Nkrumah destooled chiefs, not Busia, Mr. Mahama

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Benjamin 9 years ago

this x jux great my broad."Ganger Boy" needs to be educated well cos he x disgracing himself.in fact ur dictional style is kakairious.

this x jux great my broad."Ganger Boy" needs to be educated well cos he x disgracing himself.in fact ur dictional style is kakairious.
Obournana 9 years ago

I thought this idiot is dead. When will this useless man ever write something relevant and truthful? Has he forgotten he is making fun of himself and disgracing academia? After the overthrow of Nkrumah, UP led by Busia and hi ...
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I thought this idiot is dead. When will this useless man ever write something relevant and truthful? Has he forgotten he is making fun of himself and disgracing academia? After the overthrow of Nkrumah, UP led by Busia and his cohorts destooled all chiefs who supported Dr. Nkrumah. Okoampah can go to Adanse Dompoase to ask the people when Nana Nuamah was destooled for a new chief. The people brought back Nana Nuamah after Busia was overthrown by Acheampong's coup. It was during that time that they tried to overthrow Ya Naa and failed. A reason why NPP led by Kuffour maneuvered to overthrow him and killed him to retaliate his stubbornness. Okoampa, you cannot twist history to please yourself. Foolish man who does not even know where his ancestors of Kyebi come from in Ghana. Go back and seek knowledge.
NDC Therapist 9 years ago

We are talking about 1992 Constitution not the past

We are talking about 1992 Constitution not the past
Nana 9 years ago

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Kwame Okyere 9 years ago

JM IS VICIOUS LIAR

JM IS VICIOUS LIAR
NOBODY 9 years ago

Incompetent monumental failure Serial Loser Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo is a corrupt hypocritical thug.

Incompetent monumental failure Serial Loser Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo is a corrupt hypocritical thug.
Oneside 9 years ago

Hanger is better than Coke n that highly will dwarf will not only destool chiefs but kill them as well. That's what j b Danquah and de akin Mafia's did to Nana Alysa Mensa of apedwa

Hanger is better than Coke n that highly will dwarf will not only destool chiefs but kill them as well. That's what j b Danquah and de akin Mafia's did to Nana Alysa Mensa of apedwa
kd 9 years ago

What happened to the Apedwahene under JB Danquah's watch? Is Mahama related to Danquah or Akufo-Addo is?

What happened to the Apedwahene under JB Danquah's watch? Is Mahama related to Danquah or Akufo-Addo is?
BERNARD 9 years ago

ARE (0540527508) YOU A STUDENT,GOVERNMENT
WORKER,
OR UNEMPLOYED LOOKING FOR A BUSINESS TO DO ON PART TIME / FULL TIME.

ARE (0540527508) YOU A STUDENT,GOVERNMENT
WORKER,
OR UNEMPLOYED LOOKING FOR A BUSINESS TO DO ON PART TIME / FULL TIME.
Pan-African school of taught 9 years ago

1- Akans and Akan traditional rulers who incontrovertibly constitute the single most important ethnic and cultural unit of the Ghanaian populace and electorates

2- Gonga petty chiefs

3- Ashanti region most popular regi ...
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1- Akans and Akan traditional rulers who incontrovertibly constitute the single most important ethnic and cultural unit of the Ghanaian populace and electorates

2- Gonga petty chiefs

3- Ashanti region most popular region in Ghan

4-The democratically elected president of your country a "Ganga boy"

I'm just 25 years old and so I never had the opportunity to witness the presidency of the "African of the century " according to BBC,Kwame Nkrumah PhD.but people like you make us realize the real political dilemma that confronted him.infact your grandfathers and fathers are not different from you people.when they went all the way from the Ashanti west region to the greater Accra to challenge Nkrumah on why he is using the revenue from cocoa to finance project in all parts of Ghana.according to thier unquestionable logic,the revenue generated from the sold of the said commodity should be spent on the region alone since it is where the commodity is produced.so when the likes of you calls Nkrumah a "neo-colonialist",it only inspire us not to give up on his vision of uniting the whole Ghana and Africa at large.the world has become so advance that if you still think about how rich your culture is and how superior your tribe is over others,you would wake up a useless father in an economic exile and be posting garbage on the internet.blaming all your problems on other people.

Ibrahim. 9 years ago

Probably John Mahama has no chieftaincy lineage from both his paternal and maternal ancestry and therefore does not know the significance of the chieftaincy institution. For his information, Nana Addo hails from royal homes ...
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Probably John Mahama has no chieftaincy lineage from both his paternal and maternal ancestry and therefore does not know the significance of the chieftaincy institution. For his information, Nana Addo hails from royal homes of Akem Abuakwa and Mampong as well. Nana Addo is a true Royal who will fight to preserve the sanctity of the chieftaincy institution. Between John Mahama and Nana Addo , we clearly know who is a royal by the prefix to his name and that is the title NANA!!!
joe 9 years ago

You waste your energy to write this trash..insult,acid,surveys,kalypo,oh npp, you are diminishing continually.

You waste your energy to write this trash..insult,acid,surveys,kalypo,oh npp, you are diminishing continually.
The truth 9 years ago

Brilliant response from this 25 year old.I am no fan of President Mahama and his NDC but this kind of tribal bigotry only does damage to the NPP. Like it or not NPP cannot win any election without support from its support ba ...
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Brilliant response from this 25 year old.I am no fan of President Mahama and his NDC but this kind of tribal bigotry only does damage to the NPP. Like it or not NPP cannot win any election without support from its support base in the North however marginal it might be.To try to denigrate people from the North in an attempt to hit at President Mahama only alienates people like this 25 year old who might indeed be a supporter of the NPP. Bawumia, Mustapha Hamid and indeed all the hardworking campaign team members of the NPP who are crisscrossing the country trying to garner support for the NPP should be worried about people like this writer who are acting as stumbling blocks to the party increasing its leverage in the North. It's less than a month to elections and people like this bigot are with the stroke of a pen eroding the hard work the NPP campaign team is putting in to get that "plus one" vote from the North in order to win victory for the party.Who ever this writer is, I think he is one of the wolves in sheep skin fighting hard to make the NPP stay in opposition.
ledge 9 years ago

This is proof of your ignorance and lack of basic knowledge when it comes to history. How can you call nkrumah a neocolonialist. You schooled in Suhum in the 60's, and so? by now you should have gained a little wisdom.

This is proof of your ignorance and lack of basic knowledge when it comes to history. How can you call nkrumah a neocolonialist. You schooled in Suhum in the 60's, and so? by now you should have gained a little wisdom.
Adwoa 9 years ago

By the way, what has President Mahama's remarks on Akufo-Addo got to do with Kwame Nkrumah? You must be lacking in the brain department.

I'm sure you aware that JB Danquah master-minded the murder of Apedwahene.

By the way, what has President Mahama's remarks on Akufo-Addo got to do with Kwame Nkrumah? You must be lacking in the brain department.

I'm sure you aware that JB Danquah master-minded the murder of Apedwahene.
None 9 years ago

This guy is a disgrace to the Great School of St Peter's of which he attended.

This guy is a disgrace to the Great School of St Peter's of which he attended.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

Shut up and stop your incorrigible mendacity you perpetrate about Nkrumah in your grossly inimical, atrocious effort to re-write our History!

Many Chiefs were destooled in Ghana under both the NLC and Busia Administration ...
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Shut up and stop your incorrigible mendacity you perpetrate about Nkrumah in your grossly inimical, atrocious effort to re-write our History!

Many Chiefs were destooled in Ghana under both the NLC and Busia Administrations. That is an indisputable and provable fact.

Majority of those Chiefs were supposed to have not been approved for paramountcy by the Asantehene when they were elevated under Nkrumah's regime to that status. The elevation of the Chiefs in the Brong Ahafo, in particular, followed the creation of the Brong Ahafo Region, in response to a complaint by the Chiefs and People of the Region who felt for decades that they were forcibly grafted unto the Ashanti Kingdom by the British. I personally know numerous of such Chiefs in Ghana.

There was, for example, a persistent failed effort to remove Kukuomhene of that era, Nana Kwaku Frimpong Manso, for secular partisan reasons. The fearless, fiery giant of a Chief reacted with utmost antagonistic resistance, daring anyone to come push him out of his Palace. In an instance of his immense fury against both Busia and Afrifah that I personally witnessed first-hand, in his Palace, he was driven to reveal what he claimed to be the roots of his royalty, and the real source of the name 'Ahafo' that described his area, contrary to the general belief, and which clearly established his cogent rejection of the Authority of the Asantehene over his Jurisdiction.

Nana Frimpong Manso narrated to us who were in his presence at the Kukuom Palace the real historical reasons why his stool had long been autonomous and did not have to derive its paramountcy from the Asante King before 1844, and therefore that status could not be taken away by the Asantehene or his stooges in Government as Busia and Afrifah were.

Similar historical facts proving autonomy existed for many other Chiefs in the Brong Ahafo Region, in particular, that legitimately gave them the right to earn their statuses were under siege by the Busia Regime.

When Nkrumah came to Power, he did not order the destoolment of Chiefs for Partisan reasons. He rather enabled many Chiefs, who had been autonomous prior to been forced by the British Colonial masters to worship the Asantehene in a shady deal between the British and the Asante King, to reclaim their independence and rightful status.

All across the B/A region, various Chiefs from Japekrom to Mim were either destooled or reinstated by the Busia Regime at the wishes of the Asantehene.

After Busia was overthrown by Ignacius Kutu Acheampong, the Asantehene Opoku Ware, tried to persuade Kutu, a fellow Ashanti, to continue with the program to destool the remaining targeted Paramount Chiefs in B/A. That move by the Asantehene created revived chaotic tensions in the region that eventually caused the Brong Ahafo Students Union at KNUST to join forces with the disaffected Chiefs in the B/A Region to organize a massive Conference of the People at the Sunyani Stadium to assert their allegiance to their Brong Kyempim Duoduakwa Ancestral Fratenity. There was tension even in Kumasi that caused some thugs there to attack the Buses the B/A Students hired to attend the Conference on that memorable day.

So, Professor of Fiction Writing, do not extend your prowess in making up stories to such contents of our History that you may not know, or have conveniently chosen to re-write.

Surely, there were some Chiefs that lost their stools under Nkrumah. But most of them were so destooled by their own Youths who thought the refusal of their Chiefs to support Nkrumah would deny their areas of Government infrastructural developments.

Such was the case in my own hometown where the Chief, who was my father's Uncle, was destooled for my father to replace him, because my father was known to be a CPP sympathizer.

In an ironical twist of fate, however, my father had the integrity to always hold secular Politics at bay from our Traditional systems, and escaped in abdication, citing the fact that he and his Uncle were so intimate and loving to each other that he could not support the attempt to have him to replace the Uncle on the Stool for sheer secular political convenience.

My father, eventually, from his hideout, managed to persuade his Uncle to do as the Youth of the Town desired so that the Uncle could be reinstated. And that is exactly what the Uncle did to return to his stool.

Long Live Ghana!!!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

Who cares if Akufo-Addo is a royal or not? That is not a requirement for our Presidency.

Our modern Civilization best caters for Democracy when there is a minimal injection of monarchical rights into our Politics.

So, ...
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Who cares if Akufo-Addo is a royal or not? That is not a requirement for our Presidency.

Our modern Civilization best caters for Democracy when there is a minimal injection of monarchical rights into our Politics.

So, for as long as most discerning Ghanaians are concerned, I believe, a descendant of a Slave could become a President with as equal chance as any royal or anyone else for that matter.

Long Live Ghana!!!
NOBODY 9 years ago

Busia forced the chief of his own town to abdicate in favor Busia's brother. Luna-Tic Okoampa-Ahoofool is a hypocrite and a man totally allergic to the truth. The plan was that the chief would step down and Busia would be ens ...
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Busia forced the chief of his own town to abdicate in favor Busia's brother. Luna-Tic Okoampa-Ahoofool is a hypocrite and a man totally allergic to the truth. The plan was that the chief would step down and Busia would be enstooled as chief. Instead, the devious Busia handed the stool to his brother, leaving the real chief standing out in the hot sun.

Busia planned with Afrifa to pas decrees banning his political opponents from running for political office, thus making it easy for Busia to run for president with little or hardly any opposition once the military government gave the go ahead for civiulian elections to proceed.

Severely retarded Professor Luna-Tic Kwasia Biri Okoampa-Ahoofool is a serial liar and a shameless twister of facts.

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