Message for babatunde olotunji

Hi Baba

Here, on Ghanaweb,

I just ran out of post! I made an error of missing the "T" in a Sarpong insult at you! Could you copy and paste my correction with this message before he gets the chance to get out of the tightening noose around his young but wrinkled neck? He mist be exposed as a charlatan once and for all!


THE CORRECT ENGLISH IS

"The idiot even [doesn't] know"

This shall continue until you feel the inevitable heat. I am very sure that with my regular update tactic, I've got you by the balls! You are going to be exposed as never before! And I shall teach you good manners and sense, not English!

The Bible says (or [said] according to Sarpong):

"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." Proverbs 17:28 (King James Version)


Cheers!

--
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SPECIAL BULLETS OF THE WEEK BY THE DISHONOURABLE JUSTICE SARPONG IDENTIFIED BY NANA AKYEA MENSAH, THE HONOURABLE ODIKRO HIMSELF:

* Comment: "The idiot even [don't] know" General News of Monday, 16 November 2009, "Bloody Weekend - Murders, armed robbers shot dead"
* Comment: "college that [consist]"
General News of Monday, 16 November 2009, "Bloody Weekend - Murders, armed robbers shot dead"
* Comment: "an achievable, [goals]?" General News of Monday, 16 November 2009, "Bloody Weekend - Murders, armed robbers shot dead"
* Comment; "impact [to] behaviour" General News of Monday, 16 November 2009, "Bloody Weekend - Murders, armed robbers shot dead"
* Comment: "biggest achievement [were]", Feature Article of Sunday, 15 November 2009, "Kufuor’s Legacy of Development, Second to None"
* Comment: "Obetsebi Lamptey [who] I want..." Feature Article of Sunday, 15 November 2009, "Akufo-Addo will floor Alan K Again" See preceding post!
* Comment: " COUNT ANY [PROPHETS] WHO", Ghanaweb, General News of Saturday, 14 November 2009, "Veep takes a stand against false prophets"
* Comment: YOU ARE [A PLAGIARISED] MORON?, Ghanaweb, Feature Article of Friday, 13 November 2009, "7 Reasons why Ntim Must Be The Next NPP Chairman"
* Comment: "attacks that [is] not directed", Ghanaweb, Feature Article of Friday, 13 November 2009, "JJ Rawlings and JA Kuffour: Are they Ghanaians"
* Comment: "You [was] pontificating"? Ghanaweb, General News of Friday, 13 November 2009, "I was not stripped naked - Owusu"
* Comment: "his postings [reveals] a lot" Ghanaweb, General News of Friday, 13 November 2009, "I was not stripped naked - Owusu"
*Comment: Justice Sarpong, "you are stinking the forum" is a bullet! Ghanaweb News of Wednesday, 11 11 2009, Mills inherited huge budget deficit

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: DAMPTEY IS A HYPOCRITE!

By Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

A Rejoinder to: Feature Article, Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to ..., By: Damptey, Daniel Danquah, (2009-11-11)


"This Danquah Damtey is not a serious minded person. You should have started this crusade when NPP was in power. Now that you are out of and you mow seem to know the right thing, nobody will take you serious not even your own party members.If you are working, I will urge you to work hard but if you are not, then I will ask you to look for work."

- Ghanaweb Comment: Hypocrite, Author: Ishimoto, Date: 2009-11-11 09:12:47, Feature Article, Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to ..., By: Damptey, Daniel Danquah, (2009-11-11)

The question as to the whereabouts of Mr. Daniel Danquah Damptey when President Kufour was in power, is a very legitimate one indeed because under the NPP Administration of President Kufour, the perception was very much rife like today, if not worse, as the records indicate that Kufour loaded his administration with as much as 85% Akans! At that time, we did not hear from the holier-than-thou Church-fund-raising Dampest to alert us "on a very dangerous precedent or agenda". It was very much OK for our friend who, all of a sudden, now seems to have had a very fresh understanding of the constitution, to keep quiet then.

There is this "Author ..." whose insightful message needs to be relayed:

"Master, listen to yourself. only small minded people will take what this damptey wrote seriously. when ku4 loaded his administration with 85% ashanti/akans, it was ok for damptey, he saw nothing wrong with it. but he's crying wolf at attah mills because he's administration doesn't have exactly equal ethnic representation even though it's 1000 times better than what happened in ku4's administration, which had only one ewe minister.

That is the hypocrisy on damptey's part that kwesi pratt and co were talking about. it is ok for ku4 to have 85% ashanti/akan ministers but wrong for mills to have 20% ewes, 20% northners, 15% gas and 45% all other tribes (ashanti/akans).

If this is not a change from ku4's 85% ashanti/akan ministers i wonder what kind of change you want.

KWESI PRATT AND CO WERE RIGHT. DAMPTEY IS HYPOCRITE. WHEN IT WAS KU4, HE DIDN'T COMPLAIN BUT SINCE IT IS MILLS, IT WRONG. IF THAT IS NOT BEING A HYPOCRITE, I WONDER WHAT THAT IS?"

Ghanaweb Comment: THEN WHY SHD DAMPTEY COMPLAIN, Author ..., 2009-11-11 04:11:11, Feature Article, Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to ..., By: Damptey, Daniel Danquah, (2009-11-11)


DAMPTEY IS A SPOILT CHILD!

I am surprised that Mr. Damptey admits that he handed over an article, as a known columnist, to an editor of a newspaper that is a personal friend. The article is quite naturally published in his name. Instead of calling his friend to correct the anomaly, he remains silent for weeks. And after receiving a good bashing from the press and the general public for the uncouth language in the article,as well as its complete and generalised stupidity, he is now looking for a way out to save his face. He himself seems to agree with some of the criticisms:

"While I associate myself with most of the sentiments expressed in the write up. I would like to state that I take strong exception to reference to President Mills as “simpa panin”as “Rawlings poodle”. Mills is our President and we should accord him the respect he deserves. The Lord says we should not touch his anointed and this also applies to President Mills. Even though the NDC denigrated the presidency under Kufuor by calling him unprintable names with even ex President Rawlings calling him ‘Atta Ayi, a thief and a murderer, I have decided since the election of Mills as President not to tread such a path. I will give respect to whoever respects should be accorded. And this principle I will try to uphold no matter the circumstances and as long as the Good Lord gives me breath. This much I pledge."

How was he expecting the panellists who discussed the article know of this pledge of his in the first place?
How many times do we go to Ghanaweb to research into the original writers of published articles when the name of the writer clearly published in the by-line? He could not even make a simple phone call to his own editor-friend to correct his own mistake, but he childishly expects Kwesi Pratt to surf on the Internet to visit Ghanaweb in order to ascertain the name of the original writer of an article published and furnished with a name on it!

"If Kwesi Pratt and his fellow pretenders had read the article with a fine toothcomb," he stupidly writes, "they would straight-away have known that such an article did not originate from my end. I have my own peculiar style of writing and any commentator on national issues must be discerning enough to get to the truth before passing judgments. Is Kwesi Pratt telling us that, inspite of all his bravado and ‘paa-paa’ he has never visited Ghanaweb before? Wonders, they say will never end."

I think we are dealing with a spoilt child here! What kind of nonsense is this? This spoilt child also admits that:

"I had some discussions with Baby Ansabah, Editor of the New Punch about appointments by the Mills administration. I told him somebody had compiled a list of such appointments which seem to tilt in favour of a particular tribe. I told him I would send a copy for his perusal and necessary action and this was exactly what I did. And up till the time the programme was being aired, I did not know it had been published with me as the author. I believe Baby Ansabah decided to use my name because I was the one who sent it to him and what I sent to him did not include the name of the author and so would not blame him much. I would not like to take credit for what is not entirely my own. But let it be noted that I am not the author of the script."

And he did not even bother to correct his own mistake of not including the name of the original writer, that is if we must even believe his version of the story, yet he wants us to go to Ghanaweb each time we see an article published under his name for verifications!

DAMPTEY IS A HYPOCRITE!

Daniel Danquah Damptey makes a lot of accusations of "hypocrisy" against Kwesi Pratt, Jnr., but comes strangely short of the facts, when it comes to the business of substantiation. First of all, he himself admits that Baby Ansabah, Editor of the New Punch published the offensive article in his name. Why does he not blame the Punch?

Of course, Mr. Damptey, "and so would not blame him [Baby Ansabah, Editor of the New Punch] much" is all you can say! Blame your hypocritical self! Even if one were to be a regular visitor to Ghanaweb, does it mean we know what each writer is saying? Let alone all the commentaries? The kind of lame questions he asks shows that quite probably, we have an idiot on our hands here. Instead of blaming the Punch, he rather prefers to ask:

"Is Kwesi Pratt telling us that, inspite of all his bravado and ‘paa-paa’ he has never visited Ghanaweb before? Wonders, they say will never end."

Why the attack on Kwesi by this Church Harvest-and fund-raising Christian when he himself admits that:

"Any moderator worth his sauce on a very sensitive national issue would have made attempts to call me for clarification."

Was Kwesi the moderator?

The obvious hypocrite here is our so-called Christian who chairs the
annual Harvest and Thanksgiving Service Committee of the Church where he claims to worship, but would lie about his love for Ewes! It is so ridiculous to read the childish "evidence of love":

"I hold Ewes in very high regard, for they are very nice people and I value their friendship. Three of my brothers are married to them and my father’s nephew who is the chief of my father’s village is also married to an Ewe."

There is no ring of truth to such a stupid assertion. I do believe that there are nice people in all the ethnic groups of this world, but only a hypocrite can make such a sweeping generalisation about Ewes: "they are very nice people"! Even the Ewes themselves shall be the first to say that not all Ewes are nice people, just as not all Gas or Ashantis are nice people! This so-called "Christian" is telling lies already!

Mr. Damptey is actually looking for non-existent facts to "prove" his love for Ewes and even begins to sound absurd:

"Three of my brothers are married to them"! Is he saying that the very fact of a brother's marriage to another person is proof of the in-law's love for the other's ethnic group? How much more stupid must he try to be in order to insult our intelligence!

To make his nonsense complete like a "talented" fool, he added:

"my father’s nephew who is the chief of my father’s village is also married to an Ewe..."

SO DANIEL LOVES ALL EWES! AND KWESI IS A HYPOCRITE BECAUSE HE SAID NOTHING WHEN KUFOUR APPOINTED HIS RELATIVES AS MINISTERS!

There are even many more of his relatives that the public is still not aware of who were in the Kufour Administration. Few people knew for instance that Asamoah Boateng and Joe Baidoo Ansah, J. H. Mensah's nephew, are both related to Kufour by marriage through Madam Theresa, Kufour's wife!

"I owe nobody any apology. I stand for the truth and I shall utilize every atom of energy in me to do what is right for my country. I shall not kowtow to any earthly power, no matter how intimidating that power might be. And if, because I am saying the truth, someone wants to eliminate me, let the one go ahead. We shall all appear individually before the judgement throne of the Living God one day." (see: last, but one paragraph)

He is a very opportunistic and dishonest character. His talk of church harvest and fund-raising only qualify him for another vice: hypocrisy! And there are a lot of that here: his attitude to Ewes, his pledges of objectivity, and any sense of decorum. He has the nerve to call Kwesi a hypocrite six good times in one article:

1. "You see how hypocritical Kwesi Pratt and his colleagues could be."

2. "But today, such hypocrites and unpatriotic elements in the country have got back their voices to speak as if they had just come down from outer space "

3. "Hypocritical Kwesi Pratt and his likes should tell Ghanaians whether President Mills has not breached the Constitution by appointing more people from one ethnic group "

4. "The hypocritical stand taken by Pratt and his panelist has exposed the chameleonic nature they are hiding beneath the mask of patriotism which they have used into deceiving or hoodwinking the vulnerable people of Ghana for long. "

5. "Let Kwesi Pratt and his group of hypocrites be sincere with the truth for once, because what goes up must surely come down."

6. "It surprises me that hypocritical Kwasi Pratt who has arrogated to himself the mandate to make disparaging remarks about those of different ideological persuasions and the so-called ‘enlightened” panelist who descended to the gutter and bashed me from all angles could not fathom the true identity of the author. "

Just as a mere repetition of the phrase, "Nana Akuffo Addo is a tall man!", one million times do not make the Akyem dwarf any taller, so in the same way, the accusations of hypocrisy against Kwesi here do not in any way affect this gentleman's integrity!

What has his failure to come out to distance himself from an article whose language even he himself considers to be offensive, got to do with this message to Kwesi that concludes the article?

IF HE HIMSELF COULD DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM SUCH A STUPID PIECE OF WRITING, WHY CONDEMN ANOTHER PERSON FOR CONDEMNING IT?

ARE WE NOT CLEARLY DEALING WITH A LARGE ADULT WITH A MENTAL AGE AND MANNERS OF AN EIGHT YEARS OLD SPOILT CHILD?

BUT THIS SPOILT CHILD WOULD RATHER HAVE KWESI SILENCED!

HM, NKYE! IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!

FORWARD EVER, BACKWARDS NEVER!!!

Cheers!


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REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATIONS INTO SUSPECTED ILLEGAL FUND-RAISING ACTIVITY BY THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY (NPP) OF GHANA IN THE UNITED STATES

SPECIAL BRIEFING AND BACKGROUND COMPILATION

The principal issue that was facing the New Patriotic Party of Ghana was to overwhelm the country with bill boards, "empower" foot-soldiers, distribute party shirts, and a host of campaing activities that called for a lot of money.

The trip to the USA was criticised by party loyalists as uncalled-for as "the voters were here in Ghana" The only justification was the need to travel abroad to raise funds.

In a very detailed programme, it was announced that the presidential candidate of the NPP, Nana Akuffo Addo was to tour Norht America. Other branches elsewhere were craving to see him.

“Seriously if money is an issue we are ready to support but even more than that we have been able to negotiate with some companies and institutions here who are ready to support the campaign financially which is why it is critical for Nana at least to pay us a visit.”

- Kobby Annan, Chairman of the Holland branch of the New Patriotic Party,

Conspiciously absent in the detailed schedules was a controversial luncheon held at the Hotel Hyatt & Resorts, located on 24 M Streets, Nw, Washington, DC 20037 on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. The meeting was not announced, and the press was not invited. It is the secrecy surrounding this meeting that arose the suspicions of the Enquirer newspaper that raised the first alarm.

"In downtown Washington DC, two luxurious black Cadillacs, belonging to the Ghana Embassy in Washington DC, pulled up in front of Hotel Hyatt & Resorts, located on 24 M Streets, Nw, Washington, DC 20037 on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. In the first car, three well-dressed men in suit, namely Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ghana’s Ambassador to the USA and Alan Kyeremanten, an ex-Ghana’s Ambassador to the USA, who was also an NPP Flagbearer-aspirant, popped out of the vehicles.
Moments later, another Embassy car pulled up in-front of Hotel Hyatt. This time NPP General Secretary, Nana Ohene Ntow, Ex-Finance Minister and later Education Youth and Sports Minister, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, and Dr. Konadu Apraku arrived in tow.
The occasion was a fund-raising luncheon hosted by The Whitaker Group, a company owned by Rosa Whitaker, the new wife of Bishop Duncan Williams of Action Chapel International, who was recently introduced to church members in Accra. Rosa Whitaker, who served as a Deputy Trade Secretary for Africa under both President Bill Clinton and Bush administrations respectively is a registered lobbyist for the Ghana government.
When lady Rosa arrived at the occasion, she spotted a blue African dress and set the ball rolling with an introduction of Nana Addo, explaining to the gathering that the reason why they had been invited was to help elect Nana Addo by helping him with financial contributions."

- The Enquirer

Coming to think of it, it looks clear nothing was left on a hazard. The very selection of June 4, was significant since it is a very important day in the calender of the then major oppositin party, the National Democratic Congress, as the day on which the founder, former President Jerry John Rawlings, staged his first successful coup d'etat against the corrupt Supreme Military Council, and launched a house cleaning excercise which led to several executions and abuses of human rights by the miltary.

Recent pronouncements by the ex-president John Agyekum Kufour in a meeting with members of NPP-USA at the office of Mr. Kofi Boateng, the immediate past chairman of NPP-USA, in New York on September 22, 2009, also gives credence to the fact that there have been illegal fund-raisng activities in the past:

"He said hypocrisy has prevented Ghanaians from talking about politics as a business and that any need for fundraising has been deemed as corruption. He advised that we should come up with creative methods to raise funds that are legal." (Please see: Kufuor Meets NPP-USA in the stories below.)

The fact the the meeting was held in communicado between a money-hungry presidential candidate and what Dr. Arthur Kennedy describes as a "group .. made up of people with substantial investments in Ghana and also of others who have an interest in investing in Ghana", made it all the more suspicious.

It is obvious that, unlike the misguided chairman of the Holland branch of the NPP who made no bones to hide the contacts made with business community in a flagrant violation of the laws governing the funding of political parties in Ghana, the event in the USA was much more sophisticated and cleverer in hiding the illegal fund raising activity with a cover-up.

The dangers associated with big multinational corporations in the USA financing political parties in a poor third-world country like Ghana cannot be under-estimated. The selection of so-called "business-friendly" governments by these corporations to help them win power are translated often in lower labour standards, a blind eye on vital environmental protection measures, and geberally sacrificing the common good for special interests.

For a Price

Former senator Fred Harris (D-New Mexico) reports on comments made by a colleague
of his, Senator Russell Long, who once chaired the Senate Committee on Finance and
now is a prominent lawyer/lobbyist in Washington:
The colorful Democratic senator from Louisiana, Russell Long, used to tell a humorous
story on himself that contained more than a kernel of truth about the effect of money in
Senate campaigns. He said that in one of his reelection races, a union group brought
him a cash contribution of $5,000. “When he handed me the money,” Long related,”
the leader of the group said, ‘All we want, Senator, is good government.’ And I told
him, I said, ‘For a thousand dollars, you could have had good government; for five
thousand dollars, you can have any kind of government you want!’”
Source: Based on information from Fred R. Harris, Deadlock or Decision: The U.S.
Senate and the Rise of National Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), p.
80.

We call on the independent media in the USA to follow up these leads and do their own independent investigations and give the appropriate coverage to this scandal.

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Resist AFRICOM Action Kit!

Africa Faith and Justice Network & the Resist AFRICOM Group have just released a special kit to facilitate resistance to the US Africa Command ambitions on our continent.

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World Food Day: Tell Congress to Listen to African Farmers!

Africa Faith & Justice Network
16 October 2009 22:12
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To: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com




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Dear Nana Akyea,

World Food Day is an occasion for citizens and global leaders alike to reflect on the state of global food security in the world. And in light of the triple threat of elevate food prices, the global financial meltdown, and the changing climate, the news is far from positive - The FAO recently reported that a record 1 billion people go hungry on a daily basis. Such staggering figures will only get worse if world leaders do not act fast.
At the helm of Congress' efforts on the issue is the Global Food Security Act of 2009, introduced to the Senate last spring by Senators Lugar and Casey. While the bill should be praised for its commitment to a more nuanced approach to food assistance, the bill also mandates funding for "research on biotechnological advances appropriate to local ecological conditions, including genetically modified technology." Such a provision is essentially a "subsidy to corporate research and development goals, and is not targeted toward the most effective, appropriate, or cost-efficient technologies," according to a policy brief from Food First.

Click here to send a letter to your Senator, reminding him or her that World Food Day is the time to rethink the role of biotech in the Global Food Security Act!
Despite the claims that drought-resistant seeds can sustainably feed the world in the face of climate change and a rising population, there has been no proof that genetically modified foods (GMOs) increase yields, and an internationally renowned panel of scientists does not consider them an important component of a sustainable solution to the world's food crises. Instead, those who have been pushing the role of such research are those that stand to benefit - the American agricultural seed and fertilizer corporations.

Thus, along with GMO seeds comes the classic, resource-intensive, top-down, corporate driven model of agriculture that failed to bring food security during the first Green Revolution, and ultimately resulted in ecological destruction, massive rural displacement, and debt-ridden farmers financially tied to the firms selling seeds and chemical inputs. In the face of proposed Green Revolution for Africa, African farmers, community leaders, scientists, and development organizations have all been saying NO! to GMOs and to the American corporate profit interests that continue to steer the efforts in that direction.

Tell Congress that it is time to listen! Click here to tell your Senator to remove the GMO mandate from the Global Food Security Act!

In Peace,

Rocco, Bahati, and Allison

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KWESI PRATT JNR. RUBBISHES VODAFONE DEAL

Author: iddrissu

The managing editor of the Insight Newspaper, a private newspaper based in Accra, Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr has rubbished the sale of Ghana Telecom by the former NPP administration to Vodafone UK.

He accuses the former president John Kuffour and his New Patriotic Party administration for selling state properties.

Mr. Pratt was speaking on radio gold programme dubbed “Alhaji and Alhaji” in Accra last week Saturday.

He said former president Kuffour did not care about the welfare of Ghanaians majority who are poor at heart. President Kuffour was using the presidency to exploit state resources.

Mr. Pratt wondered why former president Kuffour went into agreement with Vodafone UK and agreed on terms without the informing his minister.

He added that former president Kuffour did not study the terms of the agreement and noticed the implication “weather the deal was right or wrong.”

The managing editor of the Insight took a swipe at the members of parliament for taking of $5000 dollars bribery each to support the sale of 70% share holder of Ghana government to Vodafone UK.

The bribery allegation came to light when an Accra based radio stations granted an interview to sitting Member of Parliament of the opposition NPP, Mr. P.C Appiah Offori.

The MP was quoted by saying he and other membersof his colleagues received five thousand dollars at the castle, the seat of government during the NPP administration.

Mr. P.C Appiah Offori, who is also an anti corruption crusader admitted of receiving $5000 dollars bribe at the castle in Accra but said he was ready pay back the money ask to do so.

Due to his stand as an anti corruption crusade, some high ranking members of the New Patriotic Party are calling for his resignation from the party.

Mr. P.C. Appiah Offori was accused of being in bed with the current National Democratic Congress administration.

On his part, Mr. Kwesi Pratt commended the NDC administration and president Mills for taking a first step by setting up the commission of inquiry to review the sale and purchase agreement of Vodafone and government of Ghana.

He called on president Mills to use the 1992 constitution to protect the country and said “take over Vodafone and take it back”.

He also called on President Mill to use the executive powers vested in him by the constitution to protect the interest of the poor majority of Ghanaian population.

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An Open Letter From An Old Friend To:

Mr. Kwadwo Nyamekye Marfo,

Regional Minister,

Bono Ahafo Regional Administration,

Sunyani,

Republic of Ghana.


Thursday, 15th October, 2009.



Hello Mr. Marfo,

SUBJECT: CHASE THE CRAZY BUSIA BUST OUT OF THE PARK!

Warm greetings! This is Nana Akyea of Oguaa Hall. A friend of Santos. We've drank beer several times together. Long time, how are you?

Please, kindly permit me to express my very warm appreciation of your courage and wisdom to right an important wrong that was perpetrated against the honour of the Bono people in the extra-judicial assassination and political disappearance of Kwame Nkrumah at Sunyani. As an old friend, you are indeed a source of personal pride. I wish you long life and prosperity. Please forgive me that after such a long silence, I just bump in to you with this. This is an issue that, if you follow me on twitter, you would see reverberates from Sunyani Park to far away lands like the Bahamas! The whole world is watching us and we need to be bold enough to do the right thing with courage and confidence in the rightness of our cause. I wish to encourage you not to cede to threats of barbaric acts. It shall amount to surrendering our birth rights to their imperialist owners! That is not what Nkrumah taught us.


Honourable Sir! I am sure you know the story very well. Since this is a matter of public interest, I shall undertake to give a full account, to the best of my abilities, to explain to the younger generation of Ghanaians whose history is being stolen away from them right in front of everybody's nose. The first time my attention was drawn to the phenomenon of Busia's bust at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Suyani, whose name, had also been surreptitiously changed to Jubilee Park by the NPP government, was in an article with a title, that those familiar with the author would find predictable: “Nkrumah's Divide-and-Conquer Legacy Grips Brong-Ahafo” By: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame, (Ghanweb Feature Article, 2009-09-30). The general impression the article sought to create was that of some mischievous opportunists taking advantage of the Nkrumah Centenary celebrations to rob the Busia-Danquah tradition of something that rightly belonged to them.

The complain was:

“It is rather ironic that just about the same time that President John Evans Atta-Mills was calling on Ghanaians, irrespective of ideological suasion, to harmoniously rally around the non-birth centenary celebration of former President Nkrumah’s birthday, a woefully misguided and, perhaps, fanatical traditional ruler in the Brong-Ahafo Region was fervidly engineering the execrable removal of a bronze statue bearing the image of the region’s most distinguished citizen and former Ghanaian prime minister Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, from Sunyani’s Golden Jubilee Park, in order to replace the latter with one in the image of Mr. Kwame Nkrumah, postcolonial Ghana’s first premier. Needless to say, no morbid act of desecration could be more criminal!” (Okoampa-Ahoofe)

The irony rather was in the complaint itself. The change of the name of the park, under the Kufour Administration, from Sunyani Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, to the so-called Sunyani Golden Jubilee Park, was the first move to obliterate Kwame Nkrumah's special links with the region's history. That same park has been called Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, ever since the Sunyani Centre for National Culture (CNC), was built in the 1960s. In fact, the reason why it was called Nkrumah Park was because it was a piece of land specifically set aside by Kwame Nkrumah to be used for cultural activities which included durbars of chiefs and people of the Bono whom Nkrumah met on several occasions on these very same grounds.

That is not all. There are very important historical reasons why the attempt to blot out Nkrumah and smuggle Busia into this particular park is particularly repugnant. The fact of the matter is that everybody knows that once upon a time the people of the Bono Ahafo got very tired of their centuries of feudal servitude to the Ashanti hegemonic and aggressive, violent and supremacist capture of the Bonos, which they used to refer to as Western Ashanti. "As will be recalled," writes Abena Pokuaa Atuahene Ackah, “Bono Ahafo was a province of the Ashanti Kingdom - a condition that gave effective ownership of the human and natural resources of the Bonos to the Ashanti King. In all history, no people have flourished in slavery and servitude. This fate of the Bonos remained unchanged until 1948, when Nana Akumfi Ameyaw III, the Omanhene of Techiman, led Techiman to secede from the Ashanti confederacy (Austin, 1964, p. 294). The secession of Techiman was supported by Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu I, Dormaahene, Drobohene, Nkoranzahene, Berekumhene, Bechemhene, Kukuomhene, Abeasehene, Mohene and some of the Brong states."


Round One: Kofi Busia of Wenchi versus Kwame Nkrumah of Africa.

The attitudes of the two characters in the history of the formation of the region were diametrically opposed. Even though Kofi Abrefa Busia hailed from the region, and was also an elected Member of Parliament, he refused to support the struggle for the Independence struggle of the Bono against the Ashanti domination of his own people. He became a part of the problem of the Bono people. With his education and his clout, this was by no means a small problem. His own brother, Nana Kusi Appiah, who was then the occupant of the Wenchi Stool also refused to attend any of the meetings of the Brong Kyempem Federation nor to lend it any support whatsoever.

Whilst Busia was collaborating with the Ashantis, whom he was busy representing in parliament, as they helped to elect him, and vehemently opposing the Brong Kyempem Federation, as a veritable thorn in the flesh of his own people, Nkrumah stepped in, full of grace, wisdom and understanding. Ms Abena Pokuaa Atuahene Ackah again:

“Convinced in the justice of their cause, the Bono chiefs presented a petition to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for total secession from Ashanti. After deliberations, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah called for a referendum on the matter. But the Bono chiefs rejected a referendum on the grounds that, against the Ashantis, they were not sufficiently resourced to campaign for votes. Under the unrelenting pressure of the Bono chiefs, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah took a firm decision and on the 4th of April 1959 the Brong Ahafo Region was created and Mr. Yeboah Afari, who came from Dormaa Ahenkro, was appointed first Regional Commissioner for the region. In 1961, when Nana Abrefa Mbore Bediatuo VI became the 3rd president of the Regional House of Chiefs, he appealed to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for a proper secretariat to be built for the Regional House of Chiefs. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah readily gave ₤700. The edifice was built but later got burnt; and Dr Nkrumah’s government rebuilt it.”


Kofi Busia of Wenchi versus Kwame Nkrumah of Africa: Technical Knock-Out!

The Golden Rule is that you do unto others, as you wish others to do unto you. After failing to physically assassinate him, a group of people that even the CIA refers to as “pathetically pro-Western” succeeded in an organised military aggression against the state, the Constitution and the democratically elected government of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Thereafter, they set about to burn his books, break down his statues, burn his effigies and ban the mere mention of his name or the keeping of his photographs or images associated with him. They even said that they were promoting freedom of expression by gagging Ghanaians against the mere mention of the obviously scary name: Kwame Nkrumah!

I find the attempt to change the name of Kwame Nkrumah Park to Golden Jubilee Park, and on top of that putting a bust of Busia in it as a part of the vaporisation process initiated by the imperialist motivated coup of 1966. It is not Nkrumah they are aiming at, it is our independence they are smuggling away to the imperialists. The reason why this matters is because the political struggle to rehabilitate Nkrumah to his rightful place in our history as the real Osagyefo of Sunyani, of the Bono people, of Ghana, of Africa, and of all black people wherever they may be found, is in the final analysis, an attempt to assert ourselves as a proud and independent people. We wish to insist on re-building the political kingdom Nkrumah wanted to build which was destroyed in 1966. These same people who worked day and night to see to its destruction are the very same people who do not even want Nkrumah's name even to mentioned, let alone his good works continued!

If the bust of Busia at the Nkrumah Park had not been a simultaneous and deliberate attempt to obliterate Nkrumah's name and elevate Busia's in such a flagrant manner and in complete disrespect to history and protocol of the people and chiefs of the Bono Region, I would neither have been this concerned, nor this much incensed. If this were new, and were to be the first time the Busia-Danquah tradition, particularly the Busia component of that tradition, was displaying utter contempt to the wishes of the people and chiefs of the Bono people, I would probably not have given it the time I am dedicating to it now. The Busia-Danquah version of the freedom of expression has once included the mere mentioning of Kwame Nkrumah's name as a veritable criminal offence. And one must quickly add that this was not during the military NLC days, but the Constitution-guided Second Republic, when the champion of democracy, Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia himself was Prime Minister! So, in many ways, this is not new. What is new is the issue of threats by the NPP and promising hell and brimstone if the thieving-bust of that bastard is busted. I find this very much out of character! This is the reason why this article must be seen as a humble appeal to the NPP thieves to save themselves from further embarrassments, and to kindly remove the offending material from the park in time, before it faces the inevitable revolutionary consequences.


A history that screams! Nkrumah Is Coming Back!

For the avoidance of any doubts, We want peace, but in this case, peace is not the absence of war, but the absence of Kofi Busia's bust at the Sunyani Kwame Nkrumah Park! Peace is restoring what was stolen. Peace is dismantling the top-down imposition of monuments on the people through the back door. As Abena Pokuaa Atuahene Ackah, in POLITICAL INFAMY: What is Busia doing at Nkrumah Park?, puts it: “ monuments and street-naming are normally initiated by the people through their Regional House of Chiefs in conjunction with the Assembly of the relevant district. In this particular case the NPP government ignored administrative protocol, with implication of contempt for the interest and aspiration of the chiefs and their people - a conduct quite revealing of the self-styled champions of the rule of law in Ghana.” Why would a thief have the nerve to complain when caught? What kind of impudence is that? Any one remembers a hardcore fool asking President Mills to concede defeat to a certain short man even after winning the run-off with a clear 50+1 majority? Read “Atta-Mills Must Concede Defeat!” by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. Feature Article | Wed, 31 Dec 2008!

One would have thought that the NPP members behind such negative acts would have come to their senses, realise the sorry image this casts of them, and apologize for the obviously indefensible and very wrongful attempt to re-write the history of this country and occupy a space that so evidently and clearly does not belong to them. This amounts to political burglary. It is no longer stealing because there is nothing stealthy about what is now a public debate. Nor are the threats being issued against the deportation of Busia's bust from the Nkrumah Park weaken the creeping impression that we have to call the bluff. The bust must be removed. If anyone wants to find out if they can be disciplined or not, they can contact the nearest police station!

Considering the transparent day-light robbery of the history of the Bono people by the NPP in one single stroke, I consider it a revolutionary duty to ensure that this is reversed. The dignity and special prestige Kwame Nkrumah enjoys among the Bono people over and above Kofi Abrefa Busia, a Bono himself, has a special place in the history of the Bono people going over centuries. It is a history of the Bono's liberation struggle against the Ashanti hegemonism and belligerence. Busia was nothing but a traitor to his own people when he sided with the Ashantis against the struggle of the Bonos to break free from the Ashantis and their king. On the contrary, Nkrumah was instrumental in not only facilitating the process, but also in keeping the Ashantis under tight control as the Bonos began their new life in freedom. Thus in life as it is in death, Kofi Abrefa Busia is a persona non grata at the Sunyani Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park! In case of any misbehaviour ensuing from the much awaited eviction of Kofi Busia from the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, I call upon the police not to hesitate to express in police terms, our total condemnation of their stupidities, jointly and severally!


Show them where power lies!

This removal must be made very quickly because of the threats they issued against it. There must be no room for negotiations because there is nothing to negotiate with threats This is very important because it may define and modify their behaviour if they are properly shown where power lies. More than the mere removal of the bust itself, it is very crucial to peace in general, to explain very clearly to the NPP cliques who are fooling around issuing these threats that it is “game over.” It is indispensable to the peaceful evolution of our current democratic experiment not to cede to threats and politically motivated violence, especially when they are so awfully wrong. It has to be dealt with drastically. They need to be taught a few lessons before they realise that it was time to be humble and civil, and not to steal around! We have no intention of letting them have their way because these antics have implications on the fundamental choices facing us as a people, such as the need for change, what needs to be changed, and the direction of such a change. This striving at massaging our monuments and parks to systematically obliterate our most important national memories, is a willfully mean attempt to cause injury to the good people of Ghana. And the police must not forget this if they dare to carry out their threats! We shall be there to teach them the grammar of Pan-Africanism, and the growing manners of its articulation in our streets, so that they don't stand in the way of the people and their history.


In the name of God, Kick Busia off the park for me please, my friend!

Tear away the bust of Kofi Busia from the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and if you have nowhere else to put it in the whole of Wenchi, just dump it on his grave and let's get on with our lives in peace!


Thanks for your kind attention.


Sincerely,


Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.


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