Good points there.The fact is its all ugly politics from the CPP/NDC wicked elements. The greatest problem NDC and their hate-filled morons have is to acknowlegde their wrongs and also take it that elements in Danquah/Busia/D ... read full comment
Good points there.The fact is its all ugly politics from the CPP/NDC wicked elements. The greatest problem NDC and their hate-filled morons have is to acknowlegde their wrongs and also take it that elements in Danquah/Busia/Dombo group nave also played great parts in Ghana;s developmental history. What does it take to acknowledge that Dr Danquah was one of Ghanas's heroes. Such admision seem to pain Dr, Akosa, Kwasi Pratt and their cohorts. As for Kwasi Pratt, Dr Akosa their world seem to come to an end anytime Dr. Danquah is acknoledged in som way. Their petty sentiments are disturbing. As for Murtala Muhammed his problem is hate filled because of tribal jealousy and inferiority complex. This Murtala man will surely get BP for unnecessary worries about the past. He must be at ease.
JAMREAH 10 years ago
DR SEKOU NKRUMAH MUST NOTE HIS LATE FATHER'S WICKEDNESS. EITHER YOU SELF-EXILED YOURSELF OR KWAME NKRUMAH WILL SILENCE YOU FOR LIFE IN NSAWAM PRISONS.OUR GRAND PARENTS DIED OR WENT INTO EXILE IN THE WICKED HANDS OF LATE KWAME ... read full comment
DR SEKOU NKRUMAH MUST NOTE HIS LATE FATHER'S WICKEDNESS. EITHER YOU SELF-EXILED YOURSELF OR KWAME NKRUMAH WILL SILENCE YOU FOR LIFE IN NSAWAM PRISONS.OUR GRAND PARENTS DIED OR WENT INTO EXILE IN THE WICKED HANDS OF LATE KWAME NKRUMAH.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
I've heard it before and responded to it all before but we cannot stop responding to their feel good stories devoid of facts and reality on the ground.
1ST, I saw the headline on Prof. Akosa and the PDA but did not read th ... read full comment
I've heard it before and responded to it all before but we cannot stop responding to their feel good stories devoid of facts and reality on the ground.
1ST, I saw the headline on Prof. Akosa and the PDA but did not read the article, so cannot say he was wrong or right in what he said. But the PDA was a justifiable piece of legislation which many so-called democratic countries have then and now. Britain has it and it was used extensively in N. Ireland. Ghana's was based on that of India. The Patriot Act of the US is a recent example of a PDA.
My good friends Dr M. Gyamerah and Ekow Nelson had authored a fine piece of defence of the PDA, a piece I had the privilege of editing for them.
That the PDA was abused by some people trying to settle local scores leading to many innocent people being imprisoned is not in dispute. You have a land dispute with someone, all you have to do is simply turn an informant and accused him or her of offences under the PDA. That was how my maternal side of my family turned out to have supplied more inmates to Nsawam than any other family in Ghana! Their alleged crime? Allegedly collecting money from Olympio in order to forment secession of the VR. Of course, it was all false but no sensible govt can fail to respond to such accusations, considering the person making the claims.
Incidentally and unfortunately, the informant happened to be from my paternal side. He was an intelligent, indomitable, shaker and mover whom someone in the family said of him, had he gone to school, he'd had sold us all! Yes, he didn't go to school but he spoke pidgin English and French and many West African languages, including Hausa, fluently, having worked with white merchants during the colonial era! Anyway, he himself eventually got locked up in Nsawan and only came out after the coup, but the man reportedly visited Nkrumah in Conakry! When I read a couple of years ago that he was the main architect behind the removal of Dr Fiagbe as VR Secretary during the PNDC time, linking him to same secessionist plots, I burst into laughter!
My father tried as much as possible to get as many as possible sent to Nsawam released before the coup. I recollect as a teen how pissed those who came out after the coup were. The Djabanor Committee that investigated the disturbances in Anloga after the abortive coup that led to the death of Kotoka in April 1967 was right in its findings about those detentions which exonerated the Nkrumah and the CPP but there is a lot more some of us knew and which are not found in those reports, and in the public domain. I have no doubt the C'ttee set up by the NLC to investigate detentions under the PDA would have reached similar detentions. It is a pity such C'ttee works and the knowl. of informed persons do not form part of the discourse on PDA. Someone needs to write a book or an academic article on this subject, as people still continue to use the coercive
forces of the state to settle local disputes, intervene in chieftaincy disputes, etc., thereby creating a state of lawlessness and normlessness in Ghana.
Anyway, is it not ironical that the NLC Decree which replaced the PDA put more people into preventive detention and sent more people into exile than the CPP's PDA for the mere reason of belonging to the CPP??? Yes, so they released a few hundreds and many hardened criminals in order to boost the number and put into prison double that number! Some democrats!
BTW, it was just most appropriate that Azikiwe said something in favour of JB. After all, JB gave him his first break as a political activist upon his return from American and settling in Ghana. He edited JB's paper, a position which led to his and Wallace Johnson's deportation for authoring the article: "Has the African a God?", considered by the colonial authorities as seditious.
As for the Kume Preko demonstrations, it is mostly likely that the demonstrators also fired shots and killed. I still have the opposition newspaper reports which indicted them. They seized a pistol from a Police woman at circle before proceeding to the UTC area, where the confrontations and shooting started. One of the innocent persons killed by the stray bullets was even a young man whose family are NDC supporters, and not part of the demonstration or those confronting them.
Andy-K
Neptaddo 10 years ago
political justice indeed. cool man of great intellects. very inspirational
political justice indeed. cool man of great intellects. very inspirational
kaketonti 10 years ago
Good;but had Kwame Nkrumah been killed by them........!
Good;but had Kwame Nkrumah been killed by them........!
George Koomson 10 years ago
Arthur K,
Danquah had a cell mate, his cousin, William Ofori-Atta popularly known as Paa Willie. He wrote about his experiences and the immediate cause of Danquah's death after the coup against Nkrumah. Prison life was not l ... read full comment
Arthur K,
Danquah had a cell mate, his cousin, William Ofori-Atta popularly known as Paa Willie. He wrote about his experiences and the immediate cause of Danquah's death after the coup against Nkrumah. Prison life was not luxurious but what Paa Willie wrote was not as grim as what u have described and no where in his book which was published by the Ghana Publishers Corporation did he indicate that Danquah was treated any different from him. Paa Willie lived into his '90s.
Whether the jailing of Danquah was justifiable or not hangs on whether he was guilty or innocent of what he was accused of. The verdict on that is still open. but some of the CIA classified documents which are now available on the net make interesting reading.
Good points there.The fact is its all ugly politics from the CPP/NDC wicked elements. The greatest problem NDC and their hate-filled morons have is to acknowlegde their wrongs and also take it that elements in Danquah/Busia/D ...
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DR SEKOU NKRUMAH MUST NOTE HIS LATE FATHER'S WICKEDNESS. EITHER YOU SELF-EXILED YOURSELF OR KWAME NKRUMAH WILL SILENCE YOU FOR LIFE IN NSAWAM PRISONS.OUR GRAND PARENTS DIED OR WENT INTO EXILE IN THE WICKED HANDS OF LATE KWAME ...
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I've heard it before and responded to it all before but we cannot stop responding to their feel good stories devoid of facts and reality on the ground.
1ST, I saw the headline on Prof. Akosa and the PDA but did not read th ...
read full comment
political justice indeed. cool man of great intellects. very inspirational
Good;but had Kwame Nkrumah been killed by them........!
Arthur K,
Danquah had a cell mate, his cousin, William Ofori-Atta popularly known as Paa Willie. He wrote about his experiences and the immediate cause of Danquah's death after the coup against Nkrumah. Prison life was not l ...
read full comment