Well done, Albert,
The Good Book says, "My people perish from a lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6)
As a people wwe do not seem to learn from history. In the midst of all that had been happening between 1958 and 1961, our e ... read full comment
Well done, Albert,
The Good Book says, "My people perish from a lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6)
As a people wwe do not seem to learn from history. In the midst of all that had been happening between 1958 and 1961, our electoral officials at the time still connived with a corrupt government to come up with 99% TES vote for a Republican Consitution and one party status.
Roll forward another 51 years and you have a lying and evasive Afari-Djan in the Supreme Court. Fortunetaly, thanks to one Georgina Wood, the whole world is witnessing how to or not to ruin a country beyond repair!
Charlie King Addo 10 years ago
Nkrumah just like Mandela came from prison to rule Ghana. He should have been embittered by his incarceration but because he was on a mission to help create new ideals to propel Ghana to a whole new level he stayed focused an ... read full comment
Nkrumah just like Mandela came from prison to rule Ghana. He should have been embittered by his incarceration but because he was on a mission to help create new ideals to propel Ghana to a whole new level he stayed focused and would not allow the venom spewed by his detractors get in the way. A true statesman would understand what Nkrumah was worth and still is. Out of envy his peers wanted him dead so they connived with the powers that be to bring the whole country to its knees. At every gathering, bombs were lanced at Nkrumah. The heavens would have it otherwise. Of all the over ten attempts on Nkrumah’s life, the man was unscathed but shaken all the same. They shook his equilibrium and when he became paranoid it was captioned, he was erratic, a dictator and power drunk. In any case the man lasted only nine years and those nine years and some ten years after 1966 were Ghana’s proudest moments. Ghana excelled thanks to the ideas and ideals Nkrumah brought to the table. The writer gives the impression he has spent some time in school but his judgement on the other hand is pedestrian. Terrible things have happened to our short history and unfortunately we have to harbour all kinds of accounts from all angles even if they were hogwash.
We are seeing Ghana at its worst and one would wish for it to go away so we could have some calm to at least think of some solution to our countless woes. We have hit rock bottom at a time we should be pounding our chest and making strides to showcase our dear country but to my utter dismay the opposite is true. Ghana has stagnated and we have to punch our way out of this dark hole or we sink together.
Kwame 10 years ago
Mr. Albert Adamu, it is so easy to call a person corrupt, a thief and a dictator, but it is hard to lay prove to those adjective.
The Advance Learners' English Dictionary define corrupt as people with authority or power wil ... read full comment
Mr. Albert Adamu, it is so easy to call a person corrupt, a thief and a dictator, but it is hard to lay prove to those adjective.
The Advance Learners' English Dictionary define corrupt as people with authority or power willing to act dishonestly or illegally in return for money or personal goals (corrupt official accepting bribe). Corruption is defined as dishonest or wicked behaviour. Mr. Albert Adamu corruption is therefore based on an act in that case breaking the law for personal enrichment. For instance my dust's corruption. But if I am alive you can not say that my dust is corrupted.
Kwame Nkrumah did not give money to the British to make him a Prime Minister. He did not supported British colonialism like Danquah and Busia to be appointed a Prime Minister by the British. He did not insult the good people of Ghana for not ripe for independence. He did not subvert any government in any way so that he will become the head of state or leader of government business.
He also was not in pay of foreign secret services like Danquah and Busia. He did not support apartheid and fascism for a favour from Southern Europe and apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia. He did not ask any one to come of test atomic weapons on the continent of Africa to harm the people whiles he is paid for it. He did not disturb world peace to gain from it by selling arms. He did not use the Ghana Armed forces to seize anybody's country and loot their natural and human resources or did he support any person in doing that. He did not steal any public and private property for members of his family and relatives.
When you want who is corrupt, then look at Kufuor, Busia, Bush and Obama since they were and are all involved in the description we gave above.
Show me a single factory among the hundreds that Kwame Nkrumah build for the state and which one he appropriated to himself and members of his family or a property that he help them acquire whiles in office.
IDRIS PACAS alias Pink Sheet 10 years ago
Everything in Ghana is so relative that what is true now depends on where you come from. So for corrupt practices, simply look back. Perhaps apart from Kofi Annan and some few people in nPP, the majority of Ghanaians know tha ... read full comment
Everything in Ghana is so relative that what is true now depends on where you come from. So for corrupt practices, simply look back. Perhaps apart from Kofi Annan and some few people in nPP, the majority of Ghanaians know that there is a president who will run until 2016.
Nana Ansah 10 years ago
Adamu, think outside the box! So for no fault of theirs; these nation wreckers found themselves behind bars? Boy it is Action and Reaction. You go against the law; you get punished. No argument!
It is like Kwame Nkrumah go ... read full comment
Adamu, think outside the box! So for no fault of theirs; these nation wreckers found themselves behind bars? Boy it is Action and Reaction. You go against the law; you get punished. No argument!
It is like Kwame Nkrumah got one day to wreck his bad mood on these knaves Baffoe Akoto ,Danquah and Company who through their Terrorist acts were making the new nation Ghana ungovernable got what they ask for. The taste of their own medicine.
Look Adamu the PDA did not come like a bolt from the blue sky. Today the PDA is called Patriot act in the USA. The US has detained Al Kaida culprits at Gitmo on the enclaves of Cuba just to jump the US justice System. The USA is a democratic state but when it Comes to enemy combat the rules are different.
For crying out loud, it was Nkrumah who imprisoned J. B Danquah under the PDA? What?! Are you nuts?! Such an idiot! Danquah bombed loud and got the punishment for that. period.
Now your porous argument that Nkrumah was the source of corruption in Ghana reminds me of Kufuor who in his ineptness to combat corruption blamed Adam for being the sole source of it. Adamu each of us is responsible for our deeds. You cannot steal and blame someone else when you are caught in the act. See, between our two ears there are gray mass sitting up there protected in a skull. Use that gray mass to think. You Mate Meho faithfools and fool soldiers are damn miserable.
Was the former numero uno civil servant of the world Kofi Annan right or right? Sure Kofi Annan is telling us the plain truth. Take inspiration from Kwame Nkrumah's ideas and ideals to aspire for higher goals. That is the real deal. Son there is no ill will intended for being told what all Ghanaians/Africans should be already be doing. Africa has Problems and we all acknowledge that. Where is the solution. You will find them in Nkrumah's books. The answes lies with Nkrumah's ideas and ideals which is more crucial today than ever. Africa must unite!
Nana Ansah 10 years ago
It is like Kwame Nkrumah got up one day to wreck his bad mood on these knaves.
It is like Kwame Nkrumah got up one day to wreck his bad mood on these knaves.
Peter Piper 10 years ago
The opposition made Nkrumah a dictator. They went to every length just to eliminate him. Bombs were thrown at him where ever he went. School children, market women, the police and innocent citizens were maimed because of the ... read full comment
The opposition made Nkrumah a dictator. They went to every length just to eliminate him. Bombs were thrown at him where ever he went. School children, market women, the police and innocent citizens were maimed because of the selfish desire of the opposition to make Ghana ungovernable.Lets offer constructive criticisms to our leaders so that Ghana, our beloved country will develop.
Kwame 10 years ago
Mr. Albert Adamu's Poverty of Reasoning.
Mr. Albert Adamu it is a fact that any citizen of the allied forces who supported Hitler was declared a traitor and charged for treason. The late Mohammed Ali was imprisoned when he r ... read full comment
Mr. Albert Adamu's Poverty of Reasoning.
Mr. Albert Adamu it is a fact that any citizen of the allied forces who supported Hitler was declared a traitor and charged for treason. The late Mohammed Ali was imprisoned when he refused to serve in the American army and to fight in Vet Nam.
The U.S. for instance if a one party state because it declared communist and socialist parties as illegal entities in her constitution and any known communist is still hunted and imprisoned in the U.S. There was the law of prevention of communism and terrorism by the British colonial government in the Gold Coast, and it was under that that communist in the CPP were expelled before Ghana was granted independence.
It is any irony that those who accuse Kwame Nkrumah of the Prevention Detection Act, which stopped the killing and maiming of school children as soon as Danquah and Obetseby Lamptey were detained proved that Kwame Nkrumah was right when he introduced the act in Parliament and it was passed by both the CPP and UP.
It is a fact that there is still the act of prevention of terrorism act in the U.K. It is also a fact that the U.S. use unmanned planes to kill people she suspect as terrorist, without arrest and charging them in court. Mr. Alber Adamu, you may be naive, but I hope you read the charges against the young Gorkaiev.
It is on record that Kwame Nkrumah did not take up arms to declare a one party state, that that matter was put through a referendum and the majority of Ghanaians accepted it.
Kwame 10 years ago
At independence Ghana adopted the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which I am not sure that the U.S. has ratified. Just two weeks ago the U.S. President Barack Obama told the whole world that one aspects of that dec ... read full comment
At independence Ghana adopted the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which I am not sure that the U.S. has ratified. Just two weeks ago the U.S. President Barack Obama told the whole world that one aspects of that declaration equal pay or equal work is not applied in the U.S. He stated that women in the U.S. earn less than men for equal work of equal value.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago
Not quite there, Mr. Albert Adamu!
Mr. Annan was right on the money, so to speak, with respect to Dr. Nkrumah.
Idea is, it is precisely because of the One-Ghana leadership provided by Nkrumah, that has allowed Ghana to ... read full comment
Not quite there, Mr. Albert Adamu!
Mr. Annan was right on the money, so to speak, with respect to Dr. Nkrumah.
Idea is, it is precisely because of the One-Ghana leadership provided by Nkrumah, that has allowed Ghana to exist as One since independence. survey all the histories of many other African countries.
Nkrumah may have over-stepped some boundaries with respect to some individuals, but no one can show that he directed animosity towards any group, or acquired wealth out of greed and corruption, for his own sake.
Therefore, it is unbelievable that you will assign corruption in Ghana today to Nkrumah.
That is not fair, or right!
As some folks have already commented on your essay, even US and UK have no stellar record in many of these areas looking at history, and looking at what is going on all around us, even today.
ITEM: However you splice and dice it, Dr. Nkrumah has fundamentally been a unifying asset for Ghana, in life and in death, for all Ghanaians who are a tad objective and reflective.
We are thinking it is precisely the reason at bottom of Mr. Annan's.
Kobena 10 years ago
Prof Lungu,
Some of us may not like what Dennis has written, but much of it is true. We had independence in March 1957, but by June 1958, the preventive Detention Act (PDA) was already in place. I am not sure if any of the a ... read full comment
Prof Lungu,
Some of us may not like what Dennis has written, but much of it is true. We had independence in March 1957, but by June 1958, the preventive Detention Act (PDA) was already in place. I am not sure if any of the attempts on Nkrumah’s life (incidentally all by member of the CPP) had occurred then. Remember the doctors’ flat at Korle Bu? They were called Nyaniba Estates. The occupants were paying rent into a certain account. Do you remember the name in which that account was opened?
But even more importantly, Krobo Edusei built 32 houses in five years, including the mighty Asantewaa(?) House at Roman Ridge. JH Alhasani was the Chairman of the First Ghana Building Society that was established to provide an avenue for low income Ghanaians to own houses. He used his 10 and 14 year old children, names he found at Osu Cemetery and many others, to acquire 11 houses for himself. Ayeh Kumi, Kow Swanzy, and others were not to be left out in the scramble for property. The buck as they say stopped with the President. The seed of corruption in Independent Ghana was sown at the time. Incidentally ALL the people that Jerry Rawlings issued a white paper to cover after CHRAJ found them to have acquired property beyond their legal means, had been young Pioneers.
Yes, the whirlwind of corruption we are reaping today - the gold medals manufactured in Isle of Wight, the ghost toilets of Ghana@50, the 300% inflated aircraft purchases, the non-existent Nkmfem and laptops, the ‘dead million trees’, the judgement debt hand-outs and many more, all trace their ancestry to the Fiat Republic, and until we are honest enough with ourselves as a nation and begin to exorcise the root of corruption in our society, we are not going anywhere as a nation!
Kobena 10 years ago
Correction
Sorry, Albert's write-up I ment.
Correction
Sorry, Albert's write-up I ment.
Kow Ansah 10 years ago
You wrote:
Remember the doctors’ flat at Korle Bu? They were called Nyaniba Estates.
Complete misrepresentation of facts. NNyanebe estates was not docters flats at korle-bu but rather the eOSU estates and why the name be ... read full comment
You wrote:
Remember the doctors’ flat at Korle Bu? They were called Nyaniba Estates.
Complete misrepresentation of facts. NNyanebe estates was not docters flats at korle-bu but rather the eOSU estates and why the name because Nkrumah´s mother lived in one of the houses there.
Your write up is a complete crass. I thought the coup was to right the wrongs as they saw it but they also came and indulged in the same offences you are acussing Nkrumah, then who is more credible? Can you answer the question please. For you people it is just painting others black and always passing the buck.
Kobena 10 years ago
Kow,
OK, I might be wrong about Nyaneba States, but you skipped the bank account name, huh? The records are still in the Commissions of Eqnquiry reports. How about Krobo Edusei, JH Alhassani and others? Which member of the N ... read full comment
Kow,
OK, I might be wrong about Nyaneba States, but you skipped the bank account name, huh? The records are still in the Commissions of Eqnquiry reports. How about Krobo Edusei, JH Alhassani and others? Which member of the NLC stole anything from state coffers? Afrifa actually voluntarily subjected himself to be vetted.
Our problem as a nation is for most of us it is a question of "My tribes man does not wrong." That is why we are still far behind Singapore, Malaysia and others.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago
What we are saying is your ""My tribes man does not wrong" can never be tagged to Nkrumah.
This is the essence of Kofi Annan's point, we think.
That is the important point for Ghana.
What we are saying is your ""My tribes man does not wrong" can never be tagged to Nkrumah.
This is the essence of Kofi Annan's point, we think.
That is the important point for Ghana.
Kwasipong 10 years ago
Ungrateful sod as you are, because of Nkrumah you had the opportunity to go to school to write silly articles such as this; may the Lord have mercy on your poor soul
Ungrateful sod as you are, because of Nkrumah you had the opportunity to go to school to write silly articles such as this; may the Lord have mercy on your poor soul
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Clearly you can see the lack of interest in your article. It is such a pity that Ghana has people like you around. How can the country move forward and develop when we have such minds?
In fact, Kofi Annan the Statesman yo ... read full comment
Clearly you can see the lack of interest in your article. It is such a pity that Ghana has people like you around. How can the country move forward and develop when we have such minds?
In fact, Kofi Annan the Statesman you refer to thought Nkrumah's aspirations were a good thing and something for us to go back to. You have made it your beef to insult us all, and to undermine the tremendous achievements of an even greater statesman before him - Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
How can you believe the crass propaganda against him when you never really lived through those times yourself? I have come to know him through his works but even is I recommended them to you, I doubt if you would even care to take the chance. Pity!!!
Prof Lungu 10 years ago
Paul Amuna,
The "lack of interest"/comments is really not a testament to the "value" of this essay.
Otherwise, we agree with you.
It poorly serves Ghana for anyone to attempt to "undermine" the positive force Nkrumah ... read full comment
Paul Amuna,
The "lack of interest"/comments is really not a testament to the "value" of this essay.
Otherwise, we agree with you.
It poorly serves Ghana for anyone to attempt to "undermine" the positive force Nkrumah represents for Ghana.
osei yao 10 years ago
Don't you realise your contradiction? The 1958 Act forced the opposition parties to group into the nation-wide United Party from tribal, religious separatist parties. At the time, the young nation was in danger of tribal disi ... read full comment
Don't you realise your contradiction? The 1958 Act forced the opposition parties to group into the nation-wide United Party from tribal, religious separatist parties. At the time, the young nation was in danger of tribal disintegration. You write about the evils of exclusioary politics, yet condenm Kwame Nkrumah for introducing One Party rule. He foresaw the evils you have now realised. At least, he had the courage to do something about it. You merely lament. Yes, traitors everywhere are jailed. CIA agents, like Danquah, were undermining our young country. It is the foresight of Kwamw Nkrumah that made it possible for the likes of Kofi Annan to be UN S-G.
-G
Sankofa 10 years ago
Albert Adamu, where would Ghana be without the Akosombo dam, Tema harbour, KNUST, our polytechnics, GET schools, hospitals and clinics to name a few?
Nkrumah's 'little good' is what has sustained us thisn far as a nation.
... read full comment
Albert Adamu, where would Ghana be without the Akosombo dam, Tema harbour, KNUST, our polytechnics, GET schools, hospitals and clinics to name a few?
Nkrumah's 'little good' is what has sustained us thisn far as a nation.
We would do well to implement his vision of African Unity and political and economic self-dependence.
Well done, Albert,
The Good Book says, "My people perish from a lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6)
As a people wwe do not seem to learn from history. In the midst of all that had been happening between 1958 and 1961, our e ...
read full comment
Nkrumah just like Mandela came from prison to rule Ghana. He should have been embittered by his incarceration but because he was on a mission to help create new ideals to propel Ghana to a whole new level he stayed focused an ...
read full comment
Mr. Albert Adamu, it is so easy to call a person corrupt, a thief and a dictator, but it is hard to lay prove to those adjective.
The Advance Learners' English Dictionary define corrupt as people with authority or power wil ...
read full comment
Everything in Ghana is so relative that what is true now depends on where you come from. So for corrupt practices, simply look back. Perhaps apart from Kofi Annan and some few people in nPP, the majority of Ghanaians know tha ...
read full comment
Adamu, think outside the box! So for no fault of theirs; these nation wreckers found themselves behind bars? Boy it is Action and Reaction. You go against the law; you get punished. No argument!
It is like Kwame Nkrumah go ...
read full comment
It is like Kwame Nkrumah got up one day to wreck his bad mood on these knaves.
The opposition made Nkrumah a dictator. They went to every length just to eliminate him. Bombs were thrown at him where ever he went. School children, market women, the police and innocent citizens were maimed because of the ...
read full comment
Mr. Albert Adamu's Poverty of Reasoning.
Mr. Albert Adamu it is a fact that any citizen of the allied forces who supported Hitler was declared a traitor and charged for treason. The late Mohammed Ali was imprisoned when he r ...
read full comment
At independence Ghana adopted the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which I am not sure that the U.S. has ratified. Just two weeks ago the U.S. President Barack Obama told the whole world that one aspects of that dec ...
read full comment
Not quite there, Mr. Albert Adamu!
Mr. Annan was right on the money, so to speak, with respect to Dr. Nkrumah.
Idea is, it is precisely because of the One-Ghana leadership provided by Nkrumah, that has allowed Ghana to ...
read full comment
Prof Lungu,
Some of us may not like what Dennis has written, but much of it is true. We had independence in March 1957, but by June 1958, the preventive Detention Act (PDA) was already in place. I am not sure if any of the a ...
read full comment
Correction
Sorry, Albert's write-up I ment.
You wrote:
Remember the doctors’ flat at Korle Bu? They were called Nyaniba Estates.
Complete misrepresentation of facts. NNyanebe estates was not docters flats at korle-bu but rather the eOSU estates and why the name be ...
read full comment
Kow,
OK, I might be wrong about Nyaneba States, but you skipped the bank account name, huh? The records are still in the Commissions of Eqnquiry reports. How about Krobo Edusei, JH Alhassani and others? Which member of the N ...
read full comment
What we are saying is your ""My tribes man does not wrong" can never be tagged to Nkrumah.
This is the essence of Kofi Annan's point, we think.
That is the important point for Ghana.
Ungrateful sod as you are, because of Nkrumah you had the opportunity to go to school to write silly articles such as this; may the Lord have mercy on your poor soul
Clearly you can see the lack of interest in your article. It is such a pity that Ghana has people like you around. How can the country move forward and develop when we have such minds?
In fact, Kofi Annan the Statesman yo ...
read full comment
Paul Amuna,
The "lack of interest"/comments is really not a testament to the "value" of this essay.
Otherwise, we agree with you.
It poorly serves Ghana for anyone to attempt to "undermine" the positive force Nkrumah ...
read full comment
Don't you realise your contradiction? The 1958 Act forced the opposition parties to group into the nation-wide United Party from tribal, religious separatist parties. At the time, the young nation was in danger of tribal disi ...
read full comment
Albert Adamu, where would Ghana be without the Akosombo dam, Tema harbour, KNUST, our polytechnics, GET schools, hospitals and clinics to name a few?
Nkrumah's 'little good' is what has sustained us thisn far as a nation.
...
read full comment