How mosquitoes saved Ghana from becoming an apartheid country like South Africa - Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe narrates

Statesman and founding member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has narrated how Ghana was saved from an apartheid system like the one witnessed in South Africa.

According to him, after Ghana’s independence, the British captured some parts of the country and established settlements that native Ghanaians could not access.

These areas, which included the current Ridge area, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe indicated had only white residents with its own police station, post office, and bus system, among others.

The statesman, who gave this history in an interview with veteran broadcaster, Kwaku Sintim-Misa (KSM), on the Friday, April 26, 2024, edition of the KSM Show, stated that it was the presence of mosquitoes that stopped the apartheid system from flourishing in Ghana.

He indicated that mosquito bites killed a lot of the British who chose to remain in Ghana after independence and that forced them out of the country.

“Ridge was like the European quarters. They had their own post office, their police station... And believe me, if you didn't work there, you wouldn't be allowed there. If a native was seen there at a particular time, you would be questioned like we had in South Africa.

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“We had an apartheid system. That was the objective of the English. I was told what saved us was the mosquito. The mosquito killed a number of them and as a result of that they couldn’t settle here unlike Kenya where they had very good weather,” he narrated.

Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe added, “And indeed, some of them attempted going on the hills, like Akuapem Mampong Hills and some of these hills in the Kwahu area but the mosquitoes were our saviour. So, you can see they had the same apartheid plan as they did in South Africa”.

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