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Busia’s overthrow by Acheampong “totally unnecessary” – Agyepong

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  • SONNI ALI 9 years ago

    nkrumah's overthrow by Afrifa was total madness...Acheampong's overthrow by JJ WAS A CRIME TO GHANAIANS!!! NKWASIAFUO...you speak from your ass..give us something credible for our votes not history, that will not bring you to ...
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  • BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    Npp must blame themselves for bringing back the same rotten tomatoes into the Market. Nana Akanfuo Binaddo will never bring back Npp Motorbikes and Bungalows thieves into power. 

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    AUTHOR: AGYEI MENSAH--------
    Who tells you that John Mahama is interested in fighting corruption?

    If he is he must (1) RETURN MERCHANT BANK TO ITS OWNERS, (2) SANCTION AFRIYIE ANKRAH THE CRYING THIEF, (3) STOP PLAYING P ...
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  • Another Thief of Bagdad 9 years ago

    When Busia and Akufo Addo's father paid themselves two years in advance, what do you expect Acheampong to do? If in one year they paid themselves 2 yeaers what would they have done in 4 or 8 years? TOTAL LOOT OF THE NATIONAL ...
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  • MINOR CASE 9 years ago

    You are happy living with the loot that has been going on since the NPP/ NDC appeared on the scene huh ?

  • DABENDA 9 years ago

    BUSIA WAS THE ARCHITECT OF GHANA'S SUFFERINGS. HE SENT HIS BROTHER (KOFI FOFIE) WITH BOMBS FOR THE KILLING OF NKRUMAH. GO TO BUSIA'S HOME TOWN (WENCHI) IN B/A AND YOU WILL FIND HIS OWN PEOPLE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING DETAILED FACT ...
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  • William 9 years ago

    Military take-over is not helpful for democratic process. Remember Acheampong regime popular for first 3 years and even students and others warmed up to him during that period! I hope Kwabena not trying to imply the beginning ...
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  • chief vandal 9 years ago

    I am amazed at Kwabena and his NPP folks. They find all coups against the Nkrumaist traditions justified but when it is against the NPP then it is not necessary.
    Didn't they the NPP openly celebrate when JJ overthrew Limann ...
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  • Nana Ansah 9 years ago

    This is the warp logic of Mate mehu that one coup is better than the other. Let these illogical illiterates who have been fed on travesty of truth know that a coup is coup. Period!

    It is the same logic used by Islamist and ...
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  • MINOR CASE 9 years ago

    Tell us , what role did you play in Nkrumah's CPP. Be truthful.

  • MINOR CASE 9 years ago

    Left to you communist robots , Ghana shouild have been like Zimbabwe with centurion Kwame Nkrumah in power so you will chop around him.

  • Nana Ansah 9 years ago

    I had no hand in Nkrumah's regime but I hate stalkers and sons of Mate Mehu terrorist who are unwilling to repent but still feed on travesty of truth. To be honest, I can't stand you so you better look elsewhere.

  • Afrifa 9 years ago

    Tribalistic unfeeling govt.

  • History master 9 years ago

    The same cane used to discipline Baah was used in disciplining Takyi.

  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    White man's weak and recessive hair by nature get patted by the white man. The black man's hair supposed to be round and no need to divide on the side but slaves who wanted to look like their masters would do everything and ...
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  • objective observer 9 years ago

    Afrifa did not over throw Nkrumah kotoka did!!!

  • LAST DON 9 years ago

    BUSIA NANO BAM BAALA,

    ORSULA OWUSU NANO BAM BAALA

    MB3LEFO PARTY !!!

  • Mama Amma 9 years ago

    What ever!!! He continued and see where we are.

  • 1966 9 years ago

    Major Afrifah led the troops based in Tamale to Accra. He lied that he was taking the troops to Yendi for training . At the Tamale-Yendi road junction, he turned his vehicle southward instead of Eastward. He wrote a book in ...
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  • UNMISGUIDED AFRICAN CHILD 9 years ago

    What do you expect a Matemeho man to say about Abrefa Busia?

    An African leader who recognized The Aparthied Regime in South Africa when Mandela was still in prison?

    An African leader whose Alien Compliance Order came ba ...
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  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    Kotoka was a figure- head. The brain behing the NLC coup was Afrifa, and his outside conduit to the CIA were Busia and other UP leaders. Yes, the CIA and the UP politicians made sure that Afrifa stayed in background at the i ...
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  • taalshukura 9 years ago

    Take care NPP.stop that history now or it will cost you vote in 2016.

  • Bawumia beter than Nana 9 years ago

    Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is not acknowledged by blacks in the diaspora for nothing. I think the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah was rather unnecessary and set Africa and the black race backward for ages. The late Mandela, Mahatm ...
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  • MENSAH 9 years ago

    I will always admire and prefer Busia over Nkrumah,because the latter set us free from the former's dictatorship.
    As touching industrialization,I will always hail KWAME NKRUMAH,but not rulership,governance.
    If BUSIA was giv ...
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  • MENSAH 9 years ago

    BUSIA - THE FORMER

    NKRUMAH - THE LATTER.

  • Old lady 9 years ago

    Yeah, because you are and will remain a BABY! THINK - for yourself.

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 9 years ago

    This man wants to re-write some history. How old was this guy when Busia was overthrown and was he by then.
    He must tell the people of Ghana what can push the nation forward than stories that he has no knowledge of.

  • Boateng 9 years ago

    Right on! I wonder what he really knows first hand other than what he has been told. How old is he?

  • MINOR CASE 9 years ago

    And how old were you. The only coup that was necessary was the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah who was a dictator and would have been like what Robert Mugabe is to Zimbwabwe now. Every nation that chooses the path of democracy wou ...
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  • MINOR CASE 9 years ago

    The overthrow of Busia and Limann was unnecessary .

  • profferlio 9 years ago

    U are very silly. Why? Bcos the guy mention russia and china are those country a democratic nations? African dont understand democracy. We got develop our own style or type of ruling and stop copying the west.this guy is talk ...
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  • MINOR CASE 9 years ago

    Where did I mention westen democray ?

  • Yaw Mensah 9 years ago

    I am sick and tired of all those people who bask in old glory. That is the reason why we are in this state. 43 years ago who cares? They were all thieves as they are today. NPP, (P)NDC, CPP all were corrupt

  • Nana K 9 years ago

    May I ask Kwabena Agyapong if de overthrow of Nkrumah was necessary.wht de UP ochestrated came back to hunt them.Nkrumah was more visionary than Busia,n Busia could never ve bn a better Leader than Nkrumah

  • Goliath 9 years ago

    Just as Liman overthrow was premature! What was the justification for that?

  • Concerned 9 years ago

    Archived CIA information clearly shows the CIA used local agents to overthrow our legitimate government and compounded the problem by banning cpp from contesting the election which busia won. Only idiots see that as democracy ...
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  • Boateng 9 years ago

    CPP was banned because they knew that CPP would have won against the Progress Party of dr. Busia, and Dr. Nkrumah would have returned to become the President again.

    What a shame.

  • chief vandal 9 years ago

    well said my friend

  • Agya koo. 9 years ago

    Get life Kwabena,you are totally wrong,Busia was a failure ,just look at Keneshie market what was he thinking of putting such a project,come on,you Npp guys are just bunch of elites that are missing the Ghanaian story,the on ...
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  • LAST DON 9 years ago

    It is an unequivocal fact how this Danquah-Busia clan planned to destabilised Dr Kwame Nkrumah and destroy his heritage.
    If the atomic energy had NOT been sold to the Americans AFTER Nana Addo’s Father (Edward Akuffo Addo ...
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  • MENSAH 9 years ago

    Please,I will advise you rather to dwell on your last three lines,what it portrays.
    Beginning to think,becoming creative and not relying solely on the government,to provide everything for us.
    I love that part alone,but not ...
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  • kk 9 years ago

    Concentrate on campaigning for 2016 and stop the visit to history. How many new voters know or care about Busia or Acheampong. This is how you lose elections

  • Mama Amma 9 years ago

    The coups were "totally unnecessary” Look at what has happened now and see where Ghana is at now. Those who liken Ghana as a mother would they let their mother be treated in this way? There is a need to respect her that is ...
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  • Clement 9 years ago

    How old was this boy agyenpong then he should stop disturbing our eyes

  • MINOR CASE 9 years ago

    Do you have to be Methusala to know Ghana's history ?

  • concerned ghanaian 9 years ago

    If you pick a jingle on a dance floor,it is at a dance floor that you will loose the jingle.

  • Crano Cartel. 9 years ago

    We dont care who overthrow who, ghanaians need food on their plate and elevation in their lively hood, these politicians are funny sometimes, Agyepong is a joker.

  • Akasi Kojo 9 years ago

    Politicians must stop arrogating themselves the duty of telling what is right or wrong regarding our past presidents. We are capable and wise enough to determine and make inferences on the the worth of our past leaders. It i ...
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  • Agyei Mensah 9 years ago

    Kwabena Agyapong I like your style. Let Nana come and campaign and win the elections. Keep on talking about history, Nana does not want you to support him. Find something to do with your time. Talk about teak trees etc.

  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 9 years ago

    AKUFO ADDO WILL LOOSE 2016

  • OKOROMANSA 9 years ago

    THOSE BLASTING AGYEPONG MUST RATHER LEARN THE HISTORY PROPERLY. NKRUMAH WAS THE ONLY PRESIDENT WHO INHERITED MONEY FROM THE COLONIAL RULERS. THE REST INHERITED A HUGE DEBT. BUT FOR CORRUPTION, NKRUMAH COULD HAVE DONE MORE WHA ...
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  • Zeus 9 years ago

    Mr Agyepong should be asked to shut up and stop opening old wounds. Was Kwame Nkrumah's overthrow by Afrifa necessary? Don't be inward looking. We are fed up with your cheap and baseless politics. Contribute positively to ...
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  • ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

    fire will burn his decendants

  • pee 9 years ago

    This is foolish talk. Was Afrifa overthrow of Nkrumah necessary?

  • KWABENA OOHEMENG,LONDON 9 years ago

    How old were you when Busia aka professor Okafodidi was the Prime Minister of Ghana?Firstly Busia's overthrow was a punishment from God for betraying his own country and siding with the CIA to overthrow Osagyefo from power.Se ...
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  • Osei Yao 9 years ago

    NPP DOUBLE STANDARDS. KOFI BUSIA CONSPIRED WITH THE CIA TO DESTABLISE HIS OWN COUNTRY. ONCE YOU INITIATE "DISTABILISATION", IT IS NAIVE TO TO CLAIM EXEMPTION.SOCIOLOGIST BUSIA SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT HE WAS UNLEASHING. LATIN A ...
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  • Naaba kugri 9 years ago

    They prime minister busia and ceremonial president akuffo addo took salary payment of four years in just the first month they were sworn in
    Npp and it's cohorts should spare some us Ghanaians of this nonsense always thinkin ...
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  • Paa Joe 9 years ago

    ACHEAMPONG WAS RIGHT TO KICK THIS MAN FROM OFFICE.

    HE WAS UNCLE TOM, AND IT IS OF THE SAME DOCTRINE- BUYING AND SELLING, PUTTING THE RESOURCES OF THE NATION INTO THE HANDS OF FOREIGNERS MANIPULATION, EMBEZZLEMEMT OF STATE ...
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  • Jojo 9 years ago

    GHANA WILL ONLY BE SACRIFICED TO THE THE ALTER,WHEN ONE OF THESE MEN IN THE TEAM OF NPP WITH IRRATIONAL THINKING IS GIVEN THE CHANCE TO RULE GHANA.

    PLEASE, COME UP WITH KNOWLEGEABLE ECOBOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOPICS THAT WILL HE ...
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  • ONIPANUA 9 years ago

    Listen to this big mouth ignoramus Ken Agyepong.Is he aware that Busia opposed whatever Osagyefo did including the construction of the Akosombo Dam,the creation of the Brong Ahafo Region, the construction of Tamale Commercial ...
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  • Jojo 9 years ago

    HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, AND THESE SONS OF AND DAUGHTERS OF THE ANTI-ELEMENTS AND ANTAGONISTS WHO DERAILED THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT HAD TAKEN OFF IN THE COUNTRY FROM MID FIFTIES TO EARLY SIXTIES WILL PAY FOR THE ORICE OF ...
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  • ONIPANUA 9 years ago

    The CPP made the monumental mistake of entering into a political alliance with the NPP which helped the latter to win power.How could the CPP have done this knowing well that the Danquah/Busia political group is the enemy of ...
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  • Odiyifo 9 years ago

    Was Nkrumah's overthrow necessary? Thank God for Acheampong. God bless him.

  • Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

    Some of you classroom educated political clowns in the NPP have no shame, no remorse, are unprincipled and cowardly hypocritical. What is it about you dimwits that make you not understand that evil is evil irrespective of whi ...
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  • Jojo 9 years ago

    OPAYIN ABEEKU MENSAH-

    PLEASE, DO YOU CLASSIFY THESE EMPTY HEADED PEOPLE AS CLASSROOM POLITICAL EDUCATED.

    DON'T GET ME ANGRY.THESE PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THE MERIT TO LEAD A NATION.

  • MINOR CASE 9 years ago

    Listen to a very naive old man with infantile brain talking about elections. Don't Zimbabweans hold elections,don't communist China's politburo hold elections,even North Korea holds elections of some sort. nkrumah was a very ...
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  • Egya Blay 9 years ago

    How can we develop as a nation if we still have ''political punks'' like this Agyepongin Ghana. No wonder Kuffour himself who once said in his speech during Ghana at 50 that ''I stand here in the image of Kwame Nkrumah'' kic ...
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  • Alfred 9 years ago

    Busia had vision .this guy know the Nigerians ,if you allow this corrupt and arrogant people into your country you calling for trouble Ghana will soon become another boko haram country .this people do not value human all they ...
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  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    "“He was not one to trample on the rights of Ghanaians", Agyepong.

    Busia worked with Afrifa, head of the NLC regime, to disenfranchise Busia's political opponents so that Busia could run a campaign with hardly any challe ...
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  • Paul 9 years ago

    I am personally opposed to military interventions as a way of running a country and the evidence from all over the world proves that military takeovers rarely do work.

    However, Agyepong makes it sound as if Dr Busia's gov ...
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  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    “He was a man who was a visionary: I mean the things that he espoused have triumphed the world over – the values of democracy, the values of market forces, the values of individual liberties ….” Agyepong

    Agyepong, ...
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  • totti 9 years ago

    A useless talk

  • kpakpil 9 years ago

    why do we like wasting precious time just talking becos of these politicians. they are all the same they only muddy the waters, keep you talking and they go to loot. wise up ghanaians

  • kobby kay 9 years ago

    CIA agents to rule Ghana?? And you are making these nonsense noise, for Dr Nkrumah overthrown was necessary?? Foolish boy

  • Busia 9 years ago

    If there is one thing to praise Acheampong for - and there are a few - it is the overthrow of Busia. Forget this blind-ethnicity and be realistic, never mind patriotic - no one can find that near you.

  • Busia 9 years ago

    ... And while you are trying to be realistic, please try and stop the vain effort to match anybody (esp. your comprador forebears) to NKRUMAH. That's a name that shook, shakes and will always shake the world: history makes no ...
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  • Joseph Boadi-Boateng 9 years ago

    Busia was visionary and has proven to be the best leader in the history of Ghana. He was right for sending Nigerians who had by then monopolised the commerce sector home. If not, population of Nigerians in Ghana today would ...
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  • ONIPANUA 9 years ago

    And what happened to ghanaians in Nigeria as a result of Busia's foolishness?

  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    Busia' vision was not different from that of Akufo-Addo, visionless. If Busia is the best leader in Ghana's history, why do you hesitate to catolue his accomplishments compared to other Ghanaian heads of state?The reason why ...
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  • Kofi Asante 9 years ago

    Agyepong,you would say that,wouldn't you?Every single member of the UP tradition including you and Akufo-Addo, need psychiatric treatment.You lot do not appear to be at all balanced in anything you say or do.Your lot are alwa ...
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  • Sgt Ahmed Aadams 9 years ago

    This big headed man should give us a break. But his bloody forefathers led by abrefa busia and the father of the liliputian, Ghana would have become one of the best developed countries in the world. They misled kotoka and Afr ...
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  • Sgt Ahmed Aadams 9 years ago

    Correction" but for his forefathers led by abrefa busia and father of the liliputian, Ghana would have become"

  • CONTEMNOR 9 years ago

    Aliens compliance order was the best ever policy. OmoNaija must Go

  • Onipa ba 9 years ago

    Africans will continue to deal with these cheap and confused idiots, the likes of Agyepong and many more ill-informed politically power drunks, until the youth with more informed reformists rise up to them and change the equa ...
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  • Seidu Ali 9 years ago

    What about the Sala case "NO COURT NO COURT" Agyepong you were too young by then to understand. Stop the lies. Moran.

  • Prof. Rashid Agwedicham 9 years ago

    Dear NPP General Secretary, Agyepong; "If the overthrow of our late and past President Busia by Acheampong was totally unnecessary, how do you classify the architects of the Kulugungu bomb ( Busia and Danquah) who openly took ...
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  • Kwami- - US 9 years ago

    How old was Ken then when Acheampong overthrew Busia and what did he achieve as a Press Secretary under Prz Hotel Wawaa Kufuor? By overthrowing Nkrumah, Busia only paid for his political ambition and stupidity. Folks, Ken Agy ...
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  • Sgt Ahmed Aadams 9 years ago

    But for abrefa busia, Edward akuffo addo and their bloody team, Ghana did not know what was called coup d'état. Infact they recruited and counseled general kotoka and general Afrifa to take up arms and staged the bloodiest c ...
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  • safohene kwamina obeng 9 years ago

    Rotten history! Let us concentrate to move Ghana forward.

  • chief vandal 9 years ago

    am amazed at Kwabena and his NPP folks. They find all coups against the Nkrumaist traditions justified but when it is against the NPP then it is not necessary.
    Didn't they the NPP openly celebrate when JJ overthrew Limann ...
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  • chief vandal 9 years ago

    Busia a democrat? What a joke. Come again Kwabena. Is it not this Busia who participated in an election in which a whole section of the Ghanaian citizens, CPP members were not allowed to participate?
    Was it not this same Bus ...
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  • Kwame 9 years ago

    There was a democratic dispensation in Ghana on 24/2/1966 with a government voted through universal adult suffrage and a constitution in place. Busia the imperialist doll want the British to come back and continue with their ...
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  • Lt Horn Blower 9 years ago

    STOP crying over spilt milk and action somthing for future generation to build on.Mr Agyepong wether the coup was necessary or not, it has taken place so what your problem? I suggest you do something for the people to see and ...
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  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    Your UP/PP/Npp party ochestrated the first coup in Ghana after years of sabotage and bomb-throwing. Do you view that coup as being necessary?