B.A. Mensah: Through the Eyes of a Child.

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Seriuos 11 years ago

Informative. Thank you bruv

Informative. Thank you bruv
Kakraba Cromwell 11 years ago

rip b.a. mensah
what i dont understand is how can herbert mensah be in bed with the very people-rawlings, who destroyed his father's business?
there must be more to this story.
eeih, as they say ;
"only time would tell"

rip b.a. mensah
what i dont understand is how can herbert mensah be in bed with the very people-rawlings, who destroyed his father's business?
there must be more to this story.
eeih, as they say ;
"only time would tell"
NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

Johnny thanks so much for such a perfect and thoughtfully written piece and for taking us through the memory lane. Great piece!!!

Thanks to the monster Rawlings unforgivable fake socialist revolution that violently took ou ...
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Johnny thanks so much for such a perfect and thoughtfully written piece and for taking us through the memory lane. Great piece!!!

Thanks to the monster Rawlings unforgivable fake socialist revolution that violently took our people hostage in a bloody coup for over 19 years, the indigenous Ghanaian industrialists were accused of all sorts of non substantive hatred by enviness from the non achievers campus poor rats like, the Kwesi Botweys, the Ahwois, Tsatsu and Kojo Tsikatas, E.T Mensahs, Tony Aiddoos, Kunadu Agyeman Rawlingses, Kofi Awoonors, Totobi Kwakyes, Sheily Ayiteys, Yaw Akrasi Sarpongs, P.V Obengs, Iddrisu Mahamas, who through dubious criminally political means are the super rich in our society today.

All those industries which gave employment to thousands of people in Ghana were all left to die after being confiscated and materials stolen by these unscrupulously criminal revolutionaries who turned round to own some of these factories for free.

How come Kunadu Agyeman Rawlings, the wicked heartless poor baboon be the owner the once state enterprises, Nsawam Cannery, La Palm Beach Hotel, Ghana House, State Fishing and the fishing boats, took over and sold Star Hotel and why did Kufour gave such a monster of a woman a Presidential pardon?
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

Thank you for this great piece of writing and reminiscing of what used to be right!

Thank you for this great piece of writing and reminiscing of what used to be right!
JOHN 11 years ago

Well done. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

Well done. May his soul rest in perfect peace.
Dr kwadwo kufuor U.S of A 11 years ago

Well written tributes to a great man

Well written tributes to a great man
Big Bro 11 years ago

Sombre and fantastic piece. Hope everyone understands the lessons herein contained.

Sombre and fantastic piece. Hope everyone understands the lessons herein contained.
Kwadjoe, London 11 years ago

It is good but your facts about some of his businness dealings may not be right. We were a young nation therefore those leading should have led by example. What I heard was that he had an arrangement with Customs which allowe ...
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It is good but your facts about some of his businness dealings may not be right. We were a young nation therefore those leading should have led by example. What I heard was that he had an arrangement with Customs which allowed him to use the states monies ( excise duty which he collects from customers on behalf of the state) to finance his business. That is a crime against the state. You see, we must not see ourselves as the only stakeholders in the entity called Ghana. Take it for granted and you are doomed.
Peter Dogbe 11 years ago

That is a lie.

He used to pay his excise duty in advance to Ghana during Liman's regime.

Rawlings's govt through some envious Ewe customs officials wanted him to pay duty on products that he hasn't sold and he refused. ...
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That is a lie.

He used to pay his excise duty in advance to Ghana during Liman's regime.

Rawlings's govt through some envious Ewe customs officials wanted him to pay duty on products that he hasn't sold and he refused.

He was just a victim of Rawlings and his Ewe cabal's hatred for anything Asante.
KOFI 11 years ago

This is a great piece. I like the way it is ended. The so called business men in Ghana today are like the present day millionaires in Russia. They never worked for their capital. They were the very people who preached soc ...
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This is a great piece. I like the way it is ended. The so called business men in Ghana today are like the present day millionaires in Russia. They never worked for their capital. They were the very people who preached socialism. When socialism collapsed, they ransacked the state coffers and sold state enterprises to themselves. Today, there are more billionaires in Moscow than in any other city. How could this have happpended in just twenty years? That is how the business tycoons of Ghaana today are. People like P V Obeng and the Ahwois are the richest people in Ghana today. All the oil in Ghana 'belongs' to just a few families.
Jerry David H 11 years ago

RIP Mr BA Mensah, May God Bless bussinessmen in Ghana to be as hardworking as you were.

RIP Mr BA Mensah, May God Bless bussinessmen in Ghana to be as hardworking as you were.
Jerry David H 11 years ago

Everyone must read the seventh paragraph of this nice piece

Everyone must read the seventh paragraph of this nice piece
CROSS 11 years ago

Low life Kwadjoe. You say the writers facts about his business dealings MAY NOT be right. Your own words MAY NOT and yet you are claiming hearsay to be factual. No where in the well written article by a well brought up kid ta ...
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Low life Kwadjoe. You say the writers facts about his business dealings MAY NOT be right. Your own words MAY NOT and yet you are claiming hearsay to be factual. No where in the well written article by a well brought up kid talk about BA business deals.The article is headed 'Through the Eyes of a Child'. This is a Scot Fritzgerald theme and if you cannot understand its literature i am sorry for you.You are moulded to envy till you die
mojingles 11 years ago

What a tribute harping on the material acquisitions of a man who largely benefitted from the largess of a corrupt government...

What a tribute harping on the material acquisitions of a man who largely benefitted from the largess of a corrupt government...
Koo 11 years ago

...as he was let down by BOTH NDC and NPP.He was however much bigger than both those parties.A true business mogul,not the half baked pretenders we see these days.

...as he was let down by BOTH NDC and NPP.He was however much bigger than both those parties.A true business mogul,not the half baked pretenders we see these days.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

This is life's lessons and one can't rule out politics!

This is life's lessons and one can't rule out politics!
Dr. K. Samuel Osei, USA 11 years ago

Great scene revisited! This eulogical narrative "puts tears into my eyes". There were similar hardworking affluent businessmen and women in Kumasi who suffered at the hands of JJR's PNDC, lost everything they worked for their ...
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Great scene revisited! This eulogical narrative "puts tears into my eyes". There were similar hardworking affluent businessmen and women in Kumasi who suffered at the hands of JJR's PNDC, lost everything they worked for their entire life, and passed away dirt poor, as a result. Today, you have the culprit walking around, a free man.
george opoku-agyemang 11 years ago

uncle B A Mensah may he rest in peace

uncle B A Mensah may he rest in peace
waw 11 years ago

this is awesome tribute. bravo

this is awesome tribute. bravo
REV. DR. Something Good- Tamale GH 11 years ago

This is a foolish thought. Let me tell you this president Mahama has no single Right to wpie out the Military. The army was there even B4 the birth of his great great great gound father. If he has a problem, than he has to wa ...
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This is a foolish thought. Let me tell you this president Mahama has no single Right to wpie out the Military. The army was there even B4 the birth of his great great great gound father. If he has a problem, than he has to wake up and do the right thing. He stle himself to power and his intension is underminig him now, so let him dance to the rythem now. A child that dose not allow his parent (mother) to sleep shall also not sleep.
How can this Guy, been the cief executive of the higher office in Ghana accord himself with prestige? who thought him how to file Taxes? If this is some thing he wants to be oprestinal in Ghana, why dont he involve every body, or all the civil servants.
There is a reggie music whic goes like this " He the voice of the Rasterman chanting..., Babylone rise and fall"
Ghana is aiming towards it down fall once again. No matter what you say, its in the open air. Untill the truth is discovered by all, there is a great opprtunity opened for the resuffle of the entire system controlling our beloved nation.
Flt. Lt. JJ Rawlings has come to do his, now its the turn for some one to also lift up the bunner of Justice and freedom for all.
how can a nation, almost a hundread years independence, still found itself in bondage? sill in the bottomless pit?
Allow people to speak their mind for the truth shall always make us free.
How dose this nation share its economic wealth? How can coruption be on the table of this fake politicans every morning as Tea and batter?
Some thing really ought to be done!
Let those who have ears hear, and those who are deaf dance and walk arround like fools for one day for the thief, and the other day for the court.
Kee, london 11 years ago

Johnny cougar, well written piece

Johnny cougar, well written piece
Akosua Faibille 11 years ago

This is a well written, and from the heart tribute to a great man. Thanks, Johnny.

This is a well written, and from the heart tribute to a great man. Thanks, Johnny.
Timbuktu 11 years ago

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What do we have now? A thieving political and business elite who have not raised a dime of their own capital conniving with our civil and public servants to steal Ghana’s scarce resources under all sorts of rotten deal ...
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What do we have now? A thieving political and business elite who have not raised a dime of their own capital conniving with our civil and public servants to steal Ghana’s scarce resources under all sorts of rotten deals. And they want to be counted as successful business people. And Ghanaians prostrate before these vampires. Nonsense!!'

YOU SAID IT ALL, BRO.
pp 11 years ago

I was a police officer stationed at the Airport polce barracks those years.History recalls and Rawlings and his hechmen wil pay for that no matter how long it takes.Enviness is killing ghanians.

I was a police officer stationed at the Airport polce barracks those years.History recalls and Rawlings and his hechmen wil pay for that no matter how long it takes.Enviness is killing ghanians.
DotCom 11 years ago

The day I stepped foot inside the (ITG)International Tobacco Group's walled compound around the New Times industrial area was unquestionably breathtaking. It housed the magnificent and posh headquarters with its surrounding o ...
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The day I stepped foot inside the (ITG)International Tobacco Group's walled compound around the New Times industrial area was unquestionably breathtaking. It housed the magnificent and posh headquarters with its surrounding office buildings. It was a bit of a culture-shock as I envisioned a workplace with such a well-manicured environs could only exist outside the country (perhaps somewhere in suburban US or the likes). Immediately upon entry it was spick and span, and the quality of air was clean and refreshingly different. As you make your way towards the offices, garden boys were all over the place actively mowing lawns and tending to trees, grass and flowers with water sprinklers spraying all around. Every plant was nourishingly green. I had gone to see a classmate who worked there and that gave me a first glance at how well-taken the employees were. I was led into her private and cool air-conditioned office room and heck she wasn't even yet a senior staff. At the end of the visit, and as I walked out of the premises my impression of a true Ghanaian Entrepreneur changed. The man had built and ran a real lucrative and classy business.
KOFI ELLISON 11 years ago

Nii Blukoo-Allotey; thank you for such a very nice piece. About ten years ago I wrote a piece on these Ghanaweb titled "Lest We Forget" partly summing up how Rawlings destroyed entrepreneurs such as Mr. B.A. Mensah and Mr. Si ...
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Nii Blukoo-Allotey; thank you for such a very nice piece. About ten years ago I wrote a piece on these Ghanaweb titled "Lest We Forget" partly summing up how Rawlings destroyed entrepreneurs such as Mr. B.A. Mensah and Mr. Siaw.

When you have a class of people, as we apparently have in Ghana, who are filled with jealousy; skin pain; and other degenerative mental hatred of the kind shown by Jerry Rawlings and his minions the nation remains under-developed.

Your article articulates and underscores, how people with hate-filled mentality; skin pain encumbrances; and demonic propensity to destroy what other build because they do not have the mental capacity and entrepreneurial moorings to appreciate how businesses are built and wealth is created, other than the looting of government money. B.A. Mensah was Ghanaian entrepreneurial giant.

(I am Kofi Ellison and I approve this message!)
crownawuah 11 years ago

I must say this is a rather heart warming piece. I was however drawn to your editorials in ghanaweb.com; and saddened by the substance it entails. I bet the Osagyefo has never seen peaceful rest(God bless his soul). Fortunat ...
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I must say this is a rather heart warming piece. I was however drawn to your editorials in ghanaweb.com; and saddened by the substance it entails. I bet the Osagyefo has never seen peaceful rest(God bless his soul). Fortunately though, he only observed the retrogression from a distance; this is a luxury H.E JA Kufour has not been privy; to sit right in the epicenter and watch 8 yrs of toil being torn down by these same (P)NDC goons must be heartbreaking...most annoying of which is that insulting catch phrase (e dey be k3k3!). Indeed! Alas!whither to? the beloved country.....
Kobena 11 years ago

Well done, Johnny,
I came to the area later, but I remember the people you mentioned, and your dad too. Very hard working Ghanaians who were victims of an envious group of tribalist misfits. They worked hard and uplifted hun ...
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Well done, Johnny,
I came to the area later, but I remember the people you mentioned, and your dad too. Very hard working Ghanaians who were victims of an envious group of tribalist misfits. They worked hard and uplifted hundreds, maybe thousands of Ghanaians out of poverty.

May the Almighty preserve their illustrious souls for eternity.
Cry the beloved country!
Amponsaah 11 years ago

Rest in peace Mr. Gentle man!

Rest in peace Mr. Gentle man!

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