Professor Busia His Legacy - A Rejoinder As a result of the current research that I am doing on contemporary Ghanaian history, it has become apparent to me that Dr Nkrumah wanted to be crowned as the first African President. To achieve that ambition he devoted and wasted a lot of the resources of our newly independent nation, Ghana, to its economic demise. At the time of the military coup that overthrew Dr Nkrumah and his CPP Government on 24 February 1966, Ghana which had all the potential of being a prosperous nation had become a highly indebted country. Let me elaborate a little further on this issue of trust, which may surprise you. On 16 January 1965, in an Open Letter Number 2 to Dr Nkrumah, while he (Dr Nkrumah) was still in office, Mr Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (may his soul rest in peace), a one-time Finance Minister of Ghana, accused Dr Nkrumah of being a deceitful (Gbedemah said: “…your usual deceptive moves”) and ungrateful (Gbedemah said: “Your ingratitude has become proverbial”) person. This Open Letter was published after the 24 February 1966 coup in the Ghanaian Times on 19 May 1966, page 5. In this Letter, Mr Gbedemah reminded Dr Nkrumah “...have you forgotten that I brought you from George Clements Press, where you were sleeping on the floor, into my home at Farrar Avenue, Adabraka, as my guest, sharing my bed with you from September, 1948, till I was sent to prison in October, 1949, for being the author and the editor of the ACCRA EVENING NEWS, of an article supporting your bid to lead us, the youth?” ghanaweb/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=280710&comment=9494039#com
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 05:34:13 +0000
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