Nkrumah didn’t kill democracy – CPP tells Kufuor

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Koo 6 years ago

Nkrumah killed Ghana democracy by arresting his opponent.

Nkrumah killed Ghana democracy by arresting his opponent.
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 in ...
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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 in the party’s defeat in the 2016 elections. According to the committee, the NDC needs to take steps to crowd the party with critical thinkers in order to make the NDC a better party.
Bill 6 years ago

CPP, Bagbin says "if you are on a you don't stop to throw stones at every dog that barks at you. If you do that you won't get to your destination". Kufuor is Atta Ayi.

CPP, Bagbin says "if you are on a you don't stop to throw stones at every dog that barks at you. If you do that you won't get to your destination". Kufuor is Atta Ayi.
Kofi 6 years ago

Kwame Nkrumah is from Liberia that's why he did that .kill democracy

Kwame Nkrumah is from Liberia that's why he did that .kill democracy
Onipaba Of Akyem Maase. 6 years ago

This is common sense. If nkrumah developed democracy, there would have been a successful leadership growth. Since nkrumah left, who has ever led this party successfully? You don't even have identifiable structures. All of you ...
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This is common sense. If nkrumah developed democracy, there would have been a successful leadership growth. Since nkrumah left, who has ever led this party successfully? You don't even have identifiable structures. All of you have been used and dumped by a greedy leader who never looked into future of his own leadership. CPP has been in coma for all these years. Nkrumah died with his party.
DO THE DO 6 years ago

CPP hasn't any identifiable structure because when Busia and his cronies hired Afrifa & Kotoka to overthrow his gov't, the NLC confiscated every asset of the party but no account of it has been given to the public. When Kufuo ...
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CPP hasn't any identifiable structure because when Busia and his cronies hired Afrifa & Kotoka to overthrow his gov't, the NLC confiscated every asset of the party but no account of it has been given to the public. When Kufuor was in the office, he sent every foreign dignitary to Kumasi to meet with Asantehene. This was his method to put Asantehene under the spotlight of the world as the king of Ghana. That was the aim of Busia so he was supported by Prempeh with the nation's gold to pay the CIA for the contract. They used our military to destroy our democracy. When they overthrew CPP gov't, soldiers went around just to beat anyone found with the picture of Nkrumah. That was the beginning of destroying our peace. The whole aim of the 1966 coup was to make Busia the Prime minister so that in turn he would declare Prempeh the King of Ghana. With this diabolic plan, they destroyed our democracy without thinking about posterity.
Ray 6 years ago

Kuffour greedy and thief. the culture of Npp is tribalism and lying. A Party of senseless and nothing.

Kuffour greedy and thief. the culture of Npp is tribalism and lying. A Party of senseless and nothing.
tomtom 6 years ago

What Kuffuor said was not surprising coming from him. If Nkrumah did anything wrong to the people of Ghana it is because they gave him no other options. Using very inferior tactics to push him into doing bad things. They have ...
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What Kuffuor said was not surprising coming from him. If Nkrumah did anything wrong to the people of Ghana it is because they gave him no other options. Using very inferior tactics to push him into doing bad things. They have still not changed. What he said shows that the mentality still persists.
Ogyagyatah 6 years ago

Kufuor has lost his senses

Kufuor has lost his senses
Chief, Ashiyie 6 years ago

Ghanaweb what is wrong with you? For some time now your stories have been coming with wrong captions, and wrong pictures. Don't you edit your stories and proof read them? Most of your stories today have wrong captions. Why?

Ghanaweb what is wrong with you? For some time now your stories have been coming with wrong captions, and wrong pictures. Don't you edit your stories and proof read them? Most of your stories today have wrong captions. Why?
AGATAPORE (SANDEMA) 6 years ago

If you can give yourself Gold Medals for the job you did, your security guard son in New Jersey now a billionaire, your K4 hotel and K4 mall plus your TETTEH QUASHIE interchange and you want to blame Nkrumah, then you are fin ...
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If you can give yourself Gold Medals for the job you did, your security guard son in New Jersey now a billionaire, your K4 hotel and K4 mall plus your TETTEH QUASHIE interchange and you want to blame Nkrumah, then you are finished mentally.
See what President Magafuli is doing for his country.
BAFFOE USA 6 years ago

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ONE PARTY STATE? IS IT NOT KILLING DEMOCRACY? CPP IS THE PARTY THAT LET GHANA DOWN. WHAT WAS THE POPULATION OF GHANA BEFORE INDEPEDANCE? HOW MUCH WAS LEFT WITH GHANA AFTER INDEPEDENCE? WHAT WAS THE DEPTH A ...
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ONE PARTY STATE? IS IT NOT KILLING DEMOCRACY? CPP IS THE PARTY THAT LET GHANA DOWN. WHAT WAS THE POPULATION OF GHANA BEFORE INDEPEDANCE? HOW MUCH WAS LEFT WITH GHANA AFTER INDEPEDENCE? WHAT WAS THE DEPTH AFTER 1966 COUP?
Victor A. Young 6 years ago

It seems to me that the CPP don't understand what is democracy. Nkrumah asked Ghanaians--every family--to declare their assets. He turned Ghana into a one-party state and objected opinions from other politicians and ended up ...
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It seems to me that the CPP don't understand what is democracy. Nkrumah asked Ghanaians--every family--to declare their assets. He turned Ghana into a one-party state and objected opinions from other politicians and ended up putting his political opponents into jail. Prez Kuffour is right to reveal that Nkrumah killed Ghana's democracy; it's a fact.
Kwame 6 years ago

"God bless our homeland Ghana
And make our nation great and strong,
Bold to defend forever
The cause of Freedom and of Right;
Fill our hearts with true humility,
Make us cherish fearless honesty,
And help us to resist o ...
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"God bless our homeland Ghana
And make our nation great and strong,
Bold to defend forever
The cause of Freedom and of Right;
Fill our hearts with true humility,
Make us cherish fearless honesty,
And help us to resist oppressors’ rule
With all our will and might for evermore."

This is the first verse of our national anthem written in 1966 to celebrate our deliverance from dictatorship and exhortation to resist future dictators. Sing it with joy and pray we don't ever experience Nkrumahist types again
Kwame 6 years ago

1966 ouster of Nkrumah delivered Ghana from the clutches of one party rule. I guess for the CPP one party rule by them means democracy

1966 ouster of Nkrumah delivered Ghana from the clutches of one party rule. I guess for the CPP one party rule by them means democracy
RICHMOND, MARYLAND 6 years ago

Kwame it's a lie. The words of the national anthem were written in1957 n meant no return to colonial oppressive n subjugative rule. Stop throwing dust into our eyes.

Kwame it's a lie. The words of the national anthem were written in1957 n meant no return to colonial oppressive n subjugative rule. Stop throwing dust into our eyes.
Kwame 6 years ago

You have a fast internet just google it. Kindly educate yourself

You have a fast internet just google it. Kindly educate yourself
Kwame 6 years ago

You have a fast internet just google it. Kindly educate yourself. A little education goes a long way

You have a fast internet just google it. Kindly educate yourself. A little education goes a long way
chigri 6 years ago

Let us be faithful.

Let us be faithful.
AMA TX USA 6 years ago

Nkrumah was always after his opponent if they don't agree with his ideology that's why they are saying he killed democracy during his time no free of speech you will see yourself in nsawam prisons period

Nkrumah was always after his opponent if they don't agree with his ideology that's why they are saying he killed democracy during his time no free of speech you will see yourself in nsawam prisons period
Amponsem 6 years ago

Certainly, the late President Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah did not kill democracy in Ghana but UGCC and their tribal Akans expecially the Asantes and Akyims killed democracy themselves with coup in order to restore Busia and ...
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Certainly, the late President Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah did not kill democracy in Ghana but UGCC and their tribal Akans expecially the Asantes and Akyims killed democracy themselves with coup in order to restore Busia and others to power force but it back clashed them of coup after coup. Shame to Kufuor and Nana Addo to talk about Ghana independent and achievements without mentioning Nkrumah and the CPP.
G. K. Berko 6 years ago

The notion that the Big 6 were founding fathers of only NPP is nonsensical and a big farce.

Nkrumah was himself one of the Big 6. So, his CPP would, with similar reasoning, qualify as having sprung up from it, too. Bu ...
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The notion that the Big 6 were founding fathers of only NPP is nonsensical and a big farce.

Nkrumah was himself one of the Big 6. So, his CPP would, with similar reasoning, qualify as having sprung up from it, too. But I have seen over and over again with utter disgust the claim by some that only the NPP derived from the Big 6. The fact that majority of the Big 6 stayed back and did not join Nkrumah's breakaway Party, and some of the rest later formed the NLM/UP does not credit the NLP/UP as the only child of the Big 6 movement.

Nkrumah did not leave alone. He left with Ebenezer Ako-Adjei. At that point of departure, the Big 6 did not exist anymore. Even the UGCC of which the Big 6 were leaders did not last long after the departure of Nkrumah and Ako-Adjei.

So, Kufuor must get his History right. It is almost shameful that a whole former President would be propagating such inaccuracies about our History. I hope he did not mean to be that facetious to glorify his 'Mate meho' NLM/UP side as some angelic, heavenly sacrosanct political entity that was subjected to Nkrumah's brutality. If anything at all, it was the NLM/UP that was relentlessly savage and murderous. Could that be more democratic than Nkrumah's Regime?

For a better way forward, Ghanaians must all honestly concede our mutual stupidity in perpetuating a period of that violent, chaotic and undemocratic political environment, and refrain from dumping the blame on only one side. Our posterity needs to learn nothing less than the truth. And Kufuor and his bigoted intelligentsia, led by the Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jrs. must not attempt to rewrite our History.

Long Live Ghana!!!
OKOROMANSA 6 years ago

PROF DELLI IS RATHER MAKING MATTERS WOSE. NKRUMAH AND CPP AND OTHERS FOUGHT FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE IS WRONG. IT WAS RATHER NKRUMAH, DANQUAH, PAA GRANT, EDWARD AKUFFO ADDO, WILLIAM OFORI ATTAH, ARKO ADJEI AND OBETSEBI LAMPTEY TH ...
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PROF DELLI IS RATHER MAKING MATTERS WOSE. NKRUMAH AND CPP AND OTHERS FOUGHT FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE IS WRONG. IT WAS RATHER NKRUMAH, DANQUAH, PAA GRANT, EDWARD AKUFFO ADDO, WILLIAM OFORI ATTAH, ARKO ADJEI AND OBETSEBI LAMPTEY THAT LED THE STRUGGLE FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE, NOT TO FORGET MENSAH SARBAH, KOBINA SEKYI AND OTHERS EARLIER ON. CAN PROF DELLE EXPLAIN HOW DR. DANQUAH DIED? = NO; CAN HE EXPLAIN HOW OBETSEBI LAMPTEY DIED? = NO. BY THE WAY WHEN WAS THE CPP FORMED? IT WAS FORMED AFTER NKRUMAH HAD BEEN RELEASED FROM THE USHER FORT PRISON IN 1951.

NOW, LET PRO DELLE ANSWER THE FF. QUESTIONS: DID NKRUMAH EVER DECLARE A ONE-PARTY STATE FOR GHANA? = YES; DID NKRUMAH EVER DECLARE HIMSELF LIFE PRESIDENT OF GHANA? = YES; DID NKRUMAH PASS THE PREVENTIVE DETENTION ACT IN GHANA? = YES; DID NKRUMAH IMPRISON HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS? = YES; WAS THERE A FREE PRESS UNDER NKRUMAH = NO; WAS THERE AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY UNDER NKRUMAH? = NO; WAS NKRUMAH A DICTATOR? = YES. WAS THERE FREEDOM MOF SPEECH UNDER NKRUMAH? = NO.

COME AGAIN, PROF DELLE! THESE ARE FACTS THAT CPP AND NDC WILL FIND HARD TO ACCEPT OR DEFEND, BUT THAT IS THE TRUTH. WHERE IS KWAASI PRATT, PLEASE?
Adelayita Mathias 6 years ago

Former President Kuffour has rightly heat the nail. The people of Ghana voted for you and you are trying to become the president of the whole Africa. Kwaku anase man like that.

Former President Kuffour has rightly heat the nail. The people of Ghana voted for you and you are trying to become the president of the whole Africa. Kwaku anase man like that.
Kofi Thompson 6 years ago

Not too long ago I decided that I would no longer allow myself to be upset by the revisionists of our nation's history who use half truths, twisted facts and pure lies to denigrate President Nkrumah.

I came to that decisio ...
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Not too long ago I decided that I would no longer allow myself to be upset by the revisionists of our nation's history who use half truths, twisted facts and pure lies to denigrate President Nkrumah.

I came to that decision, because it struck me one day - whiles listening to a diatribe against Nkrumah being broadcast during a morning current affairs discussion programme - that despite the best efforts of his political opponents, in the main, the vast majority of the ordinary people of Ghana now accept that Nkrumah was indeed a truly great and selfless leader, who devoted himself to ordinary people and transforming Ghanaian society.

They have also accepted that Nkrumah was neither corrupt nor self-seeking - and that he did not amass wealth whiles serving as Ghana's leader. The question there is: Can one say exactly the same thing about the golden age of business for Kufuor & Co, truthly, during his greed-filled presidency? No.

Consequently, it no longer bothers me when I hear Nkrumah's detractors spewing their many untruths about him. Why bother when the masses can see monuments of Nkrumah's legacy all around them across the nation - and Nkrumah is in the Pantheon of 20th century greats? Cool.

However, one can understand those Nkrumahist politicians who still feel compelled to respond to such unfair criticism of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, whenever it is made by anti-Nkrumah politicians.

When members of the International Democratic Union (IDU) called on former President Kufuor whiles in Ghana for the first meeting in sub-Saharan African of the IDU's Executive and Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, the former president surprisingly launched a verbal attack on Nkrumah.

The irony for me, is that reading through some of the declassified National Security Security documents about President Nkrumah, from the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson eras, one notices that whiles American officials were invariably contemptous of the childlike-fawning of Nkrumah's political opponents whom they interacted with, clearly, all the Western leaders understood that Nkrumah was the one African leader who posed a real threat to their nations' continued hold on Africa's resources and their perpetual preying on the colonised minds of many Africans.

Thus, getting rid of Nkrumah was a top-priority security matter for them in Africa: for they understood that in the long-term his radical ideas would turn Africa into a global power one day - the last thing they wanted - if he was not stopped.

Sadly, in telling his visitors that Nkrumah destroyed Ghana's economy, what escaped former President Kufuor was that it was the political forebears of the selfsame Western members of the IDU, who deliberately brought Ghana's economy to its knees - simply to create public disaffection against Nkrumah's government: and make his overthrow by their local lackeys more likely and possible.

And of course he forgets that his party's political forebears went globetrotting bad-mouthing Ghana just to dissuade investors from coming to invest here. And that those who betrayed the black race by overthrowing Nkrumah were paid U.S.$13 million and promised more if they succeeded in killing him. What perfidy.

It also seems to have escaped former president Kufuor that his own party is today adopting Nkrumah's import substitution industrialisation policy to boost growth in the economy and create jobs for young people - something that his provincial-minded political forebears criticised as white elephant projects. Incredible. Talk about shortsightedness.

And it is also instructive that former President Kufuor developed a severe case of amnesia about his own anti-democratic political antecedents - regarding the fact that in 1958, despite Ghana being a functioning multiparty democracy, his party's political forebears plotted to overthrow Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP), just a year after independence from the British occupiers of our country, and that it was only the death in a plane crash of the leader of the coup plotters, Brigadier Michel, that aborted that planned coup. Egregious hypocrisy.

And worst of all - in an age when terrorism has spawned draconian laws in all the Western democracies, which severely curtail individual freedoms, and which are far more anti-democratic than all the anti-terrorism laws enacted by Nkrumah's government - and all of which one supports, one must hasten to add, being someone who always strongly condemns the cowardly extremists who engage in acts of terrorism around the globe - former President Kufuor condemns them as if they were abominations.

Yet, all those anti-terrorism laws were passed by Parliament to protect Ghanaian society and stop the murderous campaign of bomb-throwing and intimidation by the selfsame Kufuor's party's political forebears, the vile tribal-supremacist and separatist National Liberation Movement (NLM). Such is life. Poor man.

What is the matter with these stooges of neoocolonialism in Africa, I ask? Haaba. Wake up, Oseikrom-Ogyakrom-Ghanaman. The question is: Why, and to what end, in the 21st century, is a black African politician who once led his country still fawning over Western politicians presiding over racist systems - and many of whom are more likely than not secretly contemptuous of the black race? Ebeeii.
ASEM BEBA DABI 6 years ago

Its sad that Ghanaian has lost the fabric of its history. Does anyone knows why Kwame Nkrumah left UGCC as a secretary to form his own party. The selfish act of Ghanaian leaders those days has continued till today. Busia,J.B ...
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Its sad that Ghanaian has lost the fabric of its history. Does anyone knows why Kwame Nkrumah left UGCC as a secretary to form his own party. The selfish act of Ghanaian leaders those days has continued till today. Busia,J.B Dankwah was there. This why our country is like this today. At the end of the Born of 1844. Ghana was to have its independence in 1944. What was the leaders of UGCC doing?. The corrupt attitude of those men caused Nkrumah to break off. After Ghana's independence Busia was behind bomb droping wherever Nkrumah went. This resulted the Nsawam Prisons Dankwa was arrested. Busia run away to London aided by Krobo Dusea. Today are we accusing NKrumah effort... Shame
Kojo 6 years ago

What an unproductive debate. Na Nkrumah we go chop? If Nkrumah built a solid foundation why have we achieved much all these 60 years. Stop this needles discussion and find solutions to the myriad of problems facing the countr ...
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What an unproductive debate. Na Nkrumah we go chop? If Nkrumah built a solid foundation why have we achieved much all these 60 years. Stop this needles discussion and find solutions to the myriad of problems facing the country
Matete 6 years ago

The entire NPP are always rebellious. They see nothing good in any Ghanaian leader unless it's the NPP,s. To be honest Nkrumah did the right thing to jail all these useless forefathers of the NPP. This VISIONLESS party are to ...
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The entire NPP are always rebellious. They see nothing good in any Ghanaian leader unless it's the NPP,s. To be honest Nkrumah did the right thing to jail all these useless forefathers of the NPP. This VISIONLESS party are too VIOLENT. ALL DIE BE DIE AKUFO ADDO SAYS
CHE 6 years ago

When you have past leaders like Kuffour trying to misinform the citizenry with distorted views, its important to push back hard. The Danquah-Busia tradition of which Kuffour is a member is full of bourgeois, elitist behavior. ...
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When you have past leaders like Kuffour trying to misinform the citizenry with distorted views, its important to push back hard. The Danquah-Busia tradition of which Kuffour is a member is full of bourgeois, elitist behavior. Just because Nkrumah did not agree with their right wing, neo-colonialist, gradualist approach to independence, they sought through violent, terrorist means to eliminate him. At every election, the CPP trounced the UP, so what are they talking about? Danquah and Busia were on the payroll of Western Intelligence agencies like CIA and MI5. Was Nkrumah supposed to fold his arm behinf his back and look on as the anarhist UP sought to assassinate him? I think the PDA was not even harsh enough compared to the bombings and killing of innocent schoolchildren that these UP terrorist caused during Nkrumah's reign. Look at the amount of social and economic development Nkrumah did in 6 years of his rule?
Paa Joe 6 years ago

WHY ALLOW THE IRRATIONAL COMMENTS OF KUFFOUR TO WEIGH YOU DOWN.

KUFFOUR WAS IN FORM THREE WHEN CPP UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF KWAME NKRUMAH ATTAINED INDEPENDENCE OF GHANA.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT,THESE WERE THE NEGATIVE THINGS HE ...
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WHY ALLOW THE IRRATIONAL COMMENTS OF KUFFOUR TO WEIGH YOU DOWN.

KUFFOUR WAS IN FORM THREE WHEN CPP UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF KWAME NKRUMAH ATTAINED INDEPENDENCE OF GHANA.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT,THESE WERE THE NEGATIVE THINGS HE HEARD FROM THE HOME OF HIS PATRENTS.

KUFFOUR SHOULD HAVE BEEN WISE NOT TO CAMPAIGN TO BECOME THE PRESENT OF GHANA.

WHY SHOULD ONE BECOME A PRESIDENT OF A NATION THAT HIS FATHER, MOTHER, UNCLES, AUNTS AND GRANDFATHERS REJECTED WHEN THE CPP AND NKRUMAH FOUGHT FOR AN INDEPENDENT GHANA.

VERY SAD FOR KUFFOUR, PROGRESS PARTY LED BY BUSIA AND NPP TO HAVE CAMPAIGNED FOR THE SEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT AT OSU,ACCRA.

IT IS A PITY KUFFOÚR AND THE NPP DO NOT HAVE A SHAME AND FOR HIM TO TRAVEL BEYOND HIS BOUNDARY TO CRITICISE KWAME NKRUMAH WHO IS RECOGNISED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD AS ONE OF THE GREATEST POLITICIAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY,

IS KUFFOUR EVEN KNOWN AS A GHANAIAN POLITICIAN IN PAPUA GUINEA,HODURAS, EL SAVADOR,HAITI, SENEGAL, MAURITANIA,ANGOLA AND CAPE VERDE.

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