The silos Kwame Nkrumah built in Tema

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Thanks for this wonderful article. I have been educated.

  Thanks for this wonderful article. I have been educated.

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• Kojo T 9 years ago

  This is an example of NPP amd its shortsightedness. Intellectuals myfoot

  This is an example of NPP amd its shortsightedness. Intellectuals myfoot

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• Kofi Totobi Kwakye 9 years ago

  Do you like the politically motivated projects with huge price tag? This gov has no plan, Kwame was a very smart leader, Mahama is not.

  Do you like the politically motivated projects with huge price tag? This gov has no plan, Kwame was a very smart leader, Mahama is not.

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• Kwamebeba 9 years ago

  Tell them about Osagyefo's plan for an integrated aluminium industry. Only Samia Nkrumah thinks of such things not the Mahamas or Bawumias who are as corrupt as their fathers.

  Tell them about Osagyefo's plan for an integrated aluminium industry. Only Samia Nkrumah thinks of such things not the Mahamas or Bawumias who are as corrupt as their fathers.

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• TARANTULA 9 years ago

  My friend wake up! Samia, just like Mahama, is a disgrace to Ghana.
  
  Much as I consider myself a staunch Nkrumaist, I would rather vote for a person like Akuffo Addo any day rather than that Samia who is just a disgrace to ...
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  My friend wake up! Samia, just like Mahama, is a disgrace to Ghana.
  
  Much as I consider myself a staunch Nkrumaist, I would rather vote for a person like Akuffo Addo any day rather than that Samia who is just a disgrace to her illustrious father.
  
  I would advise you to be circumspect, reasonable and sensible instead of emotional and irrational when you are discussing politics on this platform otherwise you will get what you deserve.

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• Kweku Donsuro 9 years ago

  This is the type of articles we want to read on ghanaweb. Well-written, objective and factual. Keep it up, Sam of old.

  This is the type of articles we want to read on ghanaweb. Well-written, objective and factual. Keep it up, Sam of old.

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• United Ghana 9 years ago

  What a strategically visionary leader Nkrumah was. Most Africans have greater reverence for him than Ghanaians, thanks to false propaganda from the traitors & their political descendants. Good arcticle

  What a strategically visionary leader Nkrumah was. Most Africans have greater reverence for him than Ghanaians, thanks to false propaganda from the traitors & their political descendants. Good arcticle

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• Kwame 9 years ago

  In 1965 to 1966 I lived with my mother at New Town Down and use to sell agbelikaklo to workers on the construction of the silo at the industrial area. At that time we were told by the opposition to Kwame Nkrumah that as soon ...
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  In 1965 to 1966 I lived with my mother at New Town Down and use to sell agbelikaklo to workers on the construction of the silo at the industrial area. At that time we were told by the opposition to Kwame Nkrumah that as soon as the silos are completed communism will be introduced in Ghana. They said people will work for the state and during breakfast, lunch and dinar go to the silos to receive cooked food. The woman will be separated from men and be given to any man who want to have a sexual partner for that night. All citizens will have their clothing taken away from them and be issued with khaki dress that the Workers' Brigade and Young Pioneers wear during those days. We children they said will be taken away from our parents and keep in a special place where we shall be indoctrinated with Nkrumahism.
  After the 24/2/1966 coup I got to know that all those stories were concerted by the patriots who do not love their country and intend to import everything whiles their people have no work to go and are to migrate to Europe and U.S. to serve as cheap labour for them. The same people said that it is not proper for the Ghanaian to make a guinea fowl and tilapia farm and grow rice, but import the same things from abroad.
  As an adult I happen to live and study in two socialist countries and visited a number of capitalist countries, yet I have not seen the type of socialism that the opponents of Kwame Nkrumah narrated about where there were silos in both capitalist and socialist countries. We were told by NPP members that the guinea fowl that SADA started to breed have all flown to Burkina Faso, but they do not go to Ouagadougou to buy guinea fowls they fly to fly to Amsterdam to buy them because they want what the white man breed.
  The same people tell you that cocoa products will become expensive for consumers in Europe and the U.S. if we are to keep cocoa beans in silos to guarantee their price. They therefore prefer that the Ghanaian gets less for his cocoa beans, whiles the consumer elsewhere get a wind fall. These are the people who swallow any discomfort that the white man creates for them hook, line and sinker, but to not want to disturb the white man with anything because by so doing they are creating discomfort for their Gods.

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• TARANTULA 9 years ago

  As I read your sad comment about how Ghanaians were fooled into denying and rejecting anything and everything that would have projected Ghana within the bracket of the first world, 50 years ago, the first thing that came into ...
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  As I read your sad comment about how Ghanaians were fooled into denying and rejecting anything and everything that would have projected Ghana within the bracket of the first world, 50 years ago, the first thing that came into my mind was the demented people like Mahmoud, Dr SAS, Gye Nyame, Okoampa, Nii Teiko etc, who 50 years later as we speak, still peddle these cheap, childish imperialist concocted lies on this platform to keep Africans stupid, underdeveloped and weak for further and continued exploitation.
  
  They may, like their common mentor, JB Danquah, be willingly offering themselves as mercenaries to keep aloft, the tyranny of global imperialism flying high for their personal, greedy and exclusive benefits. It is however the duty of every ‘liberated’ and enlightened African to continue to quash the evil western propaganda with which they try to misinform us with to keep us down.
  
  Thank you Kwame and thank you Sydney Abugri

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• United Ghana 9 years ago

  Thanks to people like you, these treacherous liars will never succeed in rewriting history.

  Thanks to people like you, these treacherous liars will never succeed in rewriting history.

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• Albert Mawutor 9 years ago

  "The silos within the harbour were built by Nkrumah’s government as part of the Tema Food Complex Corporation (TFCC) project. Nkrumah intended the complex to serve as a food science research centre as well.
  
  Abandoned co ...
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  "The silos within the harbour were built by Nkrumah’s government as part of the Tema Food Complex Corporation (TFCC) project. Nkrumah intended the complex to serve as a food science research centre as well.
  
  Abandoned complex capable of housing food science research center
  Up till today, if renovated and adequately equipped, the facility has the infrastructure to house several faculties of a university of research centre of the type Dr. Nkrumah had in mind: A vast estate, several industrial plants, large blocks of offices, quality control laboratories and other facilities.
  The complex’s giant 10-storey grain silos are the tallest storey buildings in the immediate harbour area. From the roof of the grain storage silos, you get a rather dizzying but also spectacular, eagle eye view of the habour below"
  
  My Response
  
  It sounds to me as if this was meant to be Ghana's "SILICON VALLEY"
  But my questions are simple,
  1. Are the University Research bodies aware of this "Gold Mine" sitting idle for so long?
  2. Has the NUGS being aware of this in the past? What about now? It is necessary to ask this question considering the fact that there numerous graduates unemployed now but who could have got jobs if this facility were operating fully.
  3. Was Rawlings or Kufour aware of this or it is an oversight? Or it was politics as usual? Then who really doesn't want the Ghanaian government to do the right thing for the people? Is it the West? Or is it the World Bank? Then why? So that Ghanaians will continue to devaluate the cedi at all times to promote austerity measures?
  4.The politicians begging for votes, are they conscious of the true demands of Ghanaians? If so then why is it that no house member ever brought up this issue for debate? Personally I would have supported that person to be the next president of Ghana.
  5.Party politics is it surely helping Ghana or it has destroyed us? Who are the benefactors of Nkrumah's distractors? The World Bank, the West or Ghanaians? After all what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.
  6. The Abacha money for Nigeria. Do Ghana also has some money like that elsewhere? What are the house members doing about those monies?

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• Kwame 9 years ago

  Albert Mawutor NUGS want to eat canned beans, meat and fish. A mention of organizations like NUGS let me feel like vomiting. The majority of our problems comes from our intellectuals who always subordinate themselves to the c ...
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  Albert Mawutor NUGS want to eat canned beans, meat and fish. A mention of organizations like NUGS let me feel like vomiting. The majority of our problems comes from our intellectuals who always subordinate themselves to the class mates because the later is white. It also reminds me of how a World Bank expert on railways who was imported by John Rawlings run down the Ghana Railway Corporation.
  You are well aware that whiles the Ghanaian intellectual has demonstrated against VAT he has never demonstrated against cash-and-carry in education, health, sanitation and water,whiles their counterparts in Western Europe are demonstrating for years against the privatization of those things.
  When the U.S. launched attach on Iraq in 2003 I could hear an Iraqi saying that the documents that the U.S. was using for the attach were part of his thesis, and that all that was based on assumption. The majority of our intellectual do not consume rice produced in Ghana and when you ask them why they will tell you a cork and bull story that there are stones in them.

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• Sankofa 9 years ago

  It is a moot point that Kufuor opened a silo at Tema harbour years after Nkrumah's silos were abandoned.
  
  The silos would have helped address the problem of post-harvest losses by providing ready storage for agricultural pr ...
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  It is a moot point that Kufuor opened a silo at Tema harbour years after Nkrumah's silos were abandoned.
  
  The silos would have helped address the problem of post-harvest losses by providing ready storage for agricultural produce.
  
  What price foresight?

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• peter Akasake 9 years ago

  well written, thanks for educating us my brother, you will grow in more wisdom

  well written, thanks for educating us my brother, you will grow in more wisdom

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• Kwame 9 years ago

  The silos were build in all the regional capitals and are still there some with their roofing rift off.

  The silos were build in all the regional capitals and are still there some with their roofing rift off.

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• Amanfo 9 years ago

  Reading this article and various commentaries brought shame to us as Ghanaians and we dare those who lack foresight to rebut. Nkrumah was sold for a pettinance and unfortunately he went away with his visions, smartness, intel ...
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  Reading this article and various commentaries brought shame to us as Ghanaians and we dare those who lack foresight to rebut. Nkrumah was sold for a pettinance and unfortunately he went away with his visions, smartness, intellects and pragmatism.
  Is it any wonder that after the shameful 24th February, 1966, Ghana has seized to exist in reality but, does so only on paper and misleaders upon misgovernment have continually run this great nation?.
  Well, Nkrumah was a genuis anyway.
  Thank you comrade

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• Prof Lungu 9 years ago

  Yes, this is an important contribution to the Nkrumah legacy discourse!
  
  There is no doubt the silos were an important element of the development plan(s), when they each were conceptualized.
  
  We will hazard even today, t ...
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  Yes, this is an important contribution to the Nkrumah legacy discourse!
  
  There is no doubt the silos were an important element of the development plan(s), when they each were conceptualized.
  
  We will hazard even today, they can still be used, to the extent they are still development capital, even if all we want to do now is make "lemonade" after the coup plotters and their supporters deliberately moth-balled the project.
  
  Yes, a www.GhanaHero definitive essay - on this subject!

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• Prof Lungu 9 years ago

  George Sydney Abugri,
  As we've said, your essay qualifies as a wwwGhanaHero.Com "Definitive Essay" on Kwame Nkrumah, to be posted on that website, under "Visions", as "George Sydney Abugri Says...".
  
  We will reformat the ...
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  George Sydney Abugri,
  As we've said, your essay qualifies as a wwwGhanaHero.Com "Definitive Essay" on Kwame Nkrumah, to be posted on that website, under "Visions", as "George Sydney Abugri Says...".
  
  We will reformat the essay under the GhanaHero banner, add some images of the Silos and that sort, and re-post on that website.
  
  Please reply directly, or preferred, use the contact form at www.GhanaHero.com, and send us a note.
  
  Regards!
  
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  Prof Lungu

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