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Thursday, April 28, 2011

COMMENT ON: Konadu Will Poll 90% If The NDC Flagbearer Race Was A Dancing Competition – Kwesi Pratt

 
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
I very particularly liked this comment. It is apt. The attempt to dance her way back to the Castle is a poor understanding of what Ghanaians are expecting from her. I think even before she is given the consideration as a credible candidate, she must come out, for starters, and tell us her role, or lack of it, in the abduction and heinous murder of the three high court judges and a retired army officer, when her husband was the Chairman of the PNDC.
I think every one would understand that an accomplice to such a crime deserves not to be rewarded with the presidency of this country, but a long prison sentence! It is in the Special Investigations Board Report into the murders that it was Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings who personally took the keys to the “operational vehicle” from her dinning hall table and handed them over to the murderers. How does dancing exonerate her?

Monday, April 25, 2011

Comment: NPP,BOW YOUR HEADS IN SHAME!!!

Read Article: Feature Article of Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Columnist: Sarpong, Justice

NPP And Sir John Should Go Into Hibernation


Comment: NPP,BOW YOUR HEADS IN SHAME!!!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2011-04-26 01:19:08
Comment to: NPP And Sir John Should Go Into Hibernation

OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO.
a companion of the black star,

Hi Mr. Sarpong,

Good morning!

I have been instructed by the Odikro to give you his Easter greetings, rain or shine!

I have also been instructed to communicate clearly to you that your feature article has woefully failed to control the damage caused to the image of the party by the superstitious and rather silly utterances by its General Secretary! The main issue is the quality of the leadership in that party and not the timing of when and how they should release their nonsense!

When do you think would be the appropriate time for this idiot to talk about the politics of the Easter weather, if not now? It would be too late after the NDC congress!

If the NPP is counting on the weaknesses of the NDC to come to power, they must not pretend they do not have their own weaknesses. The real weakness of the NPP is the lack of leadership materials. The flag-bearer is the one who should ultimately project himself in a class of his own. But even this man is also talking nonsense!

The last time we heard from him he was speaking in Twi to a group of his fellow Akans and manipulating and inciting them into tribal violence against non-Akans because, according to him, he had been informed by some people that they think Akans are cowards. And that if you wound one or two of them, all the rest run away. And that the violence NPP displayed in the recent elections in Antwima was just a tip of the iceberg. And that all Akans have two balls in their testicles, so "all die be die" in 2012!

Personally, I prefer the Easter weather to the "all die be die" nonsense, because it threthens the peace and stability of this country, aimed not even at the victory of the NPP of which he is the flag-bearer but the superiority of Akans, which normally should not be the preoccupation of a party that claims to want the vote of non-Akans!

It is pathetic that instead of calling a spade a spade, and telling this comedian of a politician to shut up and stop talking nonsense, Sarpong choose to quietly advice the General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie aka Sir Johnm 'not to dominate the airwaves"!

The NPP must not run away from the public. They must find a way of talking sense, that's all! People like their general secretary need not to forget to wear their brains before they open their mouths.

It is extremely shameful and disgraceful that at this stage of our democracy we still have figures like this individual in the leadership of the main opposition party in Ghana! How come we have a guy more stupid than the average stupid fool as the General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie aka Sir John?

I am sure Ghanaians know what to do without any further provocations. One other fellow capable of a similar nonsense is Mr. Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey. Perhaps Sarpong must fly down from Texas and ensure that the guy is gagged. I can bet my bottom dollar that he is very busy and carefully preparing his own nonsense to release soon!

The elephant has not only been chased into the bush! It is beating about the bush! From the flag-bearer to semi-illiterate supporters like Justice Sarpong!

I avail myself of this opportunity, to extend to you, on behalf of the Odikro, Nana Akyea Mensah II, the assurances of our highest consideration.

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Sincerely,

Pur'gu Saarpe!
Secretary to the Odikro, Nana Akyea Mensah II,

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Comment: WE HAVE A HEALTHY SENSE OF JUSTICE!

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Feature Article of Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Columnist: The Emperor

Ghanaians’ unhealthy obsession with Mr Rawlings


Comment: WE HAVE A HEALTHY SENSE OF JUSTICE!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2011-04-26 00:17:40
Comment to: Ghanaians’ unhealthy obsession with Mr Rawlings

OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO.
a companion of the black star,

Young man,

Don't you have elders in your house? How dare you talk to all Ghanaians in such a disrespectful manner? Do you understand what you write? What is going on here? The struggle for democracy in Ghana is a process that started a long time ago. Once upon a time, Rawlings became the main obstacle when he said the return of the ballot box "would be the return of the devil himself!" Those of us who have been on his back since then have been on his back to keep him in his place and to remove him as the imposter that he is. This is not an obsession. Those hundreds of Ghanaians whose fathers, mothers, children, brothers and sisters were brutally tortured and killed are not obsessed with Rawlings, they simply want justice!

This article is a silly apology for a mass murderer who recently called for investigations into a murder case in Tamale because, according to him, the police used the victim as a human shield. It is not for someone guilty of the deaths of hundreds of Ghanaians to be the first to complain about the murder of a single Ghanaian. This is hypocrisy.

The quarrel between Rawlings and the President is basically because he wanted to personally screen all ministerial and political appointments, just as it was in "the good old days" of the [P]NDC.

Rawlings is obsessed with annoying Ghanaians and making a lot of noise rather than sense. Ghanaians who feel the need to defend our democracy, often talk about Rawlings, not because they are obsessed by Rawlings, but because of stupid articles such as this one, aiming clearly to spin this man with the blood of many innocent Ghanaians on his hands back into respectability and acceptance. This requires fooling a lot of Ghanaians, the majority of whom a just too clever for such simple and dim wits!

Rawlings must get ready to answer for his murderous past, first and foremost, the level of corruption he and his wife supervised in the sale and purchase of Ghanaian properties such as the Star Hotel and the others which now form part of their "survival kit".

Such a person can spend his time helping to improve our prison conditions because our history is bound to teach the appropriate lessons. And Rawlings is destined to go to jail for his crimes!

He committed such heinous crimes that some of us may probably be obsessed with JUSTICE but not the person Rawlings, even though he is talking a lot of nonsense of late!

I avail myself of this opportunity, to extend to you, on behalf of the Odikro, Nana Akyea Mensah II, the assurances of our highest consideration.

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Sincerely,

Pur'gu Saarpe!
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

BBC Must Explain The Disappearance of A News Story!

The Following Link Has Disappeared:
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BBC News – Ivory Coast: French soldiers ‘hand Gbagbo to rebels’ – http://bbc.in/hfadjU


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BBC Breaking News
by TheOdikro
adviser says French special forces have handed Ivory Coast incumbent leader to rebel opposition, says Reuters



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Pan-Africanist Int.
@
@ "French special forces have handed Ivory Coast incumbent leader to rebel opposition"? Is that the latest spin in town? Shame!!!


Original Story:

"French soldiers have seized Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo from his residence and handed him over to the opposition, a Gbagbo aide has said.

They reportedly went in after French tanks advanced on the compound in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, following French and UN helicopter attacks.

Mr Gbagbo is refusing to cede power to Alassane Ouattara, certified as the winner of the presidential election.

UN peacekeepers accuse Gbabgo forces of endangering the civilian population.

"Gbagbo has been arrested by French special forces in his residence and has been handed over to the rebel leaders," presidential spokesman Toussaint Alain told Reuters news agency from Paris.

News of the arrest was later confirmed by the French ambassador for AFP news agency."
See: http://www.modernghana.com/news/324090/1/breaking-news-ivory-coast-french-soldiers-hand-gba.html


As Long As The Press Get Away With Anything, Everything Is Possible!

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Nana Akyea Mensah The initial account of French soldiers arresting a constitutionally recognised President Gbagbo and handing him over to the "internationally and unconstitutionally recognised" rebels begin to disappear! The BBC link: "BBC News – Ivory Coast: French soldiers ‘hand Gbagbo to rebels’, now leads to a very contradictory account of the original story, with the original one nowhere to be found!

Coalition Against Foreign Military Intervention in Africa (CAFIA)
International Solidarity Committee
Pan-Africanist International
about a minute ago · · 1 person


The Pan-Africanist International is launching a campaign to compel all the principal actors who have obviously misled the public as to who did the arrest of President Gbagbo and why the story is no longer the same as they themselves said in the beginning that this was the case.

In this first instance, we are launching this particular campaign to compel the BBC to come out and explain why they chose to suppress a very important piece of information on the arrest and detention of a President of a sovereign country by a former colonial exploiter and hand him over to what still remains a "constitutionally reecognised loser of the elections" and a leader of "internationally recognised" rebels?

We agree with Craig Murray on this:

"This is a tragedy for Africa, because it devalues democracy. Ouattara, with a strong personal push from Sarkozy, secured international recognition for his election victory. In truth it was an extremely dubious election, with no freedom for Ouattara supporters in the South or for Gbagbo supporters in the North in a poisonous contest. It would have been better for everyone if Gbagbo had accepted that he lost and left quietly. But the truth is that both sides’ claims of victory are fallacious. This was nothing like a free and fair election. Somehow the UN and the international community finds itself in the position of imposing by force, fighting alongside the perpetrators of massacre, the “democratically elected” victor. This denigrates democracy."

Now, all of a sudden, after voices such as this, and others like the Inter City Press, New York, the Coalition Against Foreign Military Intervention in Africa (CAFIA), which on Tuesday began its league of demonstrations across West Africa and the rest of the world, kicked off in Accra, Ghana, "on Tuesday demonstrated against foreign intervention in African countries and the capture of Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo by the French Special Forces in 0Cote d'Ivoire." GNA April 12, 2011, all of a very strange unjournalistic sudden or selective technical errors, the original story on BBC website is even difficult to be traced in google cashe. What is the meaning of this? This is the question Pan-Africanists want the BBC to answer. Please share this and spread the word until they have no choice to to answer this loud and clear!


UNITED NATIONS, April 11, updated -- After wire services in Abidjan reported that the French tanks from the Force Licorne assaulted the residence of defiant leader Laurent Gbagbo, seized him and turned him over to Alassane Ouattara's forces, Ouattara's envoy to the UN called Inner City Press over.
“Tell your colleagues,” he said. “I have an announcement to make.”
As UN TV fine tuned its microphone and Inner City Press announced the impromptu stakeout by Twitter, Bamba stepped to the mic. As a major US news channel begged him to do it “first in English,” Bamba announced the arrest of Gbagbo in French.
Inner City Press asked Bamba to confirm or deny that the French Force Licorne actually took custody of Gbagbo, then handed him over to Ouattara's forces.
No, Bamba said, denying it. The Forces Republicain de Cote Ivoire made the arrest.
 Matthew Russell Lee
 
 “Multiple reports say that over 30 French tanks (or armored vehicles), each with four to eight French soldiers inside, moved on Gbagbo’s residence on Monday morning, after France and the UN hit it with air strikes overnight. The question of who “made” the arrest is a broader one.”
This exactly how the news was broken to all of us. It is certainly not the same thing as what Bemba is claiming. Earlier on, there had been reports that President Gbagbo was about to surrender to the rebels. This was just three hours after Aljazeera reported that Gbagbo had refused to surrender:
by PanAfricanists
Ivorian leader denies move to surrender – Africa – Al Jazeera English english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/20… via @ajenglish

Hours before the raid, the lies surrounding Ouattara’s victory had just began to crumble and tumble down:
PanAfricanists Pan-Africanist Int.
Ouattara may not have won elections-US senator: http://bit.ly/flLGTj via @addthis
10 hours ago
The true accounts, as corroborated by the news reports from the very people mentioned in the report below, available to the public and widely circulated by the corporate media is as clearly explained below:


"Ouattara’s forces had been unable to take Gbagbo’s residence for the past 10 days, and on Sunday it seemed that he was beginning to expand the area under his control. The concerted action on the part of the French and the UN mission in Ivory Coast, UNOCI, was designed to rapidly bring the fighting to a close.
According to media reports, French helicopters and tanks bombarded the compound, where Gbagbo had taken refuge during the fighting in Abidjan.
Supporters who were in phone contact with Gbagbo before his surrender insisted that he gave himself up to French troops. Toussaint Alain said that Gbagbo had been “arrested by French special-forces in his residence” and “handed over to the rebel leaders”.
Gbagbo loyalist and adviser Zakaria Fellah said that the claim that Ouattara’s forces had carried out the operation was “absolutely untrue”. He said, “This operation, the final assault, was carried out by the French troops.”
Another Gbagbo supporter, Ahoua Don Mello, told reporters, “President Laurent Gbagbo came out of his bunker and surrendered to the French without resistance.”
But the conspiracy to subvert the will of the people of the Ivory Coast has many front-lines. Also at New York, "Inner City Press asked chief UN Peacekeeper Alain Le Roy to explain French foreign minister Alain Juppe's statement this week that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon supports his position that Gbagbo must sign an agreement ceding power to Ouattara. (Ban's own ostensible spokesman Martin Nesirky told Inner City Press on the same question, “I don't speak for the foreign minister of France.)"  See: France helps seize Gbagbo in Ivory Coast

Also, another one:

"Inner City Press: President Ouattara has said that he intends to, quote, “starve out”, i.e., blockade the residence of Gbagbo so that no water or food goes in and so then he has to come out. And I just wondered what is, not Mr. Le Roy or Mr. Choi Young-jin, what’s the Secretary-General, what’s his position on that?
Spokesperson Nesirky: Well, as you know, it is in the title that Alain Le Roy is Under-Secretary-General reporting to the Secretary-General. He is in charge of peacekeeping operations. And what is happening with the Mission in Côte d’Ivoire, he will be briefing the Council and after that, I am sure he will be happy to speak to you, including on that topic, if he has an update." 


Very pertinent one there!

I think they are running away from the political blow-back and how this will impart negatively on their puppet. Also, they may not want to be responsible for what happens to Gbagbo, even though they will decide his fate!

They have a lot of reasons to hide:


"The action of the French Special Forces in capturing President of a Sovereign State and handing him over to rebel forces is a violation of international law and an attempt to impose the wishes of French ruling elite on Ivorians," the coalition said in a statement issued in Accra."


Pan-Africanist Int.
Pan-Africanist Int.
France helps seize Gbagbo in Ivory Coast. Toussaint Alain: "Gbagbo “arrested by French special-forces in his residence”
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Ivory Coast´s Laurent Gbagbo has surrendered and asked for UN protection according to an internal UN document seen by Reuters
 

Monday, April 11, 2011

Sarkozy shows "colonialist" respect for Algeria but not the Ivory Coast:

Sarkozy shows "colonialist" respect for Algeria but not the Ivory Coast:






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Vidéo Côte d'Ivoire : Juppé défend l'intervention française de LCIWAT (Actualité - LCIWAT) - wat.tv: http://bit.ly/hULQlT via @addthis
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Inside Story - Cote d'Ivoire's democracy deadlock
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Renaud Girard got it wrong!

Comment on Aljazeera English

Ouatarra has no chance. He has been clearly exposed as an imperialist puppet. And he has excellent credentials to go with it! I don't know what made a panellist Renaud Girard describe Ouatarra as having been "elected by the United Nations", but the slip is very revealing! I thought the "internationally recognized winner" was enough to keep the lie alive! Fortunately for Gbagbo, the Ouatarra lies have been falling apart within hours after they emerge!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Topic: The Imperialist Aggression Against Ivory Coast Shall Fail

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Topic: The Imperialist Aggression Against Ivory Coast Shall Fail
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It has been said that in war, truth is the first casualty. The first casualty in this dispute is the determination of who won and who is helping the rebels, and since when. “In any case, people should stop to consider the circumstances under which the election results were declared. The election result was not declared by the Electoral Commission of La Côte d’Ivoire. It was declared by one member of the Electoral Commission of La Côte d’Ivoire, in Hôtel du Golf, which is the Headquarters of the Opposition. He was accompanied to do that declaration by the Ambassador of France and the Ambassador of the United States of America." Kwesi Pratt, Jnr.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Comment: Kwasi Pratt Jnr deplores military actions in Ivory Coast



Kwasi Pratt Jnr deplores military actions in Ivory Coast - 1 Comments

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By: Nana Akyea Mensah 6th Apr 2011


I wholeheartedly agree with Kwesi on this one! It is shocking enough to see a former colonial "master" savagely bombing the Ivorian capital as if there is no tomorrow! Now, they want Gbagbo to sign a piece of paper transferring power the so-called "internationally recognised winner" of the Presidential elections! Kofi Annan just joined the fray to talk a lot of bunkum on the crisis! Are we going to allow these imperialists to manufacture our consent to such violence? Forward Ever! Backwards Never! Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro, Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro Feature Articles: /nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com/ Comments: /theodikro.blogspot.com/

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