I like this piece of writing. NPP cannot continue with this trash. They are distancing themselves from the people. How can you say, we have forgiven you? If you do not, what will happen and who cares?
I like this piece of writing. NPP cannot continue with this trash. They are distancing themselves from the people. How can you say, we have forgiven you? If you do not, what will happen and who cares?
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
Bokor if you need something refreshing for your primitive tribal and partisan stupidity from Akufo-Addo and his NPP, then I will advise you idiot to call Francis Kwarteng (USA) on 001-301 277 5871 in 4230-Oglethorpe St. Hyatt ... read full comment
Bokor if you need something refreshing for your primitive tribal and partisan stupidity from Akufo-Addo and his NPP, then I will advise you idiot to call Francis Kwarteng (USA) on 001-301 277 5871 in 4230-Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD 20781-Maryland, USA.
He will copy paragraphs over paragraphs from the internet for you. FOOLS!!!
Says Who 9 years ago
I believe there is a national monument in the form of roundabout called Danquah Circle. I don't know where it is in Accra, but if JB Danquah was as subversive and was incarcerated for treason, why would there be a national mo ... read full comment
I believe there is a national monument in the form of roundabout called Danquah Circle. I don't know where it is in Accra, but if JB Danquah was as subversive and was incarcerated for treason, why would there be a national monument in his memory.
efi 9 years ago
Look bastard.ask yourself if jb danquah statue in Accra. why Nkrumah statue at a.u in Ethiopia.
Look bastard.ask yourself if jb danquah statue in Accra. why Nkrumah statue at a.u in Ethiopia.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dr. Bokor,
Good piece.
Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Tec ... read full comment
Dr. Bokor,
Good piece.
Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday's Newsfile, a live radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., who has been sacked from the Danquah Institute as a member of its Governing Body, has every right to get at the Executive Director, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko and to describe his insults as being a "rather startlingly infantile reaction", even though he agrees with him! See: "Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It", Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011.
In his article titled, "Danquah was a Great Patriot, The Lie about being a CIA Agent must Stop!", Ochere-Darko's attempt to set the records straight, rather set out to bend the records. He would surreptitiously replace the CIA with the American Embassy as the source of the stipends, in order to argue later that Danquah had nothing to do with the CIA!:
In any case, all we need to satisfy ourselves here is whether or not the CIA was investing in Danquah with his consent. That is what makes one an asset or agent. We all know that the CIA is not a Father Christmas. There is always a quid pro quo in their expenditures. If the CIA is giving money to your wife without your knowledge, that could be a different thing. It is quite another issue, if one feels so entitled to the cash as to go and complain after it had ceased!
Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? Why is it that the Danquah Institute's narrative of these events conspicuously omit the mention of the CIA, preferring to mislead the reader that:
"Dr Danquah’s family,... allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador"?
Is this what is written in the book? Did Richard Mahoney write that Danquah's family was being paid by the CIA or "the American Embassy"? Is the Danquah Institute so ashamed to admit the fact that it was the CIA that was paying the stipends and not "the American Embassy" as they would want us to believe?
A very strange thing is happening. Just before writing this, I visited the site of Danquah Institute to check the link to the quote above, in which they attempted to rewrite Richard Mahoney's book by replacing the "CIA" with "the US Embassy". Strangely enough, they have done an IMANI! The article has been withdrawn, but the title is still there: "Was J.B. Danquah A CIA Agent? All You Need To Know".
Fortunately, the story has been shared on several websites, that is why I was able to retrieve it! The hard facts in the book written by Professor Richard D. Mahoney do not explain why Danquah was expecting the CIA to continue to pay him. But the inference that Danquah must be seen as a CIA asset, after so much investments in him is certainly not as stupid as Ochere-Darko arrogantly and insultingly begs the question with.
The fact that it was the CIA and not "the American Embassy" which was paying the stipends is very clear in the book. What is also clear is the fact that Danquah was aware of this arrangement and liked it so much as to complain when it stopped! What made him feel so entitled to it, if Danquah did not consider himself as an agent?
The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)
It is very interesting that after a storm of criticisms of the ridiculous nature of this propaganda, Ochere-Darko had to reluctantly correct the anomaly of avoiding the embarrassing fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” that was paying Danquah. I have noticed that in his more recent submissions he concedes the fact that indeed, it was the CIA and not the US Embassy that was paying the stipends to J.B. Danquah's family:
"I have had the opportunity to read the book by Richard Mahoney, whose father was US ambassador to Ghana between 1952-65, and nowhere in that book is Danquah described as a CIA agent. In fact, the younger Mahoney, who was not older than 10 years at the material time, refers to some financial support, stipends, that were allegedly offered to Danquah’s wife and 13 dependent children by an official at the embassy, who was the CIA local agent, when Danquah was first imprisoned by Nkrumah for 11 months between February 1961 and January 1962, without the prior knowledge of his father.”
The CIA does not go about pointing out who their agents are. Thus when there is a fortuitous and concrete proof of such payments, Ghanaians have every right to interrogate it! Is Mr. Ochere-Darko also interrogating the age of the father who must have passed on the information to his son? The issue is certainly not about the age of Richard Mahoney, nor at what time his father became the US Ambassador to Ghana. The issue is whether or not the CIA was paying stipends to Danquah's wife with his knowledge and approval? And the answer is clear!
What is even more interesting about this is the fact that Ochere-Darko behaves as if he was learning about the dubious past of Dr. J. B. Danquah for the first time! That was certainly not the first time that he was reacting to those allegations that wont go away because they are from very credible sources. On Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13, Ochere-Darko published an article on the website of the Danquah Institute, in which he attempted to debunk what he called "smear campaign that Joseph Boakye Danquah, the ‘doyen of Ghana’ and co-founder of Ghana’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), was a CIA spy."
"WHAT STARTED THE LIE? Opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition in Ghana have in the last decade or so seized with glee and relish on a dubious information that came out of the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”. This book, written by Richard Mahoney, son of the late William Mahoney, US Ambassador to Ghana (1962-65), in a paragraph mentions that Dr Danquah’s family, which at the time included 13 dependent children, allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador."
Who could have done this in the American Embassy without the knowledge of the American Ambassador, if it was not the CIA? Ochere-Darko's attempt to edit or re-write a book in print which is still out there is a very daring act of stupidity, to borrow his own word!
Ochere-Darko deliberately chips in the number of Danquah's dependants to give the impression that the CIA is a charity organisation! The mention of Mr. Richard Mahoney's age of ten at the time of the incident, is also a deliberate ploy to give the impression of unreliability of the source. Ochere-Darko actually argues that “The reliability of the information in the younger Mahoney's has certainly been interrogated. Since the author was at the material time barely 10 years old, we must assume that the information came to him much later from his father. This is because no declassified CIA records of the period contain any such reference."
Richard Mahoney's book was published in 1983. He was 31 years old when it was published, not a child. Richard Mahoney was an accomplished scholar in his own rights at the time of publication. He lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador (Quito, Campus). He was also professor emeritus at The American Graduate School of International Management.
Wikipedia provides a short biography on Richard D. Mahoney which describes Mahoney as “the author of three books, two on the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers, The days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999) and Getting Away with Murder on the War in Afghanistan, as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk. He has also published a volume of poetry in Spanish entitled Pétalos (1995).”
Ochere-Darko must look for another argument other than the age of the historian! Is he going to ask archaeologists how old they were when the events they describe in their books occurred? No wonder he is left with nothing sensible to say other than “Would you stop this stupidity? Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity…you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? . ..this is pure stupidity." “When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don’t bring people like this. I am not going to apologise, I can apologise to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologise to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won’t do it!”
"Also, spies, informants or double agents usually have their handlers." Ochere-Darko argues pathetically, " Why didn't Danquah go to his 'handler' to complain but to the Ambassador who, as it turned out, knew nothing about the apparent arrangement? Or, are we not allowed to scrutinise the logicalities of claims made by so-called chroniclers of our history? Nowhere in that book or anywhere else, for that matter, has it been alleged that Danquah personally received money from any foreign power or agent."
Danquah was in prison for eleven months before Nkrumah pardoned him. How would anyone know whether or not his "handler had been tranfered from Ghana? How could we tell if the CIA had rightly considered him as a pent force and dumped him? From the reports that Mahoney was in touch with some soldiers and police officers, thus the CIA had recruited new players and actors on their behalf, so why would they be bothred with Danquah?
As Paul Lee writes in "Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow", "In a reversal of what some would assume were the traditional roles of an ambassador and the CIA director, McCone asked Mahoney who would most likely succeed Nkrumah in the event of a coup.
Mahoney again correctly forecast the future: Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, a military junta would take over." It comes out clearly that the CIA's attention had shifted to somewhere else, and unkown to Danquah, he was no longer in the picture.
The only reason provided by Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute for angrily branding *Dr Omane Boamah*, as being “stupid” is because Gabby sees Danquah as a “founding father of Ghana”! We shall have another occasion to go into that ridiculous claim. For now, it suffices just to ask the question whether it is that stupid to consider a man who is a known CIA asset as “a founding father” of any nation in Africa?
What someone ought to make clear to Gabby is the fact that we do not consider CIA assets as our founding fathers. Indeed, anyone qualified to be a founding father can be disqualified on the basis of being an agent for a foreign country. So you cannot argue that because Danquah is esteemed by others to be a founding father, it is wrong to accuse him of being a CIA agent. On the contrary, the reverse is true. Danquah cannot even be considered as a founding father because he was an asset of a foreign intelligence organisation.
For those of us who know a little bit of our history, the revelations by Professor Mahoney only comes to confirm what we knew already.
As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah rightly puts it, “Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.”
“The grounds for the first detention of Danquah was submitted to him in writing that: 'During the month of September 1961 YOU DID JOIN in a DESIGN for the subversion of the Government of Ghana PRESENTED to you at a meeting on the premises of Dr. J. B. Danquah in Accra, by ISMAILA ANNAN and ATTA BORDOH both now detained and you did ENCOURAGE this design and in furtherance of it DID ACT in a manner calculated to endanger the security of the State and to cause the overthrow of the Government of Ghana by unlawful means'” (see Danquah’s own Historic Speeches J. B. Danquah).
“Of course one should expect Danquah to craft his response like a defense attorney in order to accuse Nkrumah’s Government of unlawful detention without trial. Danquah’s claim was that the meeting was called in connection with the 1961 Takoradi Workers’ strike and the government’s budget. During this same strike, Komla Gbedemah, serving on the three-man presidential commission ruling the country, “saw his chance to seize power. Gbedemah had no problem in obtaining CIA backing for his conspiracy.” He “approached Ambassador Russell on September 6, 1961”and asked for US support; and “Washington gave an unequivocal yes.” Gbedemah and Busia went into exile together with the help of the CIA in October 1961 (see Mahoney, 1983 for details).
Now, given that Danquah, Busia, Obetsebi-Lamptey, R. R. Amponsah, Modesto Apaloo and the new comer Gbedemah were in one accord to overthrow Nkrumah’s government by violence, Danquah’s assurance given to the foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 and the meeting in his house in September 1961 cannot be seen as unrelated issues.”
Danquah who started his political carrier as a collaborator of the British colonial rule and a favourite, lost all the respect and support which the British transferred to Dr. Kofi Busia, must have become very useful to the CIA at that time. There were signs that he got on better with the Americans than with the British. It must be remembered that in 1954, just after losing the Parliamentary elections to his ex-wife, he took a trip, not to the UK but to the US.
The reason why the British develop a very low esteem of this individual was as a result of his deep involvement in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa. It might have also been the case on Danquah's part, who never forgave the British when the Privy Council, the final court of appeal, "sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until they died". It must be noted that the culprits were his own relatives, namely, Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng.
As to his motivations for being a spy, Mr. Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko has given too many reasons for this to labour the point here. Suffice it to say that the reason why this is important is because it has implications on the loyalties of those who claim to be followers of the Danquah tradition. For instance, in arguing that President Mills must allow the Americans to establish military bases in Ghana in the wake of of President Obama's visit to Ghana, Ochere-Darko quotes Nkrumah out of context to promote his evil Danquah-infested agenda.
One trick Ochere-Darko used which I have never forgiven was to make it look as though allowing our lands to be occupied by a foreign military power is a from of liberation! Here is what he wrote:
“Obama's chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.” Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.'s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this. - Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, " (Obama's Visit – What's In It For Us And U.S.?", Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009. "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)
“Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs"? Does that sound familiar? It is obviously a sacrilegious reference to the Independence Eve declaration by the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah:
“And as I pointed out, I made it quite clear that from now on, today, we must change our attitudes, our minds! We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial people but a free and independent people! But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work!
That new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs! We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation! Our own African identity!”
This is why we need to keep a close eye, not only on people like Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko but also the man he represents, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. This is why it is important not to trust the destiny of this nation in hands such as these! This is why it is important to expose these agents of imperialism who think that the only way "the black man can prove to the whole world that he is capable of managing his own affairs" is by allowing a foreign military occupation of our territories!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro,
Member, Pan-Africanist International -*a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! **(also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.)
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francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Feature Article by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
A Rejoinder to: Richard Mahoney: On Danquah and Nkrumah – Parts One, Feature Article of Wednesday, 14 December 2011, by Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame For those of you who might n ... read full comment
Feature Article by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
A Rejoinder to: Richard Mahoney: On Danquah and Nkrumah – Parts One, Feature Article of Wednesday, 14 December 2011, by Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame For those of you who might not be following the politics of this debate, let me give a quick background to it. Dr. J. B. Danquah is considered “the doyen” of Gold Coast politics by the NPP in general, and particularly, by his handful of hard-core followers, mostly his blood relations, who also appear to be clearly and discernibly seeking to take advantage of his over-blown hero-status as a platform to launch their own personal political ambitions. Prominent among that group is Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, Danquah's nephew and flag-bearer of the NPP, one such politician who has firmly hinged his overall political campaign strategy as a continuation of the promotion of the ideals and values of what J.B. Danquah represented. His speech announcing his intention to contest the presidency attests to this campaign packaging. More importantly, he even established the Danquah Institute, pushing his own nephew and a grandson of Danquah, Mr. Otchere-Darko, then Managing Editor of the Statesman to man it. Akufo-Addo was hoping to ride on the back of Danquah's fame to the Presidency. Things seemed to go smoothly for some time, particularly when NPP was in power, and external funders of right-wing think-tanks have never been difficult to obtain. The growing public awareness of the scandal involving human sacrifice and ritual murder in which Danquah was more than a mere defence attorney led the first body-blow to the carefully crafted image of a “gentle Danquah, meek and mild”, instead of the shameless accomplice to a ritual murder and human sacrifice! The Danquah followers have already been having a hard time with this scandal involving the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa in February 1944, which is beginning to be widely known. Thus an additional scandal exposing such a villain as a CIA agent is another body blow to the propaganda materials they have been churning out about Danquah as a selfless patriot and so on, for obvious reasons.
An exposure of Danquah as a CIA agent, is exactly the kind of thing the Akufo-Addo campaign can ill afford at this time. It throws the entire Akufo-Addo campaign, carefully planned over the years completely out of gear. This explains the deep sense of alarm we saw live on TV when the CIA status of Danquah was revealed by Dr. Boamah Omane. It was quickly understood that after having tied his fate to “the doyen of Gold Coast politics”, J. B. Danquah's fall from grace to grass cannot take place without some of the political consequences washing on the fortunes of Akufo-Addo in the context of the current electoral campaign. Suspicions have already been raised by the links between “all die be die” and the US Africa Command, with what Otchere-Darko calls “Washington’s strategy of working with its regional allies in West Africa to develop relationships that will secure its energy security in the long term.” See: “Obama’s Visit – What’s In It For Us And U.S.?”, by Otchere-Darko, Gabby Asare, Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009.
Even though Otchere-Darko's performance was a complete flop, he obviously had very little room to manoeuvre with lies. Let's face it, how can they possibly challenge Richard Mahoney when Okoampa himself is saying: “One source which the followers of Mr. Nkrumah, the so-called Nkrumaists, have consistently, persistently and perennially cited to cast both doubt and aspersions on the integrity of Dr. Danquah is Richard D. Mahoney’s quite authoritative treatise on United States’ foreign policy vis-à-vis Africa during the Eisenhower and the Kennedy years, titled JFK: Ordeal in Africa (New York: Oxford UP, 1983). But that the author’s father, William P. Mahoney, was the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana during the Kennedy years, has predictably served to further enhance the credibility and authority of his book in the opinion of these diehard Nkrumaists.”? See: “Richard Mahoney: On Danquah and Nkrumah – Part One" by Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame, Feature Article of Wednesday, 14 December 2011. It is clearly a losing battle here. Perhaps this explains why Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe is so keen even to flog the dead horse with irrelevant tales! Perhaps he is being fooled by the Churchillian definition of success as “the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm”!
The incontrovertible fact that has remained equally unassailable to all attempts by Akufo-Addo handlers has been the revelation that point clearly to J.B. Danquah's involvement with the US Central Intelligence Agency, (CIA). The sad thing about this revelation is that the Akufo-Addo team appear to be fully aware of the damaging implications not only on Danquah's image, but also on Akufo-Addo's own political career, but appear to be caught off-guard and helpless. Their number one problem is that the facts are true, and they do not seem to have any intelligent response. It was simply disgusting to see Otchere-Darko going into tantrums at the mere mention of this on TV, and remaining conspicuously silent particularly after an article I wrote, “J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!” Feature Article of Saturday, 1 October 2011, by Mensah, Nana Akyea. Otchere-Darko kept silent. I followed it up with “Ochere-Darko Must Render Proper Apologies For 'Stupid' Insults!” Again there was dead silence. I wrote a Part Two and made sure that Otchere-Darko had a copy by e-mail. It was a shrivelled and completely flattened Otchere-Darko who responded: “gabby@danquahinstitute.org via srs.bis7.eu.blackberry.com to me, 12/10/2011. Re: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com has shared: Ochere-Darko Must Render Proper Apologies For “Stupid” Insults! Part II
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That was all. Your guess is as good as mine as to what explains such an inexplicable climb down. Qanawu, of all people, refused to “talk and die”! He has since been avoiding the topic like a plague! He knows in his own bones that there is no antidote to facts, and the best solution is to avoid the topic entirely. Which is understandable, even though it leaves the Akufo-Addo campaign politically orphaned and stranded in the wilderness of exposure of what they are capable of. Considering the facts, silence is perhaps the best solution to this problem. It is therefore clear that if Okoampa-Ahoofe had consulted Otchere-Darko before writing his article, Otchere-Darko would have told him to “let sleeping dogs lie”. But that is certainly the kind of advice Okoampa would misconstrue as an irritating indication of a lack of confidence in his ability to re-write history.
I have often maintained, Okoampa always reminds me of the Roman general who said, I more fear a stupid ally than I fear a clever enemy”. With the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute on the run, it came as no surprise that Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., would naturally step in to save the situation. What we need to make clear is the fact that we know that there is hardly a Danquah follower who did not know that Danquah was a CIA agent, even though they would vehemently deny it in public, just as Danquah himself did in his time. The only hitch this time is that both in terms of content and author, they are finding it impossible to challenge Richard Mahoney's assertions that J. B. Danquah's family received CIA stipends when he was in prison. We are dealing with people who would ask you for the receipts to prove that the CIA was paying any money to Danquah. Thus, it is exceptionally fortuitous that the facts and the evidence came from a completely unexpected source.
It has not been easy since 1958 to lay hands on the hard evidence to categorically link and nail Danquah as a CIA agent, even though it was very clear to the Ghanaian intelligence that he was up to something. As Paul Lee explains in “Documents Expose the first evidence that emerged were anecdotal: “While charges of U.S. involvement are not new, support for them was lacking until 1978, when anecdotal evidence was provided from an unlikely source - a former CIA case officer, John Stockwell, who reported first-hand testimony in his memoir, In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story.
'The inside story came to me,' Stockwell wrote, 'from an egotistical friend, who had been chief of the [CIA] station in Accra [Ghana] at the time.' (Stockwell was stationed one country away in the Ivory Coast.)
Subsequent investigations by The New York Times and Covert Action Information Bulletin identified the station chief as Howard T. Banes, who operated undercover as a political officer in the U.S. Embassy.”
And perhaps that would have been all we would have ever known had Richard Mahoney not published his book. In 2002, John R. Stockwell, a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty explains in an interview:
“Howard Banes who was the CIA station chief in Accra engineered the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah. Now, obviously, you can look at it in different ways. A Ghanaian might say I thought we did it. Inside the CIA, though, it was quite clear. Howard Banes had a double promotion and an Intelligence Star for having overthrown Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
The magic of it, what made it so exciting for the CIA, was that Howard Banes had had enough imagination and drive to run the operation without ever documenting what he was doing, and to sweep along his bosses in such a way, they knew what he was doing, tacitly they approved, but there wasn't one shred of paper that he generated that would nail the CIA hierarchy as being responsible.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, puts it:
“Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.” See: "Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)", Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006 Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr. For those of us looking for evidence of “receipts” of CIA payments to Danquah before we can be convinced that J.B. Danquah was indeed a CIA asset, the “receipt” came in the form of a book. As we can see from Okoampa's accounts, Richard Mahoney was no admirer of Kwame Nkrumah, and he was obviously not writing to please Pan-Africanists, when he noted that:
“The matter concerned Dr. J. B. Danquah, Nkrumah's opponent in the Presidential elections of 1960, who had been released from prison a few months after Mahoney's arrival as ambassador. Danquah paid a visit one November day to the embassy to ask Mahoney why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut off after his release.
This was the first time Mahoney had heard of the arrangement. After Danquah left, he summoned the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised by the agency's association with Danquah. Dissatisfied with the explanation, Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter.” Read from page 184-185.
As I noted earlier in “J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!”, Feature Article of Saturday, 1 October 2011 Columnist: Mensah, Nana Akyea:
“The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)”. I think there is no easy way to deny a fact that is published by an authoritative source, but Okoampa's pathetic attempts to beat about the bush only helps Ghanaians to focus more on what he wants to divert our attention from. An ugly tactic that did not go down well was the attempt by Otchere-Darko to use insults and “takashi” or “all die be die” in response to these allegations. Since the event happened live on radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV, most Ghanaians did see, and most would easily recall the disgraceful manner the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute put up in the course of the discussion on the Founder's Day, last September. It was pathetic. Mr. Kweku Baako was talking about the need for a broad political consensus across Ghana's political spectrum.
“That will dilute the whole thing.” Dr. Omane-Boamah would not agree. In supporting his claim, he insisted that it would be wrong to include former “CIA agents like Dr. J. Danquah” as a founder of Ghana. It is precisely at this point that Otchere-Darko's misbehaviour began:
“Would you stop this stupidity?” Gabby asked angrily. “Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity… you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? ...this is pure stupidity.”
Gabby Otchere Darko was then asked by the host of the show to apologize to listeners and Dr. Omane Boamah for the insulting language but Gabby would only apologize to listeners. He stubbornly refused to apologize to the deputy Minister. He rather chose the option of walking out of the studio than to apologize for the insults. He was subsequently asked to leave the studios for his refusal to apologize to Omane Boamah, since that was the rule. Gabby Otchere Darko accepted the option of not apologizing and walking out to apologize and stay, and walked off the live program stating:
“When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don't bring people like this. I am not going to apologize, I can apologize to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologize to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won't do it!”
I remember the reaction of Ekow Nelson: “Okoampa and Otchere-Darko are getting overly emotional about the wrong side of this issue. they are arguing that JB Danquah did not need any motivation from a foreign government to destabilize and overthrow the elected government of Ghana. He did what the CIA would have liked him to do but took no money for it! He did all of that pro bono! So why is that redeeming for Dr. Danquah?” And here was my own: “The only way out I saw for Gabby in this predicament was to have honestly admitted the fact that the CIA paid stipends to J.B. Danquah's wife whilst in prison, explained why this was so, and to have left the public in peace to go and find out for themselves! He could then have added, as he seems to explain so eloquently with his “friend of America” excuses, that even if Danquah was a CIA agent, he did it for the good of the nation but not for stipends. And he could have allowed the public to judge for themselves who is really stupid!” See: "Ochere-Darko Must Render Proper Apologies For “Stupid” Insults! Part I", by Nana Akyea Mensah, Featured Articles | 7 October 2011.
Even Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe was embarrassed enough to confess that the reaction of the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, to the allegations that “Danquah was a CIA agent”, was a "rather startlingly infantile reaction", even though he agrees with him! See: "Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It", Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011. So I was completely taken aback, and could not believe my eyes at first, when I saw an article by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., on this topic. But even more shocking than the fool-hardy idea of commenting on what has apparently been declared “a lost battle” and is fast becoming a taboo topic in the Akufo-Addo campaign, is the manner with which he beats about the bush and begs the simple question of whether or not J. B. Danquah was a CIA spy!
What Ghanaians want to know are the facts. Did J.B. Danquah go to the US Ambassador to ask why the CIA had stopped paying stipends to his wife? That is the question! Okoampa should stop beating about the bush and tell us why the CIA was paying these "stipends" in question to his hero's wife when he was in prison! Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? If you claim you read the book, then you ought to know that this very line is also in the book: “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”?
Grandson, let's talk about that. Let's talk about that, Baby!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro, is a member of the Social Media Outreach Programme of the Pan-Africanist International - a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! And is also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
NICHOLAS 9 years ago
It is very funny and indeed laughable to hear Akufo-Addo, Prof Mike Oquaye and others in the NPP trying to re-write the political history of Ghana. May be they are the only scholars in Ghana who have been tasked to school th ... read full comment
It is very funny and indeed laughable to hear Akufo-Addo, Prof Mike Oquaye and others in the NPP trying to re-write the political history of Ghana. May be they are the only scholars in Ghana who have been tasked to school the rest of the country about our political past.
It must be made abundantly clear to them that what they have embarked on is an exercise in futility and the earlier they abandon it the better it will be for them. So long as we are alive, it will continue to be a scar in the minds of some of us and indeed, we shall always remember JB Danquah and the UP Tradition as the real ENEMIES OF GHANA'S PROGRESS.
And what is Akufo-Addo saying? They have forgiven Nkrumah's Family and that the CPP must join the NPP to help fight the teething problems facing the country? Nkrumah is not wrong in punishing JB Danquah for making his work as the President of Ghana a difficult one, he therefore owes no one an apology.
As for Akufo-Addo's desire for the CPP to come and join forces with his NPP to help him attain his childhood dream of becoming the President of Ghana, the least said about that the better. If Akufo-Addo has realized that cooperation can help fight the teething problems facing Ghana then the time is ripe for the NPP to cooperate with the NDC. After all, the NDC as a party is not for foreigners.
warren 9 years ago
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
warren 9 years ago
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
Warren, don't worry much about that Bokor because he is one of the many primitive Ewes. Besides they aged gorilla is tribal and partisan.
Warren, don't worry much about that Bokor because he is one of the many primitive Ewes. Besides they aged gorilla is tribal and partisan.
Samuel Ansah New York 9 years ago
History made us to know that Danquah was a traitor and the best Nkrumah could do was to lock him .History made us to know that Danquah and his cronies did everything to thwart to the construction of the Akosombo Dam ... read full comment
History made us to know that Danquah was a traitor and the best Nkrumah could do was to lock him .History made us to know that Danquah and his cronies did everything to thwart to the construction of the Akosombo Dam by Kwame Nkrumah and so why the silly noise by the old man Nana Akufo Addo?
warren 9 years ago
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
warren 9 years ago
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
Yaw Boakye 9 years ago
Bokor do you really think Nana Addo knows who you are???
Bokor do you really think Nana Addo knows who you are???
Frank 9 years ago
This is an intelligent piece. Mahama needs to take a tough stance to deal with this terrorist and drug cartel party. Soft democracy will not work and learn from Nkrumah and JJ. How do you allow these drug barons and epes to h ... read full comment
This is an intelligent piece. Mahama needs to take a tough stance to deal with this terrorist and drug cartel party. Soft democracy will not work and learn from Nkrumah and JJ. How do you allow these drug barons and epes to have their way out?
perscoba 9 years ago
Look my grandfather was in Koforidua and dined with JB and Nkrumah and Ako Adjei. They were all good buddies TILL NKRUMAH thinking he was smarter than the rest STOLE SOME UGCC MONEY to start the CPP.......that was ho ... read full comment
Look my grandfather was in Koforidua and dined with JB and Nkrumah and Ako Adjei. They were all good buddies TILL NKRUMAH thinking he was smarter than the rest STOLE SOME UGCC MONEY to start the CPP.......that was howt the movement MATEMEHO started, you hear?. People who did not want to team up with the thieving Nkrumah decided never to have anything to do with him--IN AKAN WE SAY MATE MEHO.......alright.
Also why not. research the archives at the CIA to verify if JB was ever an AGENT. In this way you will know the truth first hand. Whilst at it could you verify the status of that guy" who used too be Nkrumah;s finance Minister"- you know am talking about!
Oh how important that JB is celebrated.I hope Mensah Sarbah and the rest are also celebrated.THESE AKAN ILLUMINARIES have done so much for OMAN GHANA.
In anycase what happened to my ideas on the use of the volta.phew I also learnt that long before this JB had envisioned the use of the VOLTA........for economic advances.........phew!!!!
perscoba
Skizzy 9 years ago
so nothing new or refreshing ever comes out from your writings. Go and get a life bigot.
so nothing new or refreshing ever comes out from your writings. Go and get a life bigot.
Auntie Amarkai-bi Saban 9 years ago
Mr. Bokor, you never cease to amaze me with your subjective, intellectually vacuous, and vapid articles!!
Granted, you hate Akuffo-Addo, and that is your prerogative; however, you don't have the right, in hating the man, ... read full comment
Mr. Bokor, you never cease to amaze me with your subjective, intellectually vacuous, and vapid articles!!
Granted, you hate Akuffo-Addo, and that is your prerogative; however, you don't have the right, in hating the man, to inflict and infect us with your nauseating illiteracy. Yes, your illiteracy!! You profess to possess a doctorate degree, and you also claim to teach Writing of some sort at a University in New York, so one would, expect you to exhibit deep reasoning backed by solid evidence in the claims you make. Unfortunately, again, all you've done here is, like a preschooler, to 'hemorrhage" claims without proof, and, in some cases, just spout painful non-sequiturs.
Let's cite an example: "As for the claim made by Mike Ocquaye, every well-informed Ghanaian knows the negative impact of JB Danquah, which was why he suffered the kind of punishment that he wrought for himself" What is this supposed to mean? Mr. Illiterate Bokor, well-informed Ghanaians, unlike you, would rather look at the facts, and based on the exigencies of the historical epoch, conclude that though Nkrumah was a great and visionary leader by all standards, one could not just dismiss and consign J.B. Danquah and others into the dustbin of history, the way you and the dishonest people of your ilk, have sought to do. Was it Nkrumah who started the struggle for independence? Didn't Nkrumah meet an already well-oiled political machine, UGCC, that had become a thorn in the flesh of the British? Was it not the UGCC that first provided Nkrumah the platform to introduce himself to Ghanaians? And who the hell do you think was the face of the UGCC? And you have the ghoulish nerve to call others "revisionists of history!!" Illiterate Bokor, well-informed Ghanaians, unlike you, would not hesitate to conclude that Nkrumah deserves all the accolades, but will also not forget to shower similar accolades on those whose willing shoulders he stood on to gain the height he reached.
Nkrumah was great, but he was also human; thus, he could be pardoned for letting Danquah, a mentor, die in such ignoble circumstances, even if the two had become estranged from each other. Thus, Mr. Illiterate Bokor, your dim-witted effusions rather make you the one who makes Nkrumah look bad!!
still rastafari 9 years ago
NDC is an accident
NDC is an accident
TEE 9 years ago
WE ARE NKRUMIST BUT WE SUPPORT NANA ADDO / BAWUMIA SO PLEASE NPP STOP THIS I HAVE FORGIVEN YOU NKRUMAH'S FAMILY AND CPP. THAT IS NOT HEALTY FOR SUPPORTERS NANA AKUFO ADDO.
WE ARE NKRUMIST BUT WE SUPPORT NANA ADDO / BAWUMIA SO PLEASE NPP STOP THIS I HAVE FORGIVEN YOU NKRUMAH'S FAMILY AND CPP. THAT IS NOT HEALTY FOR SUPPORTERS NANA AKUFO ADDO.
TEE 9 years ago
SO PLEASE NANA STOP THIS PAST HISTORY OF CPP AND UGCC AND I HAVE FORGIVEN YOU AND BLA BLA BLA BLA LET WORK TOGETHER CPP NPP PPP NPD etc. TOWARDS 2016 PERIOD
SO PLEASE NANA STOP THIS PAST HISTORY OF CPP AND UGCC AND I HAVE FORGIVEN YOU AND BLA BLA BLA BLA LET WORK TOGETHER CPP NPP PPP NPD etc. TOWARDS 2016 PERIOD
Kumasi Berchie 9 years ago
Dr. Bokor, please politics is not all about "endearing the hearts of the electorate." It is also about principles. That is why green parties and their likes exist in many dispensations, even though there is every indication ... read full comment
Dr. Bokor, please politics is not all about "endearing the hearts of the electorate." It is also about principles. That is why green parties and their likes exist in many dispensations, even though there is every indication that they will never win power. JB Danquah was murdered by our politics; there are many others who have likewise been killed by our politics. In the heat of the 1979 "Revolutions" I recall the cold blooded killings that took place in my hometown. Their bodies were packed into tipper trucks and paraded on the streets. Incredibly, the parade ended at a Secondary School, which was witnessed by young students, including my good self. Is it wrong to say "we forgive the perpetrators of the murderous acts" in order to endear ourselves to the electorates?
IA 9 years ago
I think Akuffo-Addo is the best inspirational speaker in Ghana at the moment. if you stop critising, you might learn a thing or two.
I think Akuffo-Addo is the best inspirational speaker in Ghana at the moment. if you stop critising, you might learn a thing or two.
NTRA SAKYI 9 years ago
Can Bokor be ever refreshed by anything that comes from NPP'S camp? If no then what is the basis of his frequent writing? Has Bokor ever seen something positive about NPP? It would be better he keeps his opinion to himself.
Can Bokor be ever refreshed by anything that comes from NPP'S camp? If no then what is the basis of his frequent writing? Has Bokor ever seen something positive about NPP? It would be better he keeps his opinion to himself.
Banza Yaro 9 years ago
Bokor is like a worm trying to swallow a python. If he thinks Danquah has no footing in our political history, he should rethink who his mother is.
Bokor is like a worm trying to swallow a python. If he thinks Danquah has no footing in our political history, he should rethink who his mother is.
Boat, Boat, the New Yorker 9 years ago
The only spectacular achievement of Nana Addo is that as an Attorney General, he expunged the criminal libel clause from our constitution, which has made it possible for the likes of Bokor to come to ghanaweb and spew venomou ... read full comment
The only spectacular achievement of Nana Addo is that as an Attorney General, he expunged the criminal libel clause from our constitution, which has made it possible for the likes of Bokor to come to ghanaweb and spew venomous substances. The only spectacular achievement of Nana Addo is that while in exile in London, he courageous challenged Rawlings to return the country to constitutional rule. So Dr Bokor, with your chains of degrees what have you achieved for Ghana? I am a Guan from the Volta Region and I approve this message.
Boat, Boat, the New Yorker 9 years ago
*courageously*
*courageously*
nana akufo addo 9 years ago
hahahauuuuhuii l like this
hahahauuuuhuii l like this
Sir Pashiw from tarkwa 9 years ago
Mr borkor l will advice you to seek medical attention immediately.thank you.why bcos you are a bitter person.
Mr borkor l will advice you to seek medical attention immediately.thank you.why bcos you are a bitter person.
perscoba 9 years ago
Yo9u when a person of his caliber write infantile and baseless stories it makes my spine try to edge out.
Why does Bokor have a problem with the celebration of JB- a man without whom there could never have been an ind ... read full comment
Yo9u when a person of his caliber write infantile and baseless stories it makes my spine try to edge out.
Why does Bokor have a problem with the celebration of JB- a man without whom there could never have been an independent GHANA....s Bokor denying the palpable fact that JB WAS THE ONE WHO FIRST CAUSED NKRUMAH TO RETURN FROM USA TO BECOME THE SECRETARY OF THE UGCC?
Inbfact Bokor who sees all things via a tribalistic lense must be ashamed of himself for trying to twist history---by the way is BOKOR A TOGOLESE OR GHANAIN NAME just wondering
perscoba 9 years ago
America celebrates the JULY 4THINDEPENDENCE DAY EVERY YEAR. Throughout the academia and all lecture hall Americans conitnue to celebrate their sons and daughters.....so why cant we also celebrate JB?
Look my grandfather w ... read full comment
America celebrates the JULY 4THINDEPENDENCE DAY EVERY YEAR. Throughout the academia and all lecture hall Americans conitnue to celebrate their sons and daughters.....so why cant we also celebrate JB?
Look my grandfather was in Koforidua and dined with JB and Nkrumah and Ako Adjei. They were all good buddies TILL NKRUMAH thinking he was smarter than the rest STOLE SOME UGCC MONEY to start the CPP.......that was howt the movement MATEMEHO started, you hear?. People who did not want to team up with the thieving Nkrumah decided never to have anything to do with him--IN AKAN WE SAY MATE MEHO.......alright.
Also why not. research the archives at the CIA to verify if JB was ever an AGENT. In this way you will know the truth first hand. Whilst at it could you verify the status of that guy" who used too be Nkrumah;s finance Minister"- you know am talking about!
Oh how important that JB is celebrated.I hope Mensah Sarbah and the rest are also celebrated.THESE AKAN ILLUMINARIES have done so much for OMAN GHANA.
In anycase what happened to my ideas on the use of the volta.phew I also learnt that long before this JB had envisioned the use of the VOLTA........for economic advances.........phew!!!!
perscoba
freddie 9 years ago
Some of you are so stupid so much so that what ever stupid thing america does we should also follow and so same. So in your stupid america where people are allowed to carry guns which has resulted rampant gun killings even sc ... read full comment
Some of you are so stupid so much so that what ever stupid thing america does we should also follow and so same. So in your stupid america where people are allowed to carry guns which has resulted rampant gun killings even schools ghana should also do same?
perscoba 9 years ago
I could have cited any country ofui!!!
BLACKS IN AMERICA AND THE CARIBEAN always long to know their history. Just because you ewes do not have any enkightened history of your own does not negate the proper telling of ... read full comment
I could have cited any country ofui!!!
BLACKS IN AMERICA AND THE CARIBEAN always long to know their history. Just because you ewes do not have any enkightened history of your own does not negate the proper telling of others history.
Have you not read that MAN MUST KNOW HIS HISTORY????? otherwise why dont you and the bastards in NDC go burn all histry departments in the world universities.....what a moron you are.
if the lone crusader 9 years ago
Bokor why do you lot bother too much of elections than the ghana you were elected to salvage if you have any solution? Do you see or hear at all? For a so call dr to comment this way makes sb doubt of your accademia.by the wa ... read full comment
Bokor why do you lot bother too much of elections than the ghana you were elected to salvage if you have any solution? Do you see or hear at all? For a so call dr to comment this way makes sb doubt of your accademia.by the way can anything good come from your party defended bec et engle?
Mathias Korbla Agbanyo 9 years ago
Hmmmm keep the fire burning
Hmmmm keep the fire burning
Mathias Korbla Agbanyo 9 years ago
Insults not the answer but reflect on the contents
Insults not the answer but reflect on the contents
Nana 9 years ago
JB Danquah was part of the wicked secret cult, Freemason (Ghana Branch) and a paid agent of CIA, an extension of Illuminati. A ritual murderer, who killed Akyea Mensah and others. Why should we spend time discussing him??? Th ... read full comment
JB Danquah was part of the wicked secret cult, Freemason (Ghana Branch) and a paid agent of CIA, an extension of Illuminati. A ritual murderer, who killed Akyea Mensah and others. Why should we spend time discussing him??? The wages of sin death is indeed a prison death!!!
I like this piece of writing. NPP cannot continue with this trash. They are distancing themselves from the people. How can you say, we have forgiven you? If you do not, what will happen and who cares?
Bokor if you need something refreshing for your primitive tribal and partisan stupidity from Akufo-Addo and his NPP, then I will advise you idiot to call Francis Kwarteng (USA) on 001-301 277 5871 in 4230-Oglethorpe St. Hyatt ...
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I believe there is a national monument in the form of roundabout called Danquah Circle. I don't know where it is in Accra, but if JB Danquah was as subversive and was incarcerated for treason, why would there be a national mo ...
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Look bastard.ask yourself if jb danquah statue in Accra. why Nkrumah statue at a.u in Ethiopia.
Dr. Bokor,
Good piece.
Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Tec ...
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Feature Article by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
A Rejoinder to: Richard Mahoney: On Danquah and Nkrumah – Parts One, Feature Article of Wednesday, 14 December 2011, by Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame For those of you who might n ...
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It is very funny and indeed laughable to hear Akufo-Addo, Prof Mike Oquaye and others in the NPP trying to re-write the political history of Ghana. May be they are the only scholars in Ghana who have been tasked to school th ...
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stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
Warren, don't worry much about that Bokor because he is one of the many primitive Ewes. Besides they aged gorilla is tribal and partisan.
History made us to know that Danquah was a traitor and the best Nkrumah could do was to lock him .History made us to know that Danquah and his cronies did everything to thwart to the construction of the Akosombo Dam ...
read full comment
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
stupidity at it's best. instead of coming down to ghana and help your incompetent ndc you stay in USA and spew nonsense. fatuous fathead. empty headed baboon like bokor. foolish man
Bokor do you really think Nana Addo knows who you are???
This is an intelligent piece. Mahama needs to take a tough stance to deal with this terrorist and drug cartel party. Soft democracy will not work and learn from Nkrumah and JJ. How do you allow these drug barons and epes to h ...
read full comment
Look my grandfather was in Koforidua and dined with JB and Nkrumah and Ako Adjei. They were all good buddies TILL NKRUMAH thinking he was smarter than the rest STOLE SOME UGCC MONEY to start the CPP.......that was ho ...
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so nothing new or refreshing ever comes out from your writings. Go and get a life bigot.
Mr. Bokor, you never cease to amaze me with your subjective, intellectually vacuous, and vapid articles!!
Granted, you hate Akuffo-Addo, and that is your prerogative; however, you don't have the right, in hating the man, ...
read full comment
NDC is an accident
WE ARE NKRUMIST BUT WE SUPPORT NANA ADDO / BAWUMIA SO PLEASE NPP STOP THIS I HAVE FORGIVEN YOU NKRUMAH'S FAMILY AND CPP. THAT IS NOT HEALTY FOR SUPPORTERS NANA AKUFO ADDO.
SO PLEASE NANA STOP THIS PAST HISTORY OF CPP AND UGCC AND I HAVE FORGIVEN YOU AND BLA BLA BLA BLA LET WORK TOGETHER CPP NPP PPP NPD etc. TOWARDS 2016 PERIOD
Dr. Bokor, please politics is not all about "endearing the hearts of the electorate." It is also about principles. That is why green parties and their likes exist in many dispensations, even though there is every indication ...
read full comment
I think Akuffo-Addo is the best inspirational speaker in Ghana at the moment. if you stop critising, you might learn a thing or two.
Can Bokor be ever refreshed by anything that comes from NPP'S camp? If no then what is the basis of his frequent writing? Has Bokor ever seen something positive about NPP? It would be better he keeps his opinion to himself.
Bokor is like a worm trying to swallow a python. If he thinks Danquah has no footing in our political history, he should rethink who his mother is.
The only spectacular achievement of Nana Addo is that as an Attorney General, he expunged the criminal libel clause from our constitution, which has made it possible for the likes of Bokor to come to ghanaweb and spew venomou ...
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*courageously*
hahahauuuuhuii l like this
Mr borkor l will advice you to seek medical attention immediately.thank you.why bcos you are a bitter person.
Yo9u when a person of his caliber write infantile and baseless stories it makes my spine try to edge out.
Why does Bokor have a problem with the celebration of JB- a man without whom there could never have been an ind ...
read full comment
America celebrates the JULY 4THINDEPENDENCE DAY EVERY YEAR. Throughout the academia and all lecture hall Americans conitnue to celebrate their sons and daughters.....so why cant we also celebrate JB?
Look my grandfather w ...
read full comment
Some of you are so stupid so much so that what ever stupid thing america does we should also follow and so same. So in your stupid america where people are allowed to carry guns which has resulted rampant gun killings even sc ...
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I could have cited any country ofui!!!
BLACKS IN AMERICA AND THE CARIBEAN always long to know their history. Just because you ewes do not have any enkightened history of your own does not negate the proper telling of ...
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Bokor why do you lot bother too much of elections than the ghana you were elected to salvage if you have any solution? Do you see or hear at all? For a so call dr to comment this way makes sb doubt of your accademia.by the wa ...
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Hmmmm keep the fire burning
Insults not the answer but reflect on the contents
JB Danquah was part of the wicked secret cult, Freemason (Ghana Branch) and a paid agent of CIA, an extension of Illuminati. A ritual murderer, who killed Akyea Mensah and others. Why should we spend time discussing him??? Th ...
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