Sekou Nkrumah, Son of Ghana’s first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah has responded rather harshly to a statement made by the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament Rt. Hon Aaron Mike Ocquaye that Kwame Nkrumah was not the founder of Ghana.
Responding to a Facebook post by Francis Ontonyin, a lawyer – whose post may be deemed as sarcastic after a section of the media reported the Speaker of Parliament’s statement at an IEA organized forum, the former president’s son minced no words and went hard on the head of the legislative arm of government saying “He’s a big fool.”
He further posts on his page that “Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence and therefore he is the founder of modern Ghana! That is a fact.
If some people want to shove” alternative facts” down the throats of Ghanaians they must be prepared for a serious political confrontation, and I can assure them a humiliating defeat in the court of public opinion.”
The post on his Facebook page Citifmonline.com reports that “The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has described as palpable falsehood, claims that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah founded Independent Ghana.”
The report further reports the Speaker saying that “… today we celebrate one founding father which is palpable false, we have founding fathers.”
This comes on the back of recent intense public debate after President Akufo-Addo’s independence day speech where some critics felt the President made attempts at skewing the history of Ghana, a claim the government has flatly denied.
There’s been a long-standing debate in the country as to who really founded Ghana – as to whether it was done single-handedly or done as a group with some holding the opinion that all those who played a role towards our country’s independence must be mentioned other than narrowing it to only one person.
It is expected that this latest outburst from the son of the former president will reignite this long-standing debate.
Source: ghanapoliticsonline.com
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A disgusting son who was raised by single parent called Fatia. What does he know about the father koraaa? He claims to have doctorate degree but when they entrusted the National Youth council to him he failed potooooo (abysmally). He couldn't initiate one single program mpo. Sansani!
TO DESCRIBE NKRUMAH AS FOUNDER IS MISNOMER. NKRUMAH DID NOT FOUND NOR CONQUER THE TERRITORY WE CALL GHANA. THE TERRITORY OF GHANA AS IT IS TODAY WAS CREATED BY THE BRITISH WHO COLONIZED THE SOUTH, OCCUPIED ASHANTI AND EXTENDING PROTECTION TO THE NORTH. TRANS-WESTERN TOGO LAND WAS ADDED BY THE BRITISH AFTER THE GERMANS HAD BEEN DEFEATED IN THE WORLD WAR. IT WAS LATER CONFIRMED IN A PLEBISCITE JUST BEFORE GHANA INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION . DID NKRUMAH CREATED THE NAME GHANA, NO HE DID NOT, NEITHER DID HE PROPOSE IT. DID HE MADE THE NATIONAL ANTHERM, THE FLAG, THE COAT OF ARM, NO HE DID NOT DO ANY OF THEM. WAS THE DEBATE FOR DECISION TO GET INDEPENDENCE DONE BY ONE PERSON, NKRUMAH? NO IT WAS DONE BY PARLIAMENT WITH SOME MEMBERS SUPPORTING THE MOTION WHILE OTHERS OPPOSED IT AS IT IS NORMAL IN MOST PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM. DID NKRUMAH CREATED THE PARLIAMENT. NO THE PARLIAMENT EXISTED BEFORE.IT WAS CREATED AT THE STRUGGLE BY SOME NATIVES OF THE LAND WHO DEMANDED FOR SELF-REPRESENTATION IN GOVERNMENT OF THE NATIVES. THE EXISTENCE OF PARLIAMENT PROVIDED OPPORTUNITY FOR NKRUMAH TO BE ELECTED TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER. WAS NKRUMAH THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER YES, HE WAS. WAS HE THE PRIME MINISTER AT INDEPENDENCE, YES HE WAS. IS GETTING INDEPENDENCE THE SAME AS FOUNDING A NATION? NO THE TWO ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. IT IS INTELLECTUALLY DISINGENUOUS TO EQUATE INDEPENDENCE TO FOUNDING A NATION. WAS NKRUMAH THE FIRST PRESIDENT, YES HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE MAJORITY OF HIS PARTY, CPP, IN PARLIAMENT TO MANIPULATE THE CONSTITUTION WHICH BROUGHT HIM TO POWER TO MAKE HIMSELF A PRESIDENT. HE EXPLOITED THE CIRCUMSTANCE TO ABUSE HIS INCUMBENCY. HE USED THE SAME APPROACH TO MAKE HIMSELF A LIFE PRESIDENT AGAINST THE PRINCIPLE OF LIBERTY AND FREEDOM THE BASIS OF INDEPENDENCE AND SELF RULE. DID NKRUMAH MADE TEMA HARBOUR, MORTORWAY, AKOSOMBO DAM. YES HE DID THAT AND OTHERS. BUT MAHAMA BUILT NKRUMAH INTERCHANGE, KUFFOUR BUILT TETEQUACHIE, EXTENDED THE MOTORWAY AND DISCOVERED OIL BEFORE RETIRING. JJ BUILT SANKARA INTERCHANGE AND OTHERS. EVERY HEAD OF STATE ADDED SOMETHING TO EXISTING PROJECTS. IS NKRUMA DIFFERENT FROM FOUNDERS OF NATION? YES. OSEI TUTU CAN BE SAID TO BE A FOUNDER OF A NATION. THERE WAS NO ASANTE KINGDOM. HE CREATED, EXPANDED AND GAVE A SPIRIT TO THE KINGDOM. NKRUMAH DID NOT DO ANY OF THAT. YAA ASANTEWAA IS GREAT IN ASANTE HISTORY BUT HE IS NOT A FOUNDER OF ASANTE. IS NKRUMAH THE FOUNDER OF CPP. CERTAINLY YES. HE BROKE AWAY FROM UCGG WHICH HE BWCAME A MEMBER TO BEGIN CPP WHICH BECAME FORMIDABLE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE ALREADY ONGOING AT THE TIME. IS IT RIGHT FOR ANYBODY TO THINK OF NKRUMAH AS FOUNDER OF GHANA. NO. IT IS MISNOMER AND INTELLECTUALLY DISINGENUOUS FOR ANYBODY TO DO THAT. IT IS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS OF DISMANTLED CPP REMNANTS WHO COMPENSATE THEMSELVES WITH THE ATTRIBUTE IN THE HOPE TO KEEP NKRUMAISM ALIVE.
Niibi Ayitey you are a fo*l. I don't even know if you are a Ga or whatever. If you are a Ga then I'm also right to describe you as a fo*l for not knowing Nkrumah sent about 46 Gas to detention without trial, some died and those who were released after the coup had their lives messed up. Founding a nation is not one man's business, even America the most beautiful was founded by not one man. If some people hadn't brought Nkrumah down from wherever he was could he buy a ticket to come and found the nation? Political stup*dity has clouded the minds of some Ghanaians who refuse to accept the truth. Nkrumah himself never said he founded the country but said his party won the elections which pronounced the Independence,if the UP had won the elections they would have pronounced the independence so would you have said the leaders of the UP or only the president? This nons*nse is coming out because of some people interested in taking away what belongs to Rawlings, ndc are the party very much interested in this sh*t because the founder of that party is not mentioned anywhere at all in their books, they think with this propaganda they can succeed by saying the party is not for Rawlings as they've been talking and fighting for John mahama as their leader. The confusion is from the camp of the ndc, just to forget about Rawlings who founded their party just as they want Ghanaians to forget about those who were fighting for our independence and brought Nkrumah to help them. Ndc is satanic.
I think you mean your name is Concerned citizen. You don't know what you talking about,which of the presidents got much more money than Nkrumah and how much was left after the coup? Those praise singers in the ndc like Kwesi Pratt who brought down John Mahama's government acted the same way as those who betrayed Nkrumah to his adversaries. God being so good this time not by a coup but by the thumb of the people and everybody in Ghana is listening to the manifestation and confession from the mouth of the ndc,who chopped what and who undermined who. If it had been a coup ndc would have hopped all these troubles and problems in their party on the head of the NPP and would
How can a Prof make such a categorical statement if he is not what Sekou described him to be. Are we serious in Ghana to be discussing who a founder of Ghana is after 60 years of knowing Nkrumah is the one. So if Nana Addo is not a Prez and Oquaye is not a Speaker of Parliament in 2016, they never knew, all along, who the founder of Ghana is. Do they think founding Ghana is like founding a political party?
Look at the f u se the "Kankan nyame" son is blowing. Your father Nkrumah was seeking after his selfish ambition and took all our monies to Congo to put Ghana in crisis. What at all did Nkrumah achieved that is so unheard of?
I am so ashamed that history is trying to repeat itself without majority of us noticing. This was the same attitude and opposition that was demonstrated to our ex president Osagefo Dr.Kwame Nkrumah;finally resulting in a coup. What do we see today? and what do we say today? So many projects were still bear the name of Osagefo Dr.Kwame Nkrumah and many more projects were left uncompleted because of the selfish ambition of a group of people. There is virtually no need for Sekou Nkrumah to insult anyone; for the truth is only one and we are all witnesses to Nkrumahs achievements.Which of our political leaders can compare their achievements to Nkrumah? How many ministers did he appoint to achieve what he did within his short president.What are we talking about? This is a period for hard work and not fighting for glory for ex party members or ex heroes who have lived their time. Our citizens are currently suffering and we need to build this country. Let us not suffer further curses from the ingratitude we show our leaders due to unnecessary propaganda. God bless our homeland Ghana.
I don't blame this Sekou because he was trained by a single mother so has no manners. He is very uncultured and unco*th in fact a disgrace to be a son of a president. Imagine Dr Busia,Dr Hilla Limann,President Rawlinfs,President Kuffuor, President Mahama or President Akufo Addo's son or daughter behaving this way God forbid. Sekou a disgrace to his father. No president of the republic of Ghana apart from Nkrumah's disgruntled and depressed son Sekou will ever put his father to ridicule. A disgusting son of a president,this same guy was fighting his older sister Samia and it would have saved him some breath if he hadn't come to Ghana at all like his older brother Dr Gorkeh Nkrumah
A whole Dr. calls the speaker of parliament "A big ***barred word***"? because he doesn't agree with him on an issue which has been an long standing debate for decades? which country are we building?no wonder indiscipline has become the order of the day in this country.
Sekou stop being an ars3-h0le. Do you think many young Ghanaians below age 40 give two hoots about your dear departed father or whether founders must have an apostrophe before or after the s?People have real concerns and needs.Fact is if your father hadn't been overthrown would he have been another Mugabe? Look I respect Nkrumah and all he did for this country .At least at that time Ghanaians had some self esteem.You my friend aligned yourself with animals whose only avowed aim in seeking power is to pillage this country's resources. Look at our rivers. Look at our economy. Seize the insults 'cause it's no t going to help you. The real enemies of Ghana are very much alive, st3al11ng everything in sight.