I don't know who, sane enough, will be suspending his own party members knowing very well that winning elections is about numbers. Well that is their own cup of tea. I can't accept anyone telling me that Kwabna Agyepong is a ... read full comment
I don't know who, sane enough, will be suspending his own party members knowing very well that winning elections is about numbers. Well that is their own cup of tea. I can't accept anyone telling me that Kwabna Agyepong is an NDC mole. No. Never. We know Kwabna Agyepong from the time NPP was formed.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
WHO OVERTHREW NKRUMAH's CPP:
READ:
"....It is...instructive...that none of the...coup d'états have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians...staunchly backe ... read full comment
WHO OVERTHREW NKRUMAH's CPP:
READ:
"....It is...instructive...that none of the...coup d'états have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians...staunchly backed regressively Darwinian means of political access, including a world-renowned...former prime minister (Busia). Interestingly, in July 1956, when President Nkrumah's...CPP...won a landslide victory... Busia rode herd on a delegation to the British office in London, to petition the British Crown, and...colonial overlord, to desist from granting the already-scheduled return of Ghana to self-governance. Fortunately... Busia and his right-wing bourgeois reactionaries did not succeed. (Busia)...however, succeeded ten years later in backing the military junta that unseated the Nkrumah administration and facilitated the precipitous devolution of Ghanaian national destiny....", from “SOUNDS OF SIRENS: ESSAYS IN AFRICAN POLITICS & CULTURE”, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr (2004).
That is the bunch of traitors we've labelled Ghana's First Losers - The Nonentities, Liars, and Crook Gang of Confederate Traitors!
SO WHO DID THEY OVERTHREW:
"...READ: "...BY , DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatness, power and wealth...Therefore the defining variable in mental development is “opportunity” which establishes the most legitimate intellectual differentials in the cognitive abilities of groups and individuals.../...\...It is in the context of all this knowledge that Ghana’s first president, soon after independence, deemed it fit and proper to concentrate on the formal school system to boost the African personality and to merge the tribes under one great banner of nationhood . Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood. If ignorance makes people show greater allegiances to tribes at the expense of the nation, then the survival of the nation is under serious threat. For a country to be a nation, her people will have to subsume ethnicity under the aegis of the national interest. The present conflicts amongst the tribes, though so far verbal, is a testimony that our country comprises nations within the state. In effect, we of this generation have repudiated the concept of nationhood with our ethnic animosity and undermined the very tenets under which the nation was founded..." (6 February 2007, Ghanaweb, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D., AKA, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law).
Enjoy all of that Mr. Kwabena Nyamekye, and come again!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Visit www.GhanaHero.Com/Visions.
Read Mo'
Learn Mo'
Reflect Mo'
Peace!
Visit www.GhanaHero.Com/Visions.
Read Mo'
Learn Mo'
Reflect Mo'
Peace!
Mahmoud 8 years ago
After Nkrumah had oppressed and liquidated the opposition party with his PDA, he turned it on his own CPP members and the general public before Ghanaians were liberated by the NLC.
Likewise, NDC has been adding and removin ... read full comment
After Nkrumah had oppressed and liquidated the opposition party with his PDA, he turned it on his own CPP members and the general public before Ghanaians were liberated by the NLC.
Likewise, NDC has been adding and removing names from the voters' register at will to rig general elections, and it's now using the same tactics against its own members in the ongoing primaries and the small boys are crying.
Does the EC need any more evidence other than what is already available to compile a credible new poll register for conducting free, fair and democratic elections in 2016?
kaketonti 8 years ago
BAMM BAMM-THAT'S THE WAY NPP LOVES IT.VERY SOON THEY WILL SUSPEND THE PARTY
BAMM BAMM-THAT'S THE WAY NPP LOVES IT.VERY SOON THEY WILL SUSPEND THE PARTY
Kwabena Ohemeng,london 8 years ago
What is this article all about? THE PDA WAS MEANT TO TAKE CARE OF TERRORISTS AND NATIION WRECKERS WHETHER IN THE OPPOSITION OR IN THE CPP AND WAS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.WHICH RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMRNT WILL SIT DOWN FOR T ... read full comment
What is this article all about? THE PDA WAS MEANT TO TAKE CARE OF TERRORISTS AND NATIION WRECKERS WHETHER IN THE OPPOSITION OR IN THE CPP AND WAS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.WHICH RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMRNT WILL SIT DOWN FOR TERRORISTS AND NATION WRECKERS TO UNDERMINE THE PROGRESS AND STABILITY OF A NATION?Faced with terrorism America and the western world which criticised the PDA have resorted to more draconian measures to protect their nations and citizens EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THEM RECRUITED,TRAINED,ARMED AND FINANCED THE TERRORISTS.
GHANANI 8 years ago
They were expecting Osagyefo to sit down unconcerned when Busia,the CIA were planning and financing a series of bombings which maimed and killed hundreds of innocent ghanaians.The PDA was meant for such people as Guantanamo ... read full comment
They were expecting Osagyefo to sit down unconcerned when Busia,the CIA were planning and financing a series of bombings which maimed and killed hundreds of innocent ghanaians.The PDA was meant for such people as Guantanamo Bay is meant for 'terrorists' attacking America and its citizens.
Nee Adjei-Blebo 8 years ago
Kwabena, I am afraid the reasons you have given to support the PDA in Nkrumah's time is way off the line which makes to believe that you were either not born then or a toddler and only relying on hearsay. At the time of the ... read full comment
Kwabena, I am afraid the reasons you have given to support the PDA in Nkrumah's time is way off the line which makes to believe that you were either not born then or a toddler and only relying on hearsay. At the time of the enactment of PDA in early 1958 or a year after Ghana's independence there was no "terrorists" or "nation wreckers" and never have there been any such groups in the country. These groups were the imagination of Nkrumah and his cronies to justify the unlawful detention of law abiding Ghanaians who did not agree with him Nkrumah. If you really want to know what happened during the time of Nkrumah's tyranical rule go to the Archives and read the Hansard which will give verbatim report on any issue you want to know. Do you think you have a chance to critise the present Government if the a PDA is in operation just like Nkrumah's time? You would be lanquishing in jail by now. I must say the effect of the PDA as used by Nkrumah is the cause of most of Ghana's problems of today and the division it created is still being felt. Please always think of Ghana and how her citizens can join hands to work together in harmony for its progress and stop justifying wrongs done in the past.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Nee Adjei-Blebo,
You must have your own definition of
"'terrorists' or 'nation wreckers'".
And you must still believe what Ankrah said on the microphones shortly after the overthrew.
Maybe you've forgotten the ser ... read full comment
Nee Adjei-Blebo,
You must have your own definition of
"'terrorists' or 'nation wreckers'".
And you must still believe what Ankrah said on the microphones shortly after the overthrew.
Maybe you've forgotten the serious case of armed robbery and violence after all the "political prisoners" /petty CRIMINALS were let out of prison so the NLC-Ankrah-Busia could prove a point.
In the main, some of you think because you are older and even read the Hansard, you know everything about Nkrumah's overthrow.
Or, you have everything in your heads!
Nice try!
You still do not know, or do not care that much of the events leading to the overthrow of Ghana's government were orchestrated and controlled from outside Ghana, shortly after independence.
For instance, to say that there were no traitors or subvertionists in Ghana even during the same year Ghana gained independence is the height of ignorance or wanton disregard for the record that are now available.
In our own reports.......
READ: "....merely 9 months after Ghana's independence, on 4 December 1957, Busia, another UP-NLM-NLC-Progress Party traitor, was actually sending secret telegrams to Washington, DC. from the US Embassy in Accra demanding $25,000, "(not 10)", for his NLM party..."
Question for You: Who is Busia and what was he doing over there. What was he going to do with all that money?
Feature Article | 25 September 2015
Title: Nkrumah Was Not Prepared To Govern For Dummies: The Essentials!
By Professor N. Lungu (www.modernghana.com/news/645002/1/nkrumah-was-not-prepared-to-govern-for-dummies-the.html)
READ:
A country like Ghana is not the property of one leader. It always took a team willing to work together, a Team willing to support "the leader". So, if Nkrumah was "Ill-Prepared To Lead And Govern Ghana", Dr. Danquah certainly failed at even playing second fiddle to Nkrumah in the fight for independence for the Gold Coast. Hell, Danquah could not even get elected in his own hometown!
Even worse, merely 9 months after Ghana's independence, on 4 December 1957, Busia, another UP-NLM-NLC-Progress Party traitor, was actually sending secret telegrams to Washington, DC. from the US Embassy in Accra demanding $25,000, "(not 10)", for his NLM party, and as well complaining to Republicans in the US Congress in the telegrams that Nkrumah and the CPP were exploring relations with other countries, including the USSR.
What did Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia think sovereignty and independence meant for Ghana?
READ SOME MORE:\\
Kennedy Library, National Security Files
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Sep. 13, 1961.
READ SUMMARY:
"....Reports from Ambassador Russell in Accra indicated that former Finance Minister Gbedemah, who had been demoted to Minister of Health by Nkrumah in May and was serving on the three man presidential commission governing Ghana in Nkrumah's absence, was considering an attempt to depose Nkrumah.
On September 7, Russell reported that Gbedemah had said, “I would be sorry to have to do it but country has had enough of Nkrumah's
arrogance, whims and madness.” (Telegram 362 from Accra? Department of State, Central Files, 745J.11/9761) In 1973, Russell told an interviewer that Gbedemah had received an official assurance of U.S. support in September 1961. (Richard D. Mahoney, JFK: Ordeal in Africa, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 172)...."
"...Nkrumah's Plans to Send 400 Cadets to the USSR for Training2 (#fn2)
President Nkrumah has commanded that arrangements be made for 400 officer cadets to be selected as early as possible for training in Russia for the “African High Command.” General Alexander, the Chief of the Ghana Army Defense Staff, has protested to Nkrumah in an attempt to dissuade him. Leading Ghanaian officers also are opposed and plan to voice their protests to Nkrumah on his return to Ghana. If Nkrumah fails to countermand the order, their opposition might reach the point of revolt or an attempted coup d'etat. Embassy Accra believes Nkrumah will defend his action by saying he is balancing Soviet and Western influence.
In spite of a growing opposition to Nkrumah in Ghana, the opposition has not coalesced and we anticipate its collapse upon his return...
Sending Ghanaian cadets to the USSR for training would go a long way toward providing a wedge for Soviet domination.
We have urged the UK to make a firm demarche to Nkrumah to warn him of this danger in the strongest terms. If the British remain reluctant to make a strong protest, we should do so unilaterally, and should not delay too long or it may become impossible for Nkrumah to reverse his decision.
We should emphasize that such training would be a clear indication of Ghana's move away from a position of nonalignment, and may result in pressure from the Congress to hold up on U.S. aid.
.... we now know through the British Embassy that General Alexander has protested to Nkrumah. Nkrumah, who continued to be unyielding, acknowledged that it would be difficult to recruit 400 cadets but insisted that he intended to send “some” cadets to the USSR for training. Alexander followed up this initial protest by sending an emissary to Nkrumah at Yalta to explain his objections. The emissary reported on his return to Accra that Nkrumah now plans on sending only 20 cadets to the USSR at this time with perhaps more to follow later.
.....In the light of the foregoing, it appears that the situation is not as bad as we suspected. However, as an officer in the British Embassy here has indicated, even 50 or 60 cadets indoctrinated in the USSR for 5 years would create serious problems in the Ghanaian armed forces.
I think we must now wait until Nkrumah returns to Accra where, as you know, he will have to face up to a number of problems in addition to this one. We expect him to arrive in Accra on September 16.
Reports from Ambassador Russell in Accra indicated that former Finance Minister Gbedemah, who had been demoted to Minister of Health by Nkrumah in May and was serving on the three man presidential commission governing Ghana in Nkrumah's absence, was considering an attempt to depose Nkrumah.
On September 7, Russell reported that Gbedemah had said, “I would be sorry to have to do it but country has had enough of Nkrumah's arrogance, whims and madness.” (Telegram 362 from Accra? Department of State, Central Files, 745J.11/9761) In 1973, Russell told an interviewer that Gbedemah had received an official assurance of U.S. support in September 1961. (Richard D. Mahoney, JFK: Ordeal in Africa, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 172)..."
So, come again, Nee Adjei-Blebo!
Nee Adjei-Blebo 8 years ago
Prof Lungu, sorry, I do not think it will serve any useful purpose responding to your comments. However, one question which comes to mind is why those who were branded terrorists and nation wreckers taken to court for the wo ... read full comment
Prof Lungu, sorry, I do not think it will serve any useful purpose responding to your comments. However, one question which comes to mind is why those who were branded terrorists and nation wreckers taken to court for the world to know the truth of their crimes? From your title 'Prof' one could conclude you are well read but it looks like you have been blinded by your narrow field of knowledge. Please, let us all look a bright and harmonious future for Ghana and not the seed of division sowed by Nkrumah influence us all
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Nee Adjei-Blebo,
Sure, it will not serve any purpose to respond with facts, not hearsay, because you have little of the former.
You do not have a clue what "field of knowledge" we've acquired since we grew as a "toddler". ... read full comment
Nee Adjei-Blebo,
Sure, it will not serve any purpose to respond with facts, not hearsay, because you have little of the former.
You do not have a clue what "field of knowledge" we've acquired since we grew as a "toddler".
No you don't!
So, maybe, you ought to look in the mirror.
Explains to us why you think that a "...bright and harmonious future for Ghana and not the seed of division sowed..." is possible by kicking Kwame Nkrumah to the curb and worshiping traitors and terrorists like Danquah, Busia, Ankrah, and the Nonentities, Liars, and Crooks bunch, instead.
Nice try!
Enjoy the Kwame Nkrumah's Unitary Vision that is Ghana today, and all the infrastructure and social progress we know you and your forebears use, even today.
Mensah Abrampa 8 years ago
Nearly 50 years after the overthrow of Dr Nkrumah our so-called learned men are still unable to use what's commonly referred to as "the benefit of hindsight" to inform their less educated compatriots about what really happene ... read full comment
Nearly 50 years after the overthrow of Dr Nkrumah our so-called learned men are still unable to use what's commonly referred to as "the benefit of hindsight" to inform their less educated compatriots about what really happened in Ghana under Nkrumah's leadership. People like Professor Lungu from the far left and others from the far right refuse to accept that their idols were as human as any of us with flaws and could not have been right about everything. If we cannot correctly analyze our history we're bound for destruction because we're more likely to repeat the mistakes committed 50 years ago. Nothing seems to have changed because our immediate history is still a Chinese puzzle and cannot be unraveled. Our so-called professors are worse than stark illiterates because they use their education to mis-inform and further divide us. They are left footed, right footed or flat footed. It would be great for all of us and a welcome relief if Professor Lungu and others like him from both sides of the political aisle will stick with objectivity and speak the truth about our past. I long for the day when these learned people will choose to play with both feet and show fairness and objectivity.
C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago
In response to your plea, I'd like to give a brief overview of the events leading to the PDA, its implementation and abuse and post-coup era.
First of all, the writer being what he is - AN AVID NPP SUPPORTER, obviously lie ... read full comment
In response to your plea, I'd like to give a brief overview of the events leading to the PDA, its implementation and abuse and post-coup era.
First of all, the writer being what he is - AN AVID NPP SUPPORTER, obviously lied about the events leading to the PDA. Independence did not stop the violence of the Matemeho hoodlums and their leaders, now forced to unite under the UP. They started planning a coup, which culminated in the arrest of Captain Awhaitey and Modesto Apaloo, MP for Anlo. Under the existing laws, it was hard to try and convict them. Then there was Antor and his rag-tag army bent on secession of the TVT from the rest of nearly independent Ghana even after losing the plebiscite. Let's recall the Elavanyo incidence where that army actually marched and the rebellion had to be put down. George Padmore devoted a whole chapter to this secessionist movt. in his book, The Gold Coast Revolution. Times were dangerous and something had to be done. It was that Kroboi Edusei of or so suggested the adoption of the PDA from India. The records show that Nkrumah was initially opposed to the idea but his British Attorney General, Geoffrey Bing, aware of similar legislation in The UK, often used against the IRA, and others prevailed upon him to accept the passing of the PDA. The PDA was therefore relevant and sorely needed to deal with a new nation facing the challenges of integration, cohesion, legitimacy, etc., etc. - the so-called centripetal and centrifugal forces.
Now, the writer has admitted that it was abused by some citizens to settle their petty disputes. How can you blame Nkrumah for that? As someone whose maternal side arguably provided the largest number of detainees from a single family and whose aunt was married to IGP Harlley and then had done some research on the subject, I am in position to say that, indeed, the PDA was grossly abused to settle personal scores and disputes. My maternal "grandfathers", uncles and an auntie were falsely accused of collecting money from President Olympio in order to foment secession as important Anlo elders. Any serious govt MUST arrest people accused as such, especially when some circumstantial evidence was provided, like the arbitration of a marriage meeting which was mentioned as the meeting for sharing the money! The accuser was no other than another uncle from my paternal side! Hmmm!
The motive for this action was just a dispute over some farm beds, which in all fairness, my paternal uncle shouldn't have insisted on keeping since the land which was given to my maternal side's grandfather by his grandfather for a farm hut was repossessed by them. So, your family should also relinquish the farm beds in a quid pro manner! Simple! But it ended up in detention of many people and his own eventual detention when they sent another batch of detainees to Accra!
I recollect he also came out from detention after the coup, poured powder on himself just like the others not released earlier, thanks to my father's intervention, and paraded around town proclaiming that he didn't do anything against Nkrumah but was incarcerated by the CPP. What about misleading the CPP leaders and tarnishing the image of Nkrumah? A Committee, the Djabanor Committee appointed to examine the disturbances in Anloga after the killing of Kotoka in the abortive coup of 1967, actually examined sketchily these detentions and mentioned names but I won't mention them here. I have the full Report among my things but you won't get some details I mentioned here and others not mentioned. incidentally, after my uncle failed to warm his way into favour with the NLC and was shunned, he actually went to Conakry to re-pledge his alliance to Nkrumah, we learned! And the man "no go school ooooO!". But he could speak a pidgin English and French, a number of W. African languages, including his father tongue Ewe, Twi, Ga, Yoruba and Hausa! So, he could sell you without your even knowing that you were being sold standing besides him! A maternal relation said that it was God that intervened to prevent his father sending him to school, otherwise he'd have sold them all by then. When years later I read that he was the key person involved in the removal of Dr Fiagbe as VR Secretary with the same secession story during the PNDC era in the '80s, I burst into laughter. Folks, he wasn't all that a terrible person.
After all, when some bad man tried to seize some shallot beds an aunt's deceased daughter entrusted to his son, he was the one who went to court to get the farms back for us. Yes! No one can litigate better than him!
I can't say more (in fact, said too much already) as some people's children eyes are still red about those events. Phew! There was this man who used to give me the "looks-to-kill" 'cos he had a grudge against Papa for not securing his release too. Auntie "Epe", i.e., Patience, though was very nice to us all kids and used to treat us but she died suddenly not long after her release.
The NLC actually formed a C'ttee to examine the detentions and I have no doubt they found that most of the detentions were motivated by settlement of local disputes. It is a pity that our scholars haven't done any published work on this; at least that I know of. I see the write-up by my good friends Michael Gyamerah and Ekow Nelson, which I had the privilege of reading through, as more of an intellectual work, and a damn good one at that!
Now, the writer lied about the number of political detainees released after the coup. They were not even up to a 1000. To swell the number, even hardened criminals were released. And he should have told us that the NLC put more political detainees in prison and drove more people into exile than the CPP did from 1958 to 1966! Some were even paraded around in a cage before being locked up! Very barbaric!
In conclusion, the PDA per se wasn't a bad piece of legislation, as it was then and still is a part of the judicial system of many so-called democratic states in the West and Asia. It was the associated abuse that was bad. It wasn't the PDA that caused it but people with intentions. The PNDC didn't need that to detain many people who were falsely accused. That's why I don't have any grudge whatsoever against Nkrumah, just as my mother who still proudly display Nkrumah's portrait besides that of Papa, and laments about how Ghana had gone to the dog's since the overthrow of the CPP.
Andy-K
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
We are Ghana-Centered and realistic!
Nobody can attempt to knock Nkrumah down and expect us to follow them in Nkrumah's Unitary Ghana!
It ain't gonna happen!
In fact, Ghana's Benedict Arnolds, the Danquah-Busia-NLM-N ... read full comment
We are Ghana-Centered and realistic!
Nobody can attempt to knock Nkrumah down and expect us to follow them in Nkrumah's Unitary Ghana!
It ain't gonna happen!
In fact, Ghana's Benedict Arnolds, the Danquah-Busia-NLM-NLC-PP types, owe Ghana a big apology for nation-wrecking Ghana with the help of foreign governments.
It is all in the record for those who care to know and reckon!
As such, we imagine that if what was going in France and Belgium were to have occurred in the 1954-1965, France and Belgium would have their PDAs to span more than 1 year, as of today, to November, 2016, or a whole lot longer!
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
Well said Amega Yao! I can say this: the longest serving detainee under the PDA was a person I was intimately familiar with; I will paraphrase him here: political violence and attempts to eliminate Dr Nkrumah started over 4 y ... read full comment
Well said Amega Yao! I can say this: the longest serving detainee under the PDA was a person I was intimately familiar with; I will paraphrase him here: political violence and attempts to eliminate Dr Nkrumah started over 4 years before enactment of the PDA, Dr Nkrumah opponents would have likely sent him to the gallows if the shoe was on the other foot!! And finally: Dr Nkrumah was far from vindictive our country has gone backwards since my 49th birthday 24 February 1966!!
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
Look the record is clear: despite the Kankan Nyame black propaganda and deliberate falsification by crooks liars and nonentities Nkrumah has been vindicated! I heard it from the horses mouth as a child then did the research a ... read full comment
Look the record is clear: despite the Kankan Nyame black propaganda and deliberate falsification by crooks liars and nonentities Nkrumah has been vindicated! I heard it from the horses mouth as a child then did the research as an adult! Said person who educated me was a principal opponent of Dr Nkrumah and was the longest serving PDA detainee! He had no reason to airbrush Dr Nkrumah's record! It is only in Ghana were the heirs of the CIA/MI5 lackeys and stooges persist in trying to muddy the record where we have this manufactured controversy about KWAME KASAPREKO aka OSAADEEYEO OWURADE BASAA!!
GHANANI 8 years ago
Mr Bleboo i celebrated Ghgabna's first independence anniversary and a witness to Osagyefo's rule till he was overthrown in 1966.To qoute the late Nii Amaa Ollenu'Osagyefo never did anything illegal' in Ghana and the passing ... read full comment
Mr Bleboo i celebrated Ghgabna's first independence anniversary and a witness to Osagyefo's rule till he was overthrown in 1966.To qoute the late Nii Amaa Ollenu'Osagyefo never did anything illegal' in Ghana and the passing of the PDA WAS IN RESPONSE TO THE POLITICAL CLIMATE OF THE DAY.To say that the PDA is the cause of the nation's problems shows clearly that you are anti- Nkrumah and a glorifier of the 1966 coup which overthrew him.The coup of 1966 is the root cause of Ghana's problems now.I will not go further.
Kwabena Ohemeng,london 8 years ago
Thank you Ghanani.For Mr Adjei-Blebo to say that the PDA is the cause of the nation's problems is astonishing.Since the coup of 1966[i was in secondary school]nothing better has happened to Ghana.The coup has brought economic ... read full comment
Thank you Ghanani.For Mr Adjei-Blebo to say that the PDA is the cause of the nation's problems is astonishing.Since the coup of 1966[i was in secondary school]nothing better has happened to Ghana.The coup has brought economic stagnation,poverty,unemployment and tribal politics to Ghana.No wonder the nation is in a mess.Or Adjei-Blebo thinks Ghana has improved economically and socially since the coup?He must be living on a different planet.
Mahmoud 8 years ago
Who's this one party state communist begot? I will refer him to the PNDC communist dictatorship period when there were always attempted coups and rumors of coups. After he cunningly changed the game to multiparty politics,we ... read full comment
Who's this one party state communist begot? I will refer him to the PNDC communist dictatorship period when there were always attempted coups and rumors of coups. After he cunningly changed the game to multiparty politics,we did not hear about coups again. Nkrumah was a disestablizing factor because of his dictatorship, one party state and president for life policies.
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
BOOM BOOM BOOM!! The muti-brains are funny!! Making shit up as they go, "Fraudulent Fabricators"!! Thank you GHANANI, KWABENA OHEMENG, FOSU, YAW YEBOAH, OSOIFAM, PROF AND ALL!!
GREETINGS BREDREN GREETINGS
BOOM BOOM BOOM!! The muti-brains are funny!! Making shit up as they go, "Fraudulent Fabricators"!! Thank you GHANANI, KWABENA OHEMENG, FOSU, YAW YEBOAH, OSOIFAM, PROF AND ALL!!
GREETINGS BREDREN GREETINGS
Yaw Yeboah 8 years ago
Most of the criticism regarding PDA concerns the imprisonment & death of J.B. Danquah. However, it has recently come to light that J.B. Danquah was on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), of the U.S..A. Gover ... read full comment
Most of the criticism regarding PDA concerns the imprisonment & death of J.B. Danquah. However, it has recently come to light that J.B. Danquah was on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), of the U.S..A. Government. The 1966 Coup was sponsored by the CIA, and therefore, it could be argued that the CPP was right to introduce the PDA.
Godd 8 years ago
Why are people talking about Nkrumah alone? This article is about the things going on in NPP not whether PDA was right or not.
Whether PDA was right or not, one thing is certain: No Ghanaian will want such a law again - w ... read full comment
Why are people talking about Nkrumah alone? This article is about the things going on in NPP not whether PDA was right or not.
Whether PDA was right or not, one thing is certain: No Ghanaian will want such a law again - whether necessary or not. So any attempt by anybody to behave in a manner that reminds us of that law (whether that law was right or not) should be resisted. I think that is what the writer wants to say about Akufo-Addo and his clique. The writer is clearly anti-Nkrumah and he could have used a different example but there is no reason going on so long about PDA when the topic is about Akufo-Addo's tendencies...
Kwaku Fosu 8 years ago
"Moderate CPP members and those in the army and police who overthrew the CPP in 1966 will tell you that the most unpopular piece of legislation in the Nkrumah era was the Preventive Detention Act (PDA). Passed in 1958 (long b ... read full comment
"Moderate CPP members and those in the army and police who overthrew the CPP in 1966 will tell you that the most unpopular piece of legislation in the Nkrumah era was the Preventive Detention Act (PDA). Passed in 1958 (long before there was a single attempt on Nkrumah’s life)".
Some of us are pig sick of your nonsense.Can come back and tell discerning and concerned Ghanaians with a valid date, when Nkrumah"s house was bombed in Accra New Town. Was it before the PDA Act OR After the PDA Act? Until you provide this "crucial" info cum date for your readers to make up their own minds you can stop writing about our history. I awaiting your reply as soon as practicable. UP/NLC started throwing bombs,killing and maiming in September 1954.That alone was enough for any responsible government to pass an ACT.To educate you a little bit, please read about WHAT the US Attorney General Mitchel Palmer did in" Palmer Raid" then also, Read about " Lee Kuan Yew"s" Security Act. If you do not come up with any lucid and coherent answer as to when Nkrumah"s house was bombed in Accra Newtown, then consider your self as another "Unsophisticated Liar" parading on Ghanaweb writing absolute piffle.
Osoifam 8 years ago
This is year b2015, and the French now are in a "State of Emergency" where citizen-suspects can be detained/arrested/searched without a warrant, and social gatherings can be ABOLISHED!
This is year b2015, and the French now are in a "State of Emergency" where citizen-suspects can be detained/arrested/searched without a warrant, and social gatherings can be ABOLISHED!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Kwaku Fosu,
We gave the writer some records, going back to the Year of Independence!
Now you've given the writer some information going back to 1954, when "....UP/NLC started throwing bombs,killing and maiming in Septembe ... read full comment
Kwaku Fosu,
We gave the writer some records, going back to the Year of Independence!
Now you've given the writer some information going back to 1954, when "....UP/NLC started throwing bombs,killing and maiming in September...".
Here again, the writer must come back, or our conclusions still stand: The writer has his own definition of "terrorist" and "traitors".
ITEM: "'Crucial' info cum date" is the non-toddler way readers roll!
Peace!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
PDA is dead. Nkrumah is dead. CPP is dead. Tyranny is dead.
Only JB Danquah's ideas live.
Those mad rationalists of mummified ideologies will rue Nkrumah's nonsense forever, but we live under Danquah's dispensation.
PDA is dead. Nkrumah is dead. CPP is dead. Tyranny is dead.
Only JB Danquah's ideas live.
Those mad rationalists of mummified ideologies will rue Nkrumah's nonsense forever, but we live under Danquah's dispensation.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Look yourself in the mirror, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law!
And if we may channel Carly Simon, "You Probably Think This Essay Is Not About You!
Sure, if you do not run in the night to foreign embassies!
If you do not hurl ... read full comment
Look yourself in the mirror, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law!
And if we may channel Carly Simon, "You Probably Think This Essay Is Not About You!
Sure, if you do not run in the night to foreign embassies!
If you do not hurl bombs and subvert Unitary Ghana advocating confederacy!
If you stop using cherry-picked data!
If you stop violently attacking your own party members and causing a national ruckus!
Greetings, and again, enjoy the Unitary Ghana fought for and won for Ghana by Nkrumah, against all your protests.
Nice try, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
Nkrumah's leadership misadventure ended where he began: in exile.
Today, everything about him is dead except his cadre of mummified idiots who continue to sing his swan songs of shameful tyranny.
On the other hand, the ... read full comment
Nkrumah's leadership misadventure ended where he began: in exile.
Today, everything about him is dead except his cadre of mummified idiots who continue to sing his swan songs of shameful tyranny.
On the other hand, the legacy of Osagyefo Dr. JB Danquah reigns supreme. Overtime, you castrated Nkrumaists will all die out, and the vestiges of that evil tyrant will wane, leaving the nation pacified from his dark era.
Mike Asiedu 8 years ago
Dr Okyere of New York is still waiting for DR SAS,MAHMOUD,SARPONG,AHOOFE etc to give them their much needed free psychiatric treatment.The bizarre pronouncements of these pseudo-intellectuals is a clear indication of their me ... read full comment
Dr Okyere of New York is still waiting for DR SAS,MAHMOUD,SARPONG,AHOOFE etc to give them their much needed free psychiatric treatment.The bizarre pronouncements of these pseudo-intellectuals is a clear indication of their mental disorder.
I don't know who, sane enough, will be suspending his own party members knowing very well that winning elections is about numbers. Well that is their own cup of tea. I can't accept anyone telling me that Kwabna Agyepong is a ...
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WHO OVERTHREW NKRUMAH's CPP:
READ:
"....It is...instructive...that none of the...coup d'états have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians...staunchly backe ...
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Visit www.GhanaHero.Com/Visions.
Read Mo'
Learn Mo'
Reflect Mo'
Peace!
After Nkrumah had oppressed and liquidated the opposition party with his PDA, he turned it on his own CPP members and the general public before Ghanaians were liberated by the NLC.
Likewise, NDC has been adding and removin ...
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BAMM BAMM-THAT'S THE WAY NPP LOVES IT.VERY SOON THEY WILL SUSPEND THE PARTY
What is this article all about? THE PDA WAS MEANT TO TAKE CARE OF TERRORISTS AND NATIION WRECKERS WHETHER IN THE OPPOSITION OR IN THE CPP AND WAS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.WHICH RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMRNT WILL SIT DOWN FOR T ...
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They were expecting Osagyefo to sit down unconcerned when Busia,the CIA were planning and financing a series of bombings which maimed and killed hundreds of innocent ghanaians.The PDA was meant for such people as Guantanamo ...
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Kwabena, I am afraid the reasons you have given to support the PDA in Nkrumah's time is way off the line which makes to believe that you were either not born then or a toddler and only relying on hearsay. At the time of the ...
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Nee Adjei-Blebo,
You must have your own definition of
"'terrorists' or 'nation wreckers'".
And you must still believe what Ankrah said on the microphones shortly after the overthrew.
Maybe you've forgotten the ser ...
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Prof Lungu, sorry, I do not think it will serve any useful purpose responding to your comments. However, one question which comes to mind is why those who were branded terrorists and nation wreckers taken to court for the wo ...
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Nee Adjei-Blebo,
Sure, it will not serve any purpose to respond with facts, not hearsay, because you have little of the former.
You do not have a clue what "field of knowledge" we've acquired since we grew as a "toddler". ...
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Nearly 50 years after the overthrow of Dr Nkrumah our so-called learned men are still unable to use what's commonly referred to as "the benefit of hindsight" to inform their less educated compatriots about what really happene ...
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In response to your plea, I'd like to give a brief overview of the events leading to the PDA, its implementation and abuse and post-coup era.
First of all, the writer being what he is - AN AVID NPP SUPPORTER, obviously lie ...
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We are Ghana-Centered and realistic!
Nobody can attempt to knock Nkrumah down and expect us to follow them in Nkrumah's Unitary Ghana!
It ain't gonna happen!
In fact, Ghana's Benedict Arnolds, the Danquah-Busia-NLM-N ...
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Well said Amega Yao! I can say this: the longest serving detainee under the PDA was a person I was intimately familiar with; I will paraphrase him here: political violence and attempts to eliminate Dr Nkrumah started over 4 y ...
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Look the record is clear: despite the Kankan Nyame black propaganda and deliberate falsification by crooks liars and nonentities Nkrumah has been vindicated! I heard it from the horses mouth as a child then did the research a ...
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Mr Bleboo i celebrated Ghgabna's first independence anniversary and a witness to Osagyefo's rule till he was overthrown in 1966.To qoute the late Nii Amaa Ollenu'Osagyefo never did anything illegal' in Ghana and the passing ...
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Thank you Ghanani.For Mr Adjei-Blebo to say that the PDA is the cause of the nation's problems is astonishing.Since the coup of 1966[i was in secondary school]nothing better has happened to Ghana.The coup has brought economic ...
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Who's this one party state communist begot? I will refer him to the PNDC communist dictatorship period when there were always attempted coups and rumors of coups. After he cunningly changed the game to multiparty politics,we ...
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BOOM BOOM BOOM!! The muti-brains are funny!! Making shit up as they go, "Fraudulent Fabricators"!! Thank you GHANANI, KWABENA OHEMENG, FOSU, YAW YEBOAH, OSOIFAM, PROF AND ALL!!
GREETINGS BREDREN GREETINGS
Most of the criticism regarding PDA concerns the imprisonment & death of J.B. Danquah. However, it has recently come to light that J.B. Danquah was on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), of the U.S..A. Gover ...
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Why are people talking about Nkrumah alone? This article is about the things going on in NPP not whether PDA was right or not.
Whether PDA was right or not, one thing is certain: No Ghanaian will want such a law again - w ...
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"Moderate CPP members and those in the army and police who overthrew the CPP in 1966 will tell you that the most unpopular piece of legislation in the Nkrumah era was the Preventive Detention Act (PDA). Passed in 1958 (long b ...
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This is year b2015, and the French now are in a "State of Emergency" where citizen-suspects can be detained/arrested/searched without a warrant, and social gatherings can be ABOLISHED!
Kwaku Fosu,
We gave the writer some records, going back to the Year of Independence!
Now you've given the writer some information going back to 1954, when "....UP/NLC started throwing bombs,killing and maiming in Septembe ...
read full comment
PDA is dead. Nkrumah is dead. CPP is dead. Tyranny is dead.
Only JB Danquah's ideas live.
Those mad rationalists of mummified ideologies will rue Nkrumah's nonsense forever, but we live under Danquah's dispensation.
Look yourself in the mirror, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law!
And if we may channel Carly Simon, "You Probably Think This Essay Is Not About You!
Sure, if you do not run in the night to foreign embassies!
If you do not hurl ...
read full comment
Nkrumah's leadership misadventure ended where he began: in exile.
Today, everything about him is dead except his cadre of mummified idiots who continue to sing his swan songs of shameful tyranny.
On the other hand, the ...
read full comment
Dr Okyere of New York is still waiting for DR SAS,MAHMOUD,SARPONG,AHOOFE etc to give them their much needed free psychiatric treatment.The bizarre pronouncements of these pseudo-intellectuals is a clear indication of their me ...
read full comment