Nana Akyea Replies Kweku Mensah
Kweku Mensah
Dude, do you have a real job or are you a paid propagandist? Okoampa's views are his personal views and aren't necessarily endorsed by the Institute, so what is your beef?
Nana Akyea Mensah
My beef is that show me your friend and I will tell you your character! This man who was sacked by the New York NPP for unpatriotic activities has been smuggled into the Danquah Institute which is supposed to be a "think tank"! How do you invite a well-known fool into a think tank, if you are not a fool yourself? That is the question! It is ... See Moreactually about the judgemental values of Akuffo Addo who has fielded such an idiot into his propaganda outfit. For me, their silence over this scandalous stupidity speaks volumes!
If you still don't get it, let me have your e-mail so I can draw it for you!
In response to:
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Direct Message To Akufo Addo On His Facebook!
Direct Message To Akufo Addo On His Facebook!
Nana Akyea Mensah Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute Altogether?
Nana Akyea Mensah
Okoampa begins an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
Okoampa continues:
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"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
was taken aback that I forgot aboot put the author and began to wonder about what would make a fellow human being hate his own people so much that he imagines a scenario of war with what he calls "the war-seasoned Ivorians"? This is a thinly-veiled wish for a war over oil between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. I could nut my finger at the source of his anger and hatred. Out of frustration, I turned to his main US collaborator, a self-appointed voice of "Black Conservatives" who faithfully transmits nonsense from Okoampa on his blog for Americans to consume, to see if he offered any explanations to this strange behaviour. I was not disappointed. The answer was in the introductory sentence:
"Oil Reserves Have Been Discovered Offshore In Ghana. What Next? Bookerista Perspectives
The Ivory Coast is claiming a portion of Ghana's offshore oil region. The center-right board member of the Danquah Institute (Ghana) and English professor in USA is glad that the Ivory Coast is making a claim because it undermines the Ghanaian center-left's claims of Pan-Africanism: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana's purportedly new-found oil wealth. (Source: see: Bookerising.net, news site for black moderates and black conservatives.)
Okoampa's problem with Ghana owning its own oil in peace is the presence of pan-Africanists in Ghana! What Pan-Africanism got to do with our precious oil? The objective of Pan-Africanism is to unite Africans and wean ourselves away from the neocolonialist cannons of conduct and behave as a free and independent people, consolidating our independence against imperialist sabotage such as the one he is scheming! Which normal African today can be angry with the noble intentions of great pan-Africanist leaders like Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to such an extent that this should cost Ghana's precious oil find? What is wrong with the intentions of the Pan-Africanists? Listen to Nkrumah here and judge for yourself, dear reader:
“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.
I am even sure that Okoampa himself does not expect to treat Ghanaians this way and get away with it! He has already been dismissed before by the New York branch of the NPP for similar outrageous declarations calling for war in Ghana, in the lead up to the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. He is used to being attacked for his aggressively stupid opinions even within his own party. The attempt by the Danquah Institute to bring Okoampa back from political ostracism begun by the New York branch of the NPP is a disservice to the good people of Ghana.
Ladies and gentlemen, we need a clear apology from Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., the author of these abominations! It is time Ghanaians of all walks of life put maximum pressure on Nana Akuffo Addo to come out once more to condemn the work of his notorious henchman or go down with him! I call on ordinary Ghanaians, especially the rank and file of the NPP to join me in this condemnation and show the way Akuffo Addo to follow and condemn Okoampa's ill-considered words!
Nana Akyea Mensah Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute Altogether?
Nana Akyea Mensah
Okoampa begins an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
Okoampa continues:
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"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
was taken aback that I forgot aboot put the author and began to wonder about what would make a fellow human being hate his own people so much that he imagines a scenario of war with what he calls "the war-seasoned Ivorians"? This is a thinly-veiled wish for a war over oil between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. I could nut my finger at the source of his anger and hatred. Out of frustration, I turned to his main US collaborator, a self-appointed voice of "Black Conservatives" who faithfully transmits nonsense from Okoampa on his blog for Americans to consume, to see if he offered any explanations to this strange behaviour. I was not disappointed. The answer was in the introductory sentence:
"Oil Reserves Have Been Discovered Offshore In Ghana. What Next? Bookerista Perspectives
The Ivory Coast is claiming a portion of Ghana's offshore oil region. The center-right board member of the Danquah Institute (Ghana) and English professor in USA is glad that the Ivory Coast is making a claim because it undermines the Ghanaian center-left's claims of Pan-Africanism: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana's purportedly new-found oil wealth. (Source: see: Bookerising.net, news site for black moderates and black conservatives.)
Okoampa's problem with Ghana owning its own oil in peace is the presence of pan-Africanists in Ghana! What Pan-Africanism got to do with our precious oil? The objective of Pan-Africanism is to unite Africans and wean ourselves away from the neocolonialist cannons of conduct and behave as a free and independent people, consolidating our independence against imperialist sabotage such as the one he is scheming! Which normal African today can be angry with the noble intentions of great pan-Africanist leaders like Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to such an extent that this should cost Ghana's precious oil find? What is wrong with the intentions of the Pan-Africanists? Listen to Nkrumah here and judge for yourself, dear reader:
“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.
I am even sure that Okoampa himself does not expect to treat Ghanaians this way and get away with it! He has already been dismissed before by the New York branch of the NPP for similar outrageous declarations calling for war in Ghana, in the lead up to the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. He is used to being attacked for his aggressively stupid opinions even within his own party. The attempt by the Danquah Institute to bring Okoampa back from political ostracism begun by the New York branch of the NPP is a disservice to the good people of Ghana.
Ladies and gentlemen, we need a clear apology from Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., the author of these abominations! It is time Ghanaians of all walks of life put maximum pressure on Nana Akuffo Addo to come out once more to condemn the work of his notorious henchman or go down with him! I call on ordinary Ghanaians, especially the rank and file of the NPP to join me in this condemnation and show the way Akuffo Addo to follow and condemn Okoampa's ill-considered words!
Nana Akyea Mensah The Danquah Institute must distance istelf from Oloampa's insults to Ghanaians!
Nana Akyea Mensah The Danquah Institute must distance istelf from Oloampa's insults to Ghanaians!
Nana Akyea Mensah
Okoampa begins an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
Okoampa continues:
"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
Okoampa continues by making demeaning remarks about his fellow countrymen. To use such language indicates comtempt for Ghanaian men and women. Why would any Ghanaian who consider his country's vital interests so dispensable, still present himself as a member of a "Think Tank" and expect respect from his fellow Ghanaians? What does it mean if this man presents Nana Akufo Addo as his favourite candidate, and Akufo Addo approves of this association with him? Is Akuffo Addo telling us that the Danquah Institute "think tank" is fast becoming nothing but a nest of politically virulent and toxic ideas contempt for the Ghanaian people?
I want to appeal to all Ghanaians from across the political spectrum to denounce this deeply insulting article. I specifically call upon Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo to consider these comments serious enough and accord the same attention and time for condemnation as he did to the recent assault by his body guards against the supporters of his political opponents at the party's headquarters! This political contagion can and must be contained immediately. Okoampa must be isolated politically. We should erect a political cordon sanitaire against him, strictly and voluntarily imposed by all proud and peace-loving Ghanaians. "The only place available for the purveyors of doom and damnation of Ghanaians is political quarantine. All those found to be associated with such an idiot, do so at their own political risk and peril!
It is time for all right-thinking Ghanaians irrespective of political hue, to distance themselves from the greed driven gamblers with our future and our destiny as a nation. Okoampa has already pointed out that Nana Akuffo Addo is his main man for the 2012 elections (see: "NPP Flagbearership: My Choice for Election 2012", by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article, Wed, 03 Mar 2010. The question Nana Akuffo Addo needs to answer is, is Okoampa his man? I am sure it is not too much to ask of our potential future presidents< the simple question of how close they themselves stand in relation to extraordinarily toxic opinions of their very close associates, particularly one who expresses su flagrant and self-confessing hatred for a country we call home? I was taken aback that I forgot about the author and began to wonder about what would make a fellow human being hate his own people so much that he imagines a scenario of war with what he calls "the war-seasoned Ivorians"? This is a thinly-veiled wish for a war over oil between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. I could nut my finger at the source of his anger and hatred. Out of frustration, I turned to his main US collaborator, a self-appointed voice of "Black Conservatives" who faithfully transmits nonsense from Okoampa on his blog for Americans to consume, to see if he offered any explanations to this strange behaviour. I was not disappointed. The answer was in the introductory sentence: "Oil Reserves Have Been Discovered Offshore In Ghana. What Next? Bookerista Perspectives The Ivory Coast is claiming a portion of Ghana's offshore oil region. The center-right board member of the Danquah Institute (Ghana) and English professor in USA is glad that the Ivory Coast is making a claim because it undermines the Ghanaian center-left's claims of Pan-Africanism: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana's purportedly new-found oil wealth. (Source: see: Bookerising.net, news site for black moderates and black conservatives.) Okoampa's problem with Ghana owning its own oil in peace is the presence of pan-Africanists in Ghana! What Pan-Africanism got to do with our precious oil? The objective of Pan-Africanism is to unite Africans and wean ourselves away from the neocolonialist cannons of conduct and behave as a free and independent people, consolidating our independence against imperialist sabotage such as the one he is scheming! Which normal African today can be angry with the noble intentions of great pan-Africanist leaders like Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to such an extent that this should cost Ghana's precious oil find? What is wrong with the intentions of the Pan-Africanists? Listen to Nkrumah here and judge for yourself, dear reader: “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. 2 hours ago · Patriot Faisal Ibrahim Kindly post me the link to the original article. about an hour ago Nana Akyea Mensah
http://www.modernghana.com/news/267530/1/who-are-these-parliamentarian-drivers.html
Nana Akyea Mensah
@Patriot Faisal Ibrahim
Hi Faisal,
Have you read it now? I did not put a single word in Okoampa's mouth! Do you also approve of this? It is time for you guys to stand up and be counted! Failure to do so shall mean your consent to such unacceptable behaviour. The choice is clearly yours! We have already started the counting!... See More
To think that such a person is sitting as a member of a Governing Board of any "think tank" in the world speaks volumes about the kind of thinking going on in there! If you read the article to the end, you must have seen this:
"*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English, Journalism and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. He is also a Governing Board Member of the Accra-based Danquah Institute (DI), the pro-democracy think tank..."
Ochere Darko is not around so this post may stay for some time! They are all defending Okoampa! He is both a relative of Akuffo Addo and probably Ochere-Darko. If Akuffo Addo cannot discipline people even at the time he must convince us to give him the mantle, what shall happen when it is given to him when his untouchable cousins begin to throw their weight about? Come again and see what Ochere Darko has to say about this!
I want to assure you that this is not going to go away! I am totally incensed and angry that someone has to come and tell them what they have to do on their own before they do the right thing! Even then, they are avoiding me! They still want this man to "think" for them! Hihihihi! And they want to rule Ghana! Tweakai!
Nana Akyea Mensah
Okoampa begins an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
Okoampa continues:
"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
Okoampa continues by making demeaning remarks about his fellow countrymen. To use such language indicates comtempt for Ghanaian men and women. Why would any Ghanaian who consider his country's vital interests so dispensable, still present himself as a member of a "Think Tank" and expect respect from his fellow Ghanaians? What does it mean if this man presents Nana Akufo Addo as his favourite candidate, and Akufo Addo approves of this association with him? Is Akuffo Addo telling us that the Danquah Institute "think tank" is fast becoming nothing but a nest of politically virulent and toxic ideas contempt for the Ghanaian people?
I want to appeal to all Ghanaians from across the political spectrum to denounce this deeply insulting article. I specifically call upon Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo to consider these comments serious enough and accord the same attention and time for condemnation as he did to the recent assault by his body guards against the supporters of his political opponents at the party's headquarters! This political contagion can and must be contained immediately. Okoampa must be isolated politically. We should erect a political cordon sanitaire against him, strictly and voluntarily imposed by all proud and peace-loving Ghanaians. "The only place available for the purveyors of doom and damnation of Ghanaians is political quarantine. All those found to be associated with such an idiot, do so at their own political risk and peril!
It is time for all right-thinking Ghanaians irrespective of political hue, to distance themselves from the greed driven gamblers with our future and our destiny as a nation. Okoampa has already pointed out that Nana Akuffo Addo is his main man for the 2012 elections (see: "NPP Flagbearership: My Choice for Election 2012", by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article, Wed, 03 Mar 2010. The question Nana Akuffo Addo needs to answer is, is Okoampa his man? I am sure it is not too much to ask of our potential future presidents< the simple question of how close they themselves stand in relation to extraordinarily toxic opinions of their very close associates, particularly one who expresses su flagrant and self-confessing hatred for a country we call home? I was taken aback that I forgot about the author and began to wonder about what would make a fellow human being hate his own people so much that he imagines a scenario of war with what he calls "the war-seasoned Ivorians"? This is a thinly-veiled wish for a war over oil between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. I could nut my finger at the source of his anger and hatred. Out of frustration, I turned to his main US collaborator, a self-appointed voice of "Black Conservatives" who faithfully transmits nonsense from Okoampa on his blog for Americans to consume, to see if he offered any explanations to this strange behaviour. I was not disappointed. The answer was in the introductory sentence: "Oil Reserves Have Been Discovered Offshore In Ghana. What Next? Bookerista Perspectives The Ivory Coast is claiming a portion of Ghana's offshore oil region. The center-right board member of the Danquah Institute (Ghana) and English professor in USA is glad that the Ivory Coast is making a claim because it undermines the Ghanaian center-left's claims of Pan-Africanism: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana's purportedly new-found oil wealth. (Source: see: Bookerising.net, news site for black moderates and black conservatives.) Okoampa's problem with Ghana owning its own oil in peace is the presence of pan-Africanists in Ghana! What Pan-Africanism got to do with our precious oil? The objective of Pan-Africanism is to unite Africans and wean ourselves away from the neocolonialist cannons of conduct and behave as a free and independent people, consolidating our independence against imperialist sabotage such as the one he is scheming! Which normal African today can be angry with the noble intentions of great pan-Africanist leaders like Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to such an extent that this should cost Ghana's precious oil find? What is wrong with the intentions of the Pan-Africanists? Listen to Nkrumah here and judge for yourself, dear reader: “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. 2 hours ago · Patriot Faisal Ibrahim Kindly post me the link to the original article. about an hour ago Nana Akyea Mensah
http://www.modernghana.com/news/267530/1/who-are-these-parliamentarian-drivers.html
Nana Akyea Mensah
@Patriot Faisal Ibrahim
Hi Faisal,
Have you read it now? I did not put a single word in Okoampa's mouth! Do you also approve of this? It is time for you guys to stand up and be counted! Failure to do so shall mean your consent to such unacceptable behaviour. The choice is clearly yours! We have already started the counting!... See More
To think that such a person is sitting as a member of a Governing Board of any "think tank" in the world speaks volumes about the kind of thinking going on in there! If you read the article to the end, you must have seen this:
"*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English, Journalism and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. He is also a Governing Board Member of the Accra-based Danquah Institute (DI), the pro-democracy think tank..."
Ochere Darko is not around so this post may stay for some time! They are all defending Okoampa! He is both a relative of Akuffo Addo and probably Ochere-Darko. If Akuffo Addo cannot discipline people even at the time he must convince us to give him the mantle, what shall happen when it is given to him when his untouchable cousins begin to throw their weight about? Come again and see what Ochere Darko has to say about this!
I want to assure you that this is not going to go away! I am totally incensed and angry that someone has to come and tell them what they have to do on their own before they do the right thing! Even then, they are avoiding me! They still want this man to "think" for them! Hihihihi! And they want to rule Ghana! Tweakai!
Inhofe Questions Witnesses on AFRICOM, JFETS, and Future Threats
Have they really forgotten about Ghana as ideal venue for the USAfriCom's Headquarters?
Comment: For Ghanaba!
Comment: For Ghanaba!
Author:
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date:
2010-03-31 04:23:53
Comment to:
Re: THEY ARE ECONOMIC SABOTEURS
Hi Ghanaba Amponsah Dadzie, how are you? Give me a follow on twitter. I have a direct message for you!
Forward Ever! Backward Never!!!
Enjoy your day!
Cheers!
–
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Author:
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date:
2010-03-31 04:23:53
Comment to:
Re: THEY ARE ECONOMIC SABOTEURS
Hi Ghanaba Amponsah Dadzie, how are you? Give me a follow on twitter. I have a direct message for you!
Forward Ever! Backward Never!!!
Enjoy your day!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
E-mail: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Nana-Akyea-Mensah
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro
Blogs:
Feature Articles: nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com
Comments: theodikro.blogspot.com
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: AN OPEN INVITATION TO KWAME OKOAMPA AHOOFE JR.!
BREAKING NEWS! OKOAMPA INVITED TO DEFEND HIMSELF!
Kwame Okoampa has been invited into a forum discussing why disciplinary action should not be taken against him. By the powers bestowed upon me as the self-appointed moderator of this forum, I hereby order the callow professor of yellow journalism to appear before the Council of Elders here in the forum discussing:
"Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute", Feature Article of Tuesday, 30 March 2010. Columnist: Mensah, Nana Akyea, The Odikro.
It would be recalled that in a feature article, "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010, the author made very disparaging remarks against Ghanaians and stated:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
He went further to add:
"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
Nana Akyea Mensah has taken a very strong objection to that and is asking for his removal from the Governing Board of the Danquah Institute, an Accra-based political think tank closely associated with the NPP Presidential front-runner, Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo. The action is also intended to put pressure on Akuffo Addo to distance himself from his insolent cousin if he wants to survive with Ghana and not the Ivoery Coast! We need a president who surrounds himself with the "right type of Ghanaians"! This invitation is to enable Okoampa to give reasons, if any, why disciplianary action should not be taken against him! I am proposing a political quarantine if he fails to apologize. I am suggesting the same measures against all those seen to be openly associated with him!
In the aftermath of the defeat of the NPP flag bearer by the NDC candidate, Professor Atta-Mills, Gabby Ochere-Darko tried to put some spin on it:
"The political opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busiasts have always been better at saying, “Ghanaians don't need a president who is arrogant and looks down on them. They need a president who stands up for them. One who feels their pain.” These words were successfully used against a man who for more than 30 years (more than any of his rivals in the 2008 contest) dedicated his time, money, energy and intellect to fighting for the cause of the masses – Nana Akufo-Addo, an Akyem aristocrat." (See: "Are Danquah-Busiasts Really Elitist?", by danquahinstitute.org, Wednesday, 18 November 2009.)
Next time around, we shall be attributing the reasons for the defeat of Ghana's next serial loser in town, Nana Akuffo Addo, to an old Apedwa proverb: "Certain 'Akyem aristocrats' of the same political feathers, flock together too much!"
"A word to the wise can never be enough; else there would be no fools, to begin with!"
- By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. More Quotes | Submit a Quote
As I promised to Okoampa, here is the letter:
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2010-03-30 06:39:03
Thank you. Page has been successfully sent to Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr..
Send the page: Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute?
Friend's name: Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr.
Friend's email: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net.
Your name: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Your email: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com
Message:
Hi grandson,
Your absence is being conspiciously felt in this forum! Why don't you come and explain why disciplinary action must not be taken against you by the black and proud, Pan-Africanists currently in session here?
Don't be afraid, we shall not eat you! Or is it to do with your sense of shame? That would be understandable! Trouble is if you shit on your neighbour's yard, you should put your shame aside and go and clean your shit! This is what I am asking you to do by appearing before the Sanhedrin! Is this too much to ask after calling us "Niggers"?
Cheers! Have a nice day, as you compose your resignation from the Danquah Institute. Do it before you are forced to go, if you want to save your face! I shall be looking forward to that! If you are too ashamed to appear in your name, you may use one of your usual monikers!
Please note that I shall be posting a copy of this invitation in the forum under my name!
Forward Ever! Backward Never!!!
Enjoy your day!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
E-mail: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Nana-Akyea-Mensah
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro
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Comments: theodikro.blogspot.com Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Kwame Okoampa has been invited into a forum discussing why disciplinary action should not be taken against him. By the powers bestowed upon me as the self-appointed moderator of this forum, I hereby order the callow professor of yellow journalism to appear before the Council of Elders here in the forum discussing:
"Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute", Feature Article of Tuesday, 30 March 2010. Columnist: Mensah, Nana Akyea, The Odikro.
It would be recalled that in a feature article, "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010, the author made very disparaging remarks against Ghanaians and stated:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
He went further to add:
"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
Nana Akyea Mensah has taken a very strong objection to that and is asking for his removal from the Governing Board of the Danquah Institute, an Accra-based political think tank closely associated with the NPP Presidential front-runner, Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo. The action is also intended to put pressure on Akuffo Addo to distance himself from his insolent cousin if he wants to survive with Ghana and not the Ivoery Coast! We need a president who surrounds himself with the "right type of Ghanaians"! This invitation is to enable Okoampa to give reasons, if any, why disciplianary action should not be taken against him! I am proposing a political quarantine if he fails to apologize. I am suggesting the same measures against all those seen to be openly associated with him!
In the aftermath of the defeat of the NPP flag bearer by the NDC candidate, Professor Atta-Mills, Gabby Ochere-Darko tried to put some spin on it:
"The political opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busiasts have always been better at saying, “Ghanaians don't need a president who is arrogant and looks down on them. They need a president who stands up for them. One who feels their pain.” These words were successfully used against a man who for more than 30 years (more than any of his rivals in the 2008 contest) dedicated his time, money, energy and intellect to fighting for the cause of the masses – Nana Akufo-Addo, an Akyem aristocrat." (See: "Are Danquah-Busiasts Really Elitist?", by danquahinstitute.org, Wednesday, 18 November 2009.)
Next time around, we shall be attributing the reasons for the defeat of Ghana's next serial loser in town, Nana Akuffo Addo, to an old Apedwa proverb: "Certain 'Akyem aristocrats' of the same political feathers, flock together too much!"
"A word to the wise can never be enough; else there would be no fools, to begin with!"
- By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. More Quotes | Submit a Quote
As I promised to Okoampa, here is the letter:
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2010-03-30 06:39:03
Thank you. Page has been successfully sent to Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr..
Send the page: Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute?
Friend's name: Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr.
Friend's email: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net.
Your name: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Your email: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com
Message:
Hi grandson,
Your absence is being conspiciously felt in this forum! Why don't you come and explain why disciplinary action must not be taken against you by the black and proud, Pan-Africanists currently in session here?
Don't be afraid, we shall not eat you! Or is it to do with your sense of shame? That would be understandable! Trouble is if you shit on your neighbour's yard, you should put your shame aside and go and clean your shit! This is what I am asking you to do by appearing before the Sanhedrin! Is this too much to ask after calling us "Niggers"?
Cheers! Have a nice day, as you compose your resignation from the Danquah Institute. Do it before you are forced to go, if you want to save your face! I shall be looking forward to that! If you are too ashamed to appear in your name, you may use one of your usual monikers!
Please note that I shall be posting a copy of this invitation in the forum under my name!
Forward Ever! Backward Never!!!
Enjoy your day!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
E-mail: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Nana-Akyea-Mensah
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro
Blogs:
Feature Articles: nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com
Comments: theodikro.blogspot.com Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Comment: BREAKING NEWS! OKOAMPA INVITED!
See Comment: BREAKING NEWS! OKOAMPA INVITED!
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2010-03-30 06:39:03
Comment to: Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself
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Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute?
Friend's name: Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr.
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Your name: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Your email: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com
Message:
Hi grandson,
Your absence is being conspiciously felt in this forum! Why don't you come and explain why disciplinary action must not be taken against you by the black and proud, Pan-Africanists currently in session here?
Don't be afraid, we shall not eat you! Or is it to do with your sense of shame? That would be understandable! Trouble is if you shit on your neighbour's yard, you should put your shame aside and go and clean your shit! This is what I am asking you to do by appearing before the Sanhedrin! Is this too much to ask after calling us "Niggers"?
Cheers! Have a nice day, as you compose your resignation from the Danquah Institute. Do it before you are forced to go, if you want to save your face! I shall be looking forward to that! If you are too ashamed to appear in your name, you may use one of your usual monikers!
Please note that I shall be posting a copy of this invitation in the forum under my name!
Forward Ever! Backward Never!!!
Enjoy your day!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Nana-Akyea-Mensah
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro
Blogs:
Feature Articles: nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com
Comments: theodikro.blogspot.com
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2010-03-30 06:39:03
Comment to: Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself
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Send the page:
Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute?
Friend's name: Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr.
Friend's email: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net.
Your name: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Your email: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com
Message:
Hi grandson,
Your absence is being conspiciously felt in this forum! Why don't you come and explain why disciplinary action must not be taken against you by the black and proud, Pan-Africanists currently in session here?
Don't be afraid, we shall not eat you! Or is it to do with your sense of shame? That would be understandable! Trouble is if you shit on your neighbour's yard, you should put your shame aside and go and clean your shit! This is what I am asking you to do by appearing before the Sanhedrin! Is this too much to ask after calling us "Niggers"?
Cheers! Have a nice day, as you compose your resignation from the Danquah Institute. Do it before you are forced to go, if you want to save your face! I shall be looking forward to that! If you are too ashamed to appear in your name, you may use one of your usual monikers!
Please note that I shall be posting a copy of this invitation in the forum under my name!
Forward Ever! Backward Never!!!
Enjoy your day!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Nana-Akyea-Mensah
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro
Blogs:
Feature Articles: nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com
Comments: theodikro.blogspot.com
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Nana posted a link to Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko's Wall.
Nana Akyea Mensah Hi Gabby, here is a feature article you cannot pretend to ignore! It shall not go away even if that is what you wish! You people have to choose between the interst of Ghana and that of the Ivory Coast! It is a big shame that you have an idiot like Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr. sitting on the governing board of a "think tan...k"! What do you people "think" about? The destruction of Ghana? I am sure you would like to comment on this if you manage to find your words!
Over to you, Qanawu Gabby!
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute Altogether?
A Rejoinder to : "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Okoampa begins an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
COMMENT:
Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe Jr., has won the notoriety of making the most nonsensical utterances which border on what may be called "suicidal stupidity", in "Kwame Okoampa Is A Charlatan!", (Feature Article | Wed, 15 Oct 2008, by Ali-Masmadi JEHU-APPIAH). This is not very new in itself. What is new is that this one stands out as a monumental piece of idiocy churned out by this political vulture and his squatter-owners! If I were Nana Akuffo Addo, I would quickly distance myself from this kind of monumental nonsense, which even by Okoampa's own standards, stands out as an eloquent anti-Ghanaian diatribe against the sovereign will of the people, a furious and unmerited savage blow against the respect for democratic governance and constitutional rule of a government elected by popular mandate.
Okoampa continues:
"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
Okoampa continues by making demeaning remarks about his fellow countrymen. To use such language indicates comtempt for Ghanaian men and women. Why would any Ghanaian who consider his country's vital interests so dispensable, still present himself as a member of a "Think Tank" and expect respect from his fellow Ghanaians? What does it mean if this man presents Nana Akufo Addo as his favourite candidate, and Akufo Addo approves of this association with him? Is Akuffo Addo telling us that the Danquah Institute "think tank" is fast becoming nothing but a nest of politically virulent and toxic ideas contempt for the Ghanaian people?
I want to appeal to all Ghanaians from across the political spectrum to denounce this deeply insulting article. I specifically call upon Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo to consider these comments serious enough and accord the same attention and time for condemnation as he did to the recent assault by his body guards against the supporters of his political opponents at the party's headquarters! This political contagion can and must be contained immediately. Okoampa must be isolated politically. We should erect a political cordon sanitaire against him, strictly and voluntarily imposed by all proud and peace-loving Ghanaians. "The only place available for the purveyors of doom and damnation of Ghanaians is political quarantine. All those found to be associated with such an idiot, do so at their own political risk and peril!
It is time for all right-thinking Ghanaians irrespective of political hue, to distance themselves from the greed driven gamblers with our future and our destiny as a nation. Okoampa has already pointed out that Nana Akuffo Addo is his main man for the 2012 elections (see: "NPP Flagbearership: My Choice for Election 2012", by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article, Wed, 03 Mar 2010. The question Nana Akuffo Addo needs to answer is, is Okoampa his man? I am sure it is not too much to ask of our potential future presidents< the simple question of how close they themselves stand in relation to extraordinarily toxic opinions of their very close associates, particularly one who expresses su flagrant and self-confessing hatred for a country we call home?
I was taken aback that I forgot aboot put the author and began to wonder about what would make a fellow human being hate his own people so much that he imagines a scenario of war with what he calls "the war-seasoned Ivorians"? This is a thinly-veiled wish for a war over oil between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. I could nut my finger at the source of his anger and hatred. Out of frustration, I turned to his main US collaborator, a self-appointed voice of "Black Conservatives" who faithfully transmits nonsense from Okoampa on his blog for Americans to consume, to see if he offered any explanations to this strange behaviour. I was not disappointed. The answer was in the introductory sentence:
"Oil Reserves Have Been Discovered Offshore In Ghana. What Next? Bookerista PerspectivesThe Ivory Coast is claiming a portion of Ghana's offshore oil region. The center-right board member of the Danquah Institute (Ghana) and English professor in USA is glad that the Ivory Coast is making a claim because it undermines the Ghanaian center-left's claims of Pan-Africanism: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana's purportedly new-found oil wealth. (Source: see: Bookerising.net, news site for black moderates and black conservatives.)
Okoampa's problem with Ghana owning its own oil in peace is the presence of pan-Africanists in Ghana! What Pan-Africanism got to do with our precious oil? The objective of Pan-Africanism is to unite Africans and wean ourselves away from the neocolonialist cannons of conduct and behave as a free and independent people, consolidating our independence against imperialist sabotage such as the one he is scheming! Which normal African today can be angry with the noble intentions of great pan-Africanist leaders like Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to such an extent that this should cost Ghana's precious oil find? What is wrong with the intentions of the Pan-Africanists? Listen to Nkrumah here and judge for yourself, dear reader:
“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.
I am even sure that Okoampa himself does not expect to treat Ghanaians this way and get away with it! He has already been dismissed before by the New York branch of the NPP for similar outrageous declarations calling for war in Ghana, in the lead up to the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. He is used to being attacked for his aggressively stupid opinions even within his own party. The attempt by the Danquah Institute to bring Okoampa back from political ostracism begun by the New York branch of the NPP is a disservice to the good people of Ghana.
Ladies and gentlemen, we need a clear apology from Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., the author of these abominations! It is time Ghanaians of all walks of life put maximum pressure on Nana Akuffo Addo to come out once more to condemn the work of his notorious henchman or go down with him! I call on ordinary Ghanaians, especially the rank and file of the NPP to join me in this condemnation and show the way Akuffo Addo to follow and condemn Okoampa's ill-considered words!
For further information and follow-ups, I invite the interested reader to my blog. I tweet some of my comments on facebook and on twitter. If you agree or disagree with me, you may follow my thinking and reactions in a more comprehensive manner by coming to theodikro.blogspot.com. I keep most of my comments in one place. You may leave comments directly at: theodikro.blogspot.com
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Okoampa begins an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
Ghana’s Western neighbor Ivory Coast is reportedly laying claims to portions of the huge oil wealth in the deep waters of the Western Region.
There is no panic in Ghana! See map with Dzata oil field and Jubilee field off Cape Three Points Ghana (click to enlarge)
COMMENT:
Fellow Ghanaians, Our Ivorian brothers and sisters, Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo, and other imperialist stooges at the Danquah Institute, fellow Africans, and friends of Africa, lend me your ears! What does this really mean? Is Okoampa trying to tell us that " Because Ghanaians did not vote the NPP to "manage" the oil, Ghanaians have lost their right to their own natural resource? That we can have that oil only when we vote the NPP into power? Will they then take the oil profits for themselves stashed in their offshore accounts? Is this the kind of democracy he thinks the NPP is offering? Is this why "NPP is the only Ghanaian Beacon of Democracy"? (See Ghanaweb archives, Feature Article of Monday, 8 March 2010, Columnist Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame )
Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe Jr., has won the notoriety of making the most nonsensical utterances which border on what may be called "suicidal stupidity", in "Kwame Okoampa Is A Charlatan!", (Feature Article | Wed, 15 Oct 2008, by Ali-Masmadi JEHU-APPIAH). This is not very new in itself. What is new is that this one stands out as a monumental piece of idiocy churned out by this political vulture and his squatter-owners! If I were Nana Akuffo Addo, I would quickly distance myself from this kind of monumental nonsense, which even by Okoampa's own standards, stands out as an eloquent anti-Ghanaian diatribe against the sovereign will of the people, a furious and unmerited savage blow against the respect for democratic governance and constitutional rule of a government elected by popular mandate.
Okoampa continues:
"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
Okoampa continues by making demeaning remarks about his fellow countrymen. To use such language indicates comtempt for Ghanaian men and women. Why would any Ghanaian who consider his country's vital interests so dispensable, still present himself as a member of a "Think Tank" and expect respect from his fellow Ghanaians? What does it mean if this man presents Nana Akufo Addo as his favourite candidate, and Akufo Addo approves of this association with him? Is Akuffo Addo telling us that the Danquah Institute "think tank" is fast becoming nothing but a nest of politically virulent and toxic ideas contempt for the Ghanaian people?
I want to appeal to all Ghanaians from across the political spectrum to denounce this deeply insulting article. I specifically call upon Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo to consider these comments serious enough and accord the same attention and time for condemnation as he did to the recent assault by his body guards against the supporters of his political opponents at the party's headquarters! This political contagion can and must be contained immediately. Okoampa must be isolated politically. We should erect a political cordon sanitaire against him, strictly and voluntarily imposed by all proud and peace-loving Ghanaians. "The only place available for the purveyors of doom and damnation of Ghanaians is political quarantine. All those found to be associated with such an idiot, do so at their own political risk and peril!
It is time for all right-thinking Ghanaians irrespective of political hue, to distance themselves from the greed driven gamblers with our future and our destiny as a nation. Okoampa has already pointed out that Nana Akuffo Addo is his main man for the 2012 elections (see: "NPP Flagbearership: My Choice for Election 2012", by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article, Wed, 03 Mar 2010. The question Nana Akuffo Addo needs to answer is, is Okoampa his man? I am sure it is not too much to ask of our potential future presidents< the simple question of how close they themselves stand in relation to extraordinarily toxic opinions of their very close associates, particularly one who expresses su flagrant and self-confessing hatred for a country we call home?
I was taken aback that I forgot aboot put the author and began to wonder about what would make a fellow human being hate his own people so much that he imagines a scenario of war with what he calls "the war-seasoned Ivorians"? This is a thinly-veiled wish for a war over oil between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. I could nut my finger at the source of his anger and hatred. Out of frustration, I turned to his main US collaborator, a self-appointed voice of "Black Conservatives" who faithfully transmits nonsense from Okoampa on his blog for Americans to consume, to see if he offered any explanations to this strange behaviour. I was not disappointed. The answer was in the introductory sentence:
"Oil Reserves Have Been Discovered Offshore In Ghana. What Next? Bookerista Perspectives
Okoampa's problem with Ghana owning its own oil in peace is the presence of pan-Africanists in Ghana! What Pan-Africanism got to do with our precious oil? The objective of Pan-Africanism is to unite Africans and wean ourselves away from the neocolonialist cannons of conduct and behave as a free and independent people, consolidating our independence against imperialist sabotage such as the one he is scheming! Which normal African today can be angry with the noble intentions of great pan-Africanist leaders like Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to such an extent that this should cost Ghana's precious oil find? What is wrong with the intentions of the Pan-Africanists? Listen to Nkrumah here and judge for yourself, dear reader:
“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.
I am even sure that Okoampa himself does not expect to treat Ghanaians this way and get away with it! He has already been dismissed before by the New York branch of the NPP for similar outrageous declarations calling for war in Ghana, in the lead up to the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. He is used to being attacked for his aggressively stupid opinions even within his own party. The attempt by the Danquah Institute to bring Okoampa back from political ostracism begun by the New York branch of the NPP is a disservice to the good people of Ghana.
Ladies and gentlemen, we need a clear apology from Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., the author of these abominations! It is time Ghanaians of all walks of life put maximum pressure on Nana Akuffo Addo to come out once more to condemn the work of his notorious henchman or go down with him! I call on ordinary Ghanaians, especially the rank and file of the NPP to join me in this condemnation and show the way Akuffo Addo to follow and condemn Okoampa's ill-considered words!
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Comment: A Very Beautiful Effort Here!
Comment: A Very Beautiful Effort Here!
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Date: 2010-03-26 19:05:07
Comment to: Enough Of This Tribalism Nonsense
Hi The Royal Enoch!
Wonderful effort here! I do appreciate this! May God bless you and everyone who reads this with an open heart. May He give us the strength to support the victims of racism and tribalism and to oppose and resist the perpetrators irrespective of party political affiliation!
God bless you, Ghana, Africa and the world wide wide which He has made!
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Video That Will Put Geithner Behind Bars
The Video That Will Put Geithner Behind Bars
March 13, 2010 |
Photo Credit: White House
You gotta see this! If this doesn't convince you that Timothy Geithner knew about the securities shenanigans that were going on at Lehman, than I don't know what will.
Keep in mind, that Geithner ran Lehman through 3 "stress tests" prior to bankruptcy; all of which Lehman failed, and yet, nothing was done. Anton R. Valukas--the examiner who wrote the 2,200 page investigative-report which was released on Thursday-- has provided plenty of information detailing Lehman's “materially misleading” accounting and “actionable balance sheet manipulation.”
In other words, they cooked the books.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Kwesi Pratt, Jnr., And The Asanteman Council, What Did He Say Wrong?
"We Are Fed Up With Our Chiefs" - Kwesi Pratt
Date: 19-Mar-2010
The reports continue that in an interaction with a cross-section of journalists in Kumasi, Nana Nkansah Boadum noted that "the attitude of Kwesi Pratt shows how disrespectful he is to the elderly in society adding that 'if that Pratt does not respect his chiefs, we respect our king and will not sit unconcerned for people like him to show disrespect to our King'”
The story says "He expressed the willingness and readiness of Asantes to defend the dignity of Asanteman and the occupant of the Golden Stool and would never allow Mr. Pratt to continue making such statements about their king."
Apparently, if the chief really wants the chieftaincy institution to be respected, he would need to listen to what Kwesi Pratt is saying, if they are against running away and leaving their sandals behind!
"The Today newspaper is reliably informed that although the overlord of the Asante is not too keen on taking issues with Pratt and his ilk, others from his chieftain have sworn not to let the issue die. It is envisaged that the Asanteman council would be meeting this week to review the Tuobodom-Techiman chieftaincy issue and from very reliable sources, Kwesi Pratt’s insulting behavior will be one of the issue that will engage the attention of the council."
What is wrong with what Kwesi is saying here below? Here is an attempt to translate the said radio discussion which appears in the Audio Attachment: "Listen to the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. stating that it is high time we stopped glorifying our Chieftancy institutions, during a panel discussion on Peace Fm's "kokrokoo" programme" for all to see and hear what it is exactly Kwesi was talking about! I wish someone would ne kind enough to send a copy to to Nana Nkansah Boadum, for onward transmission to the Asanteman council in helping them in their deliberations over:
"Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr., who is the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper and a known social commentator, has been vilifying the Asante King any time an issue comes in relation to Asantes and their chiefs and warned that this time round they were prepared to take up issues with the anti-Asante journalist..."
What exactly did Kwesi say? Dear reader, read on and judge for yourself! Kwesi Pratt's point is that no one is above the law. It seems through these veiled threats, someone is thinking of confirming the exasperation of not only Mr. Kwesi Pratt, Jnr., but an overwhelming number of Ghanaians from all the four corners of the country!
BEGIN QUOTE
KWWESI PRATT, JNR.: "If you go into history, the war between the Asantes and Techiman was due to the lies of someone. Someone, who was sent by the people of Techiman to carry gold and other precious stones to the King of Asante, went away and replaced the gold on the way. So, when they opened the sack, it was filled with worthless things. This brought that particular war about. It was due to their intermediary. The one who was sent to deliver the goods to Asanteman and rather changed the gift on the way, this is the one who brought that war about. Right now, the Tuobodom and Asante case that we are talking about, what is the main point in all this? The main point is that the chief of Tuobodom claims he has been kidnapped, he been made naked, and tortured and asked to swear he is not under the Asante King. In any case, the is this the truth? For all you know, these are not all the facts. It may be the facts, but for all you know, it may not turn out to be the facts. So, until investigations and fact-finding and something concrete to stand upon, can we stand on this and do what we are doing? Is this right?
The history itself does not guide us in this particular instant. So for me, this aspect disturbs me a lot. What is the principal issue of this case? The main issue is that some people decided to kill the chief of Techiman and actually fired shots which hit and wounded some of the members of his entourage, who are up till now, unable to walk. This is already pending as a case. You see what I mean? So, if you look at the case from the beginning to the end, it seems as though each and every protagonist in the case appears to have broken the law. I am intentionally choosing my words very carefully: "appears to have broken the law" because those who made the attempt to kill the chief of Techiman, who went to shoot, what has been said so far about that? What punishment has been meted against them? Those who, if true, broke the law and kidnapped the chief of Tuobodom to do wicked things to him, if true, that also is against the law.
Finally, finally, Master, what I am saying here is a bit heavy for my mouth, but I have to speak the truth. Finally, finally, the Otumfuo who organised a durbar into which he sat and proclaimed he would also kidnap the chief of Techiman, is this also according to the law? Is this a proper thing to do? That the Otumfuo claims to be giving the government an ultimatum, and that if the government fails to follow his ultimatum, and the chief of Techiman is found on within his territory, he would organise his kidnapping and be sent to his palace and so on, is this also good? In my opinion this is also not good! Some people are saying he spoke out of anger. Master, it behoves on our elders not to speak in anger! That is the difference between "elders" and the ordinary people. You simply do not speak in anger! Anyone who speaks out of anger does not speak well. So the fact that he spoke out of anger is no excuse to the kind of things he said.
Meanwhile, it is written in the 1992 Constitution that the chiefs must not interfere in politics. Otumfuo says the government has to choose between him and Tachiman. What is the basis of that? Why should any government choose between any people? Why should any government choose between the people of Apam and the people of Winneba? What is the basis of that choice? Why should any government choose between Tamale and Bolgatanga? Why? Where is this also from? I am disgusted by what is happ...! Because, as we all discuss this matter, before the last word is said, if we do not take care, as Master Kofi Juamah said, if care is not taken, it is a very big trouble that is coming. And this big trouble, the elders who are speaking in the way which could cause trouble, when the trouble comes, it does not touch them. When some youth of Kumasi picked up sticks and descended on the Tachiman station, no chief was injured, no child of a chief was affected. When the Techiman people got angry and retaliated, no chief sustained any injury, no child of any cheif was hurt. So in the long run, it is the ordinary people who suffer for nothing. They are just going to suffer for nothing because of the irresponsibility of some of our elders. In any case, Master, these chieftaincy affairs, we are tired of chieftaincy affairs! Why? March 2010, March, 2010, we are still glorifying the chieftaincy institution, what is that institution? The most undemocratic institution, how does one become a chief? It is based on blood relations. One's ancestor's went to conquer this one and conquered that one. They were slave-raiders and so on, and therefore one is a chief. That is the basis of selecting chiefs. No democracy in it at all!
All over the country, our chiefs, lands that our "Nananom" (ancestors) have left behind for us are being sold in order for them to indulge in frivolities! They sell them "by heart" (by rote, i.e "without thinking"), no accountability, ... then afterwards, they open their mouths, not to say things that even lead to peace and prosperity, they open their mouths and it is "War!" Go to Bawku today and see for yourself. Go to Yendi and see. There is fire everywhere why? If this is how they are going to behave, then as Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah said, "A time would come when the chiefs would run away and leave their sandals behind"! We are fed up with all of this, how....?"
END QUOTE
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Date: 19-Mar-2010
Audio Attachment: Listen to the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper,Kwesi Pratt Jnr. stating that it is high time we stopped glorifying our Chieftancy institutions, during a panel discussion on Peace Fm's "kokrokoo" programmeNewspaper reports indicate that "The Chief of Nsima in the Ashanti Region, Nana Nkansah Boadum Ayeboafo, has replied Kwesi Pratt Jnr., on some unsavoury remarks he made against the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu last week on a number of radio stations in Accra." (See: peacefmonline.com/ Asante Chief Descends on Kwesi Pratt, Date: 23-Mar-2010
The reports continue that in an interaction with a cross-section of journalists in Kumasi, Nana Nkansah Boadum noted that "the attitude of Kwesi Pratt shows how disrespectful he is to the elderly in society adding that 'if that Pratt does not respect his chiefs, we respect our king and will not sit unconcerned for people like him to show disrespect to our King'”
The story says "He expressed the willingness and readiness of Asantes to defend the dignity of Asanteman and the occupant of the Golden Stool and would never allow Mr. Pratt to continue making such statements about their king."
Apparently, if the chief really wants the chieftaincy institution to be respected, he would need to listen to what Kwesi Pratt is saying, if they are against running away and leaving their sandals behind!
"The Today newspaper is reliably informed that although the overlord of the Asante is not too keen on taking issues with Pratt and his ilk, others from his chieftain have sworn not to let the issue die. It is envisaged that the Asanteman council would be meeting this week to review the Tuobodom-Techiman chieftaincy issue and from very reliable sources, Kwesi Pratt’s insulting behavior will be one of the issue that will engage the attention of the council."
What is wrong with what Kwesi is saying here below? Here is an attempt to translate the said radio discussion which appears in the Audio Attachment: "Listen to the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. stating that it is high time we stopped glorifying our Chieftancy institutions, during a panel discussion on Peace Fm's "kokrokoo" programme" for all to see and hear what it is exactly Kwesi was talking about! I wish someone would ne kind enough to send a copy to to Nana Nkansah Boadum, for onward transmission to the Asanteman council in helping them in their deliberations over:
"Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr., who is the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper and a known social commentator, has been vilifying the Asante King any time an issue comes in relation to Asantes and their chiefs and warned that this time round they were prepared to take up issues with the anti-Asante journalist..."
What exactly did Kwesi say? Dear reader, read on and judge for yourself! Kwesi Pratt's point is that no one is above the law. It seems through these veiled threats, someone is thinking of confirming the exasperation of not only Mr. Kwesi Pratt, Jnr., but an overwhelming number of Ghanaians from all the four corners of the country!
BEGIN QUOTE
KWWESI PRATT, JNR.: "If you go into history, the war between the Asantes and Techiman was due to the lies of someone. Someone, who was sent by the people of Techiman to carry gold and other precious stones to the King of Asante, went away and replaced the gold on the way. So, when they opened the sack, it was filled with worthless things. This brought that particular war about. It was due to their intermediary. The one who was sent to deliver the goods to Asanteman and rather changed the gift on the way, this is the one who brought that war about. Right now, the Tuobodom and Asante case that we are talking about, what is the main point in all this? The main point is that the chief of Tuobodom claims he has been kidnapped, he been made naked, and tortured and asked to swear he is not under the Asante King. In any case, the is this the truth? For all you know, these are not all the facts. It may be the facts, but for all you know, it may not turn out to be the facts. So, until investigations and fact-finding and something concrete to stand upon, can we stand on this and do what we are doing? Is this right?
The history itself does not guide us in this particular instant. So for me, this aspect disturbs me a lot. What is the principal issue of this case? The main issue is that some people decided to kill the chief of Techiman and actually fired shots which hit and wounded some of the members of his entourage, who are up till now, unable to walk. This is already pending as a case. You see what I mean? So, if you look at the case from the beginning to the end, it seems as though each and every protagonist in the case appears to have broken the law. I am intentionally choosing my words very carefully: "appears to have broken the law" because those who made the attempt to kill the chief of Techiman, who went to shoot, what has been said so far about that? What punishment has been meted against them? Those who, if true, broke the law and kidnapped the chief of Tuobodom to do wicked things to him, if true, that also is against the law.
Finally, finally, Master, what I am saying here is a bit heavy for my mouth, but I have to speak the truth. Finally, finally, the Otumfuo who organised a durbar into which he sat and proclaimed he would also kidnap the chief of Techiman, is this also according to the law? Is this a proper thing to do? That the Otumfuo claims to be giving the government an ultimatum, and that if the government fails to follow his ultimatum, and the chief of Techiman is found on within his territory, he would organise his kidnapping and be sent to his palace and so on, is this also good? In my opinion this is also not good! Some people are saying he spoke out of anger. Master, it behoves on our elders not to speak in anger! That is the difference between "elders" and the ordinary people. You simply do not speak in anger! Anyone who speaks out of anger does not speak well. So the fact that he spoke out of anger is no excuse to the kind of things he said.
Meanwhile, it is written in the 1992 Constitution that the chiefs must not interfere in politics. Otumfuo says the government has to choose between him and Tachiman. What is the basis of that? Why should any government choose between any people? Why should any government choose between the people of Apam and the people of Winneba? What is the basis of that choice? Why should any government choose between Tamale and Bolgatanga? Why? Where is this also from? I am disgusted by what is happ...! Because, as we all discuss this matter, before the last word is said, if we do not take care, as Master Kofi Juamah said, if care is not taken, it is a very big trouble that is coming. And this big trouble, the elders who are speaking in the way which could cause trouble, when the trouble comes, it does not touch them. When some youth of Kumasi picked up sticks and descended on the Tachiman station, no chief was injured, no child of a chief was affected. When the Techiman people got angry and retaliated, no chief sustained any injury, no child of any cheif was hurt. So in the long run, it is the ordinary people who suffer for nothing. They are just going to suffer for nothing because of the irresponsibility of some of our elders. In any case, Master, these chieftaincy affairs, we are tired of chieftaincy affairs! Why? March 2010, March, 2010, we are still glorifying the chieftaincy institution, what is that institution? The most undemocratic institution, how does one become a chief? It is based on blood relations. One's ancestor's went to conquer this one and conquered that one. They were slave-raiders and so on, and therefore one is a chief. That is the basis of selecting chiefs. No democracy in it at all!
All over the country, our chiefs, lands that our "Nananom" (ancestors) have left behind for us are being sold in order for them to indulge in frivolities! They sell them "by heart" (by rote, i.e "without thinking"), no accountability, ... then afterwards, they open their mouths, not to say things that even lead to peace and prosperity, they open their mouths and it is "War!" Go to Bawku today and see for yourself. Go to Yendi and see. There is fire everywhere why? If this is how they are going to behave, then as Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah said, "A time would come when the chiefs would run away and leave their sandals behind"! We are fed up with all of this, how....?"
END QUOTE
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Monday, March 22, 2010
REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATIONS: SUSPECTED ILLEGAL FUND-RAISING ACTIVITY BY THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY (NPP) OF GHANA IN THE UNITED STATES
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
J. B. DANQUAH IS BAD NEWS!
Just found an old and interesting post here
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah,
Location: Apedwa-Ghana (Belgium)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:03:00
Hello Mr. Joseph Mensah Oti-Asirifi,
This is an extremely st***d article you have written here! Shame unto you!!!
I will make this short. You wrote:
"Undoubtedly the role of Nkrumah in the quest towards independence was enormous and no thinker can deny that but in the laws of team work the goal is more important than the role. Members of the U.G.C.C formed the goal for independent and gave it a vision which directed the consciousness for self rule."
There is a great confusion in your write-up between goal and role. The break-up of the UGCC arose as a result of the differences between the key players about the goal and how to achieve this.
The role each of them played was based upon their individual understanding of the goals they were pursuing for the Gold Coast. The fact that J.B. Danquah saw nothing wrong with human sacrifices and ritual murders speak volumes about his goals for the people of Ghana, and his understanding of our human rights!
It was not by accident that the UGCC was full of the elites in our society. and was making no effort to mobilize the ordinary people! It was because they were planning a transfer of power from the colonial rulers to the local elites to lord it over the rest of us, whilst defending the interests of the colonialists. Danquah's primary ambition was to become a colonial secretary, not a prime minister! The reason why the British abandoned him was his insane defence of his brothers whom he manipulated to murder Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa in February 1944. Can you believe that J.B. Danquah was defending his murderous relatives as royals of the Akyem Abuakwa State and not British subjects, and by the laws of Akyem Abuakwa, ritual murder to blacken the Akyem stool is not against Akyem customary law? That was when the British realised that the guy must have went through Oxford all right, but Oxford had not gone through him! Rejected by the British who hanged his own brothers and choose Busia as a favourite puppet, Danquah turned his anger at them by concentrating on giving them as much hell he could raise. He maintained specific contacts, singed up with the CIA and jumped on the American bandwagon. It became so difficult for him to mobilize even the elites because of the role he played on the Akyea Mensah murder case that he had to call on Paa Grant for assistance. Of course, the motivations of Paa Grant was obviously different from that of JB, who never gave up his life-long ambition of being the Lord all over the Gold Coast!
The reason why we celebrate Nkrumah is not so much of his role, however great that was. It is because we identify with his goals. The reason why we are ready to sh*t and piss upon Danquah was because of his wicked attempts to sabotage these noble goals for his extremely murderous and selfish ends!
The ends we seek to identify in Nkrumah are so eloquently expressed and scattered across his numerous speeches and books. Here is one of them:
“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
I shall end with the following comment I sent to my grandson, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.
ENJOY YOU ILLUMINATION:
J. B. DANQUAH IS BAD NEWS!
Nana Akyea Mensah, | follow me on Twitter:-twitter.com/TheOdikro | 9/28/2009 1:16:00 AM
Grandson,
J.B Danquah was implicated seriously in ritual murders and human sacrifices! He is not fit to be projected as a role-model for our young ones. Not only because of his known role as a C.I.A pawn, and attempts to disenfranchise an overwhelming Ghanaians who did not have property be denied the right to vote! No, Nkrumah successfully dealt with that. He insisted on the "right to vote" "for the farmers, the workers, and the women", in short, "for all Ghanaians!" This is not why Danquah deserves no thanks whatsoever.
As to why it is very important to exclude Danquah in any national honours, I wish to clearly state the reason as being his invilvent in human sacrifices and ritual murders! He instigated his own brothers to kill his half-brother, Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa!
Apedwa, Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana
"On August 21st, 1943, the king of Akyem Abuakwa state in Ghana, Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, died. With a population of about 250,000, it was a rich state whose wealth was based upon cocoa cultivation and upon gold and diamond-mining concession rents and royalties. Akyem's funerary rites are long drawn out and this drew to a close in February 1944. On the final day, the chief of one of the towns that comprised a politically salient group in the state, the Amantoo mmiensa, disappeared whilst in the state capital, Kyebi. Akyea Mensah's loss was reported to the Akyem Abuakwa State Council which comprised the senior chiefs in the kingdom and the state's senior bureaucrats; the loss was also reported to the local office of the Gold Coast police. An extensive hue and cry yielded nothing. In the following days the Gold Coast police received a number of anonymous letters alleging that he had been ritually murdered; the police, while being suspicious, were disinclined to act on rumour alone. Gossip was spreading. A week passed and the letters piled up. The people of Apedwa, the missing..." Death and politics: West Africa in the 1940s. by Richard Rathbone
According to the case officer, According to ACP/Mr Nuamah, "the climax of the week-long funeral of the late Okyehene Nana Sir Ofori Atta I was set for Sunday, 27th February, 1944. The last rite marking the end of the funeral was the celebration of the WEREMPE custom, which was the act of blackening the stool of the late chief, formally making him an ancestor in the line of kings."
In the evening of Saturday, 26th February, 1944 all the principal players in the stool blackening ritual assembled for final preparations.
The question was which human being's blood was to be used for the ceremony. Present was Nana Akyea Mensah, Chief of Apedwa, and traditionally commander of the Okyehene's royal bodyguard.
Nana Mensah quite clearly explained to his colleagues that times had changed. The colonial authorities at the Christianborg Castle in Osu had taken over the power of life and death from the chiefs. It was no longer possible for the chiefs to sit anywhere and condemn anybody – if they used any human blood in the ritual, the Gold Coast Police would arrest them.
This did not go down well with the Akyem fundamentalists who wanted human blood and considered Nana Akyea Mensah's intervention as an attack on their traditions and power. They opposed Nana Mensah. J. B. Danquah, a member of the royal family and leading barister countered the authority of this "Kwaw Botwe" Krakyi (Akyea Mensah was not a lawyer, he completed his secondary education at Mfatsipim College as Emmanuel Ohemeng and and then worked as a clerk for the Akyem Abuawa State. The superior legal prowess of J.B. Daquah directed that the Akyem Abuakwa State was independent of the British Colonial rule, and the laws of Akyem Abuakwa State were not dependent upon British colonial law.
J.B Danquah encouraged and assured legal protection to the conspirators: Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng wh were later found guilty of ritually killing Nana Akyea Mensah, and sentenced to death by hanging on the neck until declared dead.
As dastard as J.B. Danquah's act of refusing to stand up and be counted against human sacrifices, he also opportunisically found occassion to silence as a terrible scandal involving financial improprieties vis-a-vis the Akyem Abuakwa State coffers and J.B. Danquah's personal ambitions to be Home Secretary, over the years.
Nana Akyea Mensah also knew some secrets about Danquah's attempts to "cause financial loss to the Akyem Abuakwa State. He was therefore anxious that an angry Akyea Mensah would not reveal such secrets. Thus whilst the chiefs were simply after any "royal blood", J. B. Danquah was clearly after Akyea Mensah's blood!
In the night of the same day, they planned that when Nana Akyea came in the morning for the rites, meaning to use the blood of goats and sheep, they would kill him and use his blood – after all he was top royal blood, and the only mole in their midst.
And so Nana Mensah was killed for the ritual. But his ghost did not rest. His ghost was so busy that when Mrs. Sarah Esi Grant-Acquah, the daughter of Paa Grant was tranfered as a teacher to Kyebi, this was her reaction:
"After completing my teaching training, I was posted to Cape Coast Government Girls School. It was a big fight with Father going to Cape Coast to teach.
After less than one year, I was informed that I had been transferred from Cape Coast to Kyebi Government School. I cried and refused to go to Kyebi, so I traveled to Sekondi to tell Father to write to the Education Department not to transfer me. I was also afraid to go to Kyebi because of the Akyea Mensah murder case.
Father listened to my story told amid tears and said, “I told you not to go and work. You did not listen to me and now that you are transferred you are refusing to go. If you want to work, then you must be prepared to go on transfer if the authorities say so”.
“Akyea Mensah's case has nothing to do with teaching and school. Nana Ofori Atta is my friend. I will give you a letter for him and you will be looked after”. ("In the beginning was… PAA GRANTAnd the UGCC" by Mrs. Sarah Esi Grant-Acquah, the daughter of Paa Grant, National Commission on Culture, Ghana Cultural News, Wednesday, February 14, 2007, ghanaculture.gov.gh)
Nana Mensah's ghost haunted them so much that eventually they all confessed, were arrested, and after a famous jury trial, they were all condemned and hanged.
It is important to note that even in the defence of these ritual murderers, Danquah did not change the private counsel he had given them prior to the act. He kept insisting in court on the right of the Akyem Royal Family to kill whomever it pleased them to do so! He insisted it was none of the business of the British! He assembled all the right wing lawyers in town, Nii Armah Ollenu, Edward Akuffo Addo, (Nana Akuffo Addo's father was involved) and many more! I am doing the research, I shall furnish the full names and later publish this as an article!
This is the story, chilling to the bone marrow that Gloria Yartey has scripted under the title "WHERE IS THE CHIEF?"
The role of Dr. J. B. Danquah in the murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, his my own half-brother, need to be clearly pointed out.
Kwame Kyeretwie, popularly known as Dr. J. B. Danquah, the doyen of Gold Coast politics, by the NPP, whose political ambitions were eating deep into the coffers of the Abuakwa State, as a respected man of law, trained at Oxford University, ought to have been the first person know better to put his feet down to stop this barbaric practice once and for all! Akyea Mensah specifically addressed him to provide some support to back up his argument "before the colonial government descends upon us and hanged us by the neck until we died for commiting a ritual murder!"
What sealed his fate was the threat to reveal how Kwame Kyeretwie was misapplying Akyem Abuakwa State Council money for his personal trips to London and living beyond his means at the expense of everybody, and causing financial loss to the Akyem Abuakwa state!
Akyea Mensah made the mistake of making it clear to expose him if anybody was killed, if he did not stand up and to be counted!
I can already hear Nana Akyea Mensah defending himself this way:
"He was ready to continue such savage customs! It was no blackmail to ask him to do the right thing. I was very desperate! His reaction was that I was trying to blackmail him and refused to reason with me! This was no excuse to lobby for my head, but that is exactly what he did!
Who would have thought that my own brother with a doctorate degree could stoop so low? I was so sure that as the commander of the Amantoo mmiensa, no one would dare to touch me! I was only doing my best to defend others, and J.B Danquah encouraged and assured legal protection to the conspirators: Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng The next day, I was to be the victim myself!"
History is the science of establishing facts and interpreting them. If your Danquah was a Captain, don't forget that he was bribed to score goals against the people of Ghana. Nkrumah had to break his leg in order to save the match!
Cheers! Have a nice day!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
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Author: Nana Akyea Mensah,
Location: Apedwa-Ghana (Belgium)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:03:00
Hello Mr. Joseph Mensah Oti-Asirifi,
This is an extremely st***d article you have written here! Shame unto you!!!
I will make this short. You wrote:
"Undoubtedly the role of Nkrumah in the quest towards independence was enormous and no thinker can deny that but in the laws of team work the goal is more important than the role. Members of the U.G.C.C formed the goal for independent and gave it a vision which directed the consciousness for self rule."
There is a great confusion in your write-up between goal and role. The break-up of the UGCC arose as a result of the differences between the key players about the goal and how to achieve this.
The role each of them played was based upon their individual understanding of the goals they were pursuing for the Gold Coast. The fact that J.B. Danquah saw nothing wrong with human sacrifices and ritual murders speak volumes about his goals for the people of Ghana, and his understanding of our human rights!
It was not by accident that the UGCC was full of the elites in our society. and was making no effort to mobilize the ordinary people! It was because they were planning a transfer of power from the colonial rulers to the local elites to lord it over the rest of us, whilst defending the interests of the colonialists. Danquah's primary ambition was to become a colonial secretary, not a prime minister! The reason why the British abandoned him was his insane defence of his brothers whom he manipulated to murder Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa in February 1944. Can you believe that J.B. Danquah was defending his murderous relatives as royals of the Akyem Abuakwa State and not British subjects, and by the laws of Akyem Abuakwa, ritual murder to blacken the Akyem stool is not against Akyem customary law? That was when the British realised that the guy must have went through Oxford all right, but Oxford had not gone through him! Rejected by the British who hanged his own brothers and choose Busia as a favourite puppet, Danquah turned his anger at them by concentrating on giving them as much hell he could raise. He maintained specific contacts, singed up with the CIA and jumped on the American bandwagon. It became so difficult for him to mobilize even the elites because of the role he played on the Akyea Mensah murder case that he had to call on Paa Grant for assistance. Of course, the motivations of Paa Grant was obviously different from that of JB, who never gave up his life-long ambition of being the Lord all over the Gold Coast!
The reason why we celebrate Nkrumah is not so much of his role, however great that was. It is because we identify with his goals. The reason why we are ready to sh*t and piss upon Danquah was because of his wicked attempts to sabotage these noble goals for his extremely murderous and selfish ends!
The ends we seek to identify in Nkrumah are so eloquently expressed and scattered across his numerous speeches and books. Here is one of them:
“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
I shall end with the following comment I sent to my grandson, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.
ENJOY YOU ILLUMINATION:
J. B. DANQUAH IS BAD NEWS!
Nana Akyea Mensah, | follow me on Twitter:-twitter.com/TheOdikro | 9/28/2009 1:16:00 AM
Grandson,
J.B Danquah was implicated seriously in ritual murders and human sacrifices! He is not fit to be projected as a role-model for our young ones. Not only because of his known role as a C.I.A pawn, and attempts to disenfranchise an overwhelming Ghanaians who did not have property be denied the right to vote! No, Nkrumah successfully dealt with that. He insisted on the "right to vote" "for the farmers, the workers, and the women", in short, "for all Ghanaians!" This is not why Danquah deserves no thanks whatsoever.
As to why it is very important to exclude Danquah in any national honours, I wish to clearly state the reason as being his invilvent in human sacrifices and ritual murders! He instigated his own brothers to kill his half-brother, Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa!
Apedwa, Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana
"On August 21st, 1943, the king of Akyem Abuakwa state in Ghana, Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, died. With a population of about 250,000, it was a rich state whose wealth was based upon cocoa cultivation and upon gold and diamond-mining concession rents and royalties. Akyem's funerary rites are long drawn out and this drew to a close in February 1944. On the final day, the chief of one of the towns that comprised a politically salient group in the state, the Amantoo mmiensa, disappeared whilst in the state capital, Kyebi. Akyea Mensah's loss was reported to the Akyem Abuakwa State Council which comprised the senior chiefs in the kingdom and the state's senior bureaucrats; the loss was also reported to the local office of the Gold Coast police. An extensive hue and cry yielded nothing. In the following days the Gold Coast police received a number of anonymous letters alleging that he had been ritually murdered; the police, while being suspicious, were disinclined to act on rumour alone. Gossip was spreading. A week passed and the letters piled up. The people of Apedwa, the missing..." Death and politics: West Africa in the 1940s. by Richard Rathbone
According to the case officer, According to ACP/Mr Nuamah, "the climax of the week-long funeral of the late Okyehene Nana Sir Ofori Atta I was set for Sunday, 27th February, 1944. The last rite marking the end of the funeral was the celebration of the WEREMPE custom, which was the act of blackening the stool of the late chief, formally making him an ancestor in the line of kings."
In the evening of Saturday, 26th February, 1944 all the principal players in the stool blackening ritual assembled for final preparations.
The question was which human being's blood was to be used for the ceremony. Present was Nana Akyea Mensah, Chief of Apedwa, and traditionally commander of the Okyehene's royal bodyguard.
Nana Mensah quite clearly explained to his colleagues that times had changed. The colonial authorities at the Christianborg Castle in Osu had taken over the power of life and death from the chiefs. It was no longer possible for the chiefs to sit anywhere and condemn anybody – if they used any human blood in the ritual, the Gold Coast Police would arrest them.
This did not go down well with the Akyem fundamentalists who wanted human blood and considered Nana Akyea Mensah's intervention as an attack on their traditions and power. They opposed Nana Mensah. J. B. Danquah, a member of the royal family and leading barister countered the authority of this "Kwaw Botwe" Krakyi (Akyea Mensah was not a lawyer, he completed his secondary education at Mfatsipim College as Emmanuel Ohemeng and and then worked as a clerk for the Akyem Abuawa State. The superior legal prowess of J.B. Daquah directed that the Akyem Abuakwa State was independent of the British Colonial rule, and the laws of Akyem Abuakwa State were not dependent upon British colonial law.
J.B Danquah encouraged and assured legal protection to the conspirators: Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng wh were later found guilty of ritually killing Nana Akyea Mensah, and sentenced to death by hanging on the neck until declared dead.
As dastard as J.B. Danquah's act of refusing to stand up and be counted against human sacrifices, he also opportunisically found occassion to silence as a terrible scandal involving financial improprieties vis-a-vis the Akyem Abuakwa State coffers and J.B. Danquah's personal ambitions to be Home Secretary, over the years.
Nana Akyea Mensah also knew some secrets about Danquah's attempts to "cause financial loss to the Akyem Abuakwa State. He was therefore anxious that an angry Akyea Mensah would not reveal such secrets. Thus whilst the chiefs were simply after any "royal blood", J. B. Danquah was clearly after Akyea Mensah's blood!
In the night of the same day, they planned that when Nana Akyea came in the morning for the rites, meaning to use the blood of goats and sheep, they would kill him and use his blood – after all he was top royal blood, and the only mole in their midst.
And so Nana Mensah was killed for the ritual. But his ghost did not rest. His ghost was so busy that when Mrs. Sarah Esi Grant-Acquah, the daughter of Paa Grant was tranfered as a teacher to Kyebi, this was her reaction:
"After completing my teaching training, I was posted to Cape Coast Government Girls School. It was a big fight with Father going to Cape Coast to teach.
After less than one year, I was informed that I had been transferred from Cape Coast to Kyebi Government School. I cried and refused to go to Kyebi, so I traveled to Sekondi to tell Father to write to the Education Department not to transfer me. I was also afraid to go to Kyebi because of the Akyea Mensah murder case.
Father listened to my story told amid tears and said, “I told you not to go and work. You did not listen to me and now that you are transferred you are refusing to go. If you want to work, then you must be prepared to go on transfer if the authorities say so”.
“Akyea Mensah's case has nothing to do with teaching and school. Nana Ofori Atta is my friend. I will give you a letter for him and you will be looked after”. ("In the beginning was… PAA GRANTAnd the UGCC" by Mrs. Sarah Esi Grant-Acquah, the daughter of Paa Grant, National Commission on Culture, Ghana Cultural News, Wednesday, February 14, 2007, ghanaculture.gov.gh)
Nana Mensah's ghost haunted them so much that eventually they all confessed, were arrested, and after a famous jury trial, they were all condemned and hanged.
It is important to note that even in the defence of these ritual murderers, Danquah did not change the private counsel he had given them prior to the act. He kept insisting in court on the right of the Akyem Royal Family to kill whomever it pleased them to do so! He insisted it was none of the business of the British! He assembled all the right wing lawyers in town, Nii Armah Ollenu, Edward Akuffo Addo, (Nana Akuffo Addo's father was involved) and many more! I am doing the research, I shall furnish the full names and later publish this as an article!
This is the story, chilling to the bone marrow that Gloria Yartey has scripted under the title "WHERE IS THE CHIEF?"
The role of Dr. J. B. Danquah in the murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, his my own half-brother, need to be clearly pointed out.
Kwame Kyeretwie, popularly known as Dr. J. B. Danquah, the doyen of Gold Coast politics, by the NPP, whose political ambitions were eating deep into the coffers of the Abuakwa State, as a respected man of law, trained at Oxford University, ought to have been the first person know better to put his feet down to stop this barbaric practice once and for all! Akyea Mensah specifically addressed him to provide some support to back up his argument "before the colonial government descends upon us and hanged us by the neck until we died for commiting a ritual murder!"
What sealed his fate was the threat to reveal how Kwame Kyeretwie was misapplying Akyem Abuakwa State Council money for his personal trips to London and living beyond his means at the expense of everybody, and causing financial loss to the Akyem Abuakwa state!
Akyea Mensah made the mistake of making it clear to expose him if anybody was killed, if he did not stand up and to be counted!
I can already hear Nana Akyea Mensah defending himself this way:
"He was ready to continue such savage customs! It was no blackmail to ask him to do the right thing. I was very desperate! His reaction was that I was trying to blackmail him and refused to reason with me! This was no excuse to lobby for my head, but that is exactly what he did!
Who would have thought that my own brother with a doctorate degree could stoop so low? I was so sure that as the commander of the Amantoo mmiensa, no one would dare to touch me! I was only doing my best to defend others, and J.B Danquah encouraged and assured legal protection to the conspirators: Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng The next day, I was to be the victim myself!"
History is the science of establishing facts and interpreting them. If your Danquah was a Captain, don't forget that he was bribed to score goals against the people of Ghana. Nkrumah had to break his leg in order to save the match!
Cheers! Have a nice day!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
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Is It Not Time For Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute Altogether?
A Rejoinder to : "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Okoampa begins with an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth. Perusing President John Mills’ second and latest “State of the Nation Address” the other day, I couldn’t help but wonder aloud why Ghanaians seem to be so morbidly afflicted with this kind of hysteria whereby the mere announcement of a potential windfall is deafeningly celebrated even while such “natural” largesse squarely remains on the prospector’s drawing board. It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
COMMENT:
Okoampa begins with an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker:
"I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth. Perusing President John Mills’ second and latest “State of the Nation Address” the other day, I couldn’t help but wonder aloud why Ghanaians seem to be so morbidly afflicted with this kind of hysteria whereby the mere announcement of a potential windfall is deafeningly celebrated even while such “natural” largesse squarely remains on the prospector’s drawing board. It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so godlessly uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.
Ghana’s Western neighbor Ivory Coast is reportedly laying claims to portions of the huge oil wealth in the deep waters of the Western Region.
There is no panic in Ghana! See map with Dzata oil field and Jubilee field off Cape Three Points Ghana (click to enlarge)
COMMENT:
Fellow Ghanaians, Our Ivorian brothers and sisters, Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo, and other imperialist stooges at the Danquah Institute, fellow Africans, and friends of Africa, lend me your ears!
What does this really mean? Are we permitted to make our own deductions that so far as Kwame Okoampa and his owners are concerned, the collective interest of Ghanaians is meaningless unless it is linked up with the rule of the Busia-Danquah neocolonialist tradition? Is Okoampa trying to tell us that " Because Ghanaians did not vote the NPP to "manage" the oil, Ghanaians have lost their right to their own natural resource? That we can have that oil only when we vote the NPP into power? Is this the kind of democracy he thinks the NPP is offering? Is this why "NPP is the only Ghanaian Beacon of Democracy"?
Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe Jr., has won the notoriety of making the most nonsensical utterances which boarder on what is referred to as "suicidal stupidity", in "Kwame Okoampa Is A Charlatan!", (Feature Article | Wed, 15 Oct 2008, by Ali-Masmadi JEHU-APPIAH). So, this is not very new in itself. What is new is that this one stands out as a monumental piece of idiocy ever churned out by this political vulture and his squatter-owners! If I were Nana Akuffo Addo, I would quickly distance myself from this kind of monumental nonsense, which even by Okoampa's own standards, stands out as an eloquent anti-Ghanaian diatribe against the sovereign will of the people, a furious and unmerited savage blow against the respect for democratic governance and constitutional rule of a government elected by popular mandate.
Okoampa continues:
"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
Why would any Ghanaian consider his country's vital interests so dispensable and be able to present himself as a member of a "Think Tank" and expect some respectability from his fellow Ghanaians? Are these people different from those who, when they tell you to look up, you have to look down immediately? If so, what does it mean if this man presents Nana Akufo Addo as his favourite candidate, and Akufo Addo approves of this association with him? Is Akuffo Addo telling us that the Danquah Institute "think tank" is fast becoming nothing but a nest of politically virulent and toxic ideas and an indication of his own political inclinations and direction?
I want to appeal to all Ghanaians from across the political spectrum to denounce this utterly provocative and deeply insulting article. I specifically call upon Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo to consider these comments serious enough and accord the same attention and time for condemnation as he did to the recent assault by his body guards against the supporters of his political opponents at the party's headquarters! This political contagion can and must be contained immediately. Okoampa must be isolated politically with a need to erect a political cordon sanitaire against him, strictly and voluntarily imposed by all proud and peace-loving Ghanaians that the only place available for the purveyors of doom and damnation of Ghanaians is in the political quarantine, and all those found to be associated with such an idiot, do so at their own political risk and peril!
It is time for all right-thinking Ghanaians irrespective of political hue, to distance themselves from the nefarious speculators of our future and destiny as a nation. Okoampa has already pointed out that Nana Akuffo Addo is his main man for the 2012 elections (see: "NPP Flagbearership: My Choice for Election 2012", by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article, Wed, 03 Mar 2010. The question Nana Akuffo Addo needs to be forthcoming with answers, and with speed, today is how far he himself considers Okoampa as his own man? I am sure it is not too much to ask of our potential future presidents, and pretenders to the throne alike, the simple question of how close or far away they themselves stand in relation to extraordinarily toxic opinions of their very close associates, particularly where this is so flagrant and self-confessing hatred for a country we call home?
In fact, I was taken aback so much so that I forgot about the author and began to wonder and wander about what would make a fellow human being hate his own people to such an extent that such a scenario of war with what he calls "the war-seasoned Ivorians"? I read this thinly-veiled wish for a war over oil between Ghana and the Ivory Coast over our precious black gold several times, but I could not put my finger at the source of his anger and hatred. Out of frustration, I turned out to his main US collaborator, a self-appointed voice of "Black Conservatives" who faithfully transmits each nonsense from Okoampa on his blog for Americans to consume, to see if they at least, he offered any explanations to this strange behaviour. I was not disappointed. The answer was in the introductory sentence:
"Oil Reserves Have Been Discovered Offshore In Ghana. What Next? Bookerista Perspectives
The Ivory Coast is claiming a portion of Ghana's offshore oil region. The center-right board member of the Danquah Institute (Ghana) and English professor in USA is glad that the Ivory Coast is making a claim because it undermines the Ghanaian center-left's claims of Pan-Africanism: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana's purportedly new-found oil wealth. Perusing [center-left] President John Mills' second and latest 'State of the Nation Address' the other day, I couldn't help but wonder aloud why Ghanaians seem to be so morbidly afflicted with this kind of hysteria whereby the mere announcement of a potential windfall is deafeningly celebrated even while such 'natural' largesse squarely remains on the prospector's drawing board..." (emphasis mine, of course). (Source: see: Bookerising.net, news site for black moderates and black conservatives.)
So Okoampa's problem with Ghana owning its own oil in peace is because of the presence of pan-Africanists in Ghana! And if one may ask what Pan-Africanism has got to do with our precious oil? The objective of Pan-Africanism is to unite Africans and wean ourselves away from the neocolonialist cannons of conduct and behave as a free and independent people, consolidating our independence against imperialist sabotage such as the one he is scheming! Which normal African today can be angry with the noble intentions of great pan-Africanist leaders for Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to such an extent that this should cost Ghana's precious oil find?
What is wrong with the intentions of the Pan-Africanists? Listen to Nkrumah here and judge for yourself, dear reader:
“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.
I like the way ordinary Ghanaians explain this political ideology to themselves:
"The purpose of an Africa Unity is to ensure the speedy and accelerated development of the African Continent through the process of having a stronger African government that can withstand the powers that be, politically and economically in this world. Indeed an Africa Unity will go a long way in reducing the adverse poverty that exists on the continent. It will also reduce illiteracy, ignorance and the numerous diseases that have plagued the continent. I think those who are cautious of an African Unity are missing the fundamental purpose of an African Unity. We do not just need unity for unity sake. We are all aware of the fact that the individual countries on the African continent cannot withstand the political and economic pressure that comes from the advanced countries. The international economic and political order is such that it favors and continues to favor the advanced world. If it stays the way it is, African countries shall and forever remain subservient and dependent on the advanced world. But that cannot be good for Africa. The rate at which the advanced countries are developing, no African country can match them. The fact that Americans are exploiting the moon and the whole planet whilst African countries still use machetes, hoes and cutlasses as farming tools is a clear manifestation of the very wide gab that exist between the African and the advanced world." (See: The African Dream And The African Destiny, Larbi, Isaac Feature Article of Saturday, 17 August 2002.)
Therefore to focus on the merits of what Okoampa is saying here is to beg the question. I am even sure that Okoampa himself does not expect to treat Ghanaians this way and get away with it! He has already been dismissed before by the New York branch of the NPP for similar outrageous declarations calling for war in Ghana, in the lead up to the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. He is used to being attacked for his aggressively stupid opinions even within his own party. The attempt by the Danquah Institute to resuscitate a good work of political ostracism begun by the New York branch of the NPP is a big disservice to the good people of Ghana.
Ladies and gentlemen let's politically castrate this bastard by way of collective ostracism until we read a clear apology from Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., the author of these abominations! The good news is that perhaps these people think Ghanaians are so stupid that they cannot even see through them, so they keep on exposing themselves, without any promptings, and certainly not under torture! It is time Ghanaians of all walks of life put maximum pressure on Nana Akuffo Addo to come out once more to condemn what is evidently the work of a notorious henchman or go down with him! I call on ordinary Ghanaians, especially the rank and file of the NPP to join me in this condemnation and show the way to Akuffo Addo to follow!
The other day, it was Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute's turn to passionately plead in "Obama’s Visit – What’s In It For Us And U.S.?" for a military occupation by an imperialist country because "Obama’s chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.”
Ochere-Darko is caught red-handed literally pleading with Ghanaians to accept their 21st Century version of slavery:
”Furthermore, the U.S. is, understandably, bent on establishing a regional command for Africa, similar to U.S. Forces Korea, with a homeport situated on the African continent to protect their interests. West Africa is its natural home, given the need to protect energy interests in the Gulf of Guinea. Liberia has offered but simply cannot match the kind of convenience available in Ghana. It can be a win-win situation.”
Ochere-Darko, the sly operator, conveniently ignores Nkrumah's central point and opportunistically uses the great Nkrumah sound bites like hot pepper to sell his rotten Africom kenkey:
”Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.’s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this."
These are people who are actively distorting our history to achieve the opposite effect. Listen to the great man in his own voice:
Given such series of outrageous insanity emanating from the Danquah Institute, and considering the closeness of this bedlam to the front runner of Ghana's largest opposition, I believe it is in order to call on "the man behind it all", Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo. He may behave like an ostrich and bury his bald head in an Ivorian flag, but the Ghanaian voter would know what to do. I know this is not going to be easy for Nana Addo to do. He has personally groomed Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko as his main PR expert and prominent media commentator. The link between the Danquah Institute and Akuffo Addo is so clear to every Ghanaian political observer that failure to do any damage control can only mean Akuffo Addo is not only serious but guilty by association.
Please note that Ochere-Darko also adds: "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra." In much the same way Okoampa advertises "Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is ... is a Governing Board Member of the Accra-based Danquah Institute (DI), the pro-democracy think tank." That these are a bunch of nitwits is not in doubt, what is in doubt is whether or not Akuffo Addo himself supports such nonsense also. I can assure Nana Addo that it is very important for his own political health to pubblicly distance himself from these voices of death and damnation, for as the saying goes, "show me your friend, and I will tell you your character"
In the aftermath of the defeat of the NPP flag bearer by the NDC candidate, Professor Atta-Mills, Gabby Ochere-Darko tried to put some spin on it:
What does this really mean? Are we permitted to make our own deductions that so far as Kwame Okoampa and his owners are concerned, the collective interest of Ghanaians is meaningless unless it is linked up with the rule of the Busia-Danquah neocolonialist tradition? Is Okoampa trying to tell us that " Because Ghanaians did not vote the NPP to "manage" the oil, Ghanaians have lost their right to their own natural resource? That we can have that oil only when we vote the NPP into power? Is this the kind of democracy he thinks the NPP is offering? Is this why "NPP is the only Ghanaian Beacon of Democracy"?
Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe Jr., has won the notoriety of making the most nonsensical utterances which boarder on what is referred to as "suicidal stupidity", in "Kwame Okoampa Is A Charlatan!", (Feature Article | Wed, 15 Oct 2008, by Ali-Masmadi JEHU-APPIAH). So, this is not very new in itself. What is new is that this one stands out as a monumental piece of idiocy ever churned out by this political vulture and his squatter-owners! If I were Nana Akuffo Addo, I would quickly distance myself from this kind of monumental nonsense, which even by Okoampa's own standards, stands out as an eloquent anti-Ghanaian diatribe against the sovereign will of the people, a furious and unmerited savage blow against the respect for democratic governance and constitutional rule of a government elected by popular mandate.
Okoampa continues:
"What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians. All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be true. It was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a hopeless lunatic."
Why would any Ghanaian consider his country's vital interests so dispensable and be able to present himself as a member of a "Think Tank" and expect some respectability from his fellow Ghanaians? Are these people different from those who, when they tell you to look up, you have to look down immediately? If so, what does it mean if this man presents Nana Akufo Addo as his favourite candidate, and Akufo Addo approves of this association with him? Is Akuffo Addo telling us that the Danquah Institute "think tank" is fast becoming nothing but a nest of politically virulent and toxic ideas and an indication of his own political inclinations and direction?
I want to appeal to all Ghanaians from across the political spectrum to denounce this utterly provocative and deeply insulting article. I specifically call upon Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo to consider these comments serious enough and accord the same attention and time for condemnation as he did to the recent assault by his body guards against the supporters of his political opponents at the party's headquarters! This political contagion can and must be contained immediately. Okoampa must be isolated politically with a need to erect a political cordon sanitaire against him, strictly and voluntarily imposed by all proud and peace-loving Ghanaians that the only place available for the purveyors of doom and damnation of Ghanaians is in the political quarantine, and all those found to be associated with such an idiot, do so at their own political risk and peril!
It is time for all right-thinking Ghanaians irrespective of political hue, to distance themselves from the nefarious speculators of our future and destiny as a nation. Okoampa has already pointed out that Nana Akuffo Addo is his main man for the 2012 elections (see: "NPP Flagbearership: My Choice for Election 2012", by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article, Wed, 03 Mar 2010. The question Nana Akuffo Addo needs to be forthcoming with answers, and with speed, today is how far he himself considers Okoampa as his own man? I am sure it is not too much to ask of our potential future presidents, and pretenders to the throne alike, the simple question of how close or far away they themselves stand in relation to extraordinarily toxic opinions of their very close associates, particularly where this is so flagrant and self-confessing hatred for a country we call home?
In fact, I was taken aback so much so that I forgot about the author and began to wonder and wander about what would make a fellow human being hate his own people to such an extent that such a scenario of war with what he calls "the war-seasoned Ivorians"? I read this thinly-veiled wish for a war over oil between Ghana and the Ivory Coast over our precious black gold several times, but I could not put my finger at the source of his anger and hatred. Out of frustration, I turned out to his main US collaborator, a self-appointed voice of "Black Conservatives" who faithfully transmits each nonsense from Okoampa on his blog for Americans to consume, to see if they at least, he offered any explanations to this strange behaviour. I was not disappointed. The answer was in the introductory sentence:
"Oil Reserves Have Been Discovered Offshore In Ghana. What Next? Bookerista Perspectives
The Ivory Coast is claiming a portion of Ghana's offshore oil region. The center-right board member of the Danquah Institute (Ghana) and English professor in USA is glad that the Ivory Coast is making a claim because it undermines the Ghanaian center-left's claims of Pan-Africanism: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana's purportedly new-found oil wealth. Perusing [center-left] President John Mills' second and latest 'State of the Nation Address' the other day, I couldn't help but wonder aloud why Ghanaians seem to be so morbidly afflicted with this kind of hysteria whereby the mere announcement of a potential windfall is deafeningly celebrated even while such 'natural' largesse squarely remains on the prospector's drawing board..." (emphasis mine, of course). (Source: see: Bookerising.net, news site for black moderates and black conservatives.)
So Okoampa's problem with Ghana owning its own oil in peace is because of the presence of pan-Africanists in Ghana! And if one may ask what Pan-Africanism has got to do with our precious oil? The objective of Pan-Africanism is to unite Africans and wean ourselves away from the neocolonialist cannons of conduct and behave as a free and independent people, consolidating our independence against imperialist sabotage such as the one he is scheming! Which normal African today can be angry with the noble intentions of great pan-Africanist leaders for Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to such an extent that this should cost Ghana's precious oil find?
What is wrong with the intentions of the Pan-Africanists? Listen to Nkrumah here and judge for yourself, dear reader:
“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.
I like the way ordinary Ghanaians explain this political ideology to themselves:
"The purpose of an Africa Unity is to ensure the speedy and accelerated development of the African Continent through the process of having a stronger African government that can withstand the powers that be, politically and economically in this world. Indeed an Africa Unity will go a long way in reducing the adverse poverty that exists on the continent. It will also reduce illiteracy, ignorance and the numerous diseases that have plagued the continent. I think those who are cautious of an African Unity are missing the fundamental purpose of an African Unity. We do not just need unity for unity sake. We are all aware of the fact that the individual countries on the African continent cannot withstand the political and economic pressure that comes from the advanced countries. The international economic and political order is such that it favors and continues to favor the advanced world. If it stays the way it is, African countries shall and forever remain subservient and dependent on the advanced world. But that cannot be good for Africa. The rate at which the advanced countries are developing, no African country can match them. The fact that Americans are exploiting the moon and the whole planet whilst African countries still use machetes, hoes and cutlasses as farming tools is a clear manifestation of the very wide gab that exist between the African and the advanced world." (See: The African Dream And The African Destiny, Larbi, Isaac Feature Article of Saturday, 17 August 2002.)
Therefore to focus on the merits of what Okoampa is saying here is to beg the question. I am even sure that Okoampa himself does not expect to treat Ghanaians this way and get away with it! He has already been dismissed before by the New York branch of the NPP for similar outrageous declarations calling for war in Ghana, in the lead up to the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. He is used to being attacked for his aggressively stupid opinions even within his own party. The attempt by the Danquah Institute to resuscitate a good work of political ostracism begun by the New York branch of the NPP is a big disservice to the good people of Ghana.
Ladies and gentlemen let's politically castrate this bastard by way of collective ostracism until we read a clear apology from Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., the author of these abominations! The good news is that perhaps these people think Ghanaians are so stupid that they cannot even see through them, so they keep on exposing themselves, without any promptings, and certainly not under torture! It is time Ghanaians of all walks of life put maximum pressure on Nana Akuffo Addo to come out once more to condemn what is evidently the work of a notorious henchman or go down with him! I call on ordinary Ghanaians, especially the rank and file of the NPP to join me in this condemnation and show the way to Akuffo Addo to follow!
The other day, it was Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute's turn to passionately plead in "Obama’s Visit – What’s In It For Us And U.S.?" for a military occupation by an imperialist country because "Obama’s chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.”
Ochere-Darko is caught red-handed literally pleading with Ghanaians to accept their 21st Century version of slavery:
”Furthermore, the U.S. is, understandably, bent on establishing a regional command for Africa, similar to U.S. Forces Korea, with a homeport situated on the African continent to protect their interests. West Africa is its natural home, given the need to protect energy interests in the Gulf of Guinea. Liberia has offered but simply cannot match the kind of convenience available in Ghana. It can be a win-win situation.”
Ochere-Darko, the sly operator, conveniently ignores Nkrumah's central point and opportunistically uses the great Nkrumah sound bites like hot pepper to sell his rotten Africom kenkey:
”Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.’s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this."
These are people who are actively distorting our history to achieve the opposite effect. Listen to the great man in his own voice:
"And, as I pointed out... from now on, today, we must change our attitudes and our minds. We must realise that form now on we are no longer a colonial but free and independent people.
But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work. That new Africa is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all the black man is capable of managing his own affairs.
We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our foundation - our own African personality.
As I said to the Assembly a few minutes ago, I made a point that we are going to create our own Africa personality and identity. It is the only way we can show the world that we are ready for our own battles!" (Source: Ghanaweb.)
Given such series of outrageous insanity emanating from the Danquah Institute, and considering the closeness of this bedlam to the front runner of Ghana's largest opposition, I believe it is in order to call on "the man behind it all", Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo. He may behave like an ostrich and bury his bald head in an Ivorian flag, but the Ghanaian voter would know what to do. I know this is not going to be easy for Nana Addo to do. He has personally groomed Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko as his main PR expert and prominent media commentator. The link between the Danquah Institute and Akuffo Addo is so clear to every Ghanaian political observer that failure to do any damage control can only mean Akuffo Addo is not only serious but guilty by association.
Please note that Ochere-Darko also adds: "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra." In much the same way Okoampa advertises "Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is ... is a Governing Board Member of the Accra-based Danquah Institute (DI), the pro-democracy think tank." That these are a bunch of nitwits is not in doubt, what is in doubt is whether or not Akuffo Addo himself supports such nonsense also. I can assure Nana Addo that it is very important for his own political health to pubblicly distance himself from these voices of death and damnation, for as the saying goes, "show me your friend, and I will tell you your character"
In the aftermath of the defeat of the NPP flag bearer by the NDC candidate, Professor Atta-Mills, Gabby Ochere-Darko tried to put some spin on it:
"The political opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busiasts have always been better at saying, “Ghanaians don’t need a president who is arrogant and looks down on them. They need a president who stands up for them. One who feels their pain.” These words were successfully used against a man who for more than 30 years (more than any of his rivals in the 2008 contest) dedicated his time, money, energy and intellect to fighting for the cause of the masses – Nana Akufo-Addo, an Akyem aristocrat." (See: "Are Danquah-Busiasts Really Elitist?", by danquahinstitute.org, Wednesday, 18 November 2009.)
Next time around, we shall be attributing the reasons for the defeat of Ghana's next serial loser in town, Nana Akuffo Addo, to an old Apedwa proverb: "Certain 'Akyem aristocrats' of the same political feathers, flock together as traitors to their own country!" A word to the wise can never be enough; else there would be no fools, to begin with! - By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. More Quotes | Submit a Quote
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Friday, March 19, 2010
University of Florida Students Protest Police Shooting of African Graduate Student: Kofi Adu-Brempong
University of Florida Students Protest Police Shooting of African Graduate Student
Source: Democracy Now!
In Florida, hundreds of students rallied at the University of Florida on Tuesday over the shooting of an African graduate student by campus police. The student, Kofi Adu-Brempong, has been hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot in the face by an officer in a raid on his home earlier this month. Police say they were called to the home after neighbors reported the student to be visibly distraught. According to police, Adu-Brempong tried to attack officers with a knife and a metal rod. But supporters and family members have rejected the allegations and say the rod was actually a walking cane used by Abu-Brempong as a result of a childhood bout with polio. On Tuesday, a crowd of over 300 students marched on the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees.
UF Student Fernando Figueroa: “We’re demanding that all charges be dropped against Kofi, because they’re trying to do, you know, kind of something what’s called extortion. Like they’re saying, ‘Oh, we’ll drop the charges if you don’t file a lawsuit.’ And so, we’re demanding that all the charges be dropped and that more severe action be taken against the offending officer, Keith Smith.”The officer who shot Kofi Adu-Brempong has been identified as Keith Smith. He has previously been reprimanded for an incident in which he allegedly harassed and threw eggs at African Americans while off-duty.
See also:
Protest to demand justice for Kofi Adu-Brempong at University of Florida
Kofi's sister-in-law talks about Kofi's condition at Shand's hospital at University of Florida.
University of Florida Board of Trustees member Danny Ponce responds to protesters demands on Kofi Adu-Brempong case on March 16th, 2010.
Officials obtain shooting-related video
Posted: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:15 am | Updated: 12:25 pm, Fri Mar 19, 2010.
JOEY FLECHAS and ANA GONI-LESSAN, Alligator Writers | 1 comment
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has a copy of a video showing the moments leading to the March 2 University Police Department shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong and is examining the video as part of its investigation.
One of Adu-Brempong's neighbors, who wishes to be anonymous, said she began filming when she heard police talking to the student. The video is about 10 minutes long.
Spencer Mann, spokesman for the State Attorney’s Office, said the video would only be made available to the public if the State Attorney’s Office pressed charges and held an arraignment against any of the officers involved in the shooting.
Mann said it’s too early to say what, if any, charges will be made.
“We’re going to let the facts, the evidence and the state law speak for itself,” Mann said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the case now. It will report its findings to the State Attorney’s Office.
The office will assign a prosecutor to review the case before any charges are made.
Two of Adu-Brempong’s neighbors and the witness who took the video said they heard five shots fired.
The neighbors said they heard three shots, a brief pause and then two more shots that sounded different than the first three.
The witness who took the video stopped filming after hearing the shots.
The witness added that one of the officers came out of Adu-Brempong's apartment after the shots were heard, sat down and put his head in his hands. Another officer put a hand on his shoulder.
Sheryl Quail, a graduate student in the school of forest resources and conservation, also lives at Corry Village and attended the UF Board of Trustees meeting at Emerson Hall Tuesday to try to present the video.
Quail said she waited until the end of the meeting to attempt to present it using her laptop.
But Student Body President Jordan Johnson, who was at the meeting, said Quail was unable to present the video because the meeting was adjourned.
Johnson said she interrupted a board member’s speech, and members were surprised by Quail’s attempt to present.
“But, you know, we encourage free speech,” Johnson said. “We understand this is America, and it’s important to, you know, have a good pulse of the feelings of students on this campus.”
UF spokeswoman Janine Sikes said Quail brought a list of demands to the meeting, and they were distributed to each member of the Board of Trustees.
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March 22, 2010 at 5:33 am Thanks a lot! Xcroc, for this illumination!
Camouflage and total concealment is not only a military strategy, it is the oldest known tactic of any predator that walked on planet Earth. In order not to remain the sitting ducks to military adventurers, willing to shoot and protect oil and other natural resources on “humanitarian grounds”, articles like this can help open our eyes, bell the cat, and put “les sabots” under their feet for the victims to hear their every move!
This is more than necessary, seeing that others have taken the lead in selling AfriCom in Ghana. Gabriel Ochere-Darko, writes in “Obama’s Visit – What’s In It For Us And U.S.?”:
”Furthermore, the U.S. is, understandably, bent on establishing a regional command for Africa, similar to U.S. Forces Korea, with a homeport situated on the African continent to protect their interests. West Africa is its natural home, given the need to protect energy interests in the Gulf of Guinea. Liberia has offered but simply cannot match the kind of convenience available in Ghana. It can be a win-win situation.” (“The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)
Xcroc, please give us more of those! Africa needs intellectuals like Yunus Lubega Butanaziba, b real, and YOU! Thanks again for the illumination!
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