They are birds of the same feather. They both sold Ghana to the white man
They are birds of the same feather. They both sold Ghana to the white man
Original Gaby Bruk 10 years ago
EVIL BUSIA achievements:
1. ACO: (which discriminated against fellow Africans, mostly Nigerians. He robbed them of their human rights, stole their properties and VIOLENTLY DEPORTED them to Nigeria).
2' He succeeded in c ... read full comment
EVIL BUSIA achievements:
1. ACO: (which discriminated against fellow Africans, mostly Nigerians. He robbed them of their human rights, stole their properties and VIOLENTLY DEPORTED them to Nigeria).
2' He succeeded in creating "hatred and enmity" between Ghanaians and Nigerians.
3.He introduced politics of HATE into African politics where tribalism became the order of the day.
4.He introduced the acts of "BLACK ON BLACK DISCRIMINATION" in Ghana, (which has NEVER happen before in the history of black Africans since creation, where we inter-mingled together for generations after generations, and even inter-married without discriminations), where he labelled his fellow Africans "ALIENS" in mama Africa and SACKED them from Ghana. EVIL AND WICKED Busia, stole Nigerians properties and businesses and shared them amongst his people, and violently deported them back to Nigeria.
5. He gave African independent indirectly(neo-colonialism), socialism, ethnocentrism, ,
6. He allowed his ministers to robbed the nation, (not able to manage his ministers), lacked political leadership ability
7. He was arrogant and favoured "elitism and class system."
ILLITERATE SARPONG 10 years ago
You and Andy C.Y are the very authors who give us rich history and I hope every sane person would want to more from you two.
Thank You Kojo.
You and Andy C.Y are the very authors who give us rich history and I hope every sane person would want to more from you two.
Thank You Kojo.
Gye Nyame 10 years ago
We are practicing and enjoying multi-party system now and democracy is in full swing – so weren’t the two the same that was proposed by Busia and the opposition? Most Ghanaians are not interested in the one party system o ... read full comment
We are practicing and enjoying multi-party system now and democracy is in full swing – so weren’t the two the same that was proposed by Busia and the opposition? Most Ghanaians are not interested in the one party system or the lack of democracy. Haven’t the Busia camp been vindicated in the end?
Also I think the Aliens Compliance Order was one of the best things that happened to Ghana – those of you old enough to remember would appreciate how it gave opportunity to Ghanaians to own some of the store in Accra. The order was meant for all aliens to clean up the system and get us non-aliens on some ID card; yes unfortunately it affected that Nigerians more because they had invaded the country without proper documentation. Do you all remember the area around the main Accra bus stop (around Opera) all the way to Makola and beyond were full of Nigerians and of course the Syrians and Lebanese. I wish our leaders would be bold again to do another clean up – sure now it is the Chinese.
By the way, Acheampong did not know JACK; he just wanted to perpetuate his reign when pressure was being put on him to return to civilian rule, by the union government BULL. Which sensible person do you think he would have put in the union government? Just more zombies to rule. Do you really think there is democracy when it comes to chieftaincy? I think Ghana would do far better if it abolished chieftaincy – at least you would get a cycle of fresh and intelligent people from different families in local politics than the limited families chiefs are selected from and try challenging a chief in your town/village and see how many goats they let you slaughter.
The whole world including China knows that capitalism rules – government run factories never worked anywhere.
In any case the socialism inclined governments (Nkrumah, Acheampong, Limann, Rawlings, Mills & Mahama) have ruled longer than the other side so how come we are in the state we are today?
By the way, I come from a well known CPP family in Ghana so don’t come back with the usual you don’t know what you are talking about retort.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
Kojo Tamakloe, I enjoyed reading your piece but I found it too one-sided and only pointing out Busia's lapses. What about his Rural Development Policy that Ghana would have been different today had it been continued by succes ... read full comment
Kojo Tamakloe, I enjoyed reading your piece but I found it too one-sided and only pointing out Busia's lapses. What about his Rural Development Policy that Ghana would have been different today had it been continued by successive governments after him?
Could you explain the mixed up with the dates. If Busia was a student at Oxford from 1941 to 1947, how could he be a Commissioner in Gold Coast between 1942 and 1949? Was he a correspondence student of Oxford, studying from the Gold Coast or you got the fact and dates wrong?
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Kofi,
Nkrumah and the CPP started the rural devt long before Busia came on the scene. It stalled with the coup and Busia revived it. My home town Anloga was finally forgiven for starting and leading the rebellion against t ... read full comment
Kofi,
Nkrumah and the CPP started the rural devt long before Busia came on the scene. It stalled with the coup and Busia revived it. My home town Anloga was finally forgiven for starting and leading the rebellion against the fresh CPP regime in 1953 and just received electricity from a generator when the coup occurred. But you know what? We were once again plunged into darkness for many, many years well into the 1970s when power was restored with connection to the Keta grid by Kutu.
The expansion of the basic school I attended in order to remove the rotation basis, almost at lintel level, stopped and up to today, only a couple extra school blocks thru PTA effort have been added and so classrooms sit up to 60 pupils, instead of the 34 in the 1960s! So for us, the coup had a bad side too when it comes to some crucial devt items.
But then, Busia is a mixed story, affecting people for the better or for worse. Let those who want to sing praise songs him 'cos they had it better laud him. Yes, his horns were short but they were mean ones to some, but to some, they were used to scratch their itches! So some people of Anloga too, staunch anti-Nkrumaists who couldn't be ignored if Busia wanted to sleep peacefully at night, also partook
of the sharing of the national cake their "brave" and treacherous sons made possible. So they also got enough money to buy two big trucks to market their shallots, on which were inscribed: Shallot On Wheels! Yes, I know about how the loans were arbitrarily disbursed. After all, it was my old man that the people of Anloga sent for to talk to one of my more enterprising uncles, Ben T:-), who saw another opportunity to chop small. A CPP man, he was rumoured to be the person who sabotaged the generator after the coup.
There were other projs in the country which were laudable. When doing long vac job with the Ministry of Housing and Rural Devt. in 1975, I worked on collating all those postal and money orders people sent in repayment for the Rural Roofing and Housing Schemes which were not cashed up to that time! Too bad! The Scheme was supposed to help rural people roof the tens of 1000s of completed houses without roofs one sees in the rural areas. Not a bad idea at all, if you want to keep the rural rustics coming out of the schools in at their places.
Personally, I've some regrets about certain things he couldn't complete b4 the coup.
1. The Walatu Walasa sewerage system in Accra.
2. The broad road he was building from Mamprobi to Kaneshie which was going to pass through my territory from Lartebiokorshie, Sukura, Mataheko to near Akoko Foto on the Kaneshie Road in order to avoid driving thru the daily insult gauntlet the Kaneshie market women used to mount for him.
3. The massive shopping complex started on the front of his wife, Naa Morkor father's house, at Zongo Junction, where we rolled my dad's car tyres as kids in the early '60s.:-) Naa Morkor's father was a nice, genial and urbane retired gent. We used a shortcut through his compound to reach Zongo Junction and since we were nice kids, he gradually became friendly with us. The way was blocked when the proj. started though, just as a road was built through my father's plots of land adjacent to Busia's house at Odorkor when he became Premier, "for security purposes". He was never given the promised new plots before the coup happened. So you see, here again, Busia was bad news to me!
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Cousin Kojo T,
Doesn't your mum teach you the Ewe adage, ela ge de me gblea detsi o, literally, a lot of meat doesn't spoil the soup? You have just added spice to the soup I started cooking. Not even Arthur Kennedy can de ... read full comment
Cousin Kojo T,
Doesn't your mum teach you the Ewe adage, ela ge de me gblea detsi o, literally, a lot of meat doesn't spoil the soup? You have just added spice to the soup I started cooking. Not even Arthur Kennedy can deny some of the things I wrote. At least, he was honest enough to admit them as bad!
In fact, we ardent Nkrumaists are not countering and exposing incessantly the lies of the UP people enough! My post was rather too brief and we need others to contribute more. Yours is therefore most welcome.
For instance, I didn't even mention the lies told about the purpose of the abandoned silos: that people wouldn't be allowed to cook for themselves any more and the silos were going to be super kitchen areas where parents and kids would queue to receive state cooked food!
Andy-K
Repugnant. 10 years ago
Brilliant except one error, Saint Busia of the NLM/NPP fancy was born in, and from a village called Akrobi near Wenchi.
It is about three miles from Wenchi. He even built estate houses for all his villagers, with the inten ... read full comment
Brilliant except one error, Saint Busia of the NLM/NPP fancy was born in, and from a village called Akrobi near Wenchi.
It is about three miles from Wenchi. He even built estate houses for all his villagers, with the intention of making it look like an extension of Wenchi. which even though nearing completion was abandoned by the Acheampong regime.
I use to visit that village almost every day while living in Wenchi not long after the coup that ousted him. The least said about him the better, he wasn't all that bad, but his significant drawback was his selfishness.
I challenge his family members to come out to deny what i have said is his actual place of birth or admit the Wenchi allegory as an identity theft and a blatant lie.
Uncle Al 10 years ago
Akufo Addo can praise and make Kofi Abrefa Busia a hero of NPP, but not Ghana, we the people who lived through his 3 years of incompetent rule, can attest to the fact that Kofi Busia and his Progress Party government was just ... read full comment
Akufo Addo can praise and make Kofi Abrefa Busia a hero of NPP, but not Ghana, we the people who lived through his 3 years of incompetent rule, can attest to the fact that Kofi Busia and his Progress Party government was just horrible, to say the least. Mr Tamakloe you are spot on, you even left so many horrible instances of that dreadful administration. The Makola women named him ONA-BO KONTII. Why do you think Progress Party made a name change to NPP? Just to cover up their ugly past but unfotunatly it follows them, can't shake off the past.
Okoe 10 years ago
When you read about Nkrumah being a dictator remember, Nkrumah became a different person when they started throwing bombs to kill him and instead killed school children and more. What will your do when part of society start t ... read full comment
When you read about Nkrumah being a dictator remember, Nkrumah became a different person when they started throwing bombs to kill him and instead killed school children and more. What will your do when part of society start throwing bombs to kill innocent citizens? Hence Nkrumah being a dictator. Now they are called terrorists!!!
Osabere kotoko 10 years ago
And remember the Supreme Court ruling in Sala and Busia's repudiation of the verdict? Yet he was the best democrat of all times?
And remember the Supreme Court ruling in Sala and Busia's repudiation of the verdict? Yet he was the best democrat of all times?
KOFI MINTA 10 years ago
President Nkrumah introduced FREE EDUCATION in Ghana. other African students also had scholarships out of it. After the senseless coup of 1966, Busia returned from his hide-out and the NLC appointed him, Chairman of the "Cent ... read full comment
President Nkrumah introduced FREE EDUCATION in Ghana. other African students also had scholarships out of it. After the senseless coup of 1966, Busia returned from his hide-out and the NLC appointed him, Chairman of the "Centre for civic education (A concept of Busia) than he was made the adviser to the NLC. In this capacity, Busia influenced those military men to cancell the free education system and this has been the beginning of the downfall of Ghana's accademic. Children from poor homes had no more chance to schooling. But look at this. Busia's life and learning in Britain was paid for by the entire country (the most expensive venture for the nation on any individual) and he never wanted anyone to smell that privilege. TOO SELFISH.
MUGU YARO 10 years ago
BORROWED NAME AND RENTED BRAIN.GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT.
BORROWED NAME AND RENTED BRAIN.GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT.
KOFI MINTA 10 years ago
Boy, you might have not seen any of these men but only heard of their activities. I was 12years old when Ghana attained independenceand was at school. I enjoyed the free education of Nkrumah for four good years and I know wha ... read full comment
Boy, you might have not seen any of these men but only heard of their activities. I was 12years old when Ghana attained independenceand was at school. I enjoyed the free education of Nkrumah for four good years and I know what I am talking about as first hand information. I could read and understand every news paper in the country when he was deposed. Take it from me that Busia was selfish.
WEAR 10 years ago
Kofi Minta, you said correctly, Kwame Nkrumah´s Ghana Free education was dismantled by Afifa and co, under the influence of Busia, hence no free education in Ghana
Kofi Minta, you said correctly, Kwame Nkrumah´s Ghana Free education was dismantled by Afifa and co, under the influence of Busia, hence no free education in Ghana
I&I 10 years ago
What at all do these ewes want from the Late Noble Professor? What is your beef with him? You only see wrong when it's on your right side. You never see wrong when it occurs on your left. And who at all is kojo tamakloe to wr ... read full comment
What at all do these ewes want from the Late Noble Professor? What is your beef with him? You only see wrong when it's on your right side. You never see wrong when it occurs on your left. And who at all is kojo tamakloe to write about Prof. Busia? Kojo you didn't even know the original Hearts of Oaks Fearsome Fivesome. I had to come to your rescue. And you claim you are Nkrumaist yet you have supported the PNDC/NDC that overthrew the PNP a brainchild of the CPP, what Hiprocricy.Stop your nonsense and find something to do with your time. Or maybe you will write about the 20 years of jerry agbotui rawshit's tyrannic rule. Remember? the one that kofi awonoor Williams says it was staged for the sole purpose of taken political and economic hegemony from the Akans, expecially the Ashantis? Remember the killing of the judges, the former army officer, B.B. Bismark and thousand of others? Go ahead and write about that. And let me tell you once again: The ewes of Ghana, Togo, Benin and Haiti are their own enemies.
KOFI PAPABI 10 years ago
Kojo I think you are insinuating that Prof Busia did not leave a legacy worth praising. I can understand where you are coming from. The directions in which this illustrious son of Ghana bequeathed us, is what the good people ... read full comment
Kojo I think you are insinuating that Prof Busia did not leave a legacy worth praising. I can understand where you are coming from. The directions in which this illustrious son of Ghana bequeathed us, is what the good people of Ghana have chosen. You see back when Dr Busia was presenting his case for a multi party form of government for his beloved country, your father was busy serving Hitler as his overlord in the then Togoland. It was not until your Moses (Nkrumah) brought you guys into the promise (not promised) land did you get the chance to go to school through the sweats of our fathers. So I am not surprised at all to find out that the only hero u parasites worship is your Moses. We had our heroes before you unlawfully became part of us. ..unlawfully, because we Ghanaians were never asked if we wanted those carpenters and farm laborers to join us. Prof Busia was one such heroes so also BarfourAkoto...surprised? If you have a problem with that please join your brethren from Togo and leave us alone.
I&I 10 years ago
That is a good one Kofi. These ewes have staged all the coups leaving the Country at it's present sorrowful state.
That is a good one Kofi. These ewes have staged all the coups leaving the Country at it's present sorrowful state.
GUAN PRINCE 10 years ago
THE GUAN ARE THE ORIGINAL GHANAIANS. AKANS CAME FROM TIMBUCTU IN MALI. AKANS DID NOT COME FOM HOLES, THEY CAME FROM MALI. PLEASE DO NOT CALL ANY GHANAIAN AN ALIEN.
GAS CAME FROM ILE-IFE IN NIGERIA, EWES FROM DAHOMEY AND A ... read full comment
THE GUAN ARE THE ORIGINAL GHANAIANS. AKANS CAME FROM TIMBUCTU IN MALI. AKANS DID NOT COME FOM HOLES, THEY CAME FROM MALI. PLEASE DO NOT CALL ANY GHANAIAN AN ALIEN.
GAS CAME FROM ILE-IFE IN NIGERIA, EWES FROM DAHOMEY AND AKANS FROM MALI. THE GUAN WERE HERE BEFORE ANY ONE.
IF YOU DONT LIKE IT HERE, GO BACK TO MALI.
Frimpong, USA 10 years ago
Why not tell us the legacy Busia left us with instead of your meaningless article. If I may add Busia was also the brain behind Apollo 568 to sack mainly ewes from top government positions. May his(Busia) soul rot in hell wit ... read full comment
Why not tell us the legacy Busia left us with instead of your meaningless article. If I may add Busia was also the brain behind Apollo 568 to sack mainly ewes from top government positions. May his(Busia) soul rot in hell with Akuffo's own future soul.
Dr Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago
You started your article by defining legacy. You dismissed the first two and was going to expand on the last which you thought was more applicable. Before doing that you preferred to talk a bit about Prof. Busia. And then.... ... read full comment
You started your article by defining legacy. You dismissed the first two and was going to expand on the last which you thought was more applicable. Before doing that you preferred to talk a bit about Prof. Busia. And then..... you stopped there?
The fact that you are writing about Prof. Busia today, a man who died in 1978, is testament that he left a legacy. What you failed to say is that legacy can be good or bad, depending on who is carrying out the evaluation. You might think Prof. Busia left a bad legacy and others may think he left a good one. No one should have any arguments with you if that is your assessment. I am afraid, however, that you brought out no points to back your assertion.
We were not exporting manufactured goods during Nkrumah's time. All our exports were agricultural raw materials and minerals. You cannot therefore somehow hold Busia responsible for closing down factories opened by Nkrumah. I even doubt that he did that. The fact is most of the factories were not making profits and were rather siphoning off scarce national resources in the form of subsidies.
I wish when the likes of you make these claims, you bring out figures to show how much these state enterprises were contributing to the national economy.
Lastly I want to say that you do not have to hate Busia to love Nkrumah and you do not have to hate Nkrumah to love Busia. They all contributed, in their own way, to shape the Ghana we have today.
Nana B 10 years ago
A very balance comment, without going into the diatribes of tribal insults! Very thoughtful!
A very balance comment, without going into the diatribes of tribal insults! Very thoughtful!
VOICE FROM THE EAST 10 years ago
Are you sure you hold a PhD? I am shocked you are behaving like the people who only know what they have been told.Please research with your objective mind which I believe you have and come out with something better. Busia is ... read full comment
Are you sure you hold a PhD? I am shocked you are behaving like the people who only know what they have been told.Please research with your objective mind which I believe you have and come out with something better. Busia is a traitor and contributed secretly to the overthrow of a democratically elected government after his party had lost.We all speak bad of Rawlings for his coups ,what about Busia?
mensah abrampa 10 years ago
Remove the log in your eyes and you will be enabled to see the speck in Yaw Ohemeeng's eyes.Yaw worked hard to earn his PhD. He did not receive it on a platter nor was it doled out to him. Respect that and stop your pointless ... read full comment
Remove the log in your eyes and you will be enabled to see the speck in Yaw Ohemeeng's eyes.Yaw worked hard to earn his PhD. He did not receive it on a platter nor was it doled out to him. Respect that and stop your pointless envying. Busia like those men you admire had his merits and demerits. It's his birthday so let's celebrate his achievements.Save your bad mouthing for another time for Busia would not have been human if he was faultless. Perhaps you are not seeing any good about the man Busia because of the timber log in both your eyes.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
Some Doctor! How can most of the newly commissioned factories make immediate profit? When Bonsa Firestone Tyre and Aboso Glass Factories for example were all less than a year old when Nkrumah was overthrown.
The profit th ... read full comment
Some Doctor! How can most of the newly commissioned factories make immediate profit? When Bonsa Firestone Tyre and Aboso Glass Factories for example were all less than a year old when Nkrumah was overthrown.
The profit that in your doctoral regressive reasoning you fail to appreciate was that Ghanaians, had jobs, pride, optimism and hope and were within reach of acquisition of newer technologies, which the misanthropist, Saint Busia, castrated and supplanted with 'Communal Labor' in layman's English work without pay!
Please don't tell me that was a miracle, I saw those with my own eyes!
Dr Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago
I wonder why some of you always think someone does not deserve his degree when they do not agree with you. Make your point and make me see your logic.
One of the external examiners for my Ph.D defence was the originator of ... read full comment
I wonder why some of you always think someone does not deserve his degree when they do not agree with you. Make your point and make me see your logic.
One of the external examiners for my Ph.D defence was the originator of a theory, which I critiqued in setting up mine. He was not bitter but rather preferred to listen to me justify my criticisms. We remained friends after that and we occasionally compare issues in our field of practice. That is how frontiers of knowledge are advanced. To some of you all people should think alike, especially what you think.
If Bonsa tyre and Aboso glass factories were less than a year old, was it Busia who closed them? These factories were still around in 1975, three years after his overthrow. Why can't you be factual? The fact of the matter is that the Ghanaian himself did not patronise what was being produced and management was poor. You cannot go against the laws of business and economics in the name of creating jobs. That is why centrist planning of the economy by nation states has been jettisoned by even the communists. At least we know who has been vindicated by history.
I will not play your Nkrumah-Busia game. You cannot have pride when you owe suppliers massively that you needed to control imports through 'import licensing' regime, which was favouring cronies. At least I am old enough to know that my parents were not having to look at their backs when talking about Busia, as they did when talking about Nkrumah.
True Patriot 10 years ago
Let them say what they like about you; they don't know anything about you.
Their arguments depicts the sort of people they are--ignorant---.
Let them say what they like about you; they don't know anything about you.
Their arguments depicts the sort of people they are--ignorant---.
Kosoko 10 years ago
Yaw, I don't think Kwame Nkrumah was 'mad' or ‘murderer’ for people to be scared of his name. You have to assess events in totality. Really, I have some difficulty in appreciating your logic that factories which were open ... read full comment
Yaw, I don't think Kwame Nkrumah was 'mad' or ‘murderer’ for people to be scared of his name. You have to assess events in totality. Really, I have some difficulty in appreciating your logic that factories which were opened up in the 1960s could reap super-profit by 1965? Please? Also, are you sure Busia was not responsible for the closure of the most of the factories established by Nkrumah? Who is else is responsible? I guess, it's the natural law of economics. My conclusion is that this kind of logic is nothing scholarship but politics.
WEAR 10 years ago
Did any of your relatives worked in those factories Nkrumah built and receive salaries every month, it could then be better than unemployed, and that is one step that generate income, if you think the factories never had prof ... read full comment
Did any of your relatives worked in those factories Nkrumah built and receive salaries every month, it could then be better than unemployed, and that is one step that generate income, if you think the factories never had profit, you´re just fooling yourself like the U.P terrorist groups. Danquah-Busia-Obetsebi Lamptey-Baffour Akoto- Dombo and cvo.
Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago
How can you pay workers if you do not generate profits? This is the difference between you and I. This is the very mentality why we are poor. Every year we sink millions in projects with no returns and we expect jobs to be cr ... read full comment
How can you pay workers if you do not generate profits? This is the difference between you and I. This is the very mentality why we are poor. Every year we sink millions in projects with no returns and we expect jobs to be created. People think you only have to create the jobs and that is the end. If you do not make profit, the jobs are not sustainable. It is the most fundamental principle of business. You can insult all you can but that is the TRUTH.
Kojo T 10 years ago
We grew pineaples, cotton for the textiles, sugar cane for sugar, cattle for tanneries and shoe factories. They were all well thought out. Young man do some thinking about these and let us start anew
We grew pineaples, cotton for the textiles, sugar cane for sugar, cattle for tanneries and shoe factories. They were all well thought out. Young man do some thinking about these and let us start anew
VOICE FROM THE EAST 10 years ago
Where have you been hiding?I have been looking for men and women who are capable of demonstrating this pure authentic courage you showed in your article. Thank you so much.Your article was spot on.You got it all correct.The U ... read full comment
Where have you been hiding?I have been looking for men and women who are capable of demonstrating this pure authentic courage you showed in your article. Thank you so much.Your article was spot on.You got it all correct.The UP tradition have no heroes and they just want to make one in a belated attempt.
VINCEY,NJ 10 years ago
So turkey tails here, there and everywhere. Thus killing softly the citizenry is Big mouth Busia living ahead of his time? No wonder Akufo Addo himself and Kufuor are certificateless and clueless like their mentor Apollo 56 ... read full comment
So turkey tails here, there and everywhere. Thus killing softly the citizenry is Big mouth Busia living ahead of his time? No wonder Akufo Addo himself and Kufuor are certificateless and clueless like their mentor Apollo 568 Busia.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
I will limit my comments on tolerance and my experience in Busia's regime,1969-1972.As a young boy of 15-18 years old,I got some respect for Busia on his National Identification Policy and Professional Orientation Policy.I ha ... read full comment
I will limit my comments on tolerance and my experience in Busia's regime,1969-1972.As a young boy of 15-18 years old,I got some respect for Busia on his National Identification Policy and Professional Orientation Policy.I have chosen these 2 because I registered to be a potential a beneficiary.Unfortunately,none of these policies have been achieved yet.
Busia had wanted every Ghanaian to bear a National Identity Card where we were taken ID photos to prepare the cards but the coup d'état blocked the program since 1972.The second one is about training the youth with Technical Skills and that one too was abandoned.I think these 2 programs are still necessary for nation building.On the negative side,Busia was irritated by strikes and could not find proper means to address workers' concerns.He sacked many strikers out from work sometimes with no compensation.I do remember him for sacking professional seamen and bringing onboard people who have never seen a ship before.These are the guys we called the "Busia Seamen".I think Busia had little problem with tolerance,for the rest he was a fine politician.Thank you.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
"The second one is about training the youth with Technical Skills and that one too was abandoned."
Are you referring to 'Communal Labor' or what? Workers went on strike, they were being forced to do communal labor with no ... read full comment
"The second one is about training the youth with Technical Skills and that one too was abandoned."
Are you referring to 'Communal Labor' or what? Workers went on strike, they were being forced to do communal labor with no pay.
Busia was all fingers, had no thumps.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
I am not talking about Communal Labour,I made my statement clear, please try to find out.We were given forms to select any technical profession of our choice,it has nothing to do with communal labour.This is my own experience ... read full comment
I am not talking about Communal Labour,I made my statement clear, please try to find out.We were given forms to select any technical profession of our choice,it has nothing to do with communal labour.This is my own experience,I cannot give only bad account about Busia even though I was then very young.Thank you.
WEAR 10 years ago
You are right, that introduction came somewhere in 1971/72, if I can remember it correctly, I filled my form at Tema T.D.C office, after we didn´t heard any thing till today.
You are right, that introduction came somewhere in 1971/72, if I can remember it correctly, I filled my form at Tema T.D.C office, after we didn´t heard any thing till today.
mensah abrampa 10 years ago
I believe the time is ripe to re-start the debate on a federalized system of government.This may appease Kojo Tamakloe's kinfolk and others who hate some of us with a relish for just being Akan.It's no longer a secret that so ... read full comment
I believe the time is ripe to re-start the debate on a federalized system of government.This may appease Kojo Tamakloe's kinfolk and others who hate some of us with a relish for just being Akan.It's no longer a secret that some of them harbor plans which pre-date the 21st century to replace what they've perceived and terminologized as "Akan hegemony" with an Ewe hegemony. Nyebro have been part of almost every coup d'etat since the post independence era. With a federal system of government Akans will no longer constitute much of their sore headache nor the thorn in their flesh .They will be gifted with the opportunity to develop the Volta region as it seems good in their eyes. To some of them the only good akan is a dead one but to some ewe supremacists we're all good for nothing, dead or alive. What do some Ewes want? A federal system? Why not!
Isaac 10 years ago
Ewes do not hate Akans and do not preach hate towards Akans, every sincere person knows who preach tribal hate in Ghana. On the other hand all the supposed coups involving Ewes in Ghana also invloves mostly Asantes participat ... read full comment
Ewes do not hate Akans and do not preach hate towards Akans, every sincere person knows who preach tribal hate in Ghana. On the other hand all the supposed coups involving Ewes in Ghana also invloves mostly Asantes participating with them hand in hand. Check your history and come back.
ONUA 10 years ago
Am back already, what is the Asante connection in Jerry's coups.
Am back already, what is the Asante connection in Jerry's coups.
Kojo T 10 years ago
She is Konadu Agyemang
She is Konadu Agyemang
SK 10 years ago
By their fruit, we shall know them.
Keep even the generations unborn inform. the truth lives and shall reign forever
By their fruit, we shall know them.
Keep even the generations unborn inform. the truth lives and shall reign forever
alfred 10 years ago
nice opinion but keep insults out.......
nice opinion but keep insults out.......
ONUA 10 years ago
Well the end justifies the means, Dr. Busia's vision: MALTY PARTY SYSTEM, INDIVIDUALIZED/LIBERAL ECONOMY, and don't forget the present JSS system was his brainchild, and contrast that with my Dad's hero, Osagyefo's vision, on ... read full comment
Well the end justifies the means, Dr. Busia's vision: MALTY PARTY SYSTEM, INDIVIDUALIZED/LIBERAL ECONOMY, and don't forget the present JSS system was his brainchild, and contrast that with my Dad's hero, Osagyefo's vision, one party state, centralized economy, dictatorship, and socialist ideas that is not welcomed even in places like China. In your article you tried so hard to tie him [Abrefa] to Asante more than his own Bono. You these Ewe's are taking tribalism to another level, esp. when it comes to anything Akan.
Kosoko 10 years ago
Sorry, Kofi Busia never associated himself with Bono people. He never thought to be one.
Sorry, Kofi Busia never associated himself with Bono people. He never thought to be one.
JojoD 10 years ago
Kodjo, your claim that Busia devalued the Cedi in 1971 by 100% is wrong! A 100% devaluation would have meant we were exchanging cedis for zero dollars. Prior to the devaluation, the exchange rate was C1.15 to $1.00, which mea ... read full comment
Kodjo, your claim that Busia devalued the Cedi in 1971 by 100% is wrong! A 100% devaluation would have meant we were exchanging cedis for zero dollars. Prior to the devaluation, the exchange rate was C1.15 to $1.00, which meant that C1.00 was equal to $0.86. After the devaluation, the exchange rate went to C1.82 to $1.00, meaning C1.00 was equal to $0.55.
Since the cedi was then pegged to the dollar, the devaluation, therefore, was in terms of the dollar. Here is the calculation:
($0.55 - $0.86)/(0.86)= .36
Busia devalued the cedi in 1971 by 36% and not your claim of 100%.
Kobena 10 years ago
Exactly which factories are you talking about? Most of the factories that were established under Arthur Lewis’s “Import Substitution Theory” were on their knees by 1964/65 because everything, including their MDs’ dust ... read full comment
Exactly which factories are you talking about? Most of the factories that were established under Arthur Lewis’s “Import Substitution Theory” were on their knees by 1964/65 because everything, including their MDs’ dustbins, was imported. This in itself was not surprising because with a population of just 6.5 million at independence, the market was simply not there. And with our antagonism towards almost all our neighbours, the French encouraged their former colonies to establish textile, bottling, meat and nearly every factory we had in Ghana so they wouldn’t buy from “paa paa” Ghana.
Then the west ganged up on us and drove down the price of cocoa, our mainstay, from a high of £1600/ton in 1956, to less than £800/ton by 1964.Many of the factories that were sold were gone by the time Busia came to power in 1969. The only factories that survived were those whose raw materials were produced locally, like Cocoa Products, Nzema Oil Mills, Pwalugu Tomato Factory, Aboso Glass Factory, Bonsa Tyres. Even these were falling apart because there was no money to purchase spare parts for their machinery. I saw it first hand at Aboso Glass Factory in the early 1970s, and I know what my friends at Bonsa Tyres down the road, were going through.
The State Farms that were supposed to produce the raw materials for the factories were so riddled with corruption that they couldn’t even produce enough to feed their workers at lunchtime. One paramount chief in the Eastern Region and his three wives were on the staff list of one of the farms, drawing their salaries every month, but they did not even know where the farm on which they were employed was! And it was the same all over the country. People who were loud mouthed enough to complain received the proverbial midnight visitors and carted off to Nsawam and Ussher Fort. The reports of the Commissions of Enquiry are still available in the libraries, even if they have gathered six inch thick dust.
According to Arthur Lewis, all that Ghana needed was to invest £2m year from the £200m the (in other words, one century of development and investments, even if we were not selling anything in the meantime.) British had left for us (little mercies.) Yet by 1966, it was all gone and Ghana was actually in debt to the tune of another £60m. By the time Busia assumed office, the country was totally broke. Remember American wheat and powdered milk? Busia’s devaluation of the cedi was no different from Kuffuor’s HIPC after the state coffers were looted in 2000! With all his troubles, Busia’s Rural Development Agenda has never been equalled anywhere in Africa before or since, and I have travelled through north, south, east and west. His rural water supply, electrification and civic education ridded Ghana of guinea worm and cholera, among others.
As a royal of Asante and Brong, which you probably did not know, Busia was equally at home in Kente as well as three piece suit. He spoke Twi, Mfantse, Bono, as well as some Ga, which we cannot say about a lot of Ghanaians today.
It is morally despicable to distort facts in support of parochial agenda!
KAKABO 10 years ago
Kojo Tamakloe, you can say whatever you want about Busia but it will not change the fact that he was the only wise man who saw the wisdom in saying that the problems of Apartheid South Africa could only be solved through dia ... read full comment
Kojo Tamakloe, you can say whatever you want about Busia but it will not change the fact that he was the only wise man who saw the wisdom in saying that the problems of Apartheid South Africa could only be solved through dialogue, against the then foolish majority view in Africa lead by your show boy which urged us to take our "teabofre" to go and fight a nuclear power like South Africa. It says a lot about the brains and thinking power of your show boy and Busia. At the end of the day whose position was vindicated? If the ANC had followed your so- called show boy's position, Mandela would still be in prison and war would have ravaged south African cities to the ground. That is enough for the political acumen of you so called show boy. Ma yen dwen ye ho
True Patriot 10 years ago
Pres. Nkrumah stared the alien deportation Act in 1959.
Dr. Busia did not continue it but asked all Aliens to Registerd and get residentb Permit.
go to the Archives of the Ghana Police Service or Immigration Service to ... read full comment
Pres. Nkrumah stared the alien deportation Act in 1959.
Dr. Busia did not continue it but asked all Aliens to Registerd and get residentb Permit.
go to the Archives of the Ghana Police Service or Immigration Service to give me the figures of those aliens who were deported/
The Aliens chose to leave voluntarily and some their Children remained in Ghana.
at least I know about 8 Yorubas who never left Ghanaian
The multiple times Best Ghanaian Journalist winner -Mr Razak El Alawa is an example. Remember in 1959 Kwame Nkrumah deported some Lebanese from Ghana.
PROF KAFO DIDI
They are birds of the same feather. They both sold Ghana to the white man
EVIL BUSIA achievements:
1. ACO: (which discriminated against fellow Africans, mostly Nigerians. He robbed them of their human rights, stole their properties and VIOLENTLY DEPORTED them to Nigeria).
2' He succeeded in c ...
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You and Andy C.Y are the very authors who give us rich history and I hope every sane person would want to more from you two.
Thank You Kojo.
We are practicing and enjoying multi-party system now and democracy is in full swing – so weren’t the two the same that was proposed by Busia and the opposition? Most Ghanaians are not interested in the one party system o ...
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Kojo Tamakloe, I enjoyed reading your piece but I found it too one-sided and only pointing out Busia's lapses. What about his Rural Development Policy that Ghana would have been different today had it been continued by succes ...
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Kofi,
Nkrumah and the CPP started the rural devt long before Busia came on the scene. It stalled with the coup and Busia revived it. My home town Anloga was finally forgiven for starting and leading the rebellion against t ...
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Cousin Kojo T,
Doesn't your mum teach you the Ewe adage, ela ge de me gblea detsi o, literally, a lot of meat doesn't spoil the soup? You have just added spice to the soup I started cooking. Not even Arthur Kennedy can de ...
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Brilliant except one error, Saint Busia of the NLM/NPP fancy was born in, and from a village called Akrobi near Wenchi.
It is about three miles from Wenchi. He even built estate houses for all his villagers, with the inten ...
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Akufo Addo can praise and make Kofi Abrefa Busia a hero of NPP, but not Ghana, we the people who lived through his 3 years of incompetent rule, can attest to the fact that Kofi Busia and his Progress Party government was just ...
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When you read about Nkrumah being a dictator remember, Nkrumah became a different person when they started throwing bombs to kill him and instead killed school children and more. What will your do when part of society start t ...
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And remember the Supreme Court ruling in Sala and Busia's repudiation of the verdict? Yet he was the best democrat of all times?
President Nkrumah introduced FREE EDUCATION in Ghana. other African students also had scholarships out of it. After the senseless coup of 1966, Busia returned from his hide-out and the NLC appointed him, Chairman of the "Cent ...
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BORROWED NAME AND RENTED BRAIN.GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT.
Boy, you might have not seen any of these men but only heard of their activities. I was 12years old when Ghana attained independenceand was at school. I enjoyed the free education of Nkrumah for four good years and I know wha ...
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Kofi Minta, you said correctly, Kwame Nkrumah´s Ghana Free education was dismantled by Afifa and co, under the influence of Busia, hence no free education in Ghana
What at all do these ewes want from the Late Noble Professor? What is your beef with him? You only see wrong when it's on your right side. You never see wrong when it occurs on your left. And who at all is kojo tamakloe to wr ...
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Kojo I think you are insinuating that Prof Busia did not leave a legacy worth praising. I can understand where you are coming from. The directions in which this illustrious son of Ghana bequeathed us, is what the good people ...
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That is a good one Kofi. These ewes have staged all the coups leaving the Country at it's present sorrowful state.
THE GUAN ARE THE ORIGINAL GHANAIANS. AKANS CAME FROM TIMBUCTU IN MALI. AKANS DID NOT COME FOM HOLES, THEY CAME FROM MALI. PLEASE DO NOT CALL ANY GHANAIAN AN ALIEN.
GAS CAME FROM ILE-IFE IN NIGERIA, EWES FROM DAHOMEY AND A ...
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Why not tell us the legacy Busia left us with instead of your meaningless article. If I may add Busia was also the brain behind Apollo 568 to sack mainly ewes from top government positions. May his(Busia) soul rot in hell wit ...
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You started your article by defining legacy. You dismissed the first two and was going to expand on the last which you thought was more applicable. Before doing that you preferred to talk a bit about Prof. Busia. And then.... ...
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A very balance comment, without going into the diatribes of tribal insults! Very thoughtful!
Are you sure you hold a PhD? I am shocked you are behaving like the people who only know what they have been told.Please research with your objective mind which I believe you have and come out with something better. Busia is ...
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Remove the log in your eyes and you will be enabled to see the speck in Yaw Ohemeeng's eyes.Yaw worked hard to earn his PhD. He did not receive it on a platter nor was it doled out to him. Respect that and stop your pointless ...
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Some Doctor! How can most of the newly commissioned factories make immediate profit? When Bonsa Firestone Tyre and Aboso Glass Factories for example were all less than a year old when Nkrumah was overthrown.
The profit th ...
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I wonder why some of you always think someone does not deserve his degree when they do not agree with you. Make your point and make me see your logic.
One of the external examiners for my Ph.D defence was the originator of ...
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Let them say what they like about you; they don't know anything about you.
Their arguments depicts the sort of people they are--ignorant---.
Yaw, I don't think Kwame Nkrumah was 'mad' or ‘murderer’ for people to be scared of his name. You have to assess events in totality. Really, I have some difficulty in appreciating your logic that factories which were open ...
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Did any of your relatives worked in those factories Nkrumah built and receive salaries every month, it could then be better than unemployed, and that is one step that generate income, if you think the factories never had prof ...
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How can you pay workers if you do not generate profits? This is the difference between you and I. This is the very mentality why we are poor. Every year we sink millions in projects with no returns and we expect jobs to be cr ...
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We grew pineaples, cotton for the textiles, sugar cane for sugar, cattle for tanneries and shoe factories. They were all well thought out. Young man do some thinking about these and let us start anew
Where have you been hiding?I have been looking for men and women who are capable of demonstrating this pure authentic courage you showed in your article. Thank you so much.Your article was spot on.You got it all correct.The U ...
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So turkey tails here, there and everywhere. Thus killing softly the citizenry is Big mouth Busia living ahead of his time? No wonder Akufo Addo himself and Kufuor are certificateless and clueless like their mentor Apollo 56 ...
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I will limit my comments on tolerance and my experience in Busia's regime,1969-1972.As a young boy of 15-18 years old,I got some respect for Busia on his National Identification Policy and Professional Orientation Policy.I ha ...
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"The second one is about training the youth with Technical Skills and that one too was abandoned."
Are you referring to 'Communal Labor' or what? Workers went on strike, they were being forced to do communal labor with no ...
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I am not talking about Communal Labour,I made my statement clear, please try to find out.We were given forms to select any technical profession of our choice,it has nothing to do with communal labour.This is my own experience ...
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You are right, that introduction came somewhere in 1971/72, if I can remember it correctly, I filled my form at Tema T.D.C office, after we didn´t heard any thing till today.
I believe the time is ripe to re-start the debate on a federalized system of government.This may appease Kojo Tamakloe's kinfolk and others who hate some of us with a relish for just being Akan.It's no longer a secret that so ...
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Ewes do not hate Akans and do not preach hate towards Akans, every sincere person knows who preach tribal hate in Ghana. On the other hand all the supposed coups involving Ewes in Ghana also invloves mostly Asantes participat ...
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Am back already, what is the Asante connection in Jerry's coups.
She is Konadu Agyemang
By their fruit, we shall know them.
Keep even the generations unborn inform. the truth lives and shall reign forever
nice opinion but keep insults out.......
Well the end justifies the means, Dr. Busia's vision: MALTY PARTY SYSTEM, INDIVIDUALIZED/LIBERAL ECONOMY, and don't forget the present JSS system was his brainchild, and contrast that with my Dad's hero, Osagyefo's vision, on ...
read full comment
Sorry, Kofi Busia never associated himself with Bono people. He never thought to be one.
Kodjo, your claim that Busia devalued the Cedi in 1971 by 100% is wrong! A 100% devaluation would have meant we were exchanging cedis for zero dollars. Prior to the devaluation, the exchange rate was C1.15 to $1.00, which mea ...
read full comment
Exactly which factories are you talking about? Most of the factories that were established under Arthur Lewis’s “Import Substitution Theory” were on their knees by 1964/65 because everything, including their MDs’ dust ...
read full comment
Kojo Tamakloe, you can say whatever you want about Busia but it will not change the fact that he was the only wise man who saw the wisdom in saying that the problems of Apartheid South Africa could only be solved through dia ...
read full comment
Pres. Nkrumah stared the alien deportation Act in 1959.
Dr. Busia did not continue it but asked all Aliens to Registerd and get residentb Permit.
go to the Archives of the Ghana Police Service or Immigration Service to ...
read full comment