of a bloated register.

There are many intricate issues involved here that need a sober reflection to comprehend and address. But for as long as the NPP people have taken a resolute stand not to listen to reason from other quarters, nothing productive and beneficial to Ghana's demiocracy will emerge. Let them hit their heads against the brickwall.

After all, what can anybody do if there is no money to compile a new voters register? Kufuor's stupid suggestiopn that the government should borrow money for it is damnable.

In effect, then, my friend, this whole noise about the voters register is vain.

Can these NPP people not do things to win the hearts of the people instead of focusing on useless technicalities? I don't blame them because they are not politicians. They are politically motivated confidence tricksters to be ditched!!
Dr. Otto 10 years ago

Bokor, you can be the first Ewe/Anloga to enter the space, you are still a STUPID FOOL!
Bokor, you are tribal, partisan, selfish, primitive, HYPOCRITE, and BRAGGART.

LOOK AT YOU IDIOT BOKOR, TRYING TO CONVINCE READE ...
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Bokor, you can be the first Ewe/Anloga to enter the space, you are still a STUPID FOOL!
Bokor, you are tribal, partisan, selfish, primitive, HYPOCRITE, and BRAGGART.

LOOK AT YOU IDIOT BOKOR, TRYING TO CONVINCE READERS
==> "To set things right for you, let me tell you that I am the first Ghanaian (in fact, the first African) to have been employed to teach English at the Long Island university in Brooklyn, New York (where I am based) since the establishment of the university in 1926. Isn't that an achievement to be proud of? And I am still there!!!"
Mensah Ativor 10 years ago

Dr. Bokor, instead of trying to change others with your tribal and partisan primitism try to change yourself it will help you.

Dr. Bokor, instead of trying to change others with your tribal and partisan primitism try to change yourself it will help you.

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