Letter OF Consolation to Dr. Kofi A. Busia – on the couple in Ghana

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onetribe 9 years ago

He will ask, was it really worth the blood you spilt to get a few bob for yourself. Well actually a lot of bob.

He will ask, was it really worth the blood you spilt to get a few bob for yourself. Well actually a lot of bob.
xxx 9 years ago

It seems Nkrumah was a Narcissist just as dictator Rawlings is. Ghanaians rejoiced when dictator Nkrumah was overthrown. Contrary most Ghanaians mourned when Busia was overthrown,similar to the reaction when Liman was overthr ...
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It seems Nkrumah was a Narcissist just as dictator Rawlings is. Ghanaians rejoiced when dictator Nkrumah was overthrown. Contrary most Ghanaians mourned when Busia was overthrown,similar to the reaction when Liman was overthrown due to the flimsy reasons given by Acheampong and Rawlings when both stole power.
Shabi 9 years ago

What did you say??? Ghanaians mourned when Busia was overthrown - and that same situation occured when Limann was overthrown? Where were you? How old are you?

For your information, Busia, perhaps much more than any other h ...
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What did you say??? Ghanaians mourned when Busia was overthrown - and that same situation occured when Limann was overthrown? Where were you? How old are you?

For your information, Busia, perhaps much more than any other head of state of Ghana or even Mahama, was/is the most despised and disrespected leader on record in Ghanas history.

Many months before his eventual overthrow, market-women along the Kaneshie market road and Accra Central would rush to the roadside upon hearing the distant siren of the motorcade transporting Busia to work from his Odorkor residence. They would hoot at him, jeer at him, insult him, pelt his motorcade with bananas, tomatoes, oranges and anything they could lay hands on. Some would even bare their ample buttocks at his motorcade as a sign of gross disrespect and the ultimate insult.

As a result, Busia was moved to complain to the full house of Parliament in his shrill falsetto voice that, he doesnt know what he has done to the market women of Accra but any time he is passing they shout at him with aspersions such as "Busia onaa bu agbo and Busia onye .....".

Needless to say, when the coup against him eventually took place, it was like a carnival atmosphere everywhere in Ghana.

I am saying this not only because I dislike traitors, terrorists and imperialist house-niggers, but because for obvious reasons, any coup anywhere in Africa is bound to enjoy spontaneous support. If the coup against the greatest African could muster crowds onto the streets in support, then believe me, any coup in Ghana will indeed enjoy considerable support.

Finally, what is it about you Danquasiris and Busia sympathizers that makes you always tend to turn history upside down and inside out? Is it some kind of mental condition or what?
Bonso 9 years ago

What a funny thing to read. Dr Busia was never unpopular at all. There was freedom of speech and people enjoyed the banter. Busia was a central person that led the recovery of Ghana's Economy with sound economic policies ...
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What a funny thing to read. Dr Busia was never unpopular at all. There was freedom of speech and people enjoyed the banter. Busia was a central person that led the recovery of Ghana's Economy with sound economic policies and agrarian based rural development. He was very good and led a most efficient government. He had supported the NLC to stabilise the society with good policies and programmes including civic responsibilities and restoration of democracy after 15 years of corruption and communism. Acheampong said he had planned to do the coup 5 months into the able government. The short period of Busia's policies bore fruit for Acheampong's early years in government. You have your own jaundiced opinions based on flamboyance and euphoria of 'wonkye di' CPP government of Nkrumah, whose overthrow, was on the other hand far well celebrated than Busia's coup. People rejoiced for months when Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown. The songs are still etched in memory of witnesses. Hmm
Anokware 9 years ago

Months or a year or so before your hero, Busia, was overthrown, I witnessed an incredible demonstration by workers against the government. There were thousands of workers organized by the TUC who poured into town and, as they ...
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Months or a year or so before your hero, Busia, was overthrown, I witnessed an incredible demonstration by workers against the government. There were thousands of workers organized by the TUC who poured into town and, as they marched, they were chanting: "Busia ne tun, akoko ne tun, peh-peh-peh" (Busia's arse, the hen's arse, exactly the same).

That, my friend, is a true reflection of how most people felt about the rat, Busia. You can still concoct stories about this most hateful, vindictive, vengeful and tribalistic man who brooked no opposition and came to destroy our progress - the effects of which we are suffering from today.

What rural development did Busia bring to Ghana? Today even after 8 years of Danquah-Busia rule, foreign NGOs now come to Ghana to build public latrines for the rural folk! Busia vehemently opposed the building of the Akosombo dam. Imagine what Ghana would be like in these dumsor days without the dam! And look at all the properties built by Nkrumah that the NPP (as well as the NDC) came and looted! Thank Nkrumah for having created wealth for you people to steal!
mensah abrampa 9 years ago

And what is it about you Nkrumaists that make you to lie, distort and propagandize to deceive unsuspecting folks? Of course for undue political advantage over your rivals. Old habits never die so you're still pushing doggedl ...
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And what is it about you Nkrumaists that make you to lie, distort and propagandize to deceive unsuspecting folks? Of course for undue political advantage over your rivals. Old habits never die so you're still pushing doggedly forward.
The pathological liars you were, you guys used to tell the rural folks whom you knew were very vulnerable and naive because of illiteracy which was widespread at the time that "Danquah calls himself a doctor but he doesn't know how to use the hypodermic needle". That is the handiwork of unconscionable villains and propagandists.
Those market women you are so proud of were Nkrumaism acolytes. who had not recovered from the rude shock of Nkrumah's overthrow and yes, taunted Busia whenever they had the opportunity. Busia being the dyed-in-the-wool democrat that he was,ignored and pardoned the women's reprehensible behavior. What do you think would have been the fate of these irresponsible and repugnant women if they had done this to Nkrumah?
George Hutchful, a former Mfantsipim Assistant School Prefect (1963-1965) heckled Busia at Legon but the PM instructed his security personnel to release him without any charges. What would your egocentric and power-drunk Nkrumah have done? Your sincere guess is as good as mine.
I was a third year student at Mfantsipim School when Nkrumah was overthrown. You cannot compare the sheer rapture and the spontaneity of support for that coup that overthrew Nkrumah to that of Busia. Busia's overthrow took the population by surprise and people had mixed feelings abiut it. It's not very clear why Busia chose Kutu Akyeampong, another Nkrumah protege as head of the Presidential Guard but it was a judgemental error that proved to be his undoing. Stop airbrushing history because some of us who witnessed this part of our history are still alive and kicking.
OneGhana 9 years ago

Were you alive when Busia was overthrown? Stop your ignorance.

Were you alive when Busia was overthrown? Stop your ignorance.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

Nkrumah suffered from extreme character defects: ungrateful, dishonest, vindictive, megalomaniacal, extravagant, spendthrift, dictatorial, disloyal, traitorous, delusional, egoistic, paranoid, schizophrenic, psychopathic, fra ...
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Nkrumah suffered from extreme character defects: ungrateful, dishonest, vindictive, megalomaniacal, extravagant, spendthrift, dictatorial, disloyal, traitorous, delusional, egoistic, paranoid, schizophrenic, psychopathic, fraudulent......
Keneth 9 years ago

People often say that insanity is "repeating the same behaviour and expecting a different result." Close to this, I understand that being exposed to the same repetitive writing and behaviour time and time over is sufficient t ...
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People often say that insanity is "repeating the same behaviour and expecting a different result." Close to this, I understand that being exposed to the same repetitive writing and behaviour time and time over is sufficient to drive that person mentally insane.SAS satisfies the description.He is more than becoming boring and the crusade is now bothering on lunacy.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

You can't even write English...

The word is "bordering" fool.

You can't even write English...

The word is "bordering" fool.
Shabi 9 years ago

Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law and teacher at a secondary school, you must have forgotten to take your pills this morning.

You should know by now that these uncontrollable rages which send you into fits of hysterical delirium a ...
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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law and teacher at a secondary school, you must have forgotten to take your pills this morning.

You should know by now that these uncontrollable rages which send you into fits of hysterical delirium any time the name of Nkrumah is mentioned, as evidenced by your outburst above, are not good for your mental health. Go and take your pills and restructure your contribution in a sane and civilized manner.

If you think you are so great at the English language, perhaps you can start by coming back to your country of origin and teaching the rest of us how to write proper English - of course, after you have taken your pills. How petty can you get?
Charles Abrefa 9 years ago

My professor wrote the word "posters" instead of "postures." He corrected it two days later.If it can even happen to Professors who are Ph.D holders,what is the bid deal? Dr SAS,overcome your infantile mindset and argue sensi ...
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My professor wrote the word "posters" instead of "postures." He corrected it two days later.If it can even happen to Professors who are Ph.D holders,what is the bid deal? Dr SAS,overcome your infantile mindset and argue sensibly.
Charles Abrefa 9 years ago

big deal NOT bid deal

big deal NOT bid deal
Kwadwo 9 years ago

This letter suggest that Nkrumah was embittered and explains how he was able to incarcerate his enemies without charge and trial. What a tortured soul. Did he really confront Busia at a funeral? Funny.

This letter suggest that Nkrumah was embittered and explains how he was able to incarcerate his enemies without charge and trial. What a tortured soul. Did he really confront Busia at a funeral? Funny.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

Dr. SAS, why don't you spill it all once and for all exactly why you have taken to this low to spew such despicable personal insults on Nkrumah?

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Dr. SAS, why don't you spill it all once and for all exactly why you have taken to this low to spew such despicable personal insults on Nkrumah?

Even the most direct family members of his arch foes like Busia and Danquah spare us the horrible epithets you dump on Nkrumah. You have sadly slipped way down beyond the bowels of political indecency to smear yourself with grotesque putrescent morass, turning this bashing of Nkrumah into a personal duel.

Your incredulous turpid characterization of Nkrumah would have been more effectively used against him by the Danquah's and Busia's apparatchiks long ago in the heat of their mutual feuds, if any of it were truly applicable to Nkrumah.

I am shocked that someone like you with all your lofty academic and social stature could stoop this low. More, may I ask whether folks who deprecate themselves as utterly physically ugly as you fessed up about yourself are often as virulently unpleasant and viciously hateful as you have shown yourself to be?

How about the other pit cal leaders you know? Are they all saintly, perfect humans with none of the sociopathic attributes you lined up for Nkrumah?

I guess you probably are the only scholar with the best sense of character and psychiatric appraisal of others. Good for you, Dr. Perfect!

Have a nice day!

Long Live Ghana!!!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

But I am a very good person and very handsome, Dr. Berko! Ask anybody that knows me personally. My kindness and generosity and honesty are boundless, and I am daring anybody who knows me to dispute this assertion.
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But I am a very good person and very handsome, Dr. Berko! Ask anybody that knows me personally. My kindness and generosity and honesty are boundless, and I am daring anybody who knows me to dispute this assertion.
And part of being decent and good and kind is recognizing the face of evil when you see one. And I see Nkrumah as an evil genius deserving of all the "sociopathic" epithets I have lined up for him.

I see it as a sacred duty to unveil Nkrumah in all his true form......and if that makes me an "ignoble scholar", so be it.
Michael Asiedu 9 years ago

From all indications Dr SAS has a serious mental problem.G.K.Berko,please ignore this biased and crazy fool.He is no match to you.

From all indications Dr SAS has a serious mental problem.G.K.Berko,please ignore this biased and crazy fool.He is no match to you.
Captain Canada 9 years ago

physical demeanor as in his writings. He's got an equally ugly and disfigured countenance just as his writings. Picture a troll, add snorts and rotten smell of dead flesh and you have the SAS. He is as dishonest as the 'DR' t ...
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physical demeanor as in his writings. He's got an equally ugly and disfigured countenance just as his writings. Picture a troll, add snorts and rotten smell of dead flesh and you have the SAS. He is as dishonest as the 'DR' title he slaps on his name. He's an ingrate who should have been denied the basic health care and education but rather left to the childhood diseases that killed many babies in Africa. Nkrumah's magnanimity is the reason this insufferable toad continues to write nonsense. After all without Nkrumahs schools and health care guess where he will be. No where. If by some cruel luck he had survived the childhood diseases he will not be anywhere near here. He'll be a a bushman with polio or hernia trudging through the mud of Ashanti bekwai or whatever backward region he comes from. Thanks to Nkrumah this monkey learned to read and write. And is now a revisionist par excellence! This monkey got an opportunity to travel to the USA from an airport built by the same man he traduces. This monkey calls himself a Ghanaian instead of a bushman from brong or where ever the hell he comes from. He now identifies with the red, gold and green with the black star instead of responding to monkey calls and hoots from the bushes of the native forest. Such is the ingratitude of this ape masquerading as educated being. He can now live in texas without being lynched thanks to the struggle of black leaders including Nkrumah. Tarring and feathering this guy will be to good for him. He should be shot and left for the crows to pick at. That is if we lived in a fair world. Anyway SAS, here is a message from Nkrumah, fuck you and you entire family of apes. You owe him for educating you and your sorry bunch.
Kojo T 9 years ago

SAS you never even met Nkrumah. Stop the hate

SAS you never even met Nkrumah. Stop the hate
Gye Nyame 9 years ago

@Kojo T: Gee! do you have to meet someone to criticize the person? Even those of us who had personal relationships with Nkrumah due to our family history can be objective and criticize/praise him. My father was one of the fe ...
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@Kojo T: Gee! do you have to meet someone to criticize the person? Even those of us who had personal relationships with Nkrumah due to our family history can be objective and criticize/praise him. My father was one of the few CPP folks who was faithful to Nkrumah to the end, one of my relatives was in Nkrumah's security and only returned to Ghana from Guinea after Nkrumah's death. My father was instrumental in getting Acheampong to bring Fathia back -- although he was disappointed later on when Fathia started "fraternizing" with members of the government in a way that was not expected, to put it a nice way. My father was also hoping that Nkrumah could return to Ghana at the time of Acheampong's coup but he was too ill to do that.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Great read!

Our sense is Busia drove more Ghanaians out of Ghana in those pithy years, than Nkrumah and the CPP ever did all those other years.

And yes, the African Personality, it still controls, by way of Ghana, but b ...
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Great read!

Our sense is Busia drove more Ghanaians out of Ghana in those pithy years, than Nkrumah and the CPP ever did all those other years.

And yes, the African Personality, it still controls, by way of Ghana, but barely, nowadays!
Shabi 9 years ago

So when Busia met Nkrumah at President Tubman's funeral in Liberia, he beat a hasty retreat? Hahahahahahah!!!! This is indeed an interesting piece of information. Could it have been guilt that made Busia take a U-turn from Nk ...
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So when Busia met Nkrumah at President Tubman's funeral in Liberia, he beat a hasty retreat? Hahahahahahah!!!! This is indeed an interesting piece of information. Could it have been guilt that made Busia take a U-turn from Nkrumah?

As the saying goes, "cowards die many time times before their death"
Captain Canada 9 years ago

was his better and he couldn't measure up.

was his better and he couldn't measure up.
KKO 9 years ago

Come on,
Be realistic. Which Ghanaians did Busia drive out of Ghana>? How old were you in 1972? Have you heard of Rural Development and how AA Munufie came to be linked with anything that was considered "bush?"

Had the id ...
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Come on,
Be realistic. Which Ghanaians did Busia drive out of Ghana>? How old were you in 1972? Have you heard of Rural Development and how AA Munufie came to be linked with anything that was considered "bush?"

Had the idiot Akyeampong not staged his senseless coup, the rural areas of Ghana would be really developed today and we wouldn't have Sodom and Gomorrah and other wretched ghettos like that all over the place. There probably wouldn't be that many 'Northern'girls being "Kaya Yei" in Accra or rural boys selling dog chains either!

Ever heard of "Ghananisation of University Lecturers?" It was Busia's idea. When he took office about 65% of the lecturers in our three universities were foreigners being paid, in part at least, in foreign currency which the state did not have.

All three universities at the time could only take about 3500 students a year. Busia changed all that with the loan scheme, which selfish people like PV , Saarah-Mensah and Ibn Chmabas opposed. Today, it is that policy that has enabled some dirt poor Ghanaians to access university education. The records are there. Get knowledge and stop these worthless lies. They do not do anything for Ghana!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

KKO,
Worthless lies?

No knowledge?

You must be kidding us with those comments!

We must say it is a bit presumptuous for you to attempt to tell us how old we might be. What has age got to do with our our proposition ...
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KKO,
Worthless lies?

No knowledge?

You must be kidding us with those comments!

We must say it is a bit presumptuous for you to attempt to tell us how old we might be. What has age got to do with our our proposition - that Busia's regime saw a lot of people vacate Ghana?

When one engineers almost a 45% devaluation of a national currency, do you expect people who can vacate, to stay put!

Recently, there was an essay on Ghanaweb about housing during Busia regime, and how it was a massive failure.

Further, how many of the 3 universities were constructed during Nkrumah's regime, those that Busia added to, by way of student bodies? How many universities did Busia constuct?

And it looks like we have our history backward! Maybe you forget about free education for all people Northern, initiated by Nkrumah, that it was that program that now allows you to talk about "many", instead of ""a sea" 'Northern'girls being "Kaya Yei"", and then some.

"Ghananisation of University Lecturers"?

That one must take a lot of wisdom, advance planning, COURAGE, and selfless devotion to the idea of a Nation greater than One solitary individual!!!!!!

Further, since Busia was a planning member of the NLC, and became Prime Minister, what after all is the difference between his importance to himself, and his importance to Ghana?

Finally, maybe the irony is completely lost to you, to say "Had the idiot Akyeampong not staged his senseless coup...."

Well, well, well!!

That, KKO, is the whole point about Nkrumah's letter to Busia, if you actually read it!
KKO 9 years ago

You got it all wrong. My point was about rural development and urbanisation. If that programme had been allowed to work, there would not be the need for young people to flee the rural areas, to be kaya yei or dog chain seller ...
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You got it all wrong. My point was about rural development and urbanisation. If that programme had been allowed to work, there would not be the need for young people to flee the rural areas, to be kaya yei or dog chain sellers in Accra. That was my point.

The JSS which Jerry Boom, Mohammed Abdallah and Aanaa Enin screwed up so badly was Busia's idea to cut down on the number years people spent in school. The education system needed to be reformed and the existing universities consolidated first. The failure to do that is the reason we have one of the worst education systems in Africa today!

What was wrong with the housing programme that began to develop Odorkor and Dansoman Estates and Koforidua Adweso (the ones I am most familiar with) and all the regional capitals?

At least, most rural dwellers (and even in Accra for the elimination of cholera at the time), are ever grateful for the elimination of guinea worm and cholera, and especially guinea worm, which used to devastate their lives during the farming season, year after year.

At least for me as someone born in the countryside, the 29 months of Busia's regime saw more real and sustainable development than at anytime in in my lifetime.

The cedi was weak, as a result of the bankruptcy of the previous decade. So what exactly were the options open to any serious leader?. You obviously have no idea when people started leaving Ghana!

Ironically Ghana's economy has always performed at its worst under leftist governments. May be you should begin to reflect on your rhetoric!
Captain Canada 9 years ago

to flee Ghana? Are you aware the treatment Ghanaians got in the 80s in Nigeria can squarely be put at the foot of Busia?

to flee Ghana? Are you aware the treatment Ghanaians got in the 80s in Nigeria can squarely be put at the foot of Busia?
Anokware 9 years ago

Busia was such a vindictive, hateful man that anybody who had been associated with anything to do with Nkrumah was hounded out of Ghana. The late R.P. Baffoe, the first Vice Chancellor of KNUST had to flee to Zambia until Bus ...
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Busia was such a vindictive, hateful man that anybody who had been associated with anything to do with Nkrumah was hounded out of Ghana. The late R.P. Baffoe, the first Vice Chancellor of KNUST had to flee to Zambia until Busia had been overthrown.

Many of the younger generations do not know what happened. Books - any book written by Nkrumah or about Nkrumah - were burnt. Even a mere picture of Nkrumah was criminalized, as well as all CPP paraphernalia. When NUGS called for Nkrumah to be allowed back into Ghana, Busia went furious and, like the tinpot dictator he was, he summoned the NUGS leadership to appear before parliament so as to be rebuked and also to render an apology!
KKO 9 years ago

Come on Rp Baffuor left UST before Busia came to power! Go and read the report of the Commission of Enquiry into UST after 1966! Evans Anfom was my Vice Chancellor, but Bamfo-Kwakye signed my certificate.

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Come on Rp Baffuor left UST before Busia came to power! Go and read the report of the Commission of Enquiry into UST after 1966! Evans Anfom was my Vice Chancellor, but Bamfo-Kwakye signed my certificate.

evans-Anfom was appointed before Busia came to power in 1969.
How can you lie like that?

A lot of lecturers from the Engineering Faculty went to Uganda and Zambia - Mawusi Dake, Baffuor, Wright, etc. were they deported? Get a life!
Keneth 9 years ago

The mad man is ruffled why not talk about the substance of the message instead of the spelling.May be it is time expose you as a fake doctor.You claim that you are a doctor because you have a JD degree that is wrong and I cha ...
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The mad man is ruffled why not talk about the substance of the message instead of the spelling.May be it is time expose you as a fake doctor.You claim that you are a doctor because you have a JD degree that is wrong and I challenge you to dispute what the American bar had to say on it.

According to the American bar J.D. is the law equivalent of a Bachelor's Degree, while LL.M. is the Master's equivalent. Meaning, in most circumstances, you must start with a J.D.So to say you are a doctor because you have a first degree in law is not only misleading it is criminal.
Shabi 9 years ago

Methinks the man has been smitten by a danquasiri (a bat). He is clearly and visibly on a rabid high.

Methinks the man has been smitten by a danquasiri (a bat). He is clearly and visibly on a rabid high.
Bono 9 years ago

SORRY, you are wrong on this one.

SORRY, you are wrong on this one.
Michael Asiedu 9 years ago

Come on liars,wake up! Most Ghanaians jubiliated on Busia's downfall.Busia's unpopular Devaluation of the cedi was the last straw that broke the carmel's back.Prices of goods skyrocketed as a result of the Devaluation,and Gha ...
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Come on liars,wake up! Most Ghanaians jubiliated on Busia's downfall.Busia's unpopular Devaluation of the cedi was the last straw that broke the carmel's back.Prices of goods skyrocketed as a result of the Devaluation,and Ghanaians could not even afford to buy their basic needs.Those babies on Ghanaweb who were not even born must shut up.
Keneth 9 years ago

The crazy idiot is ruffled read my comment below.

The crazy idiot is ruffled read my comment below.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

What is:

"The crazy idiot is ruffled read my comment below"???

Your English is as bad as that of Nkrumah. The dimwit wrote in pidgin thus:

"You will also appreciate the fact that those who sow a wind (sic) reap a wh ...
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What is:

"The crazy idiot is ruffled read my comment below"???

Your English is as bad as that of Nkrumah. The dimwit wrote in pidgin thus:

"You will also appreciate the fact that those who sow a wind (sic) reap a whirlwind(sic), and after you have finished spoiling (sic) other people, you will be surprised to find out that you have spoiled(sic) yourself."

He also wrote:

"Faithful Yours"!!!

You and Nkrumah are half-baked educated dimwits.
Keneth 9 years ago

SAS answer the question,I am challenging you that you are a fake doctor because you can not be a doctor with a first degree and that is my challenge to you otherwise you will be exposed as a criminal with a fake doctorate.JD ...
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SAS answer the question,I am challenging you that you are a fake doctor because you can not be a doctor with a first degree and that is my challenge to you otherwise you will be exposed as a criminal with a fake doctorate.JD is a bachelor’s degree and not a doctorate degree.Am I right or not?.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

Do you need to look very far to find a fake doctor?

Your idol, Nkrumah, who wrote that linguistically flawed letter above is the one that is fake. He came to Ghana and claimed to have a doctoral degree at a time when he di ...
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Do you need to look very far to find a fake doctor?

Your idol, Nkrumah, who wrote that linguistically flawed letter above is the one that is fake. He came to Ghana and claimed to have a doctoral degree at a time when he didn't. Now that is fake.

It is disingenuous to argue that someone like me with an earned Juris Doctor (which is Latin for Doctor of Law) is not a holder of a doctor of law degree. Only a concrete-headed, illiterate Nkrumaist can make such a trite argument.

Fraud or fakery of the Nkrumah type is a very serious charge here; so like Ahoofe, you can forward your grievance to the Texas Office of the Disciplinary Counsel. They will explain your ignorance to you....just like they did for Ahoofe.

I was not responding to your nonsense because this issue is res judicata, if you understand.
amenyaglo 9 years ago

Dr SAS this an advice you may choose to ignore never argue with a fool people may not see the difference.

Dr SAS this an advice you may choose to ignore never argue with a fool people may not see the difference.
Otsibu Darko 9 years ago

You are very a stupid lawyer indeed if all that you care for is self glorification; are you an English man, did you score 100% in your English "essays" from elementary school through university level? I appreciate the fact yo ...
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You are very a stupid lawyer indeed if all that you care for is self glorification; are you an English man, did you score 100% in your English "essays" from elementary school through university level? I appreciate the fact you did understand the dude and the message and you are the type that can even write or read your own mother tongue more or less to correct somebody's spelling mistake who have used a second language to pass his exams--- in all reality what I see in you is a deep rooted or a seething anger against Nkrumah yet you benefited from his free education program, you moron! I have posed some questions for you in one of your articles about Nkrumah ( under someone's comments)
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

Another of the ranting Nkrumaist morons who cannot communicate in good English. He writes in pidgin just like Nkrumah.

What is:

"I appreciate the fact you did understand the dude and the message and you are the type th ...
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Another of the ranting Nkrumaist morons who cannot communicate in good English. He writes in pidgin just like Nkrumah.

What is:

"I appreciate the fact you did understand the dude and the message and you are the type that can even write or read your own mother tongue more or less to correct somebody's spelling mistake who have used a second language to pass his exams....." ????

You are a good example of Nkrumah's cheap education policy. It produced illiterates now posing as educated fools.

Your logic is that we are not English men so any language goes? Such a loser!
Otsibu Darko 9 years ago

You're the most cheapest educated fool of a lawyer I've come across and it seems you find it hard to understand issues when presented in a simple 'fashion'; your interest is that everyone should write, read and speak like a w ...
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You're the most cheapest educated fool of a lawyer I've come across and it seems you find it hard to understand issues when presented in a simple 'fashion'; your interest is that everyone should write, read and speak like a white English man and instead of utilizing your your 'energy' to help Ghana you are living in white mans' land and writing nonsense! What would you have done differently if you were Nkrumah?
Keneth 9 years ago

You are not only a lunatic but a one way scholar-a scholar who lacks wisdom and understanding hence your weird way of looking at things.

If you don't understand the sentence the lunatic is ruffled then you are even worse t ...
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You are not only a lunatic but a one way scholar-a scholar who lacks wisdom and understanding hence your weird way of looking at things.

If you don't understand the sentence the lunatic is ruffled then you are even worse than an illiterate.Let me explain what it means to a crazy pedant like you.Ruffle is defined as"to make (someone) irritated, annoyed, worried", so if you say the lunatic is ruffled you mean the lunatic is annoyed and irritated.That is exactly what you are doing,a crazy idiot on the loose for being ruffled.
Paul 9 years ago

There is a link between "wind" and "whirlwind" and SAS completely failed to grasp the figure of speech here. By the way, what is wrong with the word "spoil" as in "spoilage" which is a term commonly used in agriculture in rel ...
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There is a link between "wind" and "whirlwind" and SAS completely failed to grasp the figure of speech here. By the way, what is wrong with the word "spoil" as in "spoilage" which is a term commonly used in agriculture in relation to DAMAGE done? Even if this "colloquial" or even a 'jargon' or 'slang', what is wrong with Nkrumah using it in a personal letter to another person?

Your nit picking is both uncalled for and revealing of exactly the kind of odd and unbalanced personality that you are Dr SAS. Sadly I believe you are beyond redemption!!!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

No Nkrumaist can communicate in good English. This is because English is not just a language but also a subject which is better studied through extensive reading. Extensive reading makes one a better thinker. The Nkrumaists d ...
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No Nkrumaist can communicate in good English. This is because English is not just a language but also a subject which is better studied through extensive reading. Extensive reading makes one a better thinker. The Nkrumaists don't read, and so they can't think.

Nkrumah himself was a bad writer as evidenced by his tawdry and infantile letter above.

Now talk about a cackle of half-baked educated dimwits, and you will be aptly describing the Nkrumaist goons. Give them a line of editorial review extending from here to Jerusalem, and they will still be writing in pidgin. The extent of these people's education is just to qualify them to be town-criers for Nkrumah.

(I will generously make exception for Dr. G.K. Berko who can write pretty well but is still disabled when it comes to thinking well).
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Looks like this letter to Busia, from Nkrumah, has you a bit under the weather/mad!

Now you have issues with people about their "English...language...(and)...English...subject".

Is it because this letter, at least, has ...
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Looks like this letter to Busia, from Nkrumah, has you a bit under the weather/mad!

Now you have issues with people about their "English...language...(and)...English...subject".

Is it because this letter, at least, has a more credible source than the one you paste according to what you think people should know.

You know, the one you, the lawyer, forgot to show the date?

Yes, those Danquah prison letters that you and the so-called Danquah Institute have thus far failed to show. Isn't this precisely what (a Danquah Institute)/websites is/are good at?

Providing access to information?

Maybe you will be in luck, still!

From Kweku Danso, here is your reference, if you missed it:

The Black Scholar
Vol. 3
No. 9
BLACK BATTLES
(May 1972), pp. 23-26.
Kwame 9 years ago

Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law I am sixty plus years on Earth but have come to the conclusion that people like you prefer colonialism in tranquility to freedom with all the dangers it entail. I am of the view that you understand th ...
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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law I am sixty plus years on Earth but have come to the conclusion that people like you prefer colonialism in tranquility to freedom with all the dangers it entail. I am of the view that you understand the contents of the letter of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to Prof. Kofi Abrefa Busia after his overthrow.
It is a fact that Kwame Nkrumah read English and Latin and passed his examinations, as is the case of anyone studying in any university in the U.S.
Kwame Nkrumah authored a number of books, some of which were on philosophy and his Neocolonialism the Last Stage of Imperialism and Conscincism come to the fore.He did not use Nzima to write his thesis as well as Neocolonialism the Last Stage of Imperialism.
Dr. SAS, Attoney at Law if you are really a lawyer you are well aware that Kwame Nkrumah never acted unconstitutional. He did not come to power as a result of any unconstitutional action, or through any cheap named counterrevolution turned upside down on its head and named a revolution. Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law it is not fiction, but a fact that the U.S. laws that regard you as an animal less than the white man's dog were laws so long as they remain on the statute books of the U.S. then.
The history of U.S. scholarship has for a long time been hijacked by arrogant intellectuals, thus the U.S. is not able to convince anyone around the world about its socioeconomic system apart from the use of force,sanctions and other covert and overt means.
It is a fact that market women do not respect Prof. Kofi Abraa Busia during the period he was the Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969 to 1972 and not even students. It is also a fact that he was insulted by market women whenever he gets near the markets,especially his own sister in-laws Ghas.
The majority of Ghanaians then saw Busia of being the cause of the lost of employment by their husbands and children because he was an adviser the the military junta National Liberation Council(NLC). The dismissal of over 586 Ewhes from the civil and public service was a disaster. The no court no court statement that unfortunately even lawyers who say at the same time that it was not lawful for Nkrumah to terminate the appointment of some judges, yet when their mouths are not even closed they say that it was proper for Busia to dismiss those people. Then came the alliance compliance order which peach Nigerians who insulted Komla Agbeli Gbedema and his tribe calling them unprintable names during the campaign of the 1969 not turned their saviour. Busia's trouble never ended because just like you he see himself as an intellectual whose word is law and must be respected by everyone. He was than the prime minister of Ghana and you a wage slave like I. Busia was a rabid dog who was biting people left and right and as we have stated already students were called to parliament to explain why they abuse him.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law I happen to have a cousin who worked as a typist in Kwame Nkrumah's office at the Flag Staff House. Two years ago he narrated to me some of the torments even people he happen to get employment for at the Flag Staff House gave Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah did not cause their arrest but dispatch them out in peace and the rest is history. Nkrumah did not imprisoned them but their own life put them in and out of prison. I happen to know a lot of CPP members and activists and their lives and public conduct is a reflection of the life of Kwame Nkrumah whose ideological student I am. I beat my chest and write here that Nkrumahism made me a king in my aspect of human endeavour. Without Nkrumahism I would not have achieved for this country what I have done for her, not fearing injury nor casting pearl at swine, and even remaining an unknown soldier. Let me end here by saying that what have you done for Ghana and Africa apart from cutting their nose, to spite their face and mock them.
KKO 9 years ago

Kwame,
How can an old man like you tell such shameful plain-faced lies like that? The Ga Market women did not like Busia for purely tribal reasons. It was because the PP trounced their turn-coat “Darling Boy” Joe Appiah ...
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Kwame,
How can an old man like you tell such shameful plain-faced lies like that? The Ga Market women did not like Busia for purely tribal reasons. It was because the PP trounced their turn-coat “Darling Boy” Joe Appiah and his “Aba ba see”. Even Naa Morkor did not have any peace from them mainly because they considered the “Dwamm bii” invading Accra. They even hooted at Busia, for trying to create a proper sewerage system in Accra, which would have ended the practice of shitting at the beach today!

The Aliens (your Alliance) Compliance Order was a nationalistic policy. It stopped the smuggling of Ghana’s diamonds and opened the floodgates for Ghanaians to enter the retail trade. There iare no diamond mines in Lebanon, but Lebanon had a thriving diamond market. They were all smuggled from Ghana and Sierra Leone. Bringing Ghanaians into the retail trade is what built Kwahu, the most prosperous and beautiful district in the whole Ghana! That is what led to Tata brewery, which Rawlings stole and sold for a song. Ernest Chemist and a host of other Ghanaian enterprises came to be because of that policy.

Besides, it was not a capricious policy. Nigerians who had lived in Ghana for decades and were still sending money to Nigeria through the black market, which was damaging the economy, were given the chance to regularise their stay in Ghana. Like the Indians in Uganda, they thought it was a joke and ignored it. You cannot blame Busia for that. I had classmates from primary school to university whose parents regularised their stay and continued to live in Ghana. They are still in Ghana!

There is history behind Apollo 568 and it had to do with Kotoka and tribally-based employment. That is what is happening at the ministries and other government agencies in Ghana today. Most of the ‘Northerners’ that occupy lofty positions in Ghana today are not qualified to be where they are. Many of them write the kind of very poor English you have displayed here. If in 2017 another government comes to power in Ghana, there are bound to be dismissals of dubiously engaged staff. It is as simple as that.
Michael Asiedu 9 years ago

Hey primitive-minded tribalist and biased DR SAS ! Stop beating about the bush.Let's read your comments on the marlpractices of Kwaku Dua.Why can't you respond to the charges Joe Asibey has put forward against you GOD,the Asa ...
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Hey primitive-minded tribalist and biased DR SAS ! Stop beating about the bush.Let's read your comments on the marlpractices of Kwaku Dua.Why can't you respond to the charges Joe Asibey has put forward against you GOD,the Asantehene?
Michael Asiedu 9 years ago

against your GOD

against your GOD
Paul 9 years ago

It seems to me this ignorant and extremely arrogant man (after all empty barrels make the most noise)is so deluded that he thinks he is the most 'educated' and 'intelligent' Ghanaian!!! He cannot even see that he makes such a ...
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It seems to me this ignorant and extremely arrogant man (after all empty barrels make the most noise)is so deluded that he thinks he is the most 'educated' and 'intelligent' Ghanaian!!! He cannot even see that he makes such a fool of himself. This is the same shallow-minded and good-for-nothing lawyer (with no understanding of logic which he makes a lot of noise about) who told us "children should not be taught maths and science" because "we don't need them". Strange indeed. Yet the fool cannot even put 2 and 2 together to figure out that 'strange' women he picks up will dupe him!!! He is so daft, he couldn't work it out. He could not do the sums. Yet he has the impudence to tell us about the "English Language"!!

This type of personality never dreamed in his his life to attain whatever he has today and probably thinks the only way to protect it is to drum it up. The trouble is, he is going about it in the worst way possible.

SAS reminds me of the proverbial lizard who falls from a tree branch and begins to nod in appreciation of his 'own heroics' just because no one recognises his 'antics'. An embarrassment to Ghana. By the way I do not regard him as intellectual.
tolon 9 years ago

Busia was a democrat whiles Nkrumah was a dictator and at the same time a Hippocrates

Busia was a democrat whiles Nkrumah was a dictator and at the same time a Hippocrates
Kwame 9 years ago

tolon a goat is not a meat eating animal because it walks on four feet. Busia the so called democrat said no court can force him to reinstate people he unlawfully dismissed. Busia a democrat worked with a military junta that ...
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tolon a goat is not a meat eating animal because it walks on four feet. Busia the so called democrat said no court can force him to reinstate people he unlawfully dismissed. Busia a democrat worked with a military junta that took power not through constitutional means, but through military revolt with the lost of lives. Who is the hypocrite here. A person who adhere to constitutional means you said is a dictator and a person who opposes all constitutional means is a democrat. Words tolon should not be dropped just like that. Whenever people like you dropped the weapon of human communication like that it ceases to be a word, since it has lost its meaning.
Sumanguru Kante 9 years ago

Tema Oil Refinery( built by an Italian Consortium), Korle Bu( built by the colonialists) and Valco( an American company) are not Nkrumah's handiwork. cheers

Tema Oil Refinery( built by an Italian Consortium), Korle Bu( built by the colonialists) and Valco( an American company) are not Nkrumah's handiwork. cheers
CHARLES BAMFO 9 years ago

Kwasia, who engaged the Italians to build the refinery? The contractor for Akosombo dam was an Italian company - does that mean Italy built the dam and gave it to Ghana as gift, aboafunu? The Engineers were from Kaiser Engine ...
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Kwasia, who engaged the Italians to build the refinery? The contractor for Akosombo dam was an Italian company - does that mean Italy built the dam and gave it to Ghana as gift, aboafunu? The Engineers were from Kaiser Engineering - and part of the contract agreement was to use a lot of Ghanaian architects and civil engineers so they get on the job training. 35 Ghanaian labourers died on the job. In your sick mind, then VALCO was a gift from some unknown entity? Korle Bu hospital built by the colonialist is NOT the same thing as Korle Bu Teaching Hospital!!! Go and research - if your brain is capable of it - how a hospital is turned into a teaching hospital. I will have mercy on you and excuse your idiocy. Go and read about the history of the Ghana Medical School on Wikipedia and you will have some idea of the distinction.
OneGhana 9 years ago

The colonialists build Korle Bu Hospital. Kwame Nkrumah built University of Ghana Medical School, and turned Korle Bu hospital to a world class Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

How much industries have you managed to establish? ...
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The colonialists build Korle Bu Hospital. Kwame Nkrumah built University of Ghana Medical School, and turned Korle Bu hospital to a world class Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

How much industries have you managed to establish? How much investment have you managed to attract to the country.
Paul 9 years ago

Kwame Nkrumah personally negotiated with the Italian leadership and invited AGIP to work on the TOR with a 50:50 Ghana-Italy investment in the project.

Profs. Easmon, Badu, Kumah, Quartey etc. would tell you that Nkrumah p ...
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Kwame Nkrumah personally negotiated with the Italian leadership and invited AGIP to work on the TOR with a 50:50 Ghana-Italy investment in the project.

Profs. Easmon, Badu, Kumah, Quartey etc. would tell you that Nkrumah personally invited them and asked if they could run a medical school and training people to be as good as they were in Ghana. The Korle-Bu hospital was a relatively small establishment and his government acquired a vast amount of land for the KTH project, land which sadly today is being encroached upon in a big way. It stretched all the way to the borders of Mamprobi and included the Korle-Bu Commercial Bank and Indadfa park area etc.

Do you know thew story behind the VALCO agreement and project? Where did you receive your education?

Please check the facts before you spew out falsehoods. You may not like Nkrumah, but you cannot, and must not deny his contributions to our nation's birth, early growth and even the legacy to Ghana and Africa as a whole (whether we admit it or not).
Captain Canada 9 years ago

are slowly digging themselves deeper. Defending the indefensible and destroying their credibility to boot. They claim they are democrats and yet have no problem being associated with coup plotters. Their leaders were the most ...
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are slowly digging themselves deeper. Defending the indefensible and destroying their credibility to boot. They claim they are democrats and yet have no problem being associated with coup plotters. Their leaders were the most undemocratic elements in Ghana. They claim the PDA was bad and yet had their own PCD which was even worse. They cry foul over the arrest of about 1800 people and yet they jailed twice as many. They claim the respected the will of the people and yet colluded with foreign interest to trump the rights of the people. Which leads us to conclude that either these people are liars or are schizoids. They have multiple personality disorder.
Captain Canada 9 years ago

have been a complete failure in the political scene. Much like Nkrumah said. I love this letter for the line by line drubbing of the fake democrat and his lies. SAS and his lover boy Ahoofe may chafe at the balls after readin ...
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have been a complete failure in the political scene. Much like Nkrumah said. I love this letter for the line by line drubbing of the fake democrat and his lies. SAS and his lover boy Ahoofe may chafe at the balls after reading this but what a salient was for master to take the student to the cleaners. Even the use of simple 'KOFI' shows how little Nkrumah thought of this pygmy. As for SAS and his lover boy Ahoofe, there is a quote that best describes them. It goes 'those who cannot do, teach'. Between their two 'REAL' Phds, they cannot even come up with simple political front to better their villages and hometowns. Nkrumah at their age was pushing for the liberation of the whole continent. While these two losers cannot even open a dunkin donut. That people is all you need to know about these faux intellectuals.
Paul 9 years ago

Where is the logic in Dr SAS' thinking? Yet he calls others "dimwits"! Is this man alright in the mind at all?

Where is the logic in Dr SAS' thinking? Yet he calls others "dimwits"! Is this man alright in the mind at all?

Letter OF Consolation to Dr. Kofi A. Busia – on the couple in Ghana

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