Agyepong tells JJ: Teak plantations was Busia’s initiative, not Nkrumah’s

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Ibn Abudu @CANADASHEABUTTER(GHUWR) 9 years ago

Dear Comrade Ayikooo 2021 Alan ,

Your arguments are accurate for mass plaintains in the south around Nkoranza , Wenchi , but not in the North . The leafs were used in rapping meat by Uncle in Tanina by Uncle , & he said D ...
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Dear Comrade Ayikooo 2021 Alan ,

Your arguments are accurate for mass plaintains in the south around Nkoranza , Wenchi , but not in the North . The leafs were used in rapping meat by Uncle in Tanina by Uncle , & he said Dr Nkrumah made them plant them , advising them they will be of importance to one day
BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

This Agyapong guy must shut up and stop rewriting my country Ghana's History. It is clear for everyone to see that , this Agyapong guy, really need elevations in his dirty mind to be able to read the nations History very we ...
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This Agyapong guy must shut up and stop rewriting my country Ghana's History. It is clear for everyone to see that , this Agyapong guy, really need elevations in his dirty mind to be able to read the nations History very well, before he comes out and say any trash.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:-AFFORDABLE...

They are trying to garther whatever money they can to try buying votes and more so try rigging. Ghanaians are very awake and will not be swayed any longer by propaganda. No wonder you've abolished th ...
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Author:-AFFORDABLE...

They are trying to garther whatever money they can to try buying votes and more so try rigging. Ghanaians are very awake and will not be swayed any longer by propaganda. No wonder you've abolished that tag and hiding behind a so called "Communications ..." We shall remind ourselves of this stubborn wickedness in 2016. Insensitive crooks in higher places
KWASI THE ASHANTI MAN 9 years ago

WE KNOW THE TRUTH STOP THE LIES J.J

WE KNOW THE TRUTH STOP THE LIES J.J
Bonso 9 years ago

IN 19 YEARS OF HIS RULE OF GHANA, J J RAWLINGS COULD NOT EVEN BUILD TEAK TREES AND AS USUAL DIVIDING OPINION

WHAT A LAZY MAN IS THIS JJBUNKUM

IN 19 YEARS OF HIS RULE OF GHANA, J J RAWLINGS COULD NOT EVEN BUILD TEAK TREES AND AS USUAL DIVIDING OPINION

WHAT A LAZY MAN IS THIS JJBUNKUM
Kofi Busia 9 years ago

You're a fool.

You're a fool.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Teak trees were used for telecommunications also for landline telephones along our roads and railways long before Busia came to power. When our railway System was built the British used to import the teak trees for communicat ...
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Teak trees were used for telecommunications also for landline telephones along our roads and railways long before Busia came to power. When our railway System was built the British used to import the teak trees for communications along the the railways.

Nkrumah a friend of Indonesia’s Suharto who ushered Indonesia into the modern era through their cooperation started nursing of young plants in Ghana in the Volta and Central Regions. The planting of the teak trees in Ghana was done when Akosombo was being built. The teak plantation programme was part of the Akosombo electrification project. Busia cannot make claims for where he did not sow. Busia made a mess of the huge harvest Nkrumah left behind.

Kwame Nkrumah inaugurated the Akosombo dam on January 22nd 1966 and on 24th February 1966 a month later he was ousted by a disgruntled few from the Mate Mehu traitors with help of the CIA and MI6.

So how could Busia have planted the teak trees which takes a minimum of ten years to grow for electrification when he had no clue of the plans Nkrumah had in place?

How could Busia have done the rural electrification without energy from Akosombo dam? Busia in his own words;” The Akosombo dam is too a large project for a small country like Ghana.”

Today we all know Kwame Nkrumah has been vindicated for building the Akosombo dam. Otherwise it wouldn’t have been only dumsor but we will be sleeping in total darkness.

Some of these unshameful Mate Mehu folks would want to even attribute rural development to Busia. But it is all false. It was Nkrumah who strategically built factories and state farms across length and breadth of Ghana to give People work in their proximity not Busia. It was Nkrumah who built more roads and feeder roads to connect the farming areas to enable transportation of food and cash crops like cocoa,pine apple,tobacco etc for export. It was Nkrumah who built the double track Kotoku to Huni valley railway to shorten the trip to Takoradi and enable goods to transported rapidly. The 20 kilometers rubber plantation along Tarkwa road is one of those projects

Busia couldn't wait to come and enjoy the great infrastructures and fruits of Kwame Nkrumah. Busia arrived 3 weeks after Nkrumah's overthrow to become the adviser of the NLC ( Notorious Liars Council). Busia the then adviser of the NLC was so overwhelmed by the sheer size of projects being undertaken by Nkrumah’s government that with a stroke of pen he cancelled many major projects which have already been paid for. Even the Ghana International Trade Fair which was supposed to take place in March of 1966 was postponed for an entire year because these idiots didn’t know where to begin and what to do. That was how the lazy minded Busia the then adviser of NLC ditched Ghana. Ghana was on the verge of industrialization when these Mate Mehu knaves short circuited our economic and national development. The economic damages done and ramifications has been lasting until today. It was Busia who damaged our free educational system by asking for fees and cancelling training allowances for teacher trainees, nurses and so on.

So Mr. Agyepong must rather get his facts straight because some of lived it and were close to the source, that is straight from the horse's mouth; not they say, they say. Shut up Agyepong!
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

So Mr. Agyepong must rather get his facts straight because some of us lived it and were close to the source, that is straight from the horse's mouth; not they say, they say. Shut up Agyepong!

And least I forgot, the massiv ...
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So Mr. Agyepong must rather get his facts straight because some of us lived it and were close to the source, that is straight from the horse's mouth; not they say, they say. Shut up Agyepong!

And least I forgot, the massive electrification of Ghana in the 90's, open media, Internet, mobile phones was done under Rawlings administration. You can hate Rawlings guts or hate him like poison but that is a fact.
Boateng 9 years ago

Thanks Nana Ansah

Thanks Nana Ansah
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Kwame Nkrumah's government started fish farming on the largest man-made lake on earth; the Volta river to improve our protein intake when most Ghanaians didn't know there was anything like that.

There is a simple fact. Gha ...
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Kwame Nkrumah's government started fish farming on the largest man-made lake on earth; the Volta river to improve our protein intake when most Ghanaians didn't know there was anything like that.

There is a simple fact. Ghana without Nkrumah would have been just a dot on the world map. Nkrumah made the world listen to the voice of Africa. Ghana is the handwork or baby of Nkrumah thanks to his farsightedness and futuristic Vision but that was short circuited by the NLM/UP/PP/PFP and now NPP who feed on the travesty of truth. So the Mate Mehu can say whatever they like they cannot hijack or travestied the truth. Je suis Charlie
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Nana Ansah,

God bless you.

These white lies will get no where. Mark my words!

Thanks.

Nana Ansah,

God bless you.

These white lies will get no where. Mark my words!

Thanks.
MINOR CASE 9 years ago

You also buying that falsehood ? Nkrumah never started teak cultivation. His useless Bruilders Brigate were engaged in cocoa cultivation only .Where in the country did N krumah plant teak trees ?

You also buying that falsehood ? Nkrumah never started teak cultivation. His useless Bruilders Brigate were engaged in cocoa cultivation only .Where in the country did N krumah plant teak trees ?
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Minor Case- I have a major case for you. Go to Volta Region and you will see teak plantations; cotton plantaions; tobacco plantaions; tea plantations and yes coffee plantations all initiated by Kwame Nkrumah. You guys have no ...
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Minor Case- I have a major case for you. Go to Volta Region and you will see teak plantations; cotton plantaions; tobacco plantaions; tea plantations and yes coffee plantations all initiated by Kwame Nkrumah. You guys have no idea what Nkrumah did in Ghana and beyond.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Look Francis, most of these Mate Mehu kids have been fed on travesty of truth so they cannot think outside the box. That is unfortunate but that is why we are here to debunk their fat lies. Stay blessed too.

Look Francis, most of these Mate Mehu kids have been fed on travesty of truth so they cannot think outside the box. That is unfortunate but that is why we are here to debunk their fat lies. Stay blessed too.
MINOR CASE 9 years ago

I thought you are a historian and should know the facts.Now I see that all those lengthy and boring articles you lift and paste here are from other peoples work.

I thought you are a historian and should know the facts.Now I see that all those lengthy and boring articles you lift and paste here are from other peoples work.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

MINOR CASE,

Why don't you quote from Busia's own work to disprove what Nana Ansah, G.K. Berko, and others are saying? What are you waiting for? You have said nothing substantial so far!

Besides, both men have said all t ...
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MINOR CASE,

Why don't you quote from Busia's own work to disprove what Nana Ansah, G.K. Berko, and others are saying? What are you waiting for? You have said nothing substantial so far!

Besides, both men have said all that I needed to say already (my comments to Nana Anasah was made exactly at the time I read this funny and ahistorical piece).

The information G.K. Berko and Nana Ansah have provided here are already part of Ghana's recorded history and oral literature. It is all there!

Agyapong should have done his research before coming out with anything, this falsehood! What useful thing did that lazy-minded and terroristic Busia do for Ghana aside from killing children and innocent adults? Nothing.

Major General A.K. Ocran's book "Politics of the Sword," one of Busia's own colleagues and friends, will tell you how he classified Busia as one Ghana's worst Ghanaian leaders! I.K. Akyeampong overthrew him for the same reason! You know what? Busia is not worth talking about!

This is how intellectually lazy you UP/NPP folks are, always fighting for equalization when the generosity of history is not even on your side.

Give us any useful references (reliable or verifiable anecdotes from Busia or from any respecatble historian) to back up your shameful distortions.

For your information, you are going to have more quotations (from my Ghanaweb articles) till thy kingdom comes. Get used to it. Albert Einstein, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Francis Allotey and the greatest thinkers in human history either quoted directly (or plagiarized from others' works?).

Do you know where Achebe got the title "Things Fall Apart" from?

Do you have any idea where Tsitsi Dangaremgba got the title "Nervous Condition" for her book of the same name?

Do you read nonfiction at all? Do you check out the bibliography/references/citations section after reading nonfictions? Quoting others' works in one's writings is the norm in today's world.

Lest I forget, quoting is common in standard journalism too. If you have any issues with quotations, don't worry. Just debate them with your ideas (anecdotes, references, etc). In other words, debate those I quote with your facts if you have any!

My next article (with more quotes and references and inclusion of others' works) is comming. Warm up!

Get your facts ready for debate!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

The Teak Plantation in Jema near Kintampo alone proves Agyepong wrong. As a Forester by profession, I can safely vouch for that.

But why can't such a fact be checked with the Forestry Commission before publication? This s ...
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The Teak Plantation in Jema near Kintampo alone proves Agyepong wrong. As a Forester by profession, I can safely vouch for that.

But why can't such a fact be checked with the Forestry Commission before publication? This shows how lazy our Politicians like Agyepong could be, failing to do their due diligence in researching for accurate information.

Just for scoring cheap points and merely intending to diminish the relevance of opponents, our Politicians stoop too low to present the Public with tainted facts or completete falsehoods.

We must grow out of this kind of disparaging Politics.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

And who would expect you G.K.Berko to say anything different?? The next we may hear from you would be that your Dictator Nkrumah initiated all our Cocoa Planting Trees.

JUST GET SOD OFF YOU ALL!!!

Best Regards,

Franc ...
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And who would expect you G.K.Berko to say anything different?? The next we may hear from you would be that your Dictator Nkrumah initiated all our Cocoa Planting Trees.

JUST GET SOD OFF YOU ALL!!!

Best Regards,

Francis C. Quainoo
Western Australia
Martin/PA 9 years ago

I was 15years old when Nkrumah was overthrown. The day his statue at the Ideological Institute in Winneba was torn down, I thought I saw the sadness on the statue's face. It couldn't have been a freak of my imagination beca ...
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I was 15years old when Nkrumah was overthrown. The day his statue at the Ideological Institute in Winneba was torn down, I thought I saw the sadness on the statue's face. It couldn't have been a freak of my imagination because many friends experienced it too. Hope Ghanaians recognize and appreciate the contributions that our past leaders, irrespective of ethnic or party affiliations have brought to bear in our merge progress.
KKO 9 years ago

Yes, he is talking about large scale teak plantations, as a farming enterprise. It began in the Brong Ahafo in 1968, under the Centre for Civic Education programmes!

Cultivated teak takes 12 to 13 years to mature. The old ...
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Yes, he is talking about large scale teak plantations, as a farming enterprise. It began in the Brong Ahafo in 1968, under the Centre for Civic Education programmes!

Cultivated teak takes 12 to 13 years to mature. The old Odum, Danta and Sapele that were used in the colonial days, for telephone and electrical wiring grew wild.

We need just a little bit of honesty for our country to move on!
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Read this: THE TEAK PLANTS WERE NURSED BY NKRUMAH.

KKO, you guys have been feed on travesty of truth and it is high someone told you the real unfettered truth.

The first teak plantaions were in Volta and Central Region. ...
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Read this: THE TEAK PLANTS WERE NURSED BY NKRUMAH.

KKO, you guys have been feed on travesty of truth and it is high someone told you the real unfettered truth.

The first teak plantaions were in Volta and Central Region. Ghana's teak programme was a collabaration between Nkrumah and Suharto of Indonesia when Busia the terrorist was roaming about planning evil to sabotage our dear nation. Even Kufuor was better than Busia.
KKO 9 years ago

Come on, where in the Central Region were those plantations? The Volta Region? Don't let me puke. Are you talking about the coastal Volta that was slightly sympathetic to Kwame Nkrumah or SG Antor's Trans Volta that was a n ...
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Come on, where in the Central Region were those plantations? The Volta Region? Don't let me puke. Are you talking about the coastal Volta that was slightly sympathetic to Kwame Nkrumah or SG Antor's Trans Volta that was a no-go area for the CPP?

I saw those plantations at Jini-Jini, Berekum and Dormaa, among other places. Name one place in the Central Region where there was a teak plantation!
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Here you are KKO, just want to know this. Have you been living under rock? And are you still in the land of the living? If yes; then sorry I can't help you. I have stopped baby sitting

Here you are KKO, just want to know this. Have you been living under rock? And are you still in the land of the living? If yes; then sorry I can't help you. I have stopped baby sitting
Bonso 9 years ago

YOU ARE BESERK

YOU ARE BESERK
Kofi Busia 9 years ago

How can JJ Rawlings be better than Busia.
JJ is one level brat.
JJ smoke weed. JJ killed 3 former head of state.
JJ came in with the divide and rule system in Ghana. Trying to make ewes to the top which has backfire on hi ...
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How can JJ Rawlings be better than Busia.
JJ is one level brat.
JJ smoke weed. JJ killed 3 former head of state.
JJ came in with the divide and rule system in Ghana. Trying to make ewes to the top which has backfire on him.
JJ sold all state companies to himself.
JJ is the only president in the world to mount a platform to preach against wealthy people.
Now, we have seen his envious state of mind.
If God made somebody greater than you the vodo can't change it.
God blessing people will inherit the land.
Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

I was a great fan of the late Prof Busia and played a major role in his campaign for power. I must say that I was NOT raised in the rural areas of Ghana and therefore NOT very well versed on the Teak Plantation, being the sub ...
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I was a great fan of the late Prof Busia and played a major role in his campaign for power. I must say that I was NOT raised in the rural areas of Ghana and therefore NOT very well versed on the Teak Plantation, being the subject matter of this debate.

However, from reading of this debate, I personally do find it a bit controversial.

Having said that, if it is true that it takes about THIRTEEN YEARS for the Plantation to grow, then it may have started from the Colonial Masters but NOT Nkrumah.

Furthermore, I also agree that the late Prof, as an Enviromentalist did start the project from the Brong Ahafo Region.

I am NOT at all surprised that Nana Ansah would go any extra mile or lengths to defend the late Dictator, Kwame Nkrumah, because his overthrow meant a further building of grandeur by this Nana Ansah at the Tax Payer's expense that came to a HALT.

There were so many Estate Buildings that Nana Ansah illegally acquired during the Dictator's tenure and when he appeared to being closed in he was whisked to the UK.

So Nana Ansah, being one of Nkrumah's manufactured propagandists would argue to shut down anyone who disagrees with his former BOSS.

Now, when we have to evaluate the merits of all the past coups in Ghana, most Ghanaians who lived during the Dictators Regime would agree of his riddance.

Unfortunately, the knaves from his regime, such as Nana Ansah deposited their trust in Murderer Rawlings' regime, being another THIEF.

SO YOU MUST ALSO SHUT UP, NANA ANSAH!!!

Best Regards,

Francis C. Quainoo
Western Australia
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Galah - Where the heck are you living in Down Under? It seems your world has been turned upside down which is why your mind is warped. The fact you don't know the hinterland of Ghana but can open your mouth wide like rhinocer ...
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Galah - Where the heck are you living in Down Under? It seems your world has been turned upside down which is why your mind is warped. The fact you don't know the hinterland of Ghana but can open your mouth wide like rhinoceros is enough to tell me you are an empty barrel. You mug making noise but no substance. You better shut your face.
James 9 years ago

NO HEAD,NO TAIL.

NO HEAD,NO TAIL.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Galah - Where the heck are you living in Down Under? It seems your world has been turned upside down which is why your mind is warped. The fact that you don't know the hinterland of Ghana but can open your mouth wide like rhi ...
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Galah - Where the heck are you living in Down Under? It seems your world has been turned upside down which is why your mind is warped. The fact that you don't know the hinterland of Ghana but can open your mouth wide like rhinoceros is enough to tell me you are an empty barrel. You mug making noise but no substance. You better shut your face.
MINOR CASE 9 years ago

Just answer his question and stop being evasive. Were you one of Nkrumah's gaping sycophants ? And listen to yourself, living in Aussie has warped his brains? He is far more brainy than the likes of you whose brains are sear ...
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Just answer his question and stop being evasive. Were you one of Nkrumah's gaping sycophants ? And listen to yourself, living in Aussie has warped his brains? He is far more brainy than the likes of you whose brains are seared with communist propaganda to the extent that you don't even know what century we currently live in , and acting like a wound up machine always braying Nkrumah "never dies " even in your sleep. Left to you brainless people every Ghanaian apart from Nkrumah, is visionless.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Aussie is not living on desert. The satire here is living in it. The mug is totally covered under desert. A Hobbit. Man, man, man! When will some of you understand English in it's worse form?

I am one of Nkrumah's loyal fa ...
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Aussie is not living on desert. The satire here is living in it. The mug is totally covered under desert. A Hobbit. Man, man, man! When will some of you understand English in it's worse form?

I am one of Nkrumah's loyal fans and until death do we part.

Talking about vision; I am yet to see a Ghanaian or an African with a vision a bit close to Nkrumah. Not in this life and after. Nkrumah is light years away from the next best African. Now you clear off from my Radar you no case.
Odiyifo 9 years ago

Ignoramus like Francis Quainoo arguing on a subject he has no knowledge of. You confessed not having any knowledge on Teak plantation so why comment on it?

Ignoramus like Francis Quainoo arguing on a subject he has no knowledge of. You confessed not having any knowledge on Teak plantation so why comment on it?
JUSTICE OSEI AGYEMANG (USA). 9 years ago

NANA ANSAH, MAY GOD CONTINUE TO SHOWER HIS BLESSINGS ON YOU. WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN OUR SOCIETY SO THAT THE NEW GENERATION WILL KNOW WHO ARE THE DESTROYERS AND ENEMIES OF KWAME NKRUMAH GHANA. GOD BLESS YOU NANA.

NANA ANSAH, MAY GOD CONTINUE TO SHOWER HIS BLESSINGS ON YOU. WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN OUR SOCIETY SO THAT THE NEW GENERATION WILL KNOW WHO ARE THE DESTROYERS AND ENEMIES OF KWAME NKRUMAH GHANA. GOD BLESS YOU NANA.
jah 9 years ago

Thank you so much for this peace of history. Down to ashantis alone ghana would be in the darkness. They are only good for filling their pockets rather than the nation. They have nothing whatsoever to offer but criticism. God ...
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Thank you so much for this peace of history. Down to ashantis alone ghana would be in the darkness. They are only good for filling their pockets rather than the nation. They have nothing whatsoever to offer but criticism. God bless you for your comments. Jah
mensah 9 years ago

Nana Ansah, thanks for the insight, but don't be surprised if this Agyepong boy comes out to say that Nkrumah was born in Brong or Kumasi. Such are they; a whole Secretary for a major political party pathetic.

Nana Ansah, thanks for the insight, but don't be surprised if this Agyepong boy comes out to say that Nkrumah was born in Brong or Kumasi. Such are they; a whole Secretary for a major political party pathetic.
Uncle 9 years ago

How could Busia thought extending electricity to His own Brong Ahafo Region in 20 years when he categorically stated that the people of Brong Ahafo and the Northern Regions will get power ONLY when the Bui dam is constructed. ...
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How could Busia thought extending electricity to His own Brong Ahafo Region in 20 years when he categorically stated that the people of Brong Ahafo and the Northern Regions will get power ONLY when the Bui dam is constructed. It take a pragmatic leader like JJ (the show boy) to extend Electricity to all the Regions in this Country even then, the NPP always and up to date continue to accuse him and the NDC for being responsible for the power outages in the country simply because they extended Electricity to too many rural areas where Electricity is needed for only household use as if they are not part of Ghana.
Lt Horn Blower 9 years ago

MrAgyepong,I personaly don't get the point you are driving at.I think whatever you(as one of the many leaders in Ghana) say or do ahould have some positive impact on mother GHana.If Dr Busia Planted,and General Acheampong wat ...
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MrAgyepong,I personaly don't get the point you are driving at.I think whatever you(as one of the many leaders in Ghana) say or do ahould have some positive impact on mother GHana.If Dr Busia Planted,and General Acheampong watered it and Prez. Rawlings used it, to me so far as mother Ghana has benefited from what one of her sons started and other sons has completed it, the glory should be to God.Read the bible in 1Cor3:1-10 and know that your arguement is of selfish motive. The lyrics of " Hen Ara Asaase Ni" is all Ghana need to stand on her feet.Busia came to plant teak trees for Ghana's growth, and Rawlings came to use it for- electrification- Ghana's growth.That is nation building, not the argument of who did what. Ask yourself "What have I done for Ghana to enable some one to come and continue. Argument won't build Ghana! STOP IT!
Olu 9 years ago

Busi and Rawlings are the most useless leaders

Busi and Rawlings are the most useless leaders
History master 9 years ago

Teak planting in Ghana predates independence. The forestry department undertook this exercise. It was continued by the Nkrumah regime.

Teak planting in Ghana predates independence. The forestry department undertook this exercise. It was continued by the Nkrumah regime.
JAK The RIPPER 9 years ago

As a kid in Kpando way back in 1965 I, together with my siblings and friends, used to visit the massive forest of already very tall teak trees to look for mangoes and guavas.

A short-cut through that forest would take you ...
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As a kid in Kpando way back in 1965 I, together with my siblings and friends, used to visit the massive forest of already very tall teak trees to look for mangoes and guavas.

A short-cut through that forest would take you to the Kpando prison and rest houses situated at Todzi (hill top, some 5 or so kms from the lake, Kpando Torkor.

Rawlings is very right if he credits Dr Nkrumah with starting those teak plantations. I suspect Agyapong is much too young to know.

These plantations were without doubt started at different periods all over the country long before Dr Busia came to power.

Agyapong is simply blinded by party loyalty and possibly too young to know.

The very shocking thing about him is his failure to verify this simple to find info from the forestry dept before coming out so strongly in his refuting what JJ put out.

That is a very bad case of misinformation with the view to DECEIVE the public and embarrass JJ.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:-Mahmoud...
If the government doesn't want anybody to talk about the exorbitant cost of the interchange, it should have come clean from the beginning; from the bidding process to the award of the contract.

If you ...
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Author:-Mahmoud...
If the government doesn't want anybody to talk about the exorbitant cost of the interchange, it should have come clean from the beginning; from the bidding process to the award of the contract.

If you have an open bidding process in which three or more companies bid for a project, and the submitted tender documents opened in front of all representatives of the contractors that took part in the process, and you award the contract to one of the companies based on best technical specifications and reasonable lower cost, the amount you award the contract will be known to even the other contractors and it will not be difficult for the government to release it.

How can we award contract to a company and the work is ongoing without knowing exactly how much we've awarded it, and we're still talking about projected figures and so on? I believe Nana is hitting the nail on the head. There is too much obscurity and lack of transparency in awarding the project, and we're afraid that Ghanaians may not be getting value for their money.
EDEN 9 years ago

WHY SHOULD THIS AYIGBE MAN SPREAD SUCH A LIE. THERE IS NO A SINGLE TEAK IN THE VOLTA REGION. MOREOVER, U ARE ONLY 25 YEARS OLD.SO, HOW COME U ARE TALKING ABOUT THE 1960'S

WHY SHOULD THIS AYIGBE MAN SPREAD SUCH A LIE. THERE IS NO A SINGLE TEAK IN THE VOLTA REGION. MOREOVER, U ARE ONLY 25 YEARS OLD.SO, HOW COME U ARE TALKING ABOUT THE 1960'S
Afevia 9 years ago

IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING SENSIBLE TO SAY JUST ZIP IT.

IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING SENSIBLE TO SAY JUST ZIP IT.
j.k. Atta 9 years ago

The Kpando teak trees could even have been planted by the Germans in the TVT days.

The Kpando teak trees could even have been planted by the Germans in the TVT days.
History Master 9 years ago

The men in charge of that project were Mr Gyekye, who later became the director of Kumasi Zoo and Mr. Mintah. I knew both men personally. They both told me there were similar projects in other parts of Ghana.

The men in charge of that project were Mr Gyekye, who later became the director of Kumasi Zoo and Mr. Mintah. I knew both men personally. They both told me there were similar projects in other parts of Ghana.
Joe/TX 9 years ago

This na laai oo. The teak was being used by the miners especially in Bibiani in the Western Region to prevent rocks from falling. They were called "POLE, CREABITES ". When. the whites were driven out. of the country by Nkruma ...
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This na laai oo. The teak was being used by the miners especially in Bibiani in the Western Region to prevent rocks from falling. They were called "POLE, CREABITES ". When. the whites were driven out. of the country by Nkrumah in late 1959 and early 1960(Africanization )policy the mines 1927 Ltd collapsed under the black admin. Most of the parks were turned into farms. It was Prof. Busia who, after the 1966 coup, initiated the project and not Dr. Nkrumah. Don't be too partisan or ethnical when presenting facts
KWADWO A 9 years ago

Teak tress were in Ghana before Busia came to power but Dr Busia wanted to made the Brong Ahafo region to look green and therefore ordered massive plantation of it in that region. He never started it but he made sure that the ...
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Teak tress were in Ghana before Busia came to power but Dr Busia wanted to made the Brong Ahafo region to look green and therefore ordered massive plantation of it in that region. He never started it but he made sure that there was more planted when he came to power. Some people might see the project in the Ahafo region but might not know that it has been cultivated massively in other regions.
Obed Adore 9 years ago

Oh, thanks. I completely agree with you.
In fact, the tick plantation on my family land at Nkonya Tayi, made into a forest reserve far predated Dr. Busia.

Oh, thanks. I completely agree with you.
In fact, the tick plantation on my family land at Nkonya Tayi, made into a forest reserve far predated Dr. Busia.
Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

Thanks Joe/TX. This Nana Ansah is trying to make us all believe that his former COMMUNIST MASTER, DICTATOR NKRUMAH was so supreme as his CPP Party, therefore without him there NEVER would had been Ghana.

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Thanks Joe/TX. This Nana Ansah is trying to make us all believe that his former COMMUNIST MASTER, DICTATOR NKRUMAH was so supreme as his CPP Party, therefore without him there NEVER would had been Ghana.

If we were all to acquiesce to the notion that Nkrumah was the first to initiate the said Teak Plantation, then of course the Dictator was also responsible for the COCOA PLANTATION.

The Colonial Masters and our fore-farmers did initiate very many Projects far before UGCC got into the scene for the struggle for our Independence.

Needless to say, Dictator Nkrumah ignored very many advices from his own advisors when it was realised that our Cocoa Trees were getting old; the farmers were getting old; therefore the young people had to be encouraged into the farm for the good of the country.

Nkrumah ignored all those advices but instead was trooping to Egypt about once a month to shake those BIG HEAVY, EGYPT MAAMAS. All because the Ghanaian women were NOT to his taste.

Furthermore, he was raining massive insults on the West, which culminated the massive fall of our Cocoa Prices to the detriment of the Farmers and the country at large.

Is nana Ansah trying to insinuate that
Ghana would had been in darkness without the Akosombo Dam?? How silly!!!

We are all sick and tired of the "Nkrumah made this and that BULLSHIT". At the end of the day the country was declared BANKRUPT IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS OVERTHROWN.

I hope Nana Ansah returned all those properties he illegally acquired under the Dictator's regime.

His Africanisation Policy was absolutely BULLOCKS!! This is because, prior to that we were all as boarding students were getting value for our Feeding and Learning Fees.

As soon as the silly Africanization Policy was introduced, the Food had to be directed to the Head Masters', Bursars, etc. bungalows before the remaining would reach various schools.

Now, has Murderer Rawlings ever told a single truth in his life?? This yoko-gari son of a prostitute followed his hunger to stage a senseless coup to enrich himself, as well as introducing TRIBALISM of the HIGHEST DEGREE to promote his TROKOSI IDIOTS.

SO WHAT DOES THE MURDERER AND NANA ANSAH WOULD EMBRACE GHANA FOR??? THEY BOTH MILKED THE SACRED COW!!!

Best Regards,

Francis C. Quainoo
Western Australia
fiction 9 years ago

Rawlings is irrelevant in our ghanaian politics nw bcus he has been bribe by de useless mahama admin

Rawlings is irrelevant in our ghanaian politics nw bcus he has been bribe by de useless mahama admin
DABENDA 9 years ago

DO YOU SEE WHY WE CAN'T PROGRESS OR MAKE A SINGLE MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION? THIS ARGUMENT IS UNNECESSARY TO OUR STRUGGLE FOR DEVELOPMENT. LET US FIND THE MEANS TO USE THE TEAK AS A PROFITABLE COMMODITY. WHOEVER BROUGHT THE ...
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DO YOU SEE WHY WE CAN'T PROGRESS OR MAKE A SINGLE MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION? THIS ARGUMENT IS UNNECESSARY TO OUR STRUGGLE FOR DEVELOPMENT. LET US FIND THE MEANS TO USE THE TEAK AS A PROFITABLE COMMODITY. WHOEVER BROUGHT THE IDEA IS DEAD BUT WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT THE OUTCOME OF IT.
Crano Cartel. 9 years ago

And so what. Ajyapong can go to hell.

And so what. Ajyapong can go to hell.
ABAAH. 9 years ago

AND SO YOUR GRAND PARENTS!!!.WHAT DO YOU LIARS HATE TO HEAR FACTS.KEEP YOUR WATERING MOUTH SHUT,IF FACTS SOUND FOOLISH IN YOUR DIRTY EARS.

AND SO YOUR GRAND PARENTS!!!.WHAT DO YOU LIARS HATE TO HEAR FACTS.KEEP YOUR WATERING MOUTH SHUT,IF FACTS SOUND FOOLISH IN YOUR DIRTY EARS.
DOWBIAH ROKO. 9 years ago

RAWLINGS IS A REJECTED GOODS.I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THIS GOOD FOR NOTHING RAWLINGS ALWAYS WANTS TO DIVERT THINGS HE THINKS WE WERE ALL BORNED AFTER HIS STUPID AND UNWANTED COUP.IT WAS STARTED IN BUSIA'S TIME BUT NOT NKRUMA ...
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RAWLINGS IS A REJECTED GOODS.I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THIS GOOD FOR NOTHING RAWLINGS ALWAYS WANTS TO DIVERT THINGS HE THINKS WE WERE ALL BORNED AFTER HIS STUPID AND UNWANTED COUP.IT WAS STARTED IN BUSIA'S TIME BUT NOT NKRUMAH'S TIME.THE GOOD FOR NOTHING BASTARD RAWLINGS MUST SHUT UP ON THINGS HE DOESN'T KNOW.THIS IS WHAT SUBA SUPPOSED TO DO BUT YOUR PARTY HAS FAILED THE NORTHNERS.THE TEAK EVIDENCE IS AT WENCHI AND ITS SURROUNDING TOWNS.
ABAAH. 9 years ago

SADA BUT SUBA.YOU HAVE HAMMERED THE NAIL AT A RIGHT PLACE.WHAT BUSIA AND HIS PROGRESS PARTY DID IN 27MONTHS IS FAR BETTER THAN WHAT HIS USELESS NDC HAS DONE IN 26YEARS.BEFORE OUR MARKETS WERE FULL OF THESE USELESS NEMESIS PAR ...
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SADA BUT SUBA.YOU HAVE HAMMERED THE NAIL AT A RIGHT PLACE.WHAT BUSIA AND HIS PROGRESS PARTY DID IN 27MONTHS IS FAR BETTER THAN WHAT HIS USELESS NDC HAS DONE IN 26YEARS.BEFORE OUR MARKETS WERE FULL OF THESE USELESS NEMESIS PARENTS BUT NOW GHANAIANS ARE ENJOYING THEIR OWN FRUITS.THANKS TO BUSIAH!!!.NEMESIS PARENTS HAVE GONE AWAY WITH THEIR NUMEROUS TRIBAL MARKS.
Asona Ba Asah Bekoe Atuo - USA 9 years ago

Rawlings is intellectually handicapped.

Rawlings is intellectually handicapped.
Dr Think Twice 9 years ago

It's time to solve problems of this country rather than indulgence of unproductive arguments which will not be productive at the end. There's Mass unemployment, hug child abuses, gutters are choked, our resources are being de ...
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It's time to solve problems of this country rather than indulgence of unproductive arguments which will not be productive at the end. There's Mass unemployment, hug child abuses, gutters are choked, our resources are being depleted, mention them. Let's help build a better Ghana collectively.
Kwaku 9 years ago

Useless Busia, after poopooing on the Akosombo hydro plant and calling Nkrumah sasabonsam, trying tirelessly to kill him, this foolish envious bush rat in English clothes and haircut had the guts to use electricity from the d ...
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Useless Busia, after poopooing on the Akosombo hydro plant and calling Nkrumah sasabonsam, trying tirelessly to kill him, this foolish envious bush rat in English clothes and haircut had the guts to use electricity from the dam and even engage in its activities. This Busia paid himself 2 years salary before devaluing the currency to his benefit. Envious twarts of Nkrumah.
KnYc(USMC) 9 years ago

This stupid JJ Rew..shit is acting like there is no corruption going on with this NDC party he formed with guns and blood on innocent people. He can't change history, maybe he can change the mind of his NDC fool soldiers but ...
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This stupid JJ Rew..shit is acting like there is no corruption going on with this NDC party he formed with guns and blood on innocent people. He can't change history, maybe he can change the mind of his NDC fool soldiers but not ME. Very soon I will seek for office, and I will make sure that stupid 31 movement will become a think of the past.
Kwame Adjei-Mensah aka Uncle Ben. Atl 9 years ago

U hi

U hi
Paa Joe 9 years ago

How MANY YEARS DOES IT TAKE A TEAK PLANT TO BE HARVESTED FOR ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT.

How MANY YEARS DOES IT TAKE A TEAK PLANT TO BE HARVESTED FOR ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT.
AKORABS 9 years ago

I can not tell you, but what I can say is that I went to form one in October 1968 and we first formers planted the teak trees in a newly allocated field under the supervision of our Agric Master. You guys can work the rest ou ...
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I can not tell you, but what I can say is that I went to form one in October 1968 and we first formers planted the teak trees in a newly allocated field under the supervision of our Agric Master. You guys can work the rest out for yourselves.
Paa Joe 9 years ago

OPAYIN AKORABS, PLEASE CHECK UP AND TO KNOW, YEARS THAT TEAK PLANTS MATURE FOR USE.

IT IS BECAUSE OF OUR LOW INFORMATION ON OUR BOTANIC, THAT WE ARE STILL BACKWARD.UNDERDEVELOPED AND EXTREME POOR.

OPAYIN AKORABS, PLEASE CHECK UP AND TO KNOW, YEARS THAT TEAK PLANTS MATURE FOR USE.

IT IS BECAUSE OF OUR LOW INFORMATION ON OUR BOTANIC, THAT WE ARE STILL BACKWARD.UNDERDEVELOPED AND EXTREME POOR.
ABAAH. 9 years ago

WHAT INFORMATION DO YOU REALLY NEED ARE YOU TIPSY?.PAPA AKORABS PLANTED MOST OF THE TREES HIMSELF,YOU ARE STILL CHALLENGING HIM.YOU PEOPLE ARE MAKING GHANA USELESS BECAUSE YOU LOVE LIARS MORE THAN TRUTH.IT TAKES 25YEARS TO 30 ...
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WHAT INFORMATION DO YOU REALLY NEED ARE YOU TIPSY?.PAPA AKORABS PLANTED MOST OF THE TREES HIMSELF,YOU ARE STILL CHALLENGING HIM.YOU PEOPLE ARE MAKING GHANA USELESS BECAUSE YOU LOVE LIARS MORE THAN TRUTH.IT TAKES 25YEARS TO 30YEARS FOR THE TREE TO MATURE BEFORE TROKOSIS CAN USE IT TO MAKE THEIR CUT AND NAIL 2 BY 4 CHAIRS.HEY,SINCE JJD NDC CAME TO THE TOWN THEY HAVEN'T PRODUCED ANYTHING THAT WILL BENEFIT GHANAIANS,CAN'T YOU SEE OR YOU ARE STILL FEEDING FROM FEEDING BOTTLE.
Paa Joe 9 years ago

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM EGYA ABAAH.

I AM STILL A SCHOOL BOY AT SCHOOL AND WISH TO KNOW HOW MANY YEARS IT TAKES FOR A TEAK PLANT TO MATURE.

IS IT A USELESS QUESTION.

GHANA WILL CONTINUE TO BE UNDERDEVELOPED WHEN PEOPLE L ...
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WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM EGYA ABAAH.

I AM STILL A SCHOOL BOY AT SCHOOL AND WISH TO KNOW HOW MANY YEARS IT TAKES FOR A TEAK PLANT TO MATURE.

IS IT A USELESS QUESTION.

GHANA WILL CONTINUE TO BE UNDERDEVELOPED WHEN PEOPLE LIKE YOU DO NOT DRINK DEEP.
JK 9 years ago

Busia's government was from around September 1969 to January 13, 1972. That is the 27 months that so many have been talking about.

Prior to becoming the Prime Minister, he was the head of Center for Civic Education.

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Busia's government was from around September 1969 to January 13, 1972. That is the 27 months that so many have been talking about.

Prior to becoming the Prime Minister, he was the head of Center for Civic Education.

As a policy issue, Akorab and his fellow students were probably continuing a project initiated during Nkrumah's time. While many projects under the so-called 7-year Development plan were shelved, there were some that were continued.

There is nothing in the books that suggest that Busia did not contribute to the effort when he became the Prime Minister in 1969.
ABAAH. 9 years ago

IT WAS NOT INITIATED BY NKRUMAH AND HIS BRIGADES,NKRUMAH'S BRIGADES ONLY PLANTED FOOTSTUFFS THAT WAS GOOD COUNTRY.I REALLY KNOW IT WAS STARTED BY BUSIA AND HIS SELF RELIANCE PROGRAME WITHIN THE CIVIL EDUCATION AND CONTINUED I ...
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IT WAS NOT INITIATED BY NKRUMAH AND HIS BRIGADES,NKRUMAH'S BRIGADES ONLY PLANTED FOOTSTUFFS THAT WAS GOOD COUNTRY.I REALLY KNOW IT WAS STARTED BY BUSIA AND HIS SELF RELIANCE PROGRAME WITHIN THE CIVIL EDUCATION AND CONTINUED IN ACHEAMPONG'S MILITARY GOVERNMENT.SO SHAME TO RAWLINGS THAT HE ABANDONED THAT PROJECT AND STILL WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.
13th January Boy 9 years ago

Busia was removed from power today 1972. On teak, those in the north were planted by the colonialists and Nkrumah's government.

Busia was removed from power today 1972. On teak, those in the north were planted by the colonialists and Nkrumah's government.
C.O.D 9 years ago

They call themselves "leaders" of the country but they don`t even know the history of the country. No wonder we are where we are.A leader without grasp of the country`s history, hey hey hey ....!

They call themselves "leaders" of the country but they don`t even know the history of the country. No wonder we are where we are.A leader without grasp of the country`s history, hey hey hey ....!
Zeus 9 years ago

Agyepong. please check our facts well. If you do not know, please ask/ Dont throw dust in the eyes of Ghanaians

Agyepong. please check our facts well. If you do not know, please ask/ Dont throw dust in the eyes of Ghanaians
NDC NONSENSE 9 years ago

ALL YOU NKRUMAH FOLLOWERS WHO WANT TO THROW DUST IN OUR EYES FOR THE MOST PART, PLEASE STOP THIS NONSENSE WE KNOW HISTORY TOO AND WE SEE AROUND US WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL, WE ARE NOT KID'S OKAY. JUS ...
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ALL YOU NKRUMAH FOLLOWERS WHO WANT TO THROW DUST IN OUR EYES FOR THE MOST PART, PLEASE STOP THIS NONSENSE WE KNOW HISTORY TOO AND WE SEE AROUND US WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL, WE ARE NOT KID'S OKAY. JUST THE FACT THAT ONE WAS ALIVE WHEN THIS AND THAT PERSON WAS IN POWER MEANS NOTHING. MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERS TOO WILL SAY WHAT? STOP THE NKRUMAH NONSENSE.
United Ghana 9 years ago

And your point is? Nkrumah is the greatest Ghanaian leader to date and no amount of propaganda by his historical detractors can change that

And your point is? Nkrumah is the greatest Ghanaian leader to date and no amount of propaganda by his historical detractors can change that
amoah 9 years ago

he who knows not and not know he knows, is ignorance, ignore him

he who knows not and not know he knows, is ignorance, ignore him
Dundu Banza 9 years ago

I was part of the team that planted the teak at Nangodi in the Upper East region.It was during the Acheampong regime.That I know for a fact,because I was there.

I was part of the team that planted the teak at Nangodi in the Upper East region.It was during the Acheampong regime.That I know for a fact,because I was there.
Paul 9 years ago

The Nangi teaks and the tree planting exercises we were involved with as students during the Acheampong regime was in the second part of the 1970s. They couldn't have matured for use in the 1980s?

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The Nangi teaks and the tree planting exercises we were involved with as students during the Acheampong regime was in the second part of the 1970s. They couldn't have matured for use in the 1980s?

I wonder who was behind the beautiful teak plantation around my sixth from school Obuasi Sec Tech in the early 1980s. They must have been between 15 - 20 years old at the time, which puts them somewhere in the early 1960s at least!. Interesting.
Paul 9 years ago

I also seem to recall Fr. Roger Aboteyuure's involvement in some projects in the Nangodi District including afforestation of the area. I was very impressed with the foliage during a recent visit to the area in August this yea ...
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I also seem to recall Fr. Roger Aboteyuure's involvement in some projects in the Nangodi District including afforestation of the area. I was very impressed with the foliage during a recent visit to the area in August this year. Those teaks are still there by the way.
kwesi kyei jejeti 9 years ago

Rawlings is a man of no good value to be respected,inasmuch as development and good governance are concerned...fooolish Ewe ,Efo stupid

Rawlings is a man of no good value to be respected,inasmuch as development and good governance are concerned...fooolish Ewe ,Efo stupid
GHANANI 9 years ago

Shut up!!!!.What good did Busia do for Ghana? Apart from being a terrorist he was the Prime Minister nicknamed professor Okafodidi for always going to his western masters with cup in hand begging for loans.His own ministers ...
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Shut up!!!!.What good did Busia do for Ghana? Apart from being a terrorist he was the Prime Minister nicknamed professor Okafodidi for always going to his western masters with cup in hand begging for loans.His own ministers did not even respect him and he had it tough controlling them leading to the resignation of Kwaku Baah and Opoku Acheampong from the Progress Party.
Kofi 9 years ago

How will Rawlings know this fact? The guy learnt nothing in school except rowdyism. He was lucky to have got into the airforce. He wouldn't make the grade today.

How will Rawlings know this fact? The guy learnt nothing in school except rowdyism. He was lucky to have got into the airforce. He wouldn't make the grade today.
Clarevoyant 9 years ago

There is a wise saying "HE WHO DOES NOT KNOW AND KNOWS THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW MUST BE TAUGHT" and "HE WHO DOES NOT KNOW AND DOES NOT KNOW THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW IS A FOOL".

KWABENA AGYEPONG: You should know that the NDC an ...
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There is a wise saying "HE WHO DOES NOT KNOW AND KNOWS THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW MUST BE TAUGHT" and "HE WHO DOES NOT KNOW AND DOES NOT KNOW THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW IS A FOOL".

KWABENA AGYEPONG: You should know that the NDC and NKRUMAH followers don't believe in straight or hard talk.

You have done well for putting things right.

Ghanaians will now know that intellegent person like KWABENA is alive and has spoken.

Don't worry about UNINTELLEGENT, FOOLISH AND STUPID COMMENTS FROM ILLETERATE NDC MEMBERS.
Kofi/USA 9 years ago

Does it matter who initiated it? Do something that someday shall be useful

Does it matter who initiated it? Do something that someday shall be useful
achimorazo 9 years ago

these is while we are behide,always replying on past history,nonsense issue to debate on again.ndc & npp,same shit,same nonsense,no difference

these is while we are behide,always replying on past history,nonsense issue to debate on again.ndc & npp,same shit,same nonsense,no difference
We the people 9 years ago

Talk about jj killing ur dear father and not some Teak Tree for electricfication.

Talk about jj killing ur dear father and not some Teak Tree for electricfication.
NOBODY 9 years ago

If Agyepong is disputing the claim of Rawlings that the teak plantings were initiated in the Nkrumah administration, then it's Agyepong's obligation to tell Ghanaians what year Busia initiated the plantings, along with availa ...
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If Agyepong is disputing the claim of Rawlings that the teak plantings were initiated in the Nkrumah administration, then it's Agyepong's obligation to tell Ghanaians what year Busia initiated the plantings, along with available documents that might support his position. It's a damn disgrace that the UP/PP/NPP has vowed to never recognize any accomplishments made by Nkrumah and his party. This stems from UP/PP/NPP utter jealousy of the CP and Nkrumah, knowing that their party has no contributions that come anywhere close to those made by the CPP and Nkrumah. Interesting to hear Agyepong refer to Judas Busia as an "environmentalist". I had no idea the word "environmentalist" was a synonym for the word "saboteur". Jealousy is slowly blinding and choking the NPP.
kakabo 9 years ago

wake up its 2015.archaic pple

wake up its 2015.archaic pple
Paul 9 years ago

Perhaps it will help us to know the average number of years it take the teak tree to mature for use in the way that it has been,given that the nationwide electrification project started in the 1980s.

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Perhaps it will help us to know the average number of years it take the teak tree to mature for use in the way that it has been,given that the nationwide electrification project started in the 1980s.

Let's give credit to Dr Busia for his contribution to afforestation. Let's also note for the record that the Osagyefo Dr Nkrumah was a staunch believer in horticulture and afforestation. We can credit him with the Achimota Forest Reserve for instance.
MAAME 9 years ago

All of you should stop being foolish.This shows that you are lack of education.This is history about Ghana leaders so it is better for us to know the facts not just saying what you like.Rawlings is not.Know the fact about Gha ...
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All of you should stop being foolish.This shows that you are lack of education.This is history about Ghana leaders so it is better for us to know the facts not just saying what you like.Rawlings is not.Know the fact about Ghana so you can pass it to your chidren and your grandchildren and stop all this nosence saying guys.
KWESI AMONSIE 9 years ago

AGYEPONG WHAT IS YOUR INITIATIVE? THINK ABOUT DEVELOPMENT AND NOT UNNECESSARY ARGUMENT. BUSIA TOOK TWO YEARS ADVANCE SALARY WHEN GHANAIANS VOTED HIM INTO POWER. YOU ARE THROWING DUST INTO PEOPLE EYES.

AGYEPONG WHAT IS YOUR INITIATIVE? THINK ABOUT DEVELOPMENT AND NOT UNNECESSARY ARGUMENT. BUSIA TOOK TWO YEARS ADVANCE SALARY WHEN GHANAIANS VOTED HIM INTO POWER. YOU ARE THROWING DUST INTO PEOPLE EYES.
amoah 9 years ago

and you don't seems to know your history either if you think Agyepong is right and JJ is wrong , unless you are wearing the UPP/NPP glasses.

and you don't seems to know your history either if you think Agyepong is right and JJ is wrong , unless you are wearing the UPP/NPP glasses.
Asaman Kesse, Asamankese 9 years ago

Ghanaian politicians are crap and nonesensical. In the 21st century politicians are fighting over teak trees. This country is sick in the head. We are ruled by idiots and fools. These hungry thieves are so shortsighted and so ...
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Ghanaian politicians are crap and nonesensical. In the 21st century politicians are fighting over teak trees. This country is sick in the head. We are ruled by idiots and fools. These hungry thieves are so shortsighted and so silly they can't see beyond the til of their noses. We have no electricity, most of our people drink from the same pits with swine, sleep in the kraals with cattle, still ease ourselves at the beach, our streets are littered with filth, we still construct opened drains which are choked beyond comprehension, we still can't solve simple issues like eliminating cholera. We still have malaria as environmental and personal cleanliness continue to be far from out thinking. We can't do anything right as a country. Instead of concerning ourselves with these issues, we have leaders who's brain don't work arguing over foolish issues like who initiated teak production. Where in this world are people still using teak to supply electricity? We have failed because fools have and continue to dominate our politics. Would our silly politicians take a stroll around Tudu, Adabraka, Alajo, Kaneshie, Ashaiman, Sukura, Dansoman and indeed the slums in the night just to see how people sleep? When they have done this and can still eat their luncheon meat and drink their bottles of whiskey, they should continue to speak thrash.
A good citizen . 9 years ago

AND SO WHAT .ARE U SOO PERFECT SIR !
STOP POINTING FINGERS ND LETS WORRY ABOUT OUR ECONOMY PLS....

AND SO WHAT .ARE U SOO PERFECT SIR !
STOP POINTING FINGERS ND LETS WORRY ABOUT OUR ECONOMY PLS....
ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

he has no sense

he has no sense
Amankus 9 years ago

Old age does cruel things to the mind. Leave Papa J, the man is old. Pls forgive him.

Old age does cruel things to the mind. Leave Papa J, the man is old. Pls forgive him.
Gyimah 9 years ago

Agyepong is twisting facts and lying to Ghanaians. The teaks were Kwame Nkrumah's program to do electrification. We should stop cheap politics and tell the truth for once. Busia did something but not this one.

Agyepong is twisting facts and lying to Ghanaians. The teaks were Kwame Nkrumah's program to do electrification. We should stop cheap politics and tell the truth for once. Busia did something but not this one.
XXX 9 years ago

The people of central and northern Volta Region owe the teak plantations to the German Colonial Administration, and not Busia. After all the support he got from the region he neglected them. That's the recurrent history the o ...
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The people of central and northern Volta Region owe the teak plantations to the German Colonial Administration, and not Busia. After all the support he got from the region he neglected them. That's the recurrent history the opposition has with the region!
Obed Adore 9 years ago

You are right. XXX. A colonial era TEAK plantation can still be found on my family's property at Nkonya Tayi in the once German Northern Trans-Volta Togoland Region (now Northern Volta Region). In those days we the land owne ...
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You are right. XXX. A colonial era TEAK plantation can still be found on my family's property at Nkonya Tayi in the once German Northern Trans-Volta Togoland Region (now Northern Volta Region). In those days we the land owners were not even allowed to fetch even the dead and fallen Teak trees for firewood. We were so scared that the Forestry ranger -the papa Sofia --Surveyor- they used to call him, would arrest us.. In those days discipline was the order of the day.... Hmm not nowadays..
Osofo 9 years ago

Rawllings should shut his mouth up,when did you become a Ghanian to talk about Ghana history.

Rawllings should shut his mouth up,when did you become a Ghanian to talk about Ghana history.
Dessy 9 years ago

If someone implement one's idea, what is wrong with that..it is time to put the same old politics aside and move the nation forward..these kinds of tether ic has cripple the nation for soo long..it is about time to move forwa ...
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If someone implement one's idea, what is wrong with that..it is time to put the same old politics aside and move the nation forward..these kinds of tether ic has cripple the nation for soo long..it is about time to move forward with new ideas
Colegate 9 years ago

Teak trees were introduced into Ghana in 1905.Planting of the trees started in the Volta Region.As to weather Nkrumah or Busia extended the plantations elsewhere in Ghana we thank all of them.If anything at all credit must go ...
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Teak trees were introduced into Ghana in 1905.Planting of the trees started in the Volta Region.As to weather Nkrumah or Busia extended the plantations elsewhere in Ghana we thank all of them.If anything at all credit must go to the early visionaries,Nkrumah and Busia since the teak plantation project was not abandoned like any project that has been abandoned in Ghana after a regime change.
Robert Okine 9 years ago

This ignorant and narrow-minded Francis Quainoo was not even born at that time.Please ignore him.

This ignorant and narrow-minded Francis Quainoo was not even born at that time.Please ignore him.
Obed Adore 9 years ago

Agyapong you are a very young man indeed. Let me tell you that the Tick plantation on my family's land was cultivated long before Busia became the prime Minister of Ghana.. There was some truth in JJ's story.

Agyapong you are a very young man indeed. Let me tell you that the Tick plantation on my family's land was cultivated long before Busia became the prime Minister of Ghana.. There was some truth in JJ's story.
Obed Adore 9 years ago

Agyapong is too young to know much about TEAK plantations in the Gold Coast (later turned Ghana).. Agyapong is a LACTOGEN BABY, had a privileged life earlier on and therefore knows nothing much!

Agyapong is too young to know much about TEAK plantations in the Gold Coast (later turned Ghana).. Agyapong is a LACTOGEN BABY, had a privileged life earlier on and therefore knows nothing much!
CT boy 9 years ago

And so what

And so what
VVIP MAHAMA COCAINE 9 years ago

NSC CRIMINALS EVILS,CORRUPT HATE THE TRUTH FOOOOOOOOLS

NSC CRIMINALS EVILS,CORRUPT HATE THE TRUTH FOOOOOOOOLS
Kofi Kwaw Sarpong 9 years ago

Teak plantation was the big project of the late prof K. A. Busia but not Dr. Nkrumah. Busia projected that it will take 20yrs electricity to reach Bring Ahafo and the northern regions why becos teak would play a major role. ...
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Teak plantation was the big project of the late prof K. A. Busia but not Dr. Nkrumah. Busia projected that it will take 20yrs electricity to reach Bring Ahafo and the northern regions why becos teak would play a major role. We have all seen it for a fact. J J must credit to those who deserve. J. J was lucky to use the 20yr grown teak trees for electrification in Brong Ahafo and elsewhere. Without these teak what would J J boast of by always claiming "PNDC / NDC brought electricity to B/A and the rest.
Kofi Jumah 9 years ago

This Agyepong thing had nothing to offer to N.p.p,Sir John was better than this.He started talking about history.Which he is turning it up side down.Ghana need vision thing ,not Dankwa,Busia and Dombo useless ideas which do n ...
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This Agyepong thing had nothing to offer to N.p.p,Sir John was better than this.He started talking about history.Which he is turning it up side down.Ghana need vision thing ,not Dankwa,Busia and Dombo useless ideas which do not bring food on the table.What we need now is today thing or moving forward.If you have no plans then be quite don't waste our ears.This is not important even that hopless Sir John was doing better.No wonder JAK hire you.Try to think.
Odiyifo 9 years ago

Hahahahaaa is Kwabena Agyapong saying that Busia brought Team trees to Ghana? And that there were no team agencies in Ghana before Busia? What kind of politicians are these? Desperate for irrelevant attributes.

Hahahahaaa is Kwabena Agyapong saying that Busia brought Team trees to Ghana? And that there were no team agencies in Ghana before Busia? What kind of politicians are these? Desperate for irrelevant attributes.
Alah 9 years ago

who cares who started the project? It was Ghana's hard earned money that Dr. Busia used, not his personal or family money. Dr. Busia was against the project of Akosmobo Dam, but he benefited from it when he was the prime mini ...
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who cares who started the project? It was Ghana's hard earned money that Dr. Busia used, not his personal or family money. Dr. Busia was against the project of Akosmobo Dam, but he benefited from it when he was the prime minister of Ghana. So be quite Mr. Agyepon. They (oppositions) plotted against a lot of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's projects, but after his demise, they (including Dr. Busia) benifited. So Mr. Agyepong, come up with something that makes sense and which will not waste our time just because you don't have anything to say but just to make noise to have the attention of some citizens in your like.

Agyepong tells JJ: Teak plantations was Busia’s initiative, not Nkrumah’s

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