‘Ghana needs a common destiny for successful nation building’

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• John Braforde 9 years ago

  Ghanaians are not unified. If Ghanaians were unified we would not have the government neglect common necessities in the this country.

  Ghanaians are not unified. If Ghanaians were unified we would not have the government neglect common necessities in the this country.

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• ELINAN 9 years ago

  Morality is off thru the window as we stupidly think the best traditional principles and rules that are thousands of years in making in Africa as the very first to have come with social organization on earth is pagan so we o ...
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  Morality is off thru the window as we stupidly think the best traditional principles and rules that are thousands of years in making in Africa as the very first to have come with social organization on earth is pagan so we opted for the bleached European baby norms. Copying from babies. POOR AFRICANS, IF ONLY THEY KNOW WHO THEY TRULY ARE!!

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• NON-ALIGNED 9 years ago

  Doc,…..You have made some very good points but I will only touch on your quote below.
  
  YOUR QUOTE: ““Are all our leaders corrupt and inefficient in their leadership roles, or it is the Ghanaian society that is corrupt ...
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  Doc,…..You have made some very good points but I will only touch on your quote below.
  
  YOUR QUOTE: ““Are all our leaders corrupt and inefficient in their leadership roles, or it is the Ghanaian society that is corrupt?” he asked.”
  
  Well I would like to say so but, there were one or two exceptions in Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Gen. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
  
  In this instance, I will concentrate more on Nkrumah - whose leadership reflected selflessness, vision, a strong leadership and love for Mother Ghana which does not compare with the lip-service of those who came and overthrew him and the others that followed.
  
  This GREAT MAN introduced measures to gain economic self-reliance and self-sufficiency. The launch of the Seven Year Development Plan in 1964 was expected to transform the structure of the Ghanaian economy from one that depended on the export of a few raw materials into an industrialized and prosperous society where the basic needs of its citizens are met.
  
  The Plan started the Akosombo Dam, the Tema harbor and township, Tema Oil Refinery, VALCO, Tema Food Complex, Sekondi-Takoradi sea port, built schools with free and compulsory education, revolutionized agriculture, a de-tribalized society, created integrated industries - nothing less than 50 factories for the production of industrial and consumer goods located strategically across the country - Abosso Glass Factory, Komenda Sugar Factory, two tomato factories in Northern Ghana namely in Wenchi and Pwalugu, the Meat Processing factory at Bologatanga, housing projects included in Accra (Labone Estate, Kanda Estates, Osu Ringway Estates, Airport Residential Area) - in Kumasi (Patasi Estate, Kwadaso Estate, Buokrom Estates, North and South Suntreso), the building of three new International airports, starting with the KOTOKA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, to opening up Ghana as the gateway to the rest of Africa, and set the pace in development for the continent....do I need to go on? That is what LEADERS are capable of achieving.
  
  Call him a socialists, a communist or whatever but, if he could deliver for our nation with those 'labels', please tell me what our so-called leaders under our democracy have done for Ghana, in the past twenty something years?????
  ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! But structural adjustments after the other! HIPC is knocking on our door!
  
  Unfortunately, Osagyefo's vision was cut off in 1966. And guess who truncated it?
  
  The colonialists, with the help of their Ghanaian stooges did exactly that, for their own GREEDY and SELFISH gains. These stooges I refer to them as AFROPEANS…..they are still in our midst today, in collaboration with their slave masters to rape our nation dry of its rich natural resources, to the detriment of our children’s future.
  
  They and their masters care less about any common destiny for successful nation building you and I seek for our children and children’s children. They want it now for their CORRUPT and GREEDY selves, together with their families, PERIOD!
  
  So, whatever they will do to maintain that status quo will continue unabated. Yes! My point is, these lot, are in bed with their colonial masters to rape us dry, for as long as it takes. This attitude of theirs stems out of the suppressive colonialists education system that was introduced and it has not curtailed, due to the continual use of such a system which breeds POVERTY-THINKING, INFERIORITY TOWARDS DIFFERENT RACES, NO VALUE FOR OUR RICH NATURAL RESOURCES and in everything we do.
  
  Yes! The colonialists have left but not for good, because they have ‘house-helps’ in the form of the AFROPEANS and systems in place that continue to work for them in absentia.
  
  They vilified Nkrumah then and up till today, the same AFROPEANS claim he inherited millions of ‘our own’ money from the colonialists….so, basically it is no big deal carrying out such developments and could have done more. He somehow applied his God-given brains for a change!
  
  Now, these same lot, were left with 100% of our rich natural resources to be utilized for the development of our nation and guess what? They have sold them cheaply to their colonial masters (the multi-nationals) under the Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) and Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP), orchestrated by the IMFs and the World Banks.
  
  Examples are the sale of all our key commodity exports and industries (gold, diamond, cocoa, oil; Ghana Airways, Black Star Line, Ghana Telecom, GIHOC, etc). All this started under the Rawlings regime started with Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, Dr. Joe Abbey through to Kuffour, Sam Jonah and their cronies.
  
  We are just being taken for a ride and for some funny reason, Ghanaians always fall hook, line and sinker to all these lip-services offered by the AFROPEANS and their colonialists counterparts. How many times have we not heard of all these programmes to make our lives better and help with development? It’s all means of hoodwinking Ghanaians into believing their hype and CORRUPT ways.
  
  What we need, if we in Ghana want to ever develop like the developed countries, we must learn the good ways of these developed cultures and behave like them in our own ways and circumstances. That is, by learning in our own ‘lingo’ or more importantly an AFRICAN ‘lingo’ just as they do with theirs. We cannot continue the same way and expect different results............
  
  We get so excited when we hear other races speaking our ‘lingos’. To the extent of buying CDs of South Koreans singing in Twi and leave ours. How sad!
  
  We also need strong, selfless leaders with vision and brave enough to say no to oppressors….instead of just singing the national anthem, which means nothing to them.
  
  And more importantly, eradicate ourselves from MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT from both the colonialists and the AFROPEANS for good and let's all get on board build a successful nation!
  
  Doc. your call is good but, would these CORRUPT individuals listen???
  
  NKRUMAH NEVER DIES!
  GOD BLESS GHANA!
  AFRICAN FOREVER!

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• Baba 9 years ago

  You perfectly correct prof. I salute you. A lot of Ghanaians especially the educated fools don't even know what civil Education means.

  You perfectly correct prof. I salute you. A lot of Ghanaians especially the educated fools don't even know what civil Education means.

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• WISEUP 9 years ago

  You were about to say something sensible but you diluted it by the insults which places you no different from those you are complaining about. Actually most of the educated in Ghana still exhibit a very high degree of illiter ...
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  You were about to say something sensible but you diluted it by the insults which places you no different from those you are complaining about. Actually most of the educated in Ghana still exhibit a very high degree of illiteracy, dishonesty and are largely unexposed especially our current politicians. Some recent past politicians have sown a wild seed of tribalism and this is evidenced on the comments people make on articles on the net. in this regard tribalism chracterises our politics. What I feel, will help now and the future is to advocate for a 50% degree of self determination for regions. In otherwords to modify our democratic structures to allow more power to decide and do things on their own so that Cocoa farmers are made made to carry the financial burden of the nation and yet neglected. By this I mean cocoa farmers and miners must benefit from their labour. What is happening right now is all the nations funds get dumped in the Gt. Accra and the areas that generate nations income are neglected. You will surely get the neglected and often insulted hardworking people to show apathy after they have realised that they are being robbed of their legitimate share of national development.

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