Harruna Attah writes: Matters arising on 'Ethnocentricity'

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BERNARD 9 years ago

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PIGMYALITIC DWARF 9 years ago

WHEN YOU AKUFO-ADDO WAS ASKED ON RADIO INTERVIEW ABOUT THE TRIBAL PHILOSOPHY AND COMMENTS OF YOUR SO-CALLED FELLOW AKYEM, CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND AND PROSPECTIVE CHIEF OF STAFF - YAW OSAFO MARFO - WHICH WAS RECORDED ON TAPE - THA ...
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WHEN YOU AKUFO-ADDO WAS ASKED ON RADIO INTERVIEW ABOUT THE TRIBAL PHILOSOPHY AND COMMENTS OF YOUR SO-CALLED FELLOW AKYEM, CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND AND PROSPECTIVE CHIEF OF STAFF - YAW OSAFO MARFO - WHICH WAS RECORDED ON TAPE - THAT IT IS ONLY AKANS FROM THE 5 AKAN REGIONS OF GHANA THAT DESERVE TO GOVERN GHANA, YOU THIS DWARF SAID ON THE RADIO INTERVIEW THAT OSAFO MARFO ACCURATELY CAPTURED AND WAS TALKING ABOUT THE REALITY ON THE GROUND.

YOU DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE SENSIBILITIES OF MILLIONS OF GHANA'S ETHNIC MINORITY WHO ONLY KNOW GHANA AS THEIR COUNTRY, YOU CARED ONLY ABOUT THE APPROVAL OF YOUR FELLOW AKYEM MAN AND FAMILY FRIEND AND YOUR ETHNOCENTRIC NPP PEOPLE.

A WHOLE FORMER FINANCE MINISTER WHO DOESN'T KNOW THAT THE SERVICES COMPONENT OF GDP (MOSTLY FROM THE COSMOPOLITAN GREATER-ACCRA REGION) CONTRIBUTES MORE THAN 50% OF ANNUAL NATIONAL ECONOMIC OUTPUT. A WHOLE FINANCE MINISTER WHO DOESN'T KNOW THAT GOLD AND COCOA CONTRIBUTE LESS THAN 10%.

IN ANY CASE IS COCOA NOT GROWN IN PARTS OF THE OTHER REGIONS. DO WE KNOW WHAT IS BENEATH THE GROUND IN OTHER REGIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEING EXPLOITED YET???

IF YOU HAVE SUCH A CLOWN CLOSE TO YOU WHO IS GOING TO BE IN YOUR KITCHEN CABINET, AND REFUSE TO DISASSOCIATE YOURSELF FROM HIS SECRET COMMENTS CAUGHT ON TAPE, ARE YOU NOT A TRIBALIST????

IN OSAFO MARFO'S HOMETOWN, SHOULD ANY ILLITERATE PERSON (OR FUCKING UGLY-LOOKING DWARFISH PERSON WITH KAAKAMOTOBI FACE, BIG MOUTH THAT CANT CLOSE AND EYES LIKE FROG) WHOSE FAMILY HOUSE IS CLOSER TO THE GOLD MINE (IF ANY AT ALL EXISTS) THAN OSAFO MARFO'S HOUSE ARGUE THAT HE DESERVES TO BE FINANCE MINISTER OR CHIEF OF STAFF AT THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE BEFORE HIM OSAFO MARFO????????

IN TERMS OF TRIBALISM, THE AKYEM FACTION OF THE NPP LED BY YOU NANA ADDO MAKES THE NPP ASHANTI FACTION LED BY KUFUOR LOOK LIKE SCHOOLBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Akakpo 9 years ago

Responding to your own nonsense!

Responding to your own nonsense!
adoko . 9 years ago

what will you gain from this ethnic politics. you are married to an Akan woman so you are disgracing your own children for your small post.

what will you gain from this ethnic politics. you are married to an Akan woman so you are disgracing your own children for your small post.
Dee Vinity 9 years ago

What has exposing Nana Addo's hidden agenda and hypocrisy got to do with who Haruna Atta is married to and how does that disgrace his children? Are you suggesting that because his wife is Ashanti, he should not speak the trut ...
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What has exposing Nana Addo's hidden agenda and hypocrisy got to do with who Haruna Atta is married to and how does that disgrace his children? Are you suggesting that because his wife is Ashanti, he should not speak the truth when the circumstance demands it? Or are you suggesting that speaking the truth and exposing hypocrisy will somehow be a bad example for his kids to follow? Are you also somehow suggesting that all Ashantis are misfits who enjoy unscrupulous behaviour and support any form of dubious enterprise and because Haruna is married to one, he must, by logic, get with the program and endorse duplicity?
Your comments totally give you away as a proper idiot, the likes of whom Haruna's statements directly expose. To attempt to berate the man in one breath as pandering to ethnocentricism and then in the same breath utter a quintessentially ethnocentric admonition quite frankly exposes you as the worst specimen of Haruna's revelations. It also paints you as a man of no principle who is more interested in promoting questionable convention rather than lasting principle.
Okra 9 years ago

According to Haruna Atta, Nana Addo said "the NPP is not ready to cede to the party's Akan leadership"

My question is simple, assuming he said that, did Nana Addo tell you he shared that position or he was merely reve ...
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According to Haruna Atta, Nana Addo said "the NPP is not ready to cede to the party's Akan leadership"

My question is simple, assuming he said that, did Nana Addo tell you he shared that position or he was merely revealing an observation he has made? Can we have a full length of the conversation you had so that we can put it into context? It is possible that Nana Addo was rather lamenting about it rather than holding it as his shared view. You have benefited as an ambassador and your work is at risk and we can't trust you to be honest. I will rather trust the man who has chosen a northener as his running mate...... If that Northerner will end up as leader it will depend on him and the party..... It has nothing to do with Nana Addo. In any case it is not about being motherner but being a good candidate. Aliu Mahama was no threat to Nana Addo which makes it doubtful that Nana Addo will call you Haruna to tell you such stuff.
Philip 9 years ago

@Okra: You seem to ask a smart question, but an even smarter question would be ''why is Nana Addo not answering that' You say you cannot believe Haruna because has an interest in this. How about the person accused? Would he n ...
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@Okra: You seem to ask a smart question, but an even smarter question would be ''why is Nana Addo not answering that' You say you cannot believe Haruna because has an interest in this. How about the person accused? Would he not avail himself of the cornucopia of media opportunity to clear the air and so whether he was just expressing worry at a phenomenon or he was expressing a personal conviction??
Dee Vinity 9 years ago

OKRA, another typical NPP character. You people never make sense and yet you have the need to rub everyone's face in your abject ignorance. What exactly are you trying to justify here with all this completely balderdash of an ...
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OKRA, another typical NPP character. You people never make sense and yet you have the need to rub everyone's face in your abject ignorance. What exactly are you trying to justify here with all this completely balderdash of an argument when Nana has in his recent utterances proven without a shadow of doubt everything Haruna, myself and every other informed and honest Ghanaian already knows and takes for granted. I am tempted to believe that you do not live in Ghana or have not followed our recent history. You guys are such geniuses at intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy.
odawstream 9 years ago

HARUNA, Many of the Accra Mail, including myself, thought that you cared about ethics and morality. The way you told the truth to your brother-in-law JJ Rawlings impressed us and we thought you were a man of integrity.

But ...
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HARUNA, Many of the Accra Mail, including myself, thought that you cared about ethics and morality. The way you told the truth to your brother-in-law JJ Rawlings impressed us and we thought you were a man of integrity.

But in one second of complete madness, you have destroyed your reputation.

First even if, and it is a big if, NANA Addo had made such a comment to you, he might have done so in the spirit of discussing political realities with a trusted political "brother". Disclosing it in order to attract some of Mahama's election
largesse shows you to be indeed a political prostitute.

That aside, you did not show the context in which the statement was made. A stark naked statement without context is just that -- stark mad. I can give you several instances in which such a statement could be made and actually constitute sound advice: suppose you were going to waste your time and money supporting someone who. at least in the speaker's view, stood no chance of winning? When you supported Kufuor to win, did you not get collateral benefits? Someone says that you travelled with Kufuor everywhere he went. And you got per diem. Maybe you wanted more and didn't get it. (Though your offspring are supposed to have benefited enormously from your political associations).

My friend, there is something called discretion. You have thrown yours to the wind and you will reap the whirlwind. Sad that you have forgotten so many things!! AND ALL FOR THIS MAN WHO CALLS HIMSELF A DEAD GOAT! Ao, Haruna! What are your brainy children going to say?
Many of us
Dee Vinity 9 years ago

@odawstream. Your arguments were fashioned only to draw a self-serving conclusion. They are one-sided and completely ignore the possibility (and a fair counter-argument in its favour) that Nana ADDO indeed made those dangerou ...
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@odawstream. Your arguments were fashioned only to draw a self-serving conclusion. They are one-sided and completely ignore the possibility (and a fair counter-argument in its favour) that Nana ADDO indeed made those dangerous statements. They also attempt to justify a reprehensible thought pattern that has oft been repeated by the man you seek to defend and those who claim to be his supporters. I am not surprised by your attempt to discredit Haruna and I have said elsewhere on this platform that I do not like Haruna at all. But you have once again proven the theory true that if it is not in their interest or if it does not innure to their benefit, anything contrary about the NPP, even if it is the truth, is contemptuously waved out of hand and the architect of such a venture is virulently cut to size. That quite clearly is referred to as INTOLERANCE and it cannot live in a civilized society, especially not in a so-called democracy, whether national or partisan.

ettoh 9 years ago

DeeVinity,
What's it you're saying? That political colleagues cannot debate issues rationally, including the ethnocentric influence on politics?You must be a behemoth. Take a look at the way the elections of the US were deci ...
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DeeVinity,
What's it you're saying? That political colleagues cannot debate issues rationally, including the ethnocentric influence on politics?You must be a behemoth. Take a look at the way the elections of the US were decided. There are southern states that will never vote for a democrat. Just because they are not called Asante or Hausa states, does it mean they are not showing preferences for candidates?

I would also ask you this: if Mahama were a Ga, would Haruna Atta be saying this? You guys use the ethnic card to help each other but you are such hypocrites that you accuse others of using it, not realising that not everyone is like you.
Kwame 9 years ago

Akans hate tribe A, Akans hate tribe B, Akans hate non Akans. Good , let's have a referendum and decide how we want to move forwards after all this Ghana is a British creation. No need to fight. We can chose freely who we wan ...
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Akans hate tribe A, Akans hate tribe B, Akans hate non Akans. Good , let's have a referendum and decide how we want to move forwards after all this Ghana is a British creation. No need to fight. We can chose freely who we want to share nationhood with just like BriExit.
Isaac 9 years ago

God bless u Kwame. Tell this anti-Akan people for me. Akans will b far better off if they are independent of these good for nothing anti-Akan people

God bless u Kwame. Tell this anti-Akan people for me. Akans will b far better off if they are independent of these good for nothing anti-Akan people
Philip 9 years ago

@Kwame ''Akans hate tribe A, Akans hate tribe B, Akans hate non Akans. Good , let's have a referendum and decide how we want to move forwards after all this Ghana is a British creation. No need to fight. We can chose freely w ...
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@Kwame ''Akans hate tribe A, Akans hate tribe B, Akans hate non Akans. Good , let's have a referendum and decide how we want to move forwards after all this Ghana is a British creation. No need to fight. We can chose freely who we want to share nationhood with just like BriExit''.
Unfortunately, it will not happen, but I sincerely wish it would and your silly empty pride would be deflated wwithin ten years!!
Cashman 9 years ago

I think, the problems, as far as ethnocity is concerned in mother Ghana, is not a matter of Akans. I am a hundred percent Akans,but I hate to see and hear some of the ethnocentric remarks by my fellow Akans. The real culprit ...
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I think, the problems, as far as ethnocity is concerned in mother Ghana, is not a matter of Akans. I am a hundred percent Akans,but I hate to see and hear some of the ethnocentric remarks by my fellow Akans. The real culprit of this insanity are just using the general term Akans, to execute their dirty and tribalistic agenda against other tribes. The problem is with two main Akan tribes. They are the Asahtis and the Akyems who think they have complete monopoly on mother Ghana. As a matter of fact, they do it to other Akan tribes as well. It is intersting to know that they are doing same thing here all over europe. So, it,s not a matter of Akans. They are only using the general term, Akans for their wicked Agenda.I,m proud to be an Akan from a decent ethnic Akan background. It,s about time they mention their main towns and villages when they are saying such things. They are disgracing the whole of the Akan tribes. Enough of this insanity. Akufo Addo himself is the worse as well as Osafo Marfo. Why didn,t they mentioned their dirty villages instead of saying Akan? Becasue they want to draw decent Akans into their dirty agenda. Enough of this inanity.
Koo Nimo 9 years ago

One more to add on to Kwesi Pratt

One more to add on to Kwesi Pratt
Kwame 9 years ago

The British decided they wanted no part of the Europeans. They voted to peacefully exit. It does not make them enemies of Europe. They will continue to trade and live peacefully with the rest of Europe. Good lesson here. No n ...
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The British decided they wanted no part of the Europeans. They voted to peacefully exit. It does not make them enemies of Europe. They will continue to trade and live peacefully with the rest of Europe. Good lesson here. No need to waste precious energies and resources fighting.
AWUDU NELSON 9 years ago

You're a shameless character who is not fit to live among people with conscience! So soon Nana Akufo Add is your number one enemy simply because he has the nerve to contest a thief John Mahama for the presidency?

You're a shameless character who is not fit to live among people with conscience! So soon Nana Akufo Add is your number one enemy simply because he has the nerve to contest a thief John Mahama for the presidency?
Elena Thompson 9 years ago

A dangerous poisonous ABUDU hater

A dangerous poisonous ABUDU hater
Okatakyie. 9 years ago

Pray to the God you serve to grant you the strength to resist temptation of convenience and the wisdom of proportion.

A current statement of ethnicity by a sitting President does not carry the same weight as one by an oppo ...
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Pray to the God you serve to grant you the strength to resist temptation of convenience and the wisdom of proportion.

A current statement of ethnicity by a sitting President does not carry the same weight as one by an opposition leader some years back.

Philip 9 years ago

@Okatakyie: Jut read your own comment again and see if it even begins to make sense to you. Did you say 'an opposition leader some years ago' is he still not the opposition leader? What has changed since then , anyway? any et ...
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@Okatakyie: Jut read your own comment again and see if it even begins to make sense to you. Did you say 'an opposition leader some years ago' is he still not the opposition leader? What has changed since then , anyway? any ethnocentric staement seeking to exclude, debase, denigrate and ostracise anybody is barbaric, no matter whose mouth or pen it comes from, period. Any attempt to excuse is equally barbaric!!
Isaac 9 years ago

Haruna, U need your job as an ambassador. That's why u r doing all this.
If NDC loses u will b like the millions of unemployed Ghanaians looking for work everyday on our streets.
U know very well that your newspaper was not ...
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Haruna, U need your job as an ambassador. That's why u r doing all this.
If NDC loses u will b like the millions of unemployed Ghanaians looking for work everyday on our streets.
U know very well that your newspaper was not patronised by Ghanaians.
U r not a Fanteman as u want people to believe.
Philip 9 years ago

Haruna Atta, way to go!! Talk of decorum!
This is proper breeding.

Haruna Atta, way to go!! Talk of decorum!
This is proper breeding.
Yaw 9 years ago

Alhaji, do not be perturbed. That is how some people want to carry politics. Please, make sure mike oquaye jr. finds out mike oquaye snr, how the latter left ghana. That will be interesting. I do not know, but I figure it wil ...
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Alhaji, do not be perturbed. That is how some people want to carry politics. Please, make sure mike oquaye jr. finds out mike oquaye snr, how the latter left ghana. That will be interesting. I do not know, but I figure it will be interesting.

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