Was Dr J B Danquah incarcerated without cause? Was there any incontrovertible evidence of his complicity in attempts to undermine the government of the president or plots to assassinate him? There is no smoke without fire. Ma ... read full comment
Was Dr J B Danquah incarcerated without cause? Was there any incontrovertible evidence of his complicity in attempts to undermine the government of the president or plots to assassinate him? There is no smoke without fire. May be the punishment meted out to him was too harsh but was the punishment deserved? The editorial is too myopic.
Chief Asare 7 years ago
If Nkrumah's era were to be in this modern times, he would be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, just like other dictators around the world. Every dictator has justification to crucify his opponents, be assassination att ... read full comment
If Nkrumah's era were to be in this modern times, he would be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, just like other dictators around the world. Every dictator has justification to crucify his opponents, be assassination attempt or otherwise. Nkrumah was no different to suppress his opponents in order to remain the life president of Ghana. He is as guilty as Saddam Hussein.
Joe Lartey 7 years ago
To many Ghanaians were detained under the Nkrumah PDA law,many died miserable before and after the act was abolished
To many Ghanaians were detained under the Nkrumah PDA law,many died miserable before and after the act was abolished
Kotey 7 years ago
At least try to be objective for a paper owned by some one who claimed to be a cpp,your spew on our recent history begeth believe.Even assuming that you have sold your soul to the devil for a shoulder of morten,I can hardly s ... read full comment
At least try to be objective for a paper owned by some one who claimed to be a cpp,your spew on our recent history begeth believe.Even assuming that you have sold your soul to the devil for a shoulder of morten,I can hardly see where you coming from.
Trying to whittle down the impressive achievements of the Osagyefo will not hold because those achievements had already been ingrained in stones and the future generations and objective historians will shield him against your likes.
Prof Lungu, you bloody 419 imposter bitch show Ghanaweb readers your Ph.D, Certificate!
Prof Lungu, you bloody 419 imposter bitch show Ghanaweb readers your Ph.D, Certificate!
C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
See what was written:
"Be it as it may, many Ghanaians languished in especially the Nsawam Prison, most of them dying under worrying circumstances."
It is simply ludicrously false to claim that most of the detainees die ... read full comment
See what was written:
"Be it as it may, many Ghanaians languished in especially the Nsawam Prison, most of them dying under worrying circumstances."
It is simply ludicrously false to claim that most of the detainees died! It is an outrageous and dastardly lie which can only come from scoundrels out to smear the name of Nkrumah. Can they name one other person who died under PDA apart from JB? Anloga provided more detainees than any other other town in Ghana but everyone of those 28/9 returned from prison alive. I knew many of them, as they were relations or lived in our the neighbourhood. Btw, the Djabanor C'ttee of 1967 established that they were not actually detained under PDA rules.
Many, many more people died in those bomb outrageous than one can imagine died under PDA. Those bombings led to the state of insecurity which led to JB's own detention.
Besides, the NLC arrested and imprisoned more Ghanaians under its own version of PDA.
Andy-K
Kwadwo. 7 years ago
So it was alright for Nkrumah to imprison people without trial because his one party rule and dictatorship was under threat? I guess to some of you, Nkrumah was a messiah and did no wrong because he built a dam, schools and
... read full comment
So it was alright for Nkrumah to imprison people without trial because his one party rule and dictatorship was under threat? I guess to some of you, Nkrumah was a messiah and did no wrong because he built a dam, schools and
a motor way with revenue from cocoa and reserves left by the British. What a warped mind.
C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
PDA was a necessity at that crucial time of overt subversion and violence. It doesn't mean that everything done under that policy was right. It was extensively abused by enemies in local feuds and quarrels to send opponents i ... read full comment
PDA was a necessity at that crucial time of overt subversion and violence. It doesn't mean that everything done under that policy was right. It was extensively abused by enemies in local feuds and quarrels to send opponents into detention with lies told against them. No one can blame Nkrumah for that. I mentioned how all the 29 detainees from Anloga were not even properly detained under PDA rules. The Djabanor C'ttee set up by the NLC said that much and gave the reasons for the detention of some of them.
I know more details than you'd find in that report. We don't need liars like this writer telling us lies. That's all I am challenging.
Was Dr J B Danquah incarcerated without cause? Was there any incontrovertible evidence of his complicity in attempts to undermine the government of the president or plots to assassinate him? There is no smoke without fire. Ma ...
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If Nkrumah's era were to be in this modern times, he would be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, just like other dictators around the world. Every dictator has justification to crucify his opponents, be assassination att ...
read full comment
To many Ghanaians were detained under the Nkrumah PDA law,many died miserable before and after the act was abolished
At least try to be objective for a paper owned by some one who claimed to be a cpp,your spew on our recent history begeth believe.Even assuming that you have sold your soul to the devil for a shoulder of morten,I can hardly s ...
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Prof Lungu, you bloody 419 imposter bitch show Ghanaweb readers your Ph.D, Certificate!
See what was written:
"Be it as it may, many Ghanaians languished in especially the Nsawam Prison, most of them dying under worrying circumstances."
It is simply ludicrously false to claim that most of the detainees die ...
read full comment
So it was alright for Nkrumah to imprison people without trial because his one party rule and dictatorship was under threat? I guess to some of you, Nkrumah was a messiah and did no wrong because he built a dam, schools and
...
read full comment
PDA was a necessity at that crucial time of overt subversion and violence. It doesn't mean that everything done under that policy was right. It was extensively abused by enemies in local feuds and quarrels to send opponents i ...
read full comment