Kufuor: “Unique” JB Danquah played a “titanic role” in Ghana

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The mask 9 years ago

If you look at the back of the cedi note you would see the picture of the Big six; so called because they were prepared to die for Ghana to achieve independence for which they were imprisoned. Of the six 3 were Akyems and a f ...
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If you look at the back of the cedi note you would see the picture of the Big six; so called because they were prepared to die for Ghana to achieve independence for which they were imprisoned. Of the six 3 were Akyems and a fourth was married to an Akyem who became the first lady.

Why then do you hate Akyems?

J. B. Danquah stood for president and was not successful. William Ofori-Attah stood for president and was not successful. Akufo Addo who is half Akyem has his story unfinished.

Akyems make up more than half of the population of the Eastern Region. Today because of negative government developmental practices from independence some have become so proud that they can look at Akyems condescendingly.

Over the last 100 years revenue from the Akyem-Akwatia Diamond mine, alluvial gold, cocoa and palm oil from Akyem have been used to develop the whole of Ghana including providing scholarships for some Ghanaians.
alhaji am. new akrade. akonsombo 9 years ago

no sense. who farmed the cocoa, palm oil and who mined the gold and the diamond.? northerners . everybody is contrbuting since the last 100years to get ghana today, for everbody to open his gutter to say things that will divi ...
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no sense. who farmed the cocoa, palm oil and who mined the gold and the diamond.? northerners . everybody is contrbuting since the last 100years to get ghana today, for everbody to open his gutter to say things that will divide that same ghana.
Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi Must Die! 9 years ago

Smiled.In nkrumah' face but colluding with cia operatives, Busia on ways to.Kill him. Eeeiiii Blackman. Waht will jj do to such persons of low moral character you ask? Answer that yourself..stupid ghanaians are today glorifyi ...
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Smiled.In nkrumah' face but colluding with cia operatives, Busia on ways to.Kill him. Eeeiiii Blackman. Waht will jj do to such persons of low moral character you ask? Answer that yourself..stupid ghanaians are today glorifying this snitch, rat traitor.modern day ghana Judas Iscariot! Even cia classified information from then cia head George Bush snr fingered Danquah as one of their key cookers and operative in ghana. Tweaaa
Kowadis 9 years ago

.... what did the NPP do for Danquah when they were in power for 8-yrs?

Only maaf-maaf!

.... what did the NPP do for Danquah when they were in power for 8-yrs?

Only maaf-maaf!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

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 wa ...
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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.)
KOFI TRUTH ! 9 years ago

wona ne tu !!! nobody in your family or town will ever make contribution to this country Ghana not even 1/4 of it!!! period !

wona ne tu !!! nobody in your family or town will ever make contribution to this country Ghana not even 1/4 of it!!! period !
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

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ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

Call Francis Kwarteng on the following numbers: 001-301 277 5871 or 001-240 770 7573 in Hyattsville, MD Maryland, USA.

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francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Kofi Truth,

Why are they putting "titanic role" in quotes? Are they not sure of themselves? What are they afraid of, the hard facts of true history? Anyway I am waiting for an intelligent counter argument from you.

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Kofi Truth,

Why are they putting "titanic role" in quotes? Are they not sure of themselves? What are they afraid of, the hard facts of true history? Anyway I am waiting for an intelligent counter argument from you.

Besides, Kofi Truth, Danquah is not my kind of role model, you know, yet Nkrumah is, has always been, to me as an individual and to millions around the world. You know what? The UGCC did not even have a program, and Nkrumah gave it one. The UGCC did not have mass following, and Nkrumah gave it one. The UGCC did not have a bank account, and Nkrumah opened one for it.

Tell me whether Danquah and his UGCC folks were more intelligent than Nkrumah! What were they doing before Nkrumah’s arrival? I can tell you one thing: They would have been mere “non-entities” without the vision, organizational expertise, intelligence, and prescience of Nkrumah. They had only two branches of the UGCC at Nkrumah's arrival and within 6 months Nkrumah had opened about 5-600 branches in the colony. This time around Danquah, Paa Grant, and the others were having exotic drinks and playing golf with their colonial masters while making disparaging remarks about the masses to their white masters.

THIS IS WHY NKRUMAH IS THE ONE AND THE ONLY TRUE FOUNDING FATHER OF GHANA. These facts are archived for all to see. So don't tell me I should not claim Nkrumah, "Man of the Millennium." In fact, Nkrumah gave the leadership of the UGGC national importance and continental recognition.

Where would Danquah had been if the poor and goldsmith son (Kwame Nkrumah; Nkrumah was a royal too—made a king in Nkroful) had not come down to make the UGGC relevant? Don't push me into history? Go and talk to Gabby and he should be able to tell you "the UGGC did not get down to business until Nkrumah's arrival." AND THEN LET GABBY TELL YOU WHY HE CHOSE TO RE-WRITE PART OF A BOOK THAT CLEARLY SAYS JB DANQUAH WENT TO THE AMERICAN EMBASSY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HIS NOT BEING GIVEN MONEY BY THE CIA, AFTER NKRUMAH HAD PARDONED HIM FOR PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW HIS GOVERMENT?

HAVE YOU ASKED GABBY WHY WILLIAM MAHONEY, THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AT THE TIME IN GHANA, GOT SO MAD HE WAS NOT INFORMED OF THE CIA'S INVOLVMENT WITH DANUQAH, A POLITICAL MISHAP THAT FORCED HIM (THE AMBASSADOR) TO TAKE THE MATTER TO PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE CIA BOSS? HAVE YOU SEEN THE DECLASSIFIED RECORDS YET?

ASK THE DANQUAH FAMILY TO MAKE A FORMAL REQUEST FOR A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION TO GET A BETTER PICTURE OR DEEPER INTO THIS MATTER! THEN ASK GABBY WHY HE CHOSE TO LIE UNTIL PUBLIC CRITICISM OF HIM (AND PUBLIC PRESSURE) COMPELLED HIM TO RESTORE THE ORIGICAL STATEMENT FROM RICHARD MAHONEY'S BOOK "JFK: ORDEAL IN AFRICA"? RICHARD MAHONEY IS THE SON OF WILLIAM MAHONEY.

Go and find out the difficulties Nkrumah had to go through to get UGCC branches established around the colony.

And you tell me I should be proud of Danquah. Have you ever seen me praising anyone who associates with the CIA to destroy his own country? I am not stupid. Go and ask the American writer RICHARD WRIGHT what Danquah once told him about the masses? Go and research Danquah's association with and defense of the murderers (his relatives) of his relative, Nana Akyea Mensah?

Go and find out why Nana Akyea Mensah's threat to expose Danquah of his mismanagement of the coffers of the stool may have factored into his relative's ritual murder? Have you found out why his own people rejected him at the polls? His own people rejected him, and you want me to claim him as a role model? For what? Am I that desperate for self-affirmation? How do you want me to be proud of this dubious character?

In other words, tell me why you think the CIA and Ambassador William Mahoney were/are wrong. That is the only thing I want to hear from you. I am not interested in irrelevancies and emotionalism!

Let us take this moment to commiserate with the families of the victims of Danquah's terrorism---I mean victims of the NLM's terrorism (remember Danquah and Busia were two of the NLM’s respected leaders). Kofi Truth, if you have any iota of truth in you you should have known that Nkrumah was and still is my beloved relative and that his unparalleled contributions to global history is mine too. I don't need Danquah. Danquah is more of a parochial figure. Moreover, he did not achieve the international status and global respectability of the likes of Nkrumah because Nkrumah’s intellect, vision, and political maturity dwarfed Danquah. There is NEVER EVER going to be a catch-up!

Don't take it that I hate Danquah, I don’t. I only hate traitors and agents of foreign intelligence organizations (CIA, M15, etc), with the view to destabilizing their countries. Let any American collaborate with a foreign intelligence organization to destabilize America, and let’s see what happens to this individual! Have you heard of the Rosenbergs? Let us the kind of party the American government will throw for Edward Snowden on his birthday at the Pentagon! It is probably only in Ghana that we celebrate traitors!

Please we know the "true" history of Ghana and will not allow anyone to subvert it. I have claimed Nkrumah as a relative who made the greatest contributions to the development of Ghana. In fact no one before him or after him (Gold Coast, Ghana) comes close in terms of his contributions to human civilization. And stop using the Orwellian nomenclature “Kofi Truth.” There is nothing truthful in or about that Orwellian caricature. Change it. Go figure!
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

In short Danquah was a "Unique" Titanic Terrorist. His ingenuity is blackmailing, sabotage and bomb throwing. That is what the unblushing, brazen, barefaced Kufuor trying to say. Kufuor, none of your lip!

In short Danquah was a "Unique" Titanic Terrorist. His ingenuity is blackmailing, sabotage and bomb throwing. That is what the unblushing, brazen, barefaced Kufuor trying to say. Kufuor, none of your lip!
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

Call Francis Kwarteng on the following numbers, 001-301 277 5871 or 001-240 770 7573, in Hyattsville, MD-Maryland, USA.

Call Francis Kwarteng on the following numbers, 001-301 277 5871 or 001-240 770 7573, in Hyattsville, MD-Maryland, USA.
Augusco Boy 9 years ago

When will these NPP douche-bags begin to face reality? JB Danquah was a TERRORIST who helped to destroy Ghana! Just like today, Ghanaians were not excited by the UP/NPP party! Instead of accepting the will of the people, JB D ...
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When will these NPP douche-bags begin to face reality? JB Danquah was a TERRORIST who helped to destroy Ghana! Just like today, Ghanaians were not excited by the UP/NPP party! Instead of accepting the will of the people, JB Danquah and co embarked on terrorism, bomb throwing, and eventually the coup d'etat that set Ghana back a century. Shame on you folks!
k.k 9 years ago

Please, how old you. Before you judge someone, study him or her on a mile of issues.

Please, how old you. Before you judge someone, study him or her on a mile of issues.
OBIBINI 9 years ago

Yes !!! J.B.Danquah was a terrorist.I was old enough to see the political damage he did to Ghana.He was even a CIA operative.

Yes !!! J.B.Danquah was a terrorist.I was old enough to see the political damage he did to Ghana.He was even a CIA operative.
Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi Must Die! 9 years ago

Remember the Ojays tune...backstabbers!

Remember the Ojays tune...backstabbers!
DEPORT EXTREMIST MUSLIMS 9 years ago

AFRC , PNDC AND NDC UPON ALL THOSE YEARS COULDN'T SOLVED DUMSOR AND MURDERED MORE GHANAIANS IN GHANA HISTORY . TRIBAL BIAS IS KILLING YOUR ASS . NOT TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE .

AFRC , PNDC AND NDC UPON ALL THOSE YEARS COULDN'T SOLVED DUMSOR AND MURDERED MORE GHANAIANS IN GHANA HISTORY . TRIBAL BIAS IS KILLING YOUR ASS . NOT TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE .
Kofi Virginia 9 years ago

We must use words. Titanic, awesome, incredible, etc. Danquah surely did his share and so did Nkrumah but they crashed over ideas.

We must use words. Titanic, awesome, incredible, etc. Danquah surely did his share and so did Nkrumah but they crashed over ideas.
OMG 9 years ago

Danquah, was liked by the British because the got diamond from Akyem. After flunking his matric 3 times, he was pushed and who knows how he did at university. He definitely was not a star for he was not recruited to teach a ...
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Danquah, was liked by the British because the got diamond from Akyem. After flunking his matric 3 times, he was pushed and who knows how he did at university. He definitely was not a star for he was not recruited to teach at any university as was the case with brilliant Kwame Nkrumah. At law I saw him loose major cases to Kwaku Boateng. It is baffling that the Akyems have not overcome this history.
Mars1 9 years ago

Finally, the truth ought to be told. Contrary to popular Ghanaian culture, Ghana's independence was not the result of the work of one person. A lot of other people were involved. It is time this side of the story is told. R ...
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Finally, the truth ought to be told. Contrary to popular Ghanaian culture, Ghana's independence was not the result of the work of one person. A lot of other people were involved. It is time this side of the story is told. Right on sir, keep letting light shine on the other side of the Ghanaian independence story.
Fo Komla 9 years ago

wat exact role did he play..just tell us and stop this unique gibberish...is it the suggestion of the name of the ancient civilisation which was written about long before he became literate which was his contribution...?? i j ...
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wat exact role did he play..just tell us and stop this unique gibberish...is it the suggestion of the name of the ancient civilisation which was written about long before he became literate which was his contribution...?? i just dont get it. His corpse should have been sent back to his CIA master.
Efo Kwaku Canada 9 years ago

Kwame Nkrumah with dictatorship idea and JB Danquah with democracy idea and Nkrumah rigged elections began to arrest the few educated guys so that he can rule for life

Kwame Nkrumah with dictatorship idea and JB Danquah with democracy idea and Nkrumah rigged elections began to arrest the few educated guys so that he can rule for life
Chief Vandal 9 years ago

You do not know history. Please go back and read. The general elections of 1951, 1954 and 1956 were ran by the British and they were all won by Nkrumah.
If you say the 1960 republican election was rigged I will not argue wit ...
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You do not know history. Please go back and read. The general elections of 1951, 1954 and 1956 were ran by the British and they were all won by Nkrumah.
If you say the 1960 republican election was rigged I will not argue with you because I do not know.
Stop spewing lies as facts.If you do not know ask please.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Ye nim won fri tete. We know these sour losers like the back of our Hand.

If Nkrumah was winning elections during colonialists rule in the 50's hands down; there is no need for him to rig further elections when his popular ...
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Ye nim won fri tete. We know these sour losers like the back of our Hand.

If Nkrumah was winning elections during colonialists rule in the 50's hands down; there is no need for him to rig further elections when his popularity was growing. Danquah got only 10% in the 1960 presidential elections.

Danquah was not even popular in his Akyem backyard. His first wife jumped ship to join Nkrumah' CPP. This is where the feud between the two men began to intensify. Danquah vowed to kill to Nkrumah, that is a secret his own wife revealed to Nkrumah.

Look these Mate Mehu Danquahseries self-proclaim custodians of Ghana are sour losers. The 1956 elections was held to appease them because they contested the 1954 elections as rigged even under British auspices.Between 1951 and 1956 within a short space of time three elections were held because each they claimed it was rigged when it was not in their favour. They were the favourites of the British but the people of Ghana decided for Nkrumah's CPP. These Bushrats are sour losers and will loose 2016 too.
Intuition 9 years ago

You failed to read in between the lines. That's a fake Efo Kwaku, can't you see?

You failed to read in between the lines. That's a fake Efo Kwaku, can't you see?
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Hello Kofi Truth,

Why are they putting "titanic role" in quotes? Are they not sure of themselves? What are they afraid of, the hard facts of true history? Anyway I am waiting for an intelligent counter argument from you.
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Hello Kofi Truth,

Why are they putting "titanic role" in quotes? Are they not sure of themselves? What are they afraid of, the hard facts of true history? Anyway I am waiting for an intelligent counter argument from you.

Besides, Kofi Truth, Danquah is not my kind of role model, you know, yet Nkrumah is, has always been, to me as an individual and to millions around the world. You know what? The UGCC did not even have a program, and Nkrumah gave it one. The UGCC did not have mass following, and Nkrumah gave it one. The UGCC did not have a bank account, and Nkrumah opened one for it.

Tell me whether Danquah and his UGCC folks were more intelligent than Nkrumah! What were they doing before Nkrumah’s arrival? I can tell you one thing: They would have been mere “non-entities” without the vision, organizational expertise, intelligence, and prescience of Nkrumah. They had only two branches of the UGCC at Nkrumah's arrival and within 6 months Nkrumah had opened about 5-600 branches in the colony. This time around Danquah, Paa Grant, and the others were having exotic drinks and playing golf with their colonial masters while making disparaging remarks about the masses to their white masters.

THIS IS WHY NKRUMAH IS THE ONE AND THE ONLY TRUE FOUNDING FATHER OF GHANA. These facts are archived for all to see. So don't tell me I should not claim Nkrumah, "Man of the Millennium." In fact, Nkrumah gave the leadership of the UGGC national importance and continental recognition.

Where would Danquah had been if the poor and goldsmith son (Kwame Nkrumah; Nkrumah was a royal too—made a king in Nkroful) had not come down to make the UGGC relevant? Don't push me into history? Go and talk to Gabby and he should be able to tell you "the UGGC did not get down to business until Nkrumah's arrival." AND THEN LET GABBY TELL YOU WHY HE CHOSE TO RE-WRITE PART OF A BOOK THAT CLEARLY SAYS JB DANQUAH WENT TO THE AMERICAN EMBASSY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HIS NOT BEING GIVEN MONEY BY THE CIA, AFTER NKRUMAH HAD PARDONED HIM FOR PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW HIS GOVERMENT?

HAVE YOU ASKED GABBY WHY WILLIAM MAHONEY, THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AT THE TIME IN GHANA, GOT SO MAD HE WAS NOT INFORMED OF THE CIA'S INVOLVMENT WITH DANUQAH, A POLITICAL MISHAP THAT FORCED HIM (THE AMBASSADOR) TO TAKE THE MATTER TO PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE CIA BOSS? HAVE YOU SEEN THE DECLASSIFIED RECORDS YET?

ASK THE DANQUAH FAMILY TO MAKE A FORMAL REQUEST FOR A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION TO GET A BETTER PICTURE OR DEEPER INTO THIS MATTER! THEN ASK GABBY WHY HE CHOSE TO LIE UNTIL PUBLIC CRITICISM OF HIM (AND PUBLIC PRESSURE) COMPELLED HIM TO RESTORE THE ORIGICAL STATEMENT FROM RICHARD MAHONEY'S BOOK "JFK: ORDEAL IN AFRICA"? RICHARD MAHONEY IS THE SON OF WILLIAM MAHONEY.

Go and find out the difficulties Nkrumah had to go through to get UGCC branches established around the colony.

And you tell me I should be proud of Danquah. Have you ever seen me praising anyone who associates with the CIA to destroy his own country? I am not stupid. Go and ask the American writer RICHARD WRIGHT what Danquah once told him about the masses? Go and research Danquah's association with and defense of the murderers (his relatives) of his relative, Nana Akyea Mensah?

Go and find out why Nana Akyea Mensah's threat to expose Danquah of his mismanagement of the coffers of the stool may have factored into his relative's ritual murder? Have you found out why his own people rejected him at the polls? His own people rejected him, and you want me to claim him as a role model? For what? Am I that desperate for self-affirmation? How do you want me to be proud of this dubious character?

In other words, tell me why you think the CIA and Ambassador William Mahoney were/are wrong. That is the only thing I want to hear from you. I am not interested in irrelevancies and emotionalism! I will not accept ‘Aboa bi ba” as the answer. Give me a more intelligent response, because we can’t get anywhere with insults. You should have known by now that insults mean nothing to me personally! Get me the facts, and I will be…Hahahahahaha…

After all “Aboa bi ba” is not the answer, is it? Running away from hard facts under the guise of self-serving insults. How does that palliate your conscience? This was exactly what Danquah did when the people, his own people, Kofi Truth, rejected him at the poles? He started raining abuse and insults at Nkrumah? Typical Danquah-esque! Put simply, Danquah started insulting Nkrumah and the CPP when asked when his own people had rejected him at the polls!

Let us take this moment to commiserate with the families of the victims of Danquah's terrorism---I mean victims of the NLM's terrorism (remember Danquah and Busia were two of the NLM’s respected leaders). Kofi Truth, if you have any iota of truth in you you should have known that Nkrumah was and still is my beloved relative and that his unparalleled contributions to global history is mine too. I don't need Danquah. Danquah is more of a parochial figure. Moreover, he did not achieve the international status and global respectability of the likes of Nkrumah because Nkrumah’s intellect, vision, and political maturity dwarfed Danquah. There is NEVER EVER going to be a catch-up!

Don't take it that I hate Danquah, I don’t. I only hate traitors and agents of foreign intelligence organizations (CIA, M15, etc), with the view to destabilizing their countries. Let any American collaborate with a foreign intelligence organization to destabilize America, and let’s see what happens to this individual! Have you heard of the Rosenbergs? Let us the kind of party the American government will throw for Edward Snowden on his birthday at the Pentagon! It is probably only in Ghana that we celebrate traitors!

Please we know the "true" history of Ghana and will not allow anyone to subvert it. I have claimed Nkrumah as a relative who made the greatest contributions to the development of Ghana. In fact no one before him or after him (Gold Coast, Ghana) comes close in terms of his contributions to human civilization. And stop using the Orwellian nomenclature “Kofi Truth.” There is nothing truthful in or about that Orwellian caricature. Change it. Go figure!

Thanks.
Prinz Jnr_Germany 9 years ago

Long live Npp
Long live Nana Addo, the chosen One whom the heavens has bless to rescue Mother Ghana from the state of economic hardship, Energy crisis, Poor Health Care, Luck of infrastructure, etc.
Never too late to vote N ...
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Long live Npp
Long live Nana Addo, the chosen One whom the heavens has bless to rescue Mother Ghana from the state of economic hardship, Energy crisis, Poor Health Care, Luck of infrastructure, etc.
Never too late to vote Npp to power come 2016...Amen
OBIBINI 9 years ago

J.B Danquah was a hate figure in his own Akyem-Abuakwa traditional area,was implicated in the killing of Akyea Meansah,was a CIA operative,was detained in Nsawam prison for terrorism and subverting the stability of Ghana.He s ...
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J.B Danquah was a hate figure in his own Akyem-Abuakwa traditional area,was implicated in the killing of Akyea Meansah,was a CIA operative,was detained in Nsawam prison for terrorism and subverting the stability of Ghana.He saw himself as the prime minister -in-waiting but was upstaged by Nkrumah who was the most preferred choice of Gold Coasters.He never identified himself with ordinary Gold Coasters who he referred to as verandah boys.THE BUSIA/DANQUAH GROUP WILL CERTAINLY SING HIS PRAISES TO THE MOON.
A.Latif 9 years ago

If people had the chance they will change all that has been written on the pages of our history books. the Nkrumaise says this, Donquahssays that which is which, am sure each and eveey one of the so CALLED BIG SIX will have a ...
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If people had the chance they will change all that has been written on the pages of our history books. the Nkrumaise says this, Donquahssays that which is which, am sure each and eveey one of the so CALLED BIG SIX will have a different story to write about Ghana when given the chance.....Ehnicity, Nepotism, Tribalism etc etc bias in every thing that we have interst in..may be the White Men were right when they said Africa has no history before their arrieval
LAST DON 9 years ago

It is a fact that the Busia faction in the NPP has had their share of looting again through Kuffour and so the Dankwa faction must take their turn to have their share. That is the meaning of “all die be die” This is what ...
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It is a fact that the Busia faction in the NPP has had their share of looting again through Kuffour and so the Dankwa faction must take their turn to have their share. That is the meaning of “all die be die” This is what has gripped the minds of even the bishops, pastors and imams among them to prophesised falsely without checking the fundamentals.

What is wrong with the conscience of these rogues who have pledge to sell everything in Ghana to foreigners with the aim of receiving just dividends for their children’s children. They survive on the booty their fathers looted after overthrowing Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Today they have sold and misappropriate these ill-gotten wealth bequeathed to them by their forefathers through dirty campaign. Juxtapose Nana Addo and Kuffour, analyse these two men carefully (you can add what you know personally) what have these two men achieved personally if it has nothing to do with corruption? Kuffour`s corrupt allegations are very clear and glare that even the devil would be shocked to know the enormous mischief and evil this man possesses.

All we saw in eight years of Kuffour in office was day light robbery of properties and owning them at all cost. He supervised a regime of no shame, penetrated into state reserve lands and forcefully paid peanut for them. Siphoning from state account and redenominated the currency with impunity. They demonstrated arrogance and excess abuse of power. It is unbelievable how Kuffour`s numerous presidential initiatives headed by Allan Kyeremanteng, all ended up in “MATREKO WO” island. None of them prospered just like his mentor Dr. Abrefa Busia.

Kuffour sold our precious assets: Ghana Airways and its properties abroad, Ghana Telecom, the oil Rig and Ashanti Gold Fields. He is the villain and the enemy of state Ghanaians must look for and demand justice, He is the demon and very evil who came to kill, steal and destroy. Kuffour did not construct any road in Accra yet he managed to change and rename what his predecessors have done to create the impression that he is working

Nana Addo’s insincerity starts from his demeanour as a drug addict, his educational qualifications, and his dealings with the nation’s oil exploration which he is dying for to be president at all cost. This is what is making him to defy nature about his health condition. Nana’s sources of income did not come from his personal sweat. He is where he is as a result of the booty bequeathed to him by what his father looted from the economy and also the bribe his father took, serving as a traitor to overthrow Dr.Kwame Nkrumah. Now that he has used up all the wealth through dirty campaign and empty litigations, what he thinks of doing is using his demonstration talent to buy the conscience and lobby by using corrupt minds in leadership position in the country; some of them who pose as men of God, to chastise Government and make the country unstable. The tactics of Nana Addo is nothing new to what his father did to Ghanaians. Their sole interest is to make every regime ungovernable by castigating lies, ugly insults, throwing bombs, killing women, burning markets, lengthy shallow litigations in courts and false alarm blowers. What can they boast of themselves and what have they achieved for Ghana? They want Ghanaians to be sub-servants to them whilst in their own thinking and mental deliberations; they remain perpetually slaves to neo colonialism.

Today, you can see and hear anyone blaming leadership by just talking and blowing false alarm. However, if you analyse those personalities in question you can easily tell that they are more corrupt than whom they are accusing of corruption. The voice of the wise have been watered down and rubbished. The use of gullible words is more appreciated and encouraged and this is what is being imbibed into the minds of mass illiterate and semi-literate people in society. What can Nana Addo do differently of which Mahama is not doing? This is what he needs to dialogue and preach by using of decent language
BOY KOFI 9 years ago

The British did not come to Gold Coast to colonise us but because of our own tribal wars and atrocities the foreigners became colonial masters until 1957.We know the history of how Europeans came to trade in this country by l ...
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The British did not come to Gold Coast to colonise us but because of our own tribal wars and atrocities the foreigners became colonial masters until 1957.We know the history of how Europeans came to trade in this country by looking at the forts and castles they left behind.Thank you.
Kwasi 9 years ago

Dear cherished readers, just look for this book " A History of Ghana' revised and updated by F.K.Buah, 1998,(black cover) and open to Chapter 16, pages 182 - 185 and read to judge for yourself whether JB Danquah deserves the ...
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Dear cherished readers, just look for this book " A History of Ghana' revised and updated by F.K.Buah, 1998,(black cover) and open to Chapter 16, pages 182 - 185 and read to judge for yourself whether JB Danquah deserves the praises that people are claiming he should be accorded.
EDUARDO DOMINGO 9 years ago

THE JB DANQUAH DID A TITANIC JOB FOR THE CIA , AND YOU GOT THE MEDAL FROM THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND FOR IT. THIS IS JUST LIKE WHEN YOU AWARDED YOUR SELF A MEDAL, OF ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU DID , THAT WAS QUIXOTIC!!

THE JB DANQUAH DID A TITANIC JOB FOR THE CIA , AND YOU GOT THE MEDAL FROM THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND FOR IT. THIS IS JUST LIKE WHEN YOU AWARDED YOUR SELF A MEDAL, OF ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU DID , THAT WAS QUIXOTIC!!
Osei Yao 9 years ago

EMULATE TRAITORS? THE UGCC WAS ELITIST AND TRIBALISTIC. LOOK AT THE LEADERSHIP, 2 AKIMS 2 GAS AND 2 NZEMAS. NO FANTE, NO ASHANTI (WHO FOUGHT COLONIZERS) NO NORTHERNER. THAT IS DANQUAH FOR YOU. HE PLAYED A MINOR ROLE FOR HIS O ...
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EMULATE TRAITORS? THE UGCC WAS ELITIST AND TRIBALISTIC. LOOK AT THE LEADERSHIP, 2 AKIMS 2 GAS AND 2 NZEMAS. NO FANTE, NO ASHANTI (WHO FOUGHT COLONIZERS) NO NORTHERNER. THAT IS DANQUAH FOR YOU. HE PLAYED A MINOR ROLE FOR HIS OWN SELFISH REASONS. HEREIS HOW HE TOASTED INDEPNDENCE DAY: :TWA ME BI, AKO ADJEI ADI MAWU" BUT FOR AKO ADJEI HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE PRIME MINISTER, HE MUSED.
ROGUE LAWYER 9 years ago

Those guys were satan of the Regime. Dr Kwame Nkrumah DID A WONDERFUL JOB BY CAGING THOSE SATANS.
k4 please getout from These satanic groupe of Family if you want your Image not taged with evils

Those guys were satan of the Regime. Dr Kwame Nkrumah DID A WONDERFUL JOB BY CAGING THOSE SATANS.
k4 please getout from These satanic groupe of Family if you want your Image not taged with evils
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

It is ironic but appropriate and fitting Kufour, the unrepentant thief Ghana ever had as president, would use titanic to describe the role UGCC and Danquah played in Ghana politics.

The people who built the Titanic bore t ...
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It is ironic but appropriate and fitting Kufour, the unrepentant thief Ghana ever had as president, would use titanic to describe the role UGCC and Danquah played in Ghana politics.

The people who built the Titanic bore the false hopes that the vessel could not sink but it did sink on its maiden voyage. The zealots who founded the UGCC were motivated by an ideology that sank at Ghana politics and elections with the victory of the CPP. Instead of accepting defeat and bear the cross for their folly the UGCC chose mayhem and acts of terror to destabilize the CPP government.

Arguments put forth against the CPP by the UGCC during the Nkrumah era and they continue to put forth by NPP and those of the Busia-Danquah ideology are not only devoid of logic but of substance. If Nkrumah and the CPP meant to destroy the leaders of the opposition for the hell of it then why would the CPP not have passed laws to either criminalize the UGCC as a political party and or arrest its leaders on trumped up charges from the get go? The CPP required a firm and unyielding government to stand against morons of the UGCC kind who would oppose progress in Ghana for the sake of opposing legislation. And when those attempts became futile at the legislative process UGCC members took to acts of savagery and terror.

Kufour and the NPP seem to understand savages because NPP success depended on savages who would rather see Ghana ungovernable and under-developed than to see a prosperous Ghana under any other political party. You learned so well Kufour from your heroes.

Kufuor: “Unique” JB Danquah played a “titanic role” in Ghana

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