UP was behind Kulungugu bombing - Baako challenges Ocquaye

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John 10 years ago

Why do the so called profs tell lies just in the name of politics? Does this so called prof know ethics at all? Even illiterates have refused to be confused in this modern era.....NPP should forget about winning elections in ...
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Why do the so called profs tell lies just in the name of politics? Does this so called prof know ethics at all? Even illiterates have refused to be confused in this modern era.....NPP should forget about winning elections in this country if they continue peddling these lies
NANA 10 years ago

It seems Prof Quaye is having memory lost hence those lies.

It seems Prof Quaye is having memory lost hence those lies.
ATSU, HO 10 years ago

IF THEY DID THEN OVER AMBITIOUS NKRUMAH BROUGHT THAT UPON HIMSELF. IF YOU DECIDE THAT YOU WANT TO BE A LIFE PRESIDENT, YOU ONLY BRING THE ROUGH OF THE PEOPLE ON YOURSELF

IF THEY DID THEN OVER AMBITIOUS NKRUMAH BROUGHT THAT UPON HIMSELF. IF YOU DECIDE THAT YOU WANT TO BE A LIFE PRESIDENT, YOU ONLY BRING THE ROUGH OF THE PEOPLE ON YOURSELF
IDRIS PACAS alias pink sheet 10 years ago

If Quaye is a professor, but does not know Ghana's history or is bold enough to rewrite Ghana's history for nefarious political reasons, why won't there be crisis? It implies that he imparted wrong information to all the gene ...
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If Quaye is a professor, but does not know Ghana's history or is bold enough to rewrite Ghana's history for nefarious political reasons, why won't there be crisis? It implies that he imparted wrong information to all the generations of students who passed through his hands, Shame! Minor or major differences in approaches to independence cannot serve as basis for us (young ones) not to know the true history, heros/heroins of our land. Nonetheless, I support FOUNDERS' DAY not FOUNDER'S DAY.
Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago

One-party rule, president-for-life and the prevention detention act (PDA)by Kwame Nkrumah left the freedom-loving Ghanaian with no other choice than to get rid of that dictator by any means.

And for the records, all those ...
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One-party rule, president-for-life and the prevention detention act (PDA)by Kwame Nkrumah left the freedom-loving Ghanaian with no other choice than to get rid of that dictator by any means.

And for the records, all those trained by Nkrumah to take over leadership of their countries became dictators after gaining power.

A country doesn't belong to a single person, but to all its citizens.
Kofi 10 years ago

Wrong! Do not forget the cold war, Russia needed Ghana and US also needed Ghana because Ghana was the mouth piece of Africa and Nkrumah was the "MAN". Nkrumah unlike our current group of politicians was confident, skilful, we ...
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Wrong! Do not forget the cold war, Russia needed Ghana and US also needed Ghana because Ghana was the mouth piece of Africa and Nkrumah was the "MAN". Nkrumah unlike our current group of politicians was confident, skilful, well exposed and had no inferiority complex. His motivation was not material worth and so could not be bribed. The only way was to eliminate him physically from the surface of the globe and George Bush senior was given the task and so he was sent to Ghana as a diplomat but he was a CIA agent. He did find some idiots to use as tools but there is no evidence that UP as a party was involved in any way. The hunt for Nkrumah's head was carried out by US and Briton, not any Ghanian. My people have been civilized hundreds of years ago, they do not murder others no matter how bad they feel about him. JJ was wrong when he killed the high court judges.
Concerned Ghana 10 years ago

the truth shall always come out. As it stands Kwame Nkrumah was bombed by the UP

the truth shall always come out. As it stands Kwame Nkrumah was bombed by the UP
Kafui Ama 10 years ago

Author: Kafui Ama
Date: 2009-07-23 01:44:06

Please be patient and read this to the end.

By Craig Murray, former Deputy British High Commissioner to Ghana

In 2004, Craig Murray was famously removed as British ...
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Author: Kafui Ama
Date: 2009-07-23 01:44:06

Please be patient and read this to the end.

By Craig Murray, former Deputy British High Commissioner to Ghana

In 2004, Craig Murray was famously removed as British Ambassador in Uzbekistan after accusing the Uzbek government of human rights abuses. But from 1998 to 2002, Murray served as Deputy High Commissioner in Ghana. Here he tells how, against all odds, he helped leave a legacy of free and fair elections in the African country... It was November 1999 and I'd been Deputy High Commissioner in Ghana for almost a year - the culmination of 15 years' Foreign Office service in Nigeria, Warsaw and the equatorial Africa department in London.

I'd always been passionate about Africa and had immersed myself in its minutiae. Nevertheless, my father, who had a timber yard in Ghana in the Sixties, offered a little extra counsel before I departed, aged 40. 'If you see any good-looking girl, aged about 30, light skinned, whatever you do, don't touch her - she could be your sister!'

Not that this was a big concern for me. My most pressing duty was the 1999 State Visit by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Enhanced Coverage Linking the Duke of Edinburgh, -Search using: Biographies Plus News, Most Recent 60 Days, accompanied by Robin Cook, the then Foreign Secretary. It was a three-day blur of activity, the teeming crowds displaying an uncomplicated and old-fashioned reverence.

A warning that the Duke was averse to looking at things without useful purpose proved absolutely right. As we stood looking at the strip of brass laid in a churchyard that marked the line of the Greenwich Meridian, he said to me: 'A line in the ground, eh? Very nice.'

Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana was richer than Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia or Singapore. Today, those countries are at least ten times as wealthy.

Corruption, cronyism, economic mismanagement, irresponsible lending by the West and the dumping of cheap food all did for Ghana. When I arrived with my wife Fiona, and children Jamie and Emily, Ghana had been ruled for 20 years by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

The son of a Stirlingshire pharmacist and a local woman, he seized power in a coup in 1979, but claimed to have won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, despite allegations of vote-rigging.
In his early years, Rawlings unleashed a political terror on Ghana. His campaign against the middle classes resembled Mao's Cultural Revolution. People were persecuted for having savings or two indoor lavatories. Market women were sometimes killed for 'profiteering'.

The Queen's visit delighted Rawlings, who craved international respectability. I, too, was determined to make the most of the trip, by helping ensure Rawlings gave up power by the start of 2001, as the constitution required because he had served two four-year terms.

The Queen's speech to the parliament in the capital, Accra, was to be the focus of the visit and I had contributed to its drafting. It contained the usual guff about a future based upon partnership, but there was a sting in the tail. 'Next, year, Mr President,' the Queen intoned, 'you will step down after two terms in office in accordance with your constitution.' The opposition benches went wild and the Queen stopped, looking in bewilderment at the hullabaloo.

Afterwards, Robin Cook was furious. 'It's a disaster. Who the hell drafted that?'

'Er, I did, Secretary of State,' I said. 'I might have guessed! Who the hell approved it?' 'You did.' Cook's Private Secretary had to dig out the draft he had signed. After the State banquet, I retired to a hotel bar with the Royal Household. The senior staff had withdrawn to allow the butlers, footmen and hairdressers to let off steam.

The party appeared, to a man, to be gay. Not just gay, but outrageously camp. We'd taken the hotel for the Royal party, but allowed the British Airways crew to stay. Now three cabin stewards, two Royal footmen and a Royal hairdresser were grouped around the piano singing hits from Cabaret. I was seated on a sofa and across from me in an armchair was a member of the Household who seemed out of place. The valet looked to be in his 60s, a grizzled NCO with tufts of hair either side of a bald pate, a boxer's nose and tattoos on his arms.

He was smoking roll-ups. I turned to the old warrior and said: 'Don't you find all this a bit strange sometimes?' He lent forward, put his hand on my bare knee below the kilt I wore on ceremonial occasions and said: 'Listen, ducks. I was in the Navy for 30 years.' I think he was joking, but some things are too weird even for me. The lower reaches of the Royal Household are one of them.

One enjoyable aspect of our time in Ghana was the constant stream of visitors. Among them was Peter Hain, the Minister for Africa. Hain, a good footballer, agreed to play in a charity match between children from a community football scheme and the High Commission.

Unfortunately, the ground was hard and the opposition turned out to be super-fit professionals. After a heavy tackle, I went down. Result: a dislocated shoulder. I couldn't move my arm for eight weeks. Other visitors included Clare Short, at the time Secretary of State for International Development.

She was in Ghana to try to persuade it to join a debt relief scheme. At a dinner for her, a Minister had made a speech about how much Ghana had learnt from the British Empire. Short stood up and expostulated: 'The British Empire! Don't tell me about the British Empire. I know about British colonialism. My father was Irish and we know about British colonialism. I'll tell you what the British did to your country. They exploited it, that's what they did. They exploited it.' After a few moments of stunned silence, the dinner continued.

On another occasion we were joined by Bobby Charlton, who came to Ghana seeking support for England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup. He was still an astounding player at 60 and it was good of him to get on the pitch for a local community football programme. Nevertheless, I found Charlton disappointing. He was self-centred and ratty - one of those heroes you wish you hadn't met.

Conversely, Roger Moore, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, was charming and suave, just as you would expect, with a fund of brilliant stories beginning with lines such as: 'One day, Frank, Dean, Tony and I decided to play a trick on Marilyn ... ' He was also well briefed about children's issues in Ghana and was prepared not just to do PR, but to get his hands dirty helping in refugee camps without a camera in sight.

I was less taken with Jamie Theakston.

The BBC were filming a wildlife programme in Ghana, looking at the endangered green turtle population near Ada. A group of young volunteers had accompanied the BBC team to help the newly-born turtles to reach the ocean. But one girl, in her mid-20s, had streams of mascara running down her cheeks. She claimed Theakston had just broken up with her - yet here he was, surrounded by young women, enjoying the adulation.

I had bigger concerns, however. Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections were due in December 2000 and there were signs that its 11 million voters might be preparing for a change of government. Enthusiasm for politics was everywhere. Even in the meanest village, people gathered under the banyan tree listening to FM stations on a battered transistor and arguing about the coming change.

In the West, tired of our politicians' deceit, we no longer much value democracy. It is wonderful to see a people exercising for the first time their power over those who would govern them. Our job was to see the elections were free and fair, with Britain funding a £10 million programme for photo-ID cards to reduce electoral fraud. The exercise eradicated one million fake names.

Another practical new weapon was indelible ink: when somebody voted, their thumb was painted to stop them casting more than one vote. India was the only source of a truly permanent ink that could not be washed or rubbed off. I had also persuaded the Foreign Office to provide experts from the Electoral Reform Society. Further valuable additions were two British MPs, Roger Gale and Nigel Jones.

Rawlings's party, the National Democratic Congress ( NDC), put up the vice President, John Atta Mills, as its presidential candidate. The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) fielded John Kufuor. There is a tribal element in Ghanaian politics: the Ewe people vote overwhelmingly NDC; the Ashanti overwhelmingly NPP.

It was clear the governing party would not abandon power easily. Alarmed that it would lose, it had the high court declare the ID cards illegal because they disenfranchised legitimate voters. But the ruling was to no avail - the people took over. Polling station officers decided they were going to use ID cards anyway.

When first- round votes on December 7 were tallied, Kufuor had 48.4 per cent against Atta Mills's 44.8 per cent. The opposition was heading for a small majority but, with no candidate exceeding 50 per cent, a run- off was required. Ghana's 30 or so FM stations were vital in bringing democracy, so it was no surprise that the NDC moved against them.

On the evening before the poll, I took Roger Gale and Nigel Jones to visit Joy FM, possibly Ghana's most influential station. We were sitting in the office when an armed posse of Rawlings's security men arrived, saying they were closing the station on the President's instructions.

‘Good evening,' I said. ‘I am Craig Murray, Deputy British High Commissioner, and these gentlemen are Mr Roger Gale MP and Mr Nigel Jones MP, members of the British Parliament.' Gale added: ' Obviously there has been some mistake.

I thought I heard you say that you were closing down the station, but we are here to visit our fellow democracy, Ghana, and democracies don't close down radio stations.' The goons left. Joy FM never was closed. However, the NDC started to think I was a part of their problem and they assigned a secret service team to follow me around.

As the second round on December 28 approached, we discovered a problem: not enough Indian ink. We had paid for more, but it had to be specially made and would not be ready until December 24. This was cutting it tight and action was needed. Chartering a private plane to set off from India on Christmas Eve was easier said than done. Whitehall was in festive mode and unlikely to sanction spending quickly, so I used the Embassy's budget to pay for it.

Ghana's government did not want the Indian ink to get in and I was concerned it would be delayed by customs officials. So on Christmas Day 2000, instead of eating turkey, I stood baking on the airport tarmac. When our plane taxied in, we unloaded the boxes of little ink bottles on to two trucks. I escorted these out of the VIP gateway, helped by a substantial tip to the guards.

The truck drivers then delivered the ink to regional centres for distribution to constituencies. This was a game being played for high stakes, with real danger of civil war.

Hotheads in the ruling party might claim electoral fraud and mount a military takeover. The Ashanti could also react violently to losing. Every embassy was updating evacuation plans. Around 1am, the results started to come in. There was a more or less consistent swing to the opposition candidate, John Kufuor. You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife.

The coolest man in Ghana that night was the wry, chain-smoking Electoral Commissioner, Kwadwo Afari- Gyan, who received constant threatening phone calls instructing him to fix the result. Each time, the Electoral Commissioner replied: ' The result will be what the result will be. I am just making sure it is fairly counted.' Then, taking his umpteenth call, he stiffened. He summoned me to listen: it was his wife. Soldiers had come to their bungalow, taking her and his children hostage and threatening to kill them if he did not deliver the ' right' result.

Kwadwo barked down the phone: ' Put their leader on.' ‘Listen you little *****,' he snarled. 'How dare you come to my house and threaten my wife and children. I am sitting here with the British Deputy High Commissioner and he knows what is happening. Now get out of my home before we have you thrown into jail!' The soldier said: ' Yes, sir; sorry, sir.' Kwadwo then told his wife not to worry and calmly returned to his work.

By 3am on the second night only two constituencies were still to declare. Even if every voter there went for Atta Mills, Kufuor could still not be beaten.

The opposition had won - an African country ... had shown that democratic change could be achieved peacefully. Kufuor's eight years as President saw economic growth of more than 70 per cent - the first prolonged period since independence when Ghana was not getting poorer. But Ghanaians chose to exercise their democratic right to change and earlier this month narrowly elected Atta Mills.

Ghana is the only country in Africa to achieve the democratic norm of power alternating peacefully between parties at successive uninterrupted elections.

As I look back on my involvement with Africa over 30 years, I remain most proud of helping Ghanaians to attain democracy. It is an example that sadly, the rest of the continent has so far done little to follow.

But Ghana remains there - a glimmer of hope, an example to others and a rebuke to cynics who claim democracy is not possible in Africa.
NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

Ghanians are not only the ORIGINATORS of 'TERRORISM' in Africa, but they are also the ARCHITECTS of 'XENOPHOBIC ACTS OF 'BLACK ON BLACK DISCRIMINATION' against their fellow Africans with their EVIL BUSIA'S ACO in the 60s. (N ...
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Ghanians are not only the ORIGINATORS of 'TERRORISM' in Africa, but they are also the ARCHITECTS of 'XENOPHOBIC ACTS OF 'BLACK ON BLACK DISCRIMINATION' against their fellow Africans with their EVIL BUSIA'S ACO in the 60s. (Never in the history of mama Africa that such a barbaric, inhumane and WICKED deportation of Africans ever happen in Africa), but it 'STARTED' by the evil and XENOPHOBIC Ghanians in the 60s.

In fact, the horrible seeds of 'BOKO HARAM TERRORISM, originated from Ghana 'all die be die METIMEHU' terrorism of the 50s and 60s. Need I say more?
PAA 10 years ago

Npp criminals, thieves, looters, nation wreckers, arsonists, murderers, lairs’ what npp are looking for is to come to power to loot the nation's resources. Npp thinks Ghanaians have soon forgotten when they were stealing go ...
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Npp criminals, thieves, looters, nation wreckers, arsonists, murderers, lairs’ what npp are looking for is to come to power to loot the nation's resources. Npp thinks Ghanaians have soon forgotten when they were stealing gold, money, land and other state properties. Ministers saving government loans in their individual foreign accounts and keeping the interest accrued before releasing the capital to nation's coffers. In fact, the SC is really wasting time that is why these crooks think they still stand a chance. Where on earth have you seen SC removing democratically elected president and putting in a 70 years old drug baron, greedy and arrogant man as president? You have been found out and God will punish you for wasting Ghanaian tax-payers money. Npp would surely pay for their demonic and evil plans. Useless npp leaders you have become a laughing stock, you know the truth yet you are fighting it are you not ashamed of yourself? Akuffo Addo, you will never be president of this great country. Npp are so desperate that each day they pollute the airwaves and electronic media with lies and lies and these lies are propagated and boomed by their mouthpieces such as adomfm, peacefm, joyfm, ghanaweb etc. Shame on to you. You will never succeed. Thieves!
kwesi 10 years ago

congrats kwaku baako.

congrats kwaku baako.
Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago

Are you kidding yourself, my stepson ?

You think that Nkrumah declaring Ghana a one-party state,sending people to jail without any charges(Preventive Detention Act)and declaring himself life president of Ghana was every Gh ...
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Are you kidding yourself, my stepson ?

You think that Nkrumah declaring Ghana a one-party state,sending people to jail without any charges(Preventive Detention Act)and declaring himself life president of Ghana was every Ghanaian's liking ?

You must be a very unfunny joker to think the intelligentsia in Ghana and freedom-loving Ghanaians were so dumb to accept to allow that dictator to take us for ride till his natural death.

Now listen my stepson, the lucky Ghanaian soldiers who returned from Congo and left behind hundreds of dead Ghanaian soldiers there(sent there by Nkrumah to fight his cause), were not ready to go to the then Rhodesia as was being planned by Kwame Nkrumah after Ian Smith unilaterally declared Rhodesia independent from Britain in 1965.
Wise Man from the North 10 years ago

Kweku Baaku is right. This Oquaye guy is a serial liar and a disgrace to learned people. I quite remember that before the supreme court case begun, he was all over the place claiming that Mahama had stolen the presidency. Unf ...
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Kweku Baaku is right. This Oquaye guy is a serial liar and a disgrace to learned people. I quite remember that before the supreme court case begun, he was all over the place claiming that Mahama had stolen the presidency. Unfortunately they have no evidence to the effect that Mahama did anything wrong. That was not part of their case. What I know about professors is that they are circumspect in their presentation of facts. This man doesn't appear to have any respect for intellectual honesty at all. How can someone with such a profile miss such a simple fact of history?
Yabonwura 10 years ago

dictatorial rule leads to assassinations. Ask Muammar Ghadaffi.Nkrumah richly deserved the Kulungugu experience which eventually carried him out of this world. Francis Kofi Nwia Ngoloma killed Danquah, his benefactor at Nsawa ...
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dictatorial rule leads to assassinations. Ask Muammar Ghadaffi.Nkrumah richly deserved the Kulungugu experience which eventually carried him out of this world. Francis Kofi Nwia Ngoloma killed Danquah, his benefactor at Nsawam and if that is allright then the bombings are also allright.
Bukom Boy 10 years ago

KuKRUDU MEANS KULUNGUGU

KuKRUDU MEANS KULUNGUGU
NANA KUFUOR 10 years ago

One party or two party rule, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the founder of Ghana. If it is to name the founder of bomb throwing, you can name Obetsebi-Lamptey and J.B. Danquah.

One party or two party rule, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the founder of Ghana. If it is to name the founder of bomb throwing, you can name Obetsebi-Lamptey and J.B. Danquah.
oyinasky 10 years ago

so why is the prof denying this was the case?

so why is the prof denying this was the case?
Boateng 10 years ago

Well you had Dr. Mills, trained by Nkrumah, and now you have Nkrumah's name all over the Country and Africa. No matter how hard they try Nkrumah never dies for sure.

They want to make a name for JB, Busia and others, tim ...
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Well you had Dr. Mills, trained by Nkrumah, and now you have Nkrumah's name all over the Country and Africa. No matter how hard they try Nkrumah never dies for sure.

They want to make a name for JB, Busia and others, time will tell, history was written years back and it cannot be rewritten. Each of them will be recorgnized by what they did.
BUMBEBO London 10 years ago

ATSU, IF YOU PRIDE YOURSELF THAT YOU'RE A GHANAIAN, THANK NKRUMAH AND PRAY FOR HIM AND YOUR GRANDPARENTS.

ATSU, IF YOU PRIDE YOURSELF THAT YOU'RE A GHANAIAN, THANK NKRUMAH AND PRAY FOR HIM AND YOUR GRANDPARENTS.
insight to the bone 10 years ago

Fake leaders claim thrones without building kingdoms as pepeni has done by murdering mills . today there is another divide and that is the north south whereby these Muslims think its their god given right to plunder and oppre ...
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Fake leaders claim thrones without building kingdoms as pepeni has done by murdering mills . today there is another divide and that is the north south whereby these Muslims think its their god given right to plunder and oppress the Akans. Just as pharaoh had pestilence after pestilence , no water , no electricity , no infrastructure , no development, chinese locusts poisoning our lands and waters ,corruption and death everywhere and the people suffer. they are blind to see the will of God and in their selfish fantasies think its a right or their turn to pillage the coffers . they send their chariots or special police and army to try in put fear in the children of God the Akans . we are told their plan is to start shooting first and again blame the Akans so we must now prepare and make sure when they do not a single one leaves alive . we number millions and can never be defeated by your mischievous fools . THe lord has promised us freedom and nobody with their trickery and biased toilet carrying pepeni judges can stop it.It is time to take the children to the villages and prepare to defend ourselves against this evil pepeni , long live the republic of Akan
bex 10 years ago

It hit home so Baako is now telling truth. I hope it is truth from now on. But a pox on both houses--UP and CPP. They were all peopled by no good people.

It hit home so Baako is now telling truth. I hope it is truth from now on. But a pox on both houses--UP and CPP. They were all peopled by no good people.
IDRIS PACAS alias pink sheet 10 years ago

Despite being a professor, a mere journalist like Baako had to correct you. Just as the university can withdrawn student's degree for plagiarizing, the church that this so-called prof belongs to must also be preparing to take ...
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Despite being a professor, a mere journalist like Baako had to correct you. Just as the university can withdrawn student's degree for plagiarizing, the church that this so-called prof belongs to must also be preparing to take back its reverend title given to him for lying about the whole nation's past. What a big disgrace! Anyway, his lack of shame sent him to this so-called self-acclaimed party of 'patriots'.
NYARKO U.S.A. 10 years ago

PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE THIS NAUGHTY PROFESSOR OCQUAYE HE IS A LIER .
HE IS ASHAMED OF HIS PARTY AND FAMILY EVILS THINGS THEY DID TO GHANA DURING DR. NKRUMAH'S PRESIDENCY.

PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE THIS NAUGHTY PROFESSOR OCQUAYE HE IS A LIER .
HE IS ASHAMED OF HIS PARTY AND FAMILY EVILS THINGS THEY DID TO GHANA DURING DR. NKRUMAH'S PRESIDENCY.
Nde 10 years ago

See, how even the Men of God can blatantly lie for their political parties?

See, how even the Men of God can blatantly lie for their political parties?
amoah wade3 10 years ago

you need your head to be examine

you need your head to be examine
THE PATRIOT 10 years ago

I wonder why this Chief Stomach Journalist, Kweku Baako, does not want to use part of his noko fio to buy a decent shirt. Why this obroni wawu shirt? What are you going to do with all the bribes you are taking.

Kweku Baako ...
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I wonder why this Chief Stomach Journalist, Kweku Baako, does not want to use part of his noko fio to buy a decent shirt. Why this obroni wawu shirt? What are you going to do with all the bribes you are taking.

Kweku Baako Jnr is unlike his father, when he took that infamous £5,000.00 bribe bought very expense dresses.

However, he spoke sense for once!
Egya Blay 10 years ago

Shame!You see how myopic your thoughts are. What some black people think about is dress, houses and cars. Very sorry for you, man. We worry so much about our psychological just because of poverty.

Shame!You see how myopic your thoughts are. What some black people think about is dress, houses and cars. Very sorry for you, man. We worry so much about our psychological just because of poverty.
william 10 years ago

Not surprised. But worrying that after failing to achieve mischievous and misguided aim he has added 'rev. minister' to his titles perhaps to make himself more politically credible! ANYWAY TOO LATE ocquaye! Others more powerf ...
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Not surprised. But worrying that after failing to achieve mischievous and misguided aim he has added 'rev. minister' to his titles perhaps to make himself more politically credible! ANYWAY TOO LATE ocquaye! Others more powerful than you tried and failed! As rev. minister hope you will allow GOD to speak to your hardened heart!
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

Or could it be that Mike Oquaye is high on some substance? Or he might have gotten very close to Nana Addo very early in the morning and gotten high from passive smoking!

This ugly old man is now competing with Kofi Juma i ...
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Or could it be that Mike Oquaye is high on some substance? Or he might have gotten very close to Nana Addo very early in the morning and gotten high from passive smoking!

This ugly old man is now competing with Kofi Juma in the issuing of stupid utterances just to court public attention. And not very intelligent utterances too!
Asempaye 10 years ago

If a so-called prof. i history can lie about the history of our country what next? This man should be fired from the university immediately. He is a disgrace to his profession and the nation.

If a so-called prof. i history can lie about the history of our country what next? This man should be fired from the university immediately. He is a disgrace to his profession and the nation.
1Lawyer 10 years ago

Mike Oquaye and co. are poisoning the political environment at the wrong time.
They should not cause more political division and anguish at a time when we are dangerously polarized along party lines waiting for the DECISION ...
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Mike Oquaye and co. are poisoning the political environment at the wrong time.
They should not cause more political division and anguish at a time when we are dangerously polarized along party lines waiting for the DECISION. "Booksmart" in not necessarily "homesmart" as we say in Ghana.
MATIGARI 10 years ago

...and he calls a Minister of the Gospel when he stood before everyone and tells lies. Kwaku Baako has exposed this fake minister of the Gospel. Do Historians need to twist facts in their favour even when the are Reverend Min ...
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...and he calls a Minister of the Gospel when he stood before everyone and tells lies. Kwaku Baako has exposed this fake minister of the Gospel. Do Historians need to twist facts in their favour even when the are Reverend Ministers?
amoah wade3 10 years ago

That Prof. cum Reverend Minister need a new reading glasses or revive his memory.

That Prof. cum Reverend Minister need a new reading glasses or revive his memory.
Oheneba 10 years ago

It cannot be over-emphasised that the political superstructure devised by colonial officials for eventual self-government had found no place for this comparatively large class. The petty bourgeoisie saw little prospect of sel ...
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It cannot be over-emphasised that the political superstructure devised by colonial officials for eventual self-government had found no place for this comparatively large class. The petty bourgeoisie saw little prospect of self-assertion and self-advancement within either the rural and traditional, or the urban and modern, set-up. The restructuring of traditional institutions was especially resented by the increasing number of literate commoners who saw the authoritarian and often illiterate chiefs, under the shelter of colonial authority, slight their particular abilities and skills. The urban petty bourgoisie-cousins of the educated commoners of the native authorities-saw clearly that neither Africanisation nor (on given terms) self-government was going to make much difference to their lot: the former would benefit those with much higher educational accomplishments than their own, the latter mainly the chiefs and the middle class. Nkrumah was excluded from the new phase of constitution-making which followed the 1948 riots. This merely confirmed the "young men"-the petty-bourgeois rank and file--of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), of which Nkrumah was then general secretary (and the focus of their support), in their suspicion that any constitution devised by the middle class and the chiefs was not likely to give them any major share in political power and its connecting economic opportunities. Their way to prosperity lay directly through power. They would need first to storm the gates of and capture the legislature. "Seek ye first the political kingdom and all things shall be added unto it." Nkrumah's maxim applied to the country as a whole, but his supporters saw it in less impersonal terms. His great achievement consisted in his ability to demonstrate the connection between political subjection and economic deprivation in personal as well as in general terms.

In consequence, the CPP was a repudiation not only of colonial rule but also, more important, of the hegemony of the African elite being trained as the understudy and heir-apparent of colonial rulers. The emergence of the CPP was in fact a new phase in the struggle for colonial succession. Because in the past the protagonists in the struggle were a very small number, and staked out their respective claims on the strength of either tradition or education and property, politics in the pre-CPP era was altogether a quiet and dignified affair. It was an exercise d la Burke in harmonising the interests and claims of the great estates of the realm, a disposition of functions and rewards among the
"natural rulers" of society unencumbered by the multitude. Politics in the CPP era was by contrast a noisy and hectic affair; it was the
politics of the market place and the election platform. Because the
new pretenders were a much more numerous class, they found in
numbers the strength denied them by tradition, education or property,
and attached sacral authority to universal franchise, supremacy of the
legislature, and the doctrine of majority rule. In the new battle the CPP was thus to have the advantage not only of numbers but also of its custodianship of the values and virtues of parliamentary democracy, which was more in line with native prejudices in England.

From the outset, therefore, the CPP leaders were concerned both to force constitutional advance along the road of full-fledged parliamentary
government and to establish the political credentials of their party as the true representative of the "masses". The Positive Action campaign of January 1950 was the outcome of their efforts to apply to their claims the sanction of mass action, although until the very last Nkrumah appeared to be in doubt as to its necessity under the circumstance.

Once begun, the campaign was relatively easily subdued by colonial officials, and indicated both a low level of political consciousness and poor organization. The Trades Union Congress, which by its strike action had precipitated Positive Action, was in the process completely disrupted, and the arrest of Nkrumah and a handful of other CPP leaders sufficed completely to demoralize the party rank and file = by Jitendra Mohan (1967).
DONBOLI 10 years ago

Kweku Baak jr is misleading ghanaians, the book he is refering to is a story book.
Nkrumah wasnt close to the bomb and he had no injury. Nkrumah came to Bolga from bawku that everyday and paid a visit to Bolga Naaba Abiliba ...
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Kweku Baak jr is misleading ghanaians, the book he is refering to is a story book.
Nkrumah wasnt close to the bomb and he had no injury. Nkrumah came to Bolga from bawku that everyday and paid a visit to Bolga Naaba Abiliba.
It was a story to make Nkrumah look
supernatural, even bombs cant kill him. Kweku Baak should not take story books to be history book because its misleads our younger generation. Things like Nkurumah the father of ghana indenpendence, how stupid can
anyone think Nkurumah was the father of
ghana independence. There were people
fighting in courts for independence was Nkurumah was born. There where more clever older and wise men and women far before Nkurumah went to the west to study.
Nkurumah is a leader of a political party forced on us by british.
Baak should try to get the facts first. Lots of papers on a talk show, is not a talk show because you reading. Stupidly refering to court cases. If somebody was charge and taken to court and found not quilty why are refering to them for. If are only charge if there is a proof. These were politically taken to face the court for something they didnt do.
When was Akosobo dam open. Nkurumah didnt go to upper volta because of volta river. Ghana dont get water from upper volta for volta river, they dam the river twice in 50 miles. Nkurumah was campaigning with Imoro Ayana and Asamani when the incident happened with the bomb.
Akosua Tabuwaa 10 years ago

Keep quite morons.I was there as a member of the young pioneers when the bomb exploded and lost a friend.Nkrumah was injured and the press tried to hide that.

Keep quite morons.I was there as a member of the young pioneers when the bomb exploded and lost a friend.Nkrumah was injured and the press tried to hide that.
HHMMMMN!!! 10 years ago

Was Nkrumah not behind the killing of Akufo Addo and all of his political enemies? What a hell are you making of the attempted assasination of some one who killed all his political opponents. I like Nkrumah but don;t bring th ...
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Was Nkrumah not behind the killing of Akufo Addo and all of his political enemies? What a hell are you making of the attempted assasination of some one who killed all his political opponents. I like Nkrumah but don;t bring this argument. When it comes to assasinations, Nkrumah was only second to JJ Rawlings in our political history'
maxwell. akw. usa 10 years ago

I don't understand why k.baako are defineding nkrumah he is like jj Rawlings

I don't understand why k.baako are defineding nkrumah he is like jj Rawlings
Kweku Boateng 10 years ago

For the record, it was the bomb throwers UP who organised and shot Krobo Edusei's daughter to death in Kumasi while she was cooking. Prof Mike, true or false!

For the record, it was the bomb throwers UP who organised and shot Krobo Edusei's daughter to death in Kumasi while she was cooking. Prof Mike, true or false!
WHISTLE 10 years ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH U DONT EVEN AGREE WITH EACH OTHER HAHAHAHAHAH FAKE RELATIONSHIP IN THE NPP HEHEHEHEH LED BY AKUFO ADDICT HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOO

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH U DONT EVEN AGREE WITH EACH OTHER HAHAHAHAHAH FAKE RELATIONSHIP IN THE NPP HEHEHEHEH LED BY AKUFO ADDICT HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOO
AMANFO-K. 10 years ago

AND P/NDC KILLED 3 JUDGES AND JOHN MILLS.
BY THE WAY IS NKRUMAH A GHANAIAN AT ALL?

AND P/NDC KILLED 3 JUDGES AND JOHN MILLS.
BY THE WAY IS NKRUMAH A GHANAIAN AT ALL?
Kweku Boateng 10 years ago

Kweku, thank you for stating the facts. My brother Abdul Malik, you are the real son of Nkrumah's last defence mininster. UP leaders are bomb throwers, first coup organisers, first supporters of those who opposed the constr ...
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Kweku, thank you for stating the facts. My brother Abdul Malik, you are the real son of Nkrumah's last defence mininster. UP leaders are bomb throwers, first coup organisers, first supporters of those who opposed the construction of the Akosombo dam. UP even opposed free education for the north! Up leaders are behind the assassination of Major General Bawah, CDS of the Ghana armed forces. UP leaders are tribalistic, hence the cabinet decision not to promote Colonel Bob Kotei, a Ga to the position of commander of Micheal Camp, Tema in 1971, rather promoted LT Col Kutu Acheampong an Ashanti from the Ashanti region. Let the old bankrupt , inept professor Mike come out and challenge these facts. NPP leaders, why did you not make Major General Mahama from Bimbilla the CDS in 2001? God bless Ghana.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Why did Ako Adjei and Tawiah Adamafio , CPP die hards appear as defendants in the bombing .? Who prepared the bouquet for the little girl to present to Nkrumah ,the UP ? Not all of us are fools to believe the propaganda you ...
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Why did Ako Adjei and Tawiah Adamafio , CPP die hards appear as defendants in the bombing .? Who prepared the bouquet for the little girl to present to Nkrumah ,the UP ? Not all of us are fools to believe the propaganda you put out there. Your father was one of the certifcateless
Kweku Boateng 10 years ago

JAK has no certificate and yet is a good organiser, stop this nonsense and insults. And yet you need our votes......

JAK has no certificate and yet is a good organiser, stop this nonsense and insults. And yet you need our votes......
Akosua Tabuwaa 10 years ago

They appeared as suspects who were freed by the courts.It can happen to anyone.

They appeared as suspects who were freed by the courts.It can happen to anyone.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Why did Ako Adjei and Tawiah Adamafio , CPP die hards appear as defendants in the bombing .? Who prepared the bouquet for the little girl to present to Nkrumah ,the UP ? Not all of us are fools to believe the propaganda you ...
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Why did Ako Adjei and Tawiah Adamafio , CPP die hards appear as defendants in the bombing .? Who prepared the bouquet for the little girl to present to Nkrumah ,the UP ? Not all of us are fools to believe the propaganda you put out there. We know your father was one of the certifcateless veranda boys who as a minister help run the country down .Many Ghanaians are educated and wiser now and are seeing through the idiocy of your propaganda. I feel sorry for murderer . Rawlings who embraced the CPP members in his regime and have now spit him out.
NANA YAW AFRIYIE 10 years ago

YOU HAVE ALL THIS FACTS AND STILL IN BED WITH THEM? KWEKU BE CAREFUL, YOUR CHILD IS TOO YOUNG TO LOOSE YOU.

YOU HAVE ALL THIS FACTS AND STILL IN BED WITH THEM? KWEKU BE CAREFUL, YOUR CHILD IS TOO YOUNG TO LOOSE YOU.
Nii 10 years ago

Ghanaians are the most wicked in the world look at how they Killed ,Robert Mensah the legend ,your soul rest in peace,Baba yayra ,Yaa Naa,the killings in Ashanti Newtown and so on and so forth you name them.

Ghanaians are the most wicked in the world look at how they Killed ,Robert Mensah the legend ,your soul rest in peace,Baba yayra ,Yaa Naa,the killings in Ashanti Newtown and so on and so forth you name them.
AMANFO-K. 10 years ago

MR. BAAKO SHOULD EDUCATE US WHETHER NKRUMAH WAS A GHANAIAN AT ALL? WHAT THEN WAS THE NAME OF HIS FATHER, MOTHER, AND THE UNCLE WHOM HE VISITED EN-ROUTE TO USA?

MR. BAAKO SHOULD EDUCATE US WHETHER NKRUMAH WAS A GHANAIAN AT ALL? WHAT THEN WAS THE NAME OF HIS FATHER, MOTHER, AND THE UNCLE WHOM HE VISITED EN-ROUTE TO USA?
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Ask again ,brother.

Ask again ,brother.
Julor Agyekum Kwakwe (JAK) 10 years ago

But this Offei Boahene from Ghana Ashanti royal family ruled secretely in Ivory Coast.

But this Offei Boahene from Ghana Ashanti royal family ruled secretely in Ivory Coast.
Moses 10 years ago

Offei Boahene brought peace and prosperity to Ivory Coast by his wisdom unlike Nkrumah who brought pain and suffering to Ghana. If not for the stupidity of black Africans who will seek power at all cost and which brought civi ...
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Offei Boahene brought peace and prosperity to Ivory Coast by his wisdom unlike Nkrumah who brought pain and suffering to Ghana. If not for the stupidity of black Africans who will seek power at all cost and which brought civil war to the Ivory Coast, Ghana will not be anywhere close to Ivory Coast in terms of development.
korsivi 10 years ago

listen, there was nothing like "Ghana" before 6th march 1957. the current geographical territory called Ghana was birthed(founded) on 6th march 1957 and the founder was Kwame Nkrumah.

listen, there was nothing like "Ghana" before 6th march 1957. the current geographical territory called Ghana was birthed(founded) on 6th march 1957 and the founder was Kwame Nkrumah.
Humphrey Mensah 10 years ago

Robert Otchere and Yaw Manu were not leading members of the UP. Since when did Yaw Manu and Robert Otchere became a leading members of the UP?

Robert Otchere and Yaw Manu were not leading members of the UP. Since when did Yaw Manu and Robert Otchere became a leading members of the UP?
MenayeAFUAforiwa 10 years ago

So what were they? Executioners of that party? Please tell us for we want to know.Either Mr. Oquaye was lying to us or what?

So what were they? Executioners of that party? Please tell us for we want to know.Either Mr. Oquaye was lying to us or what?
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

...By the time these bombing, traitors, evil, elitists bunch finish with their re-writing of history, even your father will be deleted from the annals of Ghana. They don't value or respect any Ghanaian apart from their so cal ...
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...By the time these bombing, traitors, evil, elitists bunch finish with their re-writing of history, even your father will be deleted from the annals of Ghana. They don't value or respect any Ghanaian apart from their so called Royal Blood.

It is sad for the sufferings and image of KOFI BAAKU to see you blindly defend them every week.

Please Kwaku, take some courses and learn to value the country your father helped Nkrumah to create for you.

I country, where no matter the consequences, you are free as a bird to succeed even without a proper background in formal education.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

The hymn writer summed his words in these way,tears is our language but God understand"
My uncle Keichou a Police officer was the one who pushed Nkrumah to the ground to save him.
He was very loyal to Nkrumah,sadly he went ...
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The hymn writer summed his words in these way,tears is our language but God understand"
My uncle Keichou a Police officer was the one who pushed Nkrumah to the ground to save him.
He was very loyal to Nkrumah,sadly he went into exile with Nkrumah and died there.
It was this man who taught my father how to read and write in Klikor Afegame in the Volta Region.
when he gave an Army blanket to my father as a gift and my father was arrested in Accra,my daddy never mentioned his name.
My father was given two options,either he goes to the Gold Coast army to join the West African Frontier forces and go to Burma or go to prison.
My father joined the Army and went to Burma Rangoon.
When my father and the 1 Battalion went to the Congo in 1961,Nkrumah use to come to the Barracks with Keicho and other Politicians to greet the soldiers wives.
I was blessed to shake Dr Nkrumah's hand as a Barracks boy on two Occasions.
Lets not forget those who gave their lives to Nkrumah and Ghana.
Salifu Dargati and General Bawah.
MenayeAFUAforiwa 10 years ago

Posterity will always remember them forever. Those are the people the late US president Nixon called"the silent majority." God bless them all including you late uncle and father.

Posterity will always remember them forever. Those are the people the late US president Nixon called"the silent majority." God bless them all including you late uncle and father.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN, THEY SHALL BE REMEMBERED. INDEED, THE SILENT MAJORITY WILL REMEMBER THEM. GREAT NATIONALS.

FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN, THEY SHALL BE REMEMBERED. INDEED, THE SILENT MAJORITY WILL REMEMBER THEM. GREAT NATIONALS.
NYARKO U.S.A. 10 years ago

MR. KWAKU BAAKO JR. IS 100% RIGHT.
THIS PROF. OCQUAYE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT OR HE IS SO ASHAMED FOR THE YOUNG ONES AND HIS CONGREGATIONS TO KNOW THE HISTORY OF THEIR VIOLENT PAST.
YES MR. BAAKO IS RIGHT U.P. W ...
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MR. KWAKU BAAKO JR. IS 100% RIGHT.
THIS PROF. OCQUAYE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT OR HE IS SO ASHAMED FOR THE YOUNG ONES AND HIS CONGREGATIONS TO KNOW THE HISTORY OF THEIR VIOLENT PAST.
YES MR. BAAKO IS RIGHT U.P. WAS BEHIND ALL THOSE DAMAGE , ASSASINATIONS ATTEMPT , OVERTHROW OF BR. NKRUMAH AND BOMBINGS AT CPP RALLIES.
I ADVISE PROF. OCQUAYE TO GO BACK AND READ HISTORY BEFORE HE TELL LIES TO HIS CONGREGATINS AND POST HIS LIES TRASH ON GHANAWEB.
WE ARE STILL BITTER FOR THE WAY YOUR U.P. AND PRPGRESS PARTY TREATED DR. NKRUMAH AND PUT HIM IN HIS EARLY GRAVE A REAL HUMAN BEING WE MISSED TILL NOW.
GO TO HELL PROF.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Have ever heard of the Action Troopers ?

Have ever heard of the Action Troopers ?
NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

OCQUAYE IS TWISTING HISTORY TO THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THE YOUTH WHO DO NOT KNOW GHANA'S HISTORY. SHAME ONTO OCQUAYE A LYING PROFESSOR

OCQUAYE IS TWISTING HISTORY TO THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THE YOUTH WHO DO NOT KNOW GHANA'S HISTORY. SHAME ONTO OCQUAYE A LYING PROFESSOR
Kweku Boateng 10 years ago

Typical of the NPP, Nkrumah was not a Ghanaian. This is what they say when they loose the debate. Nkrumah was full Ghanaian if not the British would have prevented him from being PM. If he was not Gold Coaster/Ghanaian, he wo ...
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Typical of the NPP, Nkrumah was not a Ghanaian. This is what they say when they loose the debate. Nkrumah was full Ghanaian if not the British would have prevented him from being PM. If he was not Gold Coaster/Ghanaian, he would not have contested the 1951 election for the Accra central seat, where prisoner Nkrumah beat JAK' father. Thanks to the great people of Accra central and the wisdom of Komla Gbedemah for the great victory. In addition to throwing boms, the NPP/UP leaders sat and allowed Yaa Naa Andani 111 to be murdered in Yendi in 2002. In addition, NPP leaders after just ruling for 8 years became millionaires , while Nkrumah had NOTHING after ruling from 1951 to 1966. Hotel Wawa is there for all to see. Was the great Che a Cuban?
KWAME 10 years ago

Mr. Baako, this is really the truth about the NPP. This time, you are honest on the side of history.

Mr. Baako, this is really the truth about the NPP. This time, you are honest on the side of history.
A. K. S. 10 years ago

I am a member of NPP and I was also a member of Ghana Young Pioneer during the era of the late President of Ghana Osageefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. What kweku Baako revealed was true, the Kulungugu boomb was planned by the members o ...
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I am a member of NPP and I was also a member of Ghana Young Pioneer during the era of the late President of Ghana Osageefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. What kweku Baako revealed was true, the Kulungugu boomb was planned by the members of United Party (UP). Robert Otchere and Yaw Manu were convicted. I remember these two were most of the time referred to as boomb throwers.
Fikos va 10 years ago

Kwaku I thought u were going to give us real facts about how the 'convicts" plotted the attacked and beyond resonable doubt evidence and confessions from the culprits none of all that and said they did cos they were "sentenc ...
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Kwaku I thought u were going to give us real facts about how the 'convicts" plotted the attacked and beyond resonable doubt evidence and confessions from the culprits none of all that and said they did cos they were "sentence"hahaha come again Kwaku .People have been sentence to countless number of yrs and tend out to all mistaken identity guess what might have happened under DICTATOR Nkrumah Kwaku let democracy reign!u were my hero during the revolutionary days have u forgotten so sooooon?
DESCARTES 10 years ago

I DOUBT BECAUSE AKO ADJEI WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER THE 1966 COUP.

I DOUBT BECAUSE AKO ADJEI WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER THE 1966 COUP.
Obi 10 years ago

I LOVE U Kweku Baako Jr. for telling the children the truth,not only Kulungugu, but Accra Sport stadium also.

I LOVE U Kweku Baako Jr. for telling the children the truth,not only Kulungugu, but Accra Sport stadium also.
ICONIC-07 10 years ago

THE SO-CALLED "PROFESSOR" ACQUAYE IS A TYPICAL EDUCATED ILLITERATE, LIKE HIS LAME DUCK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE UGLY AKUFO ADDO, WHO POLLUTES THE MINDS OF INNOCENT STUDENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY AGAINST GREAT LEADERS OF GAHANA.

U ...
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THE SO-CALLED "PROFESSOR" ACQUAYE IS A TYPICAL EDUCATED ILLITERATE, LIKE HIS LAME DUCK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE UGLY AKUFO ADDO, WHO POLLUTES THE MINDS OF INNOCENT STUDENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY AGAINST GREAT LEADERS OF GAHANA.

UP-PP-NPP IS INWARD-LOOKING ASHANTI-AKYEM TRIBAL PARTY THAT DISTORTS THE TRUTH AND FAIL TO SEE ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE WHO NOT ASAHNTI-AKYEMS.

GHANA AND TRUE HUMAN-GHANAIANS, OTHER ASHANTI-AKYEMS, MUST BE AWARE OF THESE DANGEROUS DIVISIVE GROUPS, WHO THINK THEY'RE THE BEST OF THE BEST IN GHANA.
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLSSSSSS!

GHANA THEY'RE THE MOST UGLIEST, UNINTELLIGENT, CORRUPT, LOUD-MOUTHED HUMAN CREATURE GHANA HAS EVER ENCOUNTED. FOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLSSSS!

HOW IN HEAVEN'S SAKE COULD SHORT-UGLY UNINTELLIGENT TRIBAL INWARD-LOOKING AKUFO ADDO MAKE SUCH SILLY CLAIM THAT "THE BEST VISIONARY GHANA HAS EVER EXPERIENCED IS BUSUA" ?

BUSIA MY ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! DANQUAH MY ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! AKUFO ADDO MY ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! THE UNIQUENESS ABOUT ALL THESE FOOLS IS THAT THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE AND CONTINUE TO BE HUNGRY FOR POWER, AND SUCH IS TYPICAL OF CORRUPT ASHANTI-AKYEMS.

ALUTA CONTINUA!!!!!!!
KKK 10 years ago

OLD NOTE BOOK PROFESSOR

OLD NOTE BOOK PROFESSOR
JIM CROW 10 years ago

Nkrumah dismissed Sir ARKU Korsah as CJ. Van Lare had his secondment as President to East Africa Court of Appeal withdrawn. Justice Akufo-Addo 'retired'. Nkrumah set up another Court of Jurors all CPP members. This court sent ...
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Nkrumah dismissed Sir ARKU Korsah as CJ. Van Lare had his secondment as President to East Africa Court of Appeal withdrawn. Justice Akufo-Addo 'retired'. Nkrumah set up another Court of Jurors all CPP members. This court sentenced all three Ako Adjei, Coffie Crabbe and Adamafio, to death which Nkrumah later commuted to 20 years imprisonment. From Kwaku's LOGIC if these high ranking CPP members are incriminated in the bomb throwing then the CPP is a bomb throwing party. Because even Yaw Manu and Okyere were junior members of the UP.
TK 10 years ago

IS THIS PROF. OCQUAYE WHO CALLS HIMSELF A POLITICAL SCIENTIST? A HISTORIAN? A REVEREND MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL? HE IS A SHAME AND A BIG DISGRACE TO HIS TO ALL HIS TEACHERS FOR DISGRACING THEM.HE IS NOT FIT TO BE A SO CALLED RE ...
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IS THIS PROF. OCQUAYE WHO CALLS HIMSELF A POLITICAL SCIENTIST? A HISTORIAN? A REVEREND MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL? HE IS A SHAME AND A BIG DISGRACE TO HIS TO ALL HIS TEACHERS FOR DISGRACING THEM.HE IS NOT FIT TO BE A SO CALLED REV. SHAME NPP PLITICIAN
Nana Yaw Effah 10 years ago

Have you heard of the name MALAM TULA who was given a bomb by the then UP leadership to kill Dr Nkrumah at Prempeh Assembly Hall in the early sixties?

Have you heard of the name MALAM TULA who was given a bomb by the then UP leadership to kill Dr Nkrumah at Prempeh Assembly Hall in the early sixties?
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

We all know that they started with "Matemeho", terrorizing Ghanaians and continued with 8 assassination attempts on Dr.Nkrumah`s life!They were the bomb throwers and always will remain like that.Why do we have to listen to th ...
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We all know that they started with "Matemeho", terrorizing Ghanaians and continued with 8 assassination attempts on Dr.Nkrumah`s life!They were the bomb throwers and always will remain like that.Why do we have to listen to this pigmy?I am older than this pigmy and know what really happened those days.
Salutation 10 years ago

The NPP's are just tracing the foot steps of the UP. The are all bomb throwers period

The NPP's are just tracing the foot steps of the UP. The are all bomb throwers period
JIM CROW 10 years ago

Nkrumah set up another court, which sentenced Ako Adjei, Coffie Crabbe, T. Adamafio to death by hanging. So if Yaw Manu and Otchere's involvement make the UP bomb throwers, then the CPP by logic are also bomb throwers.

Nkrumah set up another court, which sentenced Ako Adjei, Coffie Crabbe, T. Adamafio to death by hanging. So if Yaw Manu and Otchere's involvement make the UP bomb throwers, then the CPP by logic are also bomb throwers.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

BECAUSE NKRUMAH JUST HATED EVIL EVEN IF IT WAS FROM HIS OWN. HE DID NOT MAKE A FARCE OUT OF THE UP MEN BECAUSE HE KNEW THEIR LIKE. HE WAS MORE ANGRY WITH THE TRAITORS AND COLLABORATORS FROM HIS CAMP.

BECAUSE NKRUMAH JUST HATED EVIL EVEN IF IT WAS FROM HIS OWN. HE DID NOT MAKE A FARCE OUT OF THE UP MEN BECAUSE HE KNEW THEIR LIKE. HE WAS MORE ANGRY WITH THE TRAITORS AND COLLABORATORS FROM HIS CAMP.
JIM CROW 10 years ago

WHAT LOGIC IS THIS? YOU WILL MAKE OUTSIDERS LOOK DOWN UPON AFRICANS. WHAT KIND OF THINKING IS THIS?

WHAT LOGIC IS THIS? YOU WILL MAKE OUTSIDERS LOOK DOWN UPON AFRICANS. WHAT KIND OF THINKING IS THIS?
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

That is the logic of a man who had a bomb go off in his hand. This is not history or propaganda, it was real. Think. Why are some people so block headed.

That is the logic of a man who had a bomb go off in his hand. This is not history or propaganda, it was real. Think. Why are some people so block headed.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

Are you saying Brobbey is still part of the NPP and everything he does can be blamed on the NPP.
Why is it when NPP does thing bad, you guys try and find a similar wrong from your opponents in this case the CPP who help NPP ...
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Are you saying Brobbey is still part of the NPP and everything he does can be blamed on the NPP.
Why is it when NPP does thing bad, you guys try and find a similar wrong from your opponents in this case the CPP who help NPP to power in 2000.
When it is good, you take all the glory.
When it is someone else, you come down on them like a brick of thunder. Hypocrites. You've lost my Ashanti vote forever.
Sankofa 10 years ago

Adamafio wrote a book later declaring his innocence.

Why would an ideological struggle between the right wing and left wing in the CPP lead to some members of one wing trying to assassinate Kwame Nkrumah? What would they g ...
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Adamafio wrote a book later declaring his innocence.

Why would an ideological struggle between the right wing and left wing in the CPP lead to some members of one wing trying to assassinate Kwame Nkrumah? What would they gain?

I rather suspect that Ako Adjei, Coffie Crabbe and Tawiah Adamafio were framed so as to reduce their influence in the CPP and allow the left wing to gain control.
A concerned citizen 10 years ago

Mike Ocquaye should be ashamed of himself.He has just opened a can of worms. He is a reverend minister and should know that lying is a sin. I am glad he is no longer teaching because a person like him can easily mislead his s ...
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Mike Ocquaye should be ashamed of himself.He has just opened a can of worms. He is a reverend minister and should know that lying is a sin. I am glad he is no longer teaching because a person like him can easily mislead his students.He doesn't seem to have a heart by pouring out all these lies in the presence of Nkrumah's daughter. This is one of the various reasons why i do not like the NPP party. A reverend minister lying just to win political favors for his party.
Thank you Mr.Baako for clearing the air.
Mike Ocqyae, i just want to let you know that a good name is better than political favors. Shame on you for tarnishing your image for political favors.
Kwasi B. Kontor Duesseldorf, Germany 10 years ago

Dear Ghanaians please stop all those stupid old stories and let us look forward. Ghana is very rich Land but we have the most Tribalism, selfish,corruption, bribery and foolish people in the south Sahara.That is why we can no ...
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Dear Ghanaians please stop all those stupid old stories and let us look forward. Ghana is very rich Land but we have the most Tribalism, selfish,corruption, bribery and foolish people in the south Sahara.That is why we can not or never be develop. The only thing we know is to insult each other. Clever argument is out. We forgot that from north to south and from east to west we are all brothers and sisters. We must come together and make use of our natural gift and stop begging from Europe and other state for help. We are rich from the nature. Please stop making deferences with political parties, Religious and Tribalism. Dr. Nkrumah and co are past and we will never get them here to answer any question.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

NO! that title goes to Nigeria. Yes! there are big problems but not most or first. Mind your choice of words.

NO! that title goes to Nigeria. Yes! there are big problems but not most or first. Mind your choice of words.
idiot 10 years ago

there are the same old gays nothing has change tell the trueth they can not fool us anymore.npp in up the same old gays with the same anbitions.

there are the same old gays nothing has change tell the trueth they can not fool us anymore.npp in up the same old gays with the same anbitions.
MENSAH 10 years ago

Professor.Oquaye & Mr.Kwaku Baako have brought two different vies on THE KULUNGUGU BOMBING that NKRUMAH escaped by a fraction of a second.
I REMEMBER IT VERY WELL,BECAUSE I WAS TEN YEARS OLD,BY THEN,AND COULD READ THE DAILY ...
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Professor.Oquaye & Mr.Kwaku Baako have brought two different vies on THE KULUNGUGU BOMBING that NKRUMAH escaped by a fraction of a second.
I REMEMBER IT VERY WELL,BECAUSE I WAS TEN YEARS OLD,BY THEN,AND COULD READ THE DAILY GRAPHIC,WHICH I WAS SELLING EVERY MORNING BEFORE GOING TO SCHOOL.
In the former's view,there could be some truth too.Because,those ADAMAFIO,AKO ADJEI,KOFI GRABBE,who were in the /circles/confines of NKRUMAH'S ADMINISTRATION,could have also cause such a mutiny,without the knowledge of the president.

WHY DO I SAY THIS:

Satan's most favourite entry point,in anybody's life,is always through someone close to you.EXAMPLES ARE:

GOD - SATAN,
JESUS - JUDAS ISCARIOT
ADAM - EVE
ABRAHAM - LOT
JOSEPH - HIS BRETHREN
ESSAU - JACOB
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
If someone will trap you in anything bad,please,do not look/focus on or suspect your enemies alone,buy someone in your own family,a friend of your's(girl or boy,a classmate etc:
SOMEONE CLOSEST TO YOU COULD BE THE ORCHESTRATOR OF YOUR DOWNFALL.
Your friends provide comfort.
Your enemies provide promotion.
Enemies turn nobody into somebody:

Without Goliath,David might have been remaining in history,without any significance,as a mere shepherd boy,on a hillside.
GOLIATH WAS AN ENEMY TO THE ISRAELITES,WHOM DAVID FOUGHT TO CONQUER,TO ATTAIN SIGNIFICANCE(A KING IN THE END).
YOUR FAMILY IS YOUR SCHOOL.
If you survive in your own family's attack/persecution,you would thrive in the whole wide world.
Professor Aquaye,might also be right.
Jeff, UK 10 years ago

This is disgraceful, a rev. minister, lawyer, political scientist lying about facts. These are the kind of people wishing to rule GH. God forbid

This is disgraceful, a rev. minister, lawyer, political scientist lying about facts. These are the kind of people wishing to rule GH. God forbid
tiger shark 10 years ago

ONLY THE NAME HAS CHANGED.They have changed their Name several times as the chameleon chamges ist colour.IT WAS UGCC THEN UPthen pp and now npp but
the ideology remains the same.the current npp gang are children and Grand ch ...
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ONLY THE NAME HAS CHANGED.They have changed their Name several times as the chameleon chamges ist colour.IT WAS UGCC THEN UPthen pp and now npp but
the ideology remains the same.the current npp gang are children and Grand children of ugcc.up.pp gang.apart from the Name nothing has changed,the ideology and the way of doing things remain the same.we would understand why the pda was neccessary.this Party believes in violence to attain their means
Truth 10 years ago

I am wondering where that so-called reverend and professor was doing during those bombing. He might have been smoking some weeds and in the world of his own. Also wondering how he got into teaching wrong stuff to his student. ...
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I am wondering where that so-called reverend and professor was doing during those bombing. He might have been smoking some weeds and in the world of his own. Also wondering how he got into teaching wrong stuff to his student. Oh, Ghana. All these fools allowed to teach our kids over the years. This is why we have lower standard of education.
fuck npp 10 years ago

FUCKING SCHOOL DROP OUT, WITH HIS RENT A NEWSPAPER SHIT .. YOUR PAPER COLLECTS MONEYTO WRITE LIBELOUS STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE. FUCKING PEDOPHILE>

FUCKING SCHOOL DROP OUT, WITH HIS RENT A NEWSPAPER SHIT .. YOUR PAPER COLLECTS MONEYTO WRITE LIBELOUS STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE. FUCKING PEDOPHILE>
SAA-RA MENSA 10 years ago

AM SCARED BY THE CURRENT CROP OF REV. MINISTERS, ESPECIALLY IF PROF. OQUAYE IS ONE OF THEM.

AM SCARED BY THE CURRENT CROP OF REV. MINISTERS, ESPECIALLY IF PROF. OQUAYE IS ONE OF THEM.
Kanlo 10 years ago

The UP people have always been known for their lies. This same Prof Oquaye who says he is a Reverend Minister once lied that the Akosombo Dam, the Tema harbour and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology were all D ...
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The UP people have always been known for their lies. This same Prof Oquaye who says he is a Reverend Minister once lied that the Akosombo Dam, the Tema harbour and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology were all Danquah's ideas. Ironically shortly after Nkrumah's overthrow in 1966, Busia who was in charge of civic education sponsored the ministry of information to come out with a pamphlet authored by Ghanatta which condemned all thes projects as useless prestige projects. I have a copy of the pamphlet now.
Political Science Analyst 10 years ago

11th. August must be marked officially as Heros & Victims Day in Ghana from henceforth.

11th. August must be marked officially as Heros & Victims Day in Ghana from henceforth.
KANO 10 years ago

LOOK AT HIM POSING LIKE A CHIMP.
IT'S ONLY IN GHANA THAT SUCH A JOURNALIST WILL HAVE A VOICE, AND EVEN A NEWSPAPER TO "EDIT".

LOOK AT HIM POSING LIKE A CHIMP.
IT'S ONLY IN GHANA THAT SUCH A JOURNALIST WILL HAVE A VOICE, AND EVEN A NEWSPAPER TO "EDIT".
Justman 10 years ago

THESE USELESS POLITICIANS HAVE POISENED AND CONTINUE TO POISEN THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN AND GENERATION YET UNBORN. FROM GOLD COAST, NKRUMAH,KOTOAKA,ANKRAH, AFRIFA, BUSIA, ACHEAMPONG, AKUFFO, RAWLINGS, KUFOUR & ATTA MILLS TIM ...
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THESE USELESS POLITICIANS HAVE POISENED AND CONTINUE TO POISEN THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN AND GENERATION YET UNBORN. FROM GOLD COAST, NKRUMAH,KOTOAKA,ANKRAH, AFRIFA, BUSIA, ACHEAMPONG, AKUFFO, RAWLINGS, KUFOUR & ATTA MILLS TIME AND TILL THIS COURT CASE. SOMETHINGS MUST CHANGE.
Kwabena Gyamfi 10 years ago

Kwaku Baako forgot to add that Nkrumah kicked against the court's decision to free the CPP elements. In fact Adamafio, Ako Adjei and Crabbe were retrialled and sentenced. The original judges had been dismissed by Nkrumah for ...
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Kwaku Baako forgot to add that Nkrumah kicked against the court's decision to free the CPP elements. In fact Adamafio, Ako Adjei and Crabbe were retrialled and sentenced. The original judges had been dismissed by Nkrumah for setting free the CPP elements.
TWEEEAAA 10 years ago

Yes Ako Adjei and co were put to trial because they weren't vigilant. Why wont they be put to trials after all u need not only to be a UP member to be against Dr. Nkrumah. The criminals in the CPP were lunch partners of the U ...
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Yes Ako Adjei and co were put to trial because they weren't vigilant. Why wont they be put to trials after all u need not only to be a UP member to be against Dr. Nkrumah. The criminals in the CPP were lunch partners of the Up and Ako adjei and co were not exceptions. Mathematics i think should be compulsory for all Ghanaian politicians because their logic is very bad. Is former president Kufuor not an enemy to Nana Akuffo- Addo? Logic tells me, he can easily join hands with the so called distance enemy to bomb nana Akuffo Addo. Thou shall not murder as in the bible does not only mean stabbing physically. It can also be a silent or virtual one.
Victor A. Young 10 years ago

I want Mr. Kwaku Baako to note that in nowhere under the Sun will anyone or soul endure oppression, suffering and pain under any power, force or rule. Nkrumah who was brought down by leaders of the UGCC, turned traitor.

T ...
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I want Mr. Kwaku Baako to note that in nowhere under the Sun will anyone or soul endure oppression, suffering and pain under any power, force or rule. Nkrumah who was brought down by leaders of the UGCC, turned traitor.

Those who're trying to demonize the UGCC should quickly understand that our National Anthem clearly states, in the 1st Stanza in the last 2 lines that: "....and help us to resist oppressors' rule, with all our will and might forever more...." unquote.

Nkrumah started sending Ghanaians down the path of communism when he realised that this policies had failed! He had started his wicked schemes eg. detention without trial, arbitrary arrests; he formed the young pioneer movement, boys brigade; recruited spies in all workplaces and also using taxi-cab drivers as his informants. Ghanaians felt the danger! People knew and felt the danger and threats to their lives that was looming.

This is human instinct! Throughout the world and history we've learned that those came preaching about doctrines were the very oppressors, like Nkrumah, Adolf Hitler etc., who thought killing everyone who opposed their bogus ideas were enemies of state. Nkrumah with all his brilliant talk was being blind to the fact that communism didn't have any place in man's quest to achieve real development in true freedom. He got trapped in felt his communist doctrine and soon realised that it was a blatant illusion! He got angry with himself and felt depressed many times, esp. when he discovered that the Akosombo Dam project wasn't coming on as he'd dreamed of.

Nkrumah turned his anger to people he perceived to his enemies. His only resort was to use brute and force to get his will done since everything started going wrong. His dreams of making Ghana, Africa's showcase of success had miserably failed!

Except for those Boys Company, Boys Brigade and other cadres who got freebies from the office of the dictator, everyone, esp., workers began feeling the pinch; people felt like living in a land of slavery; people weren't free as Nkrumah had made in his independence celebration speech on that joyful day on the Old Polo grounds.

I want Mr. Baako & Co., to tell Ghanaians how they'd feel when they're being suppressed and oppressed by a tyrant and a wicked dictator? J. B. Danquah and others had suffered Nkrumah's brutality; others fled the country to seek refuge elsewhere.

Those living pro-CPP functionaries and cadres shouldn't attempt to gloss over facts and realities of the Nkrumah era. They should be bold and honest to tell the truth as it is. Nkrumah was an opportunist and a dictator, who sent many people to jail and some to their graves. No-one on this earth has the right to kill his/her neighbour or friend for any reason.
Kofi 10 years ago

Victor Young, you are pathetic, you don't even know what you're talking about. You are a shame to society; telling fallacies.

Victor Young, you are pathetic, you don't even know what you're talking about. You are a shame to society; telling fallacies.
Victor A. Young 10 years ago

If I don't know what I'm talking about then why don't you educate us all about the truth that you think you know so people on this forum would know where the truth lies? Typical of you NDC guys you'd just post some insults in ...
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If I don't know what I'm talking about then why don't you educate us all about the truth that you think you know so people on this forum would know where the truth lies? Typical of you NDC guys you'd just post some insults in your bid to paint those you perceive as enemies in all sorts of colours. Tell us what you know.
ABUGUM 10 years ago

UP NOW NPP ARE SERIOUS BOMB THROWERS THE MAN WHO GAVE THE BOMB FLOWER TO THE POOR GIRL IS RIGHT IN ACCRA NOW. BE CAREFUL
WATCH THEIR BOMB TROWING LAUGUAGE OF RECENT BY THEIR ACTIVIST AND SPOKES PERSONS ESPECIALLY SIR JOHN AN ...
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UP NOW NPP ARE SERIOUS BOMB THROWERS THE MAN WHO GAVE THE BOMB FLOWER TO THE POOR GIRL IS RIGHT IN ACCRA NOW. BE CAREFUL
WATCH THEIR BOMB TROWING LAUGUAGE OF RECENT BY THEIR ACTIVIST AND SPOKES PERSONS ESPECIALLY SIR JOHN AND HOPSON 'ACHRIYE' NOT ADOYE. KWEKU THANKS SO MUCH
KOJO 10 years ago

EEEEEEI KWEKU BAAKO. YOU HAVE NOW SAID SOMETHING SENSIBLE

EEEEEEI KWEKU BAAKO. YOU HAVE NOW SAID SOMETHING SENSIBLE
Derrick, USA 10 years ago

I THINK PROFESSOR MIKE OQUAYE IS A DISGRACE TO HISTORY SCHOLARS AND UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

I THINK PROFESSOR MIKE OQUAYE IS A DISGRACE TO HISTORY SCHOLARS AND UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
BEST 10 years ago

Derrick, I absolutely agree with you. How did 'Professor Mike Oquaye' obtain his professorial status, and how knowledgeable and profoundly thorough was he as a lecturer/professor in political history of Ghana?. It may even be ...
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Derrick, I absolutely agree with you. How did 'Professor Mike Oquaye' obtain his professorial status, and how knowledgeable and profoundly thorough was he as a lecturer/professor in political history of Ghana?. It may even be necessary to re-examine his PhD thesis. I particularly pity the students who attended his lectures. If people like him are our university lecturers then you can easily imagine the quality of education we have had in recent years in Ghana. In addition he calls himself 'Reverend'. May God help Ghana.
CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

Kwesi Praat, Can you confirm if they - Robert Otchere and Yaw Manu - acted on behalf of the party, or were sent by any of the party leaders?

Kwesi Praat, Can you confirm if they - Robert Otchere and Yaw Manu - acted on behalf of the party, or were sent by any of the party leaders?
Akosua Tabuwaa 10 years ago

I don't think a UP man will act for the CPP.Malam Mahama Tula and Tagoe the two made bomb throwers gave evidence in court against them.

I don't think a UP man will act for the CPP.Malam Mahama Tula and Tagoe the two made bomb throwers gave evidence in court against them.
CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

Thanks. Was the evidence real, or do you think it was fake?

Thanks. Was the evidence real, or do you think it was fake?
GHANABA 1 10 years ago

Kweku Baako does not make sense at all.A flower bouquet which was to be presented to Nkrumah or presented to Nkrumah detonated and he (Nkrumah) who received it did not die but many people died.Where were these people at the t ...
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Kweku Baako does not make sense at all.A flower bouquet which was to be presented to Nkrumah or presented to Nkrumah detonated and he (Nkrumah) who received it did not die but many people died.Where were these people at the time the flower was presented to Nkrumah? My very question is , Who organised for Nkrumah to come to Ghana at that time and what was the purpose of his coming?Nkrumah did not like anyone to oppose or have a say in what he thinks is best for him.This is where the problem started.Period!!!! K.Baako pls. try to be honest and desist from the hatred for NPP
Kofi Adjaho Mahama 10 years ago

UP masterminded a series of bomb throwing events in Ghana in the 1960s in reaction to the dictatorial tendencies of Kwame Nkrumah. Kulungugu and Accra Sports Stadium bombings were the star events. Are the critics of NPP sayi ...
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UP masterminded a series of bomb throwing events in Ghana in the 1960s in reaction to the dictatorial tendencies of Kwame Nkrumah. Kulungugu and Accra Sports Stadium bombings were the star events. Are the critics of NPP saying in effect that UP leaders of the 1960s have genetically handed down these tendencies to their NPP descendants?
Kwaku Addo 10 years ago

Kwaku Malik let me give you a smal senario about this article. Why you personally dislike JJ Rawlings? I feel you disliked him simply because at one point he was your best frineds and you shared alot of things in common. You ...
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Kwaku Malik let me give you a smal senario about this article. Why you personally dislike JJ Rawlings? I feel you disliked him simply because at one point he was your best frineds and you shared alot of things in common. You even said you reefed together but at long alst he has becomeyour betterest enemy simply because when he became the Head o statehe distanced himself from you and put yu behind bars wwhen you strarted critizing his personality. Therefore if you're saying for a fact that UP was behind Kulungugu bombing, you are not far from right because it is "human hature". UP felt Dr. Nkrumah had that time of his presidency had betrayed them and looked at them as their enemies hence placing them in dentension in Nsawam Prison with the slightest opposing views of his administration. That is why mojority of baby boomers in Ghana who believed the idealogy and philosophy of Danquah-Busia and Dambo and knew what actually took place during that time described Dr. Kwame NkrumH as opportunist.
Fo Kofi 10 years ago

let us be frank if things were good Nkrumah would not have been overthrown. It was simply impossible to live under Nkrumah during those days just as is happening with Mugabi now.You had to be in Ghana to feel and know what wa ...
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let us be frank if things were good Nkrumah would not have been overthrown. It was simply impossible to live under Nkrumah during those days just as is happening with Mugabi now.You had to be in Ghana to feel and know what was happening with all the young pioneers and security informants all around you. No Freedom, no justice, no democracy and people were suffering!. These are things that make coups suceed!
Sankofa 10 years ago

I lived under Nkrumah.

It was nothing like what you describe.

There was freedom, justice, democracy and people enjoyed a decent standard of living.

Food was in abundance, unemployment was virtually non-existent, prim ...
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I lived under Nkrumah.

It was nothing like what you describe.

There was freedom, justice, democracy and people enjoyed a decent standard of living.

Food was in abundance, unemployment was virtually non-existent, primary and tertiary education were essentially free, and we felt proud to be Ghanaians with a visionary leader.

The rot set in after his overthrow.
Menua Kwadwo 10 years ago

YOU ARE A FUCKING LIAR!!!!!! What, exactly, is your uderstanding of democracy? A LIFE PRESIDENT(WITHOUT A VICE), A ONE-PARTY SYSTEM, DETENTION WITHOUT A COURT APPEARANCE? Pray, tell us what democracy means to you.

YOU ARE A FUCKING LIAR!!!!!! What, exactly, is your uderstanding of democracy? A LIFE PRESIDENT(WITHOUT A VICE), A ONE-PARTY SYSTEM, DETENTION WITHOUT A COURT APPEARANCE? Pray, tell us what democracy means to you.
Africa 10 years ago

Big bro Malik has hit a snag eeh lol rhe guys still pay you

Big bro Malik has hit a snag eeh lol rhe guys still pay you
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

AS WE TALK ABOUT KULUNGUGU BOMB AND OTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON NKRUMAHS LIFE,LETS NOT FORGET THOSE WHO LAID THEIR LIVES DOWN FOR HIM.

THE LITTLE SCHOOL GIRL.
THE 48 PEOPLE WHO DIED
SALIFU DARGATI.
MAJOR-GEN ...
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AS WE TALK ABOUT KULUNGUGU BOMB AND OTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON NKRUMAHS LIFE,LETS NOT FORGET THOSE WHO LAID THEIR LIVES DOWN FOR HIM.

THE LITTLE SCHOOL GIRL.
THE 48 PEOPLE WHO DIED
SALIFU DARGATI.
MAJOR-GENERAL BAWAH.
THE PRESIDENTIAL GUARDS.
THERE IS NEVER A VIRGIN JOSEPH WHO TOOK ALL THE INSULTS FROM THE SOCIETY.
THE WORLD ONLY REMEMBERS THE VIRGIN MARY.
JOSEPH IS PART OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

At this juncture , the Ghanaian Citizens Abroadhas collected over 70 thousand signatures all over the world in support of His Excellency President Mahama to continue his good job in office. The Citizens will like Supreme Cour ...
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At this juncture , the Ghanaian Citizens Abroadhas collected over 70 thousand signatures all over the world in support of His Excellency President Mahama to continue his good job in office. The Citizens will like Supreme Court of the land knows that ,we recognized President John Mahama as the choice of the Ghanaian Voters as 2012 election is concern.We therefore asking the Supreme court to throw the petitioners diabolic and divisive case into the nearest Garbage cane for GHANA to move forward.
MKZ 10 years ago

President Mahama, kindly let the presidential Security be tight, we don't want to see another UP-NPP kulungugu Bomb throwing style, what we've seen is enough, the burning of our markets in order to bring hardship to people un ...
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President Mahama, kindly let the presidential Security be tight, we don't want to see another UP-NPP kulungugu Bomb throwing style, what we've seen is enough, the burning of our markets in order to bring hardship to people under NDC, burning of our foreign affairs office, a big shame on you UP-NPP ideology.
Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

All these are nonsense. If UP was behind Kolungugu bombing or not, so what? It's been almost sixty years now so what are you going to do about it? If you get to know whomever was involved and or who is not, what will you do t ...
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All these are nonsense. If UP was behind Kolungugu bombing or not, so what? It's been almost sixty years now so what are you going to do about it? If you get to know whomever was involved and or who is not, what will you do to them? Whether Nkrumah founded Ghana or he was an opportunist ... so what? Of what benefit are all these to you as you keep arguing about such unimportant events of the past? Will this bring back Nkrumah or will it wake up Akuffo Addo or Obetshebi Lamptey and the rest? All these are of no use. Let us think about things that will bring improvement to Ghana. Let us focus our minds on retrieaving our monies from the thieves and use it in paying all those going on strike because of nonpayment of salaries etc. Please somebody, tell these men that there is little time to be registering wrongs and propagating animosity. We must move forward so cease chasing after the spill milk and move on forward.
ZONGOZONE 10 years ago

Kweku Baako is right in challenging Mike Ocquaye's revisionist history. There is no denying the unpalatable fact that the UP was behind the Kulungugu terroristic bombing.
As a young boy, I sat in at the various stages of the ...
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Kweku Baako is right in challenging Mike Ocquaye's revisionist history. There is no denying the unpalatable fact that the UP was behind the Kulungugu terroristic bombing.
As a young boy, I sat in at the various stages of the planning of this dastardly act .
My rich relatives - Kwame Okoreah, (Why Worry Phamacy) fame, my uncle and Kwaku Nyame. They escaped to Togo and Nigeria.
They returned when Busia came to power.
And Mike is a historian and reverend-minister?
NANA APINTOHENE 10 years ago

I am reliably informed that the little girl who carried the bouquet was the daughter of a devout CPP activist. With Nkrumah's renowned security service, how could the UP so easily penetrate their security set up to wreak such ...
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I am reliably informed that the little girl who carried the bouquet was the daughter of a devout CPP activist. With Nkrumah's renowned security service, how could the UP so easily penetrate their security set up to wreak such a havoc? Any infiltration, if indeed ever happened at all, would have had to be condoned by the CPP. Professor Mike Ocquaye's narrative cannot be so passionately dismissed by Kweku Baako. The discharge of the suspects is another story altogether. By the way who was Mama Tula?
Long live Ghana.
Weysman 10 years ago

Dishonest Mike Ocquaye. How can such a man preach the truth in the Bible. He is a disgrace to X'tiandom. This is why the NPP tried to re-write Ghana's history. They try to shape lies to look like the crystal truth.

Dishonest Mike Ocquaye. How can such a man preach the truth in the Bible. He is a disgrace to X'tiandom. This is why the NPP tried to re-write Ghana's history. They try to shape lies to look like the crystal truth.
Koku 10 years ago

It is a fact thank you Mr Baako. Ocquaye is a confused opportunist and a confusionist trying to distort facts. He has no shame. A brainless idiot.I won't blame the Great Dr K. Nkrumah at all for the PDA if we still have such ...
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It is a fact thank you Mr Baako. Ocquaye is a confused opportunist and a confusionist trying to distort facts. He has no shame. A brainless idiot.I won't blame the Great Dr K. Nkrumah at all for the PDA if we still have such brainless poeple like Ocquaye trying to deceive the public to cause havoc to change the history of attrocities committed by UP which most of us who are still alive today witnessed and know very well.He should shut his mouth and try be productive
OSUMAN MOHAMMED. 10 years ago

NPP HAS LOST IT ALL FOR EVER.NO MORE PRESIDENT TO COME FROM THAT WICKED PARTY

NPP HAS LOST IT ALL FOR EVER.NO MORE PRESIDENT TO COME FROM THAT WICKED PARTY
HELOO STANLEY SEBASTIAN 10 years ago

You see Prof Mike Ocquaye is trying to please his party faithfuls so he result to lying to Ghanaians. Mean while he was once an honourable man. It is a disgraze to his family more especially Ocquaye junior. Mr Marlik Kweku Ba ...
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You see Prof Mike Ocquaye is trying to please his party faithfuls so he result to lying to Ghanaians. Mean while he was once an honourable man. It is a disgraze to his family more especially Ocquaye junior. Mr Marlik Kweku Barku thank you very much. For the first time you speak the truth. Keep it up.
Akosua Tabuwaa 10 years ago

The UP planned another assassination attempt on Nkrumah's life at the flagstaff house which also failed.

The UP planned another assassination attempt on Nkrumah's life at the flagstaff house which also failed.
NYARKO U.S.A. 10 years ago

YES AKOSUA , YOU ARE RIGHTI THERE WAS A SECOND ASSASINATION ATTEMPT AT FLAGSTAFF HOUSE BY U.P'S POLICE CONSTABLE ON GUARD DUTY CALLED "AMETEWE" WHO FIRED SHOTS AT PRESIDENT NKRUMAH IN AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASINATE HIM BUT MISSED A ...
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YES AKOSUA , YOU ARE RIGHTI THERE WAS A SECOND ASSASINATION ATTEMPT AT FLAGSTAFF HOUSE BY U.P'S POLICE CONSTABLE ON GUARD DUTY CALLED "AMETEWE" WHO FIRED SHOTS AT PRESIDENT NKRUMAH IN AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASINATE HIM BUT MISSED AND WAS OVERPOWERED BY THE PRESIDENTIAL SECRET
SERVICE MEN.
Daniel 10 years ago

In my view, Professor Ocquaye, is intelletually inpaired. He should not speak of Ghana'a history if he knows not.

In my view, Professor Ocquaye, is intelletually inpaired. He should not speak of Ghana'a history if he knows not.
Agbee 10 years ago

The NPP is noted for distorting facts.

The NPP is noted for distorting facts.
odeneho 10 years ago

Wow am learning a lot,please give us a lot about what actually happened to nkrumah because at times wondering why he died in someone country.was people of Ghana hate him or he do them bad?

Wow am learning a lot,please give us a lot about what actually happened to nkrumah because at times wondering why he died in someone country.was people of Ghana hate him or he do them bad?
Akos 10 years ago

Kweku for the very first I am proud of you. Your Dad would be very proud of you having suffered the consequences of being a CPP member, he and the freedom fighters of their deserve the right history passed on to posterity.

Kweku for the very first I am proud of you. Your Dad would be very proud of you having suffered the consequences of being a CPP member, he and the freedom fighters of their deserve the right history passed on to posterity.
NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY 10 years ago

Now that an NPP supporter like Kweku Baako has said it straight in their faces, will the NPP continue to deny that they have nothing to do with those events?

Now that an NPP supporter like Kweku Baako has said it straight in their faces, will the NPP continue to deny that they have nothing to do with those events?

UP was behind Kulungugu bombing - Baako challenges Ocquaye

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