Editorial: Charlotte, validate and be free

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• ABOLO KPAKU 9 years ago

  The EC have made it clear that it cannot be pushed so why the brouhaha all the time. Lets leave them to do their work. In other words "any fool can go to court"

  The EC have made it clear that it cannot be pushed so why the brouhaha all the time. Lets leave them to do their work. In other words "any fool can go to court"

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• insight to the bone 9 years ago

  The country has been mismanaged for so long that the only way to rest affairs and put things in the right direction is unfortunately through war . Our gold and all natural resources are of no benefit to the people despite ove ...
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  The country has been mismanaged for so long that the only way to rest affairs and put things in the right direction is unfortunately through war . Our gold and all natural resources are of no benefit to the people despite over 30 billion dollars every year of these exports . Our people live in poverty and have the standard of a nation in the 17th century rather than enjoying the standards and benefits of the 21st century . I need not quote Socrates or Aristotle, Confucius or Roosevelt but today i will mention Stalin .Stalin said the core of all governance or politics is the personnel politics , today we see a govt packed with alajih Muslims , northerners and ayigbe Ewes whose only agenda is to destroy the economy , discriminate against the majority Akans and ensure exploitation , slavery and poverty so in the ignorance the people retain their system of governance. Yes there only 2 ways to determine the legitimacy of any government of system of governance and that is one through the ballot box or by war . America and all the nations of the west were not born or did not gain their freedom and right to justice through the ballot box but by war so its time to prepare our great nation the Akans . We do not need 99% approval but less than 1% of those who are aware to begin this effort and thanks be to God in my travels around i see our people are ready. We rejected despite all the trickery colonial rule now is the time to boot out this pepeni/ayigbe pestilence and no more weep by the rivers of Ewe/Northern?Muslim Babylon. The divine duty of every nation set by God is to seek freedom from any oppressor or unjust system and we shall never surrender to these criminals , its our turn to say let their blood flow. Now they rush to sell off for a pittance the ECG and any thing else that will burden us with debt or deny us the capability of self reliance through managing our own wealth claiming these are the rules , the bullshit will never end. The personnel politics is important even in economics as the only way to secure loyalty and good intent is if the majority themselves own their own natural resources . These NDC idiots and their sleepers in the NPP have a perverse way of interpreting good economic principles and turning them into yokes so heavy the people are broken into poverty . Imagine Putin of Russia privatizing the oil and gold of his country and it being owned by non Russians , foreigners from Europe China or America . Imagine Britain , Norway or USA allowing their industry , natural resources or oil be owned by non citizens ? We are surprised we have fake exploiting investors who never bring their profits back but rather buttress their economies in their own countries with our money and wealth . Yes its time to end all these , find true thinkers and patriots who will truly love our people and put them first . Yes only war will remove this oligarchy who think the way forward is to keep our people in poverty. We challenge all sound minded people to review and reflect upon all political decisions of the last few decades and observe how they find ways of perversely undermining otherwise correct macroeconomic principles and rules into nightmares of worry and trouble for future generations. They sell our golden goose to foreigners and applaud each other in their stupidity of how they were able to sell out the interests of the ignorant people. Yes war will make them know the price of betrayal and selling out the nation's interest . Not a single decision has any common sense or is motivated by the true desire to serve the interests of the people . Today we see small boys driving around in expensive cars because they are pepeni /ayigbe hegemony tribalism saturated . Time to end all of this nonsense and this is the year , forget elections and prepare for war as they will only attempt again to rig the vote and will never be encouraged to go away peacefully . When oppression , discrimination ,stealing and corruption becomes the norm rebellion and war become the duty.

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• Atanga Abanga 9 years ago

  "By demanding of every voter, whether they used NHIS cards or not, to come out to their polling stations with an acceptable ID to be validated during the exhibition exercise, the EC knows it would effectively kill four notori ...
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  "By demanding of every voter, whether they used NHIS cards or not, to come out to their polling stations with an acceptable ID to be validated during the exhibition exercise, the EC knows it would effectively kill four notorious birds with one stone: (1) foreigners (2) dead people (3) minors and (4) emigrants, since in order to register to vote you must "ordinarily reside" in the electoral area you are registering".
  
  And eligible voters whose jobs and other important assignments make it impossible for them to be present in Ghana during the exhibition period will have their names deleted from the register. And "Statesman" will be the first entity to provide those affected people with lawyers to sue the EC. And there will be chaos all over the place ... Is that the agenda? Just thinking aloud.

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• Prince Awuah David 9 years ago

  There are some fools in Ghana who would fight you for speaking the truth by ignorance including even some educated ones. This is the main cause of poverty in most African nations including Ghana. My brother or Sister, it is s ...
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  There are some fools in Ghana who would fight you for speaking the truth by ignorance including even some educated ones. This is the main cause of poverty in most African nations including Ghana. My brother or Sister, it is sad and only prayer can solve the problem because the devil rules the world by ILLUMINATI with communist New World Order agenda and the use of covert energy weapons; Mind Control weapons, electroencephalogram, Remote Neural Monitoring, Voice-to-skull weapons, laser weapons and many more that kills, destroy or damage brains.
  
  The fools will fight you when try to speak for them until they see the consequence like the flood in Accra

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• Fo Koku - Tanyibge 9 years ago

  WAS THERE A REASON TO WRITE THIS USELESS ARTICLE, IF YOU KNOW THE WAY TO COURT. THE EC CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE PUSHED ARROUND BY GABBY, NPP AND ITS SURROGATES. AFTER ALL "ANY IDIOT CAN GO TO COURT", YOU TOO GO SOME GABBY LEAVE ...
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  WAS THERE A REASON TO WRITE THIS USELESS ARTICLE, IF YOU KNOW THE WAY TO COURT. THE EC CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE PUSHED ARROUND BY GABBY, NPP AND ITS SURROGATES. AFTER ALL "ANY IDIOT CAN GO TO COURT", YOU TOO GO SOME GABBY LEAVE GHANA IN PEACE. ELECTIONS ARE WON AT THE POLLING STATIONS. NOT ON RADIO OR IN PRINT MEDIA

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• OKOE 9 years ago

  THERE ARE GHANAIANS BESIDE MRS OSEI IF I AM RIGHT. DO ALL THESE PEOPLE HANGING ON TO THIS LADY'S NAME ALL THE TIME GIVE US PROOF THAT SHE HAS BEEN TAKING UNILATERAL DECISIONS ALL THIS TIME. WHAT I HEARD OF DURING ELECTION DAY ...
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  THERE ARE GHANAIANS BESIDE MRS OSEI IF I AM RIGHT. DO ALL THESE PEOPLE HANGING ON TO THIS LADY'S NAME ALL THE TIME GIVE US PROOF THAT SHE HAS BEEN TAKING UNILATERAL DECISIONS ALL THIS TIME. WHAT I HEARD OF DURING ELECTION DAY IS THAT THERE WILL BE POLING AGENTS FROM ALL THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND OF COURSE FOREIGN OBSERVERS. HOW IS THAT ONE PARTY CAN HAVE THE MEANS OF CHEATING AND THE OTHER PATIES WILL HAVE NO MEANS OF KNOWING IT. I ONLY KNOW HOW TO VOTE ELSEWHERE BUT NOT IN GHANA AND WONDER HOW DO PARTIES IN GHANA CAN CHEAT WITHOUT THE OTHER PARTIES KNOWING NOTHING ABOUT IT. IT TAKES A THIEF TO KNOW A THIEF. LET THERE BE PEACE AND LET THE EC DO ITS JOB. ALL OF YOU OUT THERE COMPLAINING ALL THE TIME WANT TO TELL US THE COMMISSIONERS ARE STUPID AND YOU THE TALKING HEADS KNOW BETTER?

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• ASEMPA 9 years ago

  iTS ONLY IN GHANA THAT SUPREME COURT,S ORDERS CAN BE PUSHED ASIDE WITH EASE, IN MY OPINION THIS ELECTION WILL NEVER COME ON AS SCHEDULED ON NOVEMBER 7 AND IF THE EC ATTEMT TO THIS CAN END UP IN CAOS, THE SAME SUPREME COURT WH ...
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  iTS ONLY IN GHANA THAT SUPREME COURT,S ORDERS CAN BE PUSHED ASIDE WITH EASE, IN MY OPINION THIS ELECTION WILL NEVER COME ON AS SCHEDULED ON NOVEMBER 7 AND IF THE EC ATTEMT TO THIS CAN END UP IN CAOS, THE SAME SUPREME COURT WHO ORDERED THE MAHAMAH TO BE SWORN IN, IT IS ORDERING EC TO CLEAN THE REGISTER BEFORE ELECTION.

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• Kwobia (Toronto) 9 years ago

  The EC must always remain neutral.The stakeholders of the EC are all Ghanains.This Editorial seeks to arm twist the EC in support of
  the NPP.This party alone does not Ghana make.

  The EC must always remain neutral.The stakeholders of the EC are all Ghanains.This Editorial seeks to arm twist the EC in support of
  the NPP.This party alone does not Ghana make.

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• Charles Agbenu 9 years ago

  EC chairperson, Harlot Osei is just a piece of decoration. Useless. She will soon realise, she's done one of the greatest disservice to Ghanas destiny. it's a grave folly. I think she's the most confused person around.
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  EC chairperson, Harlot Osei is just a piece of decoration. Useless. She will soon realise, she's done one of the greatest disservice to Ghanas destiny. it's a grave folly. I think she's the most confused person around.
  EC has disregarded new voters register. With all the controversy in 2012, its a wonder how Ghana should go into 2016 with the same baggage of confusions . Is Ghana so docile and a laughing stock ? Ghana has no real outrage.? Ghana hoodwinked by EC nothingness? The whole idea does not make sense to me... going into 2016 with virtually no correction in the Voters Register. Ghana deserves better. The decimated Ghana has bowed to the forces of evil of NDC and the Harlot called Osei. .

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• BOY KOFI 9 years ago

  Mr Abu Ramadan filed a petition at the Supreme Court for validation but the apex court rejeted it outright.The Supreme Court dismissed Abu Ramadan's demand for validation,that's the end of the story.I don't know why Statesman ...
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  Mr Abu Ramadan filed a petition at the Supreme Court for validation but the apex court rejeted it outright.The Supreme Court dismissed Abu Ramadan's demand for validation,that's the end of the story.I don't know why Statesman is still struggling to understand that there will be no validation,period.Thank you.

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• Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

  There are just two problems with the editorial board writeup of this pro-NPP paper:
  1. If the editorial board members do believe in the wisdom and pronouncements of Ghana's Supreme Court Justices, where we're they when the ...
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  There are just two problems with the editorial board writeup of this pro-NPP paper:
  1. If the editorial board members do believe in the wisdom and pronouncements of Ghana's Supreme Court Justices, where we're they when the NPP railed against the 2012 election verdict from the same Supreme Court that held Ghana hostage for over 8 months?
  2 Is there a single Identification card and processes anyone can point to in Ghana, UK, USA, or anywhere that is tamper proof or beyond reproach?
  
  
  Anyone in Ghana with money can acquire Ghanaian citizenship, Ghanaian passport, Ghanaian driver's license, Ghanaian national ID and many others so the Supreme Court order is not only a hollow pronouncement but unwise and needing a review. The rights of citizens to vote must trump the wishes of a Supreme Court, NPP and the closet NPP social groups and organizations that cannot certify our passports, driving licence, national ID and other forms of identification that are shown as valid for voter identification.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

  Abeeku Mensah, I agree with you that no national or international Identification Document (passport, driving licence, ID card, etc) is 100% secured. However, the Supreme Court was right to rule the NHIS cards unconstitutional ...
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  Abeeku Mensah, I agree with you that no national or international Identification Document (passport, driving licence, ID card, etc) is 100% secured. However, the Supreme Court was right to rule the NHIS cards unconstitutional as proof of Ghanaian citizenship or nationality. This is because anyone who resides in Ghana for six months or more irrespective of his citizenship or nationality can legitimately apply for and obtain one. That is different from a foreigner paying bribes or using misleading information to obtain a Ghanaian passport.That is crime and illegal whilst a foreigner obtaining NHIS card is legal.
  
  The other reason why I believe the SC order (for those who used the NHIS cards to be removed from the register) is right is because the order did not disenfranchise any citizen since there is provision for them to register through the existing CI.
  
  What is shocking about the the Daily Statesman is the apparent suggestion that the EC should ignore the SC order and instead use validation as means of weeding out those who used NHIS cards to register. That is very interesting. How will validation comply with the SC order to delete the names of those who used NHIS card to register and re-register under existing law?
  
  It is also disingenuous for the paper to claim that the EC said the reason why Ghana has a higher percentage voter registration is because the challenge process in Ghana is less effective. That is absolutely false. The EC did not say so. Rather, the EC explained that Ghana has a higher percentage voter registration because the voter ID card serves as a national ID used and accepted by all institutions, including banks and that is why Ghanaians of all ages register to acquire it. The Daily Statesman should inform and educate but not misinform the public.

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• BOY KOFI 9 years ago

  If NPP and Statesman is not free,I'll tell you that Charlotte is free because Supreme Court didn't order her to validate voters on the register.Is that clear?Thank you.

  If NPP and Statesman is not free,I'll tell you that Charlotte is free because Supreme Court didn't order her to validate voters on the register.Is that clear?Thank you.

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• jahanfor 9 years ago

  I think NDC activist commenting about this article need free,universal n compulsory education to understand more things in election process of Ghana

  I think NDC activist commenting about this article need free,universal n compulsory education to understand more things in election process of Ghana

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• Zak Aboyer 9 years ago

  DOES IT NOT OCCUR TO CHARLOTTE OSEI THAT HER FIRST AND FOREMOST TASK IS TO ENSURE THAT THE NATION GETS A CREDIBLE VOTERS REGISTER. THAT THIS IS THE ONLY PANACEA TO ENSURE A PEACEFUL CHANGE OF GOVERMENT....TACITURN OR MALEVOLE ...
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  DOES IT NOT OCCUR TO CHARLOTTE OSEI THAT HER FIRST AND FOREMOST TASK IS TO ENSURE THAT THE NATION GETS A CREDIBLE VOTERS REGISTER. THAT THIS IS THE ONLY PANACEA TO ENSURE A PEACEFUL CHANGE OF GOVERMENT....TACITURN OR MALEVOLENT. CHARLOTTE OSEI BE CREDIBLE SO TOMORROW CAN THANK YOU. DON'T GO FOR THE SNAKE-OIL!!!

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