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• summy addo 11 years ago

  ILLEGAL SCALE ADJUSTMENT KILLING THE GHANA COCOA SECTOR. LBCs TO BLAME. THEY ARE USING PURCHASING CLERKS AS CONDUIT TO CHEAT FARMERS

  ILLEGAL SCALE ADJUSTMENT KILLING THE GHANA COCOA SECTOR. LBCs TO BLAME. THEY ARE USING PURCHASING CLERKS AS CONDUIT TO CHEAT FARMERS

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• Mahmoud 11 years ago

  Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice communism and one party state, and indulge ...
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  Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice communism and one party state, and indulge in Leftist anti-Western propaganda using our country's meager resources to challenge centuries' old, well-established Western countries. They even accepted that he should be a prophet and savior of the Blackman around the world, and yet tyrannize his own Black people at home because they have alternative views for the development of their country.
  
  Those who wanted him to concentrate on the needs of the young nation and tone down his rhetoric to our level were called traitors, nation wreckers, and agents of imperialism and CIA agents that should be liquidated and imprisoned dead or alive. Could you believe that the opposition members he was tyrannizing were the very people who started the struggle for our independence? They employed Nkrumah and paid for his ticket from the UK to come and work as a General Secretary of the group, saving him from the tyranny and indignity of joblessness in London. The independence struggle Vanguards were senior civil servants in the Gold Coast. And as their struggle was gaining momentum and scope of the activities widening, they needed someone to work full time for the group; free from official work constrains to further spread the their message to the people.
  
  Under their responsibility and protection, Nkrumah used the platform to become the public face of the group and his popularity soared. This was because, many people in those days saw him as the person, or the only person that was fighting for our independence. So when he secretly learnt from the Governor General's British female secretary, who was later sacked, that the British were preparing to grant us independence, Nkrumah increasingly used unnecessary militant and unorthodox tactics to annoy the Authority - when it was clear that "the wind of change was blowing"- in order to embarrass the group and outfox them. He then used the opportunity to break away from the group, forming his own party and slapping them from behind to take power.
  
  This might explain the strong partisanship between the two groups, and why Nkrumah didn't want the so-called traitors, or more appropriately, the liberation vanguards to ever come to power in his life time. Maybe he was afraid of his own ghost. And despite all what happened, his supporters still want us to believe that he initiated, spearheaded and single handedly fought for our independence, and therefore name every national project after him as if we were in a kingdom.

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• Nii Lante Okunka 11 years ago

  Mahmoud,you brought out some salient known factoids in our struggle for independence.Facts that are well known to those of us who either have attained our God-given three scores and ten or about to.But then you failed to link ...
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  Mahmoud,you brought out some salient known factoids in our struggle for independence.Facts that are well known to those of us who either have attained our God-given three scores and ten or about to.But then you failed to link your efforts to anything being mentioned in the article that bears your comments.Did something or someone abruptly intervene or what?

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• paa kojo 11 years ago

  Nkwasiafuo is ruling ghana now oh god help our country

  Nkwasiafuo is ruling ghana now oh god help our country

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• Pelicles 11 years ago

  Look at Omane Boama's face? What an ugly fool. His face scares Mother Ghana's soul.

  Look at Omane Boama's face? What an ugly fool. His face scares Mother Ghana's soul.

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• Kofi 11 years ago

  And you are God's gift to mankind, not so?

  And you are God's gift to mankind, not so?

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• Ugly Akufo Addo 11 years ago

  His mother was a prostitute

  His mother was a prostitute

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