Akosa: Nkrumah’s PDA was necessary to deal with terrorists

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HAWA 10 years ago

What is Prof Akosa talking about? So people are terrorist so without trial, you can arrest anyone and imprison him for 5yr? Come again prof. you are selling your conscience for Nkrumah's defense.

What is Prof Akosa talking about? So people are terrorist so without trial, you can arrest anyone and imprison him for 5yr? Come again prof. you are selling your conscience for Nkrumah's defense.
Mozato 10 years ago

Can those idiots spare us some of these unnecessary debates of Nkrumah this Nkrumah that and make their useless black arse useful by helping Mahama to fix the ailing economy.

Can those idiots spare us some of these unnecessary debates of Nkrumah this Nkrumah that and make their useless black arse useful by helping Mahama to fix the ailing economy.
ATSU, HO 10 years ago

CURRENT AFFAIRS ARE HURTING US AND WE ARE GOING BACK TO THIS DEBATE. PROF. CAN CONTINUE TO DEFEND HIS IDOL BUT HE WAS NOT GOD

CURRENT AFFAIRS ARE HURTING US AND WE ARE GOING BACK TO THIS DEBATE. PROF. CAN CONTINUE TO DEFEND HIS IDOL BUT HE WAS NOT GOD
SWEET STACKLEBERG 10 years ago

24TH FEBRUARY The day we watered the tree of freedom with the blood of the tyrant Nkrumah!

24TH FEBRUARY The day we watered the tree of freedom with the blood of the tyrant Nkrumah!
Visionary 10 years ago

I 100% agreed with Dr Akosa that When you live in a country where a certain proportion of the people had taken to nothing but stealing the country assets for their personal gain, gross lies to the people, atempting the wreck ...
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I 100% agreed with Dr Akosa that When you live in a country where a certain proportion of the people had taken to nothing but stealing the country assets for their personal gain, gross lies to the people, atempting the wreck the country with violence; planning assassinations attempts against the people because you don't support the MATEMEHO AGENDA as well as violence against the Government or the country, something like PDA was neccesary to boot those monkeys away.
Ask yourselves that when those MATEMEHO gangs finally succeded what did they do to the country? Exact same thing Nkrumah was fighting them on behalf of the nation. THEY WRECK GHANA TO THE LAST BONE.
SHAMO 10 years ago

I WONDER WHY NDC/CPP BUGABUGA PEOPLE CAN DIFFERENTIATE A TERRORIST AND A JUSTICE FREEDOM FIGHTER!! NKRUMAH WAS A DICTATOR AND DICTATORS MEANT TO FACE DEMONSTRATIONS AND SUICIDE BOMBS ASK TUNISIA, LIBYA, EGYPT AND SYRIA

I WONDER WHY NDC/CPP BUGABUGA PEOPLE CAN DIFFERENTIATE A TERRORIST AND A JUSTICE FREEDOM FIGHTER!! NKRUMAH WAS A DICTATOR AND DICTATORS MEANT TO FACE DEMONSTRATIONS AND SUICIDE BOMBS ASK TUNISIA, LIBYA, EGYPT AND SYRIA
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

Foo lish people. We considered you and because of that, you think you can somehow use fake emotions to disrespect the image of Great Osagyfio. J.B. Danquah should have hanged for what his activities has done to the children o ...
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Foo lish people. We considered you and because of that, you think you can somehow use fake emotions to disrespect the image of Great Osagyfio. J.B. Danquah should have hanged for what his activities has done to the children of Ghana.
Shabi 10 years ago

What at all is wrong with the descendants of these UP/NPP terrorists? Where in the world have they seen that terrorists are given the privilege of legal expression?

They vehemently state that a whole President Nkrumah sho ...
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What at all is wrong with the descendants of these UP/NPP terrorists? Where in the world have they seen that terrorists are given the privilege of legal expression?

They vehemently state that a whole President Nkrumah should have been overthrown by a coup d'etat because he didnt deserve the privilege of political, parliamentary or any kind of democratic discourse.

Now they say common murderous criminals who randomly killed defenseless women and children should have been treated with democratic niceties by the person who in their typical crass opinion, did not deserve same. What kind of logic is this? Isnt there one single intelligent person in the NPP?

Even this their new position of claiming that the courts should have been the place to decide whether those terrorists were guilty or not of their crimes, is a curious opinion coming from people who just recently have taken the courts and judges of Ghana to the cleaners because a judgement was not ruled in their favor. What kind of hypocrisy is this?

Dont they feel ashamed of conducting themselves in the same two-faced manner of their colonial oppressors?

And by the way, what about the hundreds of 'terrorists' who are being ruthlessly and randomly 'eliminated' on mere suspicion each week by drones sent by their colonial masters? I have never ever heard these descendants of local terrorists protest about the obvious human rights violations of these people who are referred to as terrorists? Or is it the case that only Kwame Nkrumah was wrong in treating terrorists the way everybody else treats them?
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

His father , was the District Commissioner for Asante Mampong ,notoriously called D C Kosah used his position to snatch people's wives and trumped up charges to get them incarcerated at Nsawam Prison. Ask any 60 and above yea ...
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His father , was the District Commissioner for Asante Mampong ,notoriously called D C Kosah used his position to snatch people's wives and trumped up charges to get them incarcerated at Nsawam Prison. Ask any 60 and above years old from Asante .Mampong.His father was rather the terrorist.
somebody papapa 10 years ago

ohhhh professor so your education was founded by a stolen Ghana cedi's by your terrorist father who snatched others wife? Birds of the same furthers ...... like father like son heheheheeee. tweaaaa

ohhhh professor so your education was founded by a stolen Ghana cedi's by your terrorist father who snatched others wife? Birds of the same furthers ...... like father like son heheheheeee. tweaaaa
John Mensah 10 years ago

Akosa, if I were Nkrumah, I wouldnt have even allowed him to see prison. When he supervised the throwing of bombs at me, I survive unexpected shoot-outs which kills my bodyguard, etc. We got to be real.

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Akosa, if I were Nkrumah, I wouldnt have even allowed him to see prison. When he supervised the throwing of bombs at me, I survive unexpected shoot-outs which kills my bodyguard, etc. We got to be real.

Theres a difference between opposition and terrorist opposition bent on killing u, for which u survive many times. And if after investigation, I realize JB Danquah is being paid by the CIA, what the fuck do u want me to do? Why was he being paid by the CIA? Ofcourse I cant prove it but common-sense says it. NKRUMAH DID WHAT WAS NECESSARY.

IN THE US, SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ARE DETAINED FOR YEARS WITHOUT TRIAL BECAUSE ONE CANT TAKE THE CHANCE OF LETTING THEM GO, AND THERE'S NO CONCRETE EVIDENCE TO JAIL THEM (BECAUSE OF THE SICK COURT SYSTEM WHICH FAILS TO USE COMMON SENSE BUT RELY ON FOOLISH LAWS). IT BECOMES A NECESSARY EVIL.
Boateng 10 years ago

Good one there John.

Good one there John.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

John and BOATENG don't appear to be literate. U capriciously dump ur political opponents into jail because without evidence u accuse them of being "terrorists", without due judicial process! Then no one would have political o ...
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John and BOATENG don't appear to be literate. U capriciously dump ur political opponents into jail because without evidence u accuse them of being "terrorists", without due judicial process! Then no one would have political opponents. No wonder the likes of Obote, Ghaddafi, Iddi Amin etc who copied this bad example also suffered Nkrumah deserved fate. For Mugabe, God's time is the best. On 24/2/2014, we shall celebrate the anniversary of God's Day of liberation when Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966.
Kpakpo 10 years ago

Just like the NPP refused to use common sense in the elction petition but depended on technicalities and hoqwash bullshit, so are u. America, the Kings of democracy are detaining suspected terrorists for the good of the count ...
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Just like the NPP refused to use common sense in the elction petition but depended on technicalities and hoqwash bullshit, so are u. America, the Kings of democracy are detaining suspected terrorists for the good of the country. JB Danquah wasnt only an opposition leader. He tried assasination attempts. That makes him difeerent from others. WHY WERE THE OTHER MEMBERS OF UGCC NOT DETAINED BY NKRUMAH?
MR NEVER 10 years ago

I, quote...WHY WERE THE OTHER MEMBERS OF UGCC NOT DETAINED BY NKRUMAH? Unquote.
They fled to Nigeria and used Nigeria as their base for bombing the government. Spearheaded and organising all assassination activities by the s ...
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I, quote...WHY WERE THE OTHER MEMBERS OF UGCC NOT DETAINED BY NKRUMAH? Unquote.
They fled to Nigeria and used Nigeria as their base for bombing the government. Spearheaded and organising all assassination activities by the so called RR AMPONSAH.
Is this definitive for you Mr. Kpakpo?
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

GOD PAID YOU ID OTS BACK IN KIND IN 1979

GOD PAID YOU ID OTS BACK IN KIND IN 1979
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

Is Ghanaman so ignorant that he does not know that those victims in 1979 were Nkrumahists who had over thrown Busia in the name of Nkrumah? Sadly, he has one vote like each of us.

Is Ghanaman so ignorant that he does not know that those victims in 1979 were Nkrumahists who had over thrown Busia in the name of Nkrumah? Sadly, he has one vote like each of us.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

Like Afriffa's death. Non sense.

Like Afriffa's death. Non sense.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

Like ACHEAMPONG, Utuka, Amedume, Akuffo etc, unfairly though, without proper trials.

Like ACHEAMPONG, Utuka, Amedume, Akuffo etc, unfairly though, without proper trials.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Listen to this Togolese Trokosi idiot. Always looking for human blood for their idols.

Listen to this Togolese Trokosi idiot. Always looking for human blood for their idols.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

Stop this old fashioned lies called propaganda. R. R AMPONSAH himself was detained without trial and only released after the 1966 coup.how could he have fled to Nigeria to organize bomb throwing. Nkrumah himself knew that his ...
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Stop this old fashioned lies called propaganda. R. R AMPONSAH himself was detained without trial and only released after the 1966 coup.how could he have fled to Nigeria to organize bomb throwing. Nkrumah himself knew that his own party men and ministers threw the bombs including the Kulungugu bomb. Tawiah Adamafio, Ako Adjei and Coffie Crabbe. He only used the PDA to emasculate his political opponents. I have heard those who cite the recent American example criticize America for that infamous policy when it suits them. But the Americans never used it against their political opponents and compatriots.
AFEVIA 10 years ago

THANK GOD FOR RAWLINGS' INTERVENTION IN 1981 AS WELL.

THANK GOD FOR RAWLINGS' INTERVENTION IN 1981 AS WELL.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

And Afevia does not know that the main victims of Rawlings's cruelty were Nkrumahists of the Limann regime. Yet he has a vote.

And Afevia does not know that the main victims of Rawlings's cruelty were Nkrumahists of the Limann regime. Yet he has a vote.
AFEVIA 10 years ago

YOU THANKED GOD FOR KOTOKA'S MILITARY INTERVENTION BECAUSE IT SERVED YOUR PAROCHIAL INTEREST.YOU CONDEMNED THAT OF RAWLINGS BECAUSE IT BLOCKED YOU FROM YOUR DUBIOUS DEALINGS AND YOU THINK I AM IGNORANT. WHAT A DOUBLE STANDARD ...
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YOU THANKED GOD FOR KOTOKA'S MILITARY INTERVENTION BECAUSE IT SERVED YOUR PAROCHIAL INTEREST.YOU CONDEMNED THAT OF RAWLINGS BECAUSE IT BLOCKED YOU FROM YOUR DUBIOUS DEALINGS AND YOU THINK I AM IGNORANT. WHAT A DOUBLE STANDARD FELLOW!
MR NEVER 10 years ago

John, you said it right, I believed you.
You need to understand that "THE ASHANTIS ARE ALWAYS ONE IN THEIR APPRECIATION OF VICE" and they don't want to accept the downfall of Ghana, came from them. "Ma tie, ma tie", let GHAN ...
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John, you said it right, I believed you.
You need to understand that "THE ASHANTIS ARE ALWAYS ONE IN THEIR APPRECIATION OF VICE" and they don't want to accept the downfall of Ghana, came from them. "Ma tie, ma tie", let GHANA down. So let them fix GHANA
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

They were prepared to kill for their destructive ideologies,but were never ready to die for it. I challenge any sympathiser of the NPP to study the history of the Congo after independence till now and they would know why the ...
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They were prepared to kill for their destructive ideologies,but were never ready to die for it. I challenge any sympathiser of the NPP to study the history of the Congo after independence till now and they would know why the PDA was necessary.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

Hahaha! What has Congo after Lumumba got to do with PDA. IF THE PDA IS JUSTIFIED, THE 1966 COUP WAS EVEN THE MORE JUSTIFIED.

Hahaha! What has Congo after Lumumba got to do with PDA. IF THE PDA IS JUSTIFIED, THE 1966 COUP WAS EVEN THE MORE JUSTIFIED.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

because Nkrumah was scared to hell what these traitors with eventually do to him. And my recent pleasure is the 1979 executions. It tramped 1966.

because Nkrumah was scared to hell what these traitors with eventually do to him. And my recent pleasure is the 1979 executions. It tramped 1966.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

No wonder Ghanaman lacks morality. How can a human being derive pleasure from executions, more so when they were extra judicial. Even though they were mostly Nkrumahist, I never supported the executions. They were Ghanaians a ...
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No wonder Ghanaman lacks morality. How can a human being derive pleasure from executions, more so when they were extra judicial. Even though they were mostly Nkrumahist, I never supported the executions. They were Ghanaians and humans. Moreover, their dictatorship had ended by their overthrow. Only blood thirsty men would relish the barbaric executions.
Kwaku Aboagye 10 years ago

Nkrumah was the only President in the history of mankind to rule without a Vice President because he was such a mad dictator. He eliminated any one he thought was a threat to his tyranny. See what he did to Tawiah Adamafio, h ...
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Nkrumah was the only President in the history of mankind to rule without a Vice President because he was such a mad dictator. He eliminated any one he thought was a threat to his tyranny. See what he did to Tawiah Adamafio, his fellow CPP man.

Nkrumah poluted the minds of children with his satanic youn pioneers and killed all political opponents in Nsawam Prison and denied them decent burial by their relatives.

IS THIS IDIOT AKOSA SAYING ONE-PARTY STATE IS A GOOD THING?
THE SOLUTION MASTER 10 years ago

wITH THE HATE ASSOCIATED to him, he couldn't trust anybody for vice as a minority and unexpected first leader of the country.
Remember he was dealing with ewes, ashantis, okyeaman,kwahu,gas and the northerners as nzimah.try ...
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wITH THE HATE ASSOCIATED to him, he couldn't trust anybody for vice as a minority and unexpected first leader of the country.
Remember he was dealing with ewes, ashantis, okyeaman,kwahu,gas and the northerners as nzimah.try to think a little bit.
Danny, London 10 years ago

Mr Aboagye you are a liar, where did you get such information from? Go back and a proper search and you will certainly get the truth.

Dr Nkrumah had a Vice President in the person of Dr Ako-Adjei, who was also the firs Fin ...
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Mr Aboagye you are a liar, where did you get such information from? Go back and a proper search and you will certainly get the truth.

Dr Nkrumah had a Vice President in the person of Dr Ako-Adjei, who was also the firs Finance and Economic Planning Minister in the first government.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

Hey Danny! U are the only one who doesn't know that Nkrumah didn't have a Vice. And his Presidency was for life! Embarrassing and insulting to Ghana and Africa. Be educated from today, Danny. Indoctrination has done u no good ...
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Hey Danny! U are the only one who doesn't know that Nkrumah didn't have a Vice. And his Presidency was for life! Embarrassing and insulting to Ghana and Africa. Be educated from today, Danny. Indoctrination has done u no good.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

DID BUSIA HAVE A VICE PRIME MINISTER

DID BUSIA HAVE A VICE PRIME MINISTER
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

Oh Ghanaman, so u don't even know that Busia had a Deputy Prime Minister in the person of Kwesi Lamptey. The correct terminology was Deputy Prime Minister NOT Vice Prime Minister. Go back to school before u can contribute to ...
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Oh Ghanaman, so u don't even know that Busia had a Deputy Prime Minister in the person of Kwesi Lamptey. The correct terminology was Deputy Prime Minister NOT Vice Prime Minister. Go back to school before u can contribute to this forum. U have a lot to learn. U would have benefitted from Akufo-Addo's free SHS policy. Sadly, u & I had one vote each.
OYIRIFI AMPASACHI 10 years ago

JOHN MENSAH, PLEASE STOP ADVERTISING YOUR IGNORANCE. IF DANQUAH WAS REALLY
BEING PAID BY CIA, WHAT STOPED HIM FROM BEING PROSECUTED IN COURT AND SENTENCED...EVEN TO DEATH! AFTER OVER HALF A CENTURY, YOU ARE STILL DEFENDING ...
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JOHN MENSAH, PLEASE STOP ADVERTISING YOUR IGNORANCE. IF DANQUAH WAS REALLY
BEING PAID BY CIA, WHAT STOPED HIM FROM BEING PROSECUTED IN COURT AND SENTENCED...EVEN TO DEATH! AFTER OVER HALF A CENTURY, YOU ARE STILL DEFENDING A PROTECTING LIES!!!!! REMEMBER, THE TRUTH IS LIKE A LION, IT DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY HELP OR PROTECTION...IT CAN ALWAYS DEFEND ITSELF!!!!!
Kpakpo 10 years ago

YOU ARE A BIG FOOL. IF THE CIA IS PAYING JB DANQUAH, IS THERE PROOF FOR HIM TO BE PROSECUATED? NO. WHAT ARE U GOING TO PROSECUTE HIM IN COURT FOR? THATS WHERE THE PDA AND DETENTION COMES IN. WHY NOT ASK AMERICANS WHY THEY NEV ...
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YOU ARE A BIG FOOL. IF THE CIA IS PAYING JB DANQUAH, IS THERE PROOF FOR HIM TO BE PROSECUATED? NO. WHAT ARE U GOING TO PROSECUTE HIM IN COURT FOR? THATS WHERE THE PDA AND DETENTION COMES IN. WHY NOT ASK AMERICANS WHY THEY NEVER PROSECUTED TERRORIST PRISONERS IN GUANTANAMO BAY. MAYBE THE ISSUE IS TOO HUGE FOR YOUR LITTLE BRAIN TO DICIFER.

IF SOMEONE TRIES TO KILL U AT HOME, AND U LATER REALIZE ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN RECIEVED MONEY FROM AN "ENEMY", WILL U SUSPECT YOUR SON? UNLESS YOUR ARE AN IDIOT, U WILL. CAN U GET THE STATE TO PROSECUTE HIM? NO. WHAT ARE U GOING TO PROSECUTE HIM IN COURT FOR? FOR RECIEVING CASH FROM AN ENEMY? IS IT A CRIME? BUT U KNOW HE MUST BE SURELY RESPONSIBLE. THATS WHERE YOUR OWN PDA COMES IN. ITS COMMON SENSE.
...BAD ! 10 years ago

MEN HAVE LOST THEIR REASONS !! HOW CAN YOU AN EDUCATED MAN SPEAK FOOOOLISHLY LIKE THIS ?

MEN HAVE LOST THEIR REASONS !! HOW CAN YOU AN EDUCATED MAN SPEAK FOOOOLISHLY LIKE THIS ?
THE SOLUTION MASTER 10 years ago

You have not read about CIA, and the things they capable of.They are scared of themselves and the don't trust each other. They are the masters of disguise and the professionals of plotting their interest first.

You have not read about CIA, and the things they capable of.They are scared of themselves and the don't trust each other. They are the masters of disguise and the professionals of plotting their interest first.
Lt. Gen Lizard 10 years ago

Nations or countries have no friends.They have self interest.The job of the CIA is to protect the USA from her external enemies!J B Danquah was supported by the CIA and Nkrumah was supported by the KGB.J B Danquah was pro-wes ...
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Nations or countries have no friends.They have self interest.The job of the CIA is to protect the USA from her external enemies!J B Danquah was supported by the CIA and Nkrumah was supported by the KGB.J B Danquah was pro-west and Nkrumah was pro-East.It was the era of the cold war and the West won.The rest they say is history!!
OPOKU 10 years ago

If such actions were not taking, just imaging how Ghana would have been today. But yet people like stupid J B Dankwa were named after a circle. And the same people who supproted him at that are now stealing the wealth of the ...
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If such actions were not taking, just imaging how Ghana would have been today. But yet people like stupid J B Dankwa were named after a circle. And the same people who supproted him at that are now stealing the wealth of the nation. That was why majority of Ghanaians are calling for the head of NPP people who rule during 2000-2008. If justice will be done almost all of them have to be in their grave by now. With that, you would have seen how discipline Ghanaians will be today. Lack of doing that completely put the nation as if is a place of crfiminals.
THE SOLUTION MASTER 10 years ago

Even innocent people in their houses were eased drop on and electricall evil devices were used on humans with no reasons; either framing to take evil fall of G.w bUSH/Obama's CREATORS ASSIGNMENT in the bible.

Even innocent people in their houses were eased drop on and electricall evil devices were used on humans with no reasons; either framing to take evil fall of G.w bUSH/Obama's CREATORS ASSIGNMENT in the bible.
THE SOLUTION MASTER 10 years ago

Even innocent people in their houses were eased drop on and electricall evil devices were used on humans with no reasons; either framing to take evil fall of G.w bUSH/Obama's CREATORS ASSIGNMENT in the bible.

Even innocent people in their houses were eased drop on and electricall evil devices were used on humans with no reasons; either framing to take evil fall of G.w bUSH/Obama's CREATORS ASSIGNMENT in the bible.
Kwesi Mensah 10 years ago

Just for being an agent of a foreign country, let alone organizing terrorist acts, Danquah would have been executed, especially in that Cold War era. There are famous instances of this in both the UK and the USA. Nkrumah was ...
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Just for being an agent of a foreign country, let alone organizing terrorist acts, Danquah would have been executed, especially in that Cold War era. There are famous instances of this in both the UK and the USA. Nkrumah was actually quite lenient. In all other African countries - even in Cote d'Ivoire - people caught in anti-government activities were executed but the hypocritical Western media never reported these instances. Nkrumah tried to reach to Danquah early on, with his appointment to the National Academy of the Arts. But the traitor, Danquah, wouldn't relent. Nothing but Nkrumah's blood would satisfy Danquah.

People should read "The Origins Of Preventive Detention" by Ekow Nelson and Dr Michael Gyamerah. Very few detainees were innocent. It is a shame for parliament to honour Danquah and never mention the names of the children and civilians killed and maimed. Remember the matyrs of Kulungugu! The young pioneers killed or maimed in Accra! The sports fans who were killed and injured at Accra Sports Stadium. Let this country be honest about terrorism! What would Mahama, Ayarigah and all the MP's do if they were incessant targets exploding grenade bombs and assassination attempts?
Pat Owusuwaa 10 years ago

Hawa, I guess your thinking cap is on.? When something happens in Ghana it is bad but when is happens at other places it is good. You were young, or perhaps not born, so you donot have a faint idea what the opposition, today ...
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Hawa, I guess your thinking cap is on.? When something happens in Ghana it is bad but when is happens at other places it is good. You were young, or perhaps not born, so you donot have a faint idea what the opposition, today sitting in parliament in suite and red ties did to make Ghana ungovernable just because Nkrumah was transforming Ghana and there was no way they could beat him in any democratic election. Please read the declassified files of the CIA and you wonder why someone who was prepared to sell Ghana for wage of $1,000 a month be celebrated in parliament. Hawa, where is your conscience.? You are a typical NPP consider that you believe in the concept that anything of other people is bad. Well, let me draw your attention to few happenings in the recent past. Walker Bush, former us president, created the Guantanamo bay where innocent persons are picked from the streets around the world and placed there without trial or charge. Their only crime are that someone did not like the way they talked, walked and appear yet Bush was the toast of the NPP government and their likes.Kufuor dinned and drunk with him while he kept people under the same conditions the PDA did for J B Danquah. The NPP always wants people to think they detest Coup plotter yet Kufuor's first international trip was to visit Eyademah, the brutish coupist Africa has produced. So like the NPP, please be principle and let your yes be yes and your no be no. Not when it is against J.B. Danquah it is bad when it is against other human being then you din and feast with the perpetrators. wise up. Bye
Osei Yao 10 years ago

WHERE HAVE BEEN ALL THESE YEARS,HAWA? HAVE YOU HEARD OF GUANTANAMO BAY IN CUBA? USA HAS KEPT PEOPLE THERE WITHOUT TRIAL FOR YEARS. THEY ARE STILL THERE I

WHERE HAVE BEEN ALL THESE YEARS,HAWA? HAVE YOU HEARD OF GUANTANAMO BAY IN CUBA? USA HAS KEPT PEOPLE THERE WITHOUT TRIAL FOR YEARS. THEY ARE STILL THERE I
Ada-Boy 10 years ago

How bizzare to find the so called defender of democracy justifying Dr Nkrumah's rule of terror. The simple question is whether Prof Akosa would accept similar measures being intoduced today by a sitting president? It's a very ...
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How bizzare to find the so called defender of democracy justifying Dr Nkrumah's rule of terror. The simple question is whether Prof Akosa would accept similar measures being intoduced today by a sitting president? It's a very frightening thought! Say nay to dictatorship.
OTANI ABOA ABANN 10 years ago

Dying in prison is not funny. J.B danquah and co bought and invite him to the party. only for Nkrumah to pay them back with imprisonment. Fear human being

Dying in prison is not funny. J.B danquah and co bought and invite him to the party. only for Nkrumah to pay them back with imprisonment. Fear human being
Boateng 10 years ago

They brought him to Ghana so they can kill him?

The USA would have kept him in GITMO for years!

They brought him to Ghana so they can kill him?

The USA would have kept him in GITMO for years!
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

The effect of Nkrumah's communist indoctrination is still lingering on in the empty illiterate minds like those of John Mensah and Boateng. The devil finds hiding place for the ignorant mind.

The effect of Nkrumah's communist indoctrination is still lingering on in the empty illiterate minds like those of John Mensah and Boateng. The devil finds hiding place for the ignorant mind.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

Before Nkrumah emerged on the political scene, Ghana was united politically under UGCC. THE DIVISION HE ENGINEERED HAS PERSISTED TILL TODAY

Before Nkrumah emerged on the political scene, Ghana was united politically under UGCC. THE DIVISION HE ENGINEERED HAS PERSISTED TILL TODAY
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

WAS HE? MORE THAN THE UP WHO WANTED A DIVIDED FEDERAL NATION OF GHANA. EVERY PERSON FROM OTHER TRIBES IN THE NPP IS JUST TO SHOW OFF. THE REAL PARTY HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY THE DIVISIVE ABUAKWA AND SOME ASHANTI ID IOTS WHO DON'T ...
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WAS HE? MORE THAN THE UP WHO WANTED A DIVIDED FEDERAL NATION OF GHANA. EVERY PERSON FROM OTHER TRIBES IN THE NPP IS JUST TO SHOW OFF. THE REAL PARTY HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY THE DIVISIVE ABUAKWA AND SOME ASHANTI ID IOTS WHO DON'T KNOW OR UNDERSTAND THEIR HISTORY.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

Ghanaman should keep quiet for knowledgeable people to talk. He still labours under the communist indoctrinated propaganda that federalism is divisive. It is federalism that has kept America, Nigeria and even small Switzerlan ...
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Ghanaman should keep quiet for knowledgeable people to talk. He still labours under the communist indoctrinated propaganda that federalism is divisive. It is federalism that has kept America, Nigeria and even small Switzerland united. "Small" education is dangerous indeed.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

IF GHANA HAD PEOPLE WHO ARE PATRIOT LIKE IN THE USA, ANY FORM OF GOV'T WILL WORK. BUT AS WE SEE, MY OWN PEOPLE, THE ASHANTIS THINK THEY ARE BETTER DONE EVERY TRIBE IN GHANA. AND NIGERIA'S FEDERALISM, PLEASE SPARE US THE EMBAR ...
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IF GHANA HAD PEOPLE WHO ARE PATRIOT LIKE IN THE USA, ANY FORM OF GOV'T WILL WORK. BUT AS WE SEE, MY OWN PEOPLE, THE ASHANTIS THINK THEY ARE BETTER DONE EVERY TRIBE IN GHANA. AND NIGERIA'S FEDERALISM, PLEASE SPARE US THE EMBARRASSMENT.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

When did Ashantis meet to to decide that they were better than every tribe in Ghana? Ur ethnocentric hatred for Ashantis was part of the divide and rule propaganda u were infested with through Nkrumahist indoctrination. Extri ...
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When did Ashantis meet to to decide that they were better than every tribe in Ghana? Ur ethnocentric hatred for Ashantis was part of the divide and rule propaganda u were infested with through Nkrumahist indoctrination. Extricate ur self from tribalism and bigotry. I don't care even if u are feigning ur tribal affiliation . That is not important. For me, every Ghanaian, no matter his tribal origin is an important part of this great nation u and ur likes are have tried over the years to destabilize through political propaganda and playing one tribe against the other. God gave us this nation with beautiful people and with various tribes of rich cultures. U can never take even one tribe away from the present boundary of Ghana. U better learn to live with the people of the tribe u hate. U can't do anything about it. Don't disturb our unity even in our diversity. Since Nkrumah landed in Ghana with his divide and rule policy, we have never known peace. Why? Enough is enough!!!
Spiky 10 years ago

Throw a bomb at Mahama, and you will see!JB was better off living and dying in prison for his treasonable felonies. The Generals (Acheampong, Afrifa, etc.) were instantly shot in public for, in Rawlings view, "it was necessar ...
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Throw a bomb at Mahama, and you will see!JB was better off living and dying in prison for his treasonable felonies. The Generals (Acheampong, Afrifa, etc.) were instantly shot in public for, in Rawlings view, "it was necessary". How about that? That is politics, and what better reason is there to give to get rid of your ENEMIES, not opponents?
Victor A. Young 10 years ago

Wow! Another learned man telling lies to Ghanaians. If honourable people like Prof. Akosa could agree with Nkrumah's detention without trial, one can only say it's simply unfortunate! Nkrumah was overthrown not only because o ...
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Wow! Another learned man telling lies to Ghanaians. If honourable people like Prof. Akosa could agree with Nkrumah's detention without trial, one can only say it's simply unfortunate! Nkrumah was overthrown not only because of economic mess he brought on Ghanaians, but mostly because of his autocratic rule. It's unacceptable for anyone on this planet to subdue his/her neighbour for expressing their opinion about conditions in their country. It's simply wrong; it's unacceptable!
Boateng 10 years ago

Why are you guys crying about keeping a terrorist in prison without trial?

I like to see you guys demonstrate in front against GITMO too! There is no room for criminals to operate, that is what detention is about.

Why are you guys crying about keeping a terrorist in prison without trial?

I like to see you guys demonstrate in front against GITMO too! There is no room for criminals to operate, that is what detention is about.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago

I wish it were possible to go back in time to know exactly what transpired that prompted the passing of the PDA adopted by the parliament. However, it is evident – we all know – that without PEACE a country can’t surviv ...
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I wish it were possible to go back in time to know exactly what transpired that prompted the passing of the PDA adopted by the parliament. However, it is evident – we all know – that without PEACE a country can’t survive to aspire to it objectives. It is Nkrumah’s quest for peace and quietude in pursuit of his goals for Ghana that might have preponderated in his decision to adopt the PDA.

As I have always maintained, it is rather unfortunate that time obliterates experiences so we tend to forget the past and redefine perspectives when we live in different epoch and live situations other than have occurred in the past. Most of us don’t know what happened. Other than paint Nkrumah with the wrong tools and colors, we need to infer from his achievements and come to a conclusion: His goodwill is overwhelming and manifestly evident.
We can assume therefore that Nkrumah’s à priori adoption of the law must come as a result of his brush with bitter experiences of treachery and also his inability to anticipate on what might be the consequences of other future threats if not confronted, as it happened later in 1966 creating tasteless derailment of the country for life, something we may never got over if he wasn’t overthrown. And this is understandable. I don’t think Nkrumah threw Dr. Danquah in jail for him to die.

Nkrumah didn’t invent the PDA from the scratch. The idea was imported from India by Krobo Edusei who talked it over with Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke. Sir Clarke who would have rather have used the military in terrorist campaigns and other violent movements.

Nkrumah surely made mistakes – like every normal being does – like exceeding his budgets each succeeding years, and his overestimation of the intelligence and wisdom of blacks, but his achievements in the short timespan showcased his love for his country, personal capabilities and wit.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago

These phrases should read:
1. "can’t survive to aspire to its objectives."
and,
2. "something we may never get over."

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These phrases should read:
1. "can’t survive to aspire to its objectives."
and,
2. "something we may never get over."

3. "Sir Clarke would have rather have used the military against terrorist campaigns and other violent movements."
KOO NIMO 10 years ago

Tell that to the fathers of DEMOCRACY, USA, to open the GUANTANAMO BAY and let at least the INNOCENTS ones to go home. I mean those the US has searched in all their legal books yet cannot find a charge against them yet are ke ...
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Tell that to the fathers of DEMOCRACY, USA, to open the GUANTANAMO BAY and let at least the INNOCENTS ones to go home. I mean those the US has searched in all their legal books yet cannot find a charge against them yet are keeping them over a decade now. You think the fathers of DEMOCRACY would have let JB Danquah to happily sleep in his Abuakwa cottage after organising throwing Bombs at G. W. Bush, US president? You must be joking and learn to call criminals by their name. Bye
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

His father was the District Commissioner in Nkrumah's terror regime.His father snatched peoples's wives and trumped up charges against them and sent to Nsawam prisons.

His father was the District Commissioner in Nkrumah's terror regime.His father snatched peoples's wives and trumped up charges against them and sent to Nsawam prisons.
Wisdom Speaks 10 years ago

Ama Ghana Is blessed with Brainless, Vissionless, Clueless, idealess, hopeless, ueseless, and heartless leaders. Ama Ghana.

Ama Ghana Is blessed with Brainless, Vissionless, Clueless, idealess, hopeless, ueseless, and heartless leaders. Ama Ghana.
Egya 10 years ago

Why even attempt to justify somebody's death in "detention"? What is the point?

Why even attempt to justify somebody's death in "detention"? What is the point?
Boateng 10 years ago

You guys would even protest the demise of Mr. Ladden because he was not given a trial?

You guys would even protest the demise of Mr. Ladden because he was not given a trial?
Ambrose 10 years ago

While millions were living in squalor and slums, Kwame Nkrumah was giving Mali and Guinea millions of pounds as bribe to promote him to be the President for life for Africa withour a Vice President. Any one who opposed the ss ...
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While millions were living in squalor and slums, Kwame Nkrumah was giving Mali and Guinea millions of pounds as bribe to promote him to be the President for life for Africa withour a Vice President. Any one who opposed the ssatanic Nkrumah had to die in Nsawam prison

Akosa's idiocy is now bordering in lunacy
Repugnant 10 years ago

You were not even part of anything until 1902 WHEN YOUR ARSE became a protectorate. MBOASEM AKWAKWA!!

In 1902, the British annexed Ashanti and Northern territories. Later, Britain declared Ashanti, Northern territories pro ...
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You were not even part of anything until 1902 WHEN YOUR ARSE became a protectorate. MBOASEM AKWAKWA!!

In 1902, the British annexed Ashanti and Northern territories. Later, Britain declared Ashanti, Northern territories protectorate and the territory of Togoland (it was mandated to the British after World War One) which were known geographically as "The Gold Coast," a crown colony. In the Gold Coast, nationalist opposition began to form during the 1920s when Great Britain introduced indirect rule to traditional authorities. During the1940s, the movement toward independence gained momentum after police opened fire in Accra (capital of Ghana) on a large contingent of former service men who were peacefully carrying a petition to the Governor to seek redress of their grievances. Joseph Danquah and other leading nationalists founded the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in August 1947 and invited Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, to lead the group's campaign for representative self-government (but Nkrumah and Danquah were jailed after troops fired on demonstrators and a riot erupted in 1948).

In 1949, the Convention People's Party (CPP), led by Nkrumah organized workers and farmers for the first time in a mass movement for independent and staged strikes. A new constitution was introduced by Nkrumah's government to provide direct election by universal suffrage in 1954. But his government was opposed by the National Liberation Movement (NLM), led by Kofi Busia and based on the Asante region. NLM criticized CPP for its limitation on the powers of chiefs. As a result of this, the NLM pushed for the establishment of a federal state with regional governments, while CPP advocated a unitary state. Another constitution was approved on April 29, 1954, establishing a cabinet comprised of African ministers that were drawn from an all-African legislature chosen by direct election. In the election, CPP won the majority of seat in the new legislative assembly (Republic of Ghana, 4).

Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast government issued a white paper containing proposals for Gold Coast independence in May 1956. The British government agreed to a firm date for independence when a majority of British Togoland residents voted for unification with an independent Gold Coast. On March 6, 1957, the state of Ghana, named after the medieval West African empire, became an independent country within the Commonwealth of Nations.
SOCCERMAN 10 years ago

I can't believe Nkrumahists of today call for the head of Mugabe but defend the one party rule of Nkrumah who had insultingly declared himself as President for life without a Vice President.

I can't believe Nkrumahists of today call for the head of Mugabe but defend the one party rule of Nkrumah who had insultingly declared himself as President for life without a Vice President.
Kwame Asante 10 years ago

Can you imagine that the US give millions of dollars in aid to third world countries and yet Americans sleep on the street in the US. Think and donot exhibit your ignorance on international affairs.

Can you imagine that the US give millions of dollars in aid to third world countries and yet Americans sleep on the street in the US. Think and donot exhibit your ignorance on international affairs.
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 10 years ago

lISTEN TO A FOOL AND IGNORAMUS SPEAKING.PERHAPS YOU WERE BORN AFTER GHANA HAD ACHIEVED INDEPENDENCE.

lISTEN TO A FOOL AND IGNORAMUS SPEAKING.PERHAPS YOU WERE BORN AFTER GHANA HAD ACHIEVED INDEPENDENCE.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

You don't have a clue how much we have lost over the years because the Danquah/Busia' subversive activities.God will punish you people for always seeking to bring Ghana to her knees. The troubles we've faced since your fo oli ...
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You don't have a clue how much we have lost over the years because the Danquah/Busia' subversive activities.God will punish you people for always seeking to bring Ghana to her knees. The troubles we've faced since your fo olis h court case in still costing us all.
Kwesi Mensah 10 years ago

A great day for PPP anti-Nkrumahist propaganda work against arch-enemy Akosa, isn't it, Egya? No matter the immorality of your stand.

A great day for PPP anti-Nkrumahist propaganda work against arch-enemy Akosa, isn't it, Egya? No matter the immorality of your stand.
jack 10 years ago

This old bullshit and retard history should let it be,why do we always go back and bring things which are not important.The country is sinking while a whole professor can't sit and think how best to solve the problems we have ...
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This old bullshit and retard history should let it be,why do we always go back and bring things which are not important.The country is sinking while a whole professor can't sit and think how best to solve the problems we have today but goes back and scratch old wounds.who issued this degress to this empty africans?
KWASI. Accra. 10 years ago

Yes he was a traitor!!! and must be in prison.
Thats why ghana is suffering. Ghanaians don't want the truth.
let somebody through bomb at you and experience how it feels like.

Yes he was a traitor!!! and must be in prison.
Thats why ghana is suffering. Ghanaians don't want the truth.
let somebody through bomb at you and experience how it feels like.
Pelicles 10 years ago

We have been lied to then and now and the lies keep on coming. What is a fair trial and was Ghana under a dictatorship during those days? Professor Akosah should come clean and tell Ghanaians if JB was given a fair trial and ...
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We have been lied to then and now and the lies keep on coming. What is a fair trial and was Ghana under a dictatorship during those days? Professor Akosah should come clean and tell Ghanaians if JB was given a fair trial and why was he denied proper medication at Nsawam?

Also, if there were terrorists in Ghana at that time, what necessitated that act? Nkrumah's "one man rule" was the reason.
Boateng 10 years ago

You would even protest against Mr. Ladden not given a fair trial? How about all the guys in GITMO?

If he was denied medication, I will say that was injustice but he deserved being detained.

You would even protest against Mr. Ladden not given a fair trial? How about all the guys in GITMO?

If he was denied medication, I will say that was injustice but he deserved being detained.
Paa Frank 10 years ago

In Nkrumah's Ghana, Sekou and Samia would have been arrested under the PDA. My father spent 6-years under the PDA. How dare you refer to my father as a terrorist. Ghana is faced with enormous leadership problems that need ser ...
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In Nkrumah's Ghana, Sekou and Samia would have been arrested under the PDA. My father spent 6-years under the PDA. How dare you refer to my father as a terrorist. Ghana is faced with enormous leadership problems that need serious intellectual attention than this revisionist,cheap noise that adds nothing to the issues of today. It's sad for Akosa to stoop this low.
Paa Frank 10 years ago

And by the way Doc, why did you lobbied and accepted an appointment from the son of a terrorist. President Kuffour's mother was in detention under the PDA. Let us find a way to build a nation and stop this old worn out debate ...
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And by the way Doc, why did you lobbied and accepted an appointment from the son of a terrorist. President Kuffour's mother was in detention under the PDA. Let us find a way to build a nation and stop this old worn out debates. Corruption goes on unabated.
COS 90 10 years ago

What is ofori ata talking about? how can a nation wreker be entertaind in a country? DR. Kwame Nkrumah did the right thing. Is't not J B Danquah who said ghana is not ready for independence? The same J B Danquah and his UP pe ...
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What is ofori ata talking about? how can a nation wreker be entertaind in a country? DR. Kwame Nkrumah did the right thing. Is't not J B Danquah who said ghana is not ready for independence? The same J B Danquah and his UP people tried several time to KILL Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Even that 48 hours were too much, Dr. Nkrumah should hav gvn de family members 3 hours to burry their greedy, bastard, killer etc child.
ATTA MENU 10 years ago

Atta Akyea shutup. somebody is seeking justice against you sort that out first

Atta Akyea shutup. somebody is seeking justice against you sort that out first
John Mensah 10 years ago

If I were Nkrumah, I wouldnt have even allowed him to see prison. When he supervised the throwing of bombs at me, I survive unexpected shoot-outs which kills my bodyguard, etc. We got to be real.

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If I were Nkrumah, I wouldnt have even allowed him to see prison. When he supervised the throwing of bombs at me, I survive unexpected shoot-outs which kills my bodyguard, etc. We got to be real.

Theres a difference between opposition and terrorist opposition bent on killing u, for which u survive many times. And if after my investigation, I realize JB Danquah is being paid by the CIA, what the fuck do u want me to do? NKRUMAH DID WHAT WAS NECESSARY.

IN THE US, SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ARE DETAINED FOR YEARS WITHOUT TRIAL BECAUSE ONE CANT TAKE THE CHANCE OF LETTING THEM GO. IT BECOMES A NECESSARY EVIL.
MADIBA 10 years ago

PLEASE BE REAL J B DANQUAH WAS NEVER ACCUSE OF THROWING ANY BOMB.RECORDS AT THE COURTS INDICATE THAT IT WAS NKRUMAS OWN PEOPLE WHO WERE ARRESTED.

PLEASE BE REAL J B DANQUAH WAS NEVER ACCUSE OF THROWING ANY BOMB.RECORDS AT THE COURTS INDICATE THAT IT WAS NKRUMAS OWN PEOPLE WHO WERE ARRESTED.
Pelicles 10 years ago

JB was never accused of throwing any bomb anywhere in Ghana and his links with the CIA? Well, what about Nunoo Mensah the former Army commander who openly said that he was working for the CIA while still serving the Ghana arm ...
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JB was never accused of throwing any bomb anywhere in Ghana and his links with the CIA? Well, what about Nunoo Mensah the former Army commander who openly said that he was working for the CIA while still serving the Ghana armed forces?
SOKODE 10 years ago

You Ayigbe julor...Nunoo Mensah did not say he worked "FOR" the CIA...He said he worked "WITH" the CIA. All nations work together for intelligence gathering to track down terrorists.So the Ghana and Ghana Police both work wit ...
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You Ayigbe julor...Nunoo Mensah did not say he worked "FOR" the CIA...He said he worked "WITH" the CIA. All nations work together for intelligence gathering to track down terrorists.So the Ghana and Ghana Police both work with not only the CIA but other intelligence agencies to gather information and abort terrorist plots before they are undertaken.

The true nation wreckers were J.B. Danquah and Kofi Abrefa Busia and the NLM which has morphed to become the NPP of today.Long before even Nkrumah arrived in Gold Coast, false intelligence on him was that he was a communist.Therefore when Nkrumah left as secretary of UGCC and began winning all the elections, the NLM were upset and began to plot assassination attempts on Kwame Nkrumah. They could defeat him in an election, so they will kill him. That is how we came to be where we are today, Dark days in Ghana.See how much money America spent to find Osama to kill him. America killed and him and buried him at sea. Case closed.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

Whatever role Nunoo-Mensah claimed to have played for the CIA does not make Danquah's alleged traitorous act right. Besides, both operated in different eras under different circumstances. Subsequent regimes have been cooperat ...
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Whatever role Nunoo-Mensah claimed to have played for the CIA does not make Danquah's alleged traitorous act right. Besides, both operated in different eras under different circumstances. Subsequent regimes have been cooperating with the CIA to fight global terrorism and rightly so. But the context under which Danquah might have collaborated with the CIA would definitely be traitorous under the prevailing legal system. Now, the significant issue in there is whether he did or he did not commit the crimes alleged. The evidence is in plain view now.

Surely, Danquah deserved a better trial. And for that we can all agree on. But how do you compare the current Gitmo application in the USA now, with the PDA in Ghana in those days?

I personally see both Danquah and Nkrumah erred. The opposition resorted to violence and Danquah was its leader. The CPP majority regime jailed Danquah without fair trial and Nkrumah was the regime's head and accountable for that. HThe bus stopped with both in their respective leadership roles. If the PDA had not been so erroneously approved by the Parliament, due process would have been applied before any long incarceration of Danquah.

Again, there were many violent incidents that the opposition perpetrated including the bombings. Any of those incidents could have led to long sentences of the culprits. Come on, let us be truthful and pragmatic.

I deeply understand the intractable positions that many of us take on this issue. It is very intimate to many of us, and therefore very sentimental. But we need to reach beyond that.

So, we have to just forgive each other and learn our lessons from that era.

The political atmosphere at that time left little room for both sides to behave decently let alone following the Law. We are now only playing Monday night Quarterbacks with the luxury of using today's refined sense of Justice to judge these folks. That is not fair to either side, and needlessly perpetuates animosities among us.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Akoraba 10 years ago

Dr. Akosa, I thought you were better than this. You have shocked me, anyway, your father was the idiot DC in those days, so I should have known better. If you had lost a parent to some of these draconian laws of Nkrumah, you ...
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Dr. Akosa, I thought you were better than this. You have shocked me, anyway, your father was the idiot DC in those days, so I should have known better. If you had lost a parent to some of these draconian laws of Nkrumah, you would have been sympathetic. Kwaw Swanzy, Nkrumah's attorney general said Kwame Nkrumah could do anything except changing man to woman and vice versa. Yes, "Seek ye first the political kingdom..." your CPP. All the instability in Africa was started by you CPP. Don't forget those were accused of the bomb throwing at Kulungugu.. Tawia Adamafio, Kofi Crabbe et etc; all CPP stalwarts.
Analyst 10 years ago

It is not possible for us to go back into the past and make any changes. It is however possible to avoid the mistakes of the past.
Thank God we presently have far better political situation today whereby every person can p ...
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It is not possible for us to go back into the past and make any changes. It is however possible to avoid the mistakes of the past.
Thank God we presently have far better political situation today whereby every person can pursue his/her lawful political agenda withhout any unlawful restriction. There is no justification for anybody now to take the law into his hands to unleash havoc unto innocent citizens.
The fact that a person or a party is not in power does not mean that they should be harassed or they should turn themselves into terrorists. The hope of someone not in power now coming into power in the future is real now more than ever. So peace must prevail.
Terrible Terror Amsterdam 10 years ago

YOU ARE A BIG FOOL AKOSA

YOU ARE A BIG FOOL AKOSA
MADIBA 10 years ago

HOW CAN GHANA DEVELOP WITH SUCH PROF'S IN THE SYSTEM. WAS J B DANQUAH GUILTY THROUGH FAIR TRIAL. LETS THINK OF HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AND STOP THIS NKRUMAH THIS AND THAT. NKRUMAH IS THE CAUSE OF ALL OUR PROBLEMS NO MATTER THE PL ...
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HOW CAN GHANA DEVELOP WITH SUCH PROF'S IN THE SYSTEM. WAS J B DANQUAH GUILTY THROUGH FAIR TRIAL. LETS THINK OF HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AND STOP THIS NKRUMAH THIS AND THAT. NKRUMAH IS THE CAUSE OF ALL OUR PROBLEMS NO MATTER THE PLANS HE HAD FOR GHANA.
Efie 10 years ago

Shame on Akosa. Your sins will find you out. How is CPP doing? CPP is dead.

Shame on Akosa. Your sins will find you out. How is CPP doing? CPP is dead.
OYIRIFI AMPASACHI 10 years ago

AN IDIOT IS AN IDIOT WHETHER HE GOES TO SCHOOL OR NOT. PROF, EVEN WITH HINDSIGHT, CAN'T YOU STILL GET IT?!!!!

AN IDIOT IS AN IDIOT WHETHER HE GOES TO SCHOOL OR NOT. PROF, EVEN WITH HINDSIGHT, CAN'T YOU STILL GET IT?!!!!
oppong london 10 years ago

nkrumah with his wicked mentality died younger than jb danquah,who helped him to be somebody,brothers be careful of helping brainless people,jesus suffered the same fate through judas iscariot.

nkrumah with his wicked mentality died younger than jb danquah,who helped him to be somebody,brothers be careful of helping brainless people,jesus suffered the same fate through judas iscariot.
Joe 10 years ago

KWAME NKRUMAH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING FOR GHANA IF THE PDA HAD NOT BEEN PUT IN PLACE COS AT THE TIME THE 'UP' TERRORIST WERE SABOTAGING HIM HENCE THEIR DETENTION. I WISH WE COULD DO SAME TODAY INOORDER TO ...
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KWAME NKRUMAH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING FOR GHANA IF THE PDA HAD NOT BEEN PUT IN PLACE COS AT THE TIME THE 'UP' TERRORIST WERE SABOTAGING HIM HENCE THEIR DETENTION. I WISH WE COULD DO SAME TODAY INOORDER TO PUT THOSE NPP TERRORISTS,LOOTERS, BETRAYERS AND NARCOTIC PEDDLERS INTO JAIL TO ENSURE DEVELOPMENT IN PEACE AND TRANQUILITY
Okokroko Tafiakpa 10 years ago

Of course Ahosa is right if people want to be subversive without cause and without passing through parliament the government has any legitimate right to apply any means to curb their activity.

Of course Ahosa is right if people want to be subversive without cause and without passing through parliament the government has any legitimate right to apply any means to curb their activity.
Okokroko Tafiakpa 10 years ago

You are really a true Nkrumahist the rest and some are just paper tigers

You are really a true Nkrumahist the rest and some are just paper tigers
John 10 years ago

Dr Akosa will you say the same about PNDC

Dr Akosa will you say the same about PNDC
Facts 10 years ago

Just face the facts. The man was a terrorists. He wanted the leadership, but didn't get it so he tried other means. Whether or not you like it that is what happened. Move on and worry about today.

Just face the facts. The man was a terrorists. He wanted the leadership, but didn't get it so he tried other means. Whether or not you like it that is what happened. Move on and worry about today.
Kwame 10 years ago

The U.S. and her NATO members have been detaining people who are suspected of having something do with 11th September, 2001 terrorist attach and others at the Guantanamo base without trial for the past 13 years.

The U.S. and her NATO members have been detaining people who are suspected of having something do with 11th September, 2001 terrorist attach and others at the Guantanamo base without trial for the past 13 years.
Bonne 10 years ago

Inculding Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo

Inculding Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo
Tete 10 years ago

Without the PDA, Nkrumah couldn't have done some meaningful development. PDA was actually necessary if you look at the events on the ground at the time.

Even this time round, it is very applicable to allow development to ...
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Without the PDA, Nkrumah couldn't have done some meaningful development. PDA was actually necessary if you look at the events on the ground at the time.

Even this time round, it is very applicable to allow development to take place. Ghana is becoming a lawless country with babies of today spilling garbage at anything. Everything the see of the opposing is bad.
JOE 10 years ago

Nkrumah was right. Events latter proved that J B was a CIA agent & colaborator. ATTA KYEA should go and read CIA declassified files to educate himself.

Nkrumah was right. Events latter proved that J B was a CIA agent & colaborator. ATTA KYEA should go and read CIA declassified files to educate himself.
Ghanaba 10 years ago

Stupid talk. If what Akosa is saying is right then those others should be brought back as terrorism is a bigger problem these days than Nkrumah's time. He Akosa will probably be incarcerated at Nsawan.
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Stupid talk. If what Akosa is saying is right then those others should be brought back as terrorism is a bigger problem these days than Nkrumah's time. He Akosa will probably be incarcerated at Nsawan.
I still really don't know why we as Ghanaians still hail Nkrumah as a 'visionary'. Most of the problems we have as a people started when Nkrumah was in power- his desire for power over Ghana and Africa lead him to just waste our resources on other countries at a time when any true visionary would have build good roads throughout Ghana( not just accra-tema motorway), started building factories so we could process and not sell cheaply to the west etc. Personally, I think Nkrumah let Ghana down and subsequently all our leaders have followed suite- Nkrumah laid the wrong foundation for Ghana.
Kofi 10 years ago

This Akosa man is making himself less and less irrelevant. Please, PDA was wrong, accept it and move on. Nkrumah was not a saint!

This Akosa man is making himself less and less irrelevant. Please, PDA was wrong, accept it and move on. Nkrumah was not a saint!
Kofi 10 years ago

"less and less relevant". I get too pissed off when supposedly learned people behave like idiots.

"less and less relevant". I get too pissed off when supposedly learned people behave like idiots.
Agyere 10 years ago

That was the only way the Government of Ghana at that time could have dealt with these imperialist servants at time. They caused a lot of harm at that time, just to serve their masters. Innocent children and young pioneers d ...
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That was the only way the Government of Ghana at that time could have dealt with these imperialist servants at time. They caused a lot of harm at that time, just to serve their masters. Innocent children and young pioneers died a lot, in these bombing incidents.
K-DE-K 10 years ago

Akosa I don't blame you because your primary six father was a district commissioner. You enjoyed so you have to support the PDA. What do you expect from him , somebody who says the CPP was democratically elected government. ...
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Akosa I don't blame you because your primary six father was a district commissioner. You enjoyed so you have to support the PDA. What do you expect from him , somebody who says the CPP was democratically elected government. A professor who can't differentiate one party state and a democratically elected government. These are the professors we have in Ghana. Is a shame for an academic to make such unguided statement. I rest my case.
Kojo Billy Duncan 10 years ago

His father was definitely a more efficient and competent administrator than Busia was with his higher education. DC Akosa not only educated his children but was a philanthropist who helped educate so many peoples children.

His father was definitely a more efficient and competent administrator than Busia was with his higher education. DC Akosa not only educated his children but was a philanthropist who helped educate so many peoples children.
Kwesi Mensah 10 years ago

Blowing children up, young pioneer youths, and civilian sports fans are all great intellectual pursuits.

Blowing children up, young pioneer youths, and civilian sports fans are all great intellectual pursuits.
Adjei, Kwadjo 10 years ago

EVEN IN THOSE DAYS BUSIA, JB DANQUAH, RR AMPONSAH, MALAM TULA, ANUM YEMO, IC QUAYE, OBETSEBI- LAMPTEY, JOE APPIAH, OKYEHENE, NANA OFORI ATTA AND CO WERE MORE THAN OSAMAN BIN LADEN. THEY CAUSED HEIRNOUS AND ATROCIOUS ACTS TOWA ...
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EVEN IN THOSE DAYS BUSIA, JB DANQUAH, RR AMPONSAH, MALAM TULA, ANUM YEMO, IC QUAYE, OBETSEBI- LAMPTEY, JOE APPIAH, OKYEHENE, NANA OFORI ATTA AND CO WERE MORE THAN OSAMAN BIN LADEN. THEY CAUSED HEIRNOUS AND ATROCIOUS ACTS TOWARDS GHANIANS AND THE STATE. JUST FOR THEIR SELFISH POLITICAL GAINS. WE REMEMBER THE TRADE TOWER BUILDING IN US, THE STREET BOMB BLASTS IN UK, AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES BY THESE OSAMAN'S MEN. OSAGYEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT TO INITIATE THE PDA AND IT SERVED IT PURPOSE OTHERWISE MANY INNOCENT GHANAIANS, CHILDREN, WOMEN IN PARTICULAR WOULD HAVVE BEEN KILLED AND UP WOULD BE LAUGHING EVEN THOUGH THEY COULD NOT WIN ANY SINGLE ELECTION. JB FAILED X 3 TIMES TO EVEN WIN AN ELECTION IN HIS OWN KYEBI. THEY TRIED TO MAKE THE MAKE GHANA UNGOVERNABLE BUT GOD WAS ON NKRUMAH'S SIDE AND BLESSED HIM WITH WISDOM AND FORESIGHT. IT IS NATURAL TO BE EMOTIONAL ABOUT JB AND CO BEING DETAINED AT NSAWAM BUT THEY WITHOUT ANY DOUBT DESERVED IT. BRING BACK PDA !
DK Gyamfi 10 years ago

Listen to another twit, Isaac Osei only interested in young girls 'asie hor' All these nonentities, people with no moral credibility and love for Ghana want to lead the nation. JB Danquah did not care for the lives of Ghanaia ...
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Listen to another twit, Isaac Osei only interested in young girls 'asie hor' All these nonentities, people with no moral credibility and love for Ghana want to lead the nation. JB Danquah did not care for the lives of Ghanaians. He had no remorse or feelings for the people he and his gangs killed and the foolish senseless Isaac Osei was talking about JB not given his medication in prison? Give us a break Isaac Osei. Better mind your immoral acts with young girls but please talk something more sensible if you want to be a leader. The killer JB and his henchmen deserved PDA to protect the people of Ghana. I thought you were Ghana High Commission to UK & the Courts of St James? I don't blame you it was purely a political post not by merit or any experience. Check your corrupt track records from UK offices of the High Commission to COCOBOD.
Kojo Billy Duncan 10 years ago

After 9/11 have the bastions of western democracy not passed the Patriots Act to deal with terrorists and traitors? Even the USA that he was an agent for would have treated him with greater severity and contempt. Check out Gu ...
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After 9/11 have the bastions of western democracy not passed the Patriots Act to deal with terrorists and traitors? Even the USA that he was an agent for would have treated him with greater severity and contempt. Check out Guantanamo Bay cages and you will understand.
Ka Na Wu 10 years ago

No wonder that graduates from our Universities are useless after graduation because they are taught by foolish Professors like foolish Akosa

No wonder that graduates from our Universities are useless after graduation because they are taught by foolish Professors like foolish Akosa
Wabee 10 years ago

This os one of the foolish people Ghana has spent money to educate them . Whenevar he speaks you can tell this man does not deserve to be a Profesor. He speaks from his stomach and not from his head.

This os one of the foolish people Ghana has spent money to educate them . Whenevar he speaks you can tell this man does not deserve to be a Profesor. He speaks from his stomach and not from his head.
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

Mr. Atta Akyea and other NPP stalwart need to use their "God-given" common sense or grow some if theirs have been on the decline. The NPP touts itself as a party seeking democratic ideals of a multi-party, free market and pro ...
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Mr. Atta Akyea and other NPP stalwart need to use their "God-given" common sense or grow some if theirs have been on the decline. The NPP touts itself as a party seeking democratic ideals of a multi-party, free market and property owning system of governance that exists partly or in whole in the USA or the UK. The powers that be within the NPP better learn to accept what their ideal entail or shut up for once. For it is under the umbrella of those democratic values that UK, US and other western civilized nations practicing democracy that people are held without trial even in this modern era because of terrorism.
You guys in the NPP and other tribal zealots, educated and uneducated alike, should understand that no leaders from any nation under any type of governance will tolerate acts of terror to be visited unto the people because some members in political opposition parties could not accept a loss at the polls or a government in power from a minority tribe. It is truly sad Ghana's UGCC then and or through the Busia-Danquah-Dumbo ideologues to modern day NPP cannot cite any civilized nation where the government was forcibly overthrown by the military or bomb-throwers as reasons to justify their shameful history but would boldly without remorse or shame think the rest of Ghana owes them understanding or sympathy.
I could understand if Ghanaians had benefitted tremendously in development, economically and socially when Dr. K.A Busia became prime minister of Ghana as reason why the NPP and the NPP ideologues would talk and or brag about their ideals. These shameless tribal zealots continue to talk despite the disastrous leadership under Busia and or the stealing, tribalism, epic cronyism and mismanagement that took place under Kufour's 8 years in office. It is people without shame, remorse, full of intellectual dishonesty and above all unprincipled who talk the crap knowing those who live and die by tribal loyalties will listen to the junk they push.
It takes Ghanaians with a little bit of candor and honesty to know that what the NPP engages in is nothing short of intimidation and savagery using their distorted version of history to justify their irrational response to defeat at the ballot box each election cycle in Ghana's election history. Is Mr. Atta Akyea claiming that Ghana should not imprison it’s educated for crimes? He knows good and darn well where the violence and acts of terrorism came from under the UGCC just as the modern day NPP under Kufour at the hands of Nana Akufo-Addo imprisoned Tsikata for causing financial loss to Ghana. How dare you hypocrites talk and draw moral equivalence or sympathize with home grown terrorist even if educated?
Kojo Billy Duncan 10 years ago

Say it as it is and damn the intellectually dishonest brigands.

Say it as it is and damn the intellectually dishonest brigands.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Listen to this bloated carrion of an idiot, Tsikata was imprisoned by competent courts and not arrested in the middle of the night and thrown into jail.

Listen to this bloated carrion of an idiot, Tsikata was imprisoned by competent courts and not arrested in the middle of the night and thrown into jail.
Mr. Haircare 10 years ago

prof, don't be silly. what you are saying is false.

prof, don't be silly. what you are saying is false.
LUCK 10 years ago

NKRUMAH HAD FORESIGHT IN CHECKING TERRORISM IN GHANA BY ENSURING THAT PARLIAMENT PASSED THE PDA. A SIMILAR LEGISLATION HAS RECENTLY BEEN ENACTED BY UNITED STATES TO FIGHT TERRORISM. GHANA ATTAINED INDEPENDENCE IN MARCH 1957 A ...
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NKRUMAH HAD FORESIGHT IN CHECKING TERRORISM IN GHANA BY ENSURING THAT PARLIAMENT PASSED THE PDA. A SIMILAR LEGISLATION HAS RECENTLY BEEN ENACTED BY UNITED STATES TO FIGHT TERRORISM. GHANA ATTAINED INDEPENDENCE IN MARCH 1957 AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR IN AUGUST 1958 A BOMB WAS THROWN AT FLAGSTAFF HOUSE IN AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASINATE NKRUMAH SO THE PDA WAS LATER ENACTED TO DEAL WITH TERRORISM/SUBVERSION. CURRENT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT NKRUMAH WAS RIGHT IN ENSURING THAT TERRORISM WAS DEALT WITH AS A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES HAVE ENACTED SUCH LAW TO FIGHT TERRORISM.
NKRUMAH WAS A MAN OF IMMENSE FORESIGHT.
michael 10 years ago

Mad Akosa

Mad Akosa
KKO 10 years ago

What an idiot. TUC leaders were jailed under the PDA for calling strikes. My friend's father escaped and eventually died in Britain. They were going to jail him for cutting his son's Young Pioneer uniform to pieces. In elemen ...
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What an idiot. TUC leaders were jailed under the PDA for calling strikes. My friend's father escaped and eventually died in Britain. They were going to jail him for cutting his son's Young Pioneer uniform to pieces. In elementary school form 2, all they were doing was having sex with the girls and getting gonorrhea.

Some CPP acivists just got people jailed so they could go for their wives. It is only an idiot that will say that a law that was rushed through Parliament in less than 24hours, one that allowed people to be incacerated without so much as a charge was good.
NANA 10 years ago

WE HAVE TO REMEMBER GUANTANAMO BAY,ABU QUATADA,THE INTERMITTENT ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF PALESTINIANS BY THE ISRAELIS,ALL CARRIED OUT BY "WESTERN" DEMOCRACIES BEFORE CONDEMNING THE LATE KWAME NKRUMAH.
J.B.DANQUAH BECAME K ...
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WE HAVE TO REMEMBER GUANTANAMO BAY,ABU QUATADA,THE INTERMITTENT ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF PALESTINIANS BY THE ISRAELIS,ALL CARRIED OUT BY "WESTERN" DEMOCRACIES BEFORE CONDEMNING THE LATE KWAME NKRUMAH.
J.B.DANQUAH BECAME KWAME NKRUMAH'S MOST PROMINENT OPPONENT AND PLOTTED WITH OTHERS IN AN ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE KWAME NKRUMAH.HE HAD TO BE STOPPED AND IF DETENTION WAS TO DO THAT,IT HAD TO BE DONE.
K-DE-K 10 years ago

Akroaba , J.B. was right after independence what have achieved as a nation?

Akroaba , J.B. was right after independence what have achieved as a nation?
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 10 years ago

Well said Akosa.Danquah,Busia and Obetsebi Lamptey were all terrorists who deserved to be arrested and jailed under the PDA.Who cares if he died in prison?That was his fate.So Nkrumah should have allowed these terrorists who ...
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Well said Akosa.Danquah,Busia and Obetsebi Lamptey were all terrorists who deserved to be arrested and jailed under the PDA.Who cares if he died in prison?That was his fate.So Nkrumah should have allowed these terrorists who were using violence to kill innocent Ghanaians to go unpunished.They were aided,abetted and financed by the american CIA .God so good America is now tasting the bitterness of terrorism.THOSE WHO SOW EVIL HARVEST EVIL!!!!
Smoken Gun. 10 years ago

ALL OF YOU ARGUING ON THIS SUBJECT ARE STUPID FOOLS. PERIOD !!! INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT HOW TO FIX THE ECONOMY, YOU THE SO CALLED, PROFS, Drs, LAWYERS& STUDENTS etc.ARE SENSELESSLY DISCUSSING IRRELEVANT ISSUES OF THE PAST 5 ...
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ALL OF YOU ARGUING ON THIS SUBJECT ARE STUPID FOOLS. PERIOD !!! INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT HOW TO FIX THE ECONOMY, YOU THE SO CALLED, PROFS, Drs, LAWYERS& STUDENTS etc.ARE SENSELESSLY DISCUSSING IRRELEVANT ISSUES OF THE PAST 5 DECADES. NO WONDER THE C'TRY IS SINKING AT A GEOMETRIC RATE. IS NKRUMAH OR JB DANKWAH GOING TO PUT FOOD ON YOUR TABLE NOW.FROM PRESIDENT TO DEPUTY ,MINISTERS ARE ALL FOOLS.THE C'TRY HAS WASTED HIS PRECIOUS FUNDS TO EDUCATE FOOLS.
Osei Yao 10 years ago

PARLIAMENT IS NOW A JOKE. J.B. DANQUAH ONLY SAT IN PARLIAMENT AS NOMINEE OF THE JPC DROM1951-54. HE NEVER WONANY ELECTIONS IN HIS LIFE. SO WHY WERE ELECTED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT COMMEMORATING DANQUAH'S DEATH.THE MPs SHOULD RA ...
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PARLIAMENT IS NOW A JOKE. J.B. DANQUAH ONLY SAT IN PARLIAMENT AS NOMINEE OF THE JPC DROM1951-54. HE NEVER WONANY ELECTIONS IN HIS LIFE. SO WHY WERE ELECTED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT COMMEMORATING DANQUAH'S DEATH.THE MPs SHOULD RATHER REMEMBER THE SAY DEMOCRACY DIED IN GHANA: WHEN DR NKRUMAH WAS OVERTHROWN,
mensah abrampa 10 years ago

Nkrumah was a communist/socialist dictator and cared less about the democratic rights of ghanaians. Danquah and others who fell victim to Nkrumah's tyrannical and dictatorial rule were freedom fighters and died fighting for ...
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Nkrumah was a communist/socialist dictator and cared less about the democratic rights of ghanaians. Danquah and others who fell victim to Nkrumah's tyrannical and dictatorial rule were freedom fighters and died fighting for the democratic rights of all ghanaians. Professor Akosah is calling these noble men terrorists in much the same way the American Congress and the capitalist world declared Nelson Mandela a terrorist . Politicians of Akosah's ilk will continue to make the ugly noises but will never be entrusted with the mandate to rule the people because they hate democracy. The democratic rights of Ghanaians were suppressed just as was done in Mao's China, the USSR, and the German Democratic Republic.
ADONGO 10 years ago

WELL SAID MENSAH,AKOSA HAS SHOCKED ME!!!HYPOCRITE!!!

WELL SAID MENSAH,AKOSA HAS SHOCKED ME!!!HYPOCRITE!!!
LUCK 10 years ago

THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE BUT BEHIND THE SCENE, THEY WERE ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CIA.THIS IS SERIOUS DISHONESTY OF THE FIRST ORDER. MANY OF US DO NOT RESPECT THEM FOR THIS DISHONESTY AND TRAITOROUS ACT. NKRUMAH FOUG ...
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THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE BUT BEHIND THE SCENE, THEY WERE ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CIA.THIS IS SERIOUS DISHONESTY OF THE FIRST ORDER. MANY OF US DO NOT RESPECT THEM FOR THIS DISHONESTY AND TRAITOROUS ACT. NKRUMAH FOUGHT GALLANTLY FOR INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT TAKING "BRIBES".
WE SHALL CONTINUE TO WORSHIP NKRUMAH.
Visionary 10 years ago

I 100% agreed with Dr Akosa that When you live in a country where a certain proportion of the people had taken to nothing but stealing the country assets for their personal gain, gross lies to the people, atempting the wreck ...
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I 100% agreed with Dr Akosa that When you live in a country where a certain proportion of the people had taken to nothing but stealing the country assets for their personal gain, gross lies to the people, atempting the wreck the country with violence; planning assassinations attempts against the people because you don't support the MATEMEHO AGENDA as well as violence against the Government or the country, something like PDA was neccesary to boot those monkeys away.
Ask yourselves that when those MATEMEHO gangs finally succeded what did they do to the country? Exact same thing Nkrumah was fighting them on behalf of the nation. THEY WRECK GHANA TO THE LAST BONE.
Dr kwadwo kufuor U.S of A 10 years ago

The truth is an offence but not a sin

The truth is an offence but not a sin
ADONGO 10 years ago

Is Akosa getting demented?Only a pathologist will talk this SHIT!!!

Is Akosa getting demented?Only a pathologist will talk this SHIT!!!
NANA APINTOHENE OF OBURONIKROM 10 years ago

PROF, we know your allegiance to Nkrumahism and the CPP brand is unflinching, and undeniably your right. However your justification for PDA is one too many. Detention without trial was unjustifiably wrong. We had inherited an ...
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PROF, we know your allegiance to Nkrumahism and the CPP brand is unflinching, and undeniably your right. However your justification for PDA is one too many. Detention without trial was unjustifiably wrong. We had inherited an enviable judicial set up modelled on the British system which Nkrumah could not manipulate and adulterate as he wished at the time. We do not need rocket scientists to tell us that PDA was passed by the one party CPP government to circumvent the judiciary at the time. In any case both Danquah and Nkrumah have played their parts in shaping modern Ghana one way or the other. We love them all and respect them all. Nothing that lives can be rigidly perfect. What we need from our learned Prof now is positive guidance into the future. God bless us all.
SAY IT AS IT IS 10 years ago

Atta Akyea, i think you were not born when all this foolishness was going on in our beloved Ghana, but it is a pity that you and your kind will never be truthful with truth. our people are made to know and believe that whatev ...
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Atta Akyea, i think you were not born when all this foolishness was going on in our beloved Ghana, but it is a pity that you and your kind will never be truthful with truth. our people are made to know and believe that whatever went on was against your people, but one thing your kind must know is there were almost about six plus million people in the country at the time who did not support your grate grand pop. The people of your kind are trying hard to wash clean your grand pop, as the best at that time, but in reality i think many can read and know really what kind of person he was at that of history in our country.
I and many will not be suprise one day to read it was the UGCC which decleared independence for Ghana.And JB, Saying," GHANA is free at last".
The truth will always see the light no matter how one tries to hide it under the table.
As the saying goes one must be true to him or her self at all times to be free.
Nana Tawiah 10 years ago

This is the reason why Ghana is in these mess because we have people whose still believe in Nkrumaism and communism No matter their educational background

This is the reason why Ghana is in these mess because we have people whose still believe in Nkrumaism and communism No matter their educational background
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

YOUR FRIENDS, IVORY COAST HAS BEEN LICKING THE WHITE A-S-S-ES FOR DECADES, WHERE HAS IT SEND THEM.

CONTINUE BELIEVING IN A SYSTEM THAT WAS NOT DESIGNED FOR AFRICA.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WHITES AND THEIR PROTECTIONISM ...
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YOUR FRIENDS, IVORY COAST HAS BEEN LICKING THE WHITE A-S-S-ES FOR DECADES, WHERE HAS IT SEND THEM.

CONTINUE BELIEVING IN A SYSTEM THAT WAS NOT DESIGNED FOR AFRICA.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WHITES AND THEIR PROTECTIONISM APART FROM WHAT THEY TELL YOU. DID YOU READ WHAT AN HONEST ITALIAN FORMER PM SAID TO AFRICANS RECENTLY. CREATE YOUR OWN SYSTEM. THAT IS WHAT NKRUMAH WAS DOING OVER 50 YEARS AGO TILL YOUR IGNOMINIOUS ANCESTORS CHANGED OUR CAUSE FOR THE WORSE. THEY DID NOT EVEN SEE WHY WE SHOULD SEND MONEY TO BUILD A BIG HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER. HOW WORSE CAN YOU PEOPLE GET. VERY SAD WE HAVE TO SHARE THE SAME SPACE WITH YOU ID IOTS.
Newsite bansah 10 years ago

As they say, hindsight is always 20/20. Looking back at the PDA, people can come up with all sorts of romantic criticisms because they did not live in those times nor live in Nkrumah's shoes.

The opposition Nkrumah face ...
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As they say, hindsight is always 20/20. Looking back at the PDA, people can come up with all sorts of romantic criticisms because they did not live in those times nor live in Nkrumah's shoes.

The opposition Nkrumah faced, let by JB Danquah and co., was destructive and would not stop at anything to overthrow Nkrumah, including assassination attempts that also killed scores of innocent people.

Since the courts were in cohoots with Danquah and co. (because they were part of the "intelligentia" that Nkrumah had "usurped" with his "Veranda Boys"), Nkrumah could not rely on the courts to control the situation - hence the PDA.

Other countries, (well known democratic ones, if you will) have used forms of PDA to control terrorists. The United States, when it found itself fighting terrorists that its court system could not effectively handle, deviced their own "PDA", called Guantanamo. Some of the detainees in Guantanamo have been held without trial for more than 10 years. Are the US, George Bush or Obama not democratic? Of course they are, but they are doing or did what they need to do to maintain security.

Margaret Thatcher brought her own form of PDA to contain the IRA. IRA suspects could be held for very long periods without trial. While unfortunate, it did not make Margaret Thatcher any less democratic. She did what she had to do to protect her country.

Nkrumah did what he had to do to protect Ghana. In hindsight, considering the 1966 coup and the fact that the opposition and CIA were behind it, shows that the opposition was not a democratic and peace loving bunch. They were out to get Nkrumah by fair or foul means and the PDA was Nkrumah's attempt to control the situation.
Asoreba 10 years ago

Prof. Akosa is frustrated that he's not going anywhere with his party. This CPP folks have allowed Rawlings to destroy thier party. They are finished in Ghana

Prof. Akosa is frustrated that he's not going anywhere with his party. This CPP folks have allowed Rawlings to destroy thier party. They are finished in Ghana
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

Tensions always rise when we go back to talk about this issue. But we would be better off to learn some lessons from it that can help us deepen our young resurrected Democracy.

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Tensions always rise when we go back to talk about this issue. But we would be better off to learn some lessons from it that can help us deepen our young resurrected Democracy.

People who favor Nkrumah, especially, those whose relatives were maimed or killed by the bomb-throwing by the opposition, would always defend the PDA. And those who support J.B. Danquah, especially his surviving relatives would always see him as an innocent victim of a megalomaniac Dictator.

But the pragmatic truth is that when we resort to violence to resolve our political issues, no one can guarantee fairness in retribution.

Nkrumah's dictatorial tendencies were not in line with Democracy as most of us understand it or the opposition of his day wanted it. But did he deserve to be assassinated? Was the bomb-throwing the only way to rescue our democracy? My answer to that is "no".

After all, Nkrumah's drift to Dictatorship only began within a few years of his overthrow. Had the International Community of solid Democracy been called upon to establish Sanctions against Nkrumah, for example, I believe he would have eventually succumbed without anyone treated as Danquah was.

That last sentence may sound naive to those who would argue the opposing forces could not wait forever. True but why wouldn't they wait? Much had to do with a long history of brutal suppression we had suffered under the so-called champions of World Democracy themselves. Remember segregation and apartheid?

Danquah also did not deserve the incarceration without due process of Law to prove him culpable. If Nkrumah had kept his high security routine and appealed to the general public to denounce the violence while insinuating Danquah's involvement, the public outcry might have reached the Opposition to let them back down from the violence. Then, Danquah would have had the chance to wait for the normal mechanisms like Elections to effect any change in Govt.

All the above is, of course, a product of hindsight being 20/20. Besides, neither Danquah nor Nkrumah had the exclusive luxury to consider the non-violent options I have suggested here. The truth is that more external pressures were involved in their behaviors. The Cold War provided Nkrumah a certain feeling of justification in defying the West and their obvious ally in Ghana's opposition at the time, and the Soviets ' support gave him a false sense of security to remain adamant to Danquah and his Opposition.

Similarly, the West actively encouraged Danquah and the opposition to do whatever was possible to get rid of Nkrumah for all their imperial reasons. No room for compromise in Peace was left. We must all understand that the reasons for Democracy behind which the West condemned Nkrumah's dictatorial drift were only a convenient excuse.

Why do I say that? I say that because the West did not undermine or encourage similar opposing tactics against Houphouet in the Iviry Coast, or Mobutu in Congo Leopoldville, or Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, all dictators but allies of the West.

In view of the above compact analysis, I strongly suggest that we forgive one another, admit the errors each side made and learn to avoid them for the entrenchment of our Democracy.

Violence must be denounced. Dictatorship must be rejected. When at an impasse, we would have to defer to the larger public and let Elections (or Civil disobedience, in the case of extreme situation of intractable Govt.). World opinion today could be very useful for the necessary impact.

We need to be careful not allow ourselves to be manipulated to crucify our own Citizens by those whose only interest is to get our resources for cheap.

We must remember that even America has its Guantanamo, and Arab Spring did topple Mubarack of Egypt and Gaddafi of Libya.
We don't have to debate the justification for self-defense versus the unacceptability of dictatorship to claim any relative superiority in Human Rights and piety to keep our Democracy. We can only learn from the errors of these Heroes of our Land.

Long Live Ghana!!!
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

Adu Boahen intentionally set the party on a footing to avoid these divisive debates, but since the Abuakwa people resumed ownership of the NPP, they have been trying to rewrite history and show Nkrumah as bad and themselves a ...
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Adu Boahen intentionally set the party on a footing to avoid these divisive debates, but since the Abuakwa people resumed ownership of the NPP, they have been trying to rewrite history and show Nkrumah as bad and themselves angels.
Tweaaa, Tweaaa, Tweaaa. We will never give in until they stop their nuisance.
In fact, even Rawling tried to honour Busia which the family refused and I remember the Danquah circle was greatly refurbished to befit a hero, but definitely not above Nkrumah.

If they want peace, then tell them to stop inciting.

Kukru kukru ne gyie ya, k3k3 k3k3 esuo b3gyie.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

You may be right on the resumption of verbal hostilities surrounding this most sensitive topic. But it takes two to tangle. Therefore we will have to abide by the adage of our Elders that says: "As you admonish the Cat to ref ...
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You may be right on the resumption of verbal hostilities surrounding this most sensitive topic. But it takes two to tangle. Therefore we will have to abide by the adage of our Elders that says: "As you admonish the Cat to refrain from assaulting the Stock Fish, so do you have to simultaneously admonish the Stock Fish to curb its odor".

I have observed attempts by a few to rewrite our History to sanitize the behavior of some of these past Politicians. If only we could forgive their errors such image photoshopping would not be necessary and the known errors could remain in historical records to serve as lessons for us and posterity.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

WAS IT NOT THE SAME LAW THAT WAS PUT IN ENACTED BY CONGRESS IN GEORGE BUSH TIME OF OFFICE TO FIGHT TERRORISM IN THE US

WAS IT NOT THE SAME LAW THAT WAS PUT IN ENACTED BY CONGRESS IN GEORGE BUSH TIME OF OFFICE TO FIGHT TERRORISM IN THE US
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

IN FACT, KUFUOR SIGNED TO HAND OVER ANYONE AMERICA DEEMED A TERRORIST ON GHANAIAN SOIL. THIS PEOPLE HAVE NO SHAME TO TALK ABOUT THE PDA. IT WAS FAIR AND JUST BY THEIR OWN STANDARDS.

IN FACT, KUFUOR SIGNED TO HAND OVER ANYONE AMERICA DEEMED A TERRORIST ON GHANAIAN SOIL. THIS PEOPLE HAVE NO SHAME TO TALK ABOUT THE PDA. IT WAS FAIR AND JUST BY THEIR OWN STANDARDS.
Me 10 years ago

What was the state of Ghana at the time of the overthrow of Nkrumah. Apart from the fact that Nkrumah made himself the president for life, the country's economy was also in a mess because of that stupid idea of forming the un ...
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What was the state of Ghana at the time of the overthrow of Nkrumah. Apart from the fact that Nkrumah made himself the president for life, the country's economy was also in a mess because of that stupid idea of forming the united state of Africa. Yes it was a stupid idea because those in north Africa and even some of the sub-Saharan African countries were not prepared to cede power for Nkrumah and his 'USA'. How can a president who wanted to rule for life with different political ideology be glorified and worshiped by those with different ideology. Why, was he the only wisest person in Ghana?
For people like Akosa and those colloquial Nkrumaist who still believe Nkrumah was a 'God' and for that matter knew more than everybody, I ask them to see the fate of USSR. No wonder Nkrumah died with his CPP and I can for see a similar thing happening to NDC unless that murderer called Rawlings openly confess and apologize to the families of those innocent people that he massacred. May the souls of the BIG 6-Nkrumah rest in perfect peace.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

I WOULD CHOOSE A DICTATOR WITH A LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE OVER A TERRORIST WITH A LOVE FOR FOREIGNERS ANYDAY.

I WOULD CHOOSE A DICTATOR WITH A LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE OVER A TERRORIST WITH A LOVE FOR FOREIGNERS ANYDAY.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

This is where I vehemently disagree with the anti-Nkrumah folks like you. Did Nkrumah ever solicit for that kind of Presidency? The fact is his enemies only speculated that his exuberance in championing the African Unity amo ...
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This is where I vehemently disagree with the anti-Nkrumah folks like you. Did Nkrumah ever solicit for that kind of Presidency? The fact is his enemies only speculated that his exuberance in championing the African Unity amounted to his pursuance of that position.

There is a proverb that says if your enemy copies or demonstrates your Dancing style, he or she deliberately does it awkwardly". Nkrumah's enemies, both internal and external, never missed any opportunity to portray him as a power grabbing megalomaniac to sour any popularity he had built among the Public at large. So, accusations like this were given traction after his overthrow to justify the ouster.

Many of his peer Heads of State, like Houphouet, either envied him to fall for such fear, or were fed with that lie by the West to engender his dislike among them.

Remember, the West would pay off certain allies in Africa to boycott OAU crucial Summits. Why? Yes, our Economy was in poor shape but did we have to call for Coup any time our Economy turned bad? Besides, the money was not looted as Politicians are doing today. It was used for massive Infrastructural projects that the Colonial masters never thought of giving us and many of which have supported and served us well till now. Please, give the "devil" his due.

The very projects Ghana built in those days that we were brainwashed to believe as being sheer prestigious are the same we are now calling for to avert endless reliance on imports. It is when we keep importing basic needs that the Foreign powers have more opportunities to manipulate our supplies and foreign exchange availability and our crooked politicians control the economy to their parochial interests.

Evidence abound now to refute that assertion of yours, sorry.

Long Live Ghana!!!
sefah 10 years ago

I am surprised to read about Nkrumah vrs Dankwah when Prof.Akosah was talking about the justification of the use of PDA to deal with political terrorists. This law wae there when the country was ruled by the British and Nkrum ...
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I am surprised to read about Nkrumah vrs Dankwah when Prof.Akosah was talking about the justification of the use of PDA to deal with political terrorists. This law wae there when the country was ruled by the British and Nkrumah himself was jailed by colonialist during the uprising.Remember what Nkrumah did for Ghana proud of training Ghanaina for ghana blackstar ship fleet,aghana air ways etc
Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 10 years ago

KOTOKA nd crookman..., NARA MPO NOHO YE EHI IN THE AIRPOR, ND..... MORE THAN Dankwa naara mpo with Amen!, nd.....!Ogyamanase yi speaking nd if u play with Naana Nkrumah Dr, i will play with u Femsenfemsen( stero crook of u) A ...
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KOTOKA nd crookman..., NARA MPO NOHO YE EHI IN THE AIRPOR, ND..... MORE THAN Dankwa naara mpo with Amen!, nd.....!Ogyamanase yi speaking nd if u play with Naana Nkrumah Dr, i will play with u Femsenfemsen( stero crook of u) Akuffo Addo's dankwa book must close closen, yes oye owu! nd Amen!, from Samms!.....nd God bless u oman Ghana with Amen!.
Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 10 years ago

nd thancs a lots Mr, Akosa!.....

nd thancs a lots Mr, Akosa!.....
Nana HIGH 10 years ago

YES Kwame Nkrumah detained most of his political opponents in order to impose one party state on the good people of ghana . This led to attempt to end his life and his overthrown in 1966 . Nkrumah was a real dictator . Had it ...
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YES Kwame Nkrumah detained most of his political opponents in order to impose one party state on the good people of ghana . This led to attempt to end his life and his overthrown in 1966 . Nkrumah was a real dictator . Had it not been Nkrumah Ghana would have gone far from where we are now .
BEN, Takoradi 10 years ago

Protecting the peace in Ghana was far more important than appeasing your ethnic matemeho terrorists.

Protecting the peace in Ghana was far more important than appeasing your ethnic matemeho terrorists.
SADIQ BRAIMAH 10 years ago

J.B. DANQUAH; OBETSEBI-LAMPTEY; YAW MANU;KOFI ABREFA BUSIA IN MODERN TIMES WITH THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM COULD HAVE STOOD TRIAL AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IN THE HAGUE. THIS IS BECAUSE THESE MEN INTRODUCEMENT TERROR ...
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J.B. DANQUAH; OBETSEBI-LAMPTEY; YAW MANU;KOFI ABREFA BUSIA IN MODERN TIMES WITH THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM COULD HAVE STOOD TRIAL AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IN THE HAGUE. THIS IS BECAUSE THESE MEN INTRODUCEMENT TERRORISM IN GHANA'S BODY POLITIC. THEY PROCURED HAND GRENADES, STICKS OF DYNAMITES AND OTHER IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVISES(IED)TO BE USED TO ELIMINATE dR. KWAME NKRUMAH AND COW GHANAIANS INTO SUBMISSION AFTER THEY HAD BEEN REJECTED IN ELECTION AFTER ELECTION.
THEIR DESCENDANTS(JAKE & CO.) ARE STILL AROUND AND STILL PRACTISE WHAT THEIR FATHERS DID. JAKE, MATHEW OPOKU AND CO ARE ALL DESCENDANTS OF TERRORISTS.
osei yaw - london 10 years ago

The Preventive Detention Act (PDA) was an Act of Ghana Parliament and not an Order; for, there is a legal difference

- an Act or Legislation is the Law; whereas an Order derives its legal powers from an Act or Legislation
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The Preventive Detention Act (PDA) was an Act of Ghana Parliament and not an Order; for, there is a legal difference

- an Act or Legislation is the Law; whereas an Order derives its legal powers from an Act or Legislation

- why the PDA did not have the ultimate sanction of death by hanging still beats legal minds

- terrorist Akim JB Danquah (Kulungugu) was still able to carry out his evil mission of destroying Kwame Nkrumah from Nsawam to put Ghana back a thousand years; reason

- today's well enlightened Ghana would see to it that, this halfwit and bluffer Akim Akufo Ado, a blood line relative of terrorist Akim JB Danquah would never be elected President of State of Ghana

Osei Wusu-Khanin / osei yaw - london
adwoa kwaku 10 years ago

His words are hollow

His words are hollow
joedusu@yahoo.com 10 years ago

this man has no brains.

this man has no brains.
Frank Akoto 10 years ago

Well said, Prof. The PDA was well justified. Has anyone questioned the Americans about prisoners in Guantanamo Bay?

Long live the great ideas of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. RIP

Well said, Prof. The PDA was well justified. Has anyone questioned the Americans about prisoners in Guantanamo Bay?

Long live the great ideas of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. RIP
Prof Akosa 10 years ago

I am prof akosua and I speak from my anus. Mekasa fre meto

I am prof akosua and I speak from my anus. Mekasa fre meto
Dzifa 10 years ago

Why should anyone think idiotic genes will leave a person once the one undergoes some tutelage? This Akosa is just stupid, period.

Why should anyone think idiotic genes will leave a person once the one undergoes some tutelage? This Akosa is just stupid, period.
Wofa Koo 10 years ago

This kind of stupidity about Akosa are the major disturbances of peace. Nkrumah "the power drunk" proclaimed himself and CPP one party state and president for life. Who gave him such power and authority.He Nkrumah preached ab ...
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This kind of stupidity about Akosa are the major disturbances of peace. Nkrumah "the power drunk" proclaimed himself and CPP one party state and president for life. Who gave him such power and authority.He Nkrumah preached about imperialism and oppression by the white man meanwhile, he was imperialistic and oppressor more and worse than the white man. Akosa you should thank JB Danquah and Paa Grant who brought Nkrumah from Liverpool by paying his boat fare of 100 pounds to serve as secretary of UGCC after being recommended by Ebenezer Ako-Adjei who was later misprisioned by Nkrumah. What was wrong with Nkrumah with such cruelty which the lunatic and shameless akosa justifying.
Johnny USA 10 years ago

SO JDB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST,SONS LIKE FATHER.

SO JDB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST,SONS LIKE FATHER.
Meshack 10 years ago

In the early hours of February 24, 1966, the absolutely corrupt Convention People's Party suffered a gargantuan cardiac arrest and gave up the ghost. There was spontaneous jubilation across the length and breadth of the land ...
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In the early hours of February 24, 1966, the absolutely corrupt Convention People's Party suffered a gargantuan cardiac arrest and gave up the ghost. There was spontaneous jubilation across the length and breadth of the land because of the immense relief that Ghanaians felt at the removal of a monstrous dictator and his dysfunctional party and government. Let it be said, loud and clear, that no one, either living or yet to be born, can ressurect this party...so let people like this "prof" go somewhere else with their nonsense.
Kwame 10 years ago

We wrote about how a man chased his mother's lover with a machete but laid bed for his wife's lover to have sex with the wife right before his very eyes. In the case of Ghana we shall say that such "witted" man even held the ...
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We wrote about how a man chased his mother's lover with a machete but laid bed for his wife's lover to have sex with the wife right before his very eyes. In the case of Ghana we shall say that such "witted" man even held the wife for the lover to defile.
The overthrow of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was planned and carried out by the CIA and other western secret services. In 1966 the U.S. Constitution said that the Negro is less an animal than the white man's dog, if a dog happens to belong to a white man, then it has a personality than a being the Negro.
CIA and those western secret services were then defending racial segregation and apartheid at that time. Thus a Negro who runs his country well is supposed to be a bad animal, but one who is a puppet of the west is a good human being. In 1966 the majority of presidents in Africa were life presidents and the overwhelming majority of countries were one party state.
It is on record that the majority of Nkrumah's counter parts all over the world left office in the late 1970s,the case in Malaysia, South Korea and Indonesia. Some even stayed on up to the early 1990s and a case in point is the Ivory Coast president.
Some of the countries around the world are monarchies, in which case only one family can be the head of state. As for the resurrection of the Convention Peoples' Party it is just a matter of time.
kankanyame u s a 10 years ago

akosa you are the first to be imprisoned for 5 yearsm or 10 years.u are d terrorist liveng in ghana.foolish prof.idiotic man

akosa you are the first to be imprisoned for 5 yearsm or 10 years.u are d terrorist liveng in ghana.foolish prof.idiotic man

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