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Nkrumah best president ever - Sekou to Kufuor

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  • joe 6 years ago

    Nkrumah the greedy, treacherous, dictator & poor economic manager is the worst thing to happen to Ghana by ever having him as president

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 6 years ago

    ##SOURCE: MYNEWSGH.COM ------ The much awaited report by the Kwesi Botchway committee has disclosed that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has a weak intellectual and research base indicating that this played a key role ...
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  • CHARLIE 6 years ago

    NKRUMAH WAS NOT A THIEF,LIKE KUFOUR.
    KUFOUR AND CERTAIN MEMBERS OF HIS EXTENDED FAMILY LOOTED FROM OUR TREASURY.

    NKRUMAH WAS NOT A DICTATOR. NKRUMAH BECAME PRESIDENT AT A TIME WHEN EDUCATION WAS AT A LOW LEVEL IN GHANA AN ...
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  • Ebo Bilson 6 years ago

    Kwamer Nkrumah was a murderous dictator who rounded up all political opponents and imprisoned them for life and tortured them to death. Nkrumah was the only President in the history of the world who never had a Vice President ...
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  • KWARNING 6 years ago

    YOU CAN GIVE EXCUSES ABOUT NKRUMAH BUT YOU CAN NEVER CONFUSE US THAT HE WAS NEVER A DICTATOR.WHAT GHANA WORLD WERE YOU LIVING IN,I ASK.

  • Oman Ghana 6 years ago

    Did Nkrumah ever have a factory in Japan sent people to open it but Kuffuor had factor outside the country

  • be wise 6 years ago

    You will wound in your stupidity till thy kingdom come...

    This accusation you label against our first President has been proven wrong with facts and figures: he's the only selfless President that have ever happened to Ghan ...
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  • Kojo 6 years ago

    Bottom line if Nkrumah had not squandered the golden opportunity to build a democracy that was sustainable Ghana wouldn't be where it currently is. Seoul should give us a break and stop being so parochial.

  • Kwame 6 years ago

    John Kufuor served two military juntas.
    Kufuor want us to believe that the National Liberation Council that ruled by a decree without parliament with some parties outlawed together with parliamentary democracy was more democ ...
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  • Prof Lungu 6 years ago

    Thanks, Kwame.

    For us, our previous 6-point respect bar for Kufour went 4 points downward when we read those statements by him.

    Kufour's require an essay sent to publishers. I'd encourage you to send sent yours, even if ...
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  • Kotakopia 6 years ago

    Just ignore Kufour. He has EPILEPTIC brain and is a rehabilitation dumb man.

  • Kwasipong 6 years ago

    Yeah right,sometimes I wonder why many of us are so ignorant, this I believe some of us refuse to read wide. "Golden opportunity to build democracy indeed" Do you really beieve that the then colonial administration had any ...
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  • Ab 6 years ago

    Yes Nkrumah was the best but he never costed his big idea and rather wasted money on his ideology he had at that time. Any one who saw the strategy direction Ghana was heading to Nkrumah silenced them. Also he gave Ghana mone ...
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  • Akonta 6 years ago

    If no president is matching your father in your estimation it is because of the reckless spending of what the Europeans left for Ghana that left a gaping hole for the others to try to correct. Do you compare a president who h ...
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  • Alhaji 6 years ago

    Nkrumah was a greedy and selfish leader
    he's also a wicked man.....

  • El Zingo 6 years ago

    To some extent prez kuffuor is ryt but africans and ghanaians in question deserved that kind of leadership not democracy where people get the ryt from the simple majority to make wrong decisions and misuse state funds. A flas ...
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  • kojo 6 years ago

    What has democracy done for us?. People are starving

  • Oman Ghana 6 years ago

    Can KUFUOR compare himself to Nkrumah?

  • Alhaji 6 years ago

    Yes yes!!!! Thousand times better than Nkrumah the too known
    kufour marry in Ghana and spend everything in Ghana. . What about your greedy and selfish father

  • kojo 6 years ago

    What has democracy done for us?

  • Atakum y3 tah 6 years ago

    Nkrumah has been one of the great president for Gh. No doubt about it but for you to best and ever for him is a bit uneven. I wasn't born when Nkrumah was the president as l am in my 30s now buy l heard he was controversial ...
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  • CHARLIE 6 years ago

    NKRUMAH SAVED US FROM POVERTY AND IGNORANCE. FREE EDUCATION WAS THE FLAGSHIP PROGRAM OF NKRUMAH AND THIS PROGRAM SAVED MILLIONS FROM POVERTY AND IGNORANCE. ALMOST EVERY FAMILY IS TODAY ENJOYING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THE EFF ...
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  • Marcus Chris Lawson 6 years ago

    Assessing the political leadership of both Nkrumah and Kiffour,my view is that whilst the former was selfless, dedicated and honest, the latter was self centrted , money grabbing and supervised looting of the national kitty ...
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  • chigri 6 years ago

    Chicken brained like your father who was fooled to go and negotiate white man conflict while his own country and continent was in turmoil. He could not foresee that he was being fooled. He sunk after the independence honeym ...
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  • Yaw Berko 6 years ago

    What did president Kuffour say about democracy? Nkrumah killed democracy? Yes. Between Nkrumah and Rawlings, who is a democrat? Sekou should read about his father's brutality? Sekou get some education please

  • Scan 6 years ago

    Despite everything Nkrumah was and is still the best. No Ghanaian president can be compared to him in terms of developments. Where are our factories? Jute factory, shoe factory and the rest? Ghana would have been a paradise i ...
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  • Joe ghana 6 years ago

    Your father misused our money for stupid things thus why we are suffering now so shut up and let's think the way we will survive

  • Agya owusu 6 years ago

    Kufour should be realistic he doesn't want to say is nana but saying is Dr NKRUMAH

  • Opidash 6 years ago

    OSAGYEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH IS THE BEST PRESIDENT IN GHANA AND THE FATHER OF AFRICA. SO MR KUFOUR YOU CAN SAID ANYTHING YOU WANT WE DON'T CARE. WHAT WE NO IS YOU CANNOT COMPARE YOURSELF TO HIM. WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR GHANA YOU N ...
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  • still rastafari 6 years ago

    any 1st leader will do what nkruma did.every new nation requires all that nkruma built and therefore as leader you have no choice than to provide them.schools,roads,hospitals,state factories,dam etc are all structures and dep ...
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  • still rastafari 6 years ago

    nkrumah over hyped...nice ideas, bad leadership

  • witness 6 years ago

    Is it true Nkrumah never dies?
    Was Nkrumah a messiah? We were asked to sing this song as young pioneers.

  • Krufi Toronto 6 years ago

    Sekoe,how old were you when your dad was kicked out? Just about 3 years.Did you know anyone who opposed him or critized him will find himself/herself at Nsawam prison the next day?Did you know he met £400ml.in Ghana's coffer ...
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  • OSEI KWAME 6 years ago

    KUFOUR WAS MOST CORRUPT GHANAIAN LEADER UNDER WHOSE REGIME CORRUPTION FLOURISHED. CHOPPING OF STATE FUNDS AND PEOPLES' WIVES WAAWAAWAA

  • Mr Eagles 6 years ago

    I think Kufour is demented, or having some kind of cancer in his brain.

  • mindy 6 years ago

    why should u compare Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (anti-illuminati) with Kuffour (illuminati) wise up my friends

  • King Adjei 6 years ago

    THE BRITISH LEFT 300MILLION POUNDS FOR NKRUMAH IN 1957,WITH A POPULATION OF 4 MILLION PEOPLE...THIS MONEY WAS NOT A LOAN INSTEAD KWAME NKRUMAH WASTED THIS MONEY UNNECESSARY,FIGHTING TO BECOME AFRICA PRESIDENT..SECONDLY HE DE ...
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  • FOY 6 years ago

    Tell that to the dogs.....

  • Paa Kwasi 6 years ago

    In any case the Akosombo Dam, The Tema Fishing Harbour, The Tema Township & Motorway, the KNUST,the UCC, the GETFUND SNR High Schools, etc can be visibly seen by Ghanaians.Let us call a spade a spade!

  • NON-ALIGNED 6 years ago

    Ghana was thought at independence, to be in the most advantageous position compared to any other sub-Saharan African colony.

    The country was endowed with mineral resources like gold, diamonds and manganese, in addition ...
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  • Paa Joe 6 years ago

    SEKOU,

    PLEASE,YOU NEED TO KNOW, THE SO CALLED SELF MADE GHANAIAN PLOLITICIANS DO NOT HAVE POLITICAL DESCIPLINE, IT IS OF THIS SENSE THAT, THE NATION HAS RETROGRESSD SINCE THE ARMED CRIMINALS IN MILITARY UNIFORMS OVERTHREW ...
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  • Aliabtiig 6 years ago

    Kufour is an ant compared to nkrumah. Under kufour there was hunger, poverty and dissatisfaction. Same with rawllings. Nkrumah's achievements has been the Best. Unsurpassed. Kufour was corroupt. Hotel wawa etc. He must hide h ...
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  • Muba 6 years ago

    If Nkrumah is de best president ever wat have done as a son Sekou.U disgracing him left,rite n centre causing him night made in his grave.Shut up,talk is cheap.