COCOBOD Scholarships: How another Nkrumah legacy has been flushed down the drain forever

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Mr Ibu 1 year ago

Nkrumah inherited external reserve of 280 million BP which is worth 3.11 billion today. With such resources couple with blue print from the British he could embark development projects across the country. Anybody could perfor ...
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Nkrumah inherited external reserve of 280 million BP which is worth 3.11 billion today. With such resources couple with blue print from the British he could embark development projects across the country. Anybody could perform the same as Nkrumah given such resources. Our external debt was almost zero. Guinea even owe Ghana at the time.
TAKE OR PAY DEMON 1 year ago

For over forty years, the Cocoa scholarship has never been for the children of cocoa farmers but for the children of the rich.

For over forty years, the Cocoa scholarship has never been for the children of cocoa farmers but for the children of the rich.
DotCom 1 year ago

I agree with you but at least someone got it, rich or poor, but now nobody gets it. Which is better? We are broke because our monies are diverted to private pockets.

I agree with you but at least someone got it, rich or poor, but now nobody gets it. Which is better? We are broke because our monies are diverted to private pockets.
O'Shea 1 year ago

Now, everybody gets it... its called Free SHS and GetFund. NPP is the best!!

Now, everybody gets it... its called Free SHS and GetFund. NPP is the best!!
OSABARIMA MENSA 1 year ago

Nkrumah's one party state was the beginning of our woes. With FSHS who needs cocoa scholarship?

Nkrumah's one party state was the beginning of our woes. With FSHS who needs cocoa scholarship?
DotCom 1 year ago

@ OSABARIMA MENSA:

China is a one party state and Singapore was a one party state for decades. How developed are they now? Ghana has been a multi-party democracy for decades and where are we now? You must be one of those w ...
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@ OSABARIMA MENSA:

China is a one party state and Singapore was a one party state for decades. How developed are they now? Ghana has been a multi-party democracy for decades and where are we now? You must be one of those who have been fed by falsehoods about our history.
Joko 1 year ago

There are 100 times more examples of multi democratic states doing well. T

There are 100 times more examples of multi democratic states doing well. T
DotCom 1 year ago

Give me one African country which has adopted western style democracy and is doing well. Just one.

Give me one African country which has adopted western style democracy and is doing well. Just one.
Nii Akwei 1 year ago

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Uganda is one Party State, Can you compare it to Ghana? 1 year ago

Aboa ba monkey. Show me a democratic country in Africa, that has developed? As usual, a typical asante who is illiterate and hate Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah will spew rubbish about one Party State. If Nkrumah was from your tr ...
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Aboa ba monkey. Show me a democratic country in Africa, that has developed? As usual, a typical asante who is illiterate and hate Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah will spew rubbish about one Party State. If Nkrumah was from your tribe, you would have carried him on your heads from country to another and disturbing people with it. Your NPP Danquah Dombo Busia Criminals, who have destroyed every good thing of the country. They collapsed over 300 banks, increased our debt from ¢27.8 billion to ¢332.4 billion, destroyed our Education, Agriculture, Lands and Health System, increased untold Economic Hardship, Increased Unemployment from 1 million to over 3million, disrespected Teachers, and now the only aim at breaking the 8 to remain perpetually in government. What should Ghanaians do now. Any correct human being with right sense will never ever support this Danquah Criminals and Demons.
Why Didn't Your Father or Mother Did that? Useless Monkey 1 year ago

Like all typical Asantes, because of illiteracy and hate against Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, you couldn't read to understand and identify the number of factories and development projects Osagyefo Dr. Kwame established across ...
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Like all typical Asantes, because of illiteracy and hate against Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, you couldn't read to understand and identify the number of factories and development projects Osagyefo Dr. Kwame established across the country? Your criminal Akuffo Addo and evil NPP, what have they achieved with the 3billion IMF loan, Over 20 billion oil money, over 1 billion COVID 19 fund, and all gargantuan money over millions of dollars that they have received? Tell us why after all these money, Akufo Addo and evil NPP party collapsed over 300 banks, increased our debt from ¢27.8 billion to over ¢332.4 billion, destroyed our Education, Agriculture, Lands and Health System, increased untold Economic Hardship, Increased Unemployment from 1 million to over 3million
Remember, it was OSagyefo Dr. Nkrumah, who brought free education to Ghana, until your evil Busia another evil of Danquah-Dombo-Busua tradition called NLM, now NPP, came to destroy it. You think you can destroy someone's legacy and yours will remain? Apuu, you can swallow the entire sea, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah remains the Greatest Politician, King Solomon and The Man of the Millenium, which no black man in Africa can break it.
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KAKABO 1 year ago

I received a Cocobod scholarship during my days as a secondary school student in the south of the country; it was one of two scholarships available for needy students from the Cocoa growing areas in the secondary school syste ...
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I received a Cocobod scholarship during my days as a secondary school student in the south of the country; it was one of two scholarships available for needy students from the Cocoa growing areas in the secondary school system. Today, all secondary school fees, including boarding fees, have been made free. So, Mr Ibu, please tell me the significance of granting a scholarship to a student who is not paying fees in any manner. Sometimes, we major in the minors and minor in the majors. This your article is one of the best examples of much ado about nothing
Jake 1 year ago

You see how narrow and shallow your thinking is? if the COCOBOD scholarship was not scrapped, it could have been moved to the tertiary still for cocoa farmers. Look at what mr. Kingsly is doing, by selling government scholars ...
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You see how narrow and shallow your thinking is? if the COCOBOD scholarship was not scrapped, it could have been moved to the tertiary still for cocoa farmers. Look at what mr. Kingsly is doing, by selling government scholarships to MPs, minsters, NPP chairpersons' children, etc. People in Ghana especially NPP supportes just can't think well for this country hence the level Ghana has sunk under this dwarf.
Joko 1 year ago

There is a student loan trust for university students like they has always been . This time it can be accessed by mere possession of a Ghana card!

There is a student loan trust for university students like they has always been . This time it can be accessed by mere possession of a Ghana card!
Is a Loan a scholarship? Useless Monkey 1 year ago

Some people talk rubbish, without thinking or reasoning. Is SSNIT Loan a scholarship. Monkey

Some people talk rubbish, without thinking or reasoning. Is SSNIT Loan a scholarship. Monkey
Mike Oquaye Jnr. 1 year ago

All hail akuffo- addo
Akuffo addo is like kign Noah of the nephites

All hail akuffo- addo
Akuffo addo is like kign Noah of the nephites
Akuffo Addo is the Evil Goat in Daniel 8:1-22 1 year ago

All hail the devil in Ghana. The Most Corrupt, Super incompetent and Certificate less lawyer. Akuffo Addo erh, he is a clear description of the evil goat the bible describes in the dream of Daniel 8:1-22. That is, Daniel’s ...
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All hail the devil in Ghana. The Most Corrupt, Super incompetent and Certificate less lawyer. Akuffo Addo erh, he is a clear description of the evil goat the bible describes in the dream of Daniel 8:1-22. That is, Daniel’s Vision of a Ram and a Goat. He is very evil and full of hate and demonic hypocrisy with diabolical evil agenda.
Remember, it was OSagyefo Dr. Nkrumah, who brought free education to Ghana, until Busia another evil of Danquah-Dombo-Busua tradition called NPP, came to destroy it. You think you can destory someone's legacy and yours will remain? Apuu, you can swallow the entire sea, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah remains the Greatest Politician and The Man of the Mellenium, which no black man on earth can break it.
NDC 1 year ago

Ghanaians must be educated on the Northern Scholarship program. Facts keep twisting about this program.
Many folks forget the British Govt left a whooping 200 million pound sterling for Nkrumah ( the incoming Ghanaian govt) ...
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Ghanaians must be educated on the Northern Scholarship program. Facts keep twisting about this program.
Many folks forget the British Govt left a whooping 200 million pound sterling for Nkrumah ( the incoming Ghanaian govt) for development. Part of the agreement for the operation of this program was to compensate northerners after the British realized upon a visit to the Northern territories that the area was so undeveloped.

Nkrumah and his folks instead of using the funds for the intended purpose, they opted to misapply the funds and created this scheme of Northern scholarship.
Many questions will always arise; would northerners had preferred the massive infrastructural development for the northern territories as proposed by the British to the skewed misapplied funds for the northern scholarship?
Was this the beginning of corruption in Ghana?
Augustina Quayson 1 year ago

Please according to Mumuni Bawumia, Dr Nkrumah promised the North free education and a special scholarship scheme for Northerners in lieu of 30 million pounds development funds that Northern politicians demand ...
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Please according to Mumuni Bawumia, Dr Nkrumah promised the North free education and a special scholarship scheme for Northerners in lieu of 30 million pounds development funds that Northern politicians demanded before lndependence. Please see page 61 of Memoirs of Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia. A life in the Political history of Ghana by Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia This was in about 1956. But Dr Nkrumah started the free education in the North in 1951 as soon as Dr Nkrumah came to. power in 1951.Please the British government did not leave any 200 million pounds behind for which part was to be used to develop the North
Educate your useless Family and NPP criminals 1 year ago

Aboa ba, monkey! Like all typical Asantes, because of illiteracy and hate against Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, you couldn't read to understand and identify the number of factories and development projects Osagyefo Dr. Kwame es ...
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Aboa ba, monkey! Like all typical Asantes, because of illiteracy and hate against Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, you couldn't read to understand and identify the number of factories and development projects Osagyefo Dr. Kwame established across the country? Your criminal Akuffo Addo and evill NPP, what have they achieved with the 3billion IMF loan, Over 20 billion oil money, over 1 billion COVID 19 fund, and all other millions of dollars that they have received? Tell us why after all these money, Remember, it was OSagyefo Dr. Nkrumah, who brought free education to Ghana, until your evil Busia another evil of Danquah-Dombo-Busua tradition called NLM, now NPP, came to destroy it. You think you can destroy someone's legacy and yours will remain? Apuu, you can swallow the entire sea, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah remains the Greatest Politician, King Solomon and The Man of the Millenium, which no black man in Africa can break it.
Citizen8 1 year ago

Whoever authored this article must kindly tell us the justification for the continued granting of COCOBOD Scholarships in the face of the Free SHS. Let's not continue to live in the nostalgic past when circumstances have rend ...
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Whoever authored this article must kindly tell us the justification for the continued granting of COCOBOD Scholarships in the face of the Free SHS. Let's not continue to live in the nostalgic past when circumstances have rendered it redundant.
Kofi Ghanaba 1 year ago

Nkrumah's Free SHS in the North which my good friend John Dramani Mahama enjoyed has been expanded to Free SHS for Zongo's in Nima and beyond.

Nkrumah's Free SHS in the North which my good friend John Dramani Mahama enjoyed has been expanded to Free SHS for Zongo's in Nima and beyond.
GpS 1 year ago

Nkrumah is NOT the best person on earth. The youths today can do better than Nkrumah if they change their attitudes like corruption. I don't want to hear anything about Kwame Nkrumah or Mandela. They did their part and gone. ...
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Nkrumah is NOT the best person on earth. The youths today can do better than Nkrumah if they change their attitudes like corruption. I don't want to hear anything about Kwame Nkrumah or Mandela. They did their part and gone. Africa leaders are NOT leaders’ period. Galamsey has destroyed all our waters, and killed all the fishes in our rivers. Where are our leaders in the country? The country has become like animal farm. Chinese and Indians are in all our villages doing galamsey. Where are the security officials? None of our institution is working. 90% of Ghanaians are corrupted including the police, judges, chiefs, ministers, DCEs, politicians. Corruption is in the blood of the citizens. The country has no future. Ghana is a very rich country GOLD COAST but, citizens are begging for common water, and food. WATER IS LIFE STOP GALAMSEY, CORRUPTIONS, AND MISMANAGEMENTS, and focus on industrial technologies like what Korea, Japan. God has blessed Ghana with abundant of natural resources but the brains are not working. Africa must produce for themselves, NOT to go to America or China to beg. Take your resources to develop the continent.
Pelicles 1 year ago

@GpS, thanks but this is the problem from the beginning. There was no system set up to monitor anything in Ghana under the first president. That problem has been with us till now, and what do you hear? Even our fathers who we ...
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@GpS, thanks but this is the problem from the beginning. There was no system set up to monitor anything in Ghana under the first president. That problem has been with us till now, and what do you hear? Even our fathers who were farmers had a system in place in their cocoa farms which they monitor.

Just imagine a country where you can get up today and change your identity thrice. What do you think about that?

We are our own enemies. When NPP introduced the Ghana card, what did you hear. We can't continue like that, and we have to bite the bullet and change the system no matter what else, we would be singing the same song fifty years to come.

Who should do what for us in Ghana, ourselves so, why can't we be truthful and set a system covering all of us?

These advance nations like the US, Britain, Japan, and the rest are livable because of the systems they have in place which monitors everybody, and we have to do the same else we should forget it.
Educate yourself well before spewing rubbish 1 year ago

Who should put the monitoring system in place? Why didn't your mother or father put that in place? Do you know the number of years it took America, Japan, and other Europeans to establish that system you claim it makes better ...
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Who should put the monitoring system in place? Why didn't your mother or father put that in place? Do you know the number of years it took America, Japan, and other Europeans to establish that system you claim it makes better living? Do you know Nkrumah spent only 9 years in government? You are one of those typical Ghanaian, who is lazy and expecting someone to do everything for you. Wake up and work hard so that you to can establish a monitoring system, it is never too late. Nkrumah layed the foundation of development but didn't bring development. So, attack those who destroyed the foundational projects and the legacy of Nkrumah.
Jake 1 year ago

The argument that the caretakers 9from north, volta, etc) were paid fairly is not true. If they were fairly paid, then the cocoa farmers were equally well paid. The share of the produce is 1:3. if the position is to stand, do ...
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The argument that the caretakers 9from north, volta, etc) were paid fairly is not true. If they were fairly paid, then the cocoa farmers were equally well paid. The share of the produce is 1:3. if the position is to stand, does it mean western region people who have oil should take the lion's share? These ashantis have been the problem of Ghana since day one.
Vasco 1 year ago

Massa think outside the box farming is far different from oil OK and if any region is taking the resources belonging to them then I know your region will have nothing to show

Massa think outside the box farming is far different from oil OK and if any region is taking the resources belonging to them then I know your region will have nothing to show
Wofa 1 year ago

Perfectly right!

Perfectly right!
YB 1 year ago

Ghanaians and hypocrisy....what's the use of the COCOBOD scholarship now that students are attending free SHS?..Even those of us who parents and grandparents were having cocoa farms in acres, we didn't enjoy this scholarship. ...
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Ghanaians and hypocrisy....what's the use of the COCOBOD scholarship now that students are attending free SHS?..Even those of us who parents and grandparents were having cocoa farms in acres, we didn't enjoy this scholarship..
You people should let's think and stop this unnecessary noise.
Pelicles 1 year ago

What system did Nkrumah put in place to monitor whatever he was doing in Ghana? Was there any good system monitoring the Cocobod scholarships or it was just "Go and get it" and who was that or this person getting what from th ...
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What system did Nkrumah put in place to monitor whatever he was doing in Ghana? Was there any good system monitoring the Cocobod scholarships or it was just "Go and get it" and who was that or this person getting what from the nation?

As long as a proper monitoring system was not set up, somewhere along the way, everything will come down crushing.
Hm 1 year ago

Scrapping this scholarship is a great news.
It has outlived it usefulness.Morever, the poor cocoa farmer had usually been neglected at the expense of these selfish politicians and their rich cohorts.

Scrapping this scholarship is a great news.
It has outlived it usefulness.Morever, the poor cocoa farmer had usually been neglected at the expense of these selfish politicians and their rich cohorts.
Augustina Quayson 1 year ago

NDC, please it is not true that the British government left 200 million pounds and part of it was to be used to develop the Northern Territories. The Northern Territories and Ashanti were joined to the Gold Coast Colo ...
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NDC, please it is not true that the British government left 200 million pounds and part of it was to be used to develop the Northern Territories. The Northern Territories and Ashanti were joined to the Gold Coast Colony in 1902 and if there were such money why didn't the British government use that money to develop the Northern Territories from 1902?Please according to Mumuni Bawumia, President Nkrumah 's last Minister of Local government, before lndependence, the North sent a delegation to the British government asking for a development fund of 30 million pounds after lndependence. Who was to pay that money? The British government or Ghana? That request was not granted. Please see page 61 of Memoirs of Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia. A life in the Political History of Ghana by Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia
Kee 1 year ago

Who is this yesterday's person, even Dr Nkrumah himself said, "forward ever, backwards never." I believe he didn't even understand what Dr Nkrumah said despite being his follower. Apuuuuuu

Who is this yesterday's person, even Dr Nkrumah himself said, "forward ever, backwards never." I believe he didn't even understand what Dr Nkrumah said despite being his follower. Apuuuuuu
John 1 year ago

So Ashanti has been life blood for this country and yet some idiots who if not for Ashanti will never have attended school will still insult Asantes.all the anti Asantes will be exposed one by one.envy people yet you depend o ...
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So Ashanti has been life blood for this country and yet some idiots who if not for Ashanti will never have attended school will still insult Asantes.all the anti Asantes will be exposed one by one.envy people yet you depend on Asantes for your living.
The Kofi 1 year ago

Cocoa scholarship was for the children of the poor farmers then. It became a scholarship scheme for the rich and affluence under the fourth Republic..... The purpose of the scholarship was to help the poor farmer's children t ...
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Cocoa scholarship was for the children of the poor farmers then. It became a scholarship scheme for the rich and affluence under the fourth Republic..... The purpose of the scholarship was to help the poor farmer's children through secondary education and probably, beyond. FSHS is a scholarship for every Ghanaian child so, what then becomes of the cocoa scholarship? I see FSHS as a vass improvement of the cocoa scholarship but that's my opinion though. Dr Nkrumah did it when were only 7,000,000 and we're still praising him. Nana Addo has done it when we're 33,000,000 and we say what? I don't know how some of these comparisons are done though but we must be very objective about it.

Someone will come and insult me without giving any facts here because Dr Nkrumah was his father's brother's uncle.....
Agyatwi Yeboah 1 year ago

Take or Pay Demon is right. Kids of the rich enjoyed the CMB Scholarships and not those of cocoa farmers like my father Etwi Kwaku and Akwaboahene.
If the decision to award the Scholarships rested solely on Headmasters , t ...
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Take or Pay Demon is right. Kids of the rich enjoyed the CMB Scholarships and not those of cocoa farmers like my father Etwi Kwaku and Akwaboahene.
If the decision to award the Scholarships rested solely on Headmasters , then , they used such to amass wealth.
How many children of cocoa farmers at Opoku. Ware Sec Sch during the era of the Headmaster A.K . Adu enjoyed the CMB Scholarships? The children of the rich who didn't know how to plant cocoa seeds and had not been to cocoa farms and had seen only the tress and pods at the Cultural Center in Kumasi and Akuafuor Hall in Legon enjoyed the scholarships. Corruption in Ghana cannot be eradicated till Jesus comes back.

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