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Monday, October 29, 2012

Comment: NPP, WHAT A FUNNY PARTY!

Read Article: Statement: Nobody Died As A Result of Nana Addo's Entry into Tamale,General News of Monday, 29 October 2012, Source: NPP Communications Directorate
 
Comment: NPP, WHAT A FUNNY PARTY!


Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2012-10-29 15:30:37
Comment to:
Re: Statement: Nobody Died As A Result of Nana Add


OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

NPP, WHAT A FUNNY PARTY!

Dr. Clifford A. Braimah, Northern Regional Secretary of the NPP stated, “It is our hope, that in line with the ethics of the profession, journalists will endeavour to provide the Ghanaian people with accurate reportage by cross checking from the relevant agencies.”

Two stories that have been discredited and removed from various websites involve scatterbrained lies about President Mills having been poisoned by President Mahama, and another one accusising President Mahama of having stolen 170 million dollars and hiding them in a Swiss account.

The NPP jumped on these stupid lies with glee! And long after the story has benn proven as a hoax the short-witted spin-doctors of the Akufo Addo campaign, such as Justice Sarpong, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, and Daniel Damptey Danquah continued to churn disgusting rants on the silly stories!

What a shame!

We no go sit down make them cheat us every day!

Walahi!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never! Long live Ghana!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Comment: Why NPP's Free SHS Concept will Fly!

Read Article:  Akufo Addo looks Ghanaians in the eye and says

Comment: Why NPP's Free SHS Concept will Fly!
Feature Article of Saturday, 27 October 2012, Columnist: Damptey, Daniel Danquah


Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2012-10-27 11:46:08
Comment to: Akufo Addo looks Ghanaians in the eye and says


OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Why NPP's Free SHS Concept will Fly!

It is one thing standing on a political platform and saying what you like, and quite another thing being interviewed by a seasoned journalist on the nitty-grity of one's political manifesto. Ghanaians had the first and the last opportunity to scrutinize the campaign promise from a political campaigner who began his campaign with the promise that he is not going to give any campaign promises.

I have already pointed out from the way Akufo-Addo's Free SHS was exposed as a lot of hot air from the sewage, during a BBC interview, which provided the first in-depth discussion on the subject.

Akufo-Addo, who started by confessing the costing was yet to be done, quickly turned 180 degrees and declared that he had already done the costing! This is a flip-flopping liar!
Just read the following portion of the interview:

Transcript of BBC's HARDtalk, by the Odikro: Nana Akufo Addo 05 March, 2012 from the 19.59th minute to 20.33:

PRESENTER: The greatest indictment, frankly, of your government, is the way in which you squandered money and left this huge hole in the budget deficit and I think you would now acknowledge that that was a profound problem the last time your party was in power?

NANA AKUFO-ADDO: No, I don't believe... I don't believe... I think that... No, I don't accept this proposition at all.

PRESENTER: I think what the Ghanaian people, it seems to me, from reading a lot of stuff from the Ghanaian press, want to know is, where exactly is the money going to come from next time around if you are in power, for some of the very extravagant promises you've made? You for example have offered free secondary schooling for all Ghanaians. A promise you say you would absolutely deliver in your four years in power?

NANA AKUFO-ADDO: Absolutely! Absolutely! Absolutely.

PRESENTER: So have you costed it? How much will it cost?

NANA AKUFO-ADDO: The costing... the costing... is being... is being done. I mean very very soon will be in the position.

PRESENTER: No, you must have costed it! You can't make a promise like that without costing it?

NANA AKUFO-ADDO: No, no, no, very, very soon we are going to be...

PRESENTER: How much?

NANA AKUFO-ADDO: Very, very soon, we are going to be... put it together. I prefer..." See: On Education, Is Akufo-Addo Doing A 419? Part One - ModernGhana.com /www.modernghana.com/news/384819/1/on-education-is-akufo-addo-doing-a-419-part-one.html Up till now we are yet to hear an exact figure from the NPP! They have not figured it out, as per the correction recently posted by the Danquah Institute!

To be continued...

Reckoning With Criminal Political Hoaxes

OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

COMMENT: Reckoning With Criminal Political Hoaxes

On The Crime And Punishment of Political Hoaxes

The price of liberty, they say, is eternal vigilance. The price of peace is justice and fairness, and the ability to swiftly deal with offenders. When people commit crimes and nothing happens, they feel encouraged to even try more daring stints. It is not impossible to find out and punish those who take it upon themselves to deceive and deliberately mislead the Ghanaian public. I am going to show that this is possible by mentioning names and challenging them to prove me wrong!

I personally think the individual who first put up this story on the web must know something about this forgery. Most of these hoaxes are individual jobs of party fanatics who think by so doing they would be augmenting the chances of their various parties and candidates at the polls. In order to eradicate the canker, we must simply focus at the source. In today's world such things are so easy to determine.

The earliest version of this story I have so far gathered was posted on October 23, 2012, by omgghana.com, under the title, " [EXPOSED] President Mahama and Wife Stash $170 Million In Swiss Bank Account � IMF Threaten To Cut Aid To Ghana". So the simplest thing to do is to ask the individual in charge of this website how he came about such a story.

There is an urgent need for Ghanaians to remove themselves from harm's way by dealing drastically with such malicious lies. Freedom of speech ought to be protected. We must protect the ability of every citizen to help expose corruption. But this type of protection must not be extended to those who manufacture their own facts and mislead the public into drawing wrong conclusions. A lie is an injury, and this lie was intended to injure the judgement of Ghanaians in a crucial electoral year.

This is a big deal. Freedom of opinion can never be stretched to cover a concocted story which has no shred of truth in it, mischievously attributed to a source that has nothing to do with the story, just to deceive the Ghanaian public! We do not have any law that protects people who want to deceive us in our democracy. It is not useful at this stage to merely speculate which political party is behind this. What is important is to invite the web-master of Omgghana.com to assist the police in their investigations.

Towards the end of the 2008 Presidential elections, a hoax that nearly brought the country to the verge of civil war, took to the electronic and print media. This was a letter forged to look as though it was a leak from the personal e-mail of ex-President Rawlings, in which he was purported to have had a "hit-list" of prominent Ghanaians to be eliminated, in the event that the NPP came to power.

Even though this hoax nearly threw the stability of the country into the air and diverted much attention of the national conversation on it, nothing meaningful came out by way of prosecuting those who were behind it. This was a monumental failure of the Ghana Police, whose cyber crime division has not yet been seen to crack a single crime! That hoax also had a "first time" that it was put on the web. The earliest source of such activity can be traced to Mr. Yofi Grant, who was then working in the Communications team of Dr. Mumuni Bawumia, NPP's Vice Presidential candidate, then and now.

I pointed out then, that this was very harmful and dangerous to our democracy and should not be taken lightly. I also expressed the legitimate fears that if effective steps were not taken to bring this under control, they were bound to be even more skilful the next time around. In any case, why should people who indulge in such activity do so with impunity? Why is it that there is apparently no fear associated with such a criminal behaviour?

Here is how the earliest version of the Rawlings so-called "Hit-List" that almost brought our country on the brink of war:

From: "Yofi Grant"
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:10:46 -0000
To: [deleted]
Subject: RE: Could this possibly be true???
�..yeah, whats new? I guess he will try any means possible�� if you live in Ghana you will understand, he has been up to all sorts of things�.

R. Yofi Grant
Executive Director, Databank Financial Services Limited

This crime has no expiring date! The more we punish the perpetrators, the more certain we can be that we are on top of this dirty politically motivated crime! I am challenging Yofi Grant to prove me wrong, if he is not the source of the Rawlings hit list hoax, where did he get his information from? The same question must be asked of Omgghana.com. If we do not begin to put some fear of the law into the hearts of these individuals behind these politically scams and criminal behaviour, we run the risk of paying dearly for this with the insecurity and instability that some of these hoaxes are capable of. We have to know the difference between what is news, free speech, political opinion, and what is a crime!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never! Long live Ghana!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Elephant Is Still On The Beat!

Comment on: The Elephant is Emerging from the Jungle Triumphantly to Reclaim Power from the NDC By Rockson Adofo


OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

I write to hereby inform you the following:


The Elephant Is Still On The Beat!

I keep saying that the elephant was not simply chased into the bush. Once inside the bush, it took the "strategic" decision to beat about the bush! It does not surprise me in the least, that somehow in your thinking, the NDC are pigs, Ghanaians are animals, and NPP is the only human being in town, Mr. Jones! Can you hear yourself? You want the animals to throw away the pigs and bring you the human beings to come and rule over them, is that your point in general?

Well I can assure you that the pigs are also part of the animal kingdom, and why should their overthrow necessitate the invasion of humans? I think considering the level of the elitism and arrogance within the NPP it came to you so naturally to see yourselves as humans and Ghanaians as animals without losing a sleep on that!

Since you are familiar with the Animal Farm, you might also know the fable of the "The Shepherd's Dog and The Wolf"? Men eat more sheep than wolves, yet we claim wolves are more dangerous to sheep!

"A wolf eats a sheep, but now and then
Ten thousand are devour'd by men.
An open foe may prove a curse;
But a pretended friend is worse"!


Forward Ever! Backwards Never! Long live Ghana!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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See also: The Elephant is Emerging from the Jungle Triumphantly...., 
Ghanaweb,Feature Article of Friday, 26 October 2012
Columnist: Adofo, Rockson


 

Comment: TRYANOTHERONE, 500 GRAMS AFTER MEALS!

Read Article:

Mills attempts to investigate Mahama led to his demise

Feature Article of Friday, 26 October 2012, Columnist: Damptey, Daniel Danquah
   

Comment: TRYANOTHERONE, 500 GRAMS AFTER MEALS!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2012-10-25 19:03:15
Comment to: Mills attempts to investigate Mahama led to his d


OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

TRYANOTHERONE, 500 GRAMS AFTER MEALS!

Hi Daniel Danquah Damptey,

That is brilliant! You think you are busy campaigning by raising pertinent issues. Thank you very much for your concern for the life of President Mills. It is enough to click on blue name following "Columnist to see the kind of things you were writing about President Mills. You actually wished him dead!

So it is a little bit strange to see this sudden outpouring of concern for the late President. Is that to assuage your Christian conscience, or you have "better things" on your mind, such as the impending elections?

You seem to have a "Cow Boy Mentality", where the only good Indian is a dead one! In your case, President Mills was evil when he was alive and became good the moment he died! Is it the case for you that the only good Atta Mills is a dead one?

You should not stoop so low! This is too shameful! That is why I am prescribing the following medication for you. Each time you sit down to write about John Mahama, and the chances of that relative of yours, you should fast and pray for three days before you set pen on paper. If you do not want to fast for a minimum of three days, you can resort to a short-cut by taking some laxatives. The point is that you must make sure you have physically emptied your stomach, before writing. The reason is simple: you are full of shit!

Just what do you mean by challenging the President to meet you or any other person "to discuss issues involving the death of his predecessor?" Are you now the wife of Professor Mills? Why does the President need to meet you to discuss the death of a man whose death had been anticipated with glee by you these same people, in order to exonerate himself?

Do you listen to yourself, sometimes? You could have made some impression and not a fool of yourself, if the President were to have been some able-bodied and healthy young man who had died suddenly and mysteriously, only to be replaced by President John Mahama. But this is not the case. Every Ghanaian knew, or ought to have known, that the President was terminally ill. Don't lie to me that you did not know, because you would need to explain with that, on what basis you people were regularly predicting and wishing him dead?

It is highly foolish on your part to be seen trying to take advantage of the death of a man whom you despised so intensely! Yet you have the nerve to challenge the President to come and see you to prove his innocence over the death of a man whose imminent death, strictly predicted on the basis of his health, was greeted with jubilation by you?

Please shut up and go back into your mind! You are out of your mind!

You could have summarized this long bull shit with these few words:

"My Third Eye has revealed that something sinister had taken place in the mysterious death of Former President John Atta Mills and I will continue to ask probing questions until I get the right answers."

I find it strange that you qualify the death of a man you have been busy predicting since 2008 as "mysterious"! This makes you a mysterious liar!

It is only a lack of intelligence that would compel you to produce a junk like this as part of your campaign efforts to assist your uncle, Nana Addo! You are involved in a tedious and rather stupid form of campaigning that take so much of your time and produce no results!

That is why you are losing! From the level of stupidity displayed here, hypocrites and mischievous liars like you must never be allowed near the seat of power!

Thank God Akufo-Addo has no chance! You are even doing a better job for us than for Akufo-Addo! You are the kind of people Akufo-Addo should fear most, from now onwards. Your foolish writings are going to rapidly damage his campaign, as he comes under pressure. Just mark my words, and don't forget what the battle-hardy Roman General once said, "I fear more a stupid ally, than a clever enemy!"

Akufo-Addo needs to take note of that, in order to move his campaign forward. And whilst he is at it, he needs to find out if he has your phone number and do the necessary thing, because it is very obvious you are not helping him at all! A political campaign is different from buffoonery, and you seem to be engaged in the latter, whilst pretending to do the former.

Oh, by the way, if you did not understand your medication, TRYANOTHERONE, 500 GRAMS AFTER MEALS!
It means you need to shit a lot because you are full of it. You should keep on trying until the stomach is empty or you have evacuated a minimum of 500 grams of shit, before you write your next article! Your medication, TRYANOTHERONE, simply means Try Another One! Keep shitting until you feel you are rid of it!

We no go sit down!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
Long live Ghana!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Comment: DON'T YOU FEEL DIZZY FROM YOUR SPIN?

They 'killed' the former prez

Feature Article of Thursday, 25 October 2012

 

Comment: DON'T YOU FEEL DIZZY FROM YOUR SPIN?

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2012-10-24 21:14:59
Comment to: They 'killed' the former prez


OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

DON'T YOU FEEL DIZZY FROM YOUR SPIN?

Hi Daniel Danquah Damptey,

You could have summarized this long bull shit with these few words:

"My Third Eye has revealed that something sinister had taken place in the mysterious death of Former President John Atta Mills and I will continue to ask probing questions until I get the right answers."

I find it strange that you qualify the death of a man you have been busy predicting since 2008 as "mysterious"! This makes you a mysterious liar!

It is only a lack of intelligence that would compel you to produce a junk like this as part of your campaign efforts to assist your uncle, Nana Addo! You are involved in a tedious and rather stupid form of campaigning that take so much of your time and produce no results!

That is why you are losing! From the level of stupidity displayed here, hypocrites and mischievous liars like you must never be allowed near the seat of power!

Thank God Akufo-Addo has no chance!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
Long live Ghana!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Give me a follow on twitter: twitter.com/TheOdikro



See also: Comment: "OPERATION COLD CHOP" UNDERWAY...

Friday, February 26, 2010

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date:  2010-02-26 18:48:21
Comment to: Vote for Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey and return t

Comment: IT IS A SILLY HOAX!

Is President Mahama Hiding $170 Million In Swiss Account?

Feature Article of Thursday, 25 October 2012,  Columnist: Sarpong, Justice

Comment: IT IS A SILLY HOAX!
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date:2012-10-25 05:21:11


OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Hi Mr. Kofi Atta,

Sarpong himself knows the story is false. He indirectly admitted it by writing "The story below was culled from APN site." There is no such story on any APN site!

Sarpong is deliberately propagating a falsehood! He knows exactly what he is doing as a self-conscious liar! This speaks volumes about the state of affairs of the Akufo-Addo campaign team.

I suppose if such falsehood persists, there will be no one left to vote for the beneficiary of such vile propaganda, Nana Akufo-Addo!

I was not sure what to make of the blank allegations that President John Mahama was corrupt following the death of President Mills. All of a sudden, it has become very clear to me that he is so clean his adversaries need to invent stories of corruption before they can even accuse him of same!

Sarpong is indirectly campaigning for President Mahama. He is certainly not interested if the story he is churning out is true or false, and will certainly not bother to check with APN.

Often scam artists think they are smarter than their victims, and more than often they are wrong! Take a cursory look at the 419 e-mail scams, and see ample confirmations of this.

It is only people of low intelligence who are able to believe that they can deceive others with stupid lies! Sarpong will know by the end of the day, who is fooling who.

It is a pity that even though no one is fooling him, he has decided to fool himself so publicly! And this is without consequences. President Mahama is receiving a baptism of fire, and will come out strong!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never! Long live Ghana!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Comment: Let's Talk About Hypocrisy, Baby!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2012-08-05 07:27:29

Comment to: AMISSAH A: THE MAN WHO LAID DOWN HIS ASS

Let's Talk About Hypocrisy, Baby!

We must guard against campaigning directly, or indirectly, for an internationally recognized POTHEAD and a hypocrite! I was surprised whilst researching on the Akufo-Addo wee-smoking saga, I came across him in a non-Ghanaian website dedicated to cannabis and homosexuality. He was condemned as a hypocrite on both counts!

If you google: Wikileaks: Ghana's Opposition Leader Likes To Wake 'n' Bake, you will see the following at www.cannabisculture.com: "Jeremiah Vandermeer's Blog about Jeremiah Vandermeer www.jeremiahvandermeer.com Wikileaks:

Ghana's Opposition Leader Likes To Wake 'n' Bake
by Jeremiah Vandermeer  Tuesday, September 6 2011

Wikileaks continue to spill online and spill the beans, this time on Nana Akufo-Addo, a presidential candidate and "flag bearer" of the opposition New Patriotic Party. Turns out he likes to smoke weed for breakfast. From GhanaWeb From the lenses of Wikileaks and from the lips of very close associates, some of whom have known Nana Akufo-Addo, the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for decades, came the bombshell - the NPP Presidential candidate appears to have substituted the smoking of marijuana for his early morning breakfast.

According ‘Comrade’ Kwesi Pratt, Jnr., the respected publisher and editor of the ‘Insight’ newspaper, Nana Akufo-Addo did not just smoke a lot of the illegal herb, but smoke early in the morning to get high always. According to the latest leaks of diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in Accra, when questioned about persistent rumors of Akufo-Addo's alleged cocaine habit, Mr. Pratt who was very fair to the NPP candidate admitted that he had personal knowledge of the candidate's drug use, but that it was not cocaine. "Nana used to smoke a lot of marijuana," Pratt said, "and I'm telling you, a lot. Even in the morning, there used to be a cloud around him and you could see that he was high. But I never saw him do cocaine, and I think that is just an assumption people made."

In another development, Dr. Kwesi Aning, another very respected security analyst who is head of Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre, is quoted to have admitted that Akufo-Addo had used drugs in his younger days, but that was now "under control." He added cryptically that "you can check with German intelligence on that."

Read the leaked cable. 

Of course, just because it's written in a Wikileak, doesn't mean it's true. That hasn't stopped members of other political parities in Ghana from demanding Akufo-Addo's take a drug test or resign.

I don't have a heck of a lot of sympathy for Akufo-Addo, who was the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from 2001 to 2003 under former President John Kufuor. Marijuana is illegal in Ghana, as is homosexuality. Laws like that could drive a man to smoke first thing in the morning."

God have mercy!

Pur'gu Saape!
Secretary to The Odikro.
theodikro.blogspot.com/


PP Plots To Tag Veep As Homosexual | General News 2012-08-05 

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=246879&comment=8162831#com

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Read Article:
General News of Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Source: GNA

Nkrumah Ideological Institute wants AU to get Nigeria's Minister World Bank post


Comment: Re: TRUE NKRUMAHISTS DONT BELIEVE IN IMF

Author:Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date:2012-03-27 21:48:34


OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Hi Open Source,

That is exactly the point! This woman believes in "Structural Adjustment", "deregulation" and a host of policies that make no difference whether she is African or European. So, what is the point that this group wants to make?

Africa is facing irreversible threats to our environment, food and water security. We even have Monsanto hiding behind Kofi Annan's AGRA, there is serious trouble going on in Somalia, Sudan, Mali, Central Africa, and deadly clashes are being reported in Libya between NTC militias, et etcetera, etcetera, and all they choose to care about is who goes to head the world Bank?

God have mercy!

Pur'gu Saape!
Secretary to The Odikro.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

On Education, Is Akufo-Addo Doing A 419? Part One





INTRODUCTION:
I listened to Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana's 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, the NPP, talking hard on the BBC World Service radio, on his campaign promise of free secondary school education for all, and I was utterly disappointed. To be honest and frank about it, it even made me smell a very unusual rat. For the purposes of this article, the relevant part of the interview begins from the eighteenth minute into the conversation in the 24 minute interview he gave to HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur, on Monday, 5 March, 2012. It is the part that deals with his educational policy.

The reason why I paid attention to this part of the interview is because, like many Ghanaians, I am deeply troubled with the mess our educational system is in right now. Unfortunately, it was literally a mind-blowing experience! I have since been wondering if it was even a very good idea at all, to have listened him. This is because, I suspect, I have been traumatised by the experience.

For those of you who might be familiar with the symptoms, mine include an intrusive and repetitive need to wonder aloud as to whether or not Nana Akufo-Addo really thought he could get away with such a lugubrious drollery? You see, I have not been able to sleep properly after hearing what I heard! The only solution is to wonder aloud and clearly. But more of those later...

BBC's HARDtalk INTERVIEW: On Education:
First of all, I do not wish to prejudice the reader until the bare facts are clearly ascertained. I do encourage the readers to study first the interview for themselves, and form their own conclusions. I remain confident that most will agree with mine, stated below. You may listen to the relevant portion from the interview on BBC's HARDtalk: Nana Akufo Addo 05 Mar 12 from the 18.59th minute to 20.33. [1] I have also provided a transcript of the relevant portion to facilitate the analysis... READ MORE...