Reflections On Dr. J.B.Danquah’s Speech

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Odikro 12 years ago

fair, simple analysis of JB Danquah

fair, simple analysis of JB Danquah
Kawaanopaado 12 years ago

Bicameralism is now needed to check our Executive monarchs. We need a complete overhaul of our decadent 1992 Constitution which was borne out of revolutionary fervour.

Bicameralism is now needed to check our Executive monarchs. We need a complete overhaul of our decadent 1992 Constitution which was borne out of revolutionary fervour.
Kwame 12 years ago

It is so interesting that the New Patriotic Party (NPP)still lives in the past.Universal adult suffrage presupposes that people have the right to elect and be elected to parliament. A chief is not installed through the proces ...
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It is so interesting that the New Patriotic Party (NPP)still lives in the past.Universal adult suffrage presupposes that people have the right to elect and be elected to parliament. A chief is not installed through the process of universal adult suffrage, thus it can not be said that chieftancy is a democratic institution.
There is absurdity in rightist political thought and most of the time stupidity, in that a person who does not want an elected person to entrench his position in the executive says that he supports monarchy. A person who does not want Maumur Ghadaffi to be a monarch in his country supports the British monarchy, with all the history of its oppression of both at home and abroad.
The German Chancellor is going to have a five years three term of office, and the world would have come down if such a thing is to happen in Africa or elsewhere. The electorate is the check on the executive, legislature and the judiciary, and that is done through various mediums. J.B. Danquah a CIA agent is no democrat because this is a person who worked for the CIA at a time when he a Negro is by the U.S. constitution an animal less than the white man's dog. NPP does not get it and must stop making ugly noises.
NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

Why all this effort to make this opportunist something he is not?

As the saying goes........"Truth is only once". And I guess lies and distortion of historical facts never ceases.......

This opportunist in question, and ...
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Why all this effort to make this opportunist something he is not?

As the saying goes........"Truth is only once". And I guess lies and distortion of historical facts never ceases.......

This opportunist in question, and his cronies claimed to have been fighting for the independence of Ghana.......at the time of the British rule.

Why then did they go back to the Queen to put a hold on it, at the brink of getting our independence?

Did the bunch of educated illiterates (who were merely indoctrinated with someone else's knowledge), really have the conviction to gain our independence for us?

Why did they orchestrate terrorism on independent GHANA, if they really cared for the nation, so much?

Or they just couldn't stand the fact that the astute politician, visionary and leader they asked to come over to help them..........eventually saw through their deceitful and corny ways and he (Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah) -took the bull by the horn to gain independence for us????

All this chieftancy talk and the 'big', 'big' lingo is irrelevant to what GHANA achieved under Osagyefo.

This opportunist had some roll to play in asking Nkrumah to deliver us but, did nothing else to write home about.......so please let sleeping dogs lie and appreciate what Osgyefo achieved for GHANA!

NKRUMAH NEVER DIES!!!!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Grant Assey, Nsawam 12 years ago

Hmm? Is J. B. Danquah God?
Why do you always try to undermine Kufuor and his achievement.
Remember, J? B. never won an election! Kufuor won several elections: to Parliament and to the Presidency. He held on to power for ...
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Hmm? Is J. B. Danquah God?
Why do you always try to undermine Kufuor and his achievement.
Remember, J? B. never won an election! Kufuor won several elections: to Parliament and to the Presidency. He held on to power for the mandatory two terms, and in the main it iis the achievements of Kufuor that the UP tradition can hold on to and therefore campaign with!!!
In this where stands the Demi- God of a J. B. Danquah? Please, enough is enough. We are fed up with this Kyebi hero worshipping!
Symbiosis 12 years ago

Grant Assey dont be too worried. The more your Akyem colleagues bring up the name of Danquah and his imaginary achievements, the more he is torn apart by discerning members of the public. They are only creating opportunities ...
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Grant Assey dont be too worried. The more your Akyem colleagues bring up the name of Danquah and his imaginary achievements, the more he is torn apart by discerning members of the public. They are only creating opportunities for the public to know the dismal truth about the Danquah chap and to firmly put him in his ignominious place in history.
Symbiosis 12 years ago

Thank you Non-Aligned.

Apart from the fact that Chiefs by their feudalistic non-elective positions in society have no moral right to make any pretensions to any democratic credentials, such a mechanism would only go to in ...
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Thank you Non-Aligned.

Apart from the fact that Chiefs by their feudalistic non-elective positions in society have no moral right to make any pretensions to any democratic credentials, such a mechanism would only go to institute another bulky, unwieldy and an unnecessary monumental expenditure on govt and the people of Ghana.

I am however glad that by inference, we have finally realized that the western democratic system - that glamorized master-and-slave system that we still practice, is definitely not suitable for us. What I however dont understand is why we then proceed to bend backwards to innovate other weird and funny mechanisms only as a desperate measure to make that decadent system seem respectable and workable? Why? Why are we trying so hard to swim against the tide?

Even the criminal colonialists when they were here, tried a similar effort to work with the Chiefs in government and in the end they gave up because of the petty and narrow ethnic considerations of the Chiefs as well as their penchant to cheat, steal and undermine.

Lets face it, the western democratic system is too divisive and antagonistic for any developing country or society to adopt as a tool for meaningful development. It just simply wont work. Aptly said, a house divided against itself shall not stand. We dont need a divided house at this time of our developmental aspirations. What we need is an all hands on deck attitude and political system that will ensure that no ones rights or aspirations are curtailed by an opposing political group in govt or even in opposition at any time.

Any developing nation that wants to surge ahead will have to adopt the ways of the so-called Asian Tigers which are just a group of satellite imperialist concerns like Israel. Going by the presumed intentions of western democracy, the glitzy superficial economies of the Asian Tigers are artificially created by western capital. They are only really propped up as a bulwark to stem and dilute inherent nationalist and socialist inclinations of their people.

Worse-still, the western democratic system ensures that all countries who practice it are continually tethered to the apron strings of its unsavoury origins and capital.

Even worse-still is the fact that the practice of western democracy gives advantage to global imperialism to creep in through the back-door by the application of its huge resources to gang up with and to align with one or the other political Party or an institution or even an NGO to destabilize and subvert the state when its criminal imperialist interests are threatened.

No need to go far to explain this. What is happening before our own very eyes in Egypt where the Egyptian army which is all but a pseudonym for the American Military Regimental Detachment in Egypt, enjoys mouth-watering funding from the American govt. They have, in collaboration and mutual consent, currently taken over the democratically elected Egyptian govt in one of the most brazen acts of imperialism in recent times.

As for Chiefs in Ghana, they should be restricted to their current traditional activities. Only a person like JB Danquah would make such a proposal. Danquah obviously made this proposal so as to gain the confidence and the support of the Chiefs and to thereby shore up and win some electoral advantage to his diminutive political stature. At the time, Kwame Nkrumah had made it known to some cantankerous and deviant Chiefs that he would deal with them in such a way that “they would run away and leave their sandals behind”.

One just needs to look at the sector of lands in the country. Chiefs are in control of a vast amount of lands in this country and all that they have done with these lands is to prove right what the criminal colonizers said of them over 100 years ago.
NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

Symbiosis,.....This is deep and thanks for that. Only if our people could get it.......WOW!

NKRUMAH NEVER DIES!!!!!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!

Symbiosis,.....This is deep and thanks for that. Only if our people could get it.......WOW!

NKRUMAH NEVER DIES!!!!!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Abeeku Mensah 12 years ago

There is always going to be differences between pronouncements by politicians and their very act. If on face value we accept Danquah’s prepared statement in whole or in part one would have to expect principled J.B. Danquah ...
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There is always going to be differences between pronouncements by politicians and their very act. If on face value we accept Danquah’s prepared statement in whole or in part one would have to expect principled J.B. Danquah and his wing to also accept that in party politics people who lose a political fight do not engage in acts of terrorism. For to the Danquah faction of politics, it is their way or no way. If per chance Dale-Asiedu would like to pretend that the Danquah faction believed there is a role in government for chiefs in Ghana he could do so by referencing the role of chiefs under the Busia era and or the Danquah era. What role did chieftaincy play during the Busia era? Speeches are like the backside, everyone has one to offer.
OSOFONANA 12 years ago

All you can do is to insult the great Danquah whose so many personal sacrifices helped lay the foundation for our country. You just fan the divisions in the country and pretend you are the peace lovers and the unifier. It i ...
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All you can do is to insult the great Danquah whose so many personal sacrifices helped lay the foundation for our country. You just fan the divisions in the country and pretend you are the peace lovers and the unifier. It is okay to recognize Nkrumah for what he did; but he was no angel! it is also okay to repeat lies and propaganda history about Danquah, hate him and insult his memory; but he was no demon! For some of you, the only way to achieve unity is to continue to nurture hatred against a section of our national fathers whose sacrifices has made you who you are. Go ahead, revel in you Danquah bashing and feel great!

NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

Osofonana, who has been slating who?
Nkrumah has been at the receiving end of J.B.'s cronies and families, ever since he founded Ghana.

The distortion of facts, lies directed at Nkrumah and the insults have always been fr ...
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Osofonana, who has been slating who?
Nkrumah has been at the receiving end of J.B.'s cronies and families, ever since he founded Ghana.

The distortion of facts, lies directed at Nkrumah and the insults have always been from J.B.'s lot to demonize our GREAT LEADER - Osagyefo.

He was asked over to help but, he soon came to the realization that J.B.'s lot were not serious so he took the bull by the horn and got on with getting us independence. Nkrumah was nobody's stooge and of course did not take fools gladly.................

And that is what hurts you lot so much and can't seem to help yourselves to stop distorting historical facts about our GREAT leader................

Anyway Abeeku Mensah just summed it up simply for all of us - "For to the Danquah faction of politics, it is their way or no way."

Well, Abeeku, the evidence is there for all to see and I see no Danquah bashing in this.

NKRUMAH NEVER DIES!!!!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
CS 12 years ago

The first ever Revolution in Ghana was by a "Pro-PP/NNP" faction of the
coup-makers.

What did they DO to uphold anything Danquah or Chiefs, as a rebuke to the
Nkrumah ideology?

NADA, ZILCH!

The first ever Revolution in Ghana was by a "Pro-PP/NNP" faction of the
coup-makers.

What did they DO to uphold anything Danquah or Chiefs, as a rebuke to the
Nkrumah ideology?

NADA, ZILCH!
The Archivist 12 years ago

"Former President Rawlings opining that our constitution should be structured in such a way that even if it was the devil who came to rule Ghana..."

And yet he saw the need to have the Indemnity Clause inserted into the cu ...
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"Former President Rawlings opining that our constitution should be structured in such a way that even if it was the devil who came to rule Ghana..."

And yet he saw the need to have the Indemnity Clause inserted into the current Constitution, and cling still to it!

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