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Gov’t did not consult Parliament over Guantanamo ex-cons - MP

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  • Zuarungu Atindana 8 years ago

    The president and the minister should be impeached

  • APONKYE 8 years ago

    Let's show humanity to these poor Arabs who have suffered such barbaric inhumanity in the hands of the evil Americans. Just two ex-detainees can't jeopardize our national security. I tell you, NPP is a million times more dang ...
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  • gretchy NZ 8 years ago

    Aponkye leopards don't change their spots.Look at whats happening in the middle east where a lot of refugees are fleeing from Syria amongst them active terrorist.The government of Ghana should have had a Parliament sitting t ...
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  • Kweku 8 years ago

    These two terrorists are not refugees. They are not stranded anywhere. They were detained for various offenses for 13-14 years. Closing the prison the US were supposed to return them to their home country and not to a country ...
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  • Ampabeng 8 years ago

    This shows that aponkye is big fool. Just telling us that two ex-detainees can't harm Ghana demonstrates your aponkye brain. what could Osama not do? Yet he was one man.It is dangerous for any nation to accommodate one terro ...
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  • DR TRUTH 8 years ago

    HOW CAN U DESCRIBE ARABS AS POOR? UAE, BAHRAIN, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN ARE FAR RICHER THAN GHANA. IF NOT FOR WESTERN INDUCED WAR IRAQ, SYRIA WERE ALSO RICHER

  • Mother Ghana Weeps. 8 years ago

    Are the Americans also going build another school for Hannah as her birthday gift like the Chinese did?
    Why does America take advantage of the greed and weaknesses of Ghanaian leaders and put us in such a dangerous? Obama, w ...
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  • joojo 8 years ago

    I AM NOT SURPRISED YOUR NAME IS APONKYE.THERE IS NO BRAIN IN YOUR HEAD BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT HUMAN BUT AN ANIMAL. MAHAMA THESE ARE SIGNS THAT YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.

  • U.S.A 8 years ago

    This is a total rubbish and an act of childish thinking,No wonder your name is aponkye.

  • Pimpinese 8 years ago

    The argument being proffered here is "mponkyesem". The 2 ex-detainees in of themselves cannot pose a threat to our national security, but their terrorist network at large can.

  • Pelicles 8 years ago

    Some of you comment as if you sleep on hot stones instead of pillows. Mahama and most NDC supporters are shallow-minded fools who are clueless about what is going on, on the international level when it comes to terrorism.

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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    There goes your nonsense once more. Well, didn't you read the all round condemnation including 'Moi' over this deal that was obviously done in secrecy at the expense of Ghanaians and stinks to the heavens above? However, you ...
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  • ghanian at heart Rose 8 years ago

    I agree with you..those politicians in the tiling party are some unlearned , unintelligent , greedy assholes. I can't believe some of the things I read,coming out if their mouths

  • G. K. Berko 8 years ago

    Pellicles, you should be ashamed, especially living in the USA, to be towing the same lines that these less-informed paranoids are over this minor incident.

    This is not something that had to generate so much fear among th ...
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  • koklovi 8 years ago

    Remember the current leader of ISIS was released from prison cos he was not a threat and NICE poor ARAB

  • yanks 8 years ago

    these people are terrorists and already there are islmaic terrorists in the country in addition to boko haram. so how do we know how these terrorists are going to affect islamic . terrorism in ghana.the aim of these islamic ...
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  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    Aponkye, you dont know what you are talking about. Why can't they go to their country - Yemen?

    I'm not an NPP but I have never been so scared for Ghana's future. Whoever signed the agreement for the two detainees to be tra ...
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  • ghanian at heart Rose 8 years ago

    Show humanity to your poor starving naked Ghanaian brothers and sisters who doesn't have a job, whose only crime is poverty

  • Donboli 8 years ago

    We should start letting Parliament know when anyone want to Immigrant into our country.
    Knowing a criminal don't make you a criminal. We know Woyome and can that make us Criminals.
    Ghanaians should be welcoming them with op ...
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  • DR TRUTH 8 years ago

    THEY WERE CAUGHT FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN AGAINST THE AMERICAN/NATO FORCES. BECAUSE THEY CLÀIMED THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR TALIBAN WHICH WAS THE SITTING GOVT INSTEAD OF AL QUAIDA IT IS DIFFICULT TO CHARGE THEM FOR TERROR BUT YOU ...
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  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    Domboli, or whatever you call yourself. Can you please answer these simple questions:

    Are you a Ghanaian?
    Are you writing from Ghana or outside Ghana?
    If you are writing from Ghana, when (not 'if' because it is a matter ...
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  • Aussie 8 years ago

    They don't respect

  • Kweku 8 years ago

    Did the US Embassy official really say that the two detainees pose no threat? How come they were not sent back to Yemen where they are from? Or why did the United States keep them? Why were they were detained for 13 years in ...
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  • DR TRUTH 8 years ago

    THE WICKED AND HEARTLESS PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA ON HIS TRAVELS TO EUROPE HAS SIGNED A TREATY WITH THE WEST TO DEPORT HARDWORKING GHANAIAN MIGRANTS BACK TO GHANA IN EXCHANGE OF MONEY AND NEW PRISONS

  • Shiekh 8 years ago

    Humans are all one .However we are separated by our believe systems,our egos and our fears .You can't turn a zebra to a horse by removing the stripes.We should be proactive.

  • Mimi 8 years ago

    This is was clearly an abuse of power & somebody must pay for this. The US refused to grant them a stay and they are the very people who detained them. They instead, found a sucker nation like Ghana who'll bow down to their e ...
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  • Galbose 8 years ago

    This dead goat and his concubine don't care about us at all.U see how governance has sunk so low in Ghana. If ghanaians don't send the dead goat away in 2016,he will sell us all . money changed hands. Follow the dead goat slo ...
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  • KA 8 years ago

    The question for madam minister is were any laws side stepped?

  • Paula 8 years ago

    People smuggling illegal arms into the country, some youths already joined Isis and boko haram keep spreading and these dummies think bringing in two al qaeda fighters is a good idea and poses no security threat? If that was ...
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  • Joe Canada 8 years ago

    Ghanaians should rise up and force this dumb Ass woman and her government to return those two guys or be forced to live with them so that she can monitor them herself. Her decision is insanity in the highest order. Or she can ...
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  • JH. New York 8 years ago

    Impeach Mahama.

  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    Both Hannah Tetteh snd Mahama MUST go.

    Ghana is not for politicians alone. If they are putting our lives in danger we should get them out. There should be mass demonstrations against these transfers to call for: 1. The re ...
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  • Tfio New York New York 8 years ago

    Because parliament can do nothing it is a toothless bulldog

  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    If the politicians are failing us probably we need the Abongo boys back!!!

  • DISCIPLINE HOLLAND 8 years ago

    ALL GHANAIANS MUST WAKE UP AND GO UNTO THE STREETS TO FLUSH MAHAMA AND HIS CRIMINAL COHORTS OUT BECOS HIS LAST DAYS ARE ONLY EVIL DOINGS .

  • PAPSON 8 years ago

    GOD ALMGHTY who's love for Ghana is enough to protect us, can only help the present government at this helpless period to continue in their corrupt practices. To an extend that even the die-hard ndc members will vote against ...
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  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    Corruption is the key word. Without corruption, Mahama would not be in power.
    But it is not only the giver of the bribe that should be blamed. The people accepting the bribe should equally be blamed. It is high time Ghanaian ...
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  • adanko 8 years ago

    SO AROGANT, SO POMPOUS AND HAS NO RESPECT FOR PARLIAMENT OR ANY BLACK PERSON EVEN THE PRESIDENT, BCOS SHE KNOWS HE IS INCOMPETENT AND YET PRESIDENT OF GHANA!

  • Uncle Pee 8 years ago

    We have a weak parliament that provides no checks on executive powers! This is a sad situation in our country! That's why the executive has piled massive debt on the country and continues to inject senseless policies and deci ...
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  • aikins 8 years ago

    That "yee ye" parliament with ndc haven majority is for me useless and it is very very very sad as a Ghanaian.

  • Confused mahama 8 years ago

    Ampa woye aponkye, u are really a fool God punish u nd yr ndc followers who think like u, take them to yr miserable family house nd if u like give yr mother to them to produce kids to support yr party afterall ndc contracts f ...
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  • Prof. Issifu, USA 8 years ago

    The NDC government is doing it in exchange of the U.S. support during the 2016 general elections! The bottom line is 'to hang onto power'!

  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    This issue should be considered without tribal or religious sentiments.

    Ghana is currently struggling to contain the threat of armed robbery. Disturbances in northern Ghana have always posed problems for our security forc ...
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  • YB 8 years ago

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  • Kofi 8 years ago

    This is Ghana's security here at stake. any Good government would at least consult their parliament on such a sensitive issue. For sure NDC is crap.

  • Yaa 8 years ago

    President mahama thinks he is god who has bought Ghana and paid for it with his evil fellowers. After he killed Mills and took over armed robbers have taken over Ghana and it doesn't bother him at all. He has brought all the ...
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  • kojo kojo 8 years ago

    Ghana are ruling with fools no brains at all poor management.God will punish those who waste Ghana resources.

  • Tatunane 8 years ago

    Remember the great Chimpanzee homecoming in the mid 1990s? We are almost there!!

  • a.k.Amsterdam 8 years ago

    The so-called leaders in the country have realized that Ghanaians are cowards peoples so they behave and do things any how. The matter is that the same US will return in 10 years time and destroy Ghana for harboring terrorist ...
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  • ghanian at heart Rose 8 years ago

    I agree with you 100%. All African countries that seems to be rising above the West is determined to bring them down. We'll see what Ghana becomes in less than 5 years

  • joojo 8 years ago

    APONKYE YOU ARE MAD. MAHAMA YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.

  • AMA TX USA 8 years ago

    Please aponkye you can show humanity to them so let them come nd stay with you in your house period

  • Pelicles 8 years ago

    I have never seen leaders who are too stupid like Mahama and this foolish woman who is representing the nation as our top diplomat. Hanna Tetteh is very stupid. I hope she sleeps on hot stones and that had closed his her sens ...
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  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    Hannah Tetteh must be sacked and Mahama must be impeached even if he rigs the elections in November.

  • WFF 8 years ago

    THIS IS WHAT GHANA LEGISLATORS SHOULD CONSIDER. IF THE COUNSELOR OF THE US EMBASSY CLAIMS THE TWO EX-DETAINEES POSE NO RISK TO SOCIETY, WHY THE US CONGRESS REJECTED THEM BEING SENT TO THE US. MR. PRESIDENT MAHAMA THINK TWICE.

  • Yussif 8 years ago

    Which parliament?mahama has always bough his way through,he even asked if the parliament was not sleeping to allow all the approvals of dubious loans?this should tell all parliamentary members on both sides of the devide to b ...
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  • Ama Buoh 8 years ago

    Just slamming the government for not consulting Parliament is not enough. Our parliamentarians do too much talk in Ghana and no action - so the Mahamas take the country for granted. The rest of us also scream and yell, and th ...
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  • Whatever 8 years ago

    Somebody who have been cleared of all the charges after 14 years of detention,, There's a war currently raging in his country. He wants to seek refuge and this what a section of the public wants him treated, turn our backs on ...
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  • Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is my hero 8 years ago

    Kwasia. Why didn't send them to their home country or elsewhere if infact there aren't a threat? Animal like you on here writing nonsense. Idiot. God will punish all you fools.

  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    Is it not interesting to quote the Bible of INFIDELS to support your views. What do the detainees believe should be done to infidels?

    Your argument is unbalanced.

  • Nii Adjei 8 years ago

    if the house was neither consulted nor informed shows the effectiveness of the house or the respect and regards given to the house.
    whose fault is it?
    who do we blame

  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    The blame lies with Ghanaians for voting with our tummies and not with our heads - accepting bribes and voting for Mahama; with Afari Gyan for fiddling the election results to prop up Mahama.

    The consolation is that we ha ...
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  • mensa 8 years ago

    mahama had zero authority to bring Taliban killers to ghana

  • sam 8 years ago

    YOU CANNOT TRUST HANNA TETTH SHE IS AROGANT AND STUPID WOMEN THAT IS WHAT RAWLINGS SAID ABOUT THE FAT LADY AND HE WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG SHE NOW COMMIT TREASON AGAINST GHANA WITH HER BOSS MAHAMA WITHOUT HAVE ANY AUTHORITY OR JU ...
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  • KA Na Wu 8 years ago

    She should be sacked immediately and her boss should be impeached. If the politicians don't do it November is the deadline. I'm not a fan of military governments but if November 2016 fails to produce a government that can giv ...
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  • BABA 8 years ago

    CAN YOU GIVE US A REASON WHY THE US. DID NOT TAKE THEM?

  • Obey 8 years ago

    When the boom goes off n dead bodies rain the day then the incompetent president will be awoken

  • Kwawu Agbemenu 8 years ago

    So what is Parliament doing about this? If they are patriots, parliamentarians MUST have these people thrown out of our country!!

  • OH POOR GHANA 8 years ago

    THOSE TERRORIST WILL BE MORE IN GHANA IN THE NEXT 5 TO 10 YEARS IF GHANA REFUSED TO SEND THEM BACK .

  • Galbose 8 years ago

    Do u want the dead goat to consult sleepy pig heads ?Did he not tell u guys u do nothing but sleep in parliament? Am sorry we are doomed. This dead goat does not respect ghanaians. U sleep in the house for bad issues to be pa ...
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  • witch hunter 8 years ago

    Mr lssac Osei,with due respect I belive Npp government could have done the same by accepting the yemeni refugees without parliamentary approval since you know that the president can use executive powers as explained by Abraha ...
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  • FOOLISH DNC 8 years ago

    Mahama is afool

  • ghanian at heart Rose 8 years ago

    That's a damn shame. Parliament was not consulted/ briefed about that, which means whatever money was paid by the US went straight to the pockets of a few. I'm not Ghanaian and i'm very pissed off at that. You have Ghanaians ...
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  • ghanian at heart Rose 8 years ago

    You are an idiot , you don't know what you're saying. This is plain as night and day. Anybody who agreed with this is benefiting from the ruling party handouts

  • Mr Bond 8 years ago

    President John Dramani Mahama is not a presidential material.He did not understand his duty as president.He is running the country as if it is his private property

  • Akua J. 8 years ago

    Eeiiiii Awurade hu )man Ghana m)b).please God don't turn your back on Ghana, we need you and stretch forth your mighty right hand on us. God bless Ghana. Amen

  • WORLDWATCH 8 years ago

    Get lost Osei!!!.The government should consult parliament for what?When you were in Kuffuor's government did he consult parliament on every decision his government took?When Kuffuor paid 2 million dollars to a british woman ...
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  • oman ba 8 years ago

    Stupid and ignorant president mahama. You are wicked and heartless to your own people and generation yet unborn. 2016 you lose big time.your days are number in the flag staff house I assure you.

  • G. K. Berko 8 years ago

    The Commander-In-Chief reserves the right to act in such cases without prior approval from the Parliament.

    Meanwhile, it is not every Security decision by our Authorities that has to be shared with Politicians. One main r ...
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