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Nkrumah wasn’t a thief – Mike Oquaye

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  • aikins 7 years ago

    The most useless president ever to have ruled a nation

  • Mahmoud 7 years ago

    The problem of Mr. Incompetent is that he doesn't seem to know that the misguided spending spree of Nkrumah and his squandering of our reserves was the beginning of our economic woes. He was also a blood-thirsty communist dic ...
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  • Mahmoud 7 years ago

    "Your husband is a thief. In fact, he is a very big thief. All of Ghana's problems are because of him. Every contract is inflated and it goes into his pockets or Ibrahim's pockets. What is a decent woman like you married to s ...
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  • SAY IT LOUD ! 7 years ago

    YOUR NAME, YOUR BRAINS, YOUR WRITING, ALL SHOW YOU ARE A DOG TO EUROPE.

    WHY NOT LEAVE GHANA NOW AND GO DIE IN THE LIBYA SEE GOING TO MOTHER-FUCKERLAND, EUROPE.

    EVEN NKRUMAH'S SHIT, WAS BETTER THAN ALL YOUR MASTERS IN LO ...
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  • Mahmoud 7 years ago

    Nkrumah was a communist dictator that treated Ghanaians like slaves, and started corruption in Ghana.

  • insight to the bone 7 years ago

    70 % of all pepeni mahama's ministers and appointees are northerners and the majority Muslim so tell me who is divisive , a tribalist and hegemonist? we have an islamic caliphate in control and they will undermine our econom ...
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  • MATHS 7 years ago

    Because Nkrumah was communist dictator and one for life, he did not see the need to steal. he considered everything as his personal property and needed not steal. This explains why he couls dish out 10 millions pounds sterlin ...
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  • Harry 7 years ago

    Yes, he wasn't a thief but you are a criminal yaka gbomo and a useless good for nothing idiot. Both you and that your fsrt idiot son. Damm stupid brain dead zoo animal. Sooomei.

  • John 7 years ago

    What's your problem?Has he mentioned anybody who is a thief?Is your President a thief?

  • CORNEY 7 years ago

    Well, this Mike Oquaye guy needs his head examined well.
    I wonder what he means by Nkrumah was not a thief but he was wrong for giving money to countries like Guinea to practice socialism,if you take somebody's property th ...
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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    This 1 district 1 factory from Nana Addo is also socialist Policy.If NPP is against state owned industries then why should the NPP flagbearer proposed "1 district 1 factory".Who is going to build these factories?Can Nana Addo ...
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  • $aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 7 years ago

    CHINA HAS MANY SOCIALIST ENTERPRISES BUT ARENT THEY A CAPITALIST NATION TODAY? BEFORE U CAN HAVE PURE CAPITALISM, U MUST ENSURE THE CITIZENRY ARE SOMEWHAT TAKEN CARE OF AND THATS WHERE SOCIALIST POLICIES ABOUND. NATIONALIST/C ...
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  • THE VOICE 7 years ago

    You know wat the Dam will do for the villagers.Irrigation this helps the villagers to irrigate the land to plant food stuff one starvation is solved.In large quantities for export money in people's pocket.Gov.job is to create ...
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  • ezeco sam 7 years ago

    Aikins all what ever u call yourself, must u abuse when ever u want comment,am short of words because of your manner of approach

  • Kofi Gbagbladza 7 years ago

    Ocquaye is a short man devil. Bloody professor with short man mentality

  • Kofi justice 7 years ago

    aikins whatever you call yourself your hopeless father who cannot even take of a class one school girl is more useless than mahama

  • GHANANI 7 years ago

    It is the imperialists and their collaborators in Ghana who let Ghana down.The very policies Nkrumah adopted for Ghana's development were those adopted by South Korea,Malaysia and Singapore and it worked well for these countr ...
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  • DZIGBORDI 7 years ago

    Dr Nkrumah was truthful to the people of Ghana in terms of financial management and he was neither “selfish” nor stole “money to dump abroad”. “If people are doing bus branding as a substitute for stealing state mon ...
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  • 199 Young Pioneer 7 years ago

    The opposition should stop putting sand in our eyes. You this old Professor at least beside been a politician you at the same time claim to be a pastor. Why are you and your tin-god Akuffo Addo and your likes inculcated the h ...
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  • NPP is Confused!!! 7 years ago

    He is a 419 Professor...hungry to please stupid Nana Addo

  • Face the facts 7 years ago

    Mike school Adei. Disgraced matata professor.

  • 199 Young Pioneer 7 years ago

    You people in the UP/PFP/NPP knew that our late and legendary Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was a genuine and sincere President and yet you betrayed him to the CIA and booted him out of power, You are shamelessly confessing today ...
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  • Kwabena Ohemeng,london 7 years ago

    When will Prof Ocquaye stop feeding ghanaians with historical lies?.He is saying that Nkrumah gave Guinea and Mali financial aid to support socialism.This is absolutely untrue.Osagyefo gave the monies to the two countries to ...
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  • Nana Ansah 7 years ago

    Revisionist like Ocquaye and Adei can continue with their half truths and lies but in the end the TRUTH will prevail.

    Even countries in Europe like Britain, Germany, France, Netherland etc. all had SOE's up until the mid 9 ...
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  • francis kwarteng 7 years ago

    Hello Bro,

    Where have you been all this while?

    It's been so long.

    How are you?

    I hope you are great!

    Thanks.

  • francis kwarteng 7 years ago

    Damn right, Kwabena Ohemeng,london!

    This man is a liar!

  • NPP is Confused!!! 7 years ago

    Such foolishness from an Old Man who claims to know history yet knows nothing about history

  • save ghana 7 years ago

    the NDC attempt to equate mahama to Nkrumah is most terrible. why not rawlings? can we celebrate mahama 20 yrs from now. Ghanaians shd see the evil agenda of NDC concerning cpp. they want to collapse that party

  • Chief, Ashiyie, Accra 7 years ago

    Dr.Ocquaye,when people like you talk the way you have it reduces your own estimation before right thinking people. Who are insinuating is a thief? Have you read what your ill advised insinuation has engendered on Ghana web ...
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  • still rastafari 7 years ago

    Correct assessment Prof.............

  • still rastafari 7 years ago

    we need more insights Prof.....

  • Truly 7 years ago

    I remember when the late Dr Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown these people said and published all sort of lies about him. Is the prof. not ashamed of himself. This people will never change and they want to rule Ghana.

  • General 1 7 years ago

    Nkrumah wasn't a thief,Then why did you same guys over throw him.Do you think we have soon forgotten?
    Tell this to the very younger ones,who do not see the relevance of our history.Greedy people.

  • Dr Robert K Glah 7 years ago

    Prof Quaye must know the origins of State industries: it was in British practice and not only in USSR and China and Nkrumah practice was not far from British practice until recently when the British industries were privatised ...
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  • Nana Oben 7 years ago

    “I admire his vision for education, his ---- Tema Harbour and many other things”. The Prof must be old enough to know because of Dr. Nkrumah's "SOCIALIST" adventures, Ghana was producing locally MOST of our daiy IMPORTS, ...
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  • Apple Sauce 7 years ago

    Hope Nana is not coming to rule us with these guys. This guy told Ghanaians to take their passports and leave if they can't stay but they think Ghanaians forget so soon.Bad people

  • Ameevor Kese du fia 7 years ago

    Prof Mike Oquaye, what level of utter HYPOCRISY is this. Today Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah was not a thied? I urge you to pay a visit to the Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum to confess your sin against him and ask for his forgiveness to yo ...
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  • obroni 7 years ago

    He was no thief, but I wonder what was worse a thief or a dictator ?
    Responsible for jailing and killing his own co-founders.
    He indeed made Ghana an example in Africa because after him many dictatorships followed.

  • Kwaku Atta-krufi (Atta-kay) 7 years ago

    We have these stories over and over again: Nkrumah was not a thief. But he supervised thievery and corruption.

  • Amali Louis Mbun 7 years ago

    I did not that because of power people could stoop so low in to unproductive and senseless allegations

  • Azumah Nelson 7 years ago

    Nana Akufo Addo said he will build a factory in each district when elected.This NPP folks are confused.

  • Elder J 7 years ago

    Wonders shall never end. I am happy Mike Quaye has come back to his conscience.
    The light will shine to all of them and one day they would say the overthrow of Nkrumah was a big mistake .Today we are facing corrupt governmen ...
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  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 7 years ago

    Eh Papa Ajasco! Where did we sleep? What came over you? Get ready to be suspended from the NPP.

    Did he just shower praises on their #1 enemy?

  • osei kojo 7 years ago

    Nkrumah built Tema Harbour and Akosombo DamDam, These were twogreat acheivements that have never been in our country or throughout all of Africa. We do not recognize his acheivements even today 50 years later.If we could only ...
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  • Father Pee 7 years ago

    Let put records straight, Nkrumah did not built akosombo, president Kennedy of America built akossombo for Ghana. Tema habour, the real place the whiteman proposed for that habour is big Ada. Nkrumah removed it to Tema becaus ...
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  • Nii Addo 7 years ago

    How much did you get from bribery when the NPP was in power. You built houses, some members of your party accused you of corruption in those days. You had free holidays from foreign companies. Is that not thieving? Why are yo ...
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  • osei kojo 7 years ago

    1/2 century later it is an insult upon ourselves to disparage the founder of our nation. The entire world laughs at our meaningless gossip.