Affail Monney and the lawlessness in Ghana

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Esi 8 years ago

I read your robust and excellent piece on accreditation and higher education in Ghana last year. It was very well investigated and thorough, thank you.

As for "Dr" Monney and the GJA...if that isn't life imitating art (i ...
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I read your robust and excellent piece on accreditation and higher education in Ghana last year. It was very well investigated and thorough, thank you.

As for "Dr" Monney and the GJA...if that isn't life imitating art (in this case, evidence), then I don't know what is. Unfortunately your excellent research won't reach the ears that should hear, even if it does, it goes right back out of the other ear. The media - radio stations etc should take up some of these issues and discuss them, but I guess there is no interest because given the opportunity many would want to be called "Dr" without having ever written a dissertation proposal.
YAW 8 years ago

By the way, "Mr." Esi, what makes you think you know better? ...Are you ok!???

By the way, "Mr." Esi, what makes you think you know better? ...Are you ok!???
Esi 8 years ago

Dear Yaw,

Are you surprised women comment on Ghanaweb too or that they have a voice? I really can't believe out of one hundred thousand sperm you were the fastest. You are a poor excuse for a man and a human being. Now sto ...
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Dear Yaw,

Are you surprised women comment on Ghanaweb too or that they have a voice? I really can't believe out of one hundred thousand sperm you were the fastest. You are a poor excuse for a man and a human being. Now stop commenting after everything I write and go get a book to read.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Ooops!

Ooops!
Ben 8 years ago

Wow, that was stern!

Wow, that was stern!
Kweku 8 years ago

What is the difference between Tsikata and Dotse on one hand and those they are accusing on the other hand?

The fact is that ALL OF US in Ghana love big titles too much. It doesn't matter whether the titles are well earned ...
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What is the difference between Tsikata and Dotse on one hand and those they are accusing on the other hand?

The fact is that ALL OF US in Ghana love big titles too much. It doesn't matter whether the titles are well earned or dubiously obtained, we put too much into paper qualifications.

I was enjoying Tsikata's investigations but I am now seeing some kind of hypocrisy in their endeavours. They are telling us that they have earned PhDs in recognized universities in the USA, and some people have been conferred the same by some backyard institutions in Teshie and these latter people dare append the same titles to their names as they (Tsikata and Dotse) also precede their names with.

If Tsikata and Dotse use Dr, why shouldn't other people also use the same? Does it really really matter if those people really wrote a dissertation or not? Why shouldn't SAS also call himself Dr?

Why do Tsikata and Dotse also not refrain from using the title "Dr"? After all, it is not the designation that matters but what you can really produce!

People are free to call themselves whatever they want to. Newspapers are free to call people by whatever designations those people want to be called. Some newspapers never call anybody by their titles. The Economist still uses pseudonymous reporters and hardly calls anybody Dr or Prof. Yet that newsmagazine is one of the most leading in the world. It's just a matter of style.

I can understand if people use fake degrees to get government jobs. Then it is the duty of the appointing body to see that the qualifications are not only genuine but also relevant.

The fault lies in ourselves - all of us including Tsikata and Dotse who think they should call themselves Dr but others should not. If we put more emphasis on people's output rather than the qualifications they carry on their foreheads, Tsikata and Dotse too shouldn't be appearing on ghanaweb calling themselves Dr.
Seth Amable 8 years ago

You are one of the semi illiterates who are leading these country to its doom????????????????. What is so difficult to understand about the issues being raised here? Institutions of higher learning are regulated by accreditat ...
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You are one of the semi illiterates who are leading these country to its doom????????????????. What is so difficult to understand about the issues being raised here? Institutions of higher learning are regulated by accreditation. And you can't understand this simple logic, but your are here pouring your diahrea? God save ???????? Why don't you leave an email or use your real name do I can write to educate you. Some of you need basic certificate from Zuckerbeg and Bill Gate to participate on social mediA. Ghana is drowning in ignorance.
Kweku 8 years ago

You fail to look beyond the intricacies, Amable.

We in Ghana have a problem of putting too much emphasis on paper qualifications. This is the cause of people wanting to have huge but hollow degrees. Tsikata and Dotse do n ...
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You fail to look beyond the intricacies, Amable.

We in Ghana have a problem of putting too much emphasis on paper qualifications. This is the cause of people wanting to have huge but hollow degrees. Tsikata and Dotse do not address this basic problem but are attacking the symptoms.

You, Amable, too cannot see beyond the symptoms to the disease itself. Yet you want to educate someone by by mentioning Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, two glowing examples of achievers who do not have PhDs - the very point I am making about the output being more important than the epithet a person adds to his or her name.

Daily Graphic has the right to call people Dr even if those degrees are offered by backyard universities. It is every newspaper's duty to have a policy on that issue.
Esi 8 years ago

Kweku, that is a very flawed way of looking at the issue presented above. People should be able to call themselves whatever they want? Why don't you call yourself the President of Ghana then?! The fact is, if you haven't earn ...
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Kweku, that is a very flawed way of looking at the issue presented above. People should be able to call themselves whatever they want? Why don't you call yourself the President of Ghana then?! The fact is, if you haven't earned the title, a PhD, you shouldn't call yourself a PhD.

You are accusing the authors of not addressing the basic problem. Why don't you tell us wha the basic problem is then because if you read the first piece the authors wrote, they documented their research systematically. Remember they are academics, they asked a question and sought answers to them. They are not the ones to solve the problem of accreditation, in fact they didn't even have to suggest alternatives to the problem for their paper to be called academically rigorous. That is the job of policy-makers.
Kweku 8 years ago

Yes, I've read all their input on this matter. I was rooting for them all the time.

But now I am beginning to see another angle to it. It is one thing pointing out that people have used fake degrees to acquire government p ...
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Yes, I've read all their input on this matter. I was rooting for them all the time.

But now I am beginning to see another angle to it. It is one thing pointing out that people have used fake degrees to acquire government positions of influence for which they are paid fat salaries and from which positions they try to educate others who are released into society. It is quite another thing crying out all the time that people shouldn't call themselves what they want to call themselves.

Esi, the basic problem in our society, as I pointed out in my first input, is that WE PUT TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON PAPER QUALIFICATIONS!!! We virtually worship people who parade fat degrees on paper. Even people with genuine degrees in Ghana (like Dotse and Tsikata) throw their weight about expecting people to virtually worship them as if the mere possession of the degree is what makes the man!!! That is the reason people are using all manner of methods to acquire all kinds of degrees.

Esi, unless our society accepts that people with PhDs don't necessarily have all the knowledge that we suppose they have in Ghana, this problem will not be solved.

Dotse and Tsikata can concentrate on exposing people occupying government positions by virtue of their fake degrees (like the VCs of UPSA) and leave people who just want to use their honorary degrees (genuine or otherwise) alone. There is no need going after them too.

In the end, if everybody in Ghana is calling himself or herself Dr, we shall begin to realise that the actual products of a person's education are far far more important than the letters they write before and after their names.

I cannot call myself president of Ghana because we have only one president. But if I am mad enough to go about calling myself President of Ghana when I am not, that's my problem...

Esi, don't you see that we give tooooo much respect to people with PhDs in Ghana? Even Mills insisted on his being called President Professor Mills, you cannot call Bawumia without the title of Dr...

Esi, look at it from a conceptual level: Dotse and Tsikata are telling us that they are genuine PhDs who should call themselves Dr, others are not genuine and should not call themselves such. This is a bagatelle!!!

Simon 8 years ago

This Kweku guy lacks common sense. Why continue to engage someone who cannot think well, Esi? It is a pure waste of time to try to educate a fool whose foolishness is a matter of choice-refusing to learn that societies are gu ...
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This Kweku guy lacks common sense. Why continue to engage someone who cannot think well, Esi? It is a pure waste of time to try to educate a fool whose foolishness is a matter of choice-refusing to learn that societies are guided by rules. By his logic, let everyone just go out there and call themselves whatever they choose to call themselves. Ghana paaaaa this?
Dr. Otto 8 years ago

Those 2 Ewes, Prosper Yao Tsikata and his co-equal Ewe bosom friend A. Kobla Dotse, think they can (remote) control Ghana from their residence in the USA.

You see that's how Ewes behave in most cases, they think everythin ...
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Those 2 Ewes, Prosper Yao Tsikata and his co-equal Ewe bosom friend A. Kobla Dotse, think they can (remote) control Ghana from their residence in the USA.

You see that's how Ewes behave in most cases, they think everything should be centered around them and nobody else, and that's exactly what makes Ewes primitive, selfish, greedy, backward, inward and dissentious rogues !!!
Nana Kwame 8 years ago

ARE U OK?

ARE U OK?
Kofi Thompson 8 years ago

Massa Otto, why imprison yourself in a stereotype? There are good and bad individuals in all ethnic groups, are there not? And are we all not supposed to be God's people?

It is precisely such antediluvian thinking that led ...
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Massa Otto, why imprison yourself in a stereotype? There are good and bad individuals in all ethnic groups, are there not? And are we all not supposed to be God's people?

It is precisely such antediluvian thinking that led to the genocide in Rwanda and pogroms in Darfur.

This is 21st century Africa. No tribe is superior or inferior to another on the continent.

With respect, please look beyond stereotypes - so that you can see individuals as your fellow humans: whom you should treat as you want others to treat you. Haaba.
Samuel Osei-Tutu 8 years ago

There is nothing in this article written by these two gentlemen to suggest that they want "everything to be centred around them". Gradually Ghana is becoming a lawless country that will soon be ungovernable if we allow things ...
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There is nothing in this article written by these two gentlemen to suggest that they want "everything to be centred around them". Gradually Ghana is becoming a lawless country that will soon be ungovernable if we allow things to continue the way they are!
Kweku 8 years ago

You see how many have rather turned against your tribalism which you can only practice on ghanaweb? You don't have the balls to take that out in practice. Coward!!!

You see how many have rather turned against your tribalism which you can only practice on ghanaweb? You don't have the balls to take that out in practice. Coward!!!
Dr. Otto 8 years ago

Kweku, I care not, about what you primitive backward Ewes think about me. I see you Ewe people as "homo sapiens."

Kweku, I care not, about what you primitive backward Ewes think about me. I see you Ewe people as "homo sapiens."
Diego 8 years ago

You're just retarded. That's all

You're just retarded. That's all
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

How you wish you were either of these two wonderful writers.

You are the reason Ghana and Africa are not developing.

Calling everyone else who does not share your parochial political and intellectual views as displaying ...
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How you wish you were either of these two wonderful writers.

You are the reason Ghana and Africa are not developing.

Calling everyone else who does not share your parochial political and intellectual views as displaying "tribalism."

Learn to write and think like these two writers and you will command respect.

Shame on you.
Dr. Otto 8 years ago

Kwarteng, we have heard it on several times that you are a plain Idiot, so go ahead and look for your ilk! ...ok!

Kwarteng, we have heard it on several times that you are a plain Idiot, so go ahead and look for your ilk! ...ok!

tiago 8 years ago

Foolish talk. How dare you describe ewes useless. You are a stupid fool. Wise up

Foolish talk. How dare you describe ewes useless. You are a stupid fool. Wise up
Dr. Otto 8 years ago

taigo or whatever you call your fucking self, how else would you describe Ewes, thieves, I mean your people? All what I know is that you Ewe people are useless and criminals.

See Alfred Agbesi Woyome, Okudzeto Ablakwa, Ts ...
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taigo or whatever you call your fucking self, how else would you describe Ewes, thieves, I mean your people? All what I know is that you Ewe people are useless and criminals.

See Alfred Agbesi Woyome, Okudzeto Ablakwa, Tsatsu Tsikata, Koku Anyidoho, Kofi Adams, John Dumelo and more?
tiago 8 years ago

You are mad. I believe your mind needs a mechanic

You are mad. I believe your mind needs a mechanic
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Another insightful expose.

Thanks once again to the authors.

Another insightful expose.

Thanks once again to the authors.
ADJOA WANGARA 8 years ago

The illiterate kwarteng is on his polluting spree with his "bad English" ..."insightful expose" ??? ...what does the idiot kwarteng mean by that?

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The illiterate kwarteng is on his polluting spree with his "bad English" ..."insightful expose" ??? ...what does the idiot kwarteng mean by that?

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Author: francis kwarteng
Date: 2017-03-25 04:29:39
Comment to: Affail monney and the Lawlessness in Ghana

Another insightful expose.

Thanks once again to the authors.
Yaw Amoah 8 years ago

Ghana is a lost country. The people including the educated are so ignorant and stupid

Ghana is a lost country. The people including the educated are so ignorant and stupid
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Kotakopia 8 years ago

Certainly you cannot be a Dr judging from the trash comment you made on the article in question. You have spelt out yourself simply as a bushman, infact, a decorated idiot.

Certainly you cannot be a Dr judging from the trash comment you made on the article in question. You have spelt out yourself simply as a bushman, infact, a decorated idiot.
John 8 years ago

You wish you could change your miserable situation in Ghana with these folks in the USA, right? Onaaaapo. You tire for Ghana being ruled by crooks and taught by unqualified lecturers. America is for the braze the most talente ...
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You wish you could change your miserable situation in Ghana with these folks in the USA, right? Onaaaapo. You tire for Ghana being ruled by crooks and taught by unqualified lecturers. America is for the braze the most talented. Rot in your rat hole in Ghana.
Kwasi Agyapong 8 years ago

Well done Gentlemen. This Stupidity and countenance must STOP.

Shame on them all, those who use unearned Doctorate Title.
Regards

Well done Gentlemen. This Stupidity and countenance must STOP.

Shame on them all, those who use unearned Doctorate Title.
Regards

Ase 8 years ago

I can understand the frustration of the writers. You have done your best on this matter. But this is the difficulty in curing the folly of fools. I have long given up on this country that despises wisdom and glorifies foolish ...
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I can understand the frustration of the writers. You have done your best on this matter. But this is the difficulty in curing the folly of fools. I have long given up on this country that despises wisdom and glorifies foolishness. Some of comments here made my heart sink.
akwesi ansahy 8 years ago

O.M.G. This is damn well below the belt. Take it easy on him dear.

O.M.G. This is damn well below the belt. Take it easy on him dear.

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