..As We Celebrate Kwame Nkrumah
As we celebrate the birthday of the first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame
Nkrumah, many Ghanaians would be wondering why of all places, Ghana is the place
where the Busia-Danquah tradition chose to rear its ugly head. This is because it
goes without saying that this politial tradition is the destructive tool in Ghana’s
body politics since independence.
The NDC, which is having a running battle with the Busia-Danquahist represented by
the NPP today did not exit during the pre and post-independent eras in Ghana and
therefore cannot be blamed for political party violence then. The CPP was the party
that existed and the agony its members went through at the hands of the
Busia-Danquahist has been a subject of study for students of history over the years.
From bomb throwing through assaination attempts to burying people alive, the
Busia-Danquahist showed, during the pre and post independent eras that they are a
party that suffers from superiority complex. Though they claim to be the champions
of democracy and its guarantee of human rights, they believe that it is their divine
right to rule; no one else is fit to do so. Thus, they would even dine with the
devil to capture political power.
According to Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, “they have a long record of go-slow
policies, of subversive activity and of alignment with imperialist and their agent”
What the CPP suffered at the hands of the Busia-Danquahist in the 50s and 60s, the
NDC is suffering today from the same Busia-Danquahists. Is the common denomenator to
political party violence in Ghana since independence not the Busia-Danquahists?
Indeed, Ghana would have been a better place if the country never had political
parties such as NLM,UP,PP,PFP or NPP which are all of the Busia-Danquahist
tradition. As things stand now, Ghanaians can only pray and hope that as the years
go by, members of this tradition will shed of their intolerant nature and their
quick resort to violence and murder to capture political power.
