J.B Danquah was no ‘coup plotter’ – Grandson

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Ben 9 years ago

NKRUMAH WAS JUST WICKED.

NKRUMAH WAS JUST WICKED.
BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

Who the hell is the so called grandSon? Your grandpa is nobody but a filthy BinDanquah terrorist. Go away with your foolishness, we won't allow you to rewrite any History over there! . Can't you see Nana Akanfuo Binaddo is a ...
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Who the hell is the so called grandSon? Your grandpa is nobody but a filthy BinDanquah terrorist. Go away with your foolishness, we won't allow you to rewrite any History over there! . Can't you see Nana Akanfuo Binaddo is also trailing on the same paths? Silly boy like you.
Che 9 years ago

Who said Danquah was a CIA agent and instrumental in the overthrow of Nkrumah? THE CIA REPORT.

It was not a secret that he hated Nkrumah and wanted his overthrow. His faction harrassed Nkrumah and terrorized the country wi ...
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Who said Danquah was a CIA agent and instrumental in the overthrow of Nkrumah? THE CIA REPORT.

It was not a secret that he hated Nkrumah and wanted his overthrow. His faction harrassed Nkrumah and terrorized the country with bomb and assasination attempts right from 1951 when Nkrumah left their group. The first coup against Nkrumah was in 1958 around a year after independence and led by the Danquah faction. The CIA report after the 1966 coup named Danquah as a coconsipirator and theh brain behind it. You are entitled to your own opinion but not the facts. DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST.
HANS 9 years ago

JB DANQUAH WAS EXPOSED BY AMERICA CIA AS BEING ON THEIR PAYROLL. HE WAS THE BRAIN BEHIND THE THE FIRST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON NKRUMAHI IN AUGUST 1958 CULMINATING IN HIS DETENTION AT NSAWAM PRISON. JB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST ...
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JB DANQUAH WAS EXPOSED BY AMERICA CIA AS BEING ON THEIR PAYROLL. HE WAS THE BRAIN BEHIND THE THE FIRST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON NKRUMAHI IN AUGUST 1958 CULMINATING IN HIS DETENTION AT NSAWAM PRISON. JB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERPETUAL SHAME.
Nee Adjei-Blebo 9 years ago

You have deviated the issue of JB Danquah in prison under that notorious Preventive Act which offered no room for open court trial, Sir. What should have revealed the truth of his concocted offence was to have taken him to c ...
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You have deviated the issue of JB Danquah in prison under that notorious Preventive Act which offered no room for open court trial, Sir. What should have revealed the truth of his concocted offence was to have taken him to court and details of his crime read to him and Danquah given the opportunity to rebutt the charge. Nothing like that happened because Nkrunah knew that his fabricated charge against Danquah would never stand in court
Captain Canada 9 years ago

for Guantanamo.Even the bastions of so called democracy detain those that threaten the state without trial. Without Danquah and his terrorists, they wouldn't have been PDA. By the way is it was such a bad thing why did Busia ...
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for Guantanamo.Even the bastions of so called democracy detain those that threaten the state without trial. Without Danquah and his terrorists, they wouldn't have been PDA. By the way is it was such a bad thing why did Busia the follower of danquah institute his own version? No Nkrumah was decent and didn't want to do to Danquah want Danquah wanted to do to Nkrumah. Which is to kill him. So he gave him a timeout.
Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

I do struggle to comprehend how some people try to re-write history without proper analysis.

For instance, some Ghanaians have been fed with propaganda to believe that our Gallant, Dr. J.B. Danquah was a CIA Agent. How can ...
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I do struggle to comprehend how some people try to re-write history without proper analysis.

For instance, some Ghanaians have been fed with propaganda to believe that our Gallant, Dr. J.B. Danquah was a CIA Agent. How can that be true when the then Gold Coast that was ruled by the British was at the same time open to the West and the rest of the world??

Was there anything in the country that the Brits would prevent the CIA from knowing?? Then again, what actually was so important in the then Gold Coast or Ghana in it's infancy that the Americans with their sophisticated Security and Intelligentsia couldn't access from Ghana??

The late Dictator Kwame Nkrumah, was a man who believed in perhaps "Freedom" but NOT JUSTICE as enshrined in our National Crest. Otherwise how could you deliver so called Freedom without the Justice that goes with it.

If the late Dictator did actually believe in JUSTICE, the Preventive Detention Without Trial wasn't necessary.

This was a DICTATOR that instilled FEAR in the people, to the extent that one couldn't even MENTION HIS NAME WITHOUT LOOKING OVER HIS/HER SHOULDERS for fear of getting arrested or being reported upon by his Young Pioneer Group or Individuals

Furthermore, so much had been said about so called "Terrorists" who had targeted the DICTATOR to see him killed. Much as this could be a FACT, no one was ever able to arrest or point to any Opposition Member at the time of being responsible, other than the DICTATOR'S own Party Members, such as Tawiah Adamafio, Ako Adjei, Kofi Crabbe, Malam Mahama Tule, Obetsebi Lamptey and others.

The late Dr. J.B.Danquah was unnecessarily incarcerated without TRIAL on some trumped up charges without the GENTLEMAN BEING GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEND HIMSELF.

SO WHO ACTUALLY IS THE TRUE CULPRIT???

Best Regards,

Francis C. Quainoo
Western Australia
Kwame 9 years ago

Mr. Francis C. Quainoo it is a fact that though the U.S. is in NATO with her but she still spies on them and even listen to the telephone calls between presidents and prime ministers of that military organization. Thus what y ...
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Mr. Francis C. Quainoo it is a fact that though the U.S. is in NATO with her but she still spies on them and even listen to the telephone calls between presidents and prime ministers of that military organization. Thus what you wrote here is unintelligent and unintellectual.
Atebubu 9 years ago

Don't attempt to re-write history here. On the grand scheme of things Danquah was only mentioned in history because he there....an also run

Don't attempt to re-write history here. On the grand scheme of things Danquah was only mentioned in history because he there....an also run
ROSE 9 years ago

How can you hate somebody you helped to come back home? You Che just put yourself in the shoes of people who helped others to find green pastures abroad and then when they get here turn against those who helped them,is that f ...
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How can you hate somebody you helped to come back home? You Che just put yourself in the shoes of people who helped others to find green pastures abroad and then when they get here turn against those who helped them,is that fair ? You just don't judge on one side.One good turn deserves another,if anything at all Nkrumah should have reasoned that these people brought him back home with good intentions and they didn't deserve the treatment he gave them.That was ungratefulness on the part of Nkrumah. Do you think it was fair for Asiedu Nketiah who Rawlings helped to come down from his village to Accra to be the general secretary of the ndc to turn against Rawlings with his main aim of getting the part from the Rawlings family? Look Che !! It is better to refuse a good will than to be ungrateful.Dr Nkrumah never had a peaceful death ,he went through real pain of prostate cancer but Danquah never had any pain.Good is better than evil. The way man dies determines his works on earth even the whites believe in that.
OKOROMANSA 9 years ago

NKRUMAH WAS A NOTORIOUS DICTATOR, VERY ARROGANT, VERY WICKED AND TOO POST CONSCIOUS. WHY SHOULD HE IMPLEMENT THE PREVENTIVE DETENTION ACT, THE ONE-PARTY STATE AND ALL ITS OBNOXIIOUS SLOGANS?

NKRUMAH WAS A NOTORIOUS DICTATOR, VERY ARROGANT, VERY WICKED AND TOO POST CONSCIOUS. WHY SHOULD HE IMPLEMENT THE PREVENTIVE DETENTION ACT, THE ONE-PARTY STATE AND ALL ITS OBNOXIIOUS SLOGANS?
ROSE 9 years ago

How can you hate somebody you helped to come back home? You Che just put yourself in the shoes of people who helped others to find green pastures abroad and then when they get here turn against those who helped them,is that f ...
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How can you hate somebody you helped to come back home? You Che just put yourself in the shoes of people who helped others to find green pastures abroad and then when they get here turn against those who helped them,is that fair ? You just don't judge on one side.One good turn deserves another,if anything at all Nkrumah should have reasoned that these people brought him back home with good intentions and they didn't deserve the treatment he gave them.That was ungratefulness on the part of Nkrumah. Do you think it was fair for Asiedu Nketiah who Rawlings helped to come down from his village to Accra to be the general secretary of the ndc to turn against Rawlings with his main aim of getting the part from the Rawlings family? Look Che !! It is better to refuse a good will than to be ungrateful.Dr Nkrumah never had a peaceful death ,he went through real pain of prostate cancer but Danquah never had any pain.Good is better than evil. The way man dies determines his works on earth even the whites believe in that.
TOGBE GANYO 9 years ago

J. B. DANQUAH IS A TRAITOR, AND TERRORIST.PEOPLE ARE JUST JUMPING INTO THIS CASE WITH WHAT THEY WANT PEOPLE ON THEIR SIDE TO HEAR. THE REAL STORY YOU WILL NOT KNOW NOW BECAUSE OF POLITICS. J. B. DANQUAH IS A TRAITOR AND TERR ...
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J. B. DANQUAH IS A TRAITOR, AND TERRORIST.PEOPLE ARE JUST JUMPING INTO THIS CASE WITH WHAT THEY WANT PEOPLE ON THEIR SIDE TO HEAR. THE REAL STORY YOU WILL NOT KNOW NOW BECAUSE OF POLITICS. J. B. DANQUAH IS A TRAITOR AND TERRORIST.
Akans Prophecies 9 years ago

Are you people mad ? Or it is just a pleasure to implicate others on communual propoganga to satisfy your egos. Rawlings and his NDC have use this type of propoganda to win votes to maintain their corrupt gouvernment on you. ...
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Are you people mad ? Or it is just a pleasure to implicate others on communual propoganga to satisfy your egos. Rawlings and his NDC have use this type of propoganda to win votes to maintain their corrupt gouvernment on you. How do a man , who had no trial, become coupable of a crime?You labelled him as a terrorist, do you have any proof? No ! Unless you are a tribal idiot with no understanding on political issues ready to uses every hearsay propoganda to demonstrate your arch hatred for the other. You write nonsense to gamble your personnal hate! Idiot ! How could your write such a garbage on a Stateman who sacrificed all his life , education ,Knowledge to the service for the independence of our nation ? You are shameful and must apologise or be cursed for your capital lies without proof! Mandigo Idiot !
Eddie, Maryland. 9 years ago

You are not Ashanti so stop trying to create this stupid Akyem hatred and enemity with Ashantis.

You are not Ashanti so stop trying to create this stupid Akyem hatred and enemity with Ashantis.
Ibn Batuta 9 years ago

JB Danquah loved his country and all he wished for was to serve it. Nkrumah also loved his country but a had a different vision for his country. They are all patriots and we must honour them all.

JB Danquah loved his country and all he wished for was to serve it. Nkrumah also loved his country but a had a different vision for his country. They are all patriots and we must honour them all.
Read 9 years ago

JB Traitor Wanker loved Gold Coast but not Independent Ghana.He did his utmost to destroy it.Why? because he taught it was his God given right to rule it.

JB Traitor Wanker loved Gold Coast but not Independent Ghana.He did his utmost to destroy it.Why? because he taught it was his God given right to rule it.
Mr. Never 9 years ago

Thank you Ibn Batuta you said it well.
If the grandson is still unclear he should consult the daily graphic or Ghanaian times

Thank you Ibn Batuta you said it well.
If the grandson is still unclear he should consult the daily graphic or Ghanaian times
DR EVER--. 9 years ago

YOU ARE VERY STUPID AND A LIAR,DON´T YOU KNOW BY THEN NKRUMAH WAS CONTROLING ALL THE NEWS PAPERS.THAT STUPID DICTATOR WOULD NOT HAVE A PLACE IN OUR MODERN GHANA.

YOU ARE VERY STUPID AND A LIAR,DON´T YOU KNOW BY THEN NKRUMAH WAS CONTROLING ALL THE NEWS PAPERS.THAT STUPID DICTATOR WOULD NOT HAVE A PLACE IN OUR MODERN GHANA.
Eddie, Maryland. 9 years ago

Nkrumah was a real dictator. If he was in power today, all members of the opposition will be in prison, in exile or killed.

Nkrumah was a real dictator. If he was in power today, all members of the opposition will be in prison, in exile or killed.
Augusco Boy 9 years ago

Let's try not to rewrite history! Facts are facts ... and luckily there is nothing the Akyem clan can do to erase what the facts were during the 1960s. JB Danquah was a TERRORIST, simple and short!

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Let's try not to rewrite history! Facts are facts ... and luckily there is nothing the Akyem clan can do to erase what the facts were during the 1960s. JB Danquah was a TERRORIST, simple and short!

If you don't like history, then too bad! You don't get to rewrite history after the fact! Kwame Nkrumah had his problems but it was mostly in reaction to what JB Danquah and his gang were trying to do.
Fo Koku - Tanyingbe 9 years ago

ASK GABBY. HE KNOWS A LOT ABOUT IT. HE WAS BEING PAID BY THE AMERRICAN CIA EVEN IN WHILST IN PRISON

ASK GABBY. HE KNOWS A LOT ABOUT IT. HE WAS BEING PAID BY THE AMERRICAN CIA EVEN IN WHILST IN PRISON
ROSE 9 years ago

So were Kotoka,Doku,Selormey and those nyebro terrorists who overthrew Nkrumah.

So were Kotoka,Doku,Selormey and those nyebro terrorists who overthrew Nkrumah.
Kofi Busia 9 years ago

Those days the terrorist wasn't known.
The appropriate word should have been unpatriotic.
Nkrumah, hated the opposition.
Kwame kasa preko, that stupid stuff.
Nkrumah tortured his own people.
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Those days the terrorist wasn't known.
The appropriate word should have been unpatriotic.
Nkrumah, hated the opposition.
Kwame kasa preko, that stupid stuff.
Nkrumah tortured his own people.
This has been the mantra of the pndc/ndc government.
justice 9 years ago

He was a traitor.Traitors don't live long.

He was a traitor.Traitors don't live long.
nana 9 years ago

buh he died at age 70, just pray for long Lyf instead of judging a man hu serve his country with honesty

buh he died at age 70, just pray for long Lyf instead of judging a man hu serve his country with honesty
hoi 9 years ago

The independence delayed because of cpp and nkrumah

The independence delayed because of cpp and nkrumah
alhassan 9 years ago

The first akyem mafia who sow the seed of mafia in the history of this country...may he die and die again

The first akyem mafia who sow the seed of mafia in the history of this country...may he die and die again
Kwame 9 years ago

JB Danquah was truly a coup plotter.
We all know of this and stop distorting the history of Ghana as Prof. Adu Boahen determined to do.

JB Danquah was truly a coup plotter.
We all know of this and stop distorting the history of Ghana as Prof. Adu Boahen determined to do.
Frank Aagyeman Prempeh 9 years ago

This is the thing, a lot Ghanaians knows the propaganda behind all these things, but who believes that some one in jail plotted coup against the sitting president also is fine.

This is the thing, a lot Ghanaians knows the propaganda behind all these things, but who believes that some one in jail plotted coup against the sitting president also is fine.
kash 9 years ago

He was never a patriot but very bitter person, they always think they owned this country of ours, JB Danquah to now Akufo Addo all nation wreckers

He was never a patriot but very bitter person, they always think they owned this country of ours, JB Danquah to now Akufo Addo all nation wreckers
JFK 9 years ago

CIA operative to boot

CIA operative to boot
Tibaa 9 years ago

JB Danquah might be a brilliant man, but for the sake of his own ambitions, he sold his conscience for a mess of imperialist porridge for agreeing to work on behalf of foreign agents to undermine a Ghanaian patriot, Dr Nkruma ...
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JB Danquah might be a brilliant man, but for the sake of his own ambitions, he sold his conscience for a mess of imperialist porridge for agreeing to work on behalf of foreign agents to undermine a Ghanaian patriot, Dr Nkrumah because of the latter's socialistic pretensions. We know it and no amount of revisionist history will undermine such a "dark" spot in our struggle for independence, which to me, has become useless due to the latter-day politicians who have become greedy as hell, but with miniaturized thinking caps.
AKYEM MAN 9 years ago

Please ; Mr Danquah Adu you are simply a grandson of JB Danquah and it falls to reason that you may have the good side of what your grandfather attempted to pursue ; what you should understand is that politics be it in the 19 ...
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Please ; Mr Danquah Adu you are simply a grandson of JB Danquah and it falls to reason that you may have the good side of what your grandfather attempted to pursue ; what you should understand is that politics be it in the 1920's -2015 has been the same ; a very dirty game and this idea that JB Danquah loved his country so much he wanted to serve it by hook or crook is simply not true because like most politicians past and present ; they all the same ; greedy; arrogant ; selfish and thieves with BIG EGOS; DR JB Danquah was no different; the man wanted power not to promote democracy but to steal and manipulate power ; what would have happened if JB Danquah had the same political power ; everybody knows whilst your grandfather was playing this innocent democratic pundit/lawyer he was plotting and working with the CIA and the M15 as a double agent ; this are facts and what your grandfather dod not know was that he was be tailed by the secret agent from the Rublican guards at the flagstaff house and Russian and Chinesse secret agents who reported every move of JB Danquah to Nkrumah the result was the death of your grand father who on the pay role of the CIA ; PLEASE STOP THESE ATTEMPTS TO WHITE JB DANQUAH : HE WAS JUST ONE OF THE INITIATORS OF INDEPENDENCE BESIDES IF JHE WAS GOOD WHY DID HE NOT WIN ANY ELECTIONS IN GHANA
Nana 9 years ago

Am sad cos of pple like u. U are just jealous of Danquah cos what he did and the fact that he was the man.

Am sad cos of pple like u. U are just jealous of Danquah cos what he did and the fact that he was the man.
Bawa Fuseni 9 years ago

If Jb Dankwah is alive, he 'll either be the Boko haram leader or al shabab leader

If Jb Dankwah is alive, he 'll either be the Boko haram leader or al shabab leader
Agya Yaw 9 years ago

National security my foot Mahama is talking about boko haram where by you don't have the resources to fight them is it not the security of the nation he is putting at risk and you are talking about national prison shame unto ...
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National security my foot Mahama is talking about boko haram where by you don't have the resources to fight them is it not the security of the nation he is putting at risk and you are talking about national prison shame unto that stupid minister and the NDC fucking government now everything about Ghana is politics they should bow their heads in shambles and fix what is going on at the presidency a kronfoo
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

There are those of us who lived through the times and it is about time you, Danquah-Adu and all the other deniers stopped trying to make a saint out of the unreachable of the era.

Yes your grandpa was a terrorist should in ...
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There are those of us who lived through the times and it is about time you, Danquah-Adu and all the other deniers stopped trying to make a saint out of the unreachable of the era.

Yes your grandpa was a terrorist should in case you and others have a hard time coming to grips with history. Any act that terrorizes another person or communities even if under the cover of a freedom fighter is a terrorist act. In all civil societies of the world, there is societal law and order. Yes in Ghana agitators, like your grandpa, seem to cowardly absolve themselves of any responsibilities even as they preached hate and incited people of their ideological slant to use any means to make life ungovernable in Ghana under Nkrumah.

Anyone of the NPP and or NDC stripe who talks of or about democratic values and cannot appreciate use of the ballot box to remove or replace leaders of government does not deserve to talk and or seek sympathy. If Nkrumah persuaded a bunch of Ghanaians to place him at the Prime Minister slot then the Danquah-Busia ideologues could have done same if they had the intellect and or charisma.
KKO 9 years ago

What an idiotic low life!

What an idiotic low life!
NENE ANORKWEI 9 years ago

MAY BE YOU WOULD GET THE PARTS ON YOUR BACK BY GABBY, NANA AKUFO-ADDO, OSEI KYE-MENSAH, JAKE OBETSEBI LAMPTEY, IC QUAYE, OKYEHENE MOTIA AND CO BUT BOYE, YOUR GRANFATHER WAS A CIA INFORMANT, A TRAITOR, A NATION WRECKER, A MURD ...
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MAY BE YOU WOULD GET THE PARTS ON YOUR BACK BY GABBY, NANA AKUFO-ADDO, OSEI KYE-MENSAH, JAKE OBETSEBI LAMPTEY, IC QUAYE, OKYEHENE MOTIA AND CO BUT BOYE, YOUR GRANFATHER WAS A CIA INFORMANT, A TRAITOR, A NATION WRECKER, A MURDERER(ODIKRO NANA AKEA MENSAH), AN IMPOSTER( IT WAS PAA GRANT WHO FORMED UGCC NOT JB!)AND A POLITICAL FAILURE. YOU ARE A GROWN UP NOW SO USE YOUR LITTLE INTELLIGENCE AND SIMPLE LOGIC TO ANALYSE WHAT YOUR PEOPLE HAVE SO FAR TOLD YOU. OTHERWISE, YOU'LL STILL BELIEVE THE EARTH IS FLAT OR ROUND AND THAT CHRISTOPHER COLOMBOS DISCOVERED THE WEST INDIES AND AUSTRALIA WERE EVEN THOUGH THE LAND WAS INHABITED BY THE PEOLE LONG BEFORE MANKIND. SMALL BOYS THINK SMALL>
nana asiedu 9 years ago

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nana asiedu 9 years ago

Am sorry..
I cannot fight for the dead...

Am sorry..
I cannot fight for the dead...
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

When the USA CIA declassified much of the recorded information of the Organization's activities in Ghana leading to the overthrow of the Nkrumah regime, it revealed lots of data that only deepened the suspicion of J. B. Danqu ...
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When the USA CIA declassified much of the recorded information of the Organization's activities in Ghana leading to the overthrow of the Nkrumah regime, it revealed lots of data that only deepened the suspicion of J. B. Danquah being an American stooge and CIA Agent for Nkrumah's destruction.

The most significant parts of the released reports which could have settled the argument were all redacted. That obscured the specifics that might have nailed all who the Agency employed, collaborated with, and depended on for Nkrumah's overthrow.

So, maybe the honorable grandson of J. B. Danquah's must passionately appeal to the CIA to release the full, unadulterated version of those reports to clear his grandfather's name.

One section of those reports that still remains a most direct link between the CIA and Danquah is where the report revealed the American Embassy financially supported the Danquah family when he was incarcerated.

Various explanations have been given for that little revelation. But none has convinced those interested in finding out the truth.

However, at this point in our History, we must all try harder to forgive the errors of our past political leaders on both sides of the aisle and concentrate on finding their best contributions to build upon or use as a guide to better governance and economic and social advancement.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Che 9 years ago

Berko,
We have long forgiven and forgotten except that this bunch of NPP liars keep annoying us with distorted facts to whitewash their unpatriotic history. Some of us have now become symphathizers of NPP but anytime another ...
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Berko,
We have long forgiven and forgotten except that this bunch of NPP liars keep annoying us with distorted facts to whitewash their unpatriotic history. Some of us have now become symphathizers of NPP but anytime another election is coming,they treat us as if we are all fools by their campaign of mis/disinformation.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

It is only those who registered unfavourable history try rewrite history all over again. Now, think about that. Any wonder Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe keeps trying his luck to re-writing our history? Well, your guess is as good as m ...
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It is only those who registered unfavourable history try rewrite history all over again. Now, think about that. Any wonder Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe keeps trying his luck to re-writing our history? Well, your guess is as good as mine.
Haruna 9 years ago

I am surprise Nana is talking this way I wonder which history book he was making reference from. Is grandson saying as a boy he chronicled all events at the time in his diary having the unique history. and to my fellow Ghana ...
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I am surprise Nana is talking this way I wonder which history book he was making reference from. Is grandson saying as a boy he chronicled all events at the time in his diary having the unique history. and to my fellow Ghanaians please you can always make your point without insulting one another. We should remember everyone is entitled to his opinion.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

G.K Berko,

How are you?

It is not the American Embassy that gave money to Danquah (instead it was his wife who received the money on his behalf, while he was in prison, given what the American Ambassador William Mahon ...
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G.K Berko,

How are you?

It is not the American Embassy that gave money to Danquah (instead it was his wife who received the money on his behalf, while he was in prison, given what the American Ambassador William Mahoney had to say).

In fact it was the CIA that is associated with the money given to Danquah via his wife. IT IS ASLO WRONG TO SEE IT AS FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

THE CIA IS NOT KNOWN TO GIVE OUT MONEY TO SUPPORT FAMILIES THAT ARE NOT WORKING ON ITS BEHALF OR IN ITS INTEREST. THE CIA IS NOT A CHARITY ORGANIZATION, I MIGHT ADD. WHY DID THE CIA NOT GIVE THAT MONEY TO AKO ADJIE OR CRABBE OR ADAMAFIO WHEN THEY ALL WENT TO PRISON.

Why did Danquah go to complain to complain in the American Embassy why money was no longer coming to him after Nkrumah had pardoned him? And why was the American Ambassador (William Mahoney) not aware of this secret arrangement of the CIA with Danquah, to the extend where he (William Mahoney) had to involve John F. Kennedy and the CIA boss in the matter?

Richard D. Mahoney, the son of the American Ambassador at the time in Ghana, said it was the CIA, NOT THE AMERICAN EMBABSSY, that gave money to Danquah's wife. And we now know why the CIA was paying him, not to take care of Danquah's large familimy but for something more sinister. You might want to read Richard's book "JFK: ORDEAL IN AFRICA."

Gabby Ochere has been trying to change the exact wording of Richard Mahoney's book where he indicts Danquah (and his dealing with the CIA), until criticism of him compelled him (Gabby) to retract and pull the article from the website of the Danquah Institute. NO DOUBT DANQUAH WAS AN IMPRTANT ASSET TO THE CIA.

IN THE END THE SELECTIVE REDACTIONS OF THE DECLASSIFIED RECORDS NOTHWITHASTANDING, RICHARD D. MAHONEY AND HIS FATTHER WILLIAM P. MAHONEY HAVE GIVEN US VALUABLE INFORMATION CONFIRMING DANQUAH'S DEALINGS WITH THE CIA. WE DON'T NEED MORE THAN THIS.

Thanks.

Please read this:

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Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday's Newsfile, a live radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., who has been sacked from the Danquah Institute as a member of its Governing Body, has every right to get at the Executive Director, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko and to describe his insults as being a "rather startlingly infantile reaction", even though he agrees with him! See: "Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It", Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011.

In his article titled, "Danquah was a Great Patriot, The Lie about being a CIA Agent must Stop!", Ochere-Darko's attempt to set the records straight, rather set out to bend the records. He would surreptitiously replace the CIA with the American Embassy as the source of the stipends, in order to argue later that Danquah had nothing to do with the CIA!:

In any case, all we need to satisfy ourselves here is whether or not the CIA was investing in Danquah with his consent. That is what makes one an asset or agent. We all know that the CIA is not a Father Christmas. There is always a quid pro quo in their expenditures. If the CIA is giving money to your wife without your knowledge, that could be a different thing. It is quite another issue, if one feels so entitled to the cash as to go and complain after it had ceased!

Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? Why is it that the Danquah Institute's narrative of these events conspicuously omit the mention of the CIA, preferring to mislead the reader that:

"Dr Danquah’s family,... allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador"?

Is this what is written in the book? Did Richard Mahoney write that Danquah's family was being paid by the CIA or "the American Embassy"? Is the Danquah Institute so ashamed to admit the fact that it was the CIA that was paying the stipends and not "the American Embassy" as they would want us to believe?

A very strange thing is happening. Just before writing this, I visited the site of Danquah Institute to check the link to the quote above, in which they attempted to rewrite Richard Mahoney's book by replacing the "CIA" with "the US Embassy". Strangely enough, they have done an IMANI! The article has been withdrawn, but the title is still there: "Was J.B. Danquah A CIA Agent? All You Need To Know".

Fortunately, the story has been shared on several websites, that is why I was able to retrieve it! The hard facts in the book written by Professor Richard D. Mahoney do not explain why Danquah was expecting the CIA to continue to pay him. But the inference that Danquah must be seen as a CIA asset, after so much investments in him is certainly not as stupid as Ochere-Darko arrogantly and insultingly begs the question with.

The fact that it was the CIA and not "the American Embassy" which was paying the stipends is very clear in the book. What is also clear is the fact that Danquah was aware of this arrangement and liked it so much as to complain when it stopped! What made him feel so entitled to it, if Danquah did not consider himself as an agent?

The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)

It is very interesting that after a storm of criticisms of the ridiculous nature of this propaganda, Ochere-Darko had to reluctantly correct the anomaly of avoiding the embarrassing fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” that was paying Danquah. I have noticed that in his more recent submissions he concedes the fact that indeed, it was the CIA and not the US Embassy that was paying the stipends to J.B. Danquah's family:

"I have had the opportunity to read the book by Richard Mahoney, whose father was US ambassador to Ghana between 1952-65, and nowhere in that book is Danquah described as a CIA agent. In fact, the younger Mahoney, who was not older than 10 years at the material time, refers to some financial support, stipends, that were allegedly offered to Danquah’s wife and 13 dependent children by an official at the embassy, who was the CIA local agent, when Danquah was first imprisoned by Nkrumah for 11 months between February 1961 and January 1962, without the prior knowledge of his father.”

The CIA does not go about pointing out who their agents are. Thus when there is a fortuitous and concrete proof of such payments, Ghanaians have every right to interrogate it! Is Mr. Ochere-Darko also interrogating the age of the father who must have passed on the information to his son? The issue is certainly not about the age of Richard Mahoney, nor at what time his father became the US Ambassador to Ghana. The issue is whether or not the CIA was paying stipends to Danquah's wife with his knowledge and approval? And the answer is clear!

What is even more interesting about this is the fact that Ochere-Darko behaves as if he was learning about the dubious past of Dr. J. B. Danquah for the first time! That was certainly not the first time that he was reacting to those allegations that wont go away because they are from very credible sources. On Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13, Ochere-Darko published an article on the website of the Danquah Institute, in which he attempted to debunk what he called "smear campaign that Joseph Boakye Danquah, the ‘doyen of Ghana’ and co-founder of Ghana’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), was a CIA spy."

"WHAT STARTED THE LIE? Opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition in Ghana have in the last decade or so seized with glee and relish on a dubious information that came out of the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”. This book, written by Richard Mahoney, son of the late William Mahoney, US Ambassador to Ghana (1962-65), in a paragraph mentions that Dr Danquah’s family, which at the time included 13 dependent children, allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador."

Who could have done this in the American Embassy without the knowledge of the American Ambassador, if it was not the CIA? Ochere-Darko's attempt to edit or re-write a book in print which is still out there is a very daring act of stupidity, to borrow his own word!

Ochere-Darko deliberately chips in the number of Danquah's dependants to give the impression that the CIA is a charity organisation! The mention of Mr. Richard Mahoney's age of ten at the time of the incident, is also a deliberate ploy to give the impression of unreliability of the source. Ochere-Darko actually argues that “The reliability of the information in the younger Mahoney's has certainly been interrogated. Since the author was at the material time barely 10 years old, we must assume that the information came to him much later from his father. This is because no declassified CIA records of the period contain any such reference."

Richard Mahoney's book was published in 1983. He was 31 years old when it was published, not a child. Richard Mahoney was an accomplished scholar in his own rights at the time of publication. He lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador (Quito, Campus). He was also professor emeritus at The American Graduate School of International Management.

Wikipedia provides a short biography on Richard D. Mahoney which describes Mahoney as “the author of three books, two on the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers, The days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999) and Getting Away with Murder on the War in Afghanistan, as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk. He has also published a volume of poetry in Spanish entitled Pétalos (1995).”

Ochere-Darko must look for another argument other than the age of the historian! Is he going to ask archaeologists how old they were when the events they describe in their books occurred? No wonder he is left with nothing sensible to say other than “Would you stop this stupidity? Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity…you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? . ..this is pure stupidity." “When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don’t bring people like this. I am not going to apologise, I can apologise to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologise to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won’t do it!”

"Also, spies, informants or double agents usually have their handlers." Ochere-Darko argues pathetically, " Why didn't Danquah go to his 'handler' to complain but to the Ambassador who, as it turned out, knew nothing about the apparent arrangement? Or, are we not allowed to scrutinise the logicalities of claims made by so-called chroniclers of our history? Nowhere in that book or anywhere else, for that matter, has it been alleged that Danquah personally received money from any foreign power or agent."

Danquah was in prison for eleven months before Nkrumah pardoned him. How would anyone know whether or not his "handler had been tranfered from Ghana? How could we tell if the CIA had rightly considered him as a pent force and dumped him? From the reports that Mahoney was in touch with some soldiers and police officers, thus the CIA had recruited new players and actors on their behalf, so why would they be bothred with Danquah?

As Paul Lee writes in "Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow", "In a reversal of what some would assume were the traditional roles of an ambassador and the CIA director, McCone asked Mahoney who would most likely succeed Nkrumah in the event of a coup.

Mahoney again correctly forecast the future: Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, a military junta would take over." It comes out clearly that the CIA's attention had shifted to somewhere else, and unkown to Danquah, he was no longer in the picture.

The only reason provided by Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute for angrily branding *Dr Omane Boamah*, as being “stupid” is because Gabby sees Danquah as a “founding father of Ghana”! We shall have another occasion to go into that ridiculous claim. For now, it suffices just to ask the question whether it is that stupid to consider a man who is a known CIA asset as “a founding father” of any nation in Africa?

What someone ought to make clear to Gabby is the fact that we do not consider CIA assets as our founding fathers. Indeed, anyone qualified to be a founding father can be disqualified on the basis of being an agent for a foreign country. So you cannot argue that because Danquah is esteemed by others to be a founding father, it is wrong to accuse him of being a CIA agent. On the contrary, the reverse is true. Danquah cannot even be considered as a founding father because he was an asset of a foreign intelligence organisation.

For those of us who know a little bit of our history, the revelations by Professor Mahoney only comes to confirm what we knew already.

As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah rightly puts it, “Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.”

“The grounds for the first detention of Danquah was submitted to him in writing that: 'During the month of September 1961 YOU DID JOIN in a DESIGN for the subversion of the Government of Ghana PRESENTED to you at a meeting on the premises of Dr. J. B. Danquah in Accra, by ISMAILA ANNAN and ATTA BORDOH both now detained and you did ENCOURAGE this design and in furtherance of it DID ACT in a manner calculated to endanger the security of the State and to cause the overthrow of the Government of Ghana by unlawful means'” (see Danquah’s own Historic Speeches J. B. Danquah).

“Of course one should expect Danquah to craft his response like a defense attorney in order to accuse Nkrumah’s Government of unlawful detention without trial. Danquah’s claim was that the meeting was called in connection with the 1961 Takoradi Workers’ strike and the government’s budget. During this same strike, Komla Gbedemah, serving on the three-man presidential commission ruling the country, “saw his chance to seize power. Gbedemah had no problem in obtaining CIA backing for his conspiracy.” He “approached Ambassador Russell on September 6, 1961”and asked for US support; and “Washington gave an unequivocal yes.” Gbedemah and Busia went into exile together with the help of the CIA in October 1961 (see Mahoney, 1983 for details).

Now, given that Danquah, Busia, Obetsebi-Lamptey, R. R. Amponsah, Modesto Apaloo and the new comer Gbedemah were in one accord to overthrow Nkrumah’s government by violence, Danquah’s assurance given to the foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 and the meeting in his house in September 1961 cannot be seen as unrelated issues.”

Danquah who started his political carrier as a collaborator of the British colonial rule and a favourite, lost all the respect and support which the British transferred to Dr. Kofi Busia, must have become very useful to the CIA at that time. There were signs that he got on better with the Americans than with the British. It must be remembered that in 1954, just after losing the Parliamentary elections to his ex-wife, he took a trip, not to the UK but to the US.

The reason why the British develop a very low esteem of this individual was as a result of his deep involvement in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa. It might have also been the case on Danquah's part, who never forgave the British when the Privy Council, the final court of appeal, "sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until they died". It must be noted that the culprits were his own relatives, namely, Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng.

As to his motivations for being a spy, Mr. Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko has given too many reasons for this to labour the point here. Suffice it to say that the reason why this is important is because it has implications on the loyalties of those who claim to be followers of the Danquah tradition. For instance, in arguing that President Mills must allow the Americans to establish military bases in Ghana in the wake of of President Obama's visit to Ghana, Ochere-Darko quotes Nkrumah out of context to promote his evil Danquah-infested agenda.

One trick Ochere-Darko used which I have never forgiven was to make it look as though allowing our lands to be occupied by a foreign military power is a from of liberation! Here is what he wrote:

“Obama's chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.” Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.'s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this. - Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, " (Obama's Visit – What's In It For Us And U.S.?", Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009. "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)

“Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs"? Does that sound familiar? It is obviously a sacrilegious reference to the Independence Eve declaration by the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah:

“And as I pointed out, I made it quite clear that from now on, today, we must change our attitudes, our minds! We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial people but a free and independent people! But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work!

That new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs! We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation! Our own African identity!”

This is why we need to keep a close eye, not only on people like Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko but also the man he represents, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. This is why it is important not to trust the destiny of this nation in hands such as these! This is why it is important to expose these agents of imperialism who think that the only way "the black man can prove to the whole world that he is capable of managing his own affairs" is by allowing a foreign military occupation of our territories!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro,

Member, Pan-Africanist International -*a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! **(also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.)

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see 9 years ago

J.B. Danquah was nothing but tribalist just as the evil dwarf who has been championing the yen Akanfuo mantra as well as terrorist who was used by the CIA to bomb Nkrumah left, right and centre.

J.B. Danquah was nothing but tribalist just as the evil dwarf who has been championing the yen Akanfuo mantra as well as terrorist who was used by the CIA to bomb Nkrumah left, right and centre.
OneGhana 9 years ago

Go and check Wikileaks about your grandpa's activities in the young nation.

Go and check Wikileaks about your grandpa's activities in the young nation.
Ghanaba 9 years ago

Traitors!!!

Traitors!!!
Okyere Tkyeretwie 9 years ago

How much did you know? Danquah was plotting with Busia under the sponsorship of their master Houphouet Boigny of the Ivory Coast. All those grenades were smuggled into from Togo under Sylvanus Olympio and Ivory Coast under Ho ...
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How much did you know? Danquah was plotting with Busia under the sponsorship of their master Houphouet Boigny of the Ivory Coast. All those grenades were smuggled into from Togo under Sylvanus Olympio and Ivory Coast under Houphouet Boigny by way of the Brong Ahafo to kill innocent children. Danquah was not able to escape from Nkrumah's reaction to protect himself and the security of the state unlike Busia who was lucky enough to be smuggled to the Ivory Coast and later ended up in Britain. Danquah was undeniably an academician, but lacked the tools for critical thinking-his reason for bringing Nkrumah down to the Gold Coast Coast. Nkrumah was not wicked; his reaction was a necessary evil to save himself and the country. from the malicious and evil activities of
Busia, Danquah, and the UP.
Lt. Col. Obiri Yeboah(rtd) 9 years ago

It's important the akyems are told that they cannot rewrite history. We have dumsor and others because of the JB. And the economy is bad and worse because of the supreme court suit by their prodigy akuffo addo and others.

It's important the akyems are told that they cannot rewrite history. We have dumsor and others because of the JB. And the economy is bad and worse because of the supreme court suit by their prodigy akuffo addo and others.
Yaw 9 years ago

Dead man responsible for coup detat. Only stupid NDC propagandists can think that way. Anyway, RIP JB Danquah. We love U!!!!!!!

Dead man responsible for coup detat. Only stupid NDC propagandists can think that way. Anyway, RIP JB Danquah. We love U!!!!!!!
OLD YOUNG PIONEER 9 years ago

HE NEVER BUILT OR OWNED A HOME. HE RENTED A HOUSE ALL HIS LIFE. HE HAD 10 KIDS, AND HAD NO MONEY TO SUPPORT THEM. HE WAS VERY BITTER AND WANTED NKRUMAH KILLED. LIKE HIS FATHER WHO BETRAYED OKYENHENE AMOAKO ATTA, HE ALSO BET ...
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HE NEVER BUILT OR OWNED A HOME. HE RENTED A HOUSE ALL HIS LIFE. HE HAD 10 KIDS, AND HAD NO MONEY TO SUPPORT THEM. HE WAS VERY BITTER AND WANTED NKRUMAH KILLED. LIKE HIS FATHER WHO BETRAYED OKYENHENE AMOAKO ATTA, HE ALSO BETRAYED NKRUMAH FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER.
NOBODY 9 years ago

"It was a fabrication and propaganda that he was a CIA agent...he died in 1965 and was in prison in 1962, he was in prison in 64 and died in 65...Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966 and yet still people will say that he overthrew ...
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"It was a fabrication and propaganda that he was a CIA agent...he died in 1965 and was in prison in 1962, he was in prison in 64 and died in 65...Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966 and yet still people will say that he overthrew Nkrumah" Danquah-Adu

The fact that Danquah died in 1965 and Nkrumah was othrown in 1966 does not mean that danquah never plotted against Nkrumah. And with your family requesting to visit the prison where Danquah died, you know quite well that the request is one that no prison in any country would ever entertain.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

ko,

How are you?

It is not the American Embassy that gave money to Danquah (instead it was his wife who received the money on his behalf, while he was in prison, given what the American Ambassador William Mahoney had ...
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ko,

How are you?

It is not the American Embassy that gave money to Danquah (instead it was his wife who received the money on his behalf, while he was in prison, given what the American Ambassador William Mahoney had to say).

In fact it was the CIA that is associated with the money given to Danquah via his wife. IT IS ASLO WRONG TO SEE IT AS FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

THE CIA IS NOT KNOWN TO GIVE OUT MONEY TO SUPPORT FAMILIES THAT ARE NOT WORKING ON ITS BEHALF OR IN ITS INTEREST. THE CIA IS NOT A CHARITY ORGANIZATION, I MIGHT ADD. WHY DID THE CIA NOT GIVE THAT MONEY TO AKO ADJIE OR CRABBE OR ADAMAFIO WHEN THEY ALL WENT TO PRISON.

Why did Danquah go to complain to complain in the American Embassy why money was no longer coming to him after Nkrumah had pardoned him? And why was the American Ambassador (William Mahoney) not aware of this secret arrangement of the CIA with Danquah, to the extend where he (William Mahoney) had to involve John F. Kennedy and the CIA boss in the matter?

Richard D. Mahoney, the son of the American Ambassador at the time in Ghana, said it was the CIA, NOT THE AMERICAN EMBABSSY, that gave money to Danquah's wife. And we now know why the CIA was paying him, not to take care of Danquah's large familimy but for something more sinister. You might want to read Richard's book "JFK: ORDEAL IN AFRICA."

Gabby Ochere has been trying to change the exact wording of Richard Mahoney's book where he indicts Danquah (and his dealing with the CIA), until criticism of him compelled him (Gabby) to retract and pull the article from the website of the Danquah Institute. NO DOUBT DANQUAH WAS AN IMPRTANT ASSET TO THE CIA.

IN THE END THE SELECTIVE REDACTIONS OF THE DECLASSIFIED RECORDS NOTHWITHASTANDING, RICHARD D. MAHONEY AND HIS FATTHER WILLIAM P. MAHONEY HAVE GIVEN US VALUABLE INFORMATION CONFIRMING DANQUAH'S DEALINGS WITH THE CIA. WE DON'T NEED MORE THAN THIS.

Thanks.

Please read this:

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Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday's Newsfile, a live radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., who has been sacked from the Danquah Institute as a member of its Governing Body, has every right to get at the Executive Director, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko and to describe his insults as being a "rather startlingly infantile reaction", even though he agrees with him! See: "Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It", Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011.

In his article titled, "Danquah was a Great Patriot, The Lie about being a CIA Agent must Stop!", Ochere-Darko's attempt to set the records straight, rather set out to bend the records. He would surreptitiously replace the CIA with the American Embassy as the source of the stipends, in order to argue later that Danquah had nothing to do with the CIA!:

In any case, all we need to satisfy ourselves here is whether or not the CIA was investing in Danquah with his consent. That is what makes one an asset or agent. We all know that the CIA is not a Father Christmas. There is always a quid pro quo in their expenditures. If the CIA is giving money to your wife without your knowledge, that could be a different thing. It is quite another issue, if one feels so entitled to the cash as to go and complain after it had ceased!

Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? Why is it that the Danquah Institute's narrative of these events conspicuously omit the mention of the CIA, preferring to mislead the reader that:

"Dr Danquah’s family,... allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador"?

Is this what is written in the book? Did Richard Mahoney write that Danquah's family was being paid by the CIA or "the American Embassy"? Is the Danquah Institute so ashamed to admit the fact that it was the CIA that was paying the stipends and not "the American Embassy" as they would want us to believe?

A very strange thing is happening. Just before writing this, I visited the site of Danquah Institute to check the link to the quote above, in which they attempted to rewrite Richard Mahoney's book by replacing the "CIA" with "the US Embassy". Strangely enough, they have done an IMANI! The article has been withdrawn, but the title is still there: "Was J.B. Danquah A CIA Agent? All You Need To Know".

Fortunately, the story has been shared on several websites, that is why I was able to retrieve it! The hard facts in the book written by Professor Richard D. Mahoney do not explain why Danquah was expecting the CIA to continue to pay him. But the inference that Danquah must be seen as a CIA asset, after so much investments in him is certainly not as stupid as Ochere-Darko arrogantly and insultingly begs the question with.

The fact that it was the CIA and not "the American Embassy" which was paying the stipends is very clear in the book. What is also clear is the fact that Danquah was aware of this arrangement and liked it so much as to complain when it stopped! What made him feel so entitled to it, if Danquah did not consider himself as an agent?

The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)

It is very interesting that after a storm of criticisms of the ridiculous nature of this propaganda, Ochere-Darko had to reluctantly correct the anomaly of avoiding the embarrassing fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” that was paying Danquah. I have noticed that in his more recent submissions he concedes the fact that indeed, it was the CIA and not the US Embassy that was paying the stipends to J.B. Danquah's family:

"I have had the opportunity to read the book by Richard Mahoney, whose father was US ambassador to Ghana between 1952-65, and nowhere in that book is Danquah described as a CIA agent. In fact, the younger Mahoney, who was not older than 10 years at the material time, refers to some financial support, stipends, that were allegedly offered to Danquah’s wife and 13 dependent children by an official at the embassy, who was the CIA local agent, when Danquah was first imprisoned by Nkrumah for 11 months between February 1961 and January 1962, without the prior knowledge of his father.”

The CIA does not go about pointing out who their agents are. Thus when there is a fortuitous and concrete proof of such payments, Ghanaians have every right to interrogate it! Is Mr. Ochere-Darko also interrogating the age of the father who must have passed on the information to his son? The issue is certainly not about the age of Richard Mahoney, nor at what time his father became the US Ambassador to Ghana. The issue is whether or not the CIA was paying stipends to Danquah's wife with his knowledge and approval? And the answer is clear!

What is even more interesting about this is the fact that Ochere-Darko behaves as if he was learning about the dubious past of Dr. J. B. Danquah for the first time! That was certainly not the first time that he was reacting to those allegations that wont go away because they are from very credible sources. On Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13, Ochere-Darko published an article on the website of the Danquah Institute, in which he attempted to debunk what he called "smear campaign that Joseph Boakye Danquah, the ‘doyen of Ghana’ and co-founder of Ghana’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), was a CIA spy."

"WHAT STARTED THE LIE? Opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition in Ghana have in the last decade or so seized with glee and relish on a dubious information that came out of the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”. This book, written by Richard Mahoney, son of the late William Mahoney, US Ambassador to Ghana (1962-65), in a paragraph mentions that Dr Danquah’s family, which at the time included 13 dependent children, allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador."

Who could have done this in the American Embassy without the knowledge of the American Ambassador, if it was not the CIA? Ochere-Darko's attempt to edit or re-write a book in print which is still out there is a very daring act of stupidity, to borrow his own word!

Ochere-Darko deliberately chips in the number of Danquah's dependants to give the impression that the CIA is a charity organisation! The mention of Mr. Richard Mahoney's age of ten at the time of the incident, is also a deliberate ploy to give the impression of unreliability of the source. Ochere-Darko actually argues that “The reliability of the information in the younger Mahoney's has certainly been interrogated. Since the author was at the material time barely 10 years old, we must assume that the information came to him much later from his father. This is because no declassified CIA records of the period contain any such reference."

Richard Mahoney's book was published in 1983. He was 31 years old when it was published, not a child. Richard Mahoney was an accomplished scholar in his own rights at the time of publication. He lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador (Quito, Campus). He was also professor emeritus at The American Graduate School of International Management.

Wikipedia provides a short biography on Richard D. Mahoney which describes Mahoney as “the author of three books, two on the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers, The days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999) and Getting Away with Murder on the War in Afghanistan, as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk. He has also published a volume of poetry in Spanish entitled Pétalos (1995).”

Ochere-Darko must look for another argument other than the age of the historian! Is he going to ask archaeologists how old they were when the events they describe in their books occurred? No wonder he is left with nothing sensible to say other than “Would you stop this stupidity? Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity…you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? . ..this is pure stupidity." “When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don’t bring people like this. I am not going to apologise, I can apologise to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologise to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won’t do it!”

"Also, spies, informants or double agents usually have their handlers." Ochere-Darko argues pathetically, " Why didn't Danquah go to his 'handler' to complain but to the Ambassador who, as it turned out, knew nothing about the apparent arrangement? Or, are we not allowed to scrutinise the logicalities of claims made by so-called chroniclers of our history? Nowhere in that book or anywhere else, for that matter, has it been alleged that Danquah personally received money from any foreign power or agent."

Danquah was in prison for eleven months before Nkrumah pardoned him. How would anyone know whether or not his "handler had been tranfered from Ghana? How could we tell if the CIA had rightly considered him as a pent force and dumped him? From the reports that Mahoney was in touch with some soldiers and police officers, thus the CIA had recruited new players and actors on their behalf, so why would they be bothred with Danquah?

As Paul Lee writes in "Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow", "In a reversal of what some would assume were the traditional roles of an ambassador and the CIA director, McCone asked Mahoney who would most likely succeed Nkrumah in the event of a coup.

Mahoney again correctly forecast the future: Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, a military junta would take over." It comes out clearly that the CIA's attention had shifted to somewhere else, and unkown to Danquah, he was no longer in the picture.

The only reason provided by Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute for angrily branding *Dr Omane Boamah*, as being “stupid” is because Gabby sees Danquah as a “founding father of Ghana”! We shall have another occasion to go into that ridiculous claim. For now, it suffices just to ask the question whether it is that stupid to consider a man who is a known CIA asset as “a founding father” of any nation in Africa?

What someone ought to make clear to Gabby is the fact that we do not consider CIA assets as our founding fathers. Indeed, anyone qualified to be a founding father can be disqualified on the basis of being an agent for a foreign country. So you cannot argue that because Danquah is esteemed by others to be a founding father, it is wrong to accuse him of being a CIA agent. On the contrary, the reverse is true. Danquah cannot even be considered as a founding father because he was an asset of a foreign intelligence organisation.

For those of us who know a little bit of our history, the revelations by Professor Mahoney only comes to confirm what we knew already.

As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah rightly puts it, “Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.”

“The grounds for the first detention of Danquah was submitted to him in writing that: 'During the month of September 1961 YOU DID JOIN in a DESIGN for the subversion of the Government of Ghana PRESENTED to you at a meeting on the premises of Dr. J. B. Danquah in Accra, by ISMAILA ANNAN and ATTA BORDOH both now detained and you did ENCOURAGE this design and in furtherance of it DID ACT in a manner calculated to endanger the security of the State and to cause the overthrow of the Government of Ghana by unlawful means'” (see Danquah’s own Historic Speeches J. B. Danquah).

“Of course one should expect Danquah to craft his response like a defense attorney in order to accuse Nkrumah’s Government of unlawful detention without trial. Danquah’s claim was that the meeting was called in connection with the 1961 Takoradi Workers’ strike and the government’s budget. During this same strike, Komla Gbedemah, serving on the three-man presidential commission ruling the country, “saw his chance to seize power. Gbedemah had no problem in obtaining CIA backing for his conspiracy.” He “approached Ambassador Russell on September 6, 1961”and asked for US support; and “Washington gave an unequivocal yes.” Gbedemah and Busia went into exile together with the help of the CIA in October 1961 (see Mahoney, 1983 for details).

Now, given that Danquah, Busia, Obetsebi-Lamptey, R. R. Amponsah, Modesto Apaloo and the new comer Gbedemah were in one accord to overthrow Nkrumah’s government by violence, Danquah’s assurance given to the foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 and the meeting in his house in September 1961 cannot be seen as unrelated issues.”

Danquah who started his political carrier as a collaborator of the British colonial rule and a favourite, lost all the respect and support which the British transferred to Dr. Kofi Busia, must have become very useful to the CIA at that time. There were signs that he got on better with the Americans than with the British. It must be remembered that in 1954, just after losing the Parliamentary elections to his ex-wife, he took a trip, not to the UK but to the US.

The reason why the British develop a very low esteem of this individual was as a result of his deep involvement in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa. It might have also been the case on Danquah's part, who never forgave the British when the Privy Council, the final court of appeal, "sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until they died". It must be noted that the culprits were his own relatives, namely, Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng.

As to his motivations for being a spy, Mr. Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko has given too many reasons for this to labour the point here. Suffice it to say that the reason why this is important is because it has implications on the loyalties of those who claim to be followers of the Danquah tradition. For instance, in arguing that President Mills must allow the Americans to establish military bases in Ghana in the wake of of President Obama's visit to Ghana, Ochere-Darko quotes Nkrumah out of context to promote his evil Danquah-infested agenda.

One trick Ochere-Darko used which I have never forgiven was to make it look as though allowing our lands to be occupied by a foreign military power is a from of liberation! Here is what he wrote:

“Obama's chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.” Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.'s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this. - Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, " (Obama's Visit – What's In It For Us And U.S.?", Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009. "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)

“Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs"? Does that sound familiar? It is obviously a sacrilegious reference to the Independence Eve declaration by the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah:

“And as I pointed out, I made it quite clear that from now on, today, we must change our attitudes, our minds! We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial people but a free and independent people! But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work!

That new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs! We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation! Our own African identity!”

This is why we need to keep a close eye, not only on people like Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko but also the man he represents, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. This is why it is important not to trust the destiny of this nation in hands such as these! This is why it is important to expose these agents of imperialism who think that the only way "the black man can prove to the whole world that he is capable of managing his own affairs" is by allowing a foreign military occupation of our territories!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro,

Member, Pan-Africanist International -*a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! **(also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.)

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Bush Doctor I 9 years ago

"THE STORY IN THE BOOK" JFK: Ordeal in Africa. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah's collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 19 ...
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"THE STORY IN THE BOOK" JFK: Ordeal in Africa. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah's collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency's association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)
gbolas 9 years ago

Npp work to come to power,and this j b nonsense,why reminding ghanaians of infamous j b danqua

Npp work to come to power,and this j b nonsense,why reminding ghanaians of infamous j b danqua
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday's ...
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Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday's Newsfile, a live radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., who has been sacked from the Danquah Institute as a member of its Governing Body, has every right to get at the Executive Director, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko and to describe his insults as being a "rather startlingly infantile reaction", even though he agrees with him! See: "Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It", Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011.

In his article titled, "Danquah was a Great Patriot, The Lie about being a CIA Agent must Stop!", Ochere-Darko's attempt to set the records straight, rather set out to bend the records. He would surreptitiously replace the CIA with the American Embassy as the source of the stipends, in order to argue later that Danquah had nothing to do with the CIA!:

In any case, all we need to satisfy ourselves here is whether or not the CIA was investing in Danquah with his consent. That is what makes one an asset or agent. We all know that the CIA is not a Father Christmas. There is always a quid pro quo in their expenditures. If the CIA is giving money to your wife without your knowledge, that could be a different thing. It is quite another issue, if one feels so entitled to the cash as to go and complain after it had ceased!

Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? Why is it that the Danquah Institute's narrative of these events conspicuously omit the mention of the CIA, preferring to mislead the reader that:

"Dr Danquah’s family,... allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador"?

Is this what is written in the book? Did Richard Mahoney write that Danquah's family was being paid by the CIA or "the American Embassy"? Is the Danquah Institute so ashamed to admit the fact that it was the CIA that was paying the stipends and not "the American Embassy" as they would want us to believe?

A very strange thing is happening. Just before writing this, I visited the site of Danquah Institute to check the link to the quote above, in which they attempted to rewrite Richard Mahoney's book by replacing the "CIA" with "the US Embassy". Strangely enough, they have done an IMANI! The article has been withdrawn, but the title is still there: "Was J.B. Danquah A CIA Agent? All You Need To Know".

Fortunately, the story has been shared on several websites, that is why I was able to retrieve it! The hard facts in the book written by Professor Richard D. Mahoney do not explain why Danquah was expecting the CIA to continue to pay him. But the inference that Danquah must be seen as a CIA asset, after so much investments in him is certainly not as stupid as Ochere-Darko arrogantly and insultingly begs the question with.

The fact that it was the CIA and not "the American Embassy" which was paying the stipends is very clear in the book. What is also clear is the fact that Danquah was aware of this arrangement and liked it so much as to complain when it stopped! What made him feel so entitled to it, if Danquah did not consider himself as an agent?

The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)

It is very interesting that after a storm of criticisms of the ridiculous nature of this propaganda, Ochere-Darko had to reluctantly correct the anomaly of avoiding the embarrassing fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” that was paying Danquah. I have noticed that in his more recent submissions he concedes the fact that indeed, it was the CIA and not the US Embassy that was paying the stipends to J.B. Danquah's family:

"I have had the opportunity to read the book by Richard Mahoney, whose father was US ambassador to Ghana between 1952-65, and nowhere in that book is Danquah described as a CIA agent. In fact, the younger Mahoney, who was not older than 10 years at the material time, refers to some financial support, stipends, that were allegedly offered to Danquah’s wife and 13 dependent children by an official at the embassy, who was the CIA local agent, when Danquah was first imprisoned by Nkrumah for 11 months between February 1961 and January 1962, without the prior knowledge of his father.”

The CIA does not go about pointing out who their agents are. Thus when there is a fortuitous and concrete proof of such payments, Ghanaians have every right to interrogate it! Is Mr. Ochere-Darko also interrogating the age of the father who must have passed on the information to his son? The issue is certainly not about the age of Richard Mahoney, nor at what time his father became the US Ambassador to Ghana. The issue is whether or not the CIA was paying stipends to Danquah's wife with his knowledge and approval? And the answer is clear!

What is even more interesting about this is the fact that Ochere-Darko behaves as if he was learning about the dubious past of Dr. J. B. Danquah for the first time! That was certainly not the first time that he was reacting to those allegations that wont go away because they are from very credible sources. On Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13, Ochere-Darko published an article on the website of the Danquah Institute, in which he attempted to debunk what he called "smear campaign that Joseph Boakye Danquah, the ‘doyen of Ghana’ and co-founder of Ghana’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), was a CIA spy."

"WHAT STARTED THE LIE? Opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition in Ghana have in the last decade or so seized with glee and relish on a dubious information that came out of the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”. This book, written by Richard Mahoney, son of the late William Mahoney, US Ambassador to Ghana (1962-65), in a paragraph mentions that Dr Danquah’s family, which at the time included 13 dependent children, allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador."

Who could have done this in the American Embassy without the knowledge of the American Ambassador, if it was not the CIA? Ochere-Darko's attempt to edit or re-write a book in print which is still out there is a very daring act of stupidity, to borrow his own word!

Ochere-Darko deliberately chips in the number of Danquah's dependants to give the impression that the CIA is a charity organisation! The mention of Mr. Richard Mahoney's age of ten at the time of the incident, is also a deliberate ploy to give the impression of unreliability of the source. Ochere-Darko actually argues that “The reliability of the information in the younger Mahoney's has certainly been interrogated. Since the author was at the material time barely 10 years old, we must assume that the information came to him much later from his father. This is because no declassified CIA records of the period contain any such reference."

Richard Mahoney's book was published in 1983. He was 31 years old when it was published, not a child. Richard Mahoney was an accomplished scholar in his own rights at the time of publication. He lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador (Quito, Campus). He was also professor emeritus at The American Graduate School of International Management.

Wikipedia provides a short biography on Richard D. Mahoney which describes Mahoney as “the author of three books, two on the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers, The days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999) and Getting Away with Murder on the War in Afghanistan, as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk. He has also published a volume of poetry in Spanish entitled Pétalos (1995).”

Ochere-Darko must look for another argument other than the age of the historian! Is he going to ask archaeologists how old they were when the events they describe in their books occurred? No wonder he is left with nothing sensible to say other than “Would you stop this stupidity? Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity…you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? . ..this is pure stupidity." “When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don’t bring people like this. I am not going to apologise, I can apologise to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologise to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won’t do it!”

"Also, spies, informants or double agents usually have their handlers." Ochere-Darko argues pathetically, " Why didn't Danquah go to his 'handler' to complain but to the Ambassador who, as it turned out, knew nothing about the apparent arrangement? Or, are we not allowed to scrutinise the logicalities of claims made by so-called chroniclers of our history? Nowhere in that book or anywhere else, for that matter, has it been alleged that Danquah personally received money from any foreign power or agent."

Danquah was in prison for eleven months before Nkrumah pardoned him. How would anyone know whether or not his "handler had been tranfered from Ghana? How could we tell if the CIA had rightly considered him as a pent force and dumped him? From the reports that Mahoney was in touch with some soldiers and police officers, thus the CIA had recruited new players and actors on their behalf, so why would they be bothred with Danquah?

As Paul Lee writes in "Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow", "In a reversal of what some would assume were the traditional roles of an ambassador and the CIA director, McCone asked Mahoney who would most likely succeed Nkrumah in the event of a coup.

Mahoney again correctly forecast the future: Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, a military junta would take over." It comes out clearly that the CIA's attention had shifted to somewhere else, and unkown to Danquah, he was no longer in the picture.

The only reason provided by Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute for angrily branding *Dr Omane Boamah*, as being “stupid” is because Gabby sees Danquah as a “founding father of Ghana”! We shall have another occasion to go into that ridiculous claim. For now, it suffices just to ask the question whether it is that stupid to consider a man who is a known CIA asset as “a founding father” of any nation in Africa?

What someone ought to make clear to Gabby is the fact that we do not consider CIA assets as our founding fathers. Indeed, anyone qualified to be a founding father can be disqualified on the basis of being an agent for a foreign country. So you cannot argue that because Danquah is esteemed by others to be a founding father, it is wrong to accuse him of being a CIA agent. On the contrary, the reverse is true. Danquah cannot even be considered as a founding father because he was an asset of a foreign intelligence organisation.

For those of us who know a little bit of our history, the revelations by Professor Mahoney only comes to confirm what we knew already.

As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah rightly puts it, “Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.”

“The grounds for the first detention of Danquah was submitted to him in writing that: 'During the month of September 1961 YOU DID JOIN in a DESIGN for the subversion of the Government of Ghana PRESENTED to you at a meeting on the premises of Dr. J. B. Danquah in Accra, by ISMAILA ANNAN and ATTA BORDOH both now detained and you did ENCOURAGE this design and in furtherance of it DID ACT in a manner calculated to endanger the security of the State and to cause the overthrow of the Government of Ghana by unlawful means'” (see Danquah’s own Historic Speeches J. B. Danquah).

“Of course one should expect Danquah to craft his response like a defense attorney in order to accuse Nkrumah’s Government of unlawful detention without trial. Danquah’s claim was that the meeting was called in connection with the 1961 Takoradi Workers’ strike and the government’s budget. During this same strike, Komla Gbedemah, serving on the three-man presidential commission ruling the country, “saw his chance to seize power. Gbedemah had no problem in obtaining CIA backing for his conspiracy.” He “approached Ambassador Russell on September 6, 1961”and asked for US support; and “Washington gave an unequivocal yes.” Gbedemah and Busia went into exile together with the help of the CIA in October 1961 (see Mahoney, 1983 for details).

Now, given that Danquah, Busia, Obetsebi-Lamptey, R. R. Amponsah, Modesto Apaloo and the new comer Gbedemah were in one accord to overthrow Nkrumah’s government by violence, Danquah’s assurance given to the foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 and the meeting in his house in September 1961 cannot be seen as unrelated issues.”

Danquah who started his political carrier as a collaborator of the British colonial rule and a favourite, lost all the respect and support which the British transferred to Dr. Kofi Busia, must have become very useful to the CIA at that time. There were signs that he got on better with the Americans than with the British. It must be remembered that in 1954, just after losing the Parliamentary elections to his ex-wife, he took a trip, not to the UK but to the US.

The reason why the British develop a very low esteem of this individual was as a result of his deep involvement in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa. It might have also been the case on Danquah's part, who never forgave the British when the Privy Council, the final court of appeal, "sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until they died". It must be noted that the culprits were his own relatives, namely, Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng.

As to his motivations for being a spy, Mr. Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko has given too many reasons for this to labour the point here. Suffice it to say that the reason why this is important is because it has implications on the loyalties of those who claim to be followers of the Danquah tradition. For instance, in arguing that President Mills must allow the Americans to establish military bases in Ghana in the wake of of President Obama's visit to Ghana, Ochere-Darko quotes Nkrumah out of context to promote his evil Danquah-infested agenda.

One trick Ochere-Darko used which I have never forgiven was to make it look as though allowing our lands to be occupied by a foreign military power is a from of liberation! Here is what he wrote:

“Obama's chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.” Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.'s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this. - Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, " (Obama's Visit – What's In It For Us And U.S.?", Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009. "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)

“Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs"? Does that sound familiar? It is obviously a sacrilegious reference to the Independence Eve declaration by the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah:

“And as I pointed out, I made it quite clear that from now on, today, we must change our attitudes, our minds! We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial people but a free and independent people! But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work!

That new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs! We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation! Our own African identity!”

This is why we need to keep a close eye, not only on people like Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko but also the man he represents, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. This is why it is important not to trust the destiny of this nation in hands such as these! This is why it is important to expose these agents of imperialism who think that the only way "the black man can prove to the whole world that he is capable of managing his own affairs" is by allowing a foreign military occupation of our territories!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro,

Member, Pan-Africanist International -*a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! **(also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.)
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 9 years ago

FRANCIS KWARTEN THE 'HOLY SPIRIT' IS ON YOURSIDE.

FRANCIS KWARTEN THE 'HOLY SPIRIT' IS ON YOURSIDE.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Don't mind them, AKASI MARTHA NZEMA. Yes we know them.

Don't mind them, AKASI MARTHA NZEMA. Yes we know them.
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 9 years ago

Thank you very much Nana Akyea Mensa,the Odikro.This is all that the NPP all their affiliated NGOS stand for.They are imperialist lackeys whose secret aim is to sell the nation to the neo-colonialists,especially America for b ...
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Thank you very much Nana Akyea Mensa,the Odikro.This is all that the NPP all their affiliated NGOS stand for.They are imperialist lackeys whose secret aim is to sell the nation to the neo-colonialists,especially America for bread and butter which the few of them will enjoy to the neglect of the majority suffering ghanaians.No wonder when they came to power they sold state assets-lands and buildings to themselves while the majority of ghanaians were starving and living in squalor.The NPP is made up of unpatriotic ghanaians whose sole aim is to subordinate the interest of Ghana to their neo-colonialist masters.It will be tragic for the nation if power is given back to them again.
cle kofi 9 years ago

See this grandson of madefucker greedy bastard,l tell you all of you will die in prison foolish family

See this grandson of madefucker greedy bastard,l tell you all of you will die in prison foolish family
JH New York 9 years ago

Mr Danquah-Adu,one difficult task to do in this World is the attempt to change history. If you can proof to Ghanaians those who plotted to fabricate treasonous stories about your grandpa,Ghanaians would not hesitate to regist ...
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Mr Danquah-Adu,one difficult task to do in this World is the attempt to change history. If you can proof to Ghanaians those who plotted to fabricate treasonous stories about your grandpa,Ghanaians would not hesitate to register their condemnation that they deserve against those involved.
Yes,we know that some people could fabricate treacherous stories against someone just to bring him/down.But the question is, why should your grandpa be released from prison and later arrested again for the second time ? "Ma te me ho", not good !
Pls prove it.
Prinz Jnr_Germany 9 years ago

May his soul rest in perfect peace .
And may his death brings prosperity to ghana. @ J.B Danquah

May his soul rest in perfect peace .
And may his death brings prosperity to ghana. @ J.B Danquah
OBIBINI 9 years ago

So the Danquah family did not know that prisons are security zones which are not open to the type of visit they applied for.What is so important about Danquah's death to warrant such a visit? Apart from here in Ghana where to ...
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So the Danquah family did not know that prisons are security zones which are not open to the type of visit they applied for.What is so important about Danquah's death to warrant such a visit? Apart from here in Ghana where too much noise is being made about him he is an unknown political being even in Togo let alone in Africa and the rest of the world.And Osagyefo is a household name all over thw world.Yes,Nkrumah never dies but Danquah has died and is going to be .
Akans Prophecies 9 years ago

Does this great nation America and the western world needed a simpleman Dr. J B Danquah to overthrow a gouvernment in africa? Idiots ! just writing to satisfy your stupid hates. The CIA of America would not need to collabor ...
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Does this great nation America and the western world needed a simpleman Dr. J B Danquah to overthrow a gouvernment in africa? Idiots ! just writing to satisfy your stupid hates. The CIA of America would not need to collaborate with anyone to overthrow Nkrumah's weak security gouvernment. The Americans are skillful , have the technology and the Manpower to make every project of overthrow in any part of Africa. Better stop your simple idiot thoughts , which accuses a great Stateman Dr. J B Danquah as a Terrorist. This Ancient CCP propoganda of eliminating political opponents cannot work today. We all know why Dr. Danquah was imprisoned and why he had to be kept in prison until his death without trial. WHO NEVER KNEW NKRUMAH HIMSELF PREPARED THIS BOMB THROWING TO IMPLICATE HIS POLITICAL ADVERSARIES? Shame on you Nigger idiots .! THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OFRI GYATOS AND ENGLISH MEN UNLESS THEIR HAIRS! IDIOTS !
Augusco Boy 9 years ago

JB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST! He died the way he should! He is one man who worked very hard to destroy Ghana. He and his gang pushed Nkrumah into a corner, leading to the infamous PDA passed by the CPP dominated parliament!!

JB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST! He died the way he should! He is one man who worked very hard to destroy Ghana. He and his gang pushed Nkrumah into a corner, leading to the infamous PDA passed by the CPP dominated parliament!!
freddie 9 years ago

Who cares if your grandfather was not a coup plotter? Who even think about your grandfather? He is gone and let bygones be bygone..

Who cares if your grandfather was not a coup plotter? Who even think about your grandfather? He is gone and let bygones be bygone..
Lopez 9 years ago

That is a very stupid way to advise or contribute on a social platform especially when we are talking about a national hero your problem is you have nothing to contribute but you want to be heard

That is a very stupid way to advise or contribute on a social platform especially when we are talking about a national hero your problem is you have nothing to contribute but you want to be heard
BB 9 years ago

I saw an article that says jb dankwas letters to Dr Kwame Nkrumah.how authentic is that letter,I smell something is cooking in Npp camp,to portray from bad to good.www.npp @forge.com

I saw an article that says jb dankwas letters to Dr Kwame Nkrumah.how authentic is that letter,I smell something is cooking in Npp camp,to portray from bad to good.www.npp @forge.com
Nii 9 years ago

The CPP was formed out of the UGCC formed by Paa Grant .J.B. Danquah and co.The NDC was formed by blood thirsty coup makers who have no links to either cpp or ugcc.The CPP and the NPP are the patriots who love their country f ...
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The CPP was formed out of the UGCC formed by Paa Grant .J.B. Danquah and co.The NDC was formed by blood thirsty coup makers who have no links to either cpp or ugcc.The CPP and the NPP are the patriots who love their country first than their selfish needs like the NDC. Npp and cpp unite to get rid of this nation wreckers called NDC
Kwame 9 years ago

In 2011 Murmur Ghadaffi was not tried by NATO which attacked his country and whose hounds captured and murdered him. Lumbumba, Amical Cabral and Mutarla Mohammed were not arrested nor tried, they were just shot. On 24/2/1966 ...
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In 2011 Murmur Ghadaffi was not tried by NATO which attacked his country and whose hounds captured and murdered him. Lumbumba, Amical Cabral and Mutarla Mohammed were not arrested nor tried, they were just shot. On 24/2/1966 Col. Bawa and other members of the presidential guards who laid down their arms were not tried before they were shot by Maj. Afrifa and others. Osaman Bin Laden was not even arrested but shot by U.S. soldiers.
The fact that remains is that with the arrest of J.B. Danquah, Obetseby Lamptey, Shiak Quaye, R.R. Amponsah and others there were not throwing of bombs. There is therefore a suspicion that materials relating to why Danquah and others were arrested and keep in protective custudy were destroyed soon after the 24/2/1966 coup. I wrote yesterday that a woman with whom I worked in the ministries had her leg amputated after she and others were bombed by the hounds and hatchet men of Danquah. So where the dog is hiding is is that as soon as Danquah and his hounds were put behind bars members of the Young Pioneers were no more killed, maimed and made to loss their limbs any more. So how can the NPP explain that.
ROLAND GODXTYM 9 years ago

fake big six. nkrumah was the only big one. he had to jail jb danquah in order to make it for nkrumah to dvlop gh.

fake big six. nkrumah was the only big one. he had to jail jb danquah in order to make it for nkrumah to dvlop gh.
EDUARDO DOMINGO 9 years ago

WAS HE CIA ???????????

WAS HE CIA ???????????
Jack Jack 9 years ago

How old was you before your grand father died. Close your mouth there before we stone you to death. We are having all this problem today because of you and your family. Do you want me to tell you the historic of your grand f ...
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How old was you before your grand father died. Close your mouth there before we stone you to death. We are having all this problem today because of you and your family. Do you want me to tell you the historic of your grand father

J.B Danquah was no ‘coup plotter’ – Grandson

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