Intransigence, Insincerity & Hypocrisy
In view of the dramatic events of the past week; 1000 staffers, double dipping salaries and accommodation etc, I have decided to remind readers of my ‘’prophecies’’ of old. Lol.
[ads1]The Gold Coast, the model state in the British imperial empire was DOA at independence. I will try very hard to be very brief and straight to the point.
- June 1954 elections: CPP 72/104, NPP 15/104, TG 3/104 and GCP 1/104
- NPP = Northern People’s Party led by Simon Dombo, GCP=Ghana Congress Party led by Busia
- September 1954 National Liberation Movement NLM was formed by Baffour Akoto. He shared the leadership with JB Danquah. I think this s where the Asante/Akyem thing started.
- July 1956 elections demanded by NLM: CPP 71/104, NPP 15/104, NLM 12/104, and TC 2/104
Discussion
NLM came with the demand for federalism. CPP was adamant Ghana would be unitary. There was a stalemate. We had a nascent parliamentary democracy, so really a non-parliamentary party couldn’t make the kind of demands NLM made. In all fairness, Nkrumah listened and he brought Sir Frederick Bourne, a British Constitutional expert who had mediated in the India/Pakistan divorce.
Sir Bourne arrived in September 1955 and spent 5weeks touring our country, speaking with all stakeholders except the NLM They refused to speak with learned man.
Bourne submitted his finding to the Governor-General. He recommended a mid-way solution – REGIONALISM. Nkrumah with 2/3 majority in Parliament accepted Regionalism, intransigent NLM without a single seat in the 1954 parliament rejected it.
After independence, insincere Nkrumah used his 2/3 majority to immediately repealed the Regional Assemblies Act. Do you blame him? If the opposition didn’t want it, why must he?
Structurally speaking, Regionalism was a win for NLM. Electorally, it was also a win for the opposition who would have controlled Ashanti and the Northern territories. CPP would control the remaining 3 provinces. So why did the NLM reject it?
An independent state ‘’born’’ under such intransigent, insincere and hypocritical conditions can hardy make it. Ghana’s situation isn’t surprising at all.
Fast forward to 1993 in South Africa. ANC/Mandela were in the same situation with IFP/Buthelezi. ANC wanted a unitary state, Buthelezi wanted federalism. International mediators were brought in. The result was upgraded Regionalism. Both parties accepted it because they cared for their country. The NLM was very much part of the DOA Ghana. They were an intransigent midwife who refused to help, while Nkrumah was the insincere midwife who gave the wrong medication.
The unitary state wasn’t enough for Nkrumah. In 1960, he became an executive President with no deputy. In 1962, by a private member’s bill, he became Life President. January 1964, Ghana became one-party state. In 1965, Nkrumah appointed the whole parliament, and the MPs in turn coronated him the King of Ghana. Did Nkrumah think this arrangement was sustainable? Unbelievable.
Come back Ghana, come back the model state. How is that going to happen?
24th February 1966, the illegal government of Nkrumah and the one-party state he had created were overthrown. It was a necessary action but not enough.
Nkrumah has 3 parts: personal, partisan, and institutional. The 1966 coup took care of personal Nkrumah. He would never come back again in person to rule Ghana.
In 1979, partisan Nkrumah came back in the form of PNP. Rawlings 1981 coup ‘’killed’’ partisan Nkrumah. An Nkrumahist party will not rule Ghana again. The day Nkrumahists take over NDC, is the end of that party.
Institutional Nkrumah is the Santa constitution and the Santa President. Tell me powers that Nkrumah had that Nana Addo doesn’t have? The man has appointed 1000 people to work in his office alone, more than all lecturers in Ghana when I was in university. What a state?
To kill institutionalized Nkrumah is to get a new Constitution and a new state. When I say ‘’The 5th Republic – constitutional reforms to rescue, resuscitate and restore Ghana’’ that is what I mean. We have to rescue, resuscitate and restore the DOA Ghana back to the model state.
Nkrumah wasn’t the only midwife at the time of birth of independent Ghana, Danquah too was there. Fortunately or unfortunately, he didn’t get the chance to impose his person and party on us, but his party reaped the benefit of the overthrow of Nkrumah. When they had the chance to write the constitution of 1969, the hypocritical opponents of Nkrumah forgot about federalism. They also enjoyed institutionalized Nkrumah. Power sweet. Who says absolute power no sweet?
To fully restore DOA Ghana, midwife Danquah too has to be ‘’killed.’’ Nana Addo genetically and political represents Danquah. We have killed Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute. Through Nana Addo, we will kill the Danquah Institute too. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the end of the road for the line of midwife Danquah. After Nana Addo, the Samia-effect will kick in. That’s it.
Ghana will start afresh outside the influence of these traditions of intransigent, insincere and hypocritical midwives.
As you can see there has been a systematic take-over of the historical opposition by the Danquah faction. Nobody mentions Akoto’s name, meanwhile Danquah-led UGCC won only 2 seats in 1951, Busia-led GCP won only 1 seat in 1954. It was Akoto’s NLM that gave their biggest number of seats of 12 in 1956. The Danquah faction think they are smart, but they are not. The bizarre things happening under Nana is meant for only thing -political annihilation of Danquah.
Ghana will come back, the model state will come back.
Tswa omanye aba.
Stay tuned for Part 2 – NLM, the sleeping midwife.
