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Nkrumah’s political prison (1)

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  • kobina 7 years ago

    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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  • 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 ...
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  • 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

  • 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 ...
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  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    DEFINITIVE GHANEHERO.COM ARTICLES:
    1958 PREVENTIVE DETENTION ACT (PDA) - GHANA:

    Definitive PDA Essays - @ GhanaHero.com

    Get them!

    Read them!

    Peace!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Lungu Lungu 7 years ago

    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 ...
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  • 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
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  • 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 ...
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