Good write up, but don't worry about Mike Ocquaye - How did he become a prof? As for Ayikoi Otoo, he is just a joker. He and Ocquaye were appointed by Kufour to make some Gas happy that his govt is not all about his family an ... read full comment
Good write up, but don't worry about Mike Ocquaye - How did he become a prof? As for Ayikoi Otoo, he is just a joker. He and Ocquaye were appointed by Kufour to make some Gas happy that his govt is not all about his family and friends, but even Kufour quickly realised that they are incompetent opportunists. Ayikoi's only achievement is that he applied for and obtained a 12 year visa for him and his wife so he could run away as he supported calls to kill his own people. Kufour sacked him after less than 2 years. They have no achievements and nothing to write home about. The only way for Nkrumah's detractors to be in the news is by criticising him or destroying the projects he did.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
The NPP, Ocquaye and Otoo know what is right but have to serve their masters. There is a strategy of containment at stake here. Should Mahama adopt Nkrumah's plan of development he could easily correct the misperceptions of G ... read full comment
The NPP, Ocquaye and Otoo know what is right but have to serve their masters. There is a strategy of containment at stake here. Should Mahama adopt Nkrumah's plan of development he could easily correct the misperceptions of Ghana's inertia and diffidence toward a pragmatic advance. Therefore inuring all these silly perturbations. Nkrumah was our founder, we can leave him to rest in peace in a better hope for our country.
Nothing can be more notorious than to oppose for opposition sake, with no measure of the consequences, especially when one is supposedly learned.
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago
KWAME NKRUMAH INTL. AIRPORT
WAT A DISGRACE FUL AIRPORT. REMOVE KOTOKA'S NAME FROM THE BUILDING. HE IS A NATIONAL TRAITOR, NOT TREASURE. ONLY TREASURES LIKE DR. NKRUMAH
NEED TO BE ADORNED ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN GH. THE AIRP ... read full comment
KWAME NKRUMAH INTL. AIRPORT
WAT A DISGRACE FUL AIRPORT. REMOVE KOTOKA'S NAME FROM THE BUILDING. HE IS A NATIONAL TRAITOR, NOT TREASURE. ONLY TREASURES LIKE DR. NKRUMAH
NEED TO BE ADORNED ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN GH. THE AIRPORT ITSELF IS A DISGRACEFUL SIGHT. THE EMPLOYEES ACT ANYHOW. THEY ALL LACK CUSTOMER SERVICE.
THEY PREFER TO SPEAK VERNACULAR. THEY ENGAGE IN FOOLISH ANTICS TO COLLECT BRIBES. ONLY ANIMALS SHOULD TRANSIT THRU THIS AIRPORT, NOT HUMANS.
GO TO S AFRICA AND LEARN HOW TO PROPERLY ADMINISTER AN AIRPORT. ASK THE S AFRICANS FOR HELP IN RE DESIGNING OR UPLIFTING THE STRUCTURAL IMAGE
OF KWAME NKRUMAH INTL AIRPORT. THIS AIRPORT IS NOW MEDIOCRE AND UNFIT FOR 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS.
PLEASE, IF YOU DONT REMOVE THAT TRAITOR'S NAME KOTOKA FROM THAT AIRPORT. I WILL FIND A WAY TO BLOW UP THAT AIRPORT. JUST WATCH! FOOLS!
WHY CANT GHPPL BE CLASSY? ALWAYS MEDDLING IN FILTH N MEDIOCRITY!
ILLITERATE BOMB THROWERS N TRAITORS
Dr. Nkrumah was in Usher Fort jail when the political party he formed, the Convention People’s Party (CPP) won the elections that powered Ghana’s Independence in 1957.
After that, Ghana was the first in everything: first African country in the world to have its own fleet of ships, ‘Black Star Line Co’ – faithfully named after Garvey's earlier ”Back-to-Africa” shipping line; Ghana Airways; and the all-conquering Black Stars football team. Even the UNDP rated Ghana over Japan as one of the fastest industrially developing economies in the world!
This quote exemplifies how Dr. Nkrumah helped to free Guyana, South America from British colonialism:
“Despite the political setback brought about by the British-imposed decision at the November 1963 constitutional conference, Dr. [Chaddi] Jagan continued his efforts to find a political solution in Guyana. Shortly after the conference concluded, he wrote to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, urging him to mediate a settlement between the PPP and the PNC. Dr. Nkrumah immediately responded by sending a mission headed by one of his close advisers, Professor W.E. Abraham (MEDIATION BY GHANA AND TRINIDAD IN 1964).
He did not stop at that. He worked tirelessly combining his busy national and international schedule with writing. He wrote so many books his jealous protagonists in the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) - J,B. Dankwah, Obetsebi-Lamptey, Ako Adjai, J. Amoako-Atta - jealously claimed his books were ghost-written by Prof. W.E. Abraham (the man mentioned in the above quote)! This is still the source of irritation to his modern-day haters: Okoampa Ahoofe Pee Aach Dee, Gaby Okyere Darko, etc.
Stranded by a roadside in a remote part of Georgetown, Guyana (S. America), I suddenly got an unsolicited lift from a man. Surprised I asked him why. He explained, "Because I knew you must be from Ghana. In the past all we Caribbean knew about Africa was Ghana...Also your cloths". He then proceeded to sing Lord Kitchener's nostalgia-inducing song, ‘Ghana Independence Day’:
Sadly, after he was ousted from power in 1966 by the evil-pact of the US's CIA, western secret services, vengeful remnants of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) which he defeated by landslides in elections in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Ghana Armed Forces led by the greed, treachery and treason of Lt. Gens. E.K. Kotoka, J.A. Ankrah, Maj. Akwesi Afrifa and others, Dr. Nkrumah's books and teachings were banned publicly. Lecturers and students in his, Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, Wineba and throughout Ghana were beaten, imprisoned and generally persecuted - even killed.
The mention of his name, books or ideas by his sympathisers caused immediate arrests, beatings, killings, imprisonment or public humiliation. It was part of the west's vicious ideological war to stamp out all vestiges of Socialism and PanAfricanism - the political and economic self-reliance that Dr. Nkrumah championed in Africa. This was the height of the so-called Cold War. (One can imagine what happened to his family). Ghana and Africa's political and intellectual leadership is still compromised by this ideology of containment by the CIA and their local agents.
THIS IS WHY IDEOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED INTELLECTUALS and others monopolise the rightwing media, to misrepresent, confuse and misinform the new generation of Ghanaian youth about Dr. Nkrumah’s achievement. The best way to know the truth, surely is to read what the Osagyefo wrote himself – we must hear from the horse’s own mouth.
During his leadership Dr. Nkrumah wrote more books than any living African leader. This is the reason for still lingering jealousies by his political detractors:
AFRICA MUST UNITE (a call for continental unity) AXIOMS OF KWAME NKRUMAH ~ FREEDOM FIGHTERS EDITION (philosophical texts). CHALLENGE OF THE CONGO (analysis of the Congo Crisis, western duplicity in the exploitation of Congo). CLASS STRUGGLE IN AFRICA (analysis of social hierarchies). CONSCIENCISM: PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY FOR DECOLONISATION (creative philosophical discourse). DARK DAYS IN GHANA (his expose on the coup that ousted him). GHANA: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF KWAME NKRUMAH HANDBOOK OF REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE. I SPEAK OF FREEDOM (freedom talk). NEO-COLONIALISM: THE LAST STAGE OF IMPERIALISM (analysis of political economies in Africa). REVOLUTIONARY PATH (a compendium of most of his key writings - a must-have). RHODESIA FILE (on Zimbabwe – the brutalities of the Britain’s and Ian Smith’s army). THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES (continued commentary on the African Revolution). TOWARDS COLONIAL FREEDOM (ideas for decolonization) VOICE FROM CONAKRY (wisdom from Guinea)
THESE ILLITERATE BOMB THROWERS, ILLITERATE AGAINSTFUO DONT UNDERSTAND COMMON SENSE N THE RULE OF LAW, NOR THE CONSTITUTION. WAT U INWARD LOOKING
PPL FAIL TO UNDERSTAND IS DAT DR. NKRUMAH USED THE RIGHT CHANNELS TO DO EVERYTHING. HE EITHER USED THE POWER OF THE VOTE OR THE POWER OF THE REFERENDUM
TO GET HIS WAY. THIS IS WAT U ILLITERATE BOMB THROWERS N KOTOKA TRAITORS SEEM TO NOT UNDERSTAND. WHY DIDNT SUCH COWARDLY TRAITORS N BOMB THROWERS
HVE THE BALLS TO ENGAGE IN SUCH NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES AGAINST THE BRITS? THEY WAITED FOR DR. NKRUMAH TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE, THEN THEY FOLLOWED
BY TRYING TO GRT RID OF NKRUMAH BCOS HE WAS A GH. TYPICAL GH MENTALITY!
U SAY NKRUMAH WASTED ALL THIS MONEY TO SATISFY HIS AMBITION OF BECOMING PRESIDENT OF AFRICA? WAT A FOOLISH TOOL! EVERYTHING WE ENJOY IN GH AND
EVEN OUTSIDE IN TERMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE IS ALL BCOS OF THE VISION OF DR. NKRUMAH. HOW MANY GH LEADERS AFTER HI HVE EVEN MANAGED TO DO AN IOTA OF
WAT HE DID FOR GH? YET, LOOK AT THE MONIES LEADERS LIKE ACHEAMPONG, JJ, KUFFOUR, BUSIA, THE AWHOIS, PV OBENG, WOYOME, MAHAMA, ATO QUASHIE N THE
REST HVE STOLEN FROM GH? WAT BANK ACCOUNT DID NKRUMAH HVE AFTER HE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY DEPOSED? TILL THIS DAY, NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS MANAGED
TO BUILD ANOTHER AIRPORT! FOOLS!
AYI 10 years ago
AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR RADICAL MEANS OF U ... read full comment
AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR RADICAL MEANS OF UNITY.
PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH MADE A SPEECH DURING GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY THAT “FROM NOW ON WE MUST CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE AND MINDS”. THAT IS, WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE RULED/GOVERN/DOMINATE BY ALIENS/FOREIGNERS.
GHANA DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, GHANA MUST REPENT QUICKLY AND EMBRACE DR. KWAME NKRUMAH AND HIS VISIONS ABOUT GHANA / AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, TO HELP GHANA AND AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/MOVE TO THE TOP.
AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT MUST QUICKLY EMBRACE HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, WITHOUT DELAY TO HELP AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/ MOVE TO THE TOP. IT IS TOO FRAGILE/DANGEROUS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO WASTE TIME IN EMBRACING HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. EVERY AFRICAN/STUDENT/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT FROM THE LOWEST GRADE/KINGDERGARDEN TO THE MOST HIGHEST EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY/PAU AND EVERY PROFESSOR MUST/COMPULSORY STUDY HON MARCUS GARVEY’S, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH’S, MALCOM X’S TEACHINGS/IDEAS/VISIONS ABOUT AFRICA . GOD BLESSES AFRICA AMEN.
Nana Ansah 10 years ago
Wow Great stuff! No one does it better like Bokor. Suck it to the NPP knaves Baby. Aside from their kokoase krakyes who know next to nothing the NPP is full KOKOMPE lawyers and professors. What a bunch of self-righteous idiot ... read full comment
Wow Great stuff! No one does it better like Bokor. Suck it to the NPP knaves Baby. Aside from their kokoase krakyes who know next to nothing the NPP is full KOKOMPE lawyers and professors. What a bunch of self-righteous idiots.
As for nonentity noise annoyance Ocquaye and Ayikwei Otoo ; the least said about them the better. They are not fit to hold a candle to Nkrumah.
Nana Otchere 10 years ago
Sometimes, you write good articles only to soil it with a lie if i should say. I dont know if these lies are intentional or just ignorance....Who did what to President Limann ? You know that PNDC , the parent , of NDC spearh ... read full comment
Sometimes, you write good articles only to soil it with a lie if i should say. I dont know if these lies are intentional or just ignorance....Who did what to President Limann ? You know that PNDC , the parent , of NDC spearheaded by Jerry Rawlings did "that" to Limann.unless i dont know what u meant by that statement.Have you found out when his wife was sorted out and given a befitting accommodation as a former first lady ?the Year and by whom and from which Ideological block ? Please be circumspect and let ur writing educate us ..dont cover ur shine with misinformation
MINOR CASE 10 years ago
The stock in trade of these CPP low lives is propaganda . They churn out lies and repeat them over and over till the simpletons assimilate them. See how he portrays Nkrumah as an angel and all others evil even though Nkrumah ... read full comment
The stock in trade of these CPP low lives is propaganda . They churn out lies and repeat them over and over till the simpletons assimilate them. See how he portrays Nkrumah as an angel and all others evil even though Nkrumah formed the Action Troopers of the CPP to to kill people.
SAINT JAMES 10 years ago
Is it a coincidence? Ako Adjei and Tawiah Adamafio two of Nkrumah's ministers and Kofi Crabbe were all GAS,who betrayed him by plotting with Nkrumah's opponents to assasinate him.Do you remember the Kulungugu Bomb explosion L ... read full comment
Is it a coincidence? Ako Adjei and Tawiah Adamafio two of Nkrumah's ministers and Kofi Crabbe were all GAS,who betrayed him by plotting with Nkrumah's opponents to assasinate him.Do you remember the Kulungugu Bomb explosion Lord have mercy on Accra natives?
Kwabena Gyamfi 10 years ago
Dr Mike Ocquaye and Ayikoi Otoo have taken a lot flak from the CPP elements for daring to suggest that Nkrumah cannot be the founder of Ghana. I will not doubt Nkrumah's greatness but I cannot accept that he was the founder ... read full comment
Dr Mike Ocquaye and Ayikoi Otoo have taken a lot flak from the CPP elements for daring to suggest that Nkrumah cannot be the founder of Ghana. I will not doubt Nkrumah's greatness but I cannot accept that he was the founder of Ghana. The facts on the ground do not support that view.
For me, that accolade should go to no other than J B Dankwa. J B Dankwa single-handedly, through tact and diplomacy managed to persuade the Asantehene to reject the proposal for a separate administrations for the Colony and Ashanti. The Asantehene agreed and that led to the Legislative Council. The coming together of Ashanti and the Colony was undoubtedly very significant. With that achieved JB with others started to work on the self-determination of Ghana. If Ashanti had not joined, we will not have the present day Ghana.
ABBA 10 years ago
NO HISTORY BOOK WOULD CLAIM NKRUMAH AS THE FOUNDER OF GHANA, NEVER, HE WAS INVITED TO HELP IN THE STRUGGLE. HE WAS THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF GHANA BUT NOT THE FOUNDER.
NO HISTORY BOOK WOULD CLAIM NKRUMAH AS THE FOUNDER OF GHANA, NEVER, HE WAS INVITED TO HELP IN THE STRUGGLE. HE WAS THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF GHANA BUT NOT THE FOUNDER.
KKK 10 years ago
there enough evidence to suggest that the man served his masters and not Ghana. He got paid financially and when the payment stopped he challenged the USA ambassador personally on the matter.
there enough evidence to suggest that the man served his masters and not Ghana. He got paid financially and when the payment stopped he challenged the USA ambassador personally on the matter.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago
Nkrumah used OUR money as a KGB agent to propagate communist ideas in the whole of Africa.
Nkrumah used OUR money as a KGB agent to propagate communist ideas in the whole of Africa.
Granite 10 years ago
I thought all Ph.D holders were not stupid or ediots till I saw the writings of this Borkor guy. Of what benefit was the Ghana, Guinea Mali union . Mali and Guinea got 10 million pounds each from Nkrumah's largesse ,he reckl ... read full comment
I thought all Ph.D holders were not stupid or ediots till I saw the writings of this Borkor guy. Of what benefit was the Ghana, Guinea Mali union . Mali and Guinea got 10 million pounds each from Nkrumah's largesse ,he recklessly gave out monies to all who would tow his communist ideology while his own people could not afford to buy a packet of sugar. Those he doled out money to are those who sang his praises and called him messiah.He established The Action Troopers to terrorise any body who opposed him.He put in place the PDA to silence his opponents.No Ghanaianin his right mind would want the equivalent of Mugabe, a protege of Nkrumah in this country so why should we be enamored with this despicable megalomania of a dictator
Evans 10 years ago
Isn't it pathetic that after such a wonderful exposition by Dr Bokor of Osagyefo's achievement people are still submitting comments against him. Do you think people living under dictatorships would complain if their shops are ... read full comment
Isn't it pathetic that after such a wonderful exposition by Dr Bokor of Osagyefo's achievement people are still submitting comments against him. Do you think people living under dictatorships would complain if their shops are full of goods, their hospitals are equipped with facilities, there is affordable education for all, and there is infrastractural development?
What is the use of being in a democracy when politicians dip their hands into nations coffers for their families while children even in their own constituencies study under trees.
The irony is that we got rid of Osagyefo because some say he was a dictator but about 90% of the infrastrusture in Ghana were put in place in his 6 to 8 year rule but the so called democratic rulers have added nothing to it.
Please if we will not give him the honor due him we should let him rest in peace. CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY GHANA
Repugnant. 10 years ago
Among diehard African political activists and Pan-Africanists,
Nkrumah was and continues to remain a revered hero, committed nationalist and Pan-Africanist deserving of high esteem.
Let's face it most of the notoriety ab ... read full comment
Among diehard African political activists and Pan-Africanists,
Nkrumah was and continues to remain a revered hero, committed nationalist and Pan-Africanist deserving of high esteem.
Let's face it most of the notoriety about Nkrumah had been inoculated into the mostly neolithic asante ilk when the Prempeh College was incorporated into the Asante Confederacy by their Asantehene Sir Osei Agyemang Prempeh II. This has been the Tora Bora, where all the maleficent anti Nkrumahism had been engineered. No one except their type earns their respect, look at the name calling being visited on JM. We need a total cultural rehabilitation, respectful of fellow humans but not tribal affinity. Yes pathetic it is.
KWARNING,NJ 10 years ago
WHY DON'T YOU MOVE TO NORTH KOREA OR CUBA FOR THAT MATTER. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WANT TO LIVE UNDER A DICTATORSHIP. I COULD SEE YOU WEARING THE GRAY KHAKI UNIFORM IN YOUR YOUNG PIONEER DAYS. TOO BAD WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY NOW AND ... read full comment
WHY DON'T YOU MOVE TO NORTH KOREA OR CUBA FOR THAT MATTER. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WANT TO LIVE UNDER A DICTATORSHIP. I COULD SEE YOU WEARING THE GRAY KHAKI UNIFORM IN YOUR YOUNG PIONEER DAYS. TOO BAD WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY NOW AND NOBODY IS GOING TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM US.
NOKWARE 10 years ago
Kutu Acheampong was even better than Nkrumah
Kutu Acheampong was even better than Nkrumah
Repugnant. 10 years ago
You cannot be serious, now i understand why we all must be fearful of 'Primitivism and disorder' in certain tributaries of our country where freedom may not be real but only apparent. Nothing is more notorious than a tribal m ... read full comment
You cannot be serious, now i understand why we all must be fearful of 'Primitivism and disorder' in certain tributaries of our country where freedom may not be real but only apparent. Nothing is more notorious than a tribal mindset indigent of logic.
MenayeAFUAforiwa 10 years ago
You are an imdecile. Thre is no "NOKWARE" in you.Seek wisdom, Maybe all the elders in you family have the same mentality as you. So where do you turn to? It is very pathetic indeed.
You are an imdecile. Thre is no "NOKWARE" in you.Seek wisdom, Maybe all the elders in you family have the same mentality as you. So where do you turn to? It is very pathetic indeed.
Adobah 10 years ago
The grey Khaki came with wisdom to match! Here is what you should know; No one needs to go to North Korea nor Cuba to see how our world would have ended. Believe it or not, A poor guy in Cuba has a decent live than a similar ... read full comment
The grey Khaki came with wisdom to match! Here is what you should know; No one needs to go to North Korea nor Cuba to see how our world would have ended. Believe it or not, A poor guy in Cuba has a decent live than a similar poor person in Ghana today. By your account the one in the communist state lives in misery RIGHT? wrong! they have everything except that they suffer a choke hold at the neck by CAPITALISM. Remove the sanctions and see how growth takes a sudden upsurge.
No doubt Nkrumah is the one and we should recognise that.
PEACE 10 years ago
AFTER DR OSAGYIFO WHO ELSE WHO?
AFTER DR OSAGYIFO WHO ELSE WHO?
Kwesi 10 years ago
The only legacy behind him (CPP) is almost disintergrated that is the mark of an opportunist.
The only legacy behind him (CPP) is almost disintergrated that is the mark of an opportunist.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
Another repulsive ashante imbecile.
Another repulsive ashante imbecile.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
without his teeeeeee.
without his teeeeeee.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago
So Kwesi is Asante you repugnant fool.
So Kwesi is Asante you repugnant fool.
kwame 10 years ago
.......an ashante
what is it in a name?
i'm kwame from surinam
.......an ashante
what is it in a name?
i'm kwame from surinam
Jt 10 years ago
A God sent like Nkrumah would not only have problem with the Busias but all who have no vision. And l can't blam them becaus that is God's gift and choise. It is like asking a blind man to identify colors. Knowlage and wisdom ... read full comment
A God sent like Nkrumah would not only have problem with the Busias but all who have no vision. And l can't blam them becaus that is God's gift and choise. It is like asking a blind man to identify colors. Knowlage and wisdom was what their problem .
Kwadwo 10 years ago
Nkrumah was doomed to fail because he was a dictator an power drunk. He deserved being ousted. He was a know it all and the world was getting tired of him. He inherited a country with over £250 000 000. We were broke with on ... read full comment
Nkrumah was doomed to fail because he was a dictator an power drunk. He deserved being ousted. He was a know it all and the world was getting tired of him. He inherited a country with over £250 000 000. We were broke with only 5000,000 when he was ousted.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
“Nkrumah is a reminder not of what Africa is, but of what Africa must become.”
Kofi Hadjor, 1986
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“Nkrumah is a reminder not of what Africa is, but of what Africa must become.”
Kofi Hadjor, 1986
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GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago
U SAY HE INHERITED MONEY N BLEW IT? DID U KNOW WHAT HE USED THE MONEY ON? DID GH GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO MAKE REVENUE WITH TE INDUSTRIES HE BUILT WITH THE RESERVE MONEY? RAWLINGS WAS A DICTATOR. EVER SEEN AN EDUCATED LEADER WHO ... read full comment
U SAY HE INHERITED MONEY N BLEW IT? DID U KNOW WHAT HE USED THE MONEY ON? DID GH GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO MAKE REVENUE WITH TE INDUSTRIES HE BUILT WITH THE RESERVE MONEY? RAWLINGS WAS A DICTATOR. EVER SEEN AN EDUCATED LEADER WHO WAS A DICTATOR IN THE ANALS OF WORLD, POLITICAL HISTORY? EXACLTY...
solo 10 years ago
Books must be written 4 our kiz 2 no about our history
Books must be written 4 our kiz 2 no about our history
Kweku Boateng 10 years ago
The NPP leaders are struggling to make themselves relevant, hence the constant attacks on Nkrumah 47 years after their coup against him. Nkrumah lives on. Go to Addis Ababa and see
Nkrumah, drive on the Tema motorway, go Te ... read full comment
The NPP leaders are struggling to make themselves relevant, hence the constant attacks on Nkrumah 47 years after their coup against him. Nkrumah lives on. Go to Addis Ababa and see
Nkrumah, drive on the Tema motorway, go Tech in Kumasi , go to Tamale airport, go to Tema township etc. Can someone with the seven year development plan of Nkrumah publish it on Ghana web? No to the bomb throwers, supporters of the white minority regimes in southern Africa.
Kwame Asante 10 years ago
Do you know the leader who built the following landmarks in Ghana?: The Korle Bu hospital, the University of Ghana, the Railway system, the Takoradi harbour and Komfo Anokye hospital, or GEE? It was governor Gordon Guggisberg ... read full comment
Do you know the leader who built the following landmarks in Ghana?: The Korle Bu hospital, the University of Ghana, the Railway system, the Takoradi harbour and Komfo Anokye hospital, or GEE? It was governor Gordon Guggisberg who was not a Ghanaian per se but all these landmarks are still the greatest infrastructure. My last suggestion to you is visit North Korea or Cuba for that matter and see the destructive part of communism or socialism, Nkrumah's plan. You people are illiterates and foolish in your thinking.
Oheneba 10 years ago
Blue Print Of Our Goal; Launching The Seven-Year Development Plan
11th March, 1964
MR. SPEAKER, MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
I have come here today to present to you, and to the people of Ghana, our Seven-Year Devel ... read full comment
Blue Print Of Our Goal; Launching The Seven-Year Development Plan
11th March, 1964
MR. SPEAKER, MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
I have come here today to present to you, and to the people of Ghana, our Seven-Year Development Plan, which when completed, will bring Ghana to the threshold of a modem State based on a highly organised and efficient agricultural and industrial programme.
The main tasks of the Plan are: firstly, to speed up the rate of growth of our national economy. Secondly, it is to enable us to embark upon the socialist transformation of our economy through the rapid development of the State and cooperative sectors. Thirdly, it is our aim, by this Plan, to eradicate completely the colonial structure of our economy. On this occasion, let me take the opportunity here and now to thank all those experienced men and women, Ghanaians and non Ghanaians, who have contributed so much to the preparation of this Plan.
Mr. Speaker, when the Convention People’s Party came to power in 1951, the pace of development was so slow and confused that we decided to speed it up by attempting to implement in five years, the programme of reconstruction which was designed by the colonial administration to take place over a period of ten years. That programme was not a development plan. It was a collection of various individual petty projects that had to be built in preparation for future planning.
At the conclusion of this programme, it became necessary to pause for two years in order to consolidate our position. By the time we reached the stage of implementing the next phase of our programme, it had already become quite clear to us that the only real solution to the reconstruction of Ghana lay in the long run, in the adoption of a socialist and cooperative programme for industry, and the mechanisation and diversification of our agriculture. Our hopes in this regard lay in the Volta River Project, about which 1 will have more to say later on.
Mr. Speaker, this Seven-Year Development Plan which 1 now lay before you is therefore the first really integrated and comprehensive economic plan ever drawn up for Ghana’s development after a thorough examination of our needs and resources. The Plan is designed to give effect to the Party’s Programme of Work and Happiness which has already been accepted by the country. It also embodies a long view of the path which should lead to a self-sustaining economy, based on socialist production and distribution. An economy balanced between industry and agriculture, providing a sufficiency of food for the people, and supporting secondary industries based on the products of our agriculture. In other words, an economy founded securely on the basis of socialist production and distribution.
Our aim, under this Plan, is to build in Ghana, a socialist State which accepts full responsibility for promoting the well-being of the masses. Our national wealth must be built up and used in such a way that economic power shall not be allowed to exploit the worker in town or village, but be used for the supreme welfare and happiness of our people. The people, through the State, should have an effective share in the economy of the country and an effective control over it.
A socialist Ghana must also secure for every citizen, at the earliest possible date, an adequate level of education and nutrition and a satisfactory standard of clothing, housing and leisure.
The Party has always proclaimed socialism as the objective of our social, industrial and economic programmes. Socialism, however, will continue to remain a slogan until industrialisation is achieved. Socialism demands a very different kind of planning and economic structure from the type that was evolved by the colonial administration. This is why in l96l, we set up a Planning Commission and charged it with the responsibility for drawing up this Development Plan which I present to you today as an instalment in the process by which we hope to turn Ghana into the sort of country we envisage.
A socialist State cannot come by itself nor can it be established by the formulation of plans. Socialism has to be worked for and even sacrificed for. Socialism, which is aimed at the emancipation of the people from exploitation, has to be built by the people. It is the expression of the people whose Government accepts responsibility for promoting their welfare to the fullest possible extent.
Our youth from the primary schools, through the secondary schools to the universities and higher institutions of learning, should and must be taught and trained in the socialist philosophy. They must be taught to know the working of neo-colonialism and trained to recognise it wherever it may rear its head. They must not only know the trappings of colonialism and imperialism, but they must also be able to smell out the hide-outs of neo-colonialism.
In this endeavour, we shall expect from each citizen, a maximum contribution to the national economy according to his ability and training. It is only in proportion to the contribution which each of us makes to the work of the Nation that we can expect to share in the material gains which the socialist development of the economy will make possible.
Mr. Speaker, in order to accomplish our objectives, we have decided that the economy of Ghana will, for some time to come, remain a mixed economy in which a vigorous public and cooperative sector will operate along with the private sector. Let me make it clear that our socialist objectives demand that the public and cooperative sector of the productive economy should expand at the maximum possible rate, especially in those strategic areas of production upon which the economy of the country essentially depends.
We are determined that the economic independence of Ghana shall be achieved and maintained so as to avoid the social antagonisms resulting from the unequal distribution of economic power. We are equally determined to ensure that the operation of a mixed economy leads to the socialist transformation we envisage, and not to the defeat of our socialist aims. It is essential, therefore, that we should remind ourselves at all times of the necessity;
• Firstly, to promote to the maximum, the development of the State and cooperative sectors;
• secondly, to regulate the pattern of State investment in order to give the highest priority to productive investment, and
• Thirdly, to determine and direct the forms and conditions of foreign investment, in order to safeguard our socialist policy and national independence.
In this way, we shall ensure that the growth rate of the public and cooperative sector of our economy will exceed the growth rate of the private, sector, particularly in industry and agriculture.
Mr. Speaker, as you know, we have already established many industrial projects and enterprises, as a means of securing our economic independence and assisting in the national control of the economy. I must make it clear that these State Enterprises were not set up to lose money at the expense of the tax payers. Like all business undertakings, they are expected to maintain themselves efficiency, and to show profits. Such profits should be sufficient to build up capital for further investment as well as to finance a large proportion of the public services which it is the responsibility of the State to provide.
In every socialist country, state enterprises provide the bulk of State revenues, and we intend to follow the same pattern here. Our State Enterprises will be set yearly, financial and production targets so that they may work towards definite objectives and goals and thereby given every stimulus to operate efficiently and profitably. Hence, the managers of our State Enterprises, and those in charge of our State organisations and apparatus should be men trained in management; honest and dedicated men; men with integrity; men who are incorruptible.When we have succeeded in establishing these principles, Government will then be in a position to lower taxes progressively, to lessen steadily the burden of taxation on the people and eventually to abolish many of them, if not all of them.
I have set up a State Management Committee to bring these ideas to life and to help in building up strong, well managed, efficient and profitable State enterprises.
I intend, however, that the State Management Committee shall do more than that. I want to ensure that the people of this country are fully informed of Government’s intentions and plans, particularly with regard to industrialisation and agriculture. The people have every right to be fully informed in order that they may know what our objectives are, what progress we are making and how Government funds are being spent in the interest of this country’s economic development.
I am convinced that with this knowledge will come that understanding which will give our people the necessary impetus to do all they can to help achieve our objectives for work and happiness and accelerated development.
Mr. Speaker, foreign investment as the private sector of our industrial development can play an important role in our economy. It has a valuable contribution to make to our economy and to the attainment of certain specific objectives. Among these will be production of consumer goods, the local processing of Ghanaian raw material and the utilization of Ghana’s natural resources in those lines of economic activity where a large volume of investment is required.
We expect, however, that such investments will not be operated so as to exploit our people. On the contrary, we expect such enterprises to assist in the expansion of the economy of the country in line with our general objectives.
Foreign investment enterprises will contribute personal initiative, managerial ability and technical skills towards the development of the country. They will also further the growth of similar initiative, ability, technical skills and habits of saving among Ghanaians.
We welcome foreign investors in a spirit of partnership. They can earn their profits here, provided they leave us an agreed portion for promoting the welfare and happiness of our people as a whole as against the greedy ambitions of the few. From what we get out of this partnership, we hope to be able to expand the health services of our people, to feed and house them well, to give them more and better educational institutions and to see to it that they have a rising standard of living. This in a nutshell is what we expect from our socialist objectives.Mr. Speaker, in pursuing these objectives, we shall exert our efforts towards the maximum extension of the public sector within the productive economy. As I have said, within this framework, we do not intend or desire to limit private investment.
Our Government has always insisted that the operations of all economic enterprises in Ghana should conform to the national economic objectives and be subject to the rules and regulations which are made in pursuance of our socialist policies. Our experience has been that foreign investors have been willing to invest in Ghana so long as the limits within which they can work are fair and clearly defined, and we shall continue to consult with them in order to ensure that cooperation is as full as possible.
Ghana’s economy, particularly at the present stage, has room for all the investment capital which is likely to be provided by foreign investors, by the Central and Local Governments and by individual Ghanaians. In this respect, l believe that there are a considerable number of individual Ghanaians who are in a position materially to assist in finding the necessary capital for the Seven-Year Development Plan.
One of the worst features of colonialism was that it produced an unbalanced economy in which there was little room for investment of the profits which were made by expatriate firms. In colonial days, it was natural that profits made in Ghana should be invested abroad. Today, the situation is entirely different. An investor who lays out his money wisely in Ghana is likely to make a larger profit, than if he invested it in a more developed country. Nevertheless, old habits of investment persist and there are a considerable number of Ghanaians who still maintain their savings in foreign investments and in property outside Ghana.
Under our Exchange Control laws, it is of course, illegal for Ghanaians to have property abroad without having declared this to the appropriate authorities. This aspect of our law is not always understood.
The Government has therefore decided not to penalise any Ghanaian firm or individual who, within the next three months, repatriates foreign holdings of money to Ghana, or who declares ownership of foreign property. A thorough investigation is afoot to discover the extent of holdings of foreign exchange and properties by Ghanaians, and those who do not take advantage of this offer, but continues to conceal their foreign assets, must expect, after the three-month period of grace, to be subject to the full rigours of the law.
public utilities, raw materials and heavy industry. The State will also participate in light and consumer goods industries in which the rates of return on capital should be highest. We intend also that those industries which provide the basic living needs of the people shall be State-owned, in order to prevent any exploitation.
Mr. Speaker, Members of the National Assembly, let me now turn to the specific proposals of the Seven-Year Plan. In the next seven years, it is proposed that there will be a total expenditure of one-thousand and sixteen million pounds, that is, over a billion pounds sterling, on development projects in the Plan. Of this total, it is intended that four-hundred and seventy-six million pounds should be provided by the Central Government foreign investors, individual Ghanaians, Local Authorities and the Cooperative sector are expected to invest about four-hundred and forty million pounds. We also hope that individual Ghanaians will contribute nearly one-hundred million pounds worth of direct labour in the construction of buildings, in community development and in the extension of their farms.
The total government investment will be four-hundred and seventy-six million pounds. Investment throughout the Seven-Year Plan period will average one-hundred and thirty million pounds a year. Of this, approximately one half, or sixty-six million pounds a year, will be invested by Government, and the rest by private investors.
We continue to look to the outside world to contribute to our national development. We expect the more advanced and industrialised countries to facilitate our trade in primary commodities and manufactured goods so that we can finance the bulk of our development out of our own resources and earnings.
We hope that where necessary, the Government of Ghana will be able to borrow money on reasonable terms for essential and productive projects. Let me say again that we welcome foreign investors to come and invest in Ghana’s progress. We offer them every assistance, substantial material benefits, and the advantages of a coherent long-term economic strategy which will give them plenty of scope for planning and development. At the same time, we expect them to re-invest an adequate share of their profits in the further progress, both of Ghana and of themselves.
In order to be able to manage these new investments as well as our existing capital with the maximum of efficiency, the country needs a well-trained labour force under competent management. In this sense, the educational programme under the Plan is crucial to the success of the whole Plan. It is directed towards giving education .in Ghana a new and more practical orientation and making it available to all who can profit by it. In order to make real economic progress, Ghana must adopt an improved technology in all lines of production. We look to the educational system and educational institutions to equip our people with the latest advancements in industrial and agricultural technology. We expect our academy of sciences and our research organisations to adapt this technology to the conditions of Ghana. And we look to the managers of our enterprises to adopt the technology which is developed and to foster skills by a maximum programme of “on the job” training.
The development of Ghana has hitherto not been sufficiently balanced between different parts of the country. It is the deliberate policy of this Plan to correct this imbalance. Naturally, we must develop in each part of the country the type of economic activity to which it is best suited by reason of natural resources and geographical location. But a special effort has to be made in order to ensure that the rate of progress in the less favoured parts of the country is even greater than the rate of progress in those sections which have hitherto been more favoured. It is only by this means that we can achieve a more harmonious national development.
In the present Plan period, it is proposed to pay special attention to the modernising of agriculture in the savannah areas of the Northern and Upper Regions. It is hoped through secondary industries based on agricultural raw material, to turn the Northern areas into major sources of food supplies for the whole country. In this regard, the Government has recognised the importance of irrigation and water conservation in the country, and has already initiated far reaching plans for major schemes of irrigation and water conservation. Mr. Speaker, the backbone of Ghana’s agriculture has always been its farmers who, particularly in recent years, have made a fine contribution to the economy and expressed their patriotism in a number of unselfish ways. The developments the Government is proposing in the areas of State and cooperative farming will bring them a share of the local facilities they have so long been denied. More than this: they will have the opportunity also to share in the up-to-date techniques of farming that must be employed, if greater yields and diversity of crops are to be attained.
I want our farmers to understand that the State Farms and Cooperative enterprises are not being encouraged as alternatives to peasant farming. The interests of individual peasant farmers will not be made subservient to those of the State Farms and Cooperatives. We need the efforts of our individual farmers more than ever, along with our State Farms and Cooperatives, if we are to achieve, at an increased pace, the agricultural targets we have set ourselves. We look to our individual peasant farmers for the enlargement of investment in our agriculture.
Mr. Speaker, as I have stressed time and again, the revolution taking place in Ghana is chiefly a revolution of the workers and the tillers of the land. A vital phase of this revolution is the implementation of the Seven-Year Development Plan which aims at the total expansion of all sections of our economy to raise the standard of living of the people of Ghana. I am happy that the workers have demonstrated their complete dedication to our revolutionary cause. Upon the attainment of independence, the Party, as the conscious political vanguard of the Trade Union Movement, worked with the Trade Unions and created a new and more effective structure of the Trades Union Congress. Government supported the desire of the workers for this new Trade Union structure.
Thus, we were able to create in our labour and industrial laws, conditions for resolving quickly and expeditiously, the problems of our working population. This, also, the workers accepted the responsibility to contribute to the economic and social reconstruction of our economy.
In the State sector of our economy, the workers employed in our State Corporations will be afforded full and equal opportunities for participating in the planning and execution of our industrial projects. It is only in this way that the workers will closely identify themselves with the attainment of the economic and social objectives of our new society and will thus equate their own welfare with the prosperity of our country. Such new working relationships will enable the workers to acquire the sense of complete belonging and full participation and they will no longer consider themselves as working for colonialist exploiters. I have given instructions that some of our State enterprises be handed over completely to the workers who will manage them for themselves on behalf of the State.
The success of this Seven-Year Development Plan will only be attained, if the enthusiasm of our workers is mobilized and they know the part they ought to play and are drawn into full consultation in the execution of our Plan.
I therefore call upon all workers, farmers, fishermen and peasants of our country to accept this challenge and fulfil the hopes and aspirations of our people.
Mr. Speaker, when I spoke at the opening of the Unilever Soap Factory at Tema on the 24th August, 1963, l said among other things that, in order to pay tribute to the importance of labour in the development of Ghana, the Government has decided to institute a special Order to be known as the "Order of the Black Star of Labour." Details of this Order, which will rank among the highest honours of the State, have now been worked out and all classes of labour will qualify for this Order. It is my confident expectation that this award will provide an ample incentive to all workers, and that every worker of the nation will make it his ambition to qualify for the title of Worker of the Year and to become heroes and heroines of Labour.
Mr. Speaker, Members of the National Assembly, I am happy to inform the House that on present estimates, it is confidently expected that the Volta River Project will begin to generate electrical power by September, 1965. On that date, we shall come to the end of one phase of our cherished goal and usher in the beginning of a new and more exciting endeavour to utilise the vast electric power which will be at the country’s disposal for the enrichment of our economy and our people.
Completion of the Volta Project will enable us to develop the industrial potential of Ghana. Indeed, the possibilities for our agriculture and industry will be completely revolutionised. First and foremost, the Volta Project will increase by nearly 500 percent, the installed electrical capacity of the country. Nearly one half of this new capacity will be taken up by the aluminium smelter in Tema. But there will be an ample reserve of power for other users, and Ghana will have liberated herself decisively from the possibility of power shortage becoming again a brake on the rate of economic progress.
I would like in this context to point out the degree to which the Volta Scheme fits into our chosen combination of a mixed economy with socialist and co-operative goals. A major part of the scheme is being financed by the Ghana Government; but the American and British Governments have joined in the financing of it, together with the World Bank, and we have had the most helpful and fruitful collaboration with American enterprise in the shape of the Kaiser Group of Industries.
Meanwhile, our Italian contractors, Impregilo, have achieved the remarkable feat of taking one year off the time of construction of the dam. Throughout the scheme, we have worked together in the greatest harmony. I regard this great scheme as an example of the way in which careful and proper planning together with foreign investment, public control and participation, and the devoted labours of the people can revolutionize the economic base of society.
Such an achievement can have significance far beyond Ghana’s frontiers. It is only by strengthening our economy in this way that we can make an effective contribution to our brothers in Africa and the political unification of our continent. In this endeavour the Seven-Year Plan makes provision for the undertaking of joint enterprises in individual fields of industry and also for the harmonisation of our total programme of economic development with that of other African countries.
The Plan we are launching today, relates to projects and developments which we wish to see take place in Ghana. It grieves me that we in Ghana, who so strongly advocate the unity of the African Continent, should be forced to take so narrow a view of planning. I have advocated for closer union of Africa, times without number. I have emphasised the need for a continental union Government for Africa as the only solution to Africa’s ills and problems. Since the Addis Ababa Conference, it has been made abundantly clear that artificial borders which we inherited from the colonial powers should be made obsolete and unnecessary. While we wait for the setting up of a Union Government for Africa, we must begin immediately to harmonize our plans for Africa’s total development. For example, I see no reason why the independent African States should not, with advantage to each other, join together in an economic union and draw up together a joint Development Plan which will give us greater scope and flexibility to our mutual advantage. By the same token, I see no reason why the independent African States should not have common shipping and air lines in the interest of improved services and economy. With such rationalisation of our economic policies, we could have common objectives and thus, eliminate unnecessary competition and frontier barriers and disputes.
As every day passes, it is becoming clearer and clearer that it is only the establishment of a Union Government of Africa which can save our separate States not only from neo-colonialism, but from imperialism itself. We in Ghana are determined to make our wholehearted contribution towards this objective. We are prepared to make whatever further provisions may be required to enable us to play our part in the achievement and consolidation of African Unity.
Recent events in East Africa and in other parts of Africa have shown how urgent is the need for the establishment of a central machinery for dealing with the serious political and economic questions confronting us in Africa today.
Mr. Speaker, Members of the National Assembly, the object of the Seven-Year Plan which I have out—lined to you is to modernise our agriculture and develop our industry as a basis of our socialist society. I, for my part, am determined that the Plan shall succeed. Its success must rest on the support of each and every one of you and on the devotion and hard work of the officials, Heads of Corporations and Enterprises, whose duty it will be to translate the Plan into action. In the seven years ahead, all our energies must be concentrated on its implementation.
It has long been apparent that the administrative machinery which we inherited was not designed for a country working within the framework of an overall plan, and in which the activities of individual agencies of the nation are directed to clearly defined goals of development. An effective reform of the governmental machinery is therefore needed, if the Seven-Year Plan is not to falter on the inadequacies of administration. The first task in this regard will be to attune more closely, the policies and actions of every agency or organ of Government to the overall national policy as defined in the Seven-Year Development Plan.
I have caused to be published with the Seven-Year Plan, a guide to its implementation. This guide should be studied most carefully by Members of this House, by the Party and Government officials, Managers of State Enterprises, the farmers’ organisation, the Trades Union Congress and all those who will be concerned with the implementation of the Plan.
I have, earlier this month, established several organisations whose responsibility it will be to see to the rapid execution of the Plan. These are, firstly, the National Planning Commission, through which the people will be associated with the Plan, and which will be enlarged to include Ministers, Regional Commissioners, representatives of Corporations and organisations and integral wings of the Party.
Secondly, the State Planning Committee which, under my Chairmanship, will be the key body for co-ordinating action and policy on the Plan, and for giving directions on its execution and implementation.
Thirdly, there is the Budget Committee, which will make recommendations for the policy of the annual budget.
Fourthly, the Foreign Exchange Committee, which will make recommendations regarding the size of yearly imports and exports.
And lastly, though by no means the least, there is the State Management Committee which will direct the operations and activities of State Corporations and State Enterprises in order to ensure their efficient and profitable management.
I am sure that if these five bodies carry out their duties honestly and energetically, we shall achieve and even exceed our goals under this Plan. We might even complete the Plan ahead of schedule that is to say in less than seven years.
Mr. Speaker, all our efforts should henceforth be directed to ensuring that everything is done to make this Plan a success. I am sure that all the people of this country are determined in their efforts to ensure that we achieve all our Plan objectives and make our country a happy, progressive, prosperous and advanced nation. We must therefore ensure that State funds and resources are not frittered away uselessly or wastefully or that they find their way into private pockets.
We shall, in order to implement the Plan, be awarding a number of contracts to organisations both here and abroad; we shall also be entering into sales agreements as well as acquiring goods locally. I intend that all contracts whether for the construction of factories or offices, or for any purchase or sale, should be so safeguarded that our funds will be properly husbanded and utilised for Ghana’s advancement and for the welfare and happiness of the people.
In order that our resources are not waste by corrupt practices and in order to prevent any attempts at personal greed and aggrandisement at the expense of the people and the State, steps will be taken to ensure that no contractor, shall offer or give or agree to give to any person in the service of the Government of Ghana any gift or consideration of any kind as an inducement or reward for doing, or forbearing to do, or for having done any act in relation to the obtaining or execution of any contract for the Government of Ghana, or for showing favour or disfavour to any person in relation to any other contract for the Government of Ghana.
We shall also see to it that no contractor shall enter into any contract with the Government of Ghana in connection with which a commission has been paid or agreed to be paid by him or on his behalf, or to his knowledge, unless before the contract is made, particulars of any such commission and of the terms and conditions of any agreement for the payment thereof have been disclosed in writing to a special committee to be appointed by me to represent the Government of Ghana.
Any breach of these conditions shall entitle the Government to determine any contract, and recover from the contractor the amount of any loss which may have resulted from such determination and the amount or value of any such gifts, consideration or commission.
I have therefore directed that every contract for the supply of goods and services or for the execution of any Government project shall embody clauses to give effect to this decision. These conditions are being made in the interest of the tax payer who ultimately has to find the money to pay for these gifts and bribes.
I want the world to know that we shall do everything to set our own house in order. I want all of us here in Ghana also to realise that nothing must be allowed to hamper our efforts to achieve our Plan objectives and that no individuals will be permitted to hamper that effort, to retard our advancement in any way or to grow rich by corrupt practices. Those who have ears to hear, let them hear. The progress, welfare and happiness of the masses is our supreme concern.
Mr. Speaker, we know that the desire of people is to have enough to eat without spending too great a part of their income upon food. They want a reasonably comfortable place to sleep; they want light, a ready supply of water, education for the growing children and future generation, adequate medical care and welfare services. Our present plan will go a long way to fulfilling these very legitimate desires of the people. The Volta project will provide us with abundant light and water. In addition, a whole programme of irrigation and water development is engaging our attention very seriously.
Housing, too, is one of our main preoccupations. We are at this moment in the last stages of formulating large-scale housing projects, which we hope to have ready soon. A factory for prefabricated concrete units is now under construction and will come into production sometime this year. When these plans are completed, we shall be able to put up low-cost housing to meet the needs of our working people at the rate of about two hundred houses a month. This should go a long way to offset the pressing housing problem.
In transforming the many centres of over-crowded and insanitary housing that at present exist in some areas, we shall look carefully into the traditional community customs of our people and will, wherever it is feasible and possible, try to maintain such communities in their traditional locations, but with a newer, better and more pleasant look.
Mr. Speaker, we would be hampering our advance to socialism, if we were to encourage the growth of Ghanaian private capitalism in our midst. This would, of course, be in antipathy to our economic and social objectives. There are some few among us who are seeking outlets for small enterprises. Such people we appreciate have initiative which it would be well to employ suitably in our socialist undertakings. There are some who have small capital savings which they consider they can profitably employ in business that will provide goods and services which are in public demand. Such small businessmen will be encouraged to operate enterprises provided they accept certain limitations as the Government will find it necessary to impose as to the size of the enterprise and the number of persons to be employed in their undertakings.
In this connection, it is necessary to distinguish between two types of business which have grown up within recent years. The first is the type which it is the Government’s intention to encourage, that of the small businessman who employs his capital in an industry or trade with which he is familiar, and in so doing, fulfils a public need.
The second type is very different. It consists of that class of Ghanaian businesses which are modelled on the old type of colonial exploitation. Individuals, who can command capital, use their money not in productive endeavour, but by the purchase and re-sale, at high prices, of such commodities as fish, salt and other items of food and consumer goods which are in demand by the people. This type of business serves no social purpose and steps will be taken to see that our banking resources are not used to provide credit for this type of business.
Even more harmful to the economy is yet another type of enterprise in which some Ghanaians have been participating. This consists of setting up bogus agencies for foreign companies which are in fact nothing, but organisations for distributing bribes and exerting improper pressures on behalf of foreign companies. lt is the intention of the Government to carry out a wholesale investigation into the activities of these firms. They can do incalculable harm to our economy and they must be ruthlessly suppressed.
The initiative of Ghanaian businessmen will not be cramped, but we must take steps to see that it is channelled towards desirable social ends and is not expended in the exploitation of the community. The Government will encourage Ghanaian businessmen to join with each other in cooperative forms of organisation. In this way, Ghanaian businessmen will be able to contribute actively in broadening the vitality of our economy and cooperation, and will provide a stronger form of organisation than can be achieved through individual small businesses.
We must also discourage anything that can threaten our socialist construction. For this reason, no Ghanaian will be allowed to take up shares in any enterprise under foreign investment. On tile contrary, we shall l encourage our people with savings to invest in the State sector and cooperative undertakings. I know that among our Ghanaian businessmen, there are some who are ready and willing to turn their businesses into cooperative undertakings. Where well run private enterprises are offered to and taken over by the State or cooperative undertakings, we hope that businessmen will offer themselves as managers and administrators.
In the same way, Mr. Speaker, I want to refer to money-lending which, along with other problems, has been left to us by colonialism. I know that many of those who are carrying on this business of lending money at criminal rates of interest are non-Ghanaians. But, unhappily, not a few of our own people have joined the ranks of those who make quick and easy money out of the difficulties and misery of others. Money-lending and usury are intolerable and inconsistent with the ideals of a socialist state. We should see to it that this practice is eliminated from our society.
Mr. Speaker, Members of the National Assembly, I am sure that imbued with the spirit of the Party’s programme of Work and Happiness, all those who are responsible for the interpretation and implementation of this Plan will do their work honestly and devotedly. It may be that, in the course of the next seven years some of us will from time to time attempt to change the choice of emphasis that we have made and try to direct proportionately more of our national resources into immediate welfare services and proportionately less into agriculture and industry. It will be the duty of those who are charged with the implementation of the Plan to ensure that these pressures are resisted. Otherwise, we shall end up in the long run with an economy weak in its productive base and backward in its level of technology.
The Seven-Year Development Plan can only be accounted a success, if by 1970, the year in which we conclude the Plan and the year in which we celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of our Republic, we can truly say that the productive base of the economy has been revolutionised and that the level of technology and productivity in Ghana is approaching modem standards over the adequate area of the national economy.
Mr. Speaker, Members of the National Assembly, 1964, the year in which we launch the Seven-Year Development Plan, will be hailed as the turning point in the history of Ghana. In a little over a year from now, we shall be generating electricity from the Volta River Project to feed our expanding factories throughout the country. The Kwame Nkrumah Steel Works in Tema will soon be completed. Tema Harbour itself is already being extended to meet the needs of our expanding economy, and in Tema a growing number of industrial projects are already in production and more are being established. In this connection, I want to mention, particularly, the Aluminium Smelter which will produce aluminium for domestic consumption and export, the Dry Dock and Ship Repair
Yard which will be one of the finest and biggest in Africa and the Accra Tema Freeway, which will provide fast and safe travelling between the capital and the port of Tema.
I can already see, in my mind’s eye, a picture of Ghana as it will be by the end of the Plan period. I see a State with a strong and virile economy, its agriculture and industry buoyant and prosperous, an industrialised nation serving the needs of its people.
Let us therefore, as from today, move forward together, united in devotion and determination, to give of our best in the execution and implementation of this Seven-Year Plan.
Mr. Speaker, Members of the National Assembly, it gives me a great pleasure on this historic occasion, and in this House, to launch our Seven-Year Development Plan.
I now leave you to your deliberations. May you continue to be guided by Providence in the highest interests of our Nation.
Concerned citivzen 10 years ago
One nation ,one people.hope you all remember that.
One nation ,one people.hope you all remember that.
Concerned citivzen 10 years ago
Lets be careful
Lets be careful
alfred 10 years ago
it was not rocket science...Nkrumahs projects ought to be done anyway by any new leader at the time of any new state.school,hospitals,roads,dams,housing,etc are always on any budget in Africa.
it was not rocket science...Nkrumahs projects ought to be done anyway by any new leader at the time of any new state.school,hospitals,roads,dams,housing,etc are always on any budget in Africa.
michael 10 years ago
BRAVO,BRAVO on this article.Also please know that the president governed Ghana under emergency rule granted him by parliament due to both internal and external terrorism perpetrated by his opponents.Also it has now been estab ... read full comment
BRAVO,BRAVO on this article.Also please know that the president governed Ghana under emergency rule granted him by parliament due to both internal and external terrorism perpetrated by his opponents.Also it has now been established that the CIA and its western European security agencies together with his opponents were working to overthrow his government right from the onset
Once again BRAVO
Witness 10 years ago
The greatest legacy of Nkrumah is rarely mentioned. He gave opportunity to the masses viz veranda boys and bushmen, through education and thereby broke elitist clubs. Millions of Ghanaians are what they are today because of ... read full comment
The greatest legacy of Nkrumah is rarely mentioned. He gave opportunity to the masses viz veranda boys and bushmen, through education and thereby broke elitist clubs. Millions of Ghanaians are what they are today because of this policy. He rekindled self esteem in Ghanaians and made us proud! He created "The I can do atmosphere".
SUMBRUNGU 10 years ago
The greatest African of our generation. Regressive forces cower at the mere mention of his name. His stature in Afrca and the world can never be diminished by haughty simpletons of the likes of Ocquaye and Ayikoi Otoo. Forwa ... read full comment
The greatest African of our generation. Regressive forces cower at the mere mention of his name. His stature in Afrca and the world can never be diminished by haughty simpletons of the likes of Ocquaye and Ayikoi Otoo. Forward ever, backward never.
Osei Kofi 10 years ago
Nkrumah did everything according to the law - the constitution. Nkrumah was not the bloody, murderous, thieving dictator known as Rawlings. Hilla Limann was overthrown by Rawlings - not the NPP, no matter the crimes NPP has c ... read full comment
Nkrumah did everything according to the law - the constitution. Nkrumah was not the bloody, murderous, thieving dictator known as Rawlings. Hilla Limann was overthrown by Rawlings - not the NPP, no matter the crimes NPP has committed. So what's the nonsense about "They did it to Limann" coming from? Rawlings your idol is the one who did it to Limann!
You are confounded by the contradiction between reality and your NDC-paid operative job!
Osei Kofi 10 years ago
The NDC is the singular entity in Ghana that has done the greatest damage to all that Nkrumah did for Ghana - over 300 enterprises looted or sold for pennies! Truth is not part of Bokor's character. Shameless opportunism is. ... read full comment
The NDC is the singular entity in Ghana that has done the greatest damage to all that Nkrumah did for Ghana - over 300 enterprises looted or sold for pennies! Truth is not part of Bokor's character. Shameless opportunism is. He thinks he can sing phoney praises to Nkrumah when in reality his party, the NDC, has and is still destroying Nkrumah's legacy in Ghana. NDC is the real pharasee party!
MINOR CASE 10 years ago
They are opportunists indeed. They call themselves Nkrumaists yet prefer to join NDC .They know very well CPP and Nkrumaism are dead and burried for good. Shameless people hiding behind NDC to shout Nkrumaism.
They are opportunists indeed. They call themselves Nkrumaists yet prefer to join NDC .They know very well CPP and Nkrumaism are dead and burried for good. Shameless people hiding behind NDC to shout Nkrumaism.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago
Osagyefo will forever remain the best, selfless, strong, fearless, efficient, no-nonsense leader with vision......that Ghana has ever been blessed to have. He did NOT kowtow to anybody let alone the bomb-throwers (modern day ... read full comment
Osagyefo will forever remain the best, selfless, strong, fearless, efficient, no-nonsense leader with vision......that Ghana has ever been blessed to have. He did NOT kowtow to anybody let alone the bomb-throwers (modern day terrorists).
What a leader! It is amazing, the pace at which President Nkrumah developed Ghana. His economic legacies included the building of Komfo Anokye Hospital in Kumasi, University of Science and Technology, Tema township, the Accra-Tema Motorway, University of Cape Coast, polytechnics and second school around the country, Akosombo Dam, Adome bridge, Atomic Energy research, Black Star Line, discovering our oil finds of today, planned Bui Dam then - (check your facts - you useless parties of NDC and NPP) etc, etc, to mention but a few. Oh! What a leader!
Who else has ever embarked on such a massive infrastructural development? Clearly, some of the infrastructures listed above still remain the main infrastructure in many sectors of Ghana. What a leader!
Yes! He inherited OUR OWN MONEY from the colonialists and invested it wisely, as we all know.
Unfortunately, those who came after him, apart from Kutu Acheampong, have left our nation in this lawless, corrupt, inefficient, untruthful, a tribalistic state, full of mentally enslaved politicians.
All the leaders who came after, inherited 100% of all our rich natural resources when they overthrew Osagyefo. (PLEASE GO CHECK YOUR FACTS AND COME BACK...YOU NDC AND NPP FOOT-SOLDIERS!) There is nothing to show for and are still embarking on the vision and deeds of Nkrumah.
The coup-plotters even campaigned on the vision of free education and previously laid claim to free healthcare and school-feeding programmes...........Oh! They have no shame at all.
Nkrumah was already doing all that, and yet, they still plotted with their slave masters to overthrow him......
Do these lot really have Ghana at heart? Or is it to do with their pockets?
Kutu Acheampong is the other leader I respect a lot. He also invested in industries like Akosombo textiles, Tema textiles, Juabeng textiles etc. etc. and encouraged several entrepreneurs like the Tata brewery, Boakye matress, PTC, built Dansoman Estates etc. etc.
All I can say to all those trying to distort historical facts will always fail and the sheep in wolves clothing (NDC), will always be exposed for what they really are.........'wolves'.
NKRUMAH NEVER DIES..................
GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Black rabbit 10 years ago
i am so proud of you,its one of the best articals i have ever read.we need to teach the young pepole in Ghana about all this,cos since his overthrow most people aged 40 and below only know the rubbish fed to them about him.Gh ... read full comment
i am so proud of you,its one of the best articals i have ever read.we need to teach the young pepole in Ghana about all this,cos since his overthrow most people aged 40 and below only know the rubbish fed to them about him.Ghana need this generation to do the right thing
Okoe 10 years ago
NEVER MIND THESE GAS. THEY SHOULD BE LISTENING TO THE MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITION SAYING PUBLICLY TO KILL THE GAS AND THE EWES. ARE THESE GAS TAKING NOTICE OR THEY ARE OPPOTUNISTS THEMSELVES. A WORD TO THE WISE IS ENOUGH AND MR. ... read full comment
NEVER MIND THESE GAS. THEY SHOULD BE LISTENING TO THE MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITION SAYING PUBLICLY TO KILL THE GAS AND THE EWES. ARE THESE GAS TAKING NOTICE OR THEY ARE OPPOTUNISTS THEMSELVES. A WORD TO THE WISE IS ENOUGH AND MR. OCQUAYE AND MR. OTOO TO NOTE!!!
Okoe 10 years ago
PARDON MY MISSPELLING THE PRESIDENT'S. NAME. MY APOLOGY.
PARDON MY MISSPELLING THE PRESIDENT'S. NAME. MY APOLOGY.
Good write up, but don't worry about Mike Ocquaye - How did he become a prof? As for Ayikoi Otoo, he is just a joker. He and Ocquaye were appointed by Kufour to make some Gas happy that his govt is not all about his family an ...
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The NPP, Ocquaye and Otoo know what is right but have to serve their masters. There is a strategy of containment at stake here. Should Mahama adopt Nkrumah's plan of development he could easily correct the misperceptions of G ...
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KWAME NKRUMAH INTL. AIRPORT
WAT A DISGRACE FUL AIRPORT. REMOVE KOTOKA'S NAME FROM THE BUILDING. HE IS A NATIONAL TRAITOR, NOT TREASURE. ONLY TREASURES LIKE DR. NKRUMAH
NEED TO BE ADORNED ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN GH. THE AIRP ...
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AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR RADICAL MEANS OF U ...
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Wow Great stuff! No one does it better like Bokor. Suck it to the NPP knaves Baby. Aside from their kokoase krakyes who know next to nothing the NPP is full KOKOMPE lawyers and professors. What a bunch of self-righteous idiot ...
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Sometimes, you write good articles only to soil it with a lie if i should say. I dont know if these lies are intentional or just ignorance....Who did what to President Limann ? You know that PNDC , the parent , of NDC spearh ...
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The stock in trade of these CPP low lives is propaganda . They churn out lies and repeat them over and over till the simpletons assimilate them. See how he portrays Nkrumah as an angel and all others evil even though Nkrumah ...
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Is it a coincidence? Ako Adjei and Tawiah Adamafio two of Nkrumah's ministers and Kofi Crabbe were all GAS,who betrayed him by plotting with Nkrumah's opponents to assasinate him.Do you remember the Kulungugu Bomb explosion L ...
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Dr Mike Ocquaye and Ayikoi Otoo have taken a lot flak from the CPP elements for daring to suggest that Nkrumah cannot be the founder of Ghana. I will not doubt Nkrumah's greatness but I cannot accept that he was the founder ...
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NO HISTORY BOOK WOULD CLAIM NKRUMAH AS THE FOUNDER OF GHANA, NEVER, HE WAS INVITED TO HELP IN THE STRUGGLE. HE WAS THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF GHANA BUT NOT THE FOUNDER.
there enough evidence to suggest that the man served his masters and not Ghana. He got paid financially and when the payment stopped he challenged the USA ambassador personally on the matter.
Nkrumah used OUR money as a KGB agent to propagate communist ideas in the whole of Africa.
I thought all Ph.D holders were not stupid or ediots till I saw the writings of this Borkor guy. Of what benefit was the Ghana, Guinea Mali union . Mali and Guinea got 10 million pounds each from Nkrumah's largesse ,he reckl ...
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Isn't it pathetic that after such a wonderful exposition by Dr Bokor of Osagyefo's achievement people are still submitting comments against him. Do you think people living under dictatorships would complain if their shops are ...
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Among diehard African political activists and Pan-Africanists,
Nkrumah was and continues to remain a revered hero, committed nationalist and Pan-Africanist deserving of high esteem.
Let's face it most of the notoriety ab ...
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WHY DON'T YOU MOVE TO NORTH KOREA OR CUBA FOR THAT MATTER. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WANT TO LIVE UNDER A DICTATORSHIP. I COULD SEE YOU WEARING THE GRAY KHAKI UNIFORM IN YOUR YOUNG PIONEER DAYS. TOO BAD WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY NOW AND ...
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Kutu Acheampong was even better than Nkrumah
You cannot be serious, now i understand why we all must be fearful of 'Primitivism and disorder' in certain tributaries of our country where freedom may not be real but only apparent. Nothing is more notorious than a tribal m ...
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You are an imdecile. Thre is no "NOKWARE" in you.Seek wisdom, Maybe all the elders in you family have the same mentality as you. So where do you turn to? It is very pathetic indeed.
The grey Khaki came with wisdom to match! Here is what you should know; No one needs to go to North Korea nor Cuba to see how our world would have ended. Believe it or not, A poor guy in Cuba has a decent live than a similar ...
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AFTER DR OSAGYIFO WHO ELSE WHO?
The only legacy behind him (CPP) is almost disintergrated that is the mark of an opportunist.
Another repulsive ashante imbecile.
without his teeeeeee.
So Kwesi is Asante you repugnant fool.
.......an ashante
what is it in a name?
i'm kwame from surinam
A God sent like Nkrumah would not only have problem with the Busias but all who have no vision. And l can't blam them becaus that is God's gift and choise. It is like asking a blind man to identify colors. Knowlage and wisdom ...
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Nkrumah was doomed to fail because he was a dictator an power drunk. He deserved being ousted. He was a know it all and the world was getting tired of him. He inherited a country with over £250 000 000. We were broke with on ...
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“Nkrumah is a reminder not of what Africa is, but of what Africa must become.”
Kofi Hadjor, 1986
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U SAY HE INHERITED MONEY N BLEW IT? DID U KNOW WHAT HE USED THE MONEY ON? DID GH GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO MAKE REVENUE WITH TE INDUSTRIES HE BUILT WITH THE RESERVE MONEY? RAWLINGS WAS A DICTATOR. EVER SEEN AN EDUCATED LEADER WHO ...
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Books must be written 4 our kiz 2 no about our history
The NPP leaders are struggling to make themselves relevant, hence the constant attacks on Nkrumah 47 years after their coup against him. Nkrumah lives on. Go to Addis Ababa and see
Nkrumah, drive on the Tema motorway, go Te ...
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Do you know the leader who built the following landmarks in Ghana?: The Korle Bu hospital, the University of Ghana, the Railway system, the Takoradi harbour and Komfo Anokye hospital, or GEE? It was governor Gordon Guggisberg ...
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Blue Print Of Our Goal; Launching The Seven-Year Development Plan
11th March, 1964
MR. SPEAKER, MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
I have come here today to present to you, and to the people of Ghana, our Seven-Year Devel ...
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One nation ,one people.hope you all remember that.
Lets be careful
it was not rocket science...Nkrumahs projects ought to be done anyway by any new leader at the time of any new state.school,hospitals,roads,dams,housing,etc are always on any budget in Africa.
BRAVO,BRAVO on this article.Also please know that the president governed Ghana under emergency rule granted him by parliament due to both internal and external terrorism perpetrated by his opponents.Also it has now been estab ...
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The greatest legacy of Nkrumah is rarely mentioned. He gave opportunity to the masses viz veranda boys and bushmen, through education and thereby broke elitist clubs. Millions of Ghanaians are what they are today because of ...
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The greatest African of our generation. Regressive forces cower at the mere mention of his name. His stature in Afrca and the world can never be diminished by haughty simpletons of the likes of Ocquaye and Ayikoi Otoo. Forwa ...
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Nkrumah did everything according to the law - the constitution. Nkrumah was not the bloody, murderous, thieving dictator known as Rawlings. Hilla Limann was overthrown by Rawlings - not the NPP, no matter the crimes NPP has c ...
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The NDC is the singular entity in Ghana that has done the greatest damage to all that Nkrumah did for Ghana - over 300 enterprises looted or sold for pennies! Truth is not part of Bokor's character. Shameless opportunism is. ...
read full comment
They are opportunists indeed. They call themselves Nkrumaists yet prefer to join NDC .They know very well CPP and Nkrumaism are dead and burried for good. Shameless people hiding behind NDC to shout Nkrumaism.
Osagyefo will forever remain the best, selfless, strong, fearless, efficient, no-nonsense leader with vision......that Ghana has ever been blessed to have. He did NOT kowtow to anybody let alone the bomb-throwers (modern day ...
read full comment
i am so proud of you,its one of the best articals i have ever read.we need to teach the young pepole in Ghana about all this,cos since his overthrow most people aged 40 and below only know the rubbish fed to them about him.Gh ...
read full comment
NEVER MIND THESE GAS. THEY SHOULD BE LISTENING TO THE MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITION SAYING PUBLICLY TO KILL THE GAS AND THE EWES. ARE THESE GAS TAKING NOTICE OR THEY ARE OPPOTUNISTS THEMSELVES. A WORD TO THE WISE IS ENOUGH AND MR. ...
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PARDON MY MISSPELLING THE PRESIDENT'S. NAME. MY APOLOGY.