Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Comment: J. B. Danquah Remains A CIA Asset, After Okoampa...!
Comment: J. B. Danquah Remains A CIA Asset, After Okoampa...!
Insufferably nonsensical! 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! Stop beating about the bush and tell us why the CIA was paying these "stipends"!
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”?
"Earlier on, the author had described postcolonial Ghana’s pioneering premier as “the self-styled leader of Africa.” But what is even more intriguing about Mahoney’s book is the author’s suggestion that “Kwame Nkrumah of Africa” (the way the Show Boy desired to be known and identified) may well have orchestrated his own exit from the Ghanaian and continental African political scene."
Is that supposed to be a denial or a confirmation?
Google "J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!" and read about the facts of the case Okoampa dares not mention!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheOdikro,
Insufferably nonsensical! 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! Stop beating about the bush and tell us why the CIA was paying these "stipends"!
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”?
"Earlier on, the author had described postcolonial Ghana’s pioneering premier as “the self-styled leader of Africa.” But what is even more intriguing about Mahoney’s book is the author’s suggestion that “Kwame Nkrumah of Africa” (the way the Show Boy desired to be known and identified) may well have orchestrated his own exit from the Ghanaian and continental African political scene."
Is that supposed to be a denial or a confirmation?
Google "J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!" and read about the facts of the case Okoampa dares not mention!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheOdikro,
Sunday, October 23, 2011
"Nana Addo Dankwah Leads President Mills"?
Joy 99.7 FM Facebook
Lydia Nuamah
Nana Akyea Mensah:
Genuine dreams invade our sleep uninvited. As soon as we wake-up, the make-believe of the dreamland is over. Invented dreams work to the contrary. These are self-inflicted injuries to objectivity, and those who depend on this swim with the ...fins of lead. This is not the first time that this affliction is visiting the NPP. We all know about the 2008 Presidential campaign and Akufo-Addo's "One-Touch!" slogan, and what happened at the end of the day!
What makes this even more hollow and ridiculous was the fact that Akufo-Addo paid a famous pollster thousands of dollars, only to be told the truth that he was going to lose the elections because Atta-Mills was more popular than him! Thus it was that whilst Akufo-Addo was all over the place shouting "One touch! One touch!", he knew secretly that he was going to lose! These cooked-up figures are nothing but the only miserable excuse they want to use to complain about their inevitable defeat in the elections.
Akufo-Addo refused to concede defeat, even though he knew in advance that he was going to lose, and he actually ridiculously blamed his defeat on the intimidation of millions of his fans in the Volta Region of all places, who were not allowed to vote! In the lead up to the Sunyani NDC congress which overwhelmingly elected President Atta-Mills as the as the party's flag-bearer, Akufo-Addo's newspaper, the Statesman predicted a 75% win for President Mills which they interpreted to be "a vote of no confidence" in the Mills Administration.
The news that "President John Mills has won the NDC's National Delegates' Congress in Sunyani by a whooping 96.09% as against Nana Konadu's 3.01%", is obviously good news for some of us, but not all of us. For the Akufo-Addo camp, this was a rude shock. They were predicting 75% for Professor Mills and explaining that to mean a vote of no confidence by his own party. I can already see President Mills being sworn in for a second time. It gives the Mills campaign a boost that even the Akufo-Addo camp will find very difficult to deny.
In the days leading to the Congress, Akufo Addo's Statesman published an article in which they sought to cast doubts on the obvious:
"Surveys, interviews, analyses and information gathered by the New Statesman indicate that President John Evans Atta Mills has been gripped by serious panic following the last minute realization that tomorrow’s presidential nomination of his party may not after all result in the kind of landslide victory he had been made to believe by his GAME (Get Atta Mills Endorsed) campaign team."
We now have something concrete to chew on concerning their so-called "surveys, interviews, analyses and information gathered by the New Statesman"! They could not have been more ridiculous:
"President Mills is said to be particularly worried by the fact that the GAME plan to antagonize and isolate former President Rawlings and his wife has angered many constituency delegates." The New Statesman went on, "Even more worrying for the President is the fact that for two years now his only challenger, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, cleverly maintained a close, caring and intimate contact with a sizeable majority of the ruling party’s constituency officers, of whom 1,433 (out of 1,900 total delegates) voted for her in Tamale on 17 January 2010 as NDC Vice Chairperson, a position from which she resigned recently to contest for the flagbearership."
I repeat the results for an effective comparison:
"President Mills polled a whopping 2,771 votes against Nana Agyemang Rawling's 90 votes.
President Mills took the lead in all ten regions of the country.
President Mill's vote represents 96.7% of the total votes cast, whilst Nana Konadu's votes represents a total of 3.14%."
The New Statesman also predicted tension and violence, but the entire even passed off in a festive mood:
"There are growing concerns that the insults, intimidation, threats, harassment and violence, including the Kumasi shooting, that have blighted the short campaign, could all come to a head at the Sunyani congress.
Officially more than 1,500 police personnel have been deployed to the Brong Ahafo capital. The NDC has also made arrangements for about 2,000 security personnel for the 3-day congress, in addition to the about 1,800 “Azorka Boys” who are storming Sunyani today.
There are concerns from the Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings camp that the security personnel are all part of the GAME plan to put their fear of the ballot (if not the bullet) into FONKAR. But, that appears not to be shaking FONKAR."
It is a great shame to our detractors that this congress has come off smoothly and the NDC has reposed an overwhelming confidence in the President. We must hit the ground running for them to know what running is! The congress has reduced the Rawlingses into an insignificant political nuisance which have no impact on the party. As I wrote earlier, "NDC should go ahead and elect President Mills to continue the good work he has started. There should be no worries about an open foe. The NPP has a hidden one!"
At the end of the day the NPP has more to lose from the "Agenda 2016" menace than the NDC has to lose from the Rawlingses threat. The percentage of constituency under Alan Cash command is far greater than the percentage as demonstrated in the vote. The dynamics do not bode well for the NPP, also because there is a frontal and direct contradictions between the Alan Cash "Agenda 2016" and the Akufo-Addo "Victory 2012".
"A wolf may eat a sheep now and then,
But thousands are killed by men,
An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse"!
The NDC now has the "open foe" under control, but can the NPP say the same thing about their "pretended friends"? Whilst the Rawlingses are already talking of forming another political party, with preferably, the NDC logo, Akufo-Addo recently included Alan Kyeremanten in his campaign team, despite the visceral hatred of the Alan Cash "Agenda 2016" underground commandos. Alan Cash believes strongly that 2016 is his time, given to him by God himself. The Akufo-Addo "Victory 2012" is a threat to this "God-given" hope of Alan Cash, as Akufo-Addo could extend his political expiring date beyond 2012 to two terms ending in 2020, and making nonsense of the "Agenda 2016"!
Attention! There is a good reason why this is not in the public domain. This shall never be an operation that will be played out in the open. Both sides have come to the selfish conclusion that they need a strong façade of unity, whether 2012 or 2016, if they are to make any impact. Thus publicly they are friends! They have agreed to disagree. They tell each other, "if you are pretending to be a friend, we shall also pretend to be friends!" This is a house irrevocably divided against each other as the Ashanti Region is the strongest base of the party, the "Agenda 2016" which needs a defeat of Akufo-Addo, to spring into action, gives the NDC a fortuitous advantage even if the Rawlingses were to break away from the NDC.
It would be worse than inordinate ambition if they did. At least, the CPP which is always first at the bottom, can have something to beat! What every decent citizen expects from the Rawlingses is a magnanimous acceptance of defeat and recoiling into their shells or crawl away and hide under their respective stones. They can now positively throw their weight behind the voices of their own people, or at least stop themselves from being on the way. The message is clear: they are going to change or they will be changed.
With the NPP as no-match, I think we are entering into this campaign with a strong foot forward.
Cheers to all of you!
We shall overcome!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Comment: Akufo-Addo Will Never Accept Defeat!
“The odds are againstNDC in 2012 -KNUST Lecturer”
The odds are againstNDC in 2012 -KNUST Lecturer
From Issah Alhassan, Kumasi.
Johnson Asiedu Nketia-NDC General Secretary
A LECTURER at the Political Science Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST), Mr. Amakye Boateng has warned that the success or otherwise of next year’s crucial elections would largely depend on the government’s willingness and commitment towards free, fair and transparent polls.
Asserting that the odds would be against the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in December 2012, the KNUST Lecturer cautioned that the ruling party would do everything possible to hold on to power, and that this could trigger unlikely circumstances, if care is not taken.
Mr. Amakye observed that unfolding circumstances cast bad shadows on the electoral fortunes of the NDC, and this he said, would make the ruling party adopt certain unorthodox means in order to maintain power. He said, this situation, coupled with the lackadaisical attitude of the Electoral Commission (EC), should give Ghanaians course to worry. Read more
MY COMMENT:
If it comes to a question of who is more desperate than the other, the answer cannot be an exhaustive one if we forget the obvious political expiring date ticking at the back of Akufo-Addo. We know this is his last chance. We also know that he is a sore-loser. He did it to Kufour in 2000. He did it to President Mills in 2009, and his "all die be die!" chants, do little to calm the impression that he is the more desperate one.
Akufo-Addo was not surprised that he lost the 2008 Presidential elections. He had already been warned about it by Professor Larry Gibson in advance! Yet he was able to pretend that he could have won if his "numerous" supporters in the Volta Region had been allowed to vote! I think there is no need to wait for Akufo-Addo to lose to find out whether or not he is going to accept the results. I think he is automatically going to cry foul, even though his chances this time are even slimmer than the last time around!
From their own admissions, the Akufo-Addo campaign is not going well at all. In his latest article, "Negative Campaign In Ghana And Lessons From .....", Feature Article of Saturday, 8 October 2011, Otchere-Darko, Gabby Asare, the author, who is also the Executive Director of the Akufo-Addo PR-team known as "the Danquah Institute" admits that the NDC deserves "some credit for even succeeding in putting the opposition on the defensive much of the time. "
Akufo-Addo's problems with the crucial Ashanti vote which can make or break is far from resolved. Apparently the "Agenda 2016" Team led by Kufour and Allan Cash is even more optimistic and better organized than the "Victory 2012" in the Ashanti Region. It is the group which controls the Ashanti Region that will decide the winner.
So far, it seems the "Agenda 2016" are not prepared to wait to 2020 before they taste the power that they see as inevitably coming their way in 2016! Having had some of them beaten up for simply showing up at Victory 2012 circles, they need a good convincing to play ball. The NPP is clearly a house divided against itself, even though neither side wants to admit that publicly for obvious reasons.
The chances of Akufo-Addo winning are very slim indeed. He is going into this campaign as the under-dog. And he needs to show some statesmanship at the twilight of his retirement, and graciously accept his defeat. Scheming troubles to attract "the international community" to come and bomb us and impose a losing candidate on Ghana is what I dread! This is why it is important that the narrative of Mr. Amakye Boateng must not go unchallenged.
Forward Ever! Backward Never!!!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Ghana, General Debate, 66th Session of UN General Assembly
Ghana, General Debate, 66th Session
Bolivia, General Debate, 66th Session
21 September 2011
Address by His Excellency Evo Morales Ayma, Constitutional President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia at the General debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 21-24 and 26-30 September 2011)
Related website: http://gadebate.un.org/
Running time: 00:37:34
Language(s) available:
English
Original
COMMENT:
Kwesi Pratt On President Mills' Poor Performance At the UN
By Nana Akyea MensahFeature Article |
I was shocked and very angry to hear the speech of the President of Ghana at the 66th session of the UN General assembly the other day! Don't get me wrong. This is no criticism the NPP can even pretend to take advantage of because, it is obvious from the WikiLeaks revelation, that as Nana Akufo-Addo secretly put it to the US Ambassador, the NPP and the US are natural allies of the United States", they would have rubber-stamped all the whims and caprices of US imperialism.
"Ye nim NPP firi tete!" We all know how they were described by the CIA as being "pathetically Pro-Western"! Thus we know the NPP is incapable of doing better than President Mills on this issue. Even before the mass killings in the Ivory Coast and Libya began, Kwesi Pratt,Jnr., had already warned that the US was ready to kill Africans in its quest for oil, and the NPP is supporting them! See: "Kwesi Pratt Causes Fear And Panic In The NPP!" Part One: What Exactly Did Kwesi Say?, Feature Article | by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro, Tuesday, November 30, 2010.
Thanks to the WikiLeaks revelations, we also know who are "the natural allies" of US imperialism in Ghana, and from the horse's own mouth:
"¶2.(C) A casually dressed Akufo-Addo met the Ambassador and POLOFF at the door of his well appointed Accra residence, on the edge of Accra's sprawling Nima neighborhood. Ambassador Teitelbaum said that the U.S. valued its relationship with the NPP, which he believed would someday return to power, and that the Embassy remained open to him. Akufo-Addo replied that the NPP was a natural ally of the U.S." See: Reference ID: 09ACCRA55, SUBJECT: AKUFO-ADDO SHARES POST-ELECTION THOUGHTS WITH AMBASSADOR TEITELBAUM.
And from the position of the NPP on the Ivorian crisis, on Libya, on Palestine etc., we know that Akufo-Addo's opinions are determined by the imperialists who pay this suspected wee-smoker. So this is clearly a criticism that only the CPP can take advantage of! And the NDC needs to get its act together, if they want us to see any difference between them and the NPP!
I wanted to attack the President's speech, but when I heard Kwesi Pratt on the air, I realized he had done all the job I wanted to do so the only thing left for me was a simple transcription. See: Mills' “free school uniforms” speech to UN disappointing - Pratt, From: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana, September 26, 2011.
And here is Mr. Pratt's take on the President's speech which so eloquently speaks my own mind and sense of disappointment:
Begin quote:
"To be very very honest with you, I am not impressed by the President's address at the United Nations. I am not impressed at all. This is the kind of speech you make to your national assembly, not at the UN General Assembly.
There is no global context of this speech. The United Nations is a world platform where you go and mobilize the world, you understand, on issues and so on. What are we saying at the United Nations?
"We have eliminated schools under trees. We are distributing free exercise books. We are distributing free school uniforms, and so on."
What has this got to do with the United Nations? So, to be honest with you, even though the issues the President raised are critical to the development of Ghana, they are issues not worth the attention they received at the UN General Assembly.
And indeed, just when we were coming, you were playing Nkrumah's speeches and so on, look at the difference! So something is wrong with the speech writers of the President, something is wrong with our Foreign Ministry, and something is wrong with developing a global perspective. And I think we should say it as it is. I am not impressed by this speech at all!
And yesterday, when I listened to the speech, I felt very uncomfortable you understand? Now, you compare the speech that our President gave, to speeches delivered by people like Evo Morales, and see the world attention, see how they grabbed the world attention and so on. Because they are discussing the world! They are discussing the problems of the world and how they see the world. We didn't!
We went there we were talking about distribution of free text books, free exercise book, free school uniforms, schools under trees and so on! I was not impressed at all!
Look, the organization of free and fair elections in Ghana is important. It is important for us, because if we do not organize free and fair elections in Ghana, we risk pushing our country to catastrophe and so on. So it it is absolutely important, but why the UN? Of course, the supply of free school uniforms is very important. It is a major social intervention and so on. But why the UN?
You know, all my other colleagues have spoken about key issues confronting the world today. Today the world is confronted with the bellicosity of imperialism. Today, the United Nations has become something which is in the back pockets of the United States of America. Today, on the basis of things which were found in the WikiLeaks and so on, the United States is killing hundreds of thousands of people across the globe! What is the stand of Ghana?
Do we mean that we have no stand? Are we afraid of the United States of America? Are we afraid of the imperialist powers? What is wrong with us? Look at the bellicosity of imperialism! Look at the ravaging recklessness of imperialism and so on! And we go and talk about free school uniforms!
It's incredible. I must say with all honesty that I was not impressed with this speech. One of the key issues being decided at the United Nations is whether or not the Palestinians are entitled and should be given a seat at the UN. This is a crucial issue. And it is an issue of national liberation! Why? You declare Founder's Day in Ghana. What is Founder's Day? What makes Founder's Day so relevant if it is not our commitment to national liberation, our commitment for the struggle against colonialism?
And yet what is happening in Palestine is that there is harsh colonial occupation, colonial occupation of Palestinian land! It is about racism and so on. Indeed the Organization of African Unity in the 1970s equated Zionism with Apartheid. you understand, equated Zionism with Apartheid! So why can't we be bold enough to join the worldwide movement against Zionism? Why can't we?
In any case, I find that a bit strange, why because, long ago in the 1980s, under the PNDC, Ghana recognized the State of Palestine. In those days, Ghana was one of the few countries which recognized the State of Palestine. And that is why Palestine has a diplomatic mission in Accra, a full diplomatic mission in Accra!
So we took the lead in recognizing the State of Palestine. How come that at this juncture, we are all running away and why? We are afraid of United States of America! And if we are afraid of the United States of America, where can we go? So it is important to bring this matter to the fore. It is absolutely important!
Now, look at what is happening around the world. Look at the thrust that is being directed at countries like Iran and so on, and we are silent on it!"
End quote.
Surely, our President could have done far better than this! I promised I would be joining the NDC just before the Sunyani Congress. I put that on hold. I can see some action at the CPP front. Even though it is a lot of hot air and no substance, I am eager to give them a second chance. But for the CPP to become relevant, it is the CPP that ought to be making statements of the nature Kwesi just made.
So far, it is still very silent, as imperialism becomes more aggressive, more deadly, and far more arrogant than it has ever been even during the period of slavery and colonialism! Where is the CPP?
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheOdikro
Feature Articles: http://nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com/
Comments: http://theodikro.blogspot.com/
"Ye nim NPP firi tete!" We all know how they were described by the CIA as being "pathetically Pro-Western"! Thus we know the NPP is incapable of doing better than President Mills on this issue. Even before the mass killings in the Ivory Coast and Libya began, Kwesi Pratt,Jnr., had already warned that the US was ready to kill Africans in its quest for oil, and the NPP is supporting them! See: "Kwesi Pratt Causes Fear And Panic In The NPP!" Part One: What Exactly Did Kwesi Say?, Feature Article | by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro, Tuesday, November 30, 2010.
Thanks to the WikiLeaks revelations, we also know who are "the natural allies" of US imperialism in Ghana, and from the horse's own mouth:
"¶2.(C) A casually dressed Akufo-Addo met the Ambassador and POLOFF at the door of his well appointed Accra residence, on the edge of Accra's sprawling Nima neighborhood. Ambassador Teitelbaum said that the U.S. valued its relationship with the NPP, which he believed would someday return to power, and that the Embassy remained open to him. Akufo-Addo replied that the NPP was a natural ally of the U.S." See: Reference ID: 09ACCRA55, SUBJECT: AKUFO-ADDO SHARES POST-ELECTION THOUGHTS WITH AMBASSADOR TEITELBAUM.
And from the position of the NPP on the Ivorian crisis, on Libya, on Palestine etc., we know that Akufo-Addo's opinions are determined by the imperialists who pay this suspected wee-smoker. So this is clearly a criticism that only the CPP can take advantage of! And the NDC needs to get its act together, if they want us to see any difference between them and the NPP!
I wanted to attack the President's speech, but when I heard Kwesi Pratt on the air, I realized he had done all the job I wanted to do so the only thing left for me was a simple transcription. See: Mills' “free school uniforms” speech to UN disappointing - Pratt, From: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana, September 26, 2011.
And here is Mr. Pratt's take on the President's speech which so eloquently speaks my own mind and sense of disappointment:
Begin quote:
"To be very very honest with you, I am not impressed by the President's address at the United Nations. I am not impressed at all. This is the kind of speech you make to your national assembly, not at the UN General Assembly.
There is no global context of this speech. The United Nations is a world platform where you go and mobilize the world, you understand, on issues and so on. What are we saying at the United Nations?
"We have eliminated schools under trees. We are distributing free exercise books. We are distributing free school uniforms, and so on."
What has this got to do with the United Nations? So, to be honest with you, even though the issues the President raised are critical to the development of Ghana, they are issues not worth the attention they received at the UN General Assembly.
And indeed, just when we were coming, you were playing Nkrumah's speeches and so on, look at the difference! So something is wrong with the speech writers of the President, something is wrong with our Foreign Ministry, and something is wrong with developing a global perspective. And I think we should say it as it is. I am not impressed by this speech at all!
And yesterday, when I listened to the speech, I felt very uncomfortable you understand? Now, you compare the speech that our President gave, to speeches delivered by people like Evo Morales, and see the world attention, see how they grabbed the world attention and so on. Because they are discussing the world! They are discussing the problems of the world and how they see the world. We didn't!
We went there we were talking about distribution of free text books, free exercise book, free school uniforms, schools under trees and so on! I was not impressed at all!
Look, the organization of free and fair elections in Ghana is important. It is important for us, because if we do not organize free and fair elections in Ghana, we risk pushing our country to catastrophe and so on. So it it is absolutely important, but why the UN? Of course, the supply of free school uniforms is very important. It is a major social intervention and so on. But why the UN?
You know, all my other colleagues have spoken about key issues confronting the world today. Today the world is confronted with the bellicosity of imperialism. Today, the United Nations has become something which is in the back pockets of the United States of America. Today, on the basis of things which were found in the WikiLeaks and so on, the United States is killing hundreds of thousands of people across the globe! What is the stand of Ghana?
Do we mean that we have no stand? Are we afraid of the United States of America? Are we afraid of the imperialist powers? What is wrong with us? Look at the bellicosity of imperialism! Look at the ravaging recklessness of imperialism and so on! And we go and talk about free school uniforms!
It's incredible. I must say with all honesty that I was not impressed with this speech. One of the key issues being decided at the United Nations is whether or not the Palestinians are entitled and should be given a seat at the UN. This is a crucial issue. And it is an issue of national liberation! Why? You declare Founder's Day in Ghana. What is Founder's Day? What makes Founder's Day so relevant if it is not our commitment to national liberation, our commitment for the struggle against colonialism?
And yet what is happening in Palestine is that there is harsh colonial occupation, colonial occupation of Palestinian land! It is about racism and so on. Indeed the Organization of African Unity in the 1970s equated Zionism with Apartheid. you understand, equated Zionism with Apartheid! So why can't we be bold enough to join the worldwide movement against Zionism? Why can't we?
In any case, I find that a bit strange, why because, long ago in the 1980s, under the PNDC, Ghana recognized the State of Palestine. In those days, Ghana was one of the few countries which recognized the State of Palestine. And that is why Palestine has a diplomatic mission in Accra, a full diplomatic mission in Accra!
So we took the lead in recognizing the State of Palestine. How come that at this juncture, we are all running away and why? We are afraid of United States of America! And if we are afraid of the United States of America, where can we go? So it is important to bring this matter to the fore. It is absolutely important!
Now, look at what is happening around the world. Look at the thrust that is being directed at countries like Iran and so on, and we are silent on it!"
End quote.
Surely, our President could have done far better than this! I promised I would be joining the NDC just before the Sunyani Congress. I put that on hold. I can see some action at the CPP front. Even though it is a lot of hot air and no substance, I am eager to give them a second chance. But for the CPP to become relevant, it is the CPP that ought to be making statements of the nature Kwesi just made.
So far, it is still very silent, as imperialism becomes more aggressive, more deadly, and far more arrogant than it has ever been even during the period of slavery and colonialism! Where is the CPP?
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheOdikro
Feature Articles: http://nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com/
Comments: http://theodikro.blogspot.com/
Monday, September 26, 2011
ONLY ONE FOUNDER: NKRUMAH!
See: Article and comment: http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Dear All!
I am happy Kwesi Pratt is raising this issue. Nkrumah clearly stands out! His vision of Ghana, not just a paradise for the rich but a Republic for the poor farmers, workers, fishermen and women, students, pensioners, children, and for all citizens of Ghana, irrespective of economic class, social class, ethnic origin, religious persuasion, or gender.
This contribution is unique. That he was able to achieve this in spite of the stiff opposition led by the imperialists with their local collaborators attest to his greatness. We need to remember that Nkrumah launched the Positive Action Campaign at a time when the "property owning democrats" favoured the right to vote for the 1951 Constitution to be based upon the showing receipt of payment of tax on your property, not below a determined value. Simply put, "No property, no vote"! The universal adult suffrage that we take for granted today, was as a result of a bitter struggle against the Gold Coast bourgeoisie who sought social exclusion even at the level of national representation.
This, for me, is what makes Nkrumah the true Founder of the Nation. The most important value we all cherish is the right to be represented, not only by the rich and powerful in society. Nkrumah fought and won this for the common man! No wonder he is so hated by the rich and powerful who wanted to continue to lord it over the rest of us with their inevitable scorn and arrogance! Thank you very much the Osagyefo! We shall forever be grateful and honour this day, not for your reasons of vain glory, but to remind ourselves of the internal dynamics of politics, and why the rich want to continue to be richer, and the poor continue to be poorer.
The so-called champions of democracy even made it illegal to mention Nkrumah's name in public, or keep his photos, books, and audio visuals! The panic reaction came when the late Mr. Johnny Hansen publicly displayed Nkrumah's photo in Kumasi during the Busia regime. Under emergency bill, Parliament sat for seventeen hours to produce a law banning the mere mention of Nkrumah's name! and they call themselves "democrats"! They claim to be champions of human rights, of freedom of speech!
Hm, they even make me laugh!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
With Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
The Black Star of Africa!http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
As Kwame Nkrumah rightly pointed out on Ghana's eve of independence, "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the whole continent of Africa!" With the continent still in the belly of the beast of imperialism, cut into fragile neocolonial bantustans that we call fatherlands, not one independence anniversary is worth celebrating!
On the contrary, we need to celebrate Nkrumah. We need to do this not for Nkrumah, but for ourselves and generations yet unborn in order to keep the Pan-Africanist flame blazing! To think of the amount of money the Busia-Danquah neocolonialist tradition of the NPP spent and stole during the Ghana@50, it is more than obscene to hear them complain.
“We in Africa who are pressing now for unity are deeply conscious of the validity of our purpose. We need the strength of our combined numbers and resources to protect ourselves from the very positive dangers of returning to colonialism in disguised forms. We need it to combat the entrenched forces dividing our continent and still holding back millions of our brothers. We need it to secure total African liberation. We need it to carry forward our construction of a socio-economic system that will support the great mass of our steadily rising population at levels of life which will compare with those in the most advanced countries” - Kwame Nkrumah, "Africa Must Unite!", 1960.
We need to remind people of this! Only the enemies of our freedom and development are complaining!
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Dear All!
I am happy Kwesi Pratt is raising this issue. Nkrumah clearly stands out! His vision of Ghana, not just a paradise for the rich but a Republic for the poor farmers, workers, fishermen and women, students, pensioners, children, and for all citizens of Ghana, irrespective of economic class, social class, ethnic origin, religious persuasion, or gender.
This contribution is unique. That he was able to achieve this in spite of the stiff opposition led by the imperialists with their local collaborators attest to his greatness. We need to remember that Nkrumah launched the Positive Action Campaign at a time when the "property owning democrats" favoured the right to vote for the 1951 Constitution to be based upon the showing receipt of payment of tax on your property, not below a determined value. Simply put, "No property, no vote"! The universal adult suffrage that we take for granted today, was as a result of a bitter struggle against the Gold Coast bourgeoisie who sought social exclusion even at the level of national representation.
This, for me, is what makes Nkrumah the true Founder of the Nation. The most important value we all cherish is the right to be represented, not only by the rich and powerful in society. Nkrumah fought and won this for the common man! No wonder he is so hated by the rich and powerful who wanted to continue to lord it over the rest of us with their inevitable scorn and arrogance! Thank you very much the Osagyefo! We shall forever be grateful and honour this day, not for your reasons of vain glory, but to remind ourselves of the internal dynamics of politics, and why the rich want to continue to be richer, and the poor continue to be poorer.
The so-called champions of democracy even made it illegal to mention Nkrumah's name in public, or keep his photos, books, and audio visuals! The panic reaction came when the late Mr. Johnny Hansen publicly displayed Nkrumah's photo in Kumasi during the Busia regime. Under emergency bill, Parliament sat for seventeen hours to produce a law banning the mere mention of Nkrumah's name! and they call themselves "democrats"! They claim to be champions of human rights, of freedom of speech!
Hm, they even make me laugh!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
With Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
The Black Star of Africa!http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
As Kwame Nkrumah rightly pointed out on Ghana's eve of independence, "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the whole continent of Africa!" With the continent still in the belly of the beast of imperialism, cut into fragile neocolonial bantustans that we call fatherlands, not one independence anniversary is worth celebrating!
On the contrary, we need to celebrate Nkrumah. We need to do this not for Nkrumah, but for ourselves and generations yet unborn in order to keep the Pan-Africanist flame blazing! To think of the amount of money the Busia-Danquah neocolonialist tradition of the NPP spent and stole during the Ghana@50, it is more than obscene to hear them complain.
“We in Africa who are pressing now for unity are deeply conscious of the validity of our purpose. We need the strength of our combined numbers and resources to protect ourselves from the very positive dangers of returning to colonialism in disguised forms. We need it to combat the entrenched forces dividing our continent and still holding back millions of our brothers. We need it to secure total African liberation. We need it to carry forward our construction of a socio-economic system that will support the great mass of our steadily rising population at levels of life which will compare with those in the most advanced countries” - Kwame Nkrumah, "Africa Must Unite!", 1960.
We need to remind people of this! Only the enemies of our freedom and development are complaining!
ONLY ONE FOUNDER: NKRUMAH!
See: Article and comment: http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Dear All!
I am happy Kwesi Pratt is raising this issue. Nkrumah clearly stands out! His vision of Ghana, not just a paradise for the rich but a Republic for the poor farmers, workers, fishermen and women, students, pensioners, children, and for all citizens of Ghana, irrespective of economic class, social class, ethnic origin, religious persuasion, or gender.
This contribution is unique. That he was able to achieve this in spite of the stiff opposition led by the imperialists with their local collaborators attest to his greatness. We need to remember that Nkrumah launched the Positive Action Campaign at a time when the "property owning democrats" favoured the right to vote for the 1951 Constitution to be based upon the showing receipt of payment of tax on your property, not below a determined value. Simply put, "No property, no vote"! The universal adult suffrage that we take for granted today, was as a result of a bitter struggle against the Gold Coast bourgeoisie who sought social exclusion even at the level of national representation.
This, for me, is what makes Nkrumah the true Founder of the Nation. The most important value we all cherish is the right to be represented, not only by the rich and powerful in society. Nkrumah fought and won this for the common man! No wonder he is so hated by the rich and powerful who wanted to continue to lord it over the rest of us with their inevitable scorn and arrogance! Thank you very much the Osagyefo! We shall forever be grateful and honour this day, not for your reasons of vain glory, but to remind ourselves of the internal dynamics of politics, and why the rich want to continue to be richer, and the poor continue to be poorer.
The so-called champions of democracy even made it illegal to mention Nkrumah's name in public, or keep his photos, books, and audio visuals! The panic reaction came when the late Mr. Johnny Hansen publicly displayed Nkrumah's photo in Kumasi during the Busia regime. Under emergency bill, Parliament sat for seventeen hours to produce a law banning the mere mention of Nkrumah's name! and they call themselves "democrats"! They claim to be champions of human rights, of freedom of speech!
Hm, they even make me laugh!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
With Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
The Black Star of Africa!http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Dear All!
I am happy Kwesi Pratt is raising this issue. Nkrumah clearly stands out! His vision of Ghana, not just a paradise for the rich but a Republic for the poor farmers, workers, fishermen and women, students, pensioners, children, and for all citizens of Ghana, irrespective of economic class, social class, ethnic origin, religious persuasion, or gender.
This contribution is unique. That he was able to achieve this in spite of the stiff opposition led by the imperialists with their local collaborators attest to his greatness. We need to remember that Nkrumah launched the Positive Action Campaign at a time when the "property owning democrats" favoured the right to vote for the 1951 Constitution to be based upon the showing receipt of payment of tax on your property, not below a determined value. Simply put, "No property, no vote"! The universal adult suffrage that we take for granted today, was as a result of a bitter struggle against the Gold Coast bourgeoisie who sought social exclusion even at the level of national representation.
This, for me, is what makes Nkrumah the true Founder of the Nation. The most important value we all cherish is the right to be represented, not only by the rich and powerful in society. Nkrumah fought and won this for the common man! No wonder he is so hated by the rich and powerful who wanted to continue to lord it over the rest of us with their inevitable scorn and arrogance! Thank you very much the Osagyefo! We shall forever be grateful and honour this day, not for your reasons of vain glory, but to remind ourselves of the internal dynamics of politics, and why the rich want to continue to be richer, and the poor continue to be poorer.
The so-called champions of democracy even made it illegal to mention Nkrumah's name in public, or keep his photos, books, and audio visuals! The panic reaction came when the late Mr. Johnny Hansen publicly displayed Nkrumah's photo in Kumasi during the Busia regime. Under emergency bill, Parliament sat for seventeen hours to produce a law banning the mere mention of Nkrumah's name! and they call themselves "democrats"! They claim to be champions of human rights, of freedom of speech!
Hm, they even make me laugh!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
With Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
The Black Star of Africa!http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
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Comment: J. B. Danquah Remains A CIA Asset, After Okoampa...!
Insufferably nonsensical! 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! Stop beating about the bush and tell us why the CIA was paying these "stipends"!
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”?
Let's talk about that, Baby!
"Earlier on, the author had described postcolonial Ghana’s pioneering premier as “the self-styled leader of Africa.” But what is even more intriguing about Mahoney’s book is the author’s suggestion that “Kwame Nkrumah of Africa” (the way the Show Boy desired to be known and identified) may well have orchestrated his own exit from the Ghanaian and continental African political scene."
Did you wake up with the intention of writing extraneous and nonsensical pieces to boost your libido as usual?
Is that supposed to be a denial or a confirmation?
Google "J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!" and read about the facts of the case Okoampa dares not mention!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
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Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro