Although not unexpected, we the executives and members of the Virginia Chapter of the National Democratic Congress are sorry to read this piece about the threat not only to your life but also to those close to you. NPP seeing the end to their inefficient, ethnocentric, violent, tyrannical, cocainized rule and in their quest to remain in power would do anything, considering their history. They always try to portray the NDC as a violent party but if history is something to go by, there is no political organization in the history of Ghana that is as violent as the Busia-Danquah tradition and it is high time we educate the public about who these people really are.

Highlight of some of the Violent Past of the Danquah-Busia tradition:

1) *In 1958, there was a plot to assassinate Nkrumah at the airport and then overthrow the CPP government, as Nkrumah was about to leave for a state visit to India.

2) *On July 7, 1961, two bombs exploded in Accra, one wrecking Nkrumah’s statue in front of the Parliament House (McFarland &Owusu-Ansah)

3) *On August 1, 1962, as Nkrumah was returning form a state visit to Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and had gotten out of his car to speak to the school children in the crowd that had gathered to greet him at Kulungugu, a bomb contained in a bouquet carried to him by a schoolgirl, exploded; it killed several school children and injured many others. The victims’ bodies bled from cuts caused by the splinters from the bomb (Kanu 1982; Tetteh, 1999)

4) *On September 9, 1962, another bomb exploded near the “Flagstaff House, where the Ghana Young Pioneers Orchestra Band was entertaining the audience to modern Ghanaian Music.” The explosion killed one person and injured many others (Tetteh).

5) *On September 18, 1962, two bombs exploded in Accra killing and injuring many people. One of these bomb blasts occurred in Lucas House in Accra, where nine children fell dead on the spot with their intestines gushed out of their bodies (Tetteh)

6) *September 20, 1962, two bombs exploded in Accra, killing and injuring several people (McFarland & Owusu-Ansah)

7) *On September 22, 1962, there was another bomb explosion in Accra (McFarland & Owusu-Ansah; Tetteh)

8) *On January 11, 1963, another bomb exploded at a CPP rally at the Accra Sports Stadium shortly after Nkrumah had left the scene. This explosion killed over twenty people and more than four hundred people were injured; among the victims were children of the Young Pioneer movement (McFarland & Owusu-Ansah).

9) *January 1, 1964, a police officer, Seth Ametewe, was posted on guard duty at the Flagstaff House to assassinate Nkrumah. His five shots missed Nkrumah, but succeeded in killing his personal security officer, Sgt. Salifu Dagarti

10) In 1992 the NDC Ward Chairman was burnt alive in his workshop in Takoradi while PNDC was in power with no retaliation from NDC/PNDC activists

11) In 1996 the NDC Constituency Office was destroyed in Kumasi and an NDC activist was subsequently killed on the same day (while NDC was still in power)

12) The Killing of Women in Accra metropolis, to put fear into the populace to vote them into power, prior to the 2000 elections etc

To mention but a few.

We would therefore urge Koku and all those we are supporting the course of booting NPP out of power to stay the course and never be intimidated by them. It is their trademark and we have to let them know that we can never be intimidated into silence.

By Desire Ankah (Asst Sec NDC Virginia)
On Behalf of Virginia Chapter of NDC
Note: *culled from an article published on Ghanaweb by Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, Ph.D. Professor of African and African American History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260