Professor Busia His Legacy - A Rejoinder

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Ambrose 12 years ago

THANK YOU AMOO.THAT IS THE KIND OF MISINFORMATION, DISTORTIONS & BLATANT LIES THAT THEY ARE FEEDING THEIR LISTENERS & READERS. ESPECIALLY, THEIR IGNORANT LISTENERS IN AMERICA, OF WHOM 90% ARE ILLITERATES MOSTLY SCHOOL DROP OU ...
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THANK YOU AMOO.THAT IS THE KIND OF MISINFORMATION, DISTORTIONS & BLATANT LIES THAT THEY ARE FEEDING THEIR LISTENERS & READERS. ESPECIALLY, THEIR IGNORANT LISTENERS IN AMERICA, OF WHOM 90% ARE ILLITERATES MOSTLY SCHOOL DROP OUTS & "AHENFIE" BOYS & GIRLS WHO HAPPEN TO BE IN THE DIASPORA BY JOINING THE RETINUE OF CHIEFS.
Sammy 12 years ago

You don't sound educated either and has no cyberspace etiquette or you would not have been shouting and angry about nothing. Don't tell me you are not shouting and angry because that is exactly what you are doing when you pos ...
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You don't sound educated either and has no cyberspace etiquette or you would not have been shouting and angry about nothing. Don't tell me you are not shouting and angry because that is exactly what you are doing when you post in UPPER CASE letters.
IILITERATE SARPONG 12 years ago

Dr. Busia had a higher qualification yet he hardly perform.Reducing rural urban migration has never been a legacy by Busia.

Busia used rural development to only develop his hometown.

Tell us what rural communities did ...
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Dr. Busia had a higher qualification yet he hardly perform.Reducing rural urban migration has never been a legacy by Busia.

Busia used rural development to only develop his hometown.

Tell us what rural communities did Busia develop apart from developing his village?

So why did Busia cancel Teacher training college allowance which was Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's idea to increase teachers in Ghana?

And finally, why did Busia use state apparatus to enrich himself and his cronies?

Stop Telling Lies Mr. Appau.
Original Gaby Bruk 12 years ago

EVIL BUSIA DESTROYED GHANA
Here are his achievements:

1. ACO: (which discriminated against fellow Africans, mostly Nigerians. He robbed them of their human rights, stole their properties and VIOLENTLY DEPORTED them to Nig ...
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EVIL BUSIA DESTROYED GHANA
Here are his achievements:

1. ACO: (which discriminated against fellow Africans, mostly Nigerians. He robbed them of their human rights, stole their properties and VIOLENTLY DEPORTED them to Nigeria).
2' He succeeded in creating "hatred and enmity" between Ghanaians and Nigerians.
3.He introduced politics of HATE into African politics where tribalism became the order of the day.
4.He introduced the acts of "BLACK ON BLACK DISCRIMINATION" in Ghana, (which has NEVER happen before in the history of black Africans since creation, where we inter-mingled together for generations after generations, and even inter-married without discriminations), where he labelled his fellow Africans "ALIENS" in mama Africa and SACKED them from Ghana. EVIL AND WICKED Busia, stole Nigerians properties and businesses and shared them amongst his people, and violently deported them back to Nigeria.
5. He gave African independent indirectly(neo-colonialism), socialism, ethnocentrism, ,
6. He allowed his ministers to robbed the nation, (not able to manage his ministers), lacked political leadership ability
7. He was arrogant and favoured "elitism and class system."

Ghana has been on 'DOWNWARD TREND' ever since that EVIL AND DEMENTED ASHANTI MAN CALLED ABBREFA KOFI BUSIA, shown HATRED AND WICKEDNESS against foreigners in Ghana. The bible says: "Ye cannot be in sin and expects the grace of God to abound." God forbid!
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Dr Busia and Mr Adu were not the only Gold Coasters appointed as DCs during the colonial era as claimed here. Major Seth Kobla Anthony, born at Adafienu, a small town b/n Denu and Keta, and the first black person to be commis ...
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Dr Busia and Mr Adu were not the only Gold Coasters appointed as DCs during the colonial era as claimed here. Major Seth Kobla Anthony, born at Adafienu, a small town b/n Denu and Keta, and the first black person to be commissioned into the British Army, was also appointed as Assistant DC in 1946, first serving in Kumasi and later Sunyani and Wenchi.

I do not buy your take on Dialogue with Apartheid S. Africa, as it wasn't dialogue that brought the racists to the talk peace. It was the increasing armed insurrection, after the failure to stop same in Namibia and the international embargo that
made them to see the writing on the wall. Besides, Busia was hobnobbing and trading with the racists!

Yes, Gbedema did a lot to make Nkrumah, a fact I referred to in my polemics, How Some "Ewes" Became A part of Ghana". There is more than most know about that relationship.

More I could say on your piece but I am late for work.

Andy-K
ANTI EWE TRIBALISM 12 years ago

a tribalistic goon from anlo (awona)

a tribalistic goon from anlo (awona)
Kameni 12 years ago

Yes, it was the armed struggle and the international sanctions that forced the apartheid regime to dialogue. The aim of the armed struggle was never to win an outright military victory but to force the hand of the apartheid r ...
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Yes, it was the armed struggle and the international sanctions that forced the apartheid regime to dialogue. The aim of the armed struggle was never to win an outright military victory but to force the hand of the apartheid regime. It is wrong to say that Busia was vindicated. If his dialogue policy had been followed, we would still be dialoguing with an apartheid regime today.

Busia's legacy and effect on Ghanaian politics is difficult to measure. He ruled for only 27 months which is too short for the full effects of his policies to be realised. He had a vision for Ghana but every leader who ruled us had a vision for Ghana so he was not alone on that. He did some good things during his short period but also made some terrible mistakes in that short period.

Tamakloe's piece contained a few factual errors but Tamakloe is not used to critical research (checking and collating facts) when he writes his articles. It seems he just writes what he can think of when he is at the computer.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Can you list the errors? It seems like you just write without checking your assertions.

Can you list the errors? It seems like you just write without checking your assertions.
KOLA,LONDON MAIN 12 years ago

You should be specific on what you want to say. It looks like you beating about the bush or more so shooting yourself in the foot when the whole world knows that Kuffuor is not only a thief but an aggressive one.

Do you no ...
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You should be specific on what you want to say. It looks like you beating about the bush or more so shooting yourself in the foot when the whole world knows that Kuffuor is not only a thief but an aggressive one.

Do you not know that Akronfuor only came milk us dry thus the increase in poverty rate and Ghana as Cocaine hub in the world. Not mention arm robbery. Had Akronfuor gone a step ahead of Rawlings' Govt on issues of Accountability, Probity and Integrity, Ghana would have somewhat come near achieving it's vision 2020.
KOLA PROGRESSING FORWARD 12 years ago

"Not mention arm robbery."

WHO IS ROBBING ARMS IN GHANA, BOROFO KANKAN KOLA? It's ARMED ROBBERY. ARMED means you have weapons like guns, clubs, Machetes etc. ARM means your hand. means

"Do you not know that Akronfuor ...
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"Not mention arm robbery."

WHO IS ROBBING ARMS IN GHANA, BOROFO KANKAN KOLA? It's ARMED ROBBERY. ARMED means you have weapons like guns, clubs, Machetes etc. ARM means your hand. means

"Do you not know that Akronfuor only came() milk us" w'abon paa.

" Ghana would have somewhat come near achieving [it's] vision 2020."

IT IS VISION? hahahahahahaha, IT'S means IT IS, different from ITS that you should have used.

IILITERATE SARPONG 12 years ago

Mr. Appau, you write a rejoinder to refute something that Mr. Tamakloe wrote without giving an evidence or facts.

Give us evidence or facts where Busia recommended dialogue and where Nkrumah too recommended military action ...
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Mr. Appau, you write a rejoinder to refute something that Mr. Tamakloe wrote without giving an evidence or facts.

Give us evidence or facts where Busia recommended dialogue and where Nkrumah too recommended military action or you better stop lying between your teeth.
Oman Ba 12 years ago

I was a child but remember Dr Busia said dialogue was better than military confrontation with apartheid South Africa. After that announcement a former President of Ivory Coast also advocated dialogue with South Africa and e ...
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I was a child but remember Dr Busia said dialogue was better than military confrontation with apartheid South Africa. After that announcement a former President of Ivory Coast also advocated dialogue with South Africa and even allowed South African Airways landing rights in Abidjan

Dr Busia started the rural development program, to be followed by the late President Acheampong's operation feed yourself which was also very successful. I remember the Dawhenya rice project which was abandoned during the revolution. Now Ghana imports rice and very soon we shall import plantain and yams

Dr Busia also started the sewage system in central Accra especially Bukom where we used to live. He was castigated and insulted because of the trenches that was dug by the contractors. It has never been completed and so there is still pan latrine system in central Accra.

He built the Kaneshi market but traders at Makola refused to move in

He brought many changes during his two and half years reign as Prime Minister

I am sure Kwaku will finish his research in time and perhaps publish it during the anniversary of Dr Busia just as it has been done for Dr Kwame Nkrumah and late Prof Mills

We ought to document the works of our leaders.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Dialogues started with Ivory coast. BUT it WAS ARMED conflict that brought down the racist regime. Sanctions and the war in Rhodesia, Mozambique, Angola, namibia . THe ciost of the wat was such both financially and in human ...
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Dialogues started with Ivory coast. BUT it WAS ARMED conflict that brought down the racist regime. Sanctions and the war in Rhodesia, Mozambique, Angola, namibia . THe ciost of the wat was such both financially and in human terms that the RACIST regime had to give in. Do you remember the Bisho masaacre and the Soweto Up rising. Would you call thnose dialogue. Please keep quiet as you know nothing about South Africa and Gbedemah . Gbedemah trustred Nkrumah and had he won would have brought Nkrumah back
Repugnant. 12 years ago

These humdrum pattern of communication is deceitful, inhumane and defies commonsense.

Your ilk may have been inoculated with the slavish acceptance of everything said to it, but majority of good unbiased Ghanaians still r ...
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These humdrum pattern of communication is deceitful, inhumane and defies commonsense.

Your ilk may have been inoculated with the slavish acceptance of everything said to it, but majority of good unbiased Ghanaians still remember the struggle for independence vividly and Nkrumah's delicious triumphs on their behalf.

Whether you like it or not Busia/Dankwa were a complete mismatch and disharmonious invalids.
j0eY L0nd0n 12 years ago

Asked the ANC..

Asked the ANC..
Houdini 12 years ago

Kojo Tamakloe is an illiterate who copies his anti UP tradition articles from CPP dubious papers or CPP Authors who embellish their writings with falsehood. Read Kojo T comments full of basic grammatical mistakes and his pla ...
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Kojo Tamakloe is an illiterate who copies his anti UP tradition articles from CPP dubious papers or CPP Authors who embellish their writings with falsehood. Read Kojo T comments full of basic grammatical mistakes and his plagiarized articles and you will understand why that Ewe bigot article was full of false information.

How could PP have won 104 of 105 seats when Gbedemah entered Parliament UNopposed together with E.R.T Madjitey, Dr. Agama and other Ewes who voted for the NAL Party of Gbedemah? That shows how illiterate Kojo T is when it comes to Economic and political history. How can any currency be davalued at 100% and still be used as medium of exchange? A 100% devaluation means the currency is not worth even he paper it is printed on.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Why do you not educate him.I read the article and there was a correction posted saying it was 102 to 28 . You the great literary genius did not see that.NPP never deals with fcats but insults. That is the level of their educa ...
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Why do you not educate him.I read the article and there was a correction posted saying it was 102 to 28 . You the great literary genius did not see that.NPP never deals with fcats but insults. That is the level of their education. I bet that man tamakloe could have done a better job running Ghana than Busia did
Kojo T 12 years ago

What is 2-1/1 x 100 ? Is that equal to 44% or 100%. I know maths is not a strong point of the NPP so plaese do not challenge " veranda boys" when it comes to maths

What is 2-1/1 x 100 ? Is that equal to 44% or 100%. I know maths is not a strong point of the NPP so plaese do not challenge " veranda boys" when it comes to maths
Sankofa 12 years ago

Kwaku Amoo-Appau, you say Ghana had the potential of becoming a prosperous country but became highly indebted under Nkrumah.

Where is your evidence? Even if this were so, you would realise that Nkrumah spent a lot to devel ...
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Kwaku Amoo-Appau, you say Ghana had the potential of becoming a prosperous country but became highly indebted under Nkrumah.

Where is your evidence? Even if this were so, you would realise that Nkrumah spent a lot to develop the country - investment in education setting up GET schools, primary secondary and tertiary institutions, training many more teachers and providing free primary and tertiary education. Also building Akosombo dam, Accra-Tema motorway, Tema Harbour and township, introducing television broadcasting, setting up VALCO, Black Star line, equipping army and Navy and airforce, VALCO State Gold mining corporation, setting up all those state farms and industries in Tema and all over the country, hospitals, roads and so many more.

Nkrumah invested in the country's future - where would we be without Akosombo dam, which Busia opposed and actively campaigned against funding for it from the World bank.

Busia and his UP minions opposed self-government now, and tried to destabilize the country through fostering violence and assassination attempts on Nkrumah, including the despicable act of killing a 6-year old girl at Kulungungu.

Apartheid was destroyed not through dialogue proposed by Busia, but through force and the harsh economic realities brought about by sanctions on the Apartheid regime. Nkrumah was right on every count, including African unity. Whether he wanted to be President of Africa is irrelevant - who would not aspire to become leader of the whole continent, as Kufuor became in his presidency? Nkrumah did his bit to help the liberation movement in Africa because he rightly posited that the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the the total liberation of the African continent. To suggest that Nkrumah 'wasted' our money on pursuing a personal ambition to become president of Africa is preposterous and ridiculous. Read his books and you will realise in no time that Nkrumah was absolutely right that Africa had to unite else it would continue to be dominated by foreign neo-colonialist interests.

Gbedemah stood side by side with Nkrumah, even after Nkrumah's overthrow. it is no use pretending that tey did not see eye to eye. Remember the National Alliance of Liberals which stood against PP?

Kwaku, stop the revisionism and find the truth.
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

GBEDEMAH IS A TRAITOR.HE WAS THE ONE WHO APPROACH THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN GHANA TO HELP HIM OVERTHROW NKRUMAH.
LET US NOT FORGET THAT WHEN GBEDEMAH WAS FINANCE MINISTER,MANY MONEY CAME MISSING.
GBEDEMAH RAN AWAY FROM GHA ...
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GBEDEMAH IS A TRAITOR.HE WAS THE ONE WHO APPROACH THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN GHANA TO HELP HIM OVERTHROW NKRUMAH.
LET US NOT FORGET THAT WHEN GBEDEMAH WAS FINANCE MINISTER,MANY MONEY CAME MISSING.
GBEDEMAH RAN AWAY FROM GHANA TO SEEK POLITICAL ASYLUM IN USA BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID TO GO TO PRISON.
THE ONLY THING GBEDEMAH GAVE TO HIS VILLAGE WAS BORE HOLE WATER.
GBEDEMAH IS DISHONEST THAT'S WHY DR AWOONOR WILLIAMS UNCLE WHO WAS HEAD MASTER OF KETA SECONDARY SCHOOL USED ARTICLE 71 AGAINST HIM.
GBEDEMAH DID NOT SEE EYE TO EYE WITH NKRUMAH.

MUGU YARO 12 years ago

Sankofa:
Your writing indicates that you are a very young person and did not live through Nkrumah's rule. Yes, many projects were executed during Nkrumah's rule. But several questions need to be answered. First, how were the ...
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Sankofa:
Your writing indicates that you are a very young person and did not live through Nkrumah's rule. Yes, many projects were executed during Nkrumah's rule. But several questions need to be answered. First, how were the projects financed? What was the state of the economy when Nkrumah became Ghana's leader? What was the state of the economy when he was overthrown? To begin with, When Ghana had its independence in 1957, the country had 250 million pounds sterling in its accounts with Bank of England. In real terms, this money will be worth more than the $3 billion President Mahama is seeking from China. It was with this money that Nkrumah started some of the projects you listed. In addition to that Ghana had only about 6 million simple but united people. Furthermore, Ghana at that time was producing more than half of the total world cocoa production. That has not increased since then. In deed for many years, production has gone down. On the other hand population has more than quadrupled! It may interest you to know that the GET schools were built with accumulated funds from the CMB. Many of the projects you listed were all built with foreign loans. For example, the motorway was built by a German firm - the loan was from Germany. Akosombo could only be built when Kaiser Engineers (original owners of Valco) asked Uncle Sam to grant Ghana that money. Uncle Sam did not ask American companies to do the job so Impregilo, an Italian company did the job. We can go on and on ...but the bottom line is that after the 9-year Nkrumah rule, Ghana was DAMNED BROKE! No leader since then has been able to do what Nkrumah did in terms of numbers ... but as you have seen from this brief summary, none of the leaders was as blessed as Nkrumah. Busia ruled for only 27 months. He virtually had nothing to start with. Rawlings had nearly 20 years but by then Ghana had changed. A serious structural imbalance had developed in the economy. If what the current government is doing is a harbinger of the things to come, then the nation is in serious trouble. You can now begin to understand why some people want the white man to come back.
Okoe 12 years ago

Yes, you mentioned what was left after independence but you forgot to iterate the projects enumerated by the author. Can you enumerate the same amount of projects by Dr. Nkrumah in 9 years. Kufour got 8 years and mention his ...
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Yes, you mentioned what was left after independence but you forgot to iterate the projects enumerated by the author. Can you enumerate the same amount of projects by Dr. Nkrumah in 9 years. Kufour got 8 years and mention his projects in office and compare and you must realize the difference. No comparison
Period.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

You have presented a great insight in the CPP era and what Nkrumah did with Ghana's resources. I just want to touch on the much talked about money supposedly left buy the British for Nkrumah on the even of indep.

The fact ...
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You have presented a great insight in the CPP era and what Nkrumah did with Ghana's resources. I just want to touch on the much talked about money supposedly left buy the British for Nkrumah on the even of indep.

The fact that this money was largely accumulated by the CPP regime is never mentioned. Fact is when the CPP assumed office and the W. African Produce Marketing Board was dissolved in 1953 leading to the formation of the CMB, got only £19m as its share, actually the lion's share, far bigger than what Nigeria got! It was this money the British wanted Nkrumah to give to Britain as a contribution to THEIR war recovery efforts and he refused! With the onset of the Korean War and the big boost in commodity prices, including cocoa, there was a windfall for Ghana b/n 1952-54. Nkrumah accepted the St Lucien Nobel laureate Arthur Lewis'infamous advice not to touch this windfall to finance devt projects started by the CPP regime but save it with the UK's central bank as "anchor of safety" and borrow money at a slightly higher interest rate to do so. He also fatally advised that the CPP regime shouldn't pay cocoa farmers much higher prices out of this windfall in order to prevent inflation at a time when there was much discontent about the cutting of swollen shoot diseased cocoa trees, which the CPP exploited to win the support of farmers during the 1952 elections. The direct result was the rise of the NLM, which was initially a cocoa farmers grievance movt. Anyway, the CPP persevered and accumulated those funds but at great cost to the destability and unity of the newly emerging nation. Practically all the major leaders of the NLM were CPP leaders who decamped to support their people. Ghana would have attained indep. in 1955, at least, were it not due to the accumulation of that reserve.

Andy-K
Kojo T 12 years ago

Those of us who campaigned for Gbedemah were Nkrumaists and we know the truth. Gbedemah was an Nkrumaist

Those of us who campaigned for Gbedemah were Nkrumaists and we know the truth. Gbedemah was an Nkrumaist
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

This priest was driving to his church when he saw two people bending over in the grass. He decided to see why. He walked over to them and asked what they were doing. The man said they were homeless and grass was the only thin ...
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This priest was driving to his church when he saw two people bending over in the grass. He decided to see why. He walked over to them and asked what they were doing. The man said they were homeless and grass was the only thing they could eat. The priest said, ''You can eat over at the church.'' The woman said, ''We have nine children -- will there be enough?'' ''Oh yes, '' the priest replied, ''the grass is 2 1/2 inches taller over there.''

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG TO BE HOMELESS.
MANY GREAT MEN HAVE BEEN HOMELESS.
THERE ARE MANY MILLIONAIRES AND GREAT MEN WHO HAVE BEEN HOMELESS BEFORE.
Kofi Basaba 12 years ago

What legacy did Busia leave for Ghana?
Where could have his divisive politics based on tribalism led us to as a nation? Was it not an irony for the "champion of African Democracy" to have made a mockery of court ruling? Have ...
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What legacy did Busia leave for Ghana?
Where could have his divisive politics based on tribalism led us to as a nation? Was it not an irony for the "champion of African Democracy" to have made a mockery of court ruling? Have you forgotten the ill-fate of the 365 that suffered under his axe? Do you ever think of how many Ghanaians lost their lives when Nigeria agitated in retaliation to Busia's inhumane Aliens Compliance
Order? These are the only two legacies Busia bequeathed to Ghana.
If you wish to know the true color of Busia and Danquah, I refer you to an article entitled "Busia-Danquah Dishonourable History." This article by Van Fifi featured on 14/12/2012 on ghanaweb. If you were to read this article,perhaps it would be of tremendous help to you in your research.
On the question of Gbedemah, Nkrumah was not ungrateful to him! He expressed his gratefulness to him by appointing him his Finance Minister although he was unqualified.
Unarguably, Busia and Danquah were eminent scholars of their time; however, they lacked the qualities of Leadership and Emotional Intelligence! Busia was just singing the tone of his master and mentor-the late Houphouet Boigny of the Ivory oast.
I'm in disagreement with Nkrumah's approach to use military intervention to end the evil apartheid system in South Africa on the one hand. On the other hand if it's your assertion that Northern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) became free and the apartheid system was dismantled through dialogue, I suggest you refresh your memory! Avoid being likened to the proverbial "Kwaku Ananse" in anticipation of the publication of your research!
amusah 12 years ago

Ghanaians were very unfortunate to have had the late dr busia,jb danquah,jake obetsebi lamptey,ic Quaye, Edward akuffo and co as Ghanaians. But for these wicked people, Ghana would have been one of the first class and well de ...
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Ghanaians were very unfortunate to have had the late dr busia,jb danquah,jake obetsebi lamptey,ic Quaye, Edward akuffo and co as Ghanaians. But for these wicked people, Ghana would have been one of the first class and well developed countries in the whole wide world. They gave our late first president dr Kwame Nkrumah the hell of his life,ousted him in 1966 and destroyed all that he tried to do for the country. This writer is just trying to throw dust into the eyes of the youth but he lie bad. Most of the elderly know the evil things this so called busia and his team of evil men did to mother Ghana. Their children are doing the same thing today. Look at the way they have made Ghana to stand still because they are not in control of affairs. Investors are afraid to invest in the country because of them. Our markets are being burnt every night. Why only nights if these are not humanly carried out?
CONCERN CITIZEN 12 years ago

Please if you don't know something learn from the comments above!!Do you know who Dr Nkrumah was? Just go and read "The autobiography of the First Female Prime minister of Israel- Golder Maer" who spent some time in Ghana wit ...
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Please if you don't know something learn from the comments above!!Do you know who Dr Nkrumah was? Just go and read "The autobiography of the First Female Prime minister of Israel- Golder Maer" who spent some time in Ghana with Dr Nkrumah. Nkrumah wasted Ghana's money for his own selfish ambition!! It is very sad when people talk about the achievement's of Nkrumah, He has made Ghana a HIPIC country today!. If you want to contribute to articles of this nature kindly read more for facts!
Sankofa 12 years ago

How did Nkrumah waste Ghana's money for which selfish ambition?

If our leaders after Nkrumah had managed his legacy well and built on it instead of abandoning and attempting to dismantle everything he started, Ghana would ...
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How did Nkrumah waste Ghana's money for which selfish ambition?

If our leaders after Nkrumah had managed his legacy well and built on it instead of abandoning and attempting to dismantle everything he started, Ghana would have been way ahead of where it is now.

For instance, Nkrumah started the Tarkwa Gold refinery so that we would refine our own gold, add value to it and earn much more. This was stupidly abandoned after the coup. it is only now that a private individual has started a small-scale refinery to refine a small amount of the gold we produce.

Nkrumah built silos to store cocoa and control supply and thus the price of cocoa. This was abandoned after the coup and ridiculed by his detractors. Years later, lo and behold, Kufuor opened a silo for storing cocoa at the same Tema harbour not far from where Nkrumah's silos stood. So why were the original silos abandoned?

Nkrumah started the Bui dam to complement Akosombo. This project was also abandoned after the coup. After several attempts by various regimes to restart the project, Kufuor finally succeeded in getting a very scaled-down version started. It is nearing completion.

All told, Kwame Nkrumah's legacy speaks for itself. Nkrumah had a vision of where he wanted Ghana and Africa to be. He sensibly articulated this vision in his written works. Ghana and the whole continent of Africa will advance by implementing his vision.
Ekuma 12 years ago

Kwaku 3mor Apio , u have said nothing but complete NONSENSE. U don't remember the percentage Busia devalued the cedi indeed. Foolish man.

Don't u know a currency can be devalued by even 1000 percent ? And u have the guts ...
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Kwaku 3mor Apio , u have said nothing but complete NONSENSE. U don't remember the percentage Busia devalued the cedi indeed. Foolish man.

Don't u know a currency can be devalued by even 1000 percent ? And u have the guts to write plenty sycophant NONSENSE. If u don't have any thing doing, take some DEWORMER and free ur worm infested stinking stomach and u will be relieved of the hot air coming from ur nose, mouth and head. Fool

Asorbonkyi 12 years ago

Thank you Ekuma for the correction. I will fail Amoo Apau if he was my student.

Thank you Ekuma for the correction. I will fail Amoo Apau if he was my student.
concerned ghanaian 12 years ago

Your corrections are rather full of half truths. What Mr Tamakloe wrote is nearerthe truth surrounding this Busia man than your attempt at confusing Ghanaians.

Did Busia lead adelegation to the UK to askthe British Governm ...
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Your corrections are rather full of half truths. What Mr Tamakloe wrote is nearerthe truth surrounding this Busia man than your attempt at confusing Ghanaians.

Did Busia lead adelegation to the UK to askthe British Government not to grant us independence?

Did Busia ask the US government in 1957 for $25000 to help himfight communism in Ghana?

If he did even just these two unpatriotic acts, then I believe that Busia's legacy to Ghana was nothing to write home about.
Sankofa 12 years ago

Busia did worse.

Nkrumah set up teacher training colleges to train teachers for first cycle schools, and University of Cape Coast for second cycle. The vision was for Cape Coast to be the centre for education in the count ...
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Busia did worse.

Nkrumah set up teacher training colleges to train teachers for first cycle schools, and University of Cape Coast for second cycle. The vision was for Cape Coast to be the centre for education in the country, training teachers and conducting research into education to raise standards all round. Ultimately, Nkrumah had intended children to be taught by graduate teachers from kindergarten right through to university.

Busia deemed it fit to convert some of the 37 teacher training colleges in the country into secondary schools on the pretext that we were producing too many teachers! It defies belief how a former lecturer at Oxford University decided that it was better to train students rather than professional teachers. Busia's ill-thought actions in the early 1970's have directly resulted in the present shortage of trained teachers in our basic and JSS schools.

When the lease of Anglogold expired during his regime, Busia bowed to his neocolonial mentors and renewed the concession on terms patently unfavourable to Ghana. No attempt was made to mine our own gold for the benefit of all our people.
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KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 12 years ago

Appau, you are not serious.Is it dialogue which terminated apartheid in South Africa?What role did the ANC play in the fight to end apartheid rule in South Africa?If you do not know the political history of South Africa do no ...
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Appau, you are not serious.Is it dialogue which terminated apartheid in South Africa?What role did the ANC play in the fight to end apartheid rule in South Africa?If you do not know the political history of South Africa do not attempt to tell us lies.It was the combination of sanctions and ANC's guerrilla war which toppled the apartheid regime in South Africa.
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 12 years ago

Appau why was Busia called 'professor okafodidi'?Busia's leadership was the most hopeless and useless the country has ever experienced.Busia never put any meaningful economy policy in place to develop the nation.All that he d ...
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Appau why was Busia called 'professor okafodidi'?Busia's leadership was the most hopeless and useless the country has ever experienced.Busia never put any meaningful economy policy in place to develop the nation.All that he did was always going to his colonial masters begging for loans.When he was confronted in parliament about it he retorted'okafodidi'[the debtor must eat].And he did nothing with all the loans which rather ballooned the nation's debt.I hope Appau and others will leave Ghana's Osama Bin Laden[Busia] to rest in peace
Osuo_Abrobuor 12 years ago

Committed to to the cause of 'Jihad'!
He was not a 'wishy-washy' like Dr. Kofi Aberfa Busia and many of his 'disciples'. I remember my Dad,a dye-in-woll "Matemeho" person, confessing to me that, the leadership of their movem ...
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Committed to to the cause of 'Jihad'!
He was not a 'wishy-washy' like Dr. Kofi Aberfa Busia and many of his 'disciples'. I remember my Dad,a dye-in-woll "Matemeho" person, confessing to me that, the leadership of their movement/party had grossly misled them. His exact words were: "Ah, Busia ne Joe Appiah nom abebuu y3n kwasia"! He passed on only a couple of years after this encounter with him.
For anyone who understands international politics,this fairy tale about "dialogue" winning the day for our bretheren in SA is just that;a very fanciful argument not supported by facts!
And let me add that in much the same way the Palestinians will not achieve a whole lot through the so-called 'shuttle-diplomacy',but through the intensification of the 'Intafada'!
Kobena 12 years ago

“On 10 December 1947, Kwame Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) accepting Danquah's invitation to become the UGCC General Secretary. Big Six member Ebenezer Ako-Adjei recommended inviting Nkrumah, whom he ...
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“On 10 December 1947, Kwame Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) accepting Danquah's invitation to become the UGCC General Secretary. Big Six member Ebenezer Ako-Adjei recommended inviting Nkrumah, whom he had met at Lincoln University. Nkrumah was offered a salary of £250, and Paa Grant paid the boat fare from Liverpool to Ghana.”
Paa Grant actually accommodated and fed Kwame Nkrumah until he decided to undermine the part of which he was General Secretary, as he drew the younger members (later referred to as Verandah Boys), to form his CPP. It was during those “hard times” that Gbedemah accommodated Kwame Nkrumah in his house. It was Gbedemah who campaigned for Kwame Nkrumah while he was in prison, to win his seat in the 1951 election. It was his beneficiaries Ako-Adjei and Gbedemah that he turned on as soon as he had the power to do so.
That is why Gbedemah called him ungrateful!
BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

Dialogue nonsense... Dialogue as in Patrick Lumumba?

Dialogue nonsense... Dialogue as in Patrick Lumumba?
Asem Nokware 12 years ago

IT WAS NEVER DIALOGUE WITH THE DEVIL THAT WON THE DAY: THAT IS AN UNTRUTH,IT WAS ARMED WARFARE AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE. THE SPEAR OF THE NATION AND UPRISINGS BY THE ANC AFTER VARIOUS MASSACRES BY THE APARTHEID REGIME "FORCED" D ...
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IT WAS NEVER DIALOGUE WITH THE DEVIL THAT WON THE DAY: THAT IS AN UNTRUTH,IT WAS ARMED WARFARE AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE. THE SPEAR OF THE NATION AND UPRISINGS BY THE ANC AFTER VARIOUS MASSACRES BY THE APARTHEID REGIME "FORCED" DU KLERK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE FOR DIALOGUE, BUT NOTE IT WAS PRECEDED BY VIOLENCE - INDEED THE BIBLE SAYS THE VILENT SHALL TAKE IT BY FORCE. THOSE WHO WERE BLINKERS AND ATTEMPT TO REVISE HISTORY WILL EXRTOL THE TREACHEROUS POLICY OF DIALOGUE WITH THE DEVIL. WAS IT NOT THE HYPOCRITICAL SANCTIONS OF THE WEST, SPORTING ISOLATIONISM AND THE SPORADIC OUTBURSTS OF VIOLENCE WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA WHICH TOOK THE SCALES FROM THE EYES OF THE RACIST REGIME. COME AGAIN YOU APOLOGISTS OF DIALOGUE WHICH WAS A BETRAYAL OF SOUTH AFRICA...AMANDLA
Ebo Mends, New York 12 years ago

Both Kwabena Ohemeng and Asem Nokware have beaten me to the punch. Dialogue won the fight in Apartheid South Africa? Really? What a bold face lie. Your partisanship and the need to defend your hero, historical facts be damn ...
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Both Kwabena Ohemeng and Asem Nokware have beaten me to the punch. Dialogue won the fight in Apartheid South Africa? Really? What a bold face lie. Your partisanship and the need to defend your hero, historical facts be damned, blinded you completely from any objective assessment of the political history of the apartheid era. Nelson Mandela did not support armed struggle? Do you remember the armed wing of the ANC and its activities? What about the overstretched SA army dealing with SWAPO, and the other struggle between UNITA and the MPLA in Angola? Do you remember the Cuban troops in Angola and the role they played in forcing the SA apartheid authorities to see the unsustainable path of using force as their main weapon to maintain themselves in power? Please take your revisionist history somewhere else, definitely not here, because you will not be allowed. Some on this forum know better.
BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

Ebo please, leave that man alone. I am partly Brong and wish some of these people leave Busia to take his accolade without hassle. He was human and he made mistakes. There is no need to explain them and trying only bring out ...
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Ebo please, leave that man alone. I am partly Brong and wish some of these people leave Busia to take his accolade without hassle. He was human and he made mistakes. There is no need to explain them and trying only bring out more anger and in turn demean a great son of the Brong Ahafo, remember. Please ignore him.
Kofi Gbangbade 12 years ago

Amoo-Appau, you've written so much but really nothing unhead of. If you use Gbedemah's views and opposition to Dr Kwame Nkrumah, them I see no reason why Dr Nkrumah's opposite views to Dr Busia's especially, the dialogue for ...
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Amoo-Appau, you've written so much but really nothing unhead of. If you use Gbedemah's views and opposition to Dr Kwame Nkrumah, them I see no reason why Dr Nkrumah's opposite views to Dr Busia's especially, the dialogue for South Africa should be a bad argument. You have also misconstrued and expressed misconception about the principle of a formula for South Africa Independence. Let me ask you Amoo-Amppau. Which of the items in the equation for South Africa Independence solve the equation for independence?. You'll agree with me that it was the chicken and egg situation. I would like to emphasise that it was both the military challenges which prompted the De Clark and the Europeans particularly, the British to embark on a dialogue. What you also failed to stress in your lengthy piece is that South Africa was not even prepared for any form of negotiation. So legislation became part of the equation because they realise that thing would eventually come to the authorities relinquishing their illegitimate hold on South Africa. Ian Smith and De Clark and the British had no choice but to agree on a diplomatic effort whilst the military actions continued. Secondly, I don't understand what Gbedemah's benevolence has got to do with the political advancement of Ghana. I don't think that Dr Nkrumah was denying this and therefore that should generate conflict of political interest!!. Dr Kwame Nkrumah cannot continue saying 'thank you' to Gbedemah for the rest of his life. After all, there are others whose benevolence enhance the life of Gbedemah, and you and I. It is only in Africa that we always seem to ascribe and claim the progress and achievements of others to ourselves. We always want to rip it big even when we have made very little input. So what about our parents, our teachers, especially at our primary school ages. Our aunties and uncles, the next door neighbours in our societies in Africa? How many of us go back to acknowledge our gratitude and thanks instead of posing big and thinking we know more than them in the villages and the communities, including yourself?. Errors and misconceptions are views of the individual. These are subjective and in accordance with the reader's knowledge, experience and understanding of the subject matter. Even experts always disagree and seek second opinion. We all see things differently but we all agreed to facts, validity and reliability of expressed knowledge or information.
CONCERN CITIZEN 12 years ago

His piece is not about Nkrumah being ungrateful to Gbe' but he Nkrumah was not a trustworthy person that is what he is trying to explain. Nkrumah lead Ghana to its doom day today out of his Selfish Ambition to become the Firs ...
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His piece is not about Nkrumah being ungrateful to Gbe' but he Nkrumah was not a trustworthy person that is what he is trying to explain. Nkrumah lead Ghana to its doom day today out of his Selfish Ambition to become the First African President: source - Autobiography of first female prime minister of Israel Golda Mare who spent some time in Ghana with Nkrumah - Read her Book.
BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

How could you trust the word of a zionist about Nkrumah. She never spend any time in Ghana. She was the foreign minister of Isreal during Nkrumah's era so when and how long did she spend in Ghana. Why have some of you allowed ...
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How could you trust the word of a zionist about Nkrumah. She never spend any time in Ghana. She was the foreign minister of Isreal during Nkrumah's era so when and how long did she spend in Ghana. Why have some of you allowed yourselves to be polluted or are you an agent trying to pollute my people. It has not worked for years and it will not work any day.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

At least he is one Busia/NPP supporter who won't be disturbing our peace with taunts of how Nkrumah gave we Ewes the chance to be part of Ghana! He knows about how an Ewe gave Nkrumah the chance to get a roof over his head, l ...
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At least he is one Busia/NPP supporter who won't be disturbing our peace with taunts of how Nkrumah gave we Ewes the chance to be part of Ghana! He knows about how an Ewe gave Nkrumah the chance to get a roof over his head, lead the CPP, become Leader of Govt Business and eventually President of Ghana.

Gbedema, by every yardstick, was a thriving capitalist - a timber magnate, a sweet factory, etc. - with about 47 employers, when he entered politics. His path and that of Nkrumah met but they were heading to diff. directions and bound to split eventually.

Andy-K
BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

Ghebemah was of the CPP tradition not Busia/NPP or simply UP.

Ghebemah was of the CPP tradition not Busia/NPP or simply UP.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Which facts to check? You didn't understand what I wrote. Of course, Gbedema was the 2nd in command of the CPP and literally organised and won the 1st elections when Nkrumah was in prison.

Andy-K

Which facts to check? You didn't understand what I wrote. Of course, Gbedema was the 2nd in command of the CPP and literally organised and won the 1st elections when Nkrumah was in prison.

Andy-K
BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

I have got your message and apologized for misreading, but you must realize Nkrumah was neither communist nor capitalist. He clearly said he was looking forward and not the east or west. In fact, he was an African first and i ...
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I have got your message and apologized for misreading, but you must realize Nkrumah was neither communist nor capitalist. He clearly said he was looking forward and not the east or west. In fact, he was an African first and it was the politics of the time that made him lean more to the East. Gbedema's love for the west was not his problem, it was his corruption and that is what broke the relationship. Hey! he did not spare Krebo Adusua either.
Akwasi ( London) 12 years ago

This guy is trying to rewrite history.
Dr Busia was a diehard political conservative,an anglophile and was politically used by his conservative friends in the US and UK.
This guy claims to be doing a research into Nkrumah' ...
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This guy is trying to rewrite history.
Dr Busia was a diehard political conservative,an anglophile and was politically used by his conservative friends in the US and UK.
This guy claims to be doing a research into Nkrumah's Ghana and has uncovered 'new' evidence which purports to question Nkrumah's opposition to Apartheid
South Africa and illegal minority Smith regime in then Rhodesia.
History has since proved that kwame Nkrumah was right. When he was overthrown evidence since discovered shows that the illegal and illegitimate regimes held parties in Cape Town and Salisbury.
Can the writer also deny that when Nkrumah was looking for partners and loan to undertake the Volta Hydroelectric dam, his 'god' Busia lobbied his republican and right wing democrats in US Congress to oppose Nkrumah's efforts. Fortunately for Ghana Busia failed to persuade enough congressmen to block the loan Ghana required. Think where Ghana would be now in prof Busia had been successful. To give Busia some credit his opposition to Nkrumah was ideological.He was politically conservative, had fundamental ideological differences with Nkrumah about how Ghana's future and how it should be governed and not whimsical subjective issues like trust.
Kwame 12 years ago

I am a student of the African revolution and now can say that I am a graduate of the African revolution. A student of Comrade Alfred Nzo, S.S. Baffour-Awuah, Kofi Ameko, Nyan Asante, Kojo Botwoe, Kwesi Amaah, Dr. Akuffo and o ...
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I am a student of the African revolution and now can say that I am a graduate of the African revolution. A student of Comrade Alfred Nzo, S.S. Baffour-Awuah, Kofi Ameko, Nyan Asante, Kojo Botwoe, Kwesi Amaah, Dr. Akuffo and others.
It is an insult to Africa and Africans their Chinese, Soviet and friends in the former socialist countries when people like you Kweku Amoo-Appau try ignorantly and unwittingly to rewrite the history of African armed struggle and try to make in seem that it had not achieved anything, just as you people prefer tranquility under colonialism to independence with all the dangers it entail.
The first battles of the African armed liberation was in Algeria against the French colonial occupiers and their local Islamic fundamentalist who supported French colonialism as Dr. Kofi Abrafa Busia supported British colonialism in Africa. It is on record that Busia went to Britain to tell the British Prime Minister and the Queen of not to grant us independence, because according to him the British socioeconomic experiment with us was not over. Thus Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia saw Africans, Ghanaians and himself a things that should be experimented with. In accordance with that Busia never, though he is referred by his followers as a democrat never raise his voice against colonial occupation, racial segregation in Britain, Canada where you now reside, U.S. and apartheid in Southern Africa.
Mr. Kweku Amoo Apau it is on record that the children in Sarpville in 1963 were not carrying arms, thus was the case of SOWETO later, and Dr. Martin Luther Kind Jnr. never carried arms against the U.S. apartheid system, which unfortunately reigns.
Now to the armed liberation struggle and its success in Africa.
If armed struggle is not a thing to call for to overthrow an oppressive and occupation regime then why did NATO of which Canada armed and even went to the extend of creating noflying zones to support the armed opposition to General Saddam Hussein in Iraq in the middle of the 20th century. Dialogue is the way to liberation as you seem to be ignorantly saying or teasing us and Canada and NATO will bombed Yugoslavia into submission and still occupy that country, Balkanized into various states. The Iraqi occupation of Kuwait also came to the fore. Then NATO's bombing of Libya and giving it on sliver platter to the Al Qaeda forces that it said it is fighting in Asia and let not forget, let us not have memories of wasps, the French intervention in Mali. We did not forget the Tara Bora which was created by the late President Regan of the U.S. together with NATO and when the chickens from the eggs of Tara Bora came to roost NATO did not go to dialogue with them. Just this morning scores of people were killed in terrorist acts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria by terrorist who are trained and armed by the U.S. The first battles of African liberation were fought in Algeria which saw the French army routed by Algerians, African and Cuban comrades. The end of the war saw the migration of extremist Islamic elements who supported France into that country. That struggle by the Algerian and International liberation forces was illustrated in the novels of the Algerian writer Ali Baxtar.
It is on record the armed struggle initiated by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, which was coordinated by Comrade Kofi Ameko against Portuguese and Spanish fascist colonial regimes in Africa which were supported by NATO, Israel and Apartheid South African forces led to the armed liberation of both Portuguese and Spanish colonies in Africa in 1975 when the defeated Spanish and Portuguese generals went home to overthrow the fascist regimes in their countries. That also led to the overthrow of the fascist regimes in Greece and Italy.
It is also on record that when the British saw that Comrade Robert Mugabe and Josuah Nkomu were about to capture Susberey now Harare they hurriedly organized the Lancaster Conference, which terms the British government under Margaret Tarcher renegade upon.
After the liberation war in Zimbabwe the liberation war by both the African National Union (ANC)and the Pan-African National Congress (PANC) leg to the forces of apartheid ready to negotiate with the armed liberation fighters and that was not without terrorist acts which led to the death of Comrade Samora Michael, Chriss Hany and Joe Slovo Slovo. Thus the untruth by elements in the west and the NPP that armed struggle in Africa did not lead to the liberation of most part of the continent is a fallacy.
Kwame happen eat from the same plate and sleep on the same bed with some of the liberation fighters and can tell it how it is.
It seems that when a liberation or armed struggle is at this moment on the table of NATO concerning Syria, then how can their dolls try to rewrite history of the African Revolution of which Kwame was a student, and now a graduate.

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