Dear Anas: Is Ghana Worth Fighting For?

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• Patriot 10 years ago

  I couldn't believe it - especially the fact that you wrote a whole article on a former first lady's menstrual blood. Do you have a family and do they know about you? I'm surprised Akuffo Addo himself hasn't paid you to shut u ...
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  I couldn't believe it - especially the fact that you wrote a whole article on a former first lady's menstrual blood. Do you have a family and do they know about you? I'm surprised Akuffo Addo himself hasn't paid you to shut up. He has lost a lot because of you. I hope you get well soon.

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• Esi 10 years ago

  Mr. Ahoofe, I believe you are getting better with age. This is one of your better written articles, although I admit I stopped reading your pieces a while ago.
  
  This is a good question you have raised, except the second to ...
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  Mr. Ahoofe, I believe you are getting better with age. This is one of your better written articles, although I admit I stopped reading your pieces a while ago.
  
  This is a good question you have raised, except the second to last paragraph that seems rather anachronistic to the piece itself. That said, I believe Ghana is worth fighting for, and the burden shouldn't lie on Anas alone.

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• Bob 10 years ago

  1. How do you know it was "commercial grade" cocaine?
  
  2. How was Joe Appiah a brother-in-law of the present queen? How can the woman he married having some royal blood automatically make Joe Appiah a "brother in law" of t ...
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  1. How do you know it was "commercial grade" cocaine?
  
  2. How was Joe Appiah a brother-in-law of the present queen? How can the woman he married having some royal blood automatically make Joe Appiah a "brother in law" of the present monarch?
  
  3. "despondently hoarse tone of voice". Were you there to note that J. B. Danquah's tone was despondent as he said those words?

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• LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

  For Dr Okoampa-Ahoofe to claim that Joe Appiah's "sister-in-law" is Queen Elizabeth II is a blatant lie! Though Joe Appiah married Enid Margaret(Peggy)Cripps, whose parents were Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exch ...
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  For Dr Okoampa-Ahoofe to claim that Joe Appiah's "sister-in-law" is Queen Elizabeth II is a blatant lie! Though Joe Appiah married Enid Margaret(Peggy)Cripps, whose parents were Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Clement Attlee's Labour government and Lady Isobel Cripps, the Cripps Family have NO lineage to the British Royal Family. The Cripps Family could be in the Aristocratic circles but are NOT members of the Royal Family.
  
  Stop such embarrassing fawning and blatant lies, Dr Okoampa-Ahoofe!

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• KWAKU ANANSE 10 years ago

  President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will soon publish the names of those who looted Nigeria’s coffers.
  
  Buhari made the disclosure today, December 11, 2015, during the 15th session o ...
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  President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will soon publish the names of those who looted Nigeria’s coffers.
  
  Buhari made the disclosure today, December 11, 2015, during the 15th session of the Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation lecture at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, The Cable reports.
  
  “As I stated recently, a good number of people who abused their positions are voluntarily returning the illicit funds,” the president said.
  
  “I have heard it said that we should disclose the names of the people, and the amount returned. Yes, in due course, the Central Bank of Nigeria will make information available to the public on the surrendered funds, but I must remark that it is yet early days, and any disclosure now may jeopardize the possibility of bigger recoveries.
  
  “But we owe Nigerians adequate information, and it shall come in due course. It is part of the collective effort to change our land from the bastion of corruption it currently is, to a place of probity and transparency.
  
  Quite frankly, the anti-corruption war is not strictly about me as a person, it is about building a country where our children, and the forthcoming generations, can live in peace and prosperity.
  
  “When you see dilapidated infrastructure round the country, it is often the consequence of corruption. Poor healthcare, collapsed education, lack of public utilities, decayed social services, are all products of corruption, as those entrusted with public resources put them in their private pockets.
  
  That must stop, if we want a new Nigeria.
  
  “And that was why I said at another forum that people need not fear me, but they must fear the consequences of their actions.
  
  “Corrupt acts will always be punished, and there will be no friend, no foe. We will strive to do what is fair and just at all times, but people who refuse to embrace probity should have every cause to fear,” he added.
  
  Buhari had revealed, during an interactive session with members of the Nigerian community in the Islamic Republic of Iran on November 24, that some looters had started returning money stolen by them but that his government would not stop until it had recovered every single cent.

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• OFOSUAA 10 years ago

  WAKE UP NDC STRONGHOLDS, UR NDC GOVT IS RIPPING U OFF BIG TIME...Ndc voters and leadership think support for a political party simply means DO-ME-I-DO-YOU...But this is sheer stupidity of the highest level bcos its Ghana that ...
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  WAKE UP NDC STRONGHOLDS, UR NDC GOVT IS RIPPING U OFF BIG TIME...Ndc voters and leadership think support for a political party simply means DO-ME-I-DO-YOU...But this is sheer stupidity of the highest level bcos its Ghana that ends up the loser and our kids who even end up the worst losers bcos we are totally destroying their future.......after failing to prove alleged npp malfeasance since ndc assumed power, all ndc has been doing is to use these allegation as basis to embark on serious thievery upon thievery with cronies and family members duping the state and destroying our economy the present state where one dollar which used to be 1.12 ghc in 2008 is now miserably one dollar to 4.0 ghc.....and all this while ndc has managed to throw dust into people’s eyes by claiming the ghc is weak bcos of imports exceeding exports.....such a preposterous reason, very very very preposterous indeed.......and the situation is worsened by their voters in the north and volta who are so so so poor and yet so so so gullible who continue to trust in ndc despite clear cases of thievery and plundering of state resource thro avenues like SADA SUBAH, GYEEDA AZUNTABA, RLG-NDC-ZOOMLION-COLLUSION to destroy our economy just to line their pockets with the stolen cash and live good abroad with their families.....it will only take a people with very evil minds to dole out over one billion dollars in dubious jdgt detbs to friends and cronies in order to share the loot EVEN THO THE VERY STRONGHOLDS OF NDC CONTINUE TO BE SO EXCRUCIATINGLY POOR ..........SO POOR THAT THEY ENGAGE IN VIRTUAL SLAVERY RIGHT HERE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AS KAYAYES AND TROKOSIS and we are shown daily videos of their kids lying on their tummies in poor dilapidated schools to learn and write simply bcos of lack of furniture........ndc govt overspent state budget by 8.7 bn ghc in 2012 just for mahama to win elections, and this was the last straw which broke the camel’s back as our ghc declined and has kept on declining ever since then...........bloated contract budgets and sole contracts awards have now become a channel to pay out outrageous amounts to cronies just for ndc to later share the loot...........huge monies dubiously paid to rlg, zoomlion, for no work done etc are yet to be retrieved without interest despite the continued destruction and weakening of our economy......DESPITE ALL THESE, WE STILL HAVE NDC PROUDLY PREDICTING A ONE TOUCH WIN FOR NDC in the 2016 elections...........and their gullible miserable strongholds are seen daily endorsing this criminal gang of thieves who didn’t even have an office till they came to power in 2008 and built a 20 million dollars mansion for a headoffice after duping the state big time thro fake jdgt debts........THE SUFFERING CONTINUES TILL GHANA HAS LEARNT ITS BITTER LESSONS THAT SUPPORTING POLITICAL PARTIES ISNT LIKE SUPPORTING HEARTS OR KOTOKO OR OLYMPICS WHETHER THEY WIN OR LOSE......we support parties to build a nation and ensure security and improve living standards for us all BUT NOT TO COME AND STEAL AND STEAL AND STEAL LIKE NDC IS DOING NOW....NOW DUMSOR IS OUR PORTION BCOS OF NDC THIEVERY..........ide biiiiii kekekekekekekeeeee........

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• OFOSUAA 10 years ago

  INDEED THE NORTH AND VOLTA WORSHIP NDC THIEVERY FOR SOME STRANGE REASONS...Ndc voters and leadership think support for a political party simply means DO-ME-I-DO-YOU...But this is sheer stupidity of the highest level bcos its ...
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  INDEED THE NORTH AND VOLTA WORSHIP NDC THIEVERY FOR SOME STRANGE REASONS...Ndc voters and leadership think support for a political party simply means DO-ME-I-DO-YOU...But this is sheer stupidity of the highest level bcos its Ghana that ends up the loser and our kids who even end up the worst losers bcos we are totally destroying their future.......after failing to prove alleged npp malfeasance since ndc assumed power, all ndc has been doing is to use these allegation as basis to embark on serious thievery upon thievery with cronies and family members duping the state and destroying our economy the present state where one dollar which used to be 1.12 ghc in 2008 is now miserably one dollar to 4.0 ghc.....and all this while ndc has managed to throw dust into people’s eyes by claiming the ghc is weak bcos of imports exceeding exports.....such a preposterous reason, very very very preposterous indeed.......and the situation is worsened by their voters in the north and volta who are so so so poor and yet so so so gullible who continue to trust in ndc despite clear cases of thievery and plundering of state resource thro avenues like SADA SUBAH, GYEEDA AZUNTABA, RLG-NDC-ZOOMLION-COLLUSION to destroy our economy just to line their pockets with the stolen cash and live good abroad with their families.....it will only take a people with very evil minds to dole out over one billion dollars in dubious jdgt detbs to friends and cronies in order to share the loot EVEN THO THE VERY STRONGHOLDS OF NDC CONTINUE TO BE SO EXCRUCIATINGLY POOR ..........SO POOR THAT THEY ENGAGE IN VIRTUAL SLAVERY RIGHT HERE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AS KAYAYES AND TROKOSIS and we are shown daily videos of their kids lying on their tummies in poor dilapidated schools to learn and write simply bcos of lack of furniture........ndc govt overspent state budget by 8.7 bn ghc in 2012 just for mahama to win elections, and this was the last straw which broke the camel’s back as our ghc declined and has kept on declining ever since then...........bloated contract budgets and sole contracts awards have now become a channel to pay out outrageous amounts to cronies just for ndc to later share the loot...........huge monies dubiously paid to rlg, zoomlion, for no work done etc are yet to be retrieved without interest despite the continued destruction and weakening of our economy......DESPITE ALL THESE, WE STILL HAVE NDC PROUDLY PREDICTING A ONE TOUCH WIN FOR NDC in the 2016 elections...........and their gullible miserable strongholds are seen daily endorsing this criminal gang of thieves who didn’t even have an office till they came to power in 2008 and built a 20 million dollars mansion for a headoffice after duping the state big time thro fake jdgt debts........THE SUFFERING CONTINUES TILL GHANA HAS LEARNT ITS BITTER LESSONS THAT SUPPORTING POLITICAL PARTIES ISNT LIKE SUPPORTING HEARTS OR KOTOKO OR OLYMPICS WHETHER THEY WIN OR LOSE......we support parties to build a nation and ensure security and improve living standards for us all BUT NOT TO COME AND STEAL AND STEAL AND STEAL LIKE NDC IS DOING NOW....NOW DUMSOR IS OUR PORTION BCOS OF NDC THIEVERY..........ide biiiiii kekekekekekekeeeee........

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• Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

  Am I missing something in this child's play and self serving piece of yours? Why is the NPP led by your favorite kinfolk Akufo-Addo with the worthless Otchere-Darko masquerading as a lawyer going after its own members and lea ...
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  Am I missing something in this child's play and self serving piece of yours? Why is the NPP led by your favorite kinfolk Akufo-Addo with the worthless Otchere-Darko masquerading as a lawyer going after its own members and leadership if you think what Kwame Nkrumah did was not within boundary? For the life of me I cannot understand if those of you with hatred for Nkrumah are living fuller lives or being slowly ate alive from within? There is not a single thing done by or in the name of Kwame Nkrumah that does not prevail or not practiced in the best nations of the world and in sick nations like Ghana. NPP is purging it's ranks via witchhunt, killing people in worst possible ways and yet Nkrumah is the bad guy huh? The world's greatest democracies and western nations are using the worst forms of Kwame Nkrumah era PDA tactics to hold without trace people all over the world to keep safe moronic migrants within their midst from Ghana and yet from those very comforts Okoampa-Ahoofe and other clowns hypocriticaly question the wisdom of Nkrumah's use of PDA.
  
  Anas does what he does because he has within him the rarest of human qualities that people of the tribal NPP and NDC kind will never get. How could you fathom Okoampa-Ahoofe since your whole life revolves around what you can get without meaningful input if there's a need for sacrifices? Sitting outside Ghana and throwing stones at people in Ghana is a cowards way of feeling relevant; you can be a man on your own two feet or unworthy of holding Anas Amereyaw Anas's jock straps.

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• Kofi 10 years ago

  If Anas is independent journalist then Governments can chnage but he and his team would stay

  If Anas is independent journalist then Governments can chnage but he and his team would stay

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• Kofi 10 years ago

  With the WOYOME, HUMADO , BETTY MOULD, and more more we need to dig in deeper and deeper for the whole truth.

  With the WOYOME, HUMADO , BETTY MOULD, and more more we need to dig in deeper and deeper for the whole truth.

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• Hazor 10 years ago

  Professor Ahoofe,How much did the corrupt judges and and president Mahama and his NDC criminals paid you to choose this unpatriotic headline for a patriotic journalist who sees injustice perpetuate again individual by judges ...
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  Professor Ahoofe,How much did the corrupt judges and and president Mahama and his NDC criminals paid you to choose this unpatriotic headline for a patriotic journalist who sees injustice perpetuate again individual by judges who receive bribe to avert justice and the innocent thrown into jail or prison for the crime they did not commit,Professor Ahoofe,are you a supporter of endorse corruption?What Anas is doing is exposing corruption that has eating into the DNA of the President,his ministers,DCs,judges,the police and what have you.Professor Ahoofe yes Ghana is worth fighting for why president Mahama is destroying the country and stealing every money that comes to his hands.Can you imagine Cape Coast stadium and Kotokuraba market still not completed and every year it still feature in budget.what did Ghana do against President Mahama and his NDC to deserve hopelessness nation.Professor Ahoofe kindly show maturity to apologize to Anas for you unpatriotic headline to discredit and frustrate him.Anas want everybody to knows that he is a human and not a god.

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• Pee 10 years ago

  Nobody can stop worthless Okoampa from embellishing his "Bogus Aristocratic" crap in the Republic of Ghana on Ghanaweb. Kwame, stop embarrassing serious and reputable Ph.D holders like Kwame Appiah by writing fictional tales ...
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  Nobody can stop worthless Okoampa from embellishing his "Bogus Aristocratic" crap in the Republic of Ghana on Ghanaweb. Kwame, stop embarrassing serious and reputable Ph.D holders like Kwame Appiah by writing fictional tales about their Genealogical background. Neither Sir Stafford Cripps nor Peggy"s mum were related to Queen Elizabeth 11.

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