Yes what you are saying is true. I agree. For once.
Yes what you are saying is true. I agree. For once.
@Bokor 9 years ago
"Doesn’t Kufuor do better when he zips up his mouth?"
Meaning you think Kufuor is intelligent?
"Doesn’t Kufuor do better when he zips up his mouth?"
Meaning you think Kufuor is intelligent?
Whatever 9 years ago
Kufour was just advocating for the perpetuation of the stinking crony capitalism he served Ghana with. The private sector in Ghana are state parasites like Tony Aidoo used to say. They use their political connections to feed ... read full comment
Kufour was just advocating for the perpetuation of the stinking crony capitalism he served Ghana with. The private sector in Ghana are state parasites like Tony Aidoo used to say. They use their political connections to feed on the state to survive. They don't generate any capital from anywhere.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
Let the dirty hypocrite creature, Ewe Bokor tell us what his NDC uncle Rawlings, Mills and Mahama could do for Ghana apart from schooling politicians and public officers to become Ph. D.'s in corruption and looting?
All of ... read full comment
Let the dirty hypocrite creature, Ewe Bokor tell us what his NDC uncle Rawlings, Mills and Mahama could do for Ghana apart from schooling politicians and public officers to become Ph. D.'s in corruption and looting?
All of them are and were BIG TIME THIEVES, proof is there for even a blind man to feel. Why did Mahama and Co kill Mills?
Mahmoud 9 years ago
Busia could have been a leader for any country in this world. That is not mine; that is what the world said about him when he died prematurely.
The man was a respectable, God fearing leader that had a complete program for al ... read full comment
Busia could have been a leader for any country in this world. That is not mine; that is what the world said about him when he died prematurely.
The man was a respectable, God fearing leader that had a complete program for all aspects of our national development.
Unfortunately, the communists Young Pioneers implanted by Nkrumah in our mist, did not allow Ghanaians to benefit from his knowledge and the good work he had started for the sake of this country and its people. They hijacked and impeded our development until the year 2000.
Although Acheampong was one of the communists, and also did their dirty work for them, they have been trying in vain to disown him. He was killed by another communist when he seized power and unleashed a Cuban-style communist dictatorship on Ghanaians.
Mahmoud 9 years ago
The mere fact that Rawlings still go about talking about democracy and the rule of law is an insult to the intelligence of all Ghanaians. Someone who hijacked and impeded our development for almost 20years with crimes, dictat ... read full comment
The mere fact that Rawlings still go about talking about democracy and the rule of law is an insult to the intelligence of all Ghanaians. Someone who hijacked and impeded our development for almost 20years with crimes, dictatorship and tyranny, the like of which Ghanaians may never see again, can claim to be a national hero talking nonsense any time he opens his month. He even formed an artificial party with state power and resources called NDC followed by stomach politicians and
sycophants.
Even Nkrumah's Communist dictatorship was milder if compared to that of Rawlings. But birds of the same feathers flock together because Rawlings also seized power claiming to be a communist, and unleashed a Cuban style dictatorship on Ghanaians. Moreover, he was a Young Pioneer.
Mahmoud 9 years ago
The sycophant KB Ashanti is a disgrace. How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify a communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did, except that he was preparing th ... read full comment
The sycophant KB Ashanti is a disgrace. How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify a communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did, except that he was preparing the ground with a series of unprovoked actions to create a one party state and declare himself president for life.
The Communist ideology doesn't have a place for opposition in their system. Have you ever heard of a communist democratic country in the world, with an opposition to check excesses of the government? Nkrumah chose communism as a means of keeping himself in power forever. He therefore imposed the Detention without Trial Act only to gag everybody, create a communist dictatorship and turn himself into a president for life. This is because, communists don't share power.
Paa Kow 9 years ago
I don't know what substance Bokor is higher on because it is so strange that any sound mind could make such a tall list of failures that we are witnessing in recent times under Mahama, mills and Rawlings and attribute it to ... read full comment
I don't know what substance Bokor is higher on because it is so strange that any sound mind could make such a tall list of failures that we are witnessing in recent times under Mahama, mills and Rawlings and attribute it to Busia regime which lasted for just a little over two year some 45 years ago when "you and I were not there" or were just toddlers.
Mawuli 9 years ago
Many of the things you listed as bad were really good policies. The removal of freebies from the military was good. Asking them to pay for the electricity they consume in their bungalows was fair. Go back and revise your lite ... read full comment
Many of the things you listed as bad were really good policies. The removal of freebies from the military was good. Asking them to pay for the electricity they consume in their bungalows was fair. Go back and revise your literature and stop basing anything UP.
MAWUSI. 9 years ago
Mawuli, you are another silly person. How much do you know?. If it had been good you would not have being hungery for some time now.
Mawuli, you are another silly person. How much do you know?. If it had been good you would not have being hungery for some time now.
KWASI IN EUROPE 9 years ago
All the policies of Busia were geared towards privatization, a system that has propelled the West to the top of the world. A system that "communist" China has now embraced. Busia was light years ahead of Bokor.
All the policies of Busia were geared towards privatization, a system that has propelled the West to the top of the world. A system that "communist" China has now embraced. Busia was light years ahead of Bokor.
GHANANI 9 years ago
Nkrumah believed in using capitalism to create wealth and use socialist principles to distribute it.What were the factories he established meant for?WESTERN CAPITALISM MAKE FEW PEOPLE RICH AND POWERFUL AND THE MAJORITY POOR.R ... read full comment
Nkrumah believed in using capitalism to create wealth and use socialist principles to distribute it.What were the factories he established meant for?WESTERN CAPITALISM MAKE FEW PEOPLE RICH AND POWERFUL AND THE MAJORITY POOR.Remember the 99 percent poor and the one percent rich in America.Western capitalism is MAFIA.
KWAMI. OSEI 9 years ago
Facts expose Mr. Kufuor. Telling lie does not help. If don't know, just shut your beaks.
Facts expose Mr. Kufuor. Telling lie does not help. If don't know, just shut your beaks.
VINCEY,NJ 9 years ago
Dr Bokor you left out this damned dirty side of Busia. Which was after the shameful apollo 568, the confused Busia took a whole years salary advance. Un heard of in the annals of pres/pms. world wide.
Dr Bokor you left out this damned dirty side of Busia. Which was after the shameful apollo 568, the confused Busia took a whole years salary advance. Un heard of in the annals of pres/pms. world wide.
Abbot 9 years ago
The Danquah/ Busia tradition is a diabolic group of greedy men & women whose main objective of having power is to wreck the nation. Apart from Busia being a CIA, he was a con politician.
He testified in the against Nkrumah ... read full comment
The Danquah/ Busia tradition is a diabolic group of greedy men & women whose main objective of having power is to wreck the nation. Apart from Busia being a CIA, he was a con politician.
He testified in the against Nkrumah at a Senate hearing that the US shd never grant the assistance Nkrumah was seeking for the Akosombo dam.
How could Busia's be so treacherous because of power!
GHANANI 9 years ago
And he was a terrorist and strongly opposed the creation of the Brong Ahafo region.He and the late ivorian president Houphet Boigny supported apartheid in South Africa.He illegally used state funds to decorate and extend his ... read full comment
And he was a terrorist and strongly opposed the creation of the Brong Ahafo region.He and the late ivorian president Houphet Boigny supported apartheid in South Africa.He illegally used state funds to decorate and extend his odorkor residence.He was an obedient servant of the imperialists.
kwame ansah otu 9 years ago
i enjoy reading your facts and putting the records straight.well done.we need people like you to be telling us the truth,thanks
i enjoy reading your facts and putting the records straight.well done.we need people like you to be telling us the truth,thanks
Kwasi 9 years ago
Busia was tribalistic and Xenophobic. The guy did not know what he was about.
Busia was tribalistic and Xenophobic. The guy did not know what he was about.
Ghanaian man 9 years ago
You are too known!!!
You are too known!!!
Kwabena S. Akosah, Brooklyn, NY 9 years ago
Dr Bokor, while your harsh critique of Busia is not unsupported by evidence, hindsight seems to suggest that late primier was right on a number of key policies he pursued and that if his regime had not been cut short 45 years ... read full comment
Dr Bokor, while your harsh critique of Busia is not unsupported by evidence, hindsight seems to suggest that late primier was right on a number of key policies he pursued and that if his regime had not been cut short 45 years ago, as asserted by his (Busia) protégé Kufuor, the fortunes of Ghana today would have been better. If nothing at all, Busia had been prescient on apartheid in South Africa and then private sector, the vogue of today's world, which has transformed communist China, in one generation, as the world's second biggest economy after the United States. Ultimately, it was dialogue, an idea Busia's government proposed way back in the 1960s, which brought majority rule and peace in South Africa in the 1990s. Isn't this far-sightedness praise-worthy, Dr Bokor? Things obviously were not rosy under Busia, and they have not been rosy under most governments including Busia's antagonist, Nkrumah, the visionary and the showman, who did so much (Tema, schools, factories, etc.) for the country. There's evidence that Ghanaians were hurting on the eve of 24th February, 1966. Sadly, Busia's era, like that of Liman's, is now 'if' of history because soldiers won't allow them to run their full tenure. Never again, men on horseback! Long live, Ghana!
Ghanaian man 9 years ago
Bokor is too known
Bokor is too known
Kofi Mensah 9 years ago
The facts have been laid bare and if Mr.Kufour is reading this article, he should respond.
THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG,Mr Kufour.
Of course I can vividly remember Dr.Busia the Sociologist from The Ghana University at Legon wh ... read full comment
The facts have been laid bare and if Mr.Kufour is reading this article, he should respond.
THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG,Mr Kufour.
Of course I can vividly remember Dr.Busia the Sociologist from The Ghana University at Legon who earned the accolade"Best University Student In Africa." the meaning of BUSIA to his followers.
He was an autocrat himself in the making.
He was doing the HOKEY COKEY about practicalities of sociology which he taught at Legon for many years without knowing it was going to hurt the population long term.
Acheampong put a stone in his catapult and cut him down not only because it was turning the Military into poverty but he had taken on also the MIGHTY TUC and students because they did not have the means for subsistence or living allowance.
SHAME ON PP.
Some illiterate market women even called it Party aa Nipa Pe when they changed the name again to PNP.
TEE 9 years ago
GHANA SWEET AGAIN PERIOD
GHANA SWEET AGAIN PERIOD
TEE 9 years ago
BY GOD PERIOD. THEY ALWAYS COMES JUST ONCE AND NEVER AGAIN PERIOD
BY GOD PERIOD. THEY ALWAYS COMES JUST ONCE AND NEVER AGAIN PERIOD
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago
Bastard like this ugly man
Bastard like this ugly man
HONESTY 9 years ago
One of the first things Busia did was to pay himself one year's salary in advance. He also used state funds to renovate his private Odorkor residence. These were in addition to the "No Court, No Court" shout when the Supreme ... read full comment
One of the first things Busia did was to pay himself one year's salary in advance. He also used state funds to renovate his private Odorkor residence. These were in addition to the "No Court, No Court" shout when the Supreme Court decision went against his govt and other misdeeds. What is Kufuor talking about? FOOLS!!!
KKO 9 years ago
What tribalist trasht! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you ... read full comment
What tribalist trasht! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you will never see any good thing in anything any Akan does in Ghana.
1. Busia’s Rural Development agenda has never been equalled and it will take someone with courage and foresight to come anywhere close to it. It was Busia’s government that extended pipe-borne water to most villages in Ghana, including some really wretched ones in the Volta Region. That is what led to the elimination of guinea worm (which was causing annual havoc in most parts of the country), in Ghana.
2. His government also wiped out cholera, which is now causing havoc in our national capital.
3. The construction of polyclinics, district hospitals and health posts was meant to free Korle Bu and Okomfo Anokye Hospitals for research, teaching and the treatment of more serious cases.
4. Mass-scale feeder road construction began with Busia, and I witnessed it at Akatsi, Sogakope, Hohoe, Ho Dome, Ho Banque, and many other places, even in the Volta Region.
5. Busia’s cottage industry programme would have created employment avenues in most rural districts in Ghana, to curtail the now unbearable and uncontrollable urbanisation with names like Sodom and Gomorah, Agege, etc, with the resultant “ghetoisation” in almost every town in Ghana.
6. Ever heard of Odorkor/Dansoman Housing Estate development, with replicas in all the regional capitals, Adeweso at Koforidua, Low Cost at Winneba, etc? It was Busia’s idea.
7. How about the major sewerage and drainage system in Accra, which would have connected all homes to a central sewerage system? The remnants of the abandoned trenches are still around.
8. Your reference to education is really dishonest and illiterate. Up until 1969, about 60% of the lecturers in the three original universities of Ghana were foreigners. Their emoluments were paid in dollars. Their families were entitled to at least one paid holiday a year. It was Busia who began the “Ghanainisation” of university lecturers. Everyone who graduated with a first class or second class upper was sent away through Ghana government, Commonwealth or specially arranged American scholarships, to pursue MScs and PhDs and return to Ghana, to lecture. Had the idiot Acheampong not derailed that policy, Ghana’s universities would have been among the leading universities of the world. Many of those who were trained under that scheme are now professors in major universities of the world. Quite a number of those who returned to Ghana have been vice chancellors and some are deans!
9. In 1970, all three universities together had an intake of less than 13,000 students, but the state was still struggling to give everyone free education. Can you imagine what the situation would be today, with 30 or 40,000, when 50% of the state’s treasury is looted and shared among a handful of families? Busia’s loan scheme opened the doors to people like you who were not so bright, but still could go to university, on a loan and pay later, which is what pertains everywhere in the world. What is wrong with that?
10. The JSS system that was botched by your murderer tribesman was meant to transform Ghana’s education policy and make it relevant to national development with vocational s and technical schools and more polytechnics. It began with pilot schools at Kinbu in Accra and others in Kumasi, Takoradi, Cape Coast, and other regional capitals. Their products were to be monitored over a seven year period as teachers were gradually upgraded or specialised, to take over the primary and middle schools. Can you think of any country in Africa that has such a system?
11. Did you ever hear of “two rabbits=equal to one cow in one year?” It was a programme of rabbit rearing, which took off in many parts of Ghana like a storm. It was meant to supplement our low protein intake as a nation. If your low life compatriot Newlove Mammatah had not mismanaged the programme as your lot usually do, it would be changing lives in Ghana today. It was under that programme that poultry farming ballooned in the Central and Ashanti Regions only to be destroyed by your armed tribesman.
12. The Aliens’ Compliance Order enabled many Ghanaians to go into trading in every corner of Ghana. See how the Chinese now control everything in Ghana, including the trade in “buronyi weewu.” The Nigerians are back with a vengeance, buying everything in sight, with cash! And so are the Lebanese. Under the programme, long-standing foreign resident were supposed to regularise their stay. Like the Asians in Uganda, because they used their status to smuggle diamonds and hard currencies out of Ghana, they did not bother. Do you really fault a leader of a bankrupt nation for trying to safeguard local commerce, in order to better the lot of his people?
13. Appollo 568? Hahaaa Have you heard about the rot in the NSS today? It is the same with the civil service. That was what Busia was trying to curb. After Kotoka and Harlley filled the civil and public services with every middle school drop-out from the Volta Region, they were as over-bloated as the clueless Mahama has done today. Anybody who takes over in 2017 will have to trim down the public purse, if our overlords the IMF do not do it now.
Come on buddy, if you really hold a PhD in something worthwhile, there are records in the archives that you can research and educate yourself about Ghana, instead of just swallowing the socialist nonesense hook, line and sinker
Good day!
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago
You don't seem to get it, do you? Now, Kufuor discovered that Nkrumah is having all the achievement fun these days as our political bible is being read loudly before the young citizenry. Therefore, in his version, bringing in ... read full comment
You don't seem to get it, do you? Now, Kufuor discovered that Nkrumah is having all the achievement fun these days as our political bible is being read loudly before the young citizenry. Therefore, in his version, bringing in his own cooked forgotten book according to Busia is a key to at less praise Busia small and not allowing Nkrumah alone to enjoy all the goodies on his accolade. Get it now, comrade?
ROY 9 years ago
'CAPITALISM" MEANS 'INDIVIDUALISM", A SYSTEM BY WHICH A BUSINESS IS INITIATED BY INDIVIDUALS INSTEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT. BY ANALYSIS, GHANAIANS ARE TOO POOR TO AFFORD THE INITIAL CAPITAL OUTLAY NEEDED FOR A PROJECT/BUSINESS ... read full comment
'CAPITALISM" MEANS 'INDIVIDUALISM", A SYSTEM BY WHICH A BUSINESS IS INITIATED BY INDIVIDUALS INSTEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT. BY ANALYSIS, GHANAIANS ARE TOO POOR TO AFFORD THE INITIAL CAPITAL OUTLAY NEEDED FOR A PROJECT/BUSINESS OF A REASONABLE SIZE.THE NEXT STAGE IS TO GO FOR A BANK LOAN WHICH THEY CANNOT GET BECAUSE OF DIFFICULTY TO MEET THE LENDING REQUIREMENTS OF BANKS.
IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, A FOREIGN PRIVATE INVESTOR IS ENTICED WITH ATTRACTIVE NICETIES, LIKE TAX HOLIDAYS.
THE RESULT IS THAT WE ARE BACK TO SQUARE ONE, THE COLONIAL ERA, WITH FOREIGNERS TAKING OVER OUR MEANS OF PRODUCTION AS WE ARE EXPERIENCING NOW.
IN COMPARISON, GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION ALSO CALLED SOCIALISM USED BY NKRUMAH WAS BETTER THAN CAPITALISM UNDER WHICH GHANAIANS ARE CURRENTLY SUFFERING.
KUFFOUR SELFISHLY BEFITTED FROM CAPITALISM WHICH WAS INTRODUCED IN GHANA BY ANOTHER SELFISH PRESIDENT, BUSIA, SO IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT HE IS DEFENDING CAPITALISM IN GHANA.
Kojo Atiso 9 years ago
JH Mensah is senile?and what are u?Kwashia you and your Kpegah thought you were doing Akffo Addo in that didn't hold,Bokor skin pain will kill you,keep sucking Mahama's dick for an appointment you will need knee pads go to ho ... read full comment
JH Mensah is senile?and what are u?Kwashia you and your Kpegah thought you were doing Akffo Addo in that didn't hold,Bokor skin pain will kill you,keep sucking Mahama's dick for an appointment you will need knee pads go to home depot for that duuuruwa!!!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Such is what I vehemently reject among among our commentators; the use of egregious lewdness for invectives on those we oppose.
You are repeating the same woeful error Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. made in criticizing ex- ... read full comment
Such is what I vehemently reject among among our commentators; the use of egregious lewdness for invectives on those we oppose.
You are repeating the same woeful error Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. made in criticizing ex-President Kufuor and J. H. Mensah recently, employing grotesquely indecent sexual language, except that in your case, you seem to be honoring J. H. with youthfulness.
You could have effectively rebutted Dr. Bokor without insulting him with such umannered reference to any sexual act. What has that to do with our Politics? You should not forget that children also visit these forums to learn about us and our Politics.
Long Live Ghana!!!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Dr. Busia was shockingly let down by his own colleagues,like R. R. Amponsah, who were eager to recoup much of the wealth they might have lost under the restraining era of Nkrumah. If fact, a similar trend is what we are witne ... read full comment
Dr. Busia was shockingly let down by his own colleagues,like R. R. Amponsah, who were eager to recoup much of the wealth they might have lost under the restraining era of Nkrumah. If fact, a similar trend is what we are witnessing between the NPP and the NDC alternate Administrations of our recent Republics.
Our politics has suffered much of wild swings between extreme ideologies under various Administrations, even including the Military Juntas. Such has been the reflection of our politics of vengeance and equalization.
Soon after Nkrumah's exit, we were made to adopt incongrous extreme Capitalist agenda that we were not prepared for. Our Institutions could not adapt early enough to cope with the new trend. The NLC, the Kotoka-Harley-Afrifah Military Junta that overthrew Nkrumah, simply rushed to destroy all that Nkrumah had built under the guise of erasing his image off our Nation's Politics, without seriously assessing the real, pragmatic Economic consequences.
So, when Busia was ushered into Power, the only sector he could immediately make significant impact in was the rural areas where much was still desired in infrastructural development. Even though Busia had been allowed a considerable time to organize his Center for Civil Education to prime the Nation for the newly democratic dispensation, he seemed to have focused more on his acceptability to the electorate than advising the NLC to make cogently incisive difference between imperative self-reliant Economy and that which would force us to depend increasingly on foreign goods and services.
Had the population been carefully and better re-oriented to place the emphasis on private enterprise with Government incentives, and the existing State Industrial base been re-organized to be more productive, with a more gradual approach to divestiture, Busia could have done way much more to set us off on the track of, and retain, a booming Economy.
However, in a rush to please the Paymasters of the Coup that brought Busia in, he had his hands tied to doing what they expected of us, adopting policies that would eventually slow our progress to discourage other Colonies from demanding Independence from their Colonial masters and making our Natural resources and Markets cheaply available to the overlords. We thus destroyed our own ability to produce and be competitive in the Capitalist Marketplace, while shoring up the productivity and employment levels of the Developed Western Economies.
Besides, locally, Dr. Busia might have given in to those hawkish elements in his UP/NLM camp who wanted to see vengeance, at least, financially, visited upon their CPP opponents. Amidst Busia's resistance to such persuasions were the ill-advised pursuit of some of his peers to cut shady deals with foreign entities to access our Resources.
Such was the reason why Dr. Busia dropped R.R. Amponsah, for example, from his Cabinet, before Acheampong's Coup, and why R. R. Amponsah and his like-minded former PP members abandoned Victor Owusu for Paa Willie's UNC when the PFP, an incarnation of the PP, emerged with the possibility of bringing Busia back to prominence and even later Leadership.
We seem to hyperbolize our political opposition to one another to our own detriment. There are certain areas of our National growth that must transcend the bitter extreme ideological Politics. The fact that a certain project, for example, was initiated by our opponent, did, and does not, necessarily mean it ought to be abandoned. Projects we might have invested in would have to be reassessed for better management to be more productive, and, reasonably, profit-making to sustain employment and expand our Economy. Abandoning them amounts to losing all our Investments. The consequence of such ill-guided Economic policies is why we still see The Kumasi Jute Factory and many of its peers buried under weeds and habited by rats and snakes.
Furthermore, leaving all employees of such Projects in the lerch with no jobs, after abandoning those projects, not only add to our Economic constraints but also accentuate the dislike for the Party and Government that undertook the closure of the Projects by the former employees and their families.
We therefore end up polarizing more our Society, or perpetually keeping the polarization alive, much to the Nation's detriment.
I hope our Historians, Economists, and other patriotic Intellectuals would not just draw unprovable conclusions about any of our past leaders to spite their Political opponents but more intellingently assess our present and future needs to grow sustenably, and offer empirically authentic solutions for all our problems. It does not matter much what ideological camp initiated a particular program or project, or what ideological mantra was used to clothe the project's construction. The most important thing to the Nation and our general Citizenry is whether or not the Program or Project has the requisite oversight and plan and implementation to achieve its ultimate goal.
If the Program or Project is even found out to have been poorly planned, say, not likely to show as much benefit as initially conceived by its builders, it could be tweaked in one way or another to serve a better purpose relative to the cost of operation.
If we would have a collective aim to see a Project succeed, recognizing its invevitable contribution to our growth under a consensus approach to its management and performance, we would always be treading the path to success and not taking one step forward and two or more steps backwards, as we have all these years. Our illogical contention to take full, undivided credit for good Projects has done us more harm than good. Communities could sensibly allot credit for successful Projects between successive Administrations that saw to the completion of those Projects. The recognition of the fact that every contributor deserves some credit, and that selflessly and honestly acknowledging our opponent's good deeds is a mark of Political maturity required to build a Nation would clear our view of the right path ahead.
Long Live Ghana!!!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Brothers,
I thank you both. I hope the anti-Nkrumahists will learn from you both.
Great wisdom.
Thanks.
Dear Brothers,
I thank you both. I hope the anti-Nkrumahists will learn from you both.
Great wisdom.
Thanks.
JAA 9 years ago
I am horrified about your riposte; to begin with, you attributed your opening sentence with words which were in quotation marks to ex president Kuffuor. If quotation marks serve a significant purpose,then that was not what Pr ... read full comment
I am horrified about your riposte; to begin with, you attributed your opening sentence with words which were in quotation marks to ex president Kuffuor. If quotation marks serve a significant purpose,then that was not what President Kuffuor said at all.
I have a textual print out of what the ex president said and that of yours, but I find it difficult to grasp any significance of your rebuttal other than what I can probably deduce that the ex president's views which you have completely misconstrued nettled you. The ex president just shared his views on what he knew about the late prime minister's disposition in economic governance, thus Busia was oriented in market economy; I guess self-regulating market. Just to digress a little bit, I personally believe such economic paradigm goes hand in hand with the countermovement. But President Kuffuor never said that Busia's Ghana was great as you have sought to debunk. As I have said, he the ex president just shared the economic paradigm he believed Busia had, and that if he had been allowed to pursue those policies, that would have had an impact in posterity. It is quite intriguing that in your own riposte, the hallmarks of the market paradigm which it is postulated that Dr Busia had are salient. I give you examples of those salient areas you intimated in your rebuttal: abolishing TUC under industrial relations Act, austerity measures,abolishing fee-free, military budget cut by 10%. These are all hallmarks of market economy and thus support what president Kuffuor was saying. Your lengthy attempt to debunk what president Kuffour shared was regrettably waffly and nuanced with peculiar sentiments which inter alia depict which side of the political divide you are in.
It is preposterous as well to think president Kuffuor should have continued with Dr Busia's programme because in the dispensation in which NPP came to power, the government inherited a troubled economy from Rawlings and that dispensation undoubtedly required a different economic programme.
The scope of this forum will not permit me to say my views about Dr Busia, suffice to say that,his democractic credentials were uniquely evinced when PV Obeng sat on his VIP chair at UST to make a political statement,Busia asked the security agents to allow the student,PV Obeng to express his political views. Thus, Obeng with his CPP persuasions was not sanctioned. The current Ghanaian polity is very much enlightened than those in Busia's era and that wss indicative of the challenges his administration might have encountered.
appletus 9 years ago
I can't laugh enough. IK Acheampong wil be remembered for his operation feed yourself mantra that was supposed to boost agricultire in Ghana and make us self sufficoent in food production.
Then , the general will. Be remembe ... read full comment
I can't laugh enough. IK Acheampong wil be remembered for his operation feed yourself mantra that was supposed to boost agricultire in Ghana and make us self sufficoent in food production.
Then , the general will. Be remembered for the construction of sporr stadia across the nation.
What did Busia do?
hon mahadin wa 9 years ago
JKBokor has left me more confused with this writeup.In fact some of our so called scholars are more dangerous than the armed robber bcos latter only rob you of some personal belongings sometimes but wrong and deceitful educat ... read full comment
JKBokor has left me more confused with this writeup.In fact some of our so called scholars are more dangerous than the armed robber bcos latter only rob you of some personal belongings sometimes but wrong and deceitful education is poison.Your heading very misleading.You only succeded without knowing confirming the assertion of president kufour.Articles of this nature only exposes the bias of people.Anyway that is your wrong opinion
bonasti 9 years ago
This discription of the Busia govt and all the negatives reminds me so much of the John Mahama administration. Is he using Busia's notes?
This discription of the Busia govt and all the negatives reminds me so much of the John Mahama administration. Is he using Busia's notes?
Opusuo 9 years ago
I like this to bits, someone who took his salary in advanc ship it outside of the country and later devalue our currency almost 50 percent,people stil think he has done Ghana a favour alas. They will still boast of his schola ... read full comment
I like this to bits, someone who took his salary in advanc ship it outside of the country and later devalue our currency almost 50 percent,people stil think he has done Ghana a favour alas. They will still boast of his scholarship being a scolar haha genius. I will never vote in Ghana !
Yes what you are saying is true. I agree. For once.
"Doesn’t Kufuor do better when he zips up his mouth?"
Meaning you think Kufuor is intelligent?
Kufour was just advocating for the perpetuation of the stinking crony capitalism he served Ghana with. The private sector in Ghana are state parasites like Tony Aidoo used to say. They use their political connections to feed ...
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Let the dirty hypocrite creature, Ewe Bokor tell us what his NDC uncle Rawlings, Mills and Mahama could do for Ghana apart from schooling politicians and public officers to become Ph. D.'s in corruption and looting?
All of ...
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Busia could have been a leader for any country in this world. That is not mine; that is what the world said about him when he died prematurely.
The man was a respectable, God fearing leader that had a complete program for al ...
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The mere fact that Rawlings still go about talking about democracy and the rule of law is an insult to the intelligence of all Ghanaians. Someone who hijacked and impeded our development for almost 20years with crimes, dictat ...
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The sycophant KB Ashanti is a disgrace. How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify a communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did, except that he was preparing th ...
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I don't know what substance Bokor is higher on because it is so strange that any sound mind could make such a tall list of failures that we are witnessing in recent times under Mahama, mills and Rawlings and attribute it to ...
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Many of the things you listed as bad were really good policies. The removal of freebies from the military was good. Asking them to pay for the electricity they consume in their bungalows was fair. Go back and revise your lite ...
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Mawuli, you are another silly person. How much do you know?. If it had been good you would not have being hungery for some time now.
All the policies of Busia were geared towards privatization, a system that has propelled the West to the top of the world. A system that "communist" China has now embraced. Busia was light years ahead of Bokor.
Nkrumah believed in using capitalism to create wealth and use socialist principles to distribute it.What were the factories he established meant for?WESTERN CAPITALISM MAKE FEW PEOPLE RICH AND POWERFUL AND THE MAJORITY POOR.R ...
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Facts expose Mr. Kufuor. Telling lie does not help. If don't know, just shut your beaks.
Dr Bokor you left out this damned dirty side of Busia. Which was after the shameful apollo 568, the confused Busia took a whole years salary advance. Un heard of in the annals of pres/pms. world wide.
The Danquah/ Busia tradition is a diabolic group of greedy men & women whose main objective of having power is to wreck the nation. Apart from Busia being a CIA, he was a con politician.
He testified in the against Nkrumah ...
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And he was a terrorist and strongly opposed the creation of the Brong Ahafo region.He and the late ivorian president Houphet Boigny supported apartheid in South Africa.He illegally used state funds to decorate and extend his ...
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i enjoy reading your facts and putting the records straight.well done.we need people like you to be telling us the truth,thanks
Busia was tribalistic and Xenophobic. The guy did not know what he was about.
You are too known!!!
Dr Bokor, while your harsh critique of Busia is not unsupported by evidence, hindsight seems to suggest that late primier was right on a number of key policies he pursued and that if his regime had not been cut short 45 years ...
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Bokor is too known
The facts have been laid bare and if Mr.Kufour is reading this article, he should respond.
THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG,Mr Kufour.
Of course I can vividly remember Dr.Busia the Sociologist from The Ghana University at Legon wh ...
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GHANA SWEET AGAIN PERIOD
BY GOD PERIOD. THEY ALWAYS COMES JUST ONCE AND NEVER AGAIN PERIOD
Bastard like this ugly man
One of the first things Busia did was to pay himself one year's salary in advance. He also used state funds to renovate his private Odorkor residence. These were in addition to the "No Court, No Court" shout when the Supreme ...
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What tribalist trasht! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you ...
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You don't seem to get it, do you? Now, Kufuor discovered that Nkrumah is having all the achievement fun these days as our political bible is being read loudly before the young citizenry. Therefore, in his version, bringing in ...
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'CAPITALISM" MEANS 'INDIVIDUALISM", A SYSTEM BY WHICH A BUSINESS IS INITIATED BY INDIVIDUALS INSTEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT. BY ANALYSIS, GHANAIANS ARE TOO POOR TO AFFORD THE INITIAL CAPITAL OUTLAY NEEDED FOR A PROJECT/BUSINESS ...
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JH Mensah is senile?and what are u?Kwashia you and your Kpegah thought you were doing Akffo Addo in that didn't hold,Bokor skin pain will kill you,keep sucking Mahama's dick for an appointment you will need knee pads go to ho ...
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Such is what I vehemently reject among among our commentators; the use of egregious lewdness for invectives on those we oppose.
You are repeating the same woeful error Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. made in criticizing ex- ...
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Dr. Busia was shockingly let down by his own colleagues,like R. R. Amponsah, who were eager to recoup much of the wealth they might have lost under the restraining era of Nkrumah. If fact, a similar trend is what we are witne ...
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Dear Brothers,
I thank you both. I hope the anti-Nkrumahists will learn from you both.
Great wisdom.
Thanks.
I am horrified about your riposte; to begin with, you attributed your opening sentence with words which were in quotation marks to ex president Kuffuor. If quotation marks serve a significant purpose,then that was not what Pr ...
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I can't laugh enough. IK Acheampong wil be remembered for his operation feed yourself mantra that was supposed to boost agricultire in Ghana and make us self sufficoent in food production.
Then , the general will. Be remembe ...
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JKBokor has left me more confused with this writeup.In fact some of our so called scholars are more dangerous than the armed robber bcos latter only rob you of some personal belongings sometimes but wrong and deceitful educat ...
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This discription of the Busia govt and all the negatives reminds me so much of the John Mahama administration. Is he using Busia's notes?
I like this to bits, someone who took his salary in advanc ship it outside of the country and later devalue our currency almost 50 percent,people stil think he has done Ghana a favour alas. They will still boast of his schola ...
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