With his lopsided speech, Akufo Addo was trying to fix a flat tire by totally removing the rubber and driving on the rim. It was a total flop.
With his lopsided speech, Akufo Addo was trying to fix a flat tire by totally removing the rubber and driving on the rim. It was a total flop.
Been 7 years ago
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GIDIGBA 7 years ago
These days, obiara dey talk by heart. You can hold a symposium everyday for the next thousand years, but it won't change the truth. Nkrumah is the founder of Ghana. Within a decade, all these jokers strutting around and makin ... read full comment
These days, obiara dey talk by heart. You can hold a symposium everyday for the next thousand years, but it won't change the truth. Nkrumah is the founder of Ghana. Within a decade, all these jokers strutting around and making noise will be forgotten. However, Nkrumah never dies.
Abigi 7 years ago
UGCC was formed and Nkrumah joined later. How did he become the founder? Nkrumah an OPPORTUNIST later broke off to form CPP. Because of his selfishness, greed and fascist tendencies he jailed and killed most of the people who ... read full comment
UGCC was formed and Nkrumah joined later. How did he become the founder? Nkrumah an OPPORTUNIST later broke off to form CPP. Because of his selfishness, greed and fascist tendencies he jailed and killed most of the people who helped him. This why Ghana is still struggling. Those who benefited from Nkrumah, Rawlings, Mills and Mahama has led Ghana on the same path as Nkrumah. Corruption, Favoritism, stealing and killing of opponents.
GHANAIANS 7 years ago
ABIGI, THE FOOLISH FOOL, THOSE BIG FIVE WERE ENJOYING THE COLONIALISM, AND FOR THAT MATTER, DID NOT WANT THE INDEPENDENT ANYTIME SOON. WHY? BECAUSE THEY WERE GIVEN POSITION IN THE WHITE/COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TO RULE OVER THEIR ... read full comment
ABIGI, THE FOOLISH FOOL, THOSE BIG FIVE WERE ENJOYING THE COLONIALISM, AND FOR THAT MATTER, DID NOT WANT THE INDEPENDENT ANYTIME SOON. WHY? BECAUSE THEY WERE GIVEN POSITION IN THE WHITE/COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TO RULE OVER THEIR OWN PEOPLE/GHANAIANS, THEN GOLD COAST.THIS WAS THE REASON WHY KWAME NKRUMAH JOINED THEM, AND UPON REALIZING THEIR DIABOLIC SELF-INTEREST MIND, IMMEDIATELY SEPARATED FROM THEM. KWAME NKRUMAH SAID" WE NEED THE INDEPENDENT NOW", WHILE THE FAKE FIVE SAID "WE NEED THE INDEPENDENT IN THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME". WHEN NKRUMAH GAINED THE INDEPENDENT FOR US, THIS FAKE FIVE SENT DR. K.A. BUSIAH TO ENGLAND TO CONVINCE THE FORMER COLONIAL RULERS TO COME AND TAKE BACK THE COUNTRY, "GHANA" FROM KWAME NKRUMAH. THUS TO REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE INDEPENDENT GIVEN TO GHANA. RATHER,THEY TOLD HIM THE ONLY THING THEY COULD DO IS TO HELP THEM TO OVERTHROW KWAME NKRUMAH. AND THIS WAS WHAT STARTED THE COUP IN GHANA, THESE BIG FIVE USED THE BOMBS THEY RECEIVED FROM THEIR FORMER COLONIAL FRIENDS TO BE THROWING BOMBS AT NKRUMAH WHEREVER HE WENT. UNTIL THEY SUCCEEDED IN OVERTHROWING HIM THROUGH COUP. SATANIC NANA AKUFFO ADDO IS AN ANTICHRIST. HE WANT TO CHANGE THE HISTORY OF GHANA, FOR THE SAKE OF HIS SATANIC FATHER WHO WAS AMONG THE BIG FAKE FIVE, WHO MASTERMINDED THE DESTRUCTION AND OVERTHROW OF KWAME NKRUMAH. ABIGI, GO SUCK NANA'A ASSHOLE.
FROM OSU CASTTLE 7 years ago
ABIGI, YOU ARE JUST A FOOL. A MORONIC IDIOTIC FOOLISH FOOL. NKRUMAH IS THE FOUNDER OF GHANA. YOU ARE AN IDIOT ,JUST LIKE THE SATANIC NANA AKUFFO ADDO WHO WANT TO CHANGE HISTORY OF GHANA FOR THE SAKE OF HIS WICKED AND SELFISH ... read full comment
ABIGI, YOU ARE JUST A FOOL. A MORONIC IDIOTIC FOOLISH FOOL. NKRUMAH IS THE FOUNDER OF GHANA. YOU ARE AN IDIOT ,JUST LIKE THE SATANIC NANA AKUFFO ADDO WHO WANT TO CHANGE HISTORY OF GHANA FOR THE SAKE OF HIS WICKED AND SELFISH FATHER WHO ENGINEERED THE OVERTHROW OF THE FOUNDER OF GHANA, KWAME NKRUMAH. YOU ARE NOTHING, BUT A DOOOOOOOOG?
Sam 7 years ago
I think i heard someone sometime ago saying Obiri Boahen as a Laawyer, can only handle cases that has to do with Goat and plantain theft. That guy was spot on.
I think i heard someone sometime ago saying Obiri Boahen as a Laawyer, can only handle cases that has to do with Goat and plantain theft. That guy was spot on.
KWAKU ANANSE 7 years ago
SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 60TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, AT THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, ON MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017
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SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 60TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, AT THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, ON MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017
We are met here today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of our nation’s independence, to celebrate our freedom from the clutches of British imperialism, to celebrate the final achievement of the struggle of successive generations of Ghanaians patriots to establish a free, sovereign Ghana.
We are grateful that on such a happy day, leaders of our neighbouring countries and friendly nations have joined us in our celebration. Akwaaba, Your Excellencies, to each one of you.
I thank the children from across the country for their excellent march. I thank the cultural troupes from across the country on their magnificent display, which has showcased the best of Ghanaian culture.
Our Armed Forces and security services are rightly celebrated across the region, the continent and the world for their professionalism and contribution to global peace and security. I thank the officers and the men and women of the Ghana Armed forces, the police service and the other security services for their display of order, pomp and ceremony. And I thank them all for their willingness to put their lives on the line to secure our domestic peace and tranquillity and the sanctity of our property.
I am happy to announce that on my way to these grounds, Independence Square, I stopped to perform a very important duty. I have this morning cut the sod for the commencement of the building of a national cathedral of interdenominational worship in our capital, Accra, which is supported by many of our leading figures of faith. It is meant to be a gesture of thanksgiving to the Almighty for the blessings he has showered and continues to shower on our nation.
Being independent means you have the freedom and ability to make informed decisions in life without having to ask other people for permission, help or money and you take full responsibility for seeing things through.
Our founders chose this day, March 6, as the date of our independence, in order to repudiate the Bond of 6th March 1844, which led to our land becoming a British colony.
Fifty-three years later, in 1897, a hundred and twenty years ago, a group of our forebears was moved to start a campaign against the terms of the colonial relationship between what was then the Gold Coast and the United Kingdom.
If the signing of the Bond of 1844 marks the formal start of the Gold Coast colony, then the formation of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society on 4th August, 1897, in Cape Coast, marks the start of the struggle for political independence. It is worth mentioning some of the names of the members of the Society because, unfortunately, we have not often acknowledged their role – John Mensah Sarbah, Joseph Casely Hayford, J.W. Sey, J.P Brown, and their colleagues, who mobilized the chiefs and people against the Crown Lands Bill and forced the colonial authorities to retreat. Sarbah began the tradition of the Ghanaian lawyer as a nationalist.
This was probably one of the most dramatic interventions in the colonial history of our country. One hundred and twenty years after that event, its significance might be lost on us. The very same objectives of the Crown Lands Bill were introduced at the same time and became law in countries like Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and other British colonies around Africa and changed the course of their history. The lands of the indigenous peoples were seized by the British Crown under that law, an event from which, a century later, they have still not recovered.
In what was then the Gold Coast, our lands remained ours because of the bravery of the members of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society, and we must pay homage to these patriots every day, especially on this 60th anniversary. Even though we established and secured, in 1897, the continuing and inalienable rights to our lands, we remained a colony and could not govern ourselves.
The next significant event in the struggle occurred on August 4, 1947, exactly fifty years later to the day of the formation of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society, when a group of nationalists gathered in Saltpond for the launch of the United Gold Coast Convention, the UGCC, the first political party in our country.
The founders of the UGCC, then, met to demand independence from the British and 70 years after that event, one still marvels at the clarity of thought and the passion that they displayed. Some of the names of that momentous day have survived in our written history and folk memory.
Five of them are on our Ghanaian currency: Joseph Boakye Danquah; Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey; William Ofori-Atta; Ebenezer Ako-Adjei; and Edward Akufo-Addo. Kwame Nkrumah, the sixth of the Big Six on the currency, was to join them later.
And there are others, equally important that we should not forget, and I pay homage to George Paa Grant, R.S. Blay, Cobinna Kesse, J.W. de Graft Johnson and Francis Awoonor Williams, amongst others.
The speech, the Ghanaian colossus, Danquah, made on that day, deserves to be quoted liberally on a day like this. He said: “Love of freedom from foreign control has always been in our blood. 870 years ago we struck against the attempt of the Arabs to impose a religious slavery upon us in Ghana. We left our homes in Ghana and came down here to build a new home. But there is one thing we brought with us from ancient Ghana. We brought with us our ancient freedom. Today the safety of that freedom is threatened. … We must fight against the new domination. And we must fight with the weapons of today, constitutional, determined, persistent, unflinching, unceasing, until the goal of freedom is attained.”
Danquah captured the mood of the time and set our country on the path to independence. 4th August is truly a sacred and seminal day in the annals of the Ghanaian people.
The unfolding of the story is well known.
The UGCC leaders decided they needed a full time person to run the party’s affairs; they sent for the dynamic Kwame Nkrumah, and he came to join them in December 1947. Soon thereafter, on 28th February, 1948, the notorious and senseless killings of three ex-servicemen, Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe and Private Odartey Lamptey occurred, and sparked a nationwide revulsion against the colonial power, which, undoubtedly, quickened the pace of the independence movement. The Watson Commission followed, which mapped out the steps towards our eventual attainment of independence.
In 1949, on 12th June, Kwame Nkrumah broke away from the UGCC and formed his own party, the Convention People’s Party. Even as he broke away, Kwame Nkrumah remembered from whence he came and retained the word “convention” in the name of his new party, the CPP.
Eventually independence came and Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, became the first sub-Saharan country to gain its freedom on March 6 1957. Danquah had done the research and convinced himself and others that the bulk of the people that inhabit these lands migrated from the ancient kingdom of Ghana.
In 1957, we lowered the British flag and we jettisoned the name Gold Coast that had been given to us and took on the name, Ghana, the name of our ancestral home. The name Ghana was meant to give us a fresh start and mark the break from colonialism; and it was also meant to give us a sense of our historical roots and the assurance that we have a history, culture and civilisation that preceded colonialism.
We must remember, on a day like this, some others who are not listed among the forefront fighters for political freedom, but who fought equally hard for our cultural integrity and the identification of who we are as Ghanaians.
I pay homage to Ephraim Amu, Tata Amu as he was fondly called. He was the composer of what easily passes as our unofficial National Anthem, Yen Ara Asase Ne. Is there a Ghanaian among us today who can sing or hear that song, in whichever language, without being moved?
Ephraim Amu stood alone, most of the time, against what he saw as cultural domination. You did not have to wear a European-cut suit to be a scholar, you could wear a fugu, kente and above all, a locally woven fabric, and still be an educated person, he argued. He insisted you did not have to eat foreign foods because you were a scholar, and he insisted our music was as interesting and sophisticated as any around the world. Those were radical ideas for the time.
I pay homage to Philip Gbeho, the composer of our National Anthem, and to Theodosia Okoh, the designer of our national flag. I pay homage to Kofi Antubam, the artist who first put Ghanaian art on the map. I pay homage to Saka Acquaye, the poet, writer, sculptor and musician, who wrote the first African folklore, The Lost Fisherman. I pay tribute to J.A. Braimah, the Gonja scholar and statesman who wrote insightful publications about the Gonja people.
I pay homage to Apaloo, the poet who immortalised the philosophy and music of the Ewe language. I pay homage to E.T. Mensah, King Bruce, Jerry Hansen and the others who popularised highlife, which has become an enduring identity of Ghanaian music. I pay tribute to the great musicologist, J.H. Nketia, who is the great authority on African music.
I pay homage to Otumfuo Prempeh I, who waged a heroic, even if unsuccessful, battle against the British and retained his dignity even in exile. I pay homage to Yaa Asantewa, that woman of valour, who led the Ashanti resistance to British imperialism. I pay homage to Nana Ofori-Atta I, who saw the wisdom in investing in the education of the young.
I pay homage to Professor Alexander Adum Kwapong, the first Ghanaian Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, who became an icon in the development of our educational system.
I pay homage to Oko Ampofo, sculptor and physician, who encouraged confidence in our traditional arts and medicine. It is thanks to him that herbal medicine became a respectable subject of study and research in our country.
I pay homage to Dede Ashikisham and Akua Shorshorshor, famous market queens, who financed Kwame Nkrumah and the nationalist movement from their successful businesses.
They and many others, like them, contributed to the fight for independence and in moulding the Ghanaian that emerged on March 6, 1957. The world shared our excitement and wished us well.
Our first President, Kwame Nkrumah, delivered his famous speech that midnight of March 5, 1957, a few hundred yards from here at the Old Polo grounds. He said we were free forever, and there cannot be a sweeter or more reassuring sound or set of words than those to a people emerging from oppression. He said our independence would prove that the black man or woman was capable of managing his or her own affairs.
And then he said what has probably been the most quoted part of that speech. He said “the independence of Ghana was meaningless unless it was linked with the total liberation of the whole continent of Africa”. In those words, Kwame Nkrumah sealed the fate of Ghana to the continent. He bequeathed to us Ghana’s pan African vocation and its commitment to the unity and integration of Africa. We are grateful for his leadership and that of his colleagues, Komla Agbeli Gbedema, the organisational genius of the Convention People’s Party, Kojo Botsio, its theoretician, and the others who occupy prides of place in the history of the nationalist movement.
We are equally grateful for those in the Opposition at independence, who, at great personal cost and in defiance of the infamous Preventive Detention Act of 1958, were determined to hold aloft the banner of freedom, and who insisted that the multiparty democratic state was the best form of governance for our nation. I refer to Joseph Boakye Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey (Liberty Lamptey), Simon Diedong Dombo, Kofi Abrefa Busia, Baffuor Osei Akoto, Victor Owusu, R.R Amponsah, Joe Appiah, S.G. Antor, Modesto Akpaloo, Ashie Nikoi, Attoh Okine and others. Our generation of Ghanaians have vindicated their stance. On 7th December, 2016, the Ghanaian people exercised their sovereign franchise, in a dignified and serene manner, to remove an incumbent and elect a new government, and, thus, demonstrated again their deep attachment to democratic values and governance.
The difficult times our country went through after independence were to be replicated across the continent: dalliances with a one-party state, military interventions, political theory experimentations and instability; and, the collapse of economies and with it, lives.
I must pay homage to Professor Albert Adu Boahen, the eminent historian and academic. He found his voice, spoke out, and ended the culture of silence. His courage was the inspiration that sparked the agitation for the restoration of democratic rule.
Finally, in Ghana, a consensus emerged with the coming into being of the Fourth Republic. We have agreed on a multi-party constitutional democracy and a guarantee of individual freedoms under the rule of law. These past 24 years have been the longest period of political stability our country has enjoyed since independence, and the effects are showing, albeit slowly.
The pace of our development has quickened and our self-confidence, which had been severely strained, has returned. At independence, the popular slogan was to seek first the political kingdom and all other things would be added. We assumed and, indeed, we expected that rapid economic development would follow the political freedom that we achieved.
Sadly, the economic dividend that was meant to accompany our freedom has still not materialised. Sixty years after those heady days, too many of our people continue to wallow in unacceptable poverty.
After sixty years, we have run out of excuses and it is time to set Ghana to rights and get our country to where it should be. The challenge before us is to build our economy and generate a prosperous, progressive and dignified life for the mass of our people. Hard work, enterprise, creativity and a consistent fight against corruption in public life would bring the transformation we seek.
We will achieve these goals when we move and act as a united people. We must take pride in our diversity by all means, but the Ghanaian must always rise above the ethnic or sectional interest. We have a bright future and we must mobilize all our resources and all our strengths, here and in the Ghanaian Diaspora, to get to that promised land faster.
It is turning out to be a constant refrain, but, on a day like this, we cannot ignore the state of our environment. We are endangering the very survival of the beautiful and blessed land that our forebears bequeathed to us. The dense forests, that were home to varied trees, plants and fauna, have largely disappeared. Today, we import timber for our use, and the description of our land as a tropical forest no longer fits the reality. Our rivers and lakes are disappearing, and those that still exist are all polluted.
It bears repeating that we do not own the land, but hold it in trust for generations yet unborn. We have a right to exploit the bounties of the earth and extract the minerals and even redirect the path of the rivers, but we do not have the right to denude the land of the plants and fauna nor poison the rivers and lakes.
There is nothing we can do better to pay homage to those who fought to free us from bondage than to dedicate this 60th independence anniversary to protecting our environment and regenerating the lands and water bodies.
I have confidence that we can and will achieve the dreams of our forebears. I am hopeful that we will continue to make ourselves worthy inheritors of this land. I know that we will wear the accolade of being a Ghanaian with pride. Let us mobilize for the happy and prosperous Ghana of tomorrow, in which all of us, including our youth, our women and the vulnerable in our society, will have equal opportunities to realise their potential, and build lives of dignity. Then, our independence will be meaningful. Then, we will have a Ghana beyond aid.
Two months ago at my inauguration on these grounds, I urged that we renew the sacred compact that comes with being able to call yourself a citizen. I am proud that I am able to say without equivocation, I am a Ghanaian citizen.
I wish you all a happy Diamond Jubilee anniversary and God’s blessings.
May the Almighty bless our homeland Ghana and make her great and strong.
meeradam 7 years ago
The posturing of this Boahen will quickly send NPP back to opposition. He speaks arrogantly as if Ghana belongs. Go to South Africa, they had several people who played roles for their liberation and some long before Mandela w ... read full comment
The posturing of this Boahen will quickly send NPP back to opposition. He speaks arrogantly as if Ghana belongs. Go to South Africa, they had several people who played roles for their liberation and some long before Mandela was born but they have chosen Mandela as the father of the nation. Whether you like or yes Nkrumah is the father of the nation and now AU has even elevated him to be the father of the continent
Be humble & God will elevate you!! 7 years ago
Dr Nkrumah was a great leader who made mistakes, like any human being. The truth is that Nkrumah was not the only founding father, and never humbled himself to acknowledge others who played vital role in the struggle for inde ... read full comment
Dr Nkrumah was a great leader who made mistakes, like any human being. The truth is that Nkrumah was not the only founding father, and never humbled himself to acknowledge others who played vital role in the struggle for independence, especially those who saw it fit to invite him to join the UGCC for the struggle for independence. He lord over everybody by accepting the claim of his boot lickers that he's a "messiah". Ghanaians are enjoying multi party democracy now because of those who opposed one party State started and run by Nkrumah, the "messiah". All said, he was a charismatic leader, and a visionary Africa needed at the time. Perhaps, that's why he was brought in by the original founding fathers of the country. Unfortunately it didn't go well for him and the original fathers of the UGCC. Mandela had problems, too, with some of his fellow countrymen but always sought to unite the people, particularly the Zulu people and their King who though he was in to lord it over them. Unlike leaders like Mugabe, Nkrumah's follower, Mandela never felt like a "messiah". He saw leadership in others and never sought to impose himself over the people of South Africa. I would like to believe that if Dr Nkrumah were to be alive today, he would acknowledge correcting the wrongs to allow his good vision to prevail. In all, I think he had good intentions for Ghana and Africa, but got blindsided by a lot of his supporters who boot licked him and failed to confront him with good ideas involving tolerance. By the time he realized he couldn't trust some of his own people (like Mr Komla Gbedemah of blessed memory who left Ghana and lived in exile)it was too late. Nkrumah's story is unique, and can't be told without the original founding fathers who, as a fact, invited him to join the UGCC (the first Ghanaian political party). Now Nkrumah's beloved CPP is near extinction because boot lickers who cannot separate his good ideas from his wrong approach, and have used his name for their own capricious elevation in society, are propagating confused story about the reality of Nkrumah's story. There many of his supporter who like his idea of social equality and simplicity, but are now very rich with affluent life style. Ghanaians will piece together what's being told them and make sense out of it all, history or no history.
Dumebi 7 years ago
Npp should put this damn fool to grass before he cost them their next election.
Npp should put this damn fool to grass before he cost them their next election.
Akwsoes 7 years ago
Eiiiiiiiiiiiii this bush man again.
Eiiiiiiiiiiiii this bush man again.
kofi adu 7 years ago
your own village of about 5 acres has two chiefs. it therefore disqualifies you to speak on history. otherwise find your roots and fix your evil village.
your own village of about 5 acres has two chiefs. it therefore disqualifies you to speak on history. otherwise find your roots and fix your evil village.
cryyyy 7 years ago
The Bomb Throwers and CIA agent of the devil they have to travel around the world and change the narrative about Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
From Guinea to the Zambia, Ethiopia, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya right up to Singapore and ... read full comment
The Bomb Throwers and CIA agent of the devil they have to travel around the world and change the narrative about Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
From Guinea to the Zambia, Ethiopia, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya right up to Singapore and Malaysia
History can never be distorted
Nkrumah never dies
PlIN 7 years ago
re listen to the speech if you have any problems.
re listen to the speech if you have any problems.
Jo Alaa 7 years ago
Obiri Boahen is the MOST STUPID LAWER(if he really is) of our time
Obiri Boahen is the MOST STUPID LAWER(if he really is) of our time
Dwarf 7 years ago
See the commander in_chief of the invisible forces of all die be die!
See the commander in_chief of the invisible forces of all die be die!
OPNINPA 7 years ago
OH YES, HE JUST GAVE ALTERNATIVE HISTORY.
OH YES, HE JUST GAVE ALTERNATIVE HISTORY.
Joddey 7 years ago
Mr Boahen should know that we have sleeping ministers and even SLEEPING presidents. If Nkrumah had taken up the job and slept on it like his so-call employers, Ghana would have had independence in the 1060s. The independence ... read full comment
Mr Boahen should know that we have sleeping ministers and even SLEEPING presidents. If Nkrumah had taken up the job and slept on it like his so-call employers, Ghana would have had independence in the 1060s. The independence of Africa would have delayed to the 1970s. The UGCC members were lazy. They did not want to work seriously throughout the Gold Coast to galvanize the people for self-rule. So when Nkrumah realized their snail-pace fight for self-rule and that of his Fast Track approach being at variance, he adopted the slogan 'self government NOW'! That is the difference between a sleepless fighter and a sleeping one. NPP can deceive themselves try to re-write history but it will fall flat. The whole world knows the contributions of Dr. Nkrumah Ghana's independence and that of Africa. So NPP can even say there was nobody call Nkrumah. It is their cup of tea.
Joddey 7 years ago
...Ghana would have had independence in the 1960s.
...Ghana would have had independence in the 1960s.
Abigi 7 years ago
What have we done eith the independence? What is the use of the self rule when we are poorer than under colonisation. 60 years of self rule we have no access to healthcare, no electricity, our graduates are mediocre, no porta ... read full comment
What have we done eith the independence? What is the use of the self rule when we are poorer than under colonisation. 60 years of self rule we have no access to healthcare, no electricity, our graduates are mediocre, no portable drinking water. People roasted alive in our streets when it rains. Youth have nothing to do, poverty is the norm. So what has your independence done for you? Apart from the psychic gain you gave, tell me how better are you?
Abigi 7 years ago
After independence the British left us with HALF a BIllion pounds, Nkrumah recklessly squandered the money in exchange for CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM, DIVISIVENESS, DICTATORSHIP, POVERTY and mass entitlements. The worse legacy of N ... read full comment
After independence the British left us with HALF a BIllion pounds, Nkrumah recklessly squandered the money in exchange for CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM, DIVISIVENESS, DICTATORSHIP, POVERTY and mass entitlements. The worse legacy of Nkrumah is the ENTITLEMENT mentality. Ghanaians are now so lazy and look up to government to provide everything. It has gotten so bad that the best job in town is serial calling to insult opponents. Ghana cannot and never move forward of we do not disabuse the minds of the people of the terrible disease inflicted in us by Nkrumah, CPP, NDC and their irks.
Yussif 7 years ago
The reasons why cpp never stood along history is because they all believe that Dr Kwame Nkrumah was alpha and omega,no wonder after his death non of them could hold on to the mantle of leadership,any person who still rate the ... read full comment
The reasons why cpp never stood along history is because they all believe that Dr Kwame Nkrumah was alpha and omega,no wonder after his death non of them could hold on to the mantle of leadership,any person who still rate the dead above himself even as a living being,can never achieve anything for himself let alone Ghana.Even Dr Hila Liman was brought home to lead them into victory so why re they angry when the truth about them is being told?just listen to any cpp person talk and you ll realize that nothing good can ever come out from them,they talk as if Dr Nkrumah is the president today,they still rate him above the living how?they can go to hell because nobody ll bow down to their lies,as long as they agree that someone paid for Dr Nkrumah to work for Ghana means he did it for a reward and can not be the alpha and omega of Ghana.
KK 7 years ago
Were the J B Danguah, Obestebi , Edward Akuffu Addo with the GREAT MAN DR.NKRUMAH , when Dr. NKRUMAH was declaring Independent for his beloved country GHANA? And of course our GREAT NATION GHANA
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Were the J B Danguah, Obestebi , Edward Akuffu Addo with the GREAT MAN DR.NKRUMAH , when Dr. NKRUMAH was declaring Independent for his beloved country GHANA? And of course our GREAT NATION GHANA
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With his lopsided speech, Akufo Addo was trying to fix a flat tire by totally removing the rubber and driving on the rim. It was a total flop.
Executive four bedroom storey with boys quarters and garage with land title certificate available at West Trasacco - East Legon for USD300K negotiable. Suitable for residential, clinic, office, school etc. Call 0540 120 711 f ...
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These days, obiara dey talk by heart. You can hold a symposium everyday for the next thousand years, but it won't change the truth. Nkrumah is the founder of Ghana. Within a decade, all these jokers strutting around and makin ...
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UGCC was formed and Nkrumah joined later. How did he become the founder? Nkrumah an OPPORTUNIST later broke off to form CPP. Because of his selfishness, greed and fascist tendencies he jailed and killed most of the people who ...
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ABIGI, THE FOOLISH FOOL, THOSE BIG FIVE WERE ENJOYING THE COLONIALISM, AND FOR THAT MATTER, DID NOT WANT THE INDEPENDENT ANYTIME SOON. WHY? BECAUSE THEY WERE GIVEN POSITION IN THE WHITE/COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TO RULE OVER THEIR ...
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ABIGI, YOU ARE JUST A FOOL. A MORONIC IDIOTIC FOOLISH FOOL. NKRUMAH IS THE FOUNDER OF GHANA. YOU ARE AN IDIOT ,JUST LIKE THE SATANIC NANA AKUFFO ADDO WHO WANT TO CHANGE HISTORY OF GHANA FOR THE SAKE OF HIS WICKED AND SELFISH ...
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I think i heard someone sometime ago saying Obiri Boahen as a Laawyer, can only handle cases that has to do with Goat and plantain theft. That guy was spot on.
SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 60TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, AT THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, ON MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017
We are met here t ...
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The posturing of this Boahen will quickly send NPP back to opposition. He speaks arrogantly as if Ghana belongs. Go to South Africa, they had several people who played roles for their liberation and some long before Mandela w ...
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Dr Nkrumah was a great leader who made mistakes, like any human being. The truth is that Nkrumah was not the only founding father, and never humbled himself to acknowledge others who played vital role in the struggle for inde ...
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Npp should put this damn fool to grass before he cost them their next election.
Eiiiiiiiiiiiii this bush man again.
your own village of about 5 acres has two chiefs. it therefore disqualifies you to speak on history. otherwise find your roots and fix your evil village.
The Bomb Throwers and CIA agent of the devil they have to travel around the world and change the narrative about Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
From Guinea to the Zambia, Ethiopia, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya right up to Singapore and ...
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re listen to the speech if you have any problems.
Obiri Boahen is the MOST STUPID LAWER(if he really is) of our time
See the commander in_chief of the invisible forces of all die be die!
OH YES, HE JUST GAVE ALTERNATIVE HISTORY.
Mr Boahen should know that we have sleeping ministers and even SLEEPING presidents. If Nkrumah had taken up the job and slept on it like his so-call employers, Ghana would have had independence in the 1060s. The independence ...
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...Ghana would have had independence in the 1960s.
What have we done eith the independence? What is the use of the self rule when we are poorer than under colonisation. 60 years of self rule we have no access to healthcare, no electricity, our graduates are mediocre, no porta ...
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After independence the British left us with HALF a BIllion pounds, Nkrumah recklessly squandered the money in exchange for CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM, DIVISIVENESS, DICTATORSHIP, POVERTY and mass entitlements. The worse legacy of N ...
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The reasons why cpp never stood along history is because they all believe that Dr Kwame Nkrumah was alpha and omega,no wonder after his death non of them could hold on to the mantle of leadership,any person who still rate the ...
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Were the J B Danguah, Obestebi , Edward Akuffu Addo with the GREAT MAN DR.NKRUMAH , when Dr. NKRUMAH was declaring Independent for his beloved country GHANA? And of course our GREAT NATION GHANA
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