Ride on, Dr Okoampa. Many so-called educated Ghanaians need to be liberated from the lingering Nkrumahists indoctrination of their fathers
Ride on, Dr Okoampa. Many so-called educated Ghanaians need to be liberated from the lingering Nkrumahists indoctrination of their fathers
The Ruler Is Back 7 years ago
The west is a vampire sucking the blood of blacks. They have been behind the mischief in AFRICA. But your evil plot will fail again and again
The west is a vampire sucking the blood of blacks. They have been behind the mischief in AFRICA. But your evil plot will fail again and again
Pee 7 years ago
What did we as Africans achieve or get out of this CIA or American hypocrisy?
Four more ways the CIA has meddled in Africa;
17 May 2016
From the section Africa; BBC
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a lon ... read full comment
What did we as Africans achieve or get out of this CIA or American hypocrisy?
Four more ways the CIA has meddled in Africa;
17 May 2016
From the section Africa; BBC
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a long history of involvement in African affairs, so Sunday's reports that the 1962 arrest of Nelson Mandela came following a CIA tip-off don't come as a huge surprise.
Most incidents came during the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union battled for influence across the continent.
CIA covert operations are by their very nature hard to prove definitively. But research into the agency's work, as well as revelations by former CIA employees, has thrown up several cases where the agency tried to influence events.
Here are four examples:
1) 1961 - Patrice Lumumba's assassination in Congo
Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister of the newly-independent Congo in 1960, but he lasted just a few months in the job before he was overthrown and assassinated in January 1961.
In 2002, former colonial power Belgium admitted responsibility for its part in the killing, however, the US has never explained its role despite long-held suspicions.
US President Dwight D Eisenhower, concerned about communism, was worried about Congo following a similar path to Cuba.
According to a source quoted in Death in the Congo, a book about the assassination, President Eisenhower gave "an order for the assassination of Lumumba. There was no discussion; the [National Security Council] meeting simply moved on".
However, a CIA plan to lace Lumumba's toothpaste with poison was never carried out, Lawrence Devlin, who was a station chief in Congo at the time, told the BBC in 2000.
A survey of declassified US government documents from the era notes that the CIA "initially focussed on removing Lumumba, not only through assassination if necessary but also with an array of non-lethal undertakings".
While there is no doubt the CIA wanted him dead, the survey does not indicate direct US involvement in his eventual killing.
2) 1965 - Overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana
Ghana's first President Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a military coup in 1966 while he was out of the country.
He later suspected that the US had a role in his downfall and in a 1978 book, former CIA intelligence officer John Stockwell backed this theory up.
In In Search of Enemies he writes that an official sanction for the coup does not appear in CIA documents, but he writes "the Accra station was nevertheless encouraged by headquarters to maintain contact with dissidents.
"It was given a generous budget, and maintained intimate contact with the plotters as a coup was hatched."
He says that the CIA in Ghana got more involved and its operatives were given "unofficial credit for the eventual coup".
A declassified US government document does show awareness of a plot to overthrow the president, but does not indicate any official backing.
Another declassified document written after the coup describes Nkrumah's fall as a "fortuitous windfall. Nkrumah was doing more to undermine our interests than any other black African".
3) 1970s - Opposition to the MPLA in Angola.
In Angola three competing groups fought for control after independence from Portugal in 1975, with the MPLA under Agostinho Neto taking over the capital Luanda.
Mr Stockwell, chief of CIA's covert operations in Angola in 1975, writes that Washington decided to oppose the MPLA, as it was seen as closer to the Soviet Union, and support the FNLA and Unita instead, even though all three had help from communist countries.
The CIA then helped secretly import weapons, including 30,000 rifles, through Kinshasa in neighbouring Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr Stockwell says in a video documentary.
He adds that CIA officers also trained fighters for armed combat.
A declassified US government document detailing a discussion between the head of the CIA, the secretary of state and others indicates the support the CIA gave to the forces fighting the MPLA.
The US continued to support Unita through much of the civil war as Cuba was backing the MPLA.
4) 1982 - Supporting Hissene Habre in Chad
Hissene Habre failed in his attempt to take power by force in Chad in 1980.
But his efforts led President Goukouni Oueddei to call on help from the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose soldiers successfully beat back Habre's challenge and forced him into exile.
A proposed alliance between Libya and Chad began to unsettle the US especially as Gaddafi began to be seen as a supporter of anti-US activities.
In Foreign Policy magazine Michael Bronner writes that the CIA director, with the secretary of state, "coalesced around the idea of launching a covert war in partnership with Habre".
It is alleged that the US then backed Habre's overthrow of the president in 1982 and then supported him throughout his brutal rule.
Do not forget the perpetual liar Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, was born on the 8th of April 1963.
Ebo Letrik 7 years ago
Plse answer this simple basic query:
How many Secondary Schools existed in 1957, and how many were thriving in 1966?
Plse answer this simple basic query:
How many Secondary Schools existed in 1957, and how many were thriving in 1966?
Prof Lungu 7 years ago
When Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe said....
"...And here, it is significantly instructive to observe that none of the myriad putsches and coup detats have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Gr ... read full comment
When Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe said....
"...And here, it is significantly instructive to observe that none of the myriad putsches and coup detats have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians are known to have staunchly backed regressivley Darwinian means of political access, including a world-renowned University-educated former prime minister. Interestingly, in July 1956, when President Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) won a landslide victory, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia rode herd on a delegation to the British office in London, to petition the British Crown, and Ghana's extant colonial overlord, to desist from granting the already-scheduled return of Ghana to self-governance. Fortunately, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia and his right-wing bourgeois reactionaries did not succeed. He would, however, succeed ten years later in backing the military junta that unseated the Nkrumah administration and facilitated the precipitous devolution of Ghanaian national destiny.
Indeed, it is interesting to observe that Ghana's major and, to-date, only international airport is named for General E.K. Kotoka, the very Darwinian outlaw who spearheaded the grossly unimaginative overthrow of the constitutionally elected government of the CPP. For many detractors and outright enemies of Nkrumah, Kotoka's greatest—if also sole—achievement was simply getting rid of an elected dictator. It has often been said, largely by Western academics, that Nkrumah was a heartless and fatuous dictator; these days, one hears Mr. Jerry John Rawlings, the career soldier who ran Ghana for twenty harrowing incontrovertibly bloody years, described as a "benign dictator." It is significant to observe that Mr. Rawlings, whose agnatic parentage is purported to be Scottish, presided over the dastardly kidnapping and summary execution of three Ghanaian supreme court judges, all of whom belonged to a single ethnic nationality.
When one agrees with the Western ideological mythology that Nkrumah was a raw-boned dictator bereft of vision, then it begins to make sense that Kotoka's statue should continue to command the august facade of Accra International Airport, thus perpetually humiliating those of us who incurably believe in democratic governance. Needless to say, the 1966 Kotoka-led coup initiated the barbaric, neo-colonial military dynasty that Ghanaian continue to suffer….
That Ghana's post-colonial political dilemma transcends military dictatorship cannot be honestly gainsaid. In fact, many of the most vociferous civilian opposition party leaders, some of whom are currently sitting in parliament, representing misguided and hoodwinked constituents, are known to have collaborated with Kotoka's so-called National Liberation Council to unseat President Nkrumah. It is also significant to observe that these largely superannuated rascals and executive national, fiduciary muggers continue to dominate whatever passes by the name of "the legitimate opposition." This state of affairs, coupled with a largely under-educated and under-informed electorate, has made it almost impossible to rectify the prevailing socioeconomic chaos ravaging the country....”.
what did Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe mean?
Yaw 7 years ago
Lungu you make me sick but if you can for once stop think perhaps,you can see sense andt reality.
you're so obsessed with Nkrumah that you've stopped to balance your thinking except to blame and attack others who raise your ... read full comment
Lungu you make me sick but if you can for once stop think perhaps,you can see sense andt reality.
you're so obsessed with Nkrumah that you've stopped to balance your thinking except to blame and attack others who raise your hero's shortcomings.
You can try to justify your case and mislead as you like but the fact remains that the removal of Kwame Nkrumah was necessary for the simple fact that you're able to express yourself freely which wasn't possible under your mentor.Doesn't that mean anything to you?I guess not
Danquah,Busia and all those you detest would have ruled and made Ghana a better place than what and how Nkrumah did get that in your hate filled mind.
Even Nkrumah with his big mouth and bashing of the west still going to them and begging for help so how stupid can the likes of you be by always blaming and insulting the west and other meaningful Ghanaians for Nkrumah's failures and misjudgements?
Self rule wasn't right immediately after independence and the prove of that is what's happening now in Ghana buffoon.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
Okoampa wrote: "Indeed, by the eve of Nkrumah’s overthrow, Ghana’s economy had been effectively bankrupted partly as a result of his profligate investment in the Pan-Africanist ideology and project at the expense of the d ... read full comment
Okoampa wrote: "Indeed, by the eve of Nkrumah’s overthrow, Ghana’s economy had been effectively bankrupted partly as a result of his profligate investment in the Pan-Africanist ideology and project at the expense of the development of the very country whose voters elected him to govern them. Nkrumah saw Ghana as a mere stepping-stone to his grand, albeit woefully premature, ambition of ruling a united continental Africa."
I have been making this point for years - this is how Dr. Nkrumah short changed Ghana's development to augment his fanciful united continental Africa. Yet you have the blind self-styled Prof. Lungu leading the whole blind section of the rump-CPP apparatchiks reeling with infatuation in support of Nkrumah's profligacy at the cost of our development.
Unless the enlightened individuals in the country who loved Dr. Nkrumah and what he stood for, take the fight of misinformation to the Lungus of this world, all the good works of Dr. Nkrumah would be lost in the heap of utter stupidity and blind support of everything Dr. Nkrumah represented.
Lungu is dangerous in stifling a healthy debate of Nkrumah's achievements. He is certainly not objective in his assessment of Nkrumah's government. His infatuation with Nkrumah always precedes his normative predisposition, and he lacks credibility in my view.
I will say, and say it again, Dr. Nkrumah did many great things for the country - his achievements has not been equaled by any government, present and past. But we must not lose the fact that his obsession with one African government was a boondoggle that whittled away the resources that our country needed to develop. Where is Ghana, Guinea, Mali today? A complete waste of time and resources. Only the dunce would argue otherwise.
GORGORDUTOR 7 years ago
Mr Ahoofe, you are typical "direct electronic injection muti-brain"!! It was your traitorous bunch of fifth columnist so-called "intellectuals" who destroyed Ghana for their selfish gain!!
Mr Ahoofe, you are typical "direct electronic injection muti-brain"!! It was your traitorous bunch of fifth columnist so-called "intellectuals" who destroyed Ghana for their selfish gain!!
Yaw 7 years ago
You couldn't have been more right for if you think of and listen to these same Nkrumahists boast of a line in a speech made by him like"After all the black man is capable of managing his own affairs" and yet after almost sixt ... read full comment
You couldn't have been more right for if you think of and listen to these same Nkrumahists boast of a line in a speech made by him like"After all the black man is capable of managing his own affairs" and yet after almost sixty years of so called independence with no sign of improvement or purpose of any good direction of the country Ghana,such loose talks,hypes,praises and constant disturbances by these people of how wonderful his rule was, is not only annoying but stupid.
Is the black man[Ghanaian],capable of managing his/her own affairs other than blaming others?Only a fool will argue otherwise,
Why can't they[Nkrumahists] for once realise and admit that if damage is done like Nkrumah caused Ghana through his authoritarian,reckless spending,waste of Ghana's resources and mismanagement rule which bankrupted the country and haven't been able to recover from ever since?
Thank you doc but as usual the little minded Ghanaians and truth haters will pounce on you with insults but it's good point well raised which ought to be properly digested and debated rationally.
Anthony Frimpong NY 7 years ago
First there was our Great Dictator -Osaagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah then there were the chain of military dictators. The resilient MOTHER GHANA has endured too much in her 60year life. Some of us still remember the Nsawam detenti ... read full comment
First there was our Great Dictator -Osaagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah then there were the chain of military dictators. The resilient MOTHER GHANA has endured too much in her 60year life. Some of us still remember the Nsawam detention under the notorious PDA and the Young Pioneer indoctrination. OMAN GHANA WELL DONE!
NOBODY 7 years ago
You can't throw bombs and hurt children and expect not to be detained. For you bomb throwers, your mentality is that you have the right to attack others with your violence; that the presidency of Ghana is an entitlement deser ... read full comment
You can't throw bombs and hurt children and expect not to be detained. For you bomb throwers, your mentality is that you have the right to attack others with your violence; that the presidency of Ghana is an entitlement deserving of only you these bomb throwers; that you have the right to lie about contributions to Ghana that you never made. Ask the retarded Okoampa-Ahoofe whether in the America that he now calls home, if a person who makes a threat against the life of the US President only on phone will not be prosecuted and jailed? Yet the bomb-throwing Okoamapa-Ahoofe thinks his Busia/Danquah that has a tradition of throwing bombs at innocent people is justified in its diabolical actions and therefore not subject to the arms of the law. Akufo-Addo's ALL-DIE-BE-DIE is a remnant of that tradition of bomb throwing left behind by the Busia/Danquah child of violence wrapped in a veil of deception and lies.
NOBODY 7 years ago
Only a demented serial liar and NPP evil false propaganda peddler Okoampa-Ahoofe will stoop so low as to make baseless claims in his rubbish article. contrary to demented and Hitler-clone Okoampa-Ahoofe's claims,, the Busia?D ... read full comment
Only a demented serial liar and NPP evil false propaganda peddler Okoampa-Ahoofe will stoop so low as to make baseless claims in his rubbish article. contrary to demented and Hitler-clone Okoampa-Ahoofe's claims,, the Busia?Danquah gang of bomb throwers and retrogressionists are the very ones who did all they could to destroy Ghana.
These Busia/Danquah bomb throwing bandits were the ones, out of shear jealousy of Nkrumah and the CPP, who worked with America and Britain to undermine the CPP government.
One can't blame this English Professor son of two stray dogs who is so pregnated with evil and hatred for Nkrumah and the CPP that he takes every opportunity to malign Nkrumah. Nkrumah and the CPP defeated the Busia/Danquah bomb throwers, and these evil elephant-riding bomb throwers are still seething with anger.
Okoampa-Ahoofe suffers from Mad Elephant Disease, a disease that has left him badly confused and stuffed with unwarranted hatred and jealousy, along with hair growing on his tongue due to telling so many serial lies.
The first coup in Ghana was orchestrated by these same bomb throwers, with Busia using Afrifa as the point man with their interactions with the CIA. When Afrifa and his unsuspecting military and police officers formed their military junta in 1966, they quickly prohibited all members of the CPP from participating in politics, while making Busia the head of the Center for Education, a post that enabled Busia to go around the country "silently campaigning" while others had their political rights kept in handcuffs.
Only a thug like this demented Okoampa-Ahoofe will try to distort the history of Ghana. Germany still stands tall despite the evil of Hitler. Ghana too still stands tall, despite the evil and diabolical actions of the Busia/Danquah/PP/NPP. Busia/Danquah gave birth to PP, and PP gave birth to NPP, and you guys are all elephant-riding bomb throwers and evil serial liars.
Okoampa-Ahoofe, you and your fellow bomb throwers now turned acid throwers in the NPP are crooks and failed politicians. Nkrumah and the CPP helped build the structures of Ghana. What did your devious Busia accomplish? Absolutely nothing. Your evil deceptions and serial lies will never get your clueless Akufo-Addo elected into office, for he'll remain and retire as a serial loser come November.
Yaw 7 years ago
Bomb throwers,and a brutal tyrant like Nkrumah with all the powers his control,couldn't prove it and jailed them?
Argue on point and stop the stupidity which has become part of you Nkrumahists and have caused and still costi ... read full comment
Bomb throwers,and a brutal tyrant like Nkrumah with all the powers his control,couldn't prove it and jailed them?
Argue on point and stop the stupidity which has become part of you Nkrumahists and have caused and still costing our country to suffer painfully.
You describe somebody demented,How about you forgetting that you're enjoying true freedom to enable you spew out your trash.
Like it or not,Ghana owes it a great deal the sacrifices the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition made to win and free us from a power drunk dictator.
Ebo Letrik 7 years ago
You wrote:" Bomb throwers,and a brutal tyrant like Nkrumah with all the powers his control,couldn't prove it and jailed them?"
Has "super-power" USA been able to "prove" the guilt of the GITMO "hostages" after having custo ... read full comment
You wrote:" Bomb throwers,and a brutal tyrant like Nkrumah with all the powers his control,couldn't prove it and jailed them?"
Has "super-power" USA been able to "prove" the guilt of the GITMO "hostages" after having custody all these years?
NOBODY 7 years ago
You these worthless bomb throwers are nothing but bullies and cowards. Crooks, all of you. Intimate someone else, but not me. Take your elephant rubbish to your gullible followers. Ghana does not enjoy freedoms because of you ... read full comment
You these worthless bomb throwers are nothing but bullies and cowards. Crooks, all of you. Intimate someone else, but not me. Take your elephant rubbish to your gullible followers. Ghana does not enjoy freedoms because of you these evil bomb throwers. Speaking of stupidity, you and your gang are full of matters worse than stupidity. You're an evil bastard and a hopeless coward. Your so-called Busia/Danquah tradition is nothing but a tradition of evil, deceptions, violence, bullying, intolerance, and buffoonery at its worst. You these elephant-riding bomb throwers have managed to transform yourselves from bomb throwing bandits into acid throwers. Your mama and daddy, you son of two stray dogs.
Ideal Ghana 7 years ago
After reading your article Head lined Nkrumaists destroyed Ghana I did shear tears indeed just for the thought that we still have such people like you who attended and read in our universities and still can not ideally tell w ... read full comment
After reading your article Head lined Nkrumaists destroyed Ghana I did shear tears indeed just for the thought that we still have such people like you who attended and read in our universities and still can not ideally tell who and what our greatest of all times ex-president Dr Kwame Nkrumah founder and Father of the morden day Ghana stood for, please you might be writing for those very people who over connived with the anti-African elements and violently over threw our first republic hence today's corrupted and Crippled Ghana and Africa and her descendants all over the world,now here we are with someone like you without sense of personality and direction but with such weird article about the only son of Ghana symbol of the total emancipation of Africa and her descendants all over the world please don't try that for you are the biggest joke in the eye of the struggle and I can not envisage you on any of the forums of corrupt and economic emancipation of Black Africa, please try to be a Black-Star ( A Patriotic Ghanaian )
GORGORDUTOR 7 years ago
Another ignoramus blindly repeating arrant nonsense. Have you studied facts? No you have not. Just regurgitating the calumnys used to justify the treachery that has brought Ghana to its knees. TRAINED IGNORAMUS!!
Another ignoramus blindly repeating arrant nonsense. Have you studied facts? No you have not. Just regurgitating the calumnys used to justify the treachery that has brought Ghana to its knees. TRAINED IGNORAMUS!!
You RAT SHIT EATER. Get the fuck out of here.
Ride on, Dr Okoampa. Many so-called educated Ghanaians need to be liberated from the lingering Nkrumahists indoctrination of their fathers
The west is a vampire sucking the blood of blacks. They have been behind the mischief in AFRICA. But your evil plot will fail again and again
What did we as Africans achieve or get out of this CIA or American hypocrisy?
Four more ways the CIA has meddled in Africa;
17 May 2016
From the section Africa; BBC
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a lon ...
read full comment
Plse answer this simple basic query:
How many Secondary Schools existed in 1957, and how many were thriving in 1966?
When Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe said....
"...And here, it is significantly instructive to observe that none of the myriad putsches and coup detats have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Gr ...
read full comment
Lungu you make me sick but if you can for once stop think perhaps,you can see sense andt reality.
you're so obsessed with Nkrumah that you've stopped to balance your thinking except to blame and attack others who raise your ...
read full comment
Okoampa wrote: "Indeed, by the eve of Nkrumah’s overthrow, Ghana’s economy had been effectively bankrupted partly as a result of his profligate investment in the Pan-Africanist ideology and project at the expense of the d ...
read full comment
Mr Ahoofe, you are typical "direct electronic injection muti-brain"!! It was your traitorous bunch of fifth columnist so-called "intellectuals" who destroyed Ghana for their selfish gain!!
You couldn't have been more right for if you think of and listen to these same Nkrumahists boast of a line in a speech made by him like"After all the black man is capable of managing his own affairs" and yet after almost sixt ...
read full comment
First there was our Great Dictator -Osaagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah then there were the chain of military dictators. The resilient MOTHER GHANA has endured too much in her 60year life. Some of us still remember the Nsawam detenti ...
read full comment
You can't throw bombs and hurt children and expect not to be detained. For you bomb throwers, your mentality is that you have the right to attack others with your violence; that the presidency of Ghana is an entitlement deser ...
read full comment
Only a demented serial liar and NPP evil false propaganda peddler Okoampa-Ahoofe will stoop so low as to make baseless claims in his rubbish article. contrary to demented and Hitler-clone Okoampa-Ahoofe's claims,, the Busia?D ...
read full comment
Bomb throwers,and a brutal tyrant like Nkrumah with all the powers his control,couldn't prove it and jailed them?
Argue on point and stop the stupidity which has become part of you Nkrumahists and have caused and still costi ...
read full comment
You wrote:" Bomb throwers,and a brutal tyrant like Nkrumah with all the powers his control,couldn't prove it and jailed them?"
Has "super-power" USA been able to "prove" the guilt of the GITMO "hostages" after having custo ...
read full comment
You these worthless bomb throwers are nothing but bullies and cowards. Crooks, all of you. Intimate someone else, but not me. Take your elephant rubbish to your gullible followers. Ghana does not enjoy freedoms because of you ...
read full comment
After reading your article Head lined Nkrumaists destroyed Ghana I did shear tears indeed just for the thought that we still have such people like you who attended and read in our universities and still can not ideally tell w ...
read full comment
Another ignoramus blindly repeating arrant nonsense. Have you studied facts? No you have not. Just regurgitating the calumnys used to justify the treachery that has brought Ghana to its knees. TRAINED IGNORAMUS!!