Agyeman-Badu Akosa Is Confused

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Kokroko 11 years ago

Agyeman-Badu Akosa Is Confused

As soon as you see a title like that, you know it's him - Okoampa. This is the most typical of all of Okoampa's titles. Just look at the titles of his nearly 2000 articles for ghanaweb and co ...
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Agyeman-Badu Akosa Is Confused

As soon as you see a title like that, you know it's him - Okoampa. This is the most typical of all of Okoampa's titles. Just look at the titles of his nearly 2000 articles for ghanaweb and count the ones that are like the one above: a politician's name followed by something the name has done that is, most often, negative! It's become so predictable of him that you lose the urge to read on.
Tilapia 11 years ago

Having gone beyond a joke, I am now pressured to think that Okoampas continued gibberish on Ghanaweb must have the license of some underhand dealing between him and the management of Ghanaweb. Otherwise, how?

How else can ...
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Having gone beyond a joke, I am now pressured to think that Okoampas continued gibberish on Ghanaweb must have the license of some underhand dealing between him and the management of Ghanaweb. Otherwise, how?

How else can a man who only inspires floods of insult against himself and his logically distorted and unproductive articles, continue to find space to continue to irritate readers?

I know many people who have written sensible and intelligent articles which have been denied publication by Ghanaweb so how is it that this deranged midget finds room to air his garbage much to the annoyance of almost everyone who comes across any of it. Of course he, Okoampa has become impervious to the villication that follows his lunatic opinions because as they say, a dead goat does not mind the butchers knife. The problem here is that most readers do not want a dead goat on this public platform.

Much as I am not against setting specific standards and or proscribing particular people from presenting their views, I think that if others can be refused from airing ther views on Ghanaweb on whatever grounds, then Okoampas presentations should also be limited - even if only to make him understand that his views are against the run of play.

If in countries where they claim they practice what they refer to as "freedom of expression and the press", they do not tolerate views extolling certain religions, idoelogies and cultural practices, why should we. in attempting to blindly copy them, do we continue to tolerate negative views from people like Okoampa - views which largely conspire to suppress the African as a slave?
Tax 11 years ago

Good piece, kwame

Good piece, kwame
Bob 11 years ago

Okoampah is an imposter. There is no such name as Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe at Nassau Community College, neither in the English department nor creative writing department profiles where he claims to be teaching.He is a criminal.

Okoampah is an imposter. There is no such name as Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe at Nassau Community College, neither in the English department nor creative writing department profiles where he claims to be teaching.He is a criminal.
Obournana 11 years ago

Thank you, Bob. I have been saying that this man is a lunatic and cannot be who says he is. How can he not be able to know where the Kyebi people migrated from before they settled in their new place Kyebi but keep writing non ...
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Thank you, Bob. I have been saying that this man is a lunatic and cannot be who says he is. How can he not be able to know where the Kyebi people migrated from before they settled in their new place Kyebi but keep writing nonsense.
Bonney 11 years ago

When he Akorsa was attacking Mahama &his government, you saw that as a political advantage to the lawless NPP. That time he wasn't confused. Useless &faceless professor. I saw your picture on twitter. You're such an ugly man ...
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When he Akorsa was attacking Mahama &his government, you saw that as a political advantage to the lawless NPP. That time he wasn't confused. Useless &faceless professor. I saw your picture on twitter. You're such an ugly man in that" coolihi"hut. That is why you spew garbage all the time Like the elders say" ugly people talk nonsense", no doubt!!!!..
Azumah Nelson 11 years ago

You are the confused one.

You are the confused one.
ANCIENT MAN 11 years ago

MY MEMORY OF THIS OKOAMPA IS WHEN HE WAS PREPARING FOR HIS O'LEVEL AT St.PETERS,KWAHU.BOMBASTIC-NONSENSICAL WRITINGS! PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS MAD-MAN!!

MY MEMORY OF THIS OKOAMPA IS WHEN HE WAS PREPARING FOR HIS O'LEVEL AT St.PETERS,KWAHU.BOMBASTIC-NONSENSICAL WRITINGS! PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS MAD-MAN!!
Classmate 11 years ago

Ancient, which year was this that the okoamp was taking his O-Levels? I know you are lying because he was exempted from the ordinary level English exam and asked to take the advanced level. Of course, he had the best score on ...
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Ancient, which year was this that the okoamp was taking his O-Levels? I know you are lying because he was exempted from the ordinary level English exam and asked to take the advanced level. Of course, he had the best score on the exam and was thus given a scholarship to pursue a PhD at Nassau Comm College. And as a singular tribute of his prowess in English, no human has since been permitted to enroll for a Ph D in that school, eh.. I mean college
Paapa -- Canada 11 years ago

But he's is still a fool no matter how you cut it.

He might have all the book sense in the world, but he doesn't seem to possess any semblance of common sense.

And that's mighty important in this life. So Ancient is ve ...
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But he's is still a fool no matter how you cut it.

He might have all the book sense in the world, but he doesn't seem to possess any semblance of common sense.

And that's mighty important in this life. So Ancient is very right in his assessment of Akoampa reading too much trash because anything that comes out his so-called 'brainy' brain is trashy.

So it might have served the world, especially Ghana a whole lot better if he hadn't even attended school because as God is my witness, we have enough "illiterate doctors and professors" in Ghana who churn out these trashy ideas and theories to last Ghanaians many lifetimes over.

Antiochus - London 11 years ago

Prof Akosa should abstain from politics and concentrate on what he does best.

Prof Akosa should abstain from politics and concentrate on what he does best.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 11 years ago

Who told you I am Mahama's employee or his image protector? Low lifes like you should steer clear of my articles.You are too daft to appreciate what I stand for by way of political persuasion and ideology.

Who told you I am Mahama's employee or his image protector? Low lifes like you should steer clear of my articles.You are too daft to appreciate what I stand for by way of political persuasion and ideology.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 11 years ago

OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Grandson,

You are rather confused!
This is a most silly opinion piece!

Fellow countrymen and women, this man is claiming that the elections in the Gold Coast, i ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Grandson,

You are rather confused!
This is a most silly opinion piece!

Fellow countrymen and women, this man is claiming that the elections in the Gold Coast, in which the UP lost miserably, even under the auspicies of a friendly colonial administrator that doled them with cash, helped built the Accra Sports Stadium to attract the youth away from Nkrumah, and went to the extent of physically imprisoning Nkrumah to restrain him from campaigning!

This village boy did not enjoy electricity in his village, but he definately had a free and compulsory education that set him up in life! Nkrumah's "electricity" is in his head, not in his village electricity grid! A man only comes to play his part and not to do everything! By the way, who really cares about an ex-CIA asset chasing after his stipend in US embassy?

But, nothing surprising here. Ahoofe's darkness admits no ray! And he never deviates into sense!

Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe! Esq.,
Secretary to The Odikro.
Give me a follow on Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro
Kojo T 11 years ago

What beautiful response . I wish ghana had more of your type instead of these people who claim to be PHDs but spill out gibberish

What beautiful response . I wish ghana had more of your type instead of these people who claim to be PHDs but spill out gibberish
Yaw 11 years ago

Mr. okoampa does not know the history of ghana at all and he claims to be teaching in a community college? What a shame? I advise him to go to any university library in the USA including where he claims to teaching and he wil ...
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Mr. okoampa does not know the history of ghana at all and he claims to be teaching in a community college? What a shame? I advise him to go to any university library in the USA including where he claims to teaching and he will surely find books on Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and not Dr. Danquah
Fiifi 11 years ago

The Busia, Danquah Dombo gangs started the demise of Ghana. Yes Nkrumah said "if I knew Ghanaians wanted milk I would let milk flow through pipes to homes". That was said because the nation's traitors (Danquah/Busia/Dombo) ha ...
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The Busia, Danquah Dombo gangs started the demise of Ghana. Yes Nkrumah said "if I knew Ghanaians wanted milk I would let milk flow through pipes to homes". That was said because the nation's traitors (Danquah/Busia/Dombo) had stupidly told Ghanaians that the CIA coup planned by Danqua/Busia/Dombo party was as a result of no milk and sugar in the country. They were bunch of liars and saboteurs.

You forgot to mention how the West had put stranglehold on our chief export(cocoa) for the price to drop as a result of Nkrumah exposing the plans of the West in his book(Neo-colonialism the last Stage of Imperialism). And when the West told Busia not to continue with all the industries that Nkrumah had started, including the gold refinery in the Western Region, as wicked as they (Busia and Co.) were, they ensured that the Ghanaian economy fell flat on its face. The country has since then never even attempted to stand let alone walk. What we are seeing in Ghana and across Africa is the warning Nkrumah gave us in his book. The Ghanaian economy and most African economies are owned by the West and other foreign interests. Ghana has huge resources but we only get 3-5%, what a shame!!

You forgot to mention that it was from 1966 that the country took a nosedive prompting Acheampong to cease power and introduce "yentua" to the IMF pranks on Ghana. Who did Busia appoint as finance Minister when JH Mensah opposed the World Bank and Busia’s wicked plans? Tell me Okoampah! Was it not your tribe’s man who had just finished his degree in the UK so he could rubber stamp whatever Busia and World Bank told him to do?

The country started going down after 1966. The situation got worst under Rawlings when Kwesi Botchwey aided the IMF and WB to further bankrupt Ghana. The NPP hopelessly had no solution but to continue the loot which had ironically taken place under AFRC, NDC 1, Afrifa and Busia regimes.

Akosa was right when he said NPP had no solution but just came to loot. Rawlings shouldnt be walking free for prosecuting, tormenting and killing without cause. He has stolen 10,000 times more than the people he tormented, prosecuted and killed. Rawlings and Kuffour collapsed the sick/fragile Ghanaian economy. Kuffour the ubiquitous 50 Cents just came to steal from Ghanaians and sell our resources to his cronies. Go ask Kuffour where he got the money to buy his hotel.

Okoampa, answer this: what else would Kuffour have sold if Nkrumah did not establish the Ghana airways, Ghana Telecom and many other industries? You moron.
military man 11 years ago

Pretty good, Fiifi.

This Akoampa guy is a blockhead. An empty barrel..... and you know what they say about empty barrels... they make the most noise.

I personally don't pay any attention to what he writes about because ...
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Pretty good, Fiifi.

This Akoampa guy is a blockhead. An empty barrel..... and you know what they say about empty barrels... they make the most noise.

I personally don't pay any attention to what he writes about because I know that whatever he says is a load of bull.
Fiifi 11 years ago

Nkrumah had vision to make Ghana a middle income economy by 1978 and an advanced country by 1998 hence the 7-year and 5-year development plans.

All the infrastructure supporting Ghana as we talk were built by Nkrumah

Wh ...
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Nkrumah had vision to make Ghana a middle income economy by 1978 and an advanced country by 1998 hence the 7-year and 5-year development plans.

All the infrastructure supporting Ghana as we talk were built by Nkrumah

What did Danquah and Busia have for Ghana but envy, wickedness, hatred and total sale of Ghana and African race. Yet stooges like Okoampa will do damn things to portray them as doyens. What a SHAME!!!!

You cannot change history, okoampa. Get it in your coconut head.
JC 11 years ago

And so the question to ask is, "Why is Akosa confused? What does he want?' The answer that immediately comes to mind is his disenchantment and disappointment in what he sees as the perpetual fall of the CPP. He does not unde ...
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And so the question to ask is, "Why is Akosa confused? What does he want?' The answer that immediately comes to mind is his disenchantment and disappointment in what he sees as the perpetual fall of the CPP. He does not understand why the Dankwa/Busia tradition has gained country and world-wide acceptance, have capable men and women, well- composed, well-organised and united, while the CPP remains disorganised, in tatters, and continues to grope in the dark.This difference should have informed Akosa of the quality of the men who formed the UGCC and of those who formed the CPP. I have advised him to quit politics because Nkrumahism is dead forever, and shall never resurrect!
Fiifi 11 years ago

JC, you are living in a dreamed cuculand. You call Dankwa/Busia/Dombo tradition world-wide accepted, capable and well composed? What good has come out of them?

You even forgot to add Dombo, forgetting that had it not been ...
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JC, you are living in a dreamed cuculand. You call Dankwa/Busia/Dombo tradition world-wide accepted, capable and well composed? What good has come out of them?

You even forgot to add Dombo, forgetting that had it not been Dombo, Busia would not have had the chance to lead this bunch of crooks(UP).

When Nkrumah said that he would not accept political parties formed on tribal lines and that all the tribal parties should form one party, Dombo who had the majority of MPs in the Northern Party was coerced to step down for Busia who's party had just a few MPs to lead the union (UP). It is disingenuous and shameful on your part to forget Dombo in your spiteful analysis. You know no shame

Tell me, what has UP, PP and NPP done to better Ghana except to loot Ghana and sell the remaining assets to the West?

Ghana as you see it is toast; it is a failed State.

JC 11 years ago

Yes. Thank you for reminding me of Dombo. It was not my intention to exclude or down grade the contribution of Great Dombo. I should even include Obetsebi, Paa Grant, and all the rest of those gentlemen whom formed UGCC befor ...
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Yes. Thank you for reminding me of Dombo. It was not my intention to exclude or down grade the contribution of Great Dombo. I should even include Obetsebi, Paa Grant, and all the rest of those gentlemen whom formed UGCC before the so-called Osagyefo arrived. I just took the cue from the article. But, does it not surprise you that an offshoot of MANY people remains intact, whilst an offshoot of ONE man has disintegrated into many factions?
Fiifi 11 years ago

JC, dont even taint yourself with Obetsebi Lamptey. He was the lead bomber. Like father like son, look at the picture his son Jake is portraying: Greed and senseless grabbing of State's assets. He gave a strategic site for th ...
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JC, dont even taint yourself with Obetsebi Lamptey. He was the lead bomber. Like father like son, look at the picture his son Jake is portraying: Greed and senseless grabbing of State's assets. He gave a strategic site for the later day saints to put up their church building. What did Jake get in return? complete University sponsorship of his daughter in the States. This is the religious group who believe Black are descendants of Lucifer. They hate Black to the core.
BRANDY 11 years ago

THIS CONFUSED AND STUPID AKOSAH CONFUSED SAMIA TO DRIVE NDUOM AWAY....NOW CPP HAS NO RESPECT AT ALL.

THIS CONFUSED AND STUPID AKOSAH CONFUSED SAMIA TO DRIVE NDUOM AWAY....NOW CPP HAS NO RESPECT AT ALL.
Special T 11 years ago

Prof Akosah highlighted what UP/CIA has done to our dear nation. From this article, it clearly shows your state of mind. Show Boy was selfless and patriotic leader. Rawlings conceived the NHIC policy in the 99s

Prof Akosah highlighted what UP/CIA has done to our dear nation. From this article, it clearly shows your state of mind. Show Boy was selfless and patriotic leader. Rawlings conceived the NHIC policy in the 99s
Nii 11 years ago

Did you really say that?

Did you really say that?
kwabena kusi, London. 11 years ago

Akorsa is not confused,he is rather stupid.He is in for puplicity just like his father.Is better for him to shut up.Ghana does not like a person like him.

Akorsa is not confused,he is rather stupid.He is in for puplicity just like his father.Is better for him to shut up.Ghana does not like a person like him.
Joe koofi 11 years ago

The writer is more confused than Akosa. I no longer waist my time on his articles

The writer is more confused than Akosa. I no longer waist my time on his articles
YAW 11 years ago

As long as there"s Ghanaweb there will always be the befuddled Ahoofe writing tripe.

As long as there"s Ghanaweb there will always be the befuddled Ahoofe writing tripe.
osei yaw - london 11 years ago

It is not what Akosah said, but this Ahoofe's relentless and hopeless effort to sell his blood relative Akim terrorist JB Danquah who ought to have hang under the Preventive Detention Act, to the Americans; for, to the wide W ...
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It is not what Akosah said, but this Ahoofe's relentless and hopeless effort to sell his blood relative Akim terrorist JB Danquah who ought to have hang under the Preventive Detention Act, to the Americans; for, to the wide World, who was this JB Danquah would be the enquiry?

- that terrorist Akim JB Danquah was this, and did this or that for the Gold Coast/Ghana is Ahoofe's music to the ears; for, if anything, the impediments he put in the way of Kwame Nkrumah left Ghana in a hole from where Ghana is still digging

Osei Wusu-Khanin/osei yaw - london
Npp bufoon 11 years ago

The stupidity of this so-called Ahoofe is legendary. I think you rather require psychaitric assessment since it would be incredible to fanthom block headed bump like yourself have a PhD.
After all the insults your lazy arse ...
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The stupidity of this so-called Ahoofe is legendary. I think you rather require psychaitric assessment since it would be incredible to fanthom block headed bump like yourself have a PhD.
After all the insults your lazy arse heaped on Prof. Mills you intend to bring it on Prof. Akosa also.
It is due to idiots and tribalist like you thats why my genealogy will never vote for your tradition

Sidekick 11 years ago

Hey you twerp, how dare you insult my boss. You call for him to get a psychiatric evaluation but don't you know he is a psychiatrist himself. He even teaches psychiatry free of charge by demonstrating the signs and symptoms o ...
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Hey you twerp, how dare you insult my boss. You call for him to get a psychiatric evaluation but don't you know he is a psychiatrist himself. He even teaches psychiatry free of charge by demonstrating the signs and symptoms of various mental illnesses in his writings in this forum. Just as a PhD in Ghana doesn't teach in elementary schools, my boss' psychiatric treatises are not meant for those who have not taken his course in creative writing that endows folks with the ability to read not only from right to left, but from bottom upwards, with one or both eyes closed.
Now, do you see his greatness?
Alas, I have improperly disclosed the professor's secrets to the untutored and I must verily face his wrath. But I ask bossman to be lenient with me his sidekick, as my only intent for revealing his secret is so that all those people will repent and become his admirers, whose fathers he perceives as being more ugly than him.
Master Kwaku 11 years ago

Prof Akosa is an empty barrel. He can TALK, but can't perform! When New Yorkers, specifically, The Akyem Association of USA, New York, during the visit of the Okyehene, the late Osagyefo Kuntukununku II, to New York, managed ...
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Prof Akosa is an empty barrel. He can TALK, but can't perform! When New Yorkers, specifically, The Akyem Association of USA, New York, during the visit of the Okyehene, the late Osagyefo Kuntukununku II, to New York, managed to get the State University of New York (SUNY) Down State Medical School to agree to some form of affiliation with the Ghana Medical School, whereby there could be an interchange of Professors and Students between the two instiutions during the time he Badu Akosa was the Dean of the Ghana Medical School, he failed to even reply to the letter sent to him, let alone get the proposal implemented. How can such a man condemn the founder of the University of Ghana, Dr. J.B. Danquah? Shame on him.
DARK DAYS IN GHANA 11 years ago

"At any rate, what is the rural development record of the Nkrumah-led CPP, short of recklessly doling out our hard-earned monetary resources to other countries, Santa Clausianly, in furtherance of his own megalomaniacal ambit ...
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"At any rate, what is the rural development record of the Nkrumah-led CPP, short of recklessly doling out our hard-earned monetary resources to other countries, Santa Clausianly, in furtherance of his own megalomaniacal ambition of lording it over continental Africa?

Then also, how much rural electrification did the CPP undertake before deciding to supply our neighboring countries with Akosombo-generated electricity?

Reading this quotation alone by Okoampa-Ahoofe, one can immediately figure out why Professor Akosah says "the NPP operatives are so cynical and self-centered that they only care about their own personal interests and aspirations, thus their decision to boycott the Senchi charade".

These NPP people are visionless. Let Okoampa-Ahoofe go back and read Nkrumah's speech at the launching of the Kwabenya Atomic Energy Reactor in 1964.We will ask Okoampa to compare that vision of Ghana and Africa Nkrumah had to that of the "Kookoo ase kuraseni Dr. J.B. Danquah? I bet Okoampa-Ahoofe has never even read that speech before.Neither J.B. Danquah, or Kofi Abrefa Busia, or S. B. Dombo, or John Kufour can ever have that vision or give that kind of speech. Never.
DARK DAYS IN GHANA 11 years ago

LEST WE FORGET
Speech delivered by President Kwame Nkrumah when he laid the foundation stone for the construction of Ghana Atomic Reactor at Kwabenya, on November 25, 1964.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are gathered here th ...
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LEST WE FORGET
Speech delivered by President Kwame Nkrumah when he laid the foundation stone for the construction of Ghana Atomic Reactor at Kwabenya, on November 25, 1964.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are gathered here this afternoon to mark the beginning of Ghana's Atomic Reactor Center. This Center, when completed, will enable Ghana to participate in the developments now taking place in Atomic Science. In this way, we shall be equipped with the greater knowledge and the means to give richer service to our people and to Africa.

Nearly three years ago, we decided to build an Atomic Reactor in Ghana. We were fully aware then that our motives might be misconstrued, for the setting up of an Atomic Reactor is the first practical step to building an Atomic bomb. We have always stood for the use of fissionable material exclusively for peaceful ends. We have consistently stood against the unnecessary proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and with equal consistency for the abolition of such weapons.

Our sole motive in reaching the decision to build the center, which you now see, rising before you, is to enable Ghana to take advantage of the decisive methods of research and development, which mark our modern world. It is essential to do this if we are to impart to our development the acceleration, which is required to break even with more advanced economies. We have therefore been compelled to enter the field of Atomic energy, because this already promises to yield the greatest economic source of power since the beginning of man. Our success in this field would enable us to solve the many sided problems which face us in all the spheres of our development in Ghana and in Africa. We know that doubts have been expressed concerning the wisdom and practicability of our decision. Many important but inconclusive reasons have been advanced to persuade us to abandon this project, but we are not persuaded.

Let me say that, in the age of Science & Technology, in this age of Atomic Revolution, neither Ghana nor Africa can afford to lag behind other nations, or to ignore the scientific development of our time. Indeed, we start with certain definitive advantages over many nations, which have preceded us in the scientific revolution.

Allow me to remind you of the metaphysical problem of the flea. You know that some key people have wondered with some concerns, whether assuming that there is a flea on our back, there is on the back of that a minor flea, and there is a flea on the back of that minor flea, and upon the back of that minor flea yet another mini-minor flea and so on, ad infinitum.

A similar problem was expressed in the history of science about matter. We, however, have not had to prove for ourselves that the atom can be split. We have not had to discover that steam can produce energy or that water power can be used to generate electricity.

Indeed, we begin where many ended. We make our start from the great body of scientific and technological attainment, which is the common heritage of mankind. Beginning as loftily as we do, there is no reason for us to be timid in joining the forward march of knowledge.

We have a second reason in the field of Atomic research. It is known that the development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy can bring about a profound transformation in the life of mankind. A socialist society more than any other, needs to bring about such profound changes in order to produce for all.

We in Ghana are committed to the building of an industrialized socialist society. We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive lookers. We must ourselves take part in the pursuit of scientific and technological research as a means of providing the basis of our socialist society. Socialism without science is void.

Already, the residential sites where the many Ghanaian scientists and engineers who will be engaged in this project would live, has been completed. These young men and women who have received their specialist training in the Soviet Union and elsewhere would provide the basis for our corps of skilled specialist in nuclear science. We are sending more Ghanaians abroad to acquire this specialist knowledge in training.

We have now embarked on the second stage of the project. This will include the construction of the reactor itself and the construction of a monitoring station to ensure that no harmful radioactive substances are released or disseminated. Radio-chemical laboratories are to be built where the elaborate procedures for processing radioactive substances will be carried out. There will also be the many other ancillary buildings, which such a project calls for. By 1966 the reactor itself should be in operation, and the Research Center will start on the extensive programme of research for which all these elaborate and intricate preparations are being made. Every stage of this complicated preparatory work has been carried through the aid of specialists and scientists provided by the Government of the Soviet Union. At all stages there has been the closest and most friendly co-operation between Ghana and the Soviet Union. The friendly relations between our two countries have been strengthened by the success of this common endeavor.

In 1961 I caused the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission to be established to guide and direct this enterprise. Our Atomic Energy Commission now operates in close relationship with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Only recently the Director and the Deputy Director of the Agency visited Ghana, and commented favorably on the breadth of vision of our plans.

We believe that the amount of energy, which can be generated in Ghana, can play a decisive role in the development of our industry, agriculture, health and other services. Certainly, the foundations for the effective and rapid industrialization of our country must rest on the provision of cheap and abundant power. This is why we have placed our faith in the Volta River Project, which, perhaps, might never have been started without the personal interest of the late President Kennedy and the assistance of the United States Government. Without the friendly relations between Ghana and the United States of America, this project would not have been possible. As I speak, the Volta Lake has risen to two hundred and sixty feet (260), and it is confidently expected that power can be generated at Akosombo by the end of 1965. The biggest consumer of this power will be the Aluminum Smelter, which is to be established by the Volta Aluminum Company at Tema. I am glad to announce that the groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of work will take place in ten days time, on Saturday, 5th December.

I have also recently directed the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission to investigate and expand research on the possibilities of solar energy, which is already going on at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. It is estimated that even-one-tenth of the solar energy falling on the earth's surface would be enough to produce an amount of energy several times the amount generated at present. In Africa we have no lack of sunlight, and the development of solar energy should be one of our main scientific preoccupations.

Ladies and Gentlemen Science can be applied for good ends, for the betterment of the human race, or for bad ends, for the making of weapons of destruction. In no field of science is the contrast between these two aspects so great as it is in atomic energy. The hydrogen bomb, that instrument of mass destruction which we all fear and dread so much, is based on the same source of power.

Scientists hope that, in the very near future, thermo-nuclear reaction will release unlimited resources of power for industrial use. If the world can survive the threat of annihilation posed by the hydrogen bomb, and other agents of mass destruction, then the peaceful application of thermo-nuclear energy, which is at present predominantly turned to warlike purposes, will bring about an unprecedented release of the human race from drudgery and fear, starvation and poverty, which is now the lot of so many.

It is in this important field that the peaceful uses of nuclear energy can play such a major role. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is only possible by the purposeful application of science to peaceful ends. One of the most urgent tasks before us, therefore, is to secure worldwide, total and complete disarmament and the banning of all nuclear devices of mass destruction. This process is rapidly becoming more urgent and more difficult as the number of nations, which have access to these weapons increase. That is why we support wholeheartedly the efforts by the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations to make Africa a Nuclear Free Zone.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Scientists the world over have recognized the urgency and danger of our nuclear predicament, their own special responsibility and involvement in it. The scientist is a social being and can effect an idealistic concern for the destiny of mankind. The scientist can, by his specialized knowledge, affect our whole fate. He must, for this reason, accept a proportionate obligation in public affairs. Many issues can be resolved only on the basis of scientific and technical knowledge. For this, the public and the government turn to the scientist for advice. It is the scientist’s duty to serve them well, conscientiously and scrupulously, without regard for personal ambition, or the natural wish to say what is pleasant to hear.

The scientist must also explain to us the consequences of our acceptance of his advice. He cannot accept credit for the great advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry, and at the same time disclaim responsibility for the consequences of weapons of mass destruction. Here the scientists have an obligation to make the governments and people of the world fully aware of the dangers facing them, and to give sober and disinterested advice. We must unite in our fight for peace and complete dis- armament. People of all nations must bend every effort towards the development of science and technology, which would herald a new and happy future for mankind. We in Ghana propose to set a forceful example by restricting our efforts in the field of atomic research to exclusively peaceful uses.

To advance science in the service of man, is to advance socialism, is to abolish imperialism, in all its forms and manifestations. The Ghana Atomic Energy Programme is destined for peaceful purposes and Ghana was one of the first countries to sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow. Though the provisions of that treaty are incomplete, we intend to abide by its terms. Neither this Reactor nor the laboratories attached to it will be directed to the development of devices for war.

This Reactor is designed for experimental work in the field of nuclear and atomic physics, including the study of the properties of materials and how they are affected by radiations and radiochemistry. It will serve as a focal point for scientists and research workers from various institutions of the Ghana Academy of Sciences, from our universities and from government laboratories all over the country. Here they will be provided with facilities for investigations involving nuclear techniques in biology, agriculture, medicine, physics and chemistry. It will be a center for the training of Ghanaian scientists in nuclear science and technology.

A heterogeneous nuclear research reactor, as well as an up-to-date radio chemical laboratory and the development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy in Ghana will be centered on the Nuclear Research Institute to be established here. A Radio Isotope Centre is assisting five agriculture centers of the Ghana Academy of Sciences and the University of Ghana in the application of radioisotope techniques in the study of plant protection from weeds and insect pests, and the uptake of fertilizers by plants under local conditions.

Among other uses of nuclear power, it is hoped to develop peaceful uses of nuclear explosives for excavation, mining and recovery of gas and oil. The Atomic Reactor Center will provide experimental channels for the study of radiation genetics. Through these researchers it will become possible to find a way of inducing genetic changes in plants and animals to provide better crops and better meat. In point of fact, we are not entirely newcomers to this field of endeavor.

For some time now the Ghana Academy of Sciences has been pursuing a programme of research work in which radioactive materials have been applied to many problems in agriculture and medicine.

During the coming year, the scope of this work will be greatly increased. It will provide the wide range of facilities needed to train many more research workers and technicians for this programme. In planning this Centre, we have been painfully aware of our limitations in men and material, and the variety and complexity of the research problems, which face Africa as a whole. Until we in Africa come together, and establish a Union Government for all Africa, we shall be forced to tackle our problems in isolation, hampered by our disunity and many disabilities. Progress will be slow, and we shall deny ourselves the advantages of well-integrated and commonly executed planning.

This is another of the many compelling reasons why we in Ghana have made a persistent appeal for the early establishment of Continental Government of Africa.

Ladies and Gentlemen, The basis of our whole programme of socialist development must be the application of Science and Technology. For the implementation of our Seven- Year Plan, for the success of our agricultural industry, for ensuring increased output in industrial production demand, we must apply the latest scientific techniques. We, especially our young men and women, must acquire and master these new techniques.

We are already making every effort to raise both the number and the quality of the scientists who come from our Universities and to raise the standards of the science teaching in the schools. We have made great progress in this field. Much more remains to be done. There are not nearly enough Ghanaians scientists and Ghanaian technicians of all kinds for the work we have on hand. Even the finest laboratory, the best equipment or, indeed, the best reactor, will not produce scientific work of their own accord.

Only men and women can do that, and only after long and highly specialized training in scientific techniques. Hence we need to press on with the greatest urgency the scientific and technological training of young Ghanaians. Every boy or girl who shows talent in this direction must be encouraged and helped, because such talent is especially precious to us and we must foster and guard it. Our Universities, the various Institutes of the Ghana Academy of Sciences, the University College of Science and Education in Cape Coast, our newly established Medical School and the proposed University College of Agriculture, will help in providing this training.

We need also to reach out to the mass people who have not had the opportunities of formal education. We must use every means of mass communication- the press, the radio, television and films. Last year, as part of the Academy’s anniversary celebrations, there was a science exhibition in Accra. This year there has been another one in Kumasi. Similar exhibitions have been held in our Universities in Kumasi and Accra. The enthusiastic response to these exhibitions and the eager way in which our young men and women studied the exhibits was most encouraging.

The projected National Science Museum, when completed next year, will provide this kind of exhibition in a permanent form. This is a major project which will play a great part in exciting public interest in science and conveying in a direct and vivid way the impact of science on everyday life.

It is important that our people should not only be instructed in science but they should take part in it. It is important that our people should not only be instructed in science, but apply it themselves in their own ways. For science is not just a subject to be learned out of a book or from a teacher. It is a way of life, a way of tackling any problem which one can only master by using it for oneself. We must have science clubs in which our people can develop their own talents for discovery and invention. I expect the Ghana Academy of Sciences to play a leading role in all this. To that end, I have asked the Academy to prepare a first seven-year national programme for the promotion of science in Ghana. This plan, which is ready for implementation, will ensure that within the next seven years, science becomes part and parcel of the life of our people.

In order to provide the necessary physical facilities, and also to make for the maximum co-ordination of efforts, I am contemplating the creation of a special scientific community where scientists of the Academy from different fields will live and work. The scheme will enable the scientist to share common facilities, and also increase personal communication between scientists working on related problems. I have proposed the name “Science City” for this scientific community. It will have a main central building to be known as the “Palace of Science”, containing a whole range of laboratories and other facilities.

The Science City will accommodate a number of special research institutes and will be a center where the Academy will undertake pilot industries based on its discoveries, so that when the Academy recommends the setting up of any full scale industry, it will be in a position not only to give expert advice on the type of industrial plants to be established, but to make the necessary economic appraisal of the proposed industry. One of the most important projects planned for the Science City is a National Bureau of Standards where the testing of the quality of both imported and locally manufactured products will be undertaken to ensure that they conform to acceptable standards. The Ghana Academy of Sciences should not be just a body of learned men elected for their distinction and eminence. It should be part of our national life, serving the people of Ghana, working with them and helping to bring science and scientists into the closest possible relationship with their lives. It is only through this practical union of theory and action that the life of man can attain the highest material, cultural, moral and spiritual fulfillment in the service of his fellow men. This ultimately is the only justification for the pursuit of knowledge and the discoveries of science.

And now Ladies and Gentlemen, let me turn to the historic business before us today. I dedicate this Reactor to the progress of true science, to the application of science to the well being of man, to the enlargement of his spirit and to the promotion of peace.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in laying this Foundation Stone of Ghana Atomic Reactor Center.
Thank you.
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