Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Comment: J. B. Danquah Remains A CIA Asset, After Okoampa...!
Comment: J. B. Danquah Remains A CIA Asset, After Okoampa...!
Insufferably nonsensical! What Ghanaians want to know are the facts. Did J.B. Danquah go to the US Ambassador to ask why the CIA had stopped paying stipends to his wife? That is the question! Stop beating about the bush and tell us why the CIA was paying these "stipends"!
Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”?
"Earlier on, the author had described postcolonial Ghana’s pioneering premier as “the self-styled leader of Africa.” But what is even more intriguing about Mahoney’s book is the author’s suggestion that “Kwame Nkrumah of Africa” (the way the Show Boy desired to be known and identified) may well have orchestrated his own exit from the Ghanaian and continental African political scene."
Is that supposed to be a denial or a confirmation?
Google "J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!" and read about the facts of the case Okoampa dares not mention!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheOdikro,
Insufferably nonsensical! What Ghanaians want to know are the facts. Did J.B. Danquah go to the US Ambassador to ask why the CIA had stopped paying stipends to his wife? That is the question! Stop beating about the bush and tell us why the CIA was paying these "stipends"!
Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”?
"Earlier on, the author had described postcolonial Ghana’s pioneering premier as “the self-styled leader of Africa.” But what is even more intriguing about Mahoney’s book is the author’s suggestion that “Kwame Nkrumah of Africa” (the way the Show Boy desired to be known and identified) may well have orchestrated his own exit from the Ghanaian and continental African political scene."
Is that supposed to be a denial or a confirmation?
Google "J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!" and read about the facts of the case Okoampa dares not mention!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheOdikro,
Sunday, October 23, 2011
"Nana Addo Dankwah Leads President Mills"?
Joy 99.7 FM Facebook
Lydia Nuamah
Nana Akyea Mensah:
Genuine dreams invade our sleep uninvited. As soon as we wake-up, the make-believe of the dreamland is over. Invented dreams work to the contrary. These are self-inflicted injuries to objectivity, and those who depend on this swim with the ...fins of lead. This is not the first time that this affliction is visiting the NPP. We all know about the 2008 Presidential campaign and Akufo-Addo's "One-Touch!" slogan, and what happened at the end of the day!
What makes this even more hollow and ridiculous was the fact that Akufo-Addo paid a famous pollster thousands of dollars, only to be told the truth that he was going to lose the elections because Atta-Mills was more popular than him! Thus it was that whilst Akufo-Addo was all over the place shouting "One touch! One touch!", he knew secretly that he was going to lose! These cooked-up figures are nothing but the only miserable excuse they want to use to complain about their inevitable defeat in the elections.
Akufo-Addo refused to concede defeat, even though he knew in advance that he was going to lose, and he actually ridiculously blamed his defeat on the intimidation of millions of his fans in the Volta Region of all places, who were not allowed to vote! In the lead up to the Sunyani NDC congress which overwhelmingly elected President Atta-Mills as the as the party's flag-bearer, Akufo-Addo's newspaper, the Statesman predicted a 75% win for President Mills which they interpreted to be "a vote of no confidence" in the Mills Administration.
The news that "President John Mills has won the NDC's National Delegates' Congress in Sunyani by a whooping 96.09% as against Nana Konadu's 3.01%", is obviously good news for some of us, but not all of us. For the Akufo-Addo camp, this was a rude shock. They were predicting 75% for Professor Mills and explaining that to mean a vote of no confidence by his own party. I can already see President Mills being sworn in for a second time. It gives the Mills campaign a boost that even the Akufo-Addo camp will find very difficult to deny.
In the days leading to the Congress, Akufo Addo's Statesman published an article in which they sought to cast doubts on the obvious:
"Surveys, interviews, analyses and information gathered by the New Statesman indicate that President John Evans Atta Mills has been gripped by serious panic following the last minute realization that tomorrow’s presidential nomination of his party may not after all result in the kind of landslide victory he had been made to believe by his GAME (Get Atta Mills Endorsed) campaign team."
We now have something concrete to chew on concerning their so-called "surveys, interviews, analyses and information gathered by the New Statesman"! They could not have been more ridiculous:
"President Mills is said to be particularly worried by the fact that the GAME plan to antagonize and isolate former President Rawlings and his wife has angered many constituency delegates." The New Statesman went on, "Even more worrying for the President is the fact that for two years now his only challenger, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, cleverly maintained a close, caring and intimate contact with a sizeable majority of the ruling party’s constituency officers, of whom 1,433 (out of 1,900 total delegates) voted for her in Tamale on 17 January 2010 as NDC Vice Chairperson, a position from which she resigned recently to contest for the flagbearership."
I repeat the results for an effective comparison:
"President Mills polled a whopping 2,771 votes against Nana Agyemang Rawling's 90 votes.
President Mills took the lead in all ten regions of the country.
President Mill's vote represents 96.7% of the total votes cast, whilst Nana Konadu's votes represents a total of 3.14%."
The New Statesman also predicted tension and violence, but the entire even passed off in a festive mood:
"There are growing concerns that the insults, intimidation, threats, harassment and violence, including the Kumasi shooting, that have blighted the short campaign, could all come to a head at the Sunyani congress.
Officially more than 1,500 police personnel have been deployed to the Brong Ahafo capital. The NDC has also made arrangements for about 2,000 security personnel for the 3-day congress, in addition to the about 1,800 “Azorka Boys” who are storming Sunyani today.
There are concerns from the Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings camp that the security personnel are all part of the GAME plan to put their fear of the ballot (if not the bullet) into FONKAR. But, that appears not to be shaking FONKAR."
It is a great shame to our detractors that this congress has come off smoothly and the NDC has reposed an overwhelming confidence in the President. We must hit the ground running for them to know what running is! The congress has reduced the Rawlingses into an insignificant political nuisance which have no impact on the party. As I wrote earlier, "NDC should go ahead and elect President Mills to continue the good work he has started. There should be no worries about an open foe. The NPP has a hidden one!"
At the end of the day the NPP has more to lose from the "Agenda 2016" menace than the NDC has to lose from the Rawlingses threat. The percentage of constituency under Alan Cash command is far greater than the percentage as demonstrated in the vote. The dynamics do not bode well for the NPP, also because there is a frontal and direct contradictions between the Alan Cash "Agenda 2016" and the Akufo-Addo "Victory 2012".
"A wolf may eat a sheep now and then,
But thousands are killed by men,
An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse"!
The NDC now has the "open foe" under control, but can the NPP say the same thing about their "pretended friends"? Whilst the Rawlingses are already talking of forming another political party, with preferably, the NDC logo, Akufo-Addo recently included Alan Kyeremanten in his campaign team, despite the visceral hatred of the Alan Cash "Agenda 2016" underground commandos. Alan Cash believes strongly that 2016 is his time, given to him by God himself. The Akufo-Addo "Victory 2012" is a threat to this "God-given" hope of Alan Cash, as Akufo-Addo could extend his political expiring date beyond 2012 to two terms ending in 2020, and making nonsense of the "Agenda 2016"!
Attention! There is a good reason why this is not in the public domain. This shall never be an operation that will be played out in the open. Both sides have come to the selfish conclusion that they need a strong façade of unity, whether 2012 or 2016, if they are to make any impact. Thus publicly they are friends! They have agreed to disagree. They tell each other, "if you are pretending to be a friend, we shall also pretend to be friends!" This is a house irrevocably divided against each other as the Ashanti Region is the strongest base of the party, the "Agenda 2016" which needs a defeat of Akufo-Addo, to spring into action, gives the NDC a fortuitous advantage even if the Rawlingses were to break away from the NDC.
It would be worse than inordinate ambition if they did. At least, the CPP which is always first at the bottom, can have something to beat! What every decent citizen expects from the Rawlingses is a magnanimous acceptance of defeat and recoiling into their shells or crawl away and hide under their respective stones. They can now positively throw their weight behind the voices of their own people, or at least stop themselves from being on the way. The message is clear: they are going to change or they will be changed.
With the NPP as no-match, I think we are entering into this campaign with a strong foot forward.
Cheers to all of you!
We shall overcome!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Comment: Akufo-Addo Will Never Accept Defeat!
“The odds are againstNDC in 2012 -KNUST Lecturer”
The odds are againstNDC in 2012 -KNUST Lecturer
From Issah Alhassan, Kumasi.
Johnson Asiedu Nketia-NDC General Secretary
A LECTURER at the Political Science Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST), Mr. Amakye Boateng has warned that the success or otherwise of next year’s crucial elections would largely depend on the government’s willingness and commitment towards free, fair and transparent polls.
Asserting that the odds would be against the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in December 2012, the KNUST Lecturer cautioned that the ruling party would do everything possible to hold on to power, and that this could trigger unlikely circumstances, if care is not taken.
Mr. Amakye observed that unfolding circumstances cast bad shadows on the electoral fortunes of the NDC, and this he said, would make the ruling party adopt certain unorthodox means in order to maintain power. He said, this situation, coupled with the lackadaisical attitude of the Electoral Commission (EC), should give Ghanaians course to worry. Read more
MY COMMENT:
If it comes to a question of who is more desperate than the other, the answer cannot be an exhaustive one if we forget the obvious political expiring date ticking at the back of Akufo-Addo. We know this is his last chance. We also know that he is a sore-loser. He did it to Kufour in 2000. He did it to President Mills in 2009, and his "all die be die!" chants, do little to calm the impression that he is the more desperate one.
Akufo-Addo was not surprised that he lost the 2008 Presidential elections. He had already been warned about it by Professor Larry Gibson in advance! Yet he was able to pretend that he could have won if his "numerous" supporters in the Volta Region had been allowed to vote! I think there is no need to wait for Akufo-Addo to lose to find out whether or not he is going to accept the results. I think he is automatically going to cry foul, even though his chances this time are even slimmer than the last time around!
From their own admissions, the Akufo-Addo campaign is not going well at all. In his latest article, "Negative Campaign In Ghana And Lessons From .....", Feature Article of Saturday, 8 October 2011, Otchere-Darko, Gabby Asare, the author, who is also the Executive Director of the Akufo-Addo PR-team known as "the Danquah Institute" admits that the NDC deserves "some credit for even succeeding in putting the opposition on the defensive much of the time. "
Akufo-Addo's problems with the crucial Ashanti vote which can make or break is far from resolved. Apparently the "Agenda 2016" Team led by Kufour and Allan Cash is even more optimistic and better organized than the "Victory 2012" in the Ashanti Region. It is the group which controls the Ashanti Region that will decide the winner.
So far, it seems the "Agenda 2016" are not prepared to wait to 2020 before they taste the power that they see as inevitably coming their way in 2016! Having had some of them beaten up for simply showing up at Victory 2012 circles, they need a good convincing to play ball. The NPP is clearly a house divided against itself, even though neither side wants to admit that publicly for obvious reasons.
The chances of Akufo-Addo winning are very slim indeed. He is going into this campaign as the under-dog. And he needs to show some statesmanship at the twilight of his retirement, and graciously accept his defeat. Scheming troubles to attract "the international community" to come and bomb us and impose a losing candidate on Ghana is what I dread! This is why it is important that the narrative of Mr. Amakye Boateng must not go unchallenged.
Forward Ever! Backward Never!!!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Ghana, General Debate, 66th Session of UN General Assembly
Ghana, General Debate, 66th Session
Bolivia, General Debate, 66th Session
21 September 2011
Address by His Excellency Evo Morales Ayma, Constitutional President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia at the General debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 21-24 and 26-30 September 2011)
Related website: http://gadebate.un.org/
Running time: 00:37:34
Language(s) available:
English
Original
COMMENT:
Kwesi Pratt On President Mills' Poor Performance At the UN
By Nana Akyea MensahFeature Article |
I was shocked and very angry to hear the speech of the President of Ghana at the 66th session of the UN General assembly the other day! Don't get me wrong. This is no criticism the NPP can even pretend to take advantage of because, it is obvious from the WikiLeaks revelation, that as Nana Akufo-Addo secretly put it to the US Ambassador, the NPP and the US are natural allies of the United States", they would have rubber-stamped all the whims and caprices of US imperialism.
"Ye nim NPP firi tete!" We all know how they were described by the CIA as being "pathetically Pro-Western"! Thus we know the NPP is incapable of doing better than President Mills on this issue. Even before the mass killings in the Ivory Coast and Libya began, Kwesi Pratt,Jnr., had already warned that the US was ready to kill Africans in its quest for oil, and the NPP is supporting them! See: "Kwesi Pratt Causes Fear And Panic In The NPP!" Part One: What Exactly Did Kwesi Say?, Feature Article | by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro, Tuesday, November 30, 2010.
Thanks to the WikiLeaks revelations, we also know who are "the natural allies" of US imperialism in Ghana, and from the horse's own mouth:
"¶2.(C) A casually dressed Akufo-Addo met the Ambassador and POLOFF at the door of his well appointed Accra residence, on the edge of Accra's sprawling Nima neighborhood. Ambassador Teitelbaum said that the U.S. valued its relationship with the NPP, which he believed would someday return to power, and that the Embassy remained open to him. Akufo-Addo replied that the NPP was a natural ally of the U.S." See: Reference ID: 09ACCRA55, SUBJECT: AKUFO-ADDO SHARES POST-ELECTION THOUGHTS WITH AMBASSADOR TEITELBAUM.
And from the position of the NPP on the Ivorian crisis, on Libya, on Palestine etc., we know that Akufo-Addo's opinions are determined by the imperialists who pay this suspected wee-smoker. So this is clearly a criticism that only the CPP can take advantage of! And the NDC needs to get its act together, if they want us to see any difference between them and the NPP!
I wanted to attack the President's speech, but when I heard Kwesi Pratt on the air, I realized he had done all the job I wanted to do so the only thing left for me was a simple transcription. See: Mills' “free school uniforms” speech to UN disappointing - Pratt, From: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana, September 26, 2011.
And here is Mr. Pratt's take on the President's speech which so eloquently speaks my own mind and sense of disappointment:
Begin quote:
"To be very very honest with you, I am not impressed by the President's address at the United Nations. I am not impressed at all. This is the kind of speech you make to your national assembly, not at the UN General Assembly.
There is no global context of this speech. The United Nations is a world platform where you go and mobilize the world, you understand, on issues and so on. What are we saying at the United Nations?
"We have eliminated schools under trees. We are distributing free exercise books. We are distributing free school uniforms, and so on."
What has this got to do with the United Nations? So, to be honest with you, even though the issues the President raised are critical to the development of Ghana, they are issues not worth the attention they received at the UN General Assembly.
And indeed, just when we were coming, you were playing Nkrumah's speeches and so on, look at the difference! So something is wrong with the speech writers of the President, something is wrong with our Foreign Ministry, and something is wrong with developing a global perspective. And I think we should say it as it is. I am not impressed by this speech at all!
And yesterday, when I listened to the speech, I felt very uncomfortable you understand? Now, you compare the speech that our President gave, to speeches delivered by people like Evo Morales, and see the world attention, see how they grabbed the world attention and so on. Because they are discussing the world! They are discussing the problems of the world and how they see the world. We didn't!
We went there we were talking about distribution of free text books, free exercise book, free school uniforms, schools under trees and so on! I was not impressed at all!
Look, the organization of free and fair elections in Ghana is important. It is important for us, because if we do not organize free and fair elections in Ghana, we risk pushing our country to catastrophe and so on. So it it is absolutely important, but why the UN? Of course, the supply of free school uniforms is very important. It is a major social intervention and so on. But why the UN?
You know, all my other colleagues have spoken about key issues confronting the world today. Today the world is confronted with the bellicosity of imperialism. Today, the United Nations has become something which is in the back pockets of the United States of America. Today, on the basis of things which were found in the WikiLeaks and so on, the United States is killing hundreds of thousands of people across the globe! What is the stand of Ghana?
Do we mean that we have no stand? Are we afraid of the United States of America? Are we afraid of the imperialist powers? What is wrong with us? Look at the bellicosity of imperialism! Look at the ravaging recklessness of imperialism and so on! And we go and talk about free school uniforms!
It's incredible. I must say with all honesty that I was not impressed with this speech. One of the key issues being decided at the United Nations is whether or not the Palestinians are entitled and should be given a seat at the UN. This is a crucial issue. And it is an issue of national liberation! Why? You declare Founder's Day in Ghana. What is Founder's Day? What makes Founder's Day so relevant if it is not our commitment to national liberation, our commitment for the struggle against colonialism?
And yet what is happening in Palestine is that there is harsh colonial occupation, colonial occupation of Palestinian land! It is about racism and so on. Indeed the Organization of African Unity in the 1970s equated Zionism with Apartheid. you understand, equated Zionism with Apartheid! So why can't we be bold enough to join the worldwide movement against Zionism? Why can't we?
In any case, I find that a bit strange, why because, long ago in the 1980s, under the PNDC, Ghana recognized the State of Palestine. In those days, Ghana was one of the few countries which recognized the State of Palestine. And that is why Palestine has a diplomatic mission in Accra, a full diplomatic mission in Accra!
So we took the lead in recognizing the State of Palestine. How come that at this juncture, we are all running away and why? We are afraid of United States of America! And if we are afraid of the United States of America, where can we go? So it is important to bring this matter to the fore. It is absolutely important!
Now, look at what is happening around the world. Look at the thrust that is being directed at countries like Iran and so on, and we are silent on it!"
End quote.
Surely, our President could have done far better than this! I promised I would be joining the NDC just before the Sunyani Congress. I put that on hold. I can see some action at the CPP front. Even though it is a lot of hot air and no substance, I am eager to give them a second chance. But for the CPP to become relevant, it is the CPP that ought to be making statements of the nature Kwesi just made.
So far, it is still very silent, as imperialism becomes more aggressive, more deadly, and far more arrogant than it has ever been even during the period of slavery and colonialism! Where is the CPP?
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheOdikro
Feature Articles: http://nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com/
Comments: http://theodikro.blogspot.com/
"Ye nim NPP firi tete!" We all know how they were described by the CIA as being "pathetically Pro-Western"! Thus we know the NPP is incapable of doing better than President Mills on this issue. Even before the mass killings in the Ivory Coast and Libya began, Kwesi Pratt,Jnr., had already warned that the US was ready to kill Africans in its quest for oil, and the NPP is supporting them! See: "Kwesi Pratt Causes Fear And Panic In The NPP!" Part One: What Exactly Did Kwesi Say?, Feature Article | by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro, Tuesday, November 30, 2010.
Thanks to the WikiLeaks revelations, we also know who are "the natural allies" of US imperialism in Ghana, and from the horse's own mouth:
"¶2.(C) A casually dressed Akufo-Addo met the Ambassador and POLOFF at the door of his well appointed Accra residence, on the edge of Accra's sprawling Nima neighborhood. Ambassador Teitelbaum said that the U.S. valued its relationship with the NPP, which he believed would someday return to power, and that the Embassy remained open to him. Akufo-Addo replied that the NPP was a natural ally of the U.S." See: Reference ID: 09ACCRA55, SUBJECT: AKUFO-ADDO SHARES POST-ELECTION THOUGHTS WITH AMBASSADOR TEITELBAUM.
And from the position of the NPP on the Ivorian crisis, on Libya, on Palestine etc., we know that Akufo-Addo's opinions are determined by the imperialists who pay this suspected wee-smoker. So this is clearly a criticism that only the CPP can take advantage of! And the NDC needs to get its act together, if they want us to see any difference between them and the NPP!
I wanted to attack the President's speech, but when I heard Kwesi Pratt on the air, I realized he had done all the job I wanted to do so the only thing left for me was a simple transcription. See: Mills' “free school uniforms” speech to UN disappointing - Pratt, From: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana, September 26, 2011.
And here is Mr. Pratt's take on the President's speech which so eloquently speaks my own mind and sense of disappointment:
Begin quote:
"To be very very honest with you, I am not impressed by the President's address at the United Nations. I am not impressed at all. This is the kind of speech you make to your national assembly, not at the UN General Assembly.
There is no global context of this speech. The United Nations is a world platform where you go and mobilize the world, you understand, on issues and so on. What are we saying at the United Nations?
"We have eliminated schools under trees. We are distributing free exercise books. We are distributing free school uniforms, and so on."
What has this got to do with the United Nations? So, to be honest with you, even though the issues the President raised are critical to the development of Ghana, they are issues not worth the attention they received at the UN General Assembly.
And indeed, just when we were coming, you were playing Nkrumah's speeches and so on, look at the difference! So something is wrong with the speech writers of the President, something is wrong with our Foreign Ministry, and something is wrong with developing a global perspective. And I think we should say it as it is. I am not impressed by this speech at all!
And yesterday, when I listened to the speech, I felt very uncomfortable you understand? Now, you compare the speech that our President gave, to speeches delivered by people like Evo Morales, and see the world attention, see how they grabbed the world attention and so on. Because they are discussing the world! They are discussing the problems of the world and how they see the world. We didn't!
We went there we were talking about distribution of free text books, free exercise book, free school uniforms, schools under trees and so on! I was not impressed at all!
Look, the organization of free and fair elections in Ghana is important. It is important for us, because if we do not organize free and fair elections in Ghana, we risk pushing our country to catastrophe and so on. So it it is absolutely important, but why the UN? Of course, the supply of free school uniforms is very important. It is a major social intervention and so on. But why the UN?
You know, all my other colleagues have spoken about key issues confronting the world today. Today the world is confronted with the bellicosity of imperialism. Today, the United Nations has become something which is in the back pockets of the United States of America. Today, on the basis of things which were found in the WikiLeaks and so on, the United States is killing hundreds of thousands of people across the globe! What is the stand of Ghana?
Do we mean that we have no stand? Are we afraid of the United States of America? Are we afraid of the imperialist powers? What is wrong with us? Look at the bellicosity of imperialism! Look at the ravaging recklessness of imperialism and so on! And we go and talk about free school uniforms!
It's incredible. I must say with all honesty that I was not impressed with this speech. One of the key issues being decided at the United Nations is whether or not the Palestinians are entitled and should be given a seat at the UN. This is a crucial issue. And it is an issue of national liberation! Why? You declare Founder's Day in Ghana. What is Founder's Day? What makes Founder's Day so relevant if it is not our commitment to national liberation, our commitment for the struggle against colonialism?
And yet what is happening in Palestine is that there is harsh colonial occupation, colonial occupation of Palestinian land! It is about racism and so on. Indeed the Organization of African Unity in the 1970s equated Zionism with Apartheid. you understand, equated Zionism with Apartheid! So why can't we be bold enough to join the worldwide movement against Zionism? Why can't we?
In any case, I find that a bit strange, why because, long ago in the 1980s, under the PNDC, Ghana recognized the State of Palestine. In those days, Ghana was one of the few countries which recognized the State of Palestine. And that is why Palestine has a diplomatic mission in Accra, a full diplomatic mission in Accra!
So we took the lead in recognizing the State of Palestine. How come that at this juncture, we are all running away and why? We are afraid of United States of America! And if we are afraid of the United States of America, where can we go? So it is important to bring this matter to the fore. It is absolutely important!
Now, look at what is happening around the world. Look at the thrust that is being directed at countries like Iran and so on, and we are silent on it!"
End quote.
Surely, our President could have done far better than this! I promised I would be joining the NDC just before the Sunyani Congress. I put that on hold. I can see some action at the CPP front. Even though it is a lot of hot air and no substance, I am eager to give them a second chance. But for the CPP to become relevant, it is the CPP that ought to be making statements of the nature Kwesi just made.
So far, it is still very silent, as imperialism becomes more aggressive, more deadly, and far more arrogant than it has ever been even during the period of slavery and colonialism! Where is the CPP?
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheOdikro
Feature Articles: http://nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com/
Comments: http://theodikro.blogspot.com/
Monday, September 26, 2011
ONLY ONE FOUNDER: NKRUMAH!
See: Article and comment: http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Dear All!
I am happy Kwesi Pratt is raising this issue. Nkrumah clearly stands out! His vision of Ghana, not just a paradise for the rich but a Republic for the poor farmers, workers, fishermen and women, students, pensioners, children, and for all citizens of Ghana, irrespective of economic class, social class, ethnic origin, religious persuasion, or gender.
This contribution is unique. That he was able to achieve this in spite of the stiff opposition led by the imperialists with their local collaborators attest to his greatness. We need to remember that Nkrumah launched the Positive Action Campaign at a time when the "property owning democrats" favoured the right to vote for the 1951 Constitution to be based upon the showing receipt of payment of tax on your property, not below a determined value. Simply put, "No property, no vote"! The universal adult suffrage that we take for granted today, was as a result of a bitter struggle against the Gold Coast bourgeoisie who sought social exclusion even at the level of national representation.
This, for me, is what makes Nkrumah the true Founder of the Nation. The most important value we all cherish is the right to be represented, not only by the rich and powerful in society. Nkrumah fought and won this for the common man! No wonder he is so hated by the rich and powerful who wanted to continue to lord it over the rest of us with their inevitable scorn and arrogance! Thank you very much the Osagyefo! We shall forever be grateful and honour this day, not for your reasons of vain glory, but to remind ourselves of the internal dynamics of politics, and why the rich want to continue to be richer, and the poor continue to be poorer.
The so-called champions of democracy even made it illegal to mention Nkrumah's name in public, or keep his photos, books, and audio visuals! The panic reaction came when the late Mr. Johnny Hansen publicly displayed Nkrumah's photo in Kumasi during the Busia regime. Under emergency bill, Parliament sat for seventeen hours to produce a law banning the mere mention of Nkrumah's name! and they call themselves "democrats"! They claim to be champions of human rights, of freedom of speech!
Hm, they even make me laugh!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
With Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
The Black Star of Africa!http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
As Kwame Nkrumah rightly pointed out on Ghana's eve of independence, "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the whole continent of Africa!" With the continent still in the belly of the beast of imperialism, cut into fragile neocolonial bantustans that we call fatherlands, not one independence anniversary is worth celebrating!
On the contrary, we need to celebrate Nkrumah. We need to do this not for Nkrumah, but for ourselves and generations yet unborn in order to keep the Pan-Africanist flame blazing! To think of the amount of money the Busia-Danquah neocolonialist tradition of the NPP spent and stole during the Ghana@50, it is more than obscene to hear them complain.
“We in Africa who are pressing now for unity are deeply conscious of the validity of our purpose. We need the strength of our combined numbers and resources to protect ourselves from the very positive dangers of returning to colonialism in disguised forms. We need it to combat the entrenched forces dividing our continent and still holding back millions of our brothers. We need it to secure total African liberation. We need it to carry forward our construction of a socio-economic system that will support the great mass of our steadily rising population at levels of life which will compare with those in the most advanced countries” - Kwame Nkrumah, "Africa Must Unite!", 1960.
We need to remind people of this! Only the enemies of our freedom and development are complaining!
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Dear All!
I am happy Kwesi Pratt is raising this issue. Nkrumah clearly stands out! His vision of Ghana, not just a paradise for the rich but a Republic for the poor farmers, workers, fishermen and women, students, pensioners, children, and for all citizens of Ghana, irrespective of economic class, social class, ethnic origin, religious persuasion, or gender.
This contribution is unique. That he was able to achieve this in spite of the stiff opposition led by the imperialists with their local collaborators attest to his greatness. We need to remember that Nkrumah launched the Positive Action Campaign at a time when the "property owning democrats" favoured the right to vote for the 1951 Constitution to be based upon the showing receipt of payment of tax on your property, not below a determined value. Simply put, "No property, no vote"! The universal adult suffrage that we take for granted today, was as a result of a bitter struggle against the Gold Coast bourgeoisie who sought social exclusion even at the level of national representation.
This, for me, is what makes Nkrumah the true Founder of the Nation. The most important value we all cherish is the right to be represented, not only by the rich and powerful in society. Nkrumah fought and won this for the common man! No wonder he is so hated by the rich and powerful who wanted to continue to lord it over the rest of us with their inevitable scorn and arrogance! Thank you very much the Osagyefo! We shall forever be grateful and honour this day, not for your reasons of vain glory, but to remind ourselves of the internal dynamics of politics, and why the rich want to continue to be richer, and the poor continue to be poorer.
The so-called champions of democracy even made it illegal to mention Nkrumah's name in public, or keep his photos, books, and audio visuals! The panic reaction came when the late Mr. Johnny Hansen publicly displayed Nkrumah's photo in Kumasi during the Busia regime. Under emergency bill, Parliament sat for seventeen hours to produce a law banning the mere mention of Nkrumah's name! and they call themselves "democrats"! They claim to be champions of human rights, of freedom of speech!
Hm, they even make me laugh!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
With Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
The Black Star of Africa!http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
As Kwame Nkrumah rightly pointed out on Ghana's eve of independence, "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the whole continent of Africa!" With the continent still in the belly of the beast of imperialism, cut into fragile neocolonial bantustans that we call fatherlands, not one independence anniversary is worth celebrating!
On the contrary, we need to celebrate Nkrumah. We need to do this not for Nkrumah, but for ourselves and generations yet unborn in order to keep the Pan-Africanist flame blazing! To think of the amount of money the Busia-Danquah neocolonialist tradition of the NPP spent and stole during the Ghana@50, it is more than obscene to hear them complain.
“We in Africa who are pressing now for unity are deeply conscious of the validity of our purpose. We need the strength of our combined numbers and resources to protect ourselves from the very positive dangers of returning to colonialism in disguised forms. We need it to combat the entrenched forces dividing our continent and still holding back millions of our brothers. We need it to secure total African liberation. We need it to carry forward our construction of a socio-economic system that will support the great mass of our steadily rising population at levels of life which will compare with those in the most advanced countries” - Kwame Nkrumah, "Africa Must Unite!", 1960.
We need to remind people of this! Only the enemies of our freedom and development are complaining!
ONLY ONE FOUNDER: NKRUMAH!
See: Article and comment: http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Dear All!
I am happy Kwesi Pratt is raising this issue. Nkrumah clearly stands out! His vision of Ghana, not just a paradise for the rich but a Republic for the poor farmers, workers, fishermen and women, students, pensioners, children, and for all citizens of Ghana, irrespective of economic class, social class, ethnic origin, religious persuasion, or gender.
This contribution is unique. That he was able to achieve this in spite of the stiff opposition led by the imperialists with their local collaborators attest to his greatness. We need to remember that Nkrumah launched the Positive Action Campaign at a time when the "property owning democrats" favoured the right to vote for the 1951 Constitution to be based upon the showing receipt of payment of tax on your property, not below a determined value. Simply put, "No property, no vote"! The universal adult suffrage that we take for granted today, was as a result of a bitter struggle against the Gold Coast bourgeoisie who sought social exclusion even at the level of national representation.
This, for me, is what makes Nkrumah the true Founder of the Nation. The most important value we all cherish is the right to be represented, not only by the rich and powerful in society. Nkrumah fought and won this for the common man! No wonder he is so hated by the rich and powerful who wanted to continue to lord it over the rest of us with their inevitable scorn and arrogance! Thank you very much the Osagyefo! We shall forever be grateful and honour this day, not for your reasons of vain glory, but to remind ourselves of the internal dynamics of politics, and why the rich want to continue to be richer, and the poor continue to be poorer.
The so-called champions of democracy even made it illegal to mention Nkrumah's name in public, or keep his photos, books, and audio visuals! The panic reaction came when the late Mr. Johnny Hansen publicly displayed Nkrumah's photo in Kumasi during the Busia regime. Under emergency bill, Parliament sat for seventeen hours to produce a law banning the mere mention of Nkrumah's name! and they call themselves "democrats"! They claim to be champions of human rights, of freedom of speech!
Hm, they even make me laugh!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
With Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
The Black Star of Africa!http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Dear All!
I am happy Kwesi Pratt is raising this issue. Nkrumah clearly stands out! His vision of Ghana, not just a paradise for the rich but a Republic for the poor farmers, workers, fishermen and women, students, pensioners, children, and for all citizens of Ghana, irrespective of economic class, social class, ethnic origin, religious persuasion, or gender.
This contribution is unique. That he was able to achieve this in spite of the stiff opposition led by the imperialists with their local collaborators attest to his greatness. We need to remember that Nkrumah launched the Positive Action Campaign at a time when the "property owning democrats" favoured the right to vote for the 1951 Constitution to be based upon the showing receipt of payment of tax on your property, not below a determined value. Simply put, "No property, no vote"! The universal adult suffrage that we take for granted today, was as a result of a bitter struggle against the Gold Coast bourgeoisie who sought social exclusion even at the level of national representation.
This, for me, is what makes Nkrumah the true Founder of the Nation. The most important value we all cherish is the right to be represented, not only by the rich and powerful in society. Nkrumah fought and won this for the common man! No wonder he is so hated by the rich and powerful who wanted to continue to lord it over the rest of us with their inevitable scorn and arrogance! Thank you very much the Osagyefo! We shall forever be grateful and honour this day, not for your reasons of vain glory, but to remind ourselves of the internal dynamics of politics, and why the rich want to continue to be richer, and the poor continue to be poorer.
The so-called champions of democracy even made it illegal to mention Nkrumah's name in public, or keep his photos, books, and audio visuals! The panic reaction came when the late Mr. Johnny Hansen publicly displayed Nkrumah's photo in Kumasi during the Busia regime. Under emergency bill, Parliament sat for seventeen hours to produce a law banning the mere mention of Nkrumah's name! and they call themselves "democrats"! They claim to be champions of human rights, of freedom of speech!
Hm, they even make me laugh!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
With Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
The Black Star of Africa!http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/73621.php?storyid=73621
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Comment: DO NOT RENAME LEGON AFTER DANQUAH!
Read Article
Comment: DO NOT RENAME LEGON AFTER DANQUAH!
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Date: 2011-08-24 18:12:21
Comment to: Legon Should Be Renamed After J. B. Danquah
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Subject:
DO NOT RENAME LEGON AFTER DANQUAH!
To: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.,
Danquah Institute, c/o Akufo-Addo.
Grandson,
Did you set out to deliberately provoke me?
I find this renewed energy behind the ill-fated call to rename the University of Ghana after J.B. Danquah as opportunistic, a deliberate provocation, and a rather mischievous attempt to re-write the history of our country.
This does not come as a surprise, however. This is not the first time Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., is making this ugly call. And like all previous attempts, this also shall fail. Futile as everyone knows this is, Okoampa's importunate call to rename the University of Ghana after his maternal granduncle is loaded with despicable lies and unreasonably goes against the verdict of J.B. Danquah's own people, in his own constituency who voted against him on each and every occasion he presented himself a a candidate, be it for Parliament, Municipal Council, or as a President of this country.
It is not only the people of Akyem who rejected him. He was rejected by the whole country by more than an overwhelming majority! And his contemporaries who knew him well had every reason to reject him. I have personally analysed and evaluated some of the reasons why J. B. Danquah was so overwhelmingly rejected. This call to rename Ggghana's premier university after J.B Danquah, goes against the collective knowledge and wisdom acquired over the years, concerning the very dark sides of this shady character, so dark as to be "black voted" even by his own elite colleagues in the Lodge!
A darling of the British colonialists, J.B Danquah's highest political ambition was to be a Colonial Secretary, lost a lot of respect in the eyes of his British masters in the role he played in the promotion of human sacrifice and ritual murder in the Gold Coast. Thus, in the end, neither the Akyems, who knew him more than anybody else, Ghanaians as a whole, his colonial owners, nor the CIA, his last refuge, wanted to have anything to do with him! A very serious problem with Okoampa's call is the presumption that most Ghanaians consider this villain a hero. This is a fundamental flaw, and a mischievous one, because it is so easy to find out!
It is annoying enough to hear Okoampa complain about "no significant monument, other than the rough-hewn statue located on the minor rotary – or roundabout – bearing his name somewhere in the Osu district of Accra recalls the memory of Dr. Danquah." This is because, Danquah does not deserve even that statute he is talking about! It is even more annoying when Kwame Okoampa tries to compare J.B. Danquah with Kwame Nkrumah! He has the blinkers firmly in place as he observes:
"Even President Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first postcolonial premier whom Dr. Danquah mentored and introduced into the mainstream of Ghanaian politics, and who already has the erstwhile University of Science and Technology named after him, also has a major institutional landmark on the campus of the University of Ghana named for him."
A question which Okoampa asks, which for a frustrated grand-nephew who badly needs a university named after his granduncle, must have a lot of meaning is:
"The most relevant and logical question, therefore, becomes: Precisely what crime did Dr. J. B. Danquah, the indefatigable spearhead behind the development of Association Football (or soccer), COCOBOD, the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital and even the constitutions leading the erstwhile Gold Coast to independence as Ghana, commit and/or perpetrate against the august republic that he so much loved and fervidly dedicated the bulk of his adult life to?"
Here is my answer: You shall see it in the next post!
[TO BE CONTINUED!]
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Comment: Okoampa Working For Inter-Ethnic Strife
Read Article
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
My dear Mr. Kofi Kankamah,
I do agree with you up to the point of throwing blows! I don't throw blows, but I can get very angry. The best way to fight these war-mongers is to remain peaceful. They want there to be some confusion in Ghana, and they are working towards that. You play into their hands when you give them blows! Having said that, I must hasten to add, in order not to tempt them with any perception of leniency on our part, I believe in the principle of legitimate self-defence as a moral responsibility of all humanity.
I disagree strongly with the writer. If Akufo-Addo is really the "listening" guy he wants us to believe, he would have taken action long ago against this recalcitrant cousin whose works keep undermining him!
It is even possible that he does not see anything wrong with what Okoampa has been writing all along! Why would he have been made a member of the Governing Board of an Akufo-Addo key front-organisation, the Danquah Institute?
The main issue that is scary here is that Okoampa is working against peace in Ghana. Akufo-Addo can never win a peaceful, transparent, and democratic elections. That is why they want to use "takashi" (force).
The fact that Ghana is still relatively peaceful is a threat to their nefarious ambitions. That is why they are resorting to fanning inter-ethnic animosities at the slightest opportunity. The "all die be die" nonsense of "we the Akans are not cowards" and "Michael “Trokosi” Dokosi Is a Togolese Ewe…", and even his current article on display today, see: Feature Article of Wednesday, 24 August 2011, Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame “Peace” Is a Relative Term, is nothing but a display of a blood-thirsty desire for war in Ghana.
What explains insulting a whole ethnic group as a part of an electoral campaign? Do you think it is to get their votes? Think again! It is to provoke them to insult back and raise the inter-ethnic animosity. What Okoampa and his owners need to get their man as President is not the vote of Ghanaians, but the support of the "international community" once a conflict begins- Ivory Coast style!
This is what makes people like Akufo-Addo, particularly his silence over Okoampa, extremely dangerous!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe!
Secretary to the Odikro.
Comment: I do agree with you!
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Date: 2011-08-24 12:28:30
Comment to: Don't be fooled....
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
My dear Mr. Kofi Kankamah,
I do agree with you up to the point of throwing blows! I don't throw blows, but I can get very angry. The best way to fight these war-mongers is to remain peaceful. They want there to be some confusion in Ghana, and they are working towards that. You play into their hands when you give them blows! Having said that, I must hasten to add, in order not to tempt them with any perception of leniency on our part, I believe in the principle of legitimate self-defence as a moral responsibility of all humanity.
I disagree strongly with the writer. If Akufo-Addo is really the "listening" guy he wants us to believe, he would have taken action long ago against this recalcitrant cousin whose works keep undermining him!
It is even possible that he does not see anything wrong with what Okoampa has been writing all along! Why would he have been made a member of the Governing Board of an Akufo-Addo key front-organisation, the Danquah Institute?
The main issue that is scary here is that Okoampa is working against peace in Ghana. Akufo-Addo can never win a peaceful, transparent, and democratic elections. That is why they want to use "takashi" (force).
The fact that Ghana is still relatively peaceful is a threat to their nefarious ambitions. That is why they are resorting to fanning inter-ethnic animosities at the slightest opportunity. The "all die be die" nonsense of "we the Akans are not cowards" and "Michael “Trokosi” Dokosi Is a Togolese Ewe…", and even his current article on display today, see: Feature Article of Wednesday, 24 August 2011, Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame “Peace” Is a Relative Term, is nothing but a display of a blood-thirsty desire for war in Ghana.
What explains insulting a whole ethnic group as a part of an electoral campaign? Do you think it is to get their votes? Think again! It is to provoke them to insult back and raise the inter-ethnic animosity. What Okoampa and his owners need to get their man as President is not the vote of Ghanaians, but the support of the "international community" once a conflict begins- Ivory Coast style!
This is what makes people like Akufo-Addo, particularly his silence over Okoampa, extremely dangerous!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe!
Secretary to the Odikro.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Comment: AND YOU CANNOT SET US UP!
Read Article
Comment: AND YOU CANNOT SET US UP!
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Date: 2011-08-22 16:23:50
Comment to: I Swear, I Didn’t Set This Up!
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO.
a companion of the black star!
...AND YOU CANNOT SET ONE "TRIBE" AGAINST ANOTHER!
Kwame Okoampa at it again! Excited, as usual, because this is not about Ghana's development, but an occasion to proclaim his Akyem supremacist views.
I know what you are doing. There can not be war in Ghana if there are no tensions. Very few Ghanaians are ready to believe that people like you even exist. I knew you were ready to support La Cote d'Ivoire when the then President Laurent Gbagbo claimed Ghanaian territory, you were equally excited and supportive of his move. Here is what you wrote then:
"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.
To Okoampa's great disappointment, Ghana did not have to go to war with the Ivory Coast! In much the same manner, it is important for all Ghanaians of sound minds no to bother this obviously afflicted individual.
The moment you know that Kwame Okoampa is seeking to create a crisis situation in Ghana, such as an inter-ethnic strife, in order to provide a pretext for his imperialist owners to "intervene" on "humanitarian grounds", you would know where I am coming from.
What explains insulting a whole ethnic group as a part of an electoral campaign? Do you think it is to get their votes? Think again! It is to provoke them to insult back and raise the inter-ethnic animosity. What Okoampa and his owners need to get their man as President is not the vote of Ghanaians, but the support of the "international community" once a conflict begins!
Kwame Okoampa is one of the very few Ghanaians who advocates the establishment of US Africa Command headquarters in Accra. He does so with another Akufo-Addo lieutenant, Mr. Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko. We all know very well how it is always Africans who are cutting each others' throats, and the imperialist come in like Knights in a shinning armour to save us from our stupidities!
What if we are not that stupid? What if we simply fall to the temptation because some of us are paid by interested parties to incite and provoke needless inter-ethnic tensions and strife? What will happen if we ignore such people and no war comes to pass? They lose! We win!
People of Ghana, I call upon you to ignore Okoampa so that we can win this struggle for Peace in Ghana 2012!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe,
Secretary to the Odikro.
Comment: Is The Akufo-Addo Cocaine Story True?
Comment: Is The Akufo-Addo Cocaine Story True?
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Date: 2011-08-22 17:01:05
Comment to: Steve Mallory Owes “Credibility” Billions of D
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Was Nana Akufo-Addo once arrested for possession of narcotic drugs at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, USA?
I am wondering why you should devote several parts of an article trying to destroy the credibility of a journalist who is simply contradicting a misleading impression being made by Akufo-Addo that he has the necessary proof that he has never been arrested in the US for drug offences?
If what he is saying are not facts, point out which one of them and say why. At least, Mr. Steve Mallory explained why he thinks the Akufo-Addo team is being extremely economical with the truth!
What they are saying is that, a "categorical statements obtained from the major federal agencies more actively involved with drug cases in the U.S. would have lent more credibility to Akufo-Addo’s lawyer’s statement, and would have gone a long way toward clearing the candidate’s reputation".
"The three-sentence letter from the Port Authority states: “Your letter of February 27, 2008 was received in my office on February 21, 2008, for processing under the Port Authority’s policy on Freedom of Information, copy enclosed. You seek copies of any arrest records related to Nana Akufo-Addo for years 2003 through 2008. We have searched our files and found no records responsive to your request.” The letter was signed by Kathleen P. Bincoletto, indentified as the administrator who handles media inquiries based on the U.S. federal law called the Freedom of Information Act. But according to critics, while the letter makes clear that no records of an Akufo-Addo arrest were found in the Port Authority’s office, it does not confirm that no such arrest ever occurred."
"The statement from Akufo-Addo’s lawyer did not say whether any other American agencies (federal or local) besides the Port Authority and Metropolitan Authority were contacted regarding possible drug-arrest records.
However, the local media in Ghana contacted the DEA office at the U.S. Embassy in Accra for verification of the letters and to seek possible DEA records on the matter. The head of the DEA office at the Embassy, Jeffrey Breeden, was reported as saying “the two letters you sent me are from legitimate law enforcement agencies in the U.S., which state the subject has no criminal record in the U.S.,” and that he saw “no need to provide any further verification reference this issue.”
"The Drug Enforcement Administration is concerned with major drug-trafficking operations. Customs and Border Protection’s primary duties include apprehending individuals attempting to enter the U.S. illegally, and stemming the flow of illegal drugs, and agents of the Transportation Security Administration inspect baggage for prohibited items, including illegal drugs."
"Categorical statements obtained from those three U.S. federal agencies would have lent more credibility to Akufo-Addo’s defense and would have gone a long way toward clearing his battered reputation. But a media offensive – with information only from the managers of regional transportation facilities – helps keep the questions coming."
Kwame Okoampa, try to deal with the problem on hand! If I say "one plus one is equal to two", and you write a million articles about my credibility, it does not affect the equation!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe,
Secretary to the Odikro.
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Date: 2011-08-22 17:01:05
Comment to: Steve Mallory Owes “Credibility” Billions of D
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Was Nana Akufo-Addo once arrested for possession of narcotic drugs at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, USA?
I am wondering why you should devote several parts of an article trying to destroy the credibility of a journalist who is simply contradicting a misleading impression being made by Akufo-Addo that he has the necessary proof that he has never been arrested in the US for drug offences?
If what he is saying are not facts, point out which one of them and say why. At least, Mr. Steve Mallory explained why he thinks the Akufo-Addo team is being extremely economical with the truth!
What they are saying is that, a "categorical statements obtained from the major federal agencies more actively involved with drug cases in the U.S. would have lent more credibility to Akufo-Addo’s lawyer’s statement, and would have gone a long way toward clearing the candidate’s reputation".
"The three-sentence letter from the Port Authority states: “Your letter of February 27, 2008 was received in my office on February 21, 2008, for processing under the Port Authority’s policy on Freedom of Information, copy enclosed. You seek copies of any arrest records related to Nana Akufo-Addo for years 2003 through 2008. We have searched our files and found no records responsive to your request.” The letter was signed by Kathleen P. Bincoletto, indentified as the administrator who handles media inquiries based on the U.S. federal law called the Freedom of Information Act. But according to critics, while the letter makes clear that no records of an Akufo-Addo arrest were found in the Port Authority’s office, it does not confirm that no such arrest ever occurred."
"The statement from Akufo-Addo’s lawyer did not say whether any other American agencies (federal or local) besides the Port Authority and Metropolitan Authority were contacted regarding possible drug-arrest records.
However, the local media in Ghana contacted the DEA office at the U.S. Embassy in Accra for verification of the letters and to seek possible DEA records on the matter. The head of the DEA office at the Embassy, Jeffrey Breeden, was reported as saying “the two letters you sent me are from legitimate law enforcement agencies in the U.S., which state the subject has no criminal record in the U.S.,” and that he saw “no need to provide any further verification reference this issue.”
"The Drug Enforcement Administration is concerned with major drug-trafficking operations. Customs and Border Protection’s primary duties include apprehending individuals attempting to enter the U.S. illegally, and stemming the flow of illegal drugs, and agents of the Transportation Security Administration inspect baggage for prohibited items, including illegal drugs."
"Categorical statements obtained from those three U.S. federal agencies would have lent more credibility to Akufo-Addo’s defense and would have gone a long way toward clearing his battered reputation. But a media offensive – with information only from the managers of regional transportation facilities – helps keep the questions coming."
Kwame Okoampa, try to deal with the problem on hand! If I say "one plus one is equal to two", and you write a million articles about my credibility, it does not affect the equation!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe,
Secretary to the Odikro.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Karl Marx Is Hot
Joe Weisenthal | Aug. 19, 2011, 5:24 AM
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/karl-marx-is-hot-2011-8#ixzz1VTOQd0X2
 Image: Business Insider Illustration, Wikipedia |
Simon Johnson thinks it could be even worse: The long depression of the 1870s all over again.
Recently Nouriel Roubini got a lot of attention for saying that Marx basically got the battle between labor and capital correct, and that capitalism itself now stood on the brink of collapse.
And even on Wall Street...
UBS' George Magnus has a big piece out on political economy favorably quoting Karl Marx:
“At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or - this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms - with the property relations within this framework of which they have operated hitherto”.
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx (1859)
In ‘The Return of Political Economy’ (Economic Insights, 5th February 2010), I wanted to emphasise how, in the wake of the financial and economic crisis of 2008-09, the interaction between political and economic decision-making would come to play an increasingly significant role in the determination of economic, and market outcomes. Looking at the time at the complicated legacy of de-
leveraging in developed markets, the embryo of the sovereign debt crisis, especially in Europe, and growing social and economic contradictions in China, it was possible to imagine, if not predict precisely, pretty much what we see playing out today.
Now you don’t have to be a member of the Socialist International to recognise that Marx’s words above have contemporary relevance. For him, post-feudal ‘conflict’ would lead to social revolution and the overthrow of bourgeois society, but we know different, not least because the Western model of economic development overhauled and democratised the concept of ‘ownership’ (of the
means of production). Nevertheless, the old guy was a pretty shrewd analyst,
learned a lot about political economy from likes of Adam Smith and David Ricardo among others, and offered some still relevant insights into how and why things happen in the economy and society.
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx (1859)
In ‘The Return of Political Economy’ (Economic Insights, 5th February 2010), I wanted to emphasise how, in the wake of the financial and economic crisis of 2008-09, the interaction between political and economic decision-making would come to play an increasingly significant role in the determination of economic, and market outcomes. Looking at the time at the complicated legacy of de-
leveraging in developed markets, the embryo of the sovereign debt crisis, especially in Europe, and growing social and economic contradictions in China, it was possible to imagine, if not predict precisely, pretty much what we see playing out today.
Now you don’t have to be a member of the Socialist International to recognise that Marx’s words above have contemporary relevance. For him, post-feudal ‘conflict’ would lead to social revolution and the overthrow of bourgeois society, but we know different, not least because the Western model of economic development overhauled and democratised the concept of ‘ownership’ (of the
means of production). Nevertheless, the old guy was a pretty shrewd analyst,
learned a lot about political economy from likes of Adam Smith and David Ricardo among others, and offered some still relevant insights into how and why things happen in the economy and society.
The quote above captures the important idea of conflict or turbulence when events happen that lead to challenges to the power, authority and legitimacy of the existing political and economic order. During the last several months, we have seen a succession of such challenges in the Eurozone, the US, and even, in embryonic form, in China. The recent skittishness in financial markets and increase in risk premiums reflect not only a rise in anxiety about the deteriorating health of the global economy, but the draining of confidence that political elites are up to the task of addressing it.
This note, then, considers the existential crisis in the Eurozone, ‘deficit attention disorder’ in the US and other advanced economies, and China’s current political economy, for which the recent high-speed rail accident serves as an interesting metaphor.
Again, you know it's a real panic when everyone's trotting out the gold guys, and even capitalists think Marx got the endgame right.This note, then, considers the existential crisis in the Eurozone, ‘deficit attention disorder’ in the US and other advanced economies, and China’s current political economy, for which the recent high-speed rail accident serves as an interesting metaphor.
--
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Dear All!
We are happy to invite you to join our online briefings. We live in a very exciting moment of history in the struggle for the continental emancipation of Africa. As Hamid Dabashi puts it, “I think the ability of the people, the democratic will of the people to generate and sustain information and globalize it is far more important than secret wheelings and dealings between the powers that be.” Each and everyone of us needs a briefing as effective as the daily briefing that is sent to the White House for the President of the USA, in the “the identification, defence and advancement of the interests of Main Street Africa.”
We need the help of all of us in this endeavour!
Thank you for your kind attention!
God bless Africa!
We shall overcome!
 |
| Subscribe to Pan-Africanist Briefs |
| Email: |
| Visit this group |
"LIKE" US ON FACEBOOK:
Pan-Africanist International
If you come to our Facebook page and "like" us there, you would be able to receive regular updates briefing Pan-Africanists worldwide, and be able to share news and views with like-minded persons!
Live and thrive!!!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pan-Africanist-International/176440449067636
Live and thrive!!!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pan-Africanist-International/176440449067636
About Us
The Pan-Africanist International seeks to build a movement that, with your help and support, may soon become a clearing house of information on the identification, defence and advancement of the interests of Main Street Africa. We do this through focusing attention, stimulating reflection, and enhancing informed responses on the following:
I/ RESPONDING TO REAL AND PRESENT DANGERS
II/ FACILITATING SELF-MOBILISATION: CHALLENGING DOGMA AND PROPAGANDA
III/ NETWORKING FOR UNITY AND STRENGTH
IV/ UPHOLDING THE ENDURING IMPERATIVES OF THE PAN-AFRICANIST STRUGGLE
V/ CONSOLIDATION OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY BETWEEN AFRICANS AND AFRICANS IN THE DIASPORA, AND AFRICA AND THE REST OF WORLD
The Pan-Africanist International seeks to build a movement that, with your help and support, may soon become a clearing house of information on the identification, defence and advancement of the interests of Main Street Africa. We do this through focusing attention, stimulating reflection, and enhancing informed responses on the following:
I/ RESPONDING TO REAL AND PRESENT DANGERS
II/ FACILITATING SELF-MOBILISATION: CHALLENGING DOGMA AND PROPAGANDA
III/ NETWORKING FOR UNITY AND STRENGTH
IV/ UPHOLDING THE ENDURING IMPERATIVES OF THE PAN-AFRICANIST STRUGGLE
V/ CONSOLIDATION OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY BETWEEN AFRICANS AND AFRICANS IN THE DIASPORA, AND AFRICA AND THE REST OF WORLD
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Comment: A Silly Prank: Visiting President Says No Short, Fat Wife for Him
Read Article
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO.
a companion of the black star!
This is a story that was published By Ms. Dana_Hughes, NAIROBI, Kenya in December. 6, 2010. Since then the visiting President has provoked more controversy than simply sexist attacks on women. Apart from a frank display of social illiteracy, there is nothing to report in such an old story, if it is not meant to be a diversionary prank to cover his tracts.
Ready to give further details!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe,
Secretary to the Odikro.
The slim, fit-looking president of Botswana — who will be visiting Ghana today — says he is finally ready to get married but made it clear that overweight women need not apply.
President Ian Khama, 57, has never been married, but at a political party meeting last month he said his top requirement for a future wife is that she needs to be tall, slim and beautiful – in a country known for short, heavy set women.
To drive the point home "Africa’s most eligible bachelors" pointed to the Assistant Minister of Local Government Botlhogile Tshreletso and said, “I don’t want one like this one. She may fail to pass through the door, breaking furniture with her heavy weight and even break the vehicle’s shock absorbers.”
The crowd, including the minister who had been singled out, reportedly laughed at the president’s comments.
Khama claims he’s been too busy running the country to find a wife, and has dispatched presidential aides to find a suitable mate.
The president’s status as a bachelor is of general national concern. Khama, elected in 2009, is not only president, he’s also the chief of the Bamangwato people, Botswana’s largest ethnic group. Marriage is a requirement of tribal tradition, something that Khama, so far, has defied.
Khama’s standing as the president as well as a prominent chief has virtually ruled out scolding him for his attitude towards women, and no womens’ groups in the country have publicly criticized him for his comments.
The chairwoman of the woman’s wing of Khama’s ruling party even proposed he marry current Miss Botswana, Emma Wareus, a runner-up in the Miss World pageant. Others said his comments were simply meant to be a joke.
But there is much discussion of whether Khama’s remarks.
“The angle everyone cared about was that he was looking for wife,” said a journalist who works for the national newspaper Botswana Gazette, who covers politics and asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the president’s personal life. “Some were saying it was a joke. Some were saying it wasn’t a joke. He meant what he said.” But critics say joke or not, the president’s comments were uncalled for and sexist.
“There were some critics that said he shouldn’t have said the assistant minister was fat,” the reporter said. “He should withdraw his statement because it’s negative against women.”
Khama has always been a bit of a rebel in following traditions. A certified pilot and former army commander, he flies Botswana’s version of Airforce 1 on official trips. He’s also known to be somewhat of a fitness fanatic. Even his birth was controversial. His father, Seretse Khama was deposed as the Bamangwato chief and exiled by the British in 1951 because he married Khama’s mother, a white British woman.
There are rumors that President Khama was once engaged to a doctor from Mozambique, but that the engagement was called off. Despite his recent comments regarding marriage, most people in Botswana believe President Khama will treat the act the same he’s lived, says the reporter. Regardless of tradition, when or if he marries it will be because he wants to and he will do it his way.
Culled from ABC News
Comment: THIS STORY IS A SILLY PRANK!
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Date: 2011-08-17 09:23:02
Comment to: WE DO NOT WANT MEAT?
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO.
a companion of the black star!
This is a story that was published By Ms. Dana_Hughes, NAIROBI, Kenya in December. 6, 2010. Since then the visiting President has provoked more controversy than simply sexist attacks on women. Apart from a frank display of social illiteracy, there is nothing to report in such an old story, if it is not meant to be a diversionary prank to cover his tracts.
Ready to give further details!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe,
Secretary to the Odikro.
General News of Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Source: ABC News
Visiting President Says No Short, Fat Wife for Him
President Ian Khama, 57, has never been married, but at a political party meeting last month he said his top requirement for a future wife is that she needs to be tall, slim and beautiful – in a country known for short, heavy set women.
To drive the point home "Africa’s most eligible bachelors" pointed to the Assistant Minister of Local Government Botlhogile Tshreletso and said, “I don’t want one like this one. She may fail to pass through the door, breaking furniture with her heavy weight and even break the vehicle’s shock absorbers.”
The crowd, including the minister who had been singled out, reportedly laughed at the president’s comments.
Khama claims he’s been too busy running the country to find a wife, and has dispatched presidential aides to find a suitable mate.
The president’s status as a bachelor is of general national concern. Khama, elected in 2009, is not only president, he’s also the chief of the Bamangwato people, Botswana’s largest ethnic group. Marriage is a requirement of tribal tradition, something that Khama, so far, has defied.
Khama’s standing as the president as well as a prominent chief has virtually ruled out scolding him for his attitude towards women, and no womens’ groups in the country have publicly criticized him for his comments.
The chairwoman of the woman’s wing of Khama’s ruling party even proposed he marry current Miss Botswana, Emma Wareus, a runner-up in the Miss World pageant. Others said his comments were simply meant to be a joke.
But there is much discussion of whether Khama’s remarks.
“The angle everyone cared about was that he was looking for wife,” said a journalist who works for the national newspaper Botswana Gazette, who covers politics and asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the president’s personal life. “Some were saying it was a joke. Some were saying it wasn’t a joke. He meant what he said.” But critics say joke or not, the president’s comments were uncalled for and sexist.
“There were some critics that said he shouldn’t have said the assistant minister was fat,” the reporter said. “He should withdraw his statement because it’s negative against women.”
Khama has always been a bit of a rebel in following traditions. A certified pilot and former army commander, he flies Botswana’s version of Airforce 1 on official trips. He’s also known to be somewhat of a fitness fanatic. Even his birth was controversial. His father, Seretse Khama was deposed as the Bamangwato chief and exiled by the British in 1951 because he married Khama’s mother, a white British woman.
There are rumors that President Khama was once engaged to a doctor from Mozambique, but that the engagement was called off. Despite his recent comments regarding marriage, most people in Botswana believe President Khama will treat the act the same he’s lived, says the reporter. Regardless of tradition, when or if he marries it will be because he wants to and he will do it his way.
Culled from ABC News
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Comment: SAMIA rebuilds the CPP …as NDUOM continues to destroy Nkrumaism
Sunday, August 14, 2011
SAMIA rebuilds the CPP …as NDUOM continues to destroy Nkrumaism
by Kweku Dadzie
- Nana Akyea Mensah said...
- "A pretentious political trick of a wolf in sheep’s clothing and parading as an Nkrumaist, yet principally worshiping ‘political thievery’ in Ghana for Western imperialism. Is it true he is the only flag bearer of a socialist political party who would never speak out against US nonsense in Libya?" I think there is a clear litmus test here for Paa Kwesi Ndoum to pass. What is his position on the NATO invasion of Libya? That will certainly do the trick of exposing him further! Thank you very much for pointing this out! Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
- August 14, 2011 7:32 PM
.: SAMIA rebuilds the CPP …as NDUOM continues to dest...
.: SAMIA rebuilds the CPP …as NDUOM continues to dest...: "by Kweku Dadzie One thing interesting about the CPP is that its intra-politics is measured accordingly by two levels of competing force..."
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Comment: "WHO ARE THESE VERANDAH BOYS?"
Comment: "WHO ARE THESE VERANDAH BOYS?"
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro
Date: 2011-08-06 10:41:00
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Our dear grandson,
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
"Such lies, of course, began with an upstart Kwame Nkrumah claiming to have been personally called a “Verandah Boy” by Danquah partisans. In reality, Nkrumah had only been accused of deliberately lining up professional and intellectual misfits for cardinal administrative positions in his government."
Kwame Okoampa is once again caught red-handed in his indefatigable attempts to re-write the history of this country. The "verandah boys" remark by J.B. Danquah was made long before Kwame Nkrumah even formed his government. Indeed, Danquah made that remark even before the formation of the CPP in 1948.
According to an eye-witness who is no other person than the daughter of Paa Grant, Mrs Sarah Esi Grant-Acquah, in her essay, "In the beginning was…PAA GRANT" Danquah called the followers of Kwame Nkrumah "verandah boys" long before Nkrumah formed his government. Indeed, this happened in a meeting at Paa Grant's residence at Takoradi, namely Beach Crescent House.
Here is how she recounts the story:
"I remember once there was a meeting at Cape Coast Town Hall and the hall was full with people, including Paa Grant, Kwame, Nkrumah, Blay, de Graft Johnson, etc. After the prayer to open the meeting Kwame Nkrumah spoke, Paa Grant spoke. As soon as Danquah got up to speak there was an uproar – some of the young men disrupted the meeting throwing about chairs and insulting everybody – Paa Grant and all. This confirmed to them that what they heard was true. So, they decided to call Kwame to Paa Grant’s house for a meeting – only Kwame and the Founders. As they were settling down to start the meeting they heard some commotion downstairs, so Dr. Danquah went to the window to verify what was going on. I personally witnessed this event. There were about 50 supporters of Kwame noisily beating drums and singing:
“Danquah, Kwame Nkrumah aye wo den?
Danquah, Kwame Nkrumah aye wo den? Ny?
hon na wo kra no ma ofiri aborokyir bei a ?
“Danquah, Kwame Nkrumah aye wo den?
For each verse they replaced Dr. Danquah’s name with that of the Founders – Papa’, “Ako Adjei” etc. I recognized some of these supporters as frequent visitors of Father. One of them was Pobee Biney – TUC Gold Coast Railways. When they saw Dr. Danquah, they became more agitated. They started insulting and calling his name. This was the time Dr. Danquah asked, “Who are these verandah boys” ? Paa Grant was able to calm them down for a while. He came down once or twice to do so."
Therefore, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, the professor of creative writing is not writing history but fictitious propaganda when he concludes this silly article with:
"In reality, Nkrumah had only been accused of deliberately lining up professional and intellectual misfits for cardinal administrative positions in his government."
Shame unto you!
I avail myself of this opportunity, to extend to you, on behalf of the Odikro, Nana Akyea Mensah II, the assurances of our highest consideration.
Take care!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe!
Secretary to the Odikro, Nana Akyea Mensah II,
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro,
Blogs: Feature Articles: nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com,
Comments: theodikro.blogspot.com)
Monday, August 1, 2011
"A Typical Ghanaian Prophet"
@TheOdikro Nana Akyea Mensah
The Odikro shall respond to this insult soon: "A Typical Ghanaian Prophet" | Feature Article 2011-07-24: http://t.co/GpBgi5s via @addthis
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Subject:
Comment: J. B. Danquah Remains A CIA Asset, After Okoampa...!
Insufferably nonsensical! What Ghanaians want to know are the facts. Did J.B. Danquah go to the US Ambassador to ask why the CIA had stopped paying stipends to his wife? That is the question! Stop beating about the bush and tell us why the CIA was paying these "stipends"!
Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”?
If you claim you read the book, then you ought to know that this very line is also in the book: “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”?
Let's talk about that, Baby!
"Earlier on, the author had described postcolonial Ghana’s pioneering premier as “the self-styled leader of Africa.” But what is even more intriguing about Mahoney’s book is the author’s suggestion that “Kwame Nkrumah of Africa” (the way the Show Boy desired to be known and identified) may well have orchestrated his own exit from the Ghanaian and continental African political scene."
Did you wake up with the intention of writing extraneous and nonsensical pieces to boost your libido as usual?
Is that supposed to be a denial or a confirmation?
Google "J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!" and read about the facts of the case Okoampa dares not mention!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro