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OccupyGhana's
Casely-Hayford Bashes Kwame Nkrumah So He
Can Side With Mr. Mahama?
By: Prof Lungu
February 23, 2016
"..Foolishness...Any Ghanaian leader (or
wannabe leader) who uses his liberty to
bad-mouth Dr. Kwame Nkrumah...who does not
with the same side of their mouth admit that
the coup...was orchestrated by foreign
governments serving their own permanent
interests, who fails to inform
Ghanaians...that the
Ankrah-Kotoka-Afrifa-Harlley-Busia-NLC bunch
lied to Ghanaians, that leader, that wannabe
leader, is a dangerous, unbalanced
African....(Prof Lungu, 20 Feb 16).
Here is the seminal question for Mr. Sydney
"Aha a y? din papa" Casely-Hayford
Question: Exactly how, why, and under what
conditions was Kwame Nkrumah "escorted off
the scene" that day in 1966.
Maybe, the accountant in Mr. Casely-Hayford
will also explain how the colonial powers
and their commercial-cum-political interests
operated high-value, lively, bullish,
primary produce market for cocoa beans all
the way through much of the 1950s, to
Ghana's independence.
Then, conspiracy for your "Independence,
Ghana"!
Fact is, beginning in 1958, as Ghanaians
began to assert their independent voices in
matters affecting their own interests, that
high-value, lively, and bullish produce
market for cocoa suddenly disintegrated into
bear territory, almost worthless given the
investments committed to grow the market.
The Economist magazine reported just 8
months after the NLC coup d'état on the
matter of cocoa produce from Ghana, noting
that Ghanaians:
“...were encouraged by the manufacturers to
expand their production, with the assurance
that they could count on prices between $560
and $700 a ton at east up to 1970.
This July Ghana’s main crop cocoa for
shipment between August and September was
being quoted at $245 a ton. But the country
has already ploughed many millions of pounds
into improvement schemes and disease control
... all the effort and investment earned a
nil return.” (The Economist, October 2,
1965).
As summarized by Vallin that same summer of
1966:
"...The real conspiracy was the catastrophic
decline in the price of cocoa during the
past seven years to nearly one-fifth of what
it was in the late fifties. From a peak of
over $1,000 a ton in 1957-58, the price
dropped to $504 in 1963-64 and down to as
low as $210 last summer (in 1965)..."
So, where does Mr. Sydney "Aha a y? din
papa" Casely-Hayford get off his rocking
horse with the claim:
"...By the time the Osagyefo was escorted
off the scene, Ghana’s reserves were totally
decimated and we were yelling for sardines,
corned beef and ice cream. Few were those
who were rich with huge edifices; cronies
and family had much to boast of and the rest
who believed in Freedom and Justice, were
jailed and harassed out of the country."
Go figure all that coup-plotter regurgitated
hogwash!
We've already addressed the part about
Nkrumah being "escorted off the scene", and
won't belabor the point one more time.
All that coup-plotter regurgitated nonsense
- that Ghana was broke, that "...Ghana’s
reserves were totally decimated..."!
And to hear that from a "Chartered
Accountant" in 2016, a person we thought
would be better informed, more balanced, by
this date.
After all, compared to the British, what was
Ghana's total debt vis a vis Ghana GDP in
1966. And how has that compared since
Nkrumah's overthrow, all the way to 2016, as
Mr. Casely-Hayford now finds it convenient
to "side" with Mr. Mahama?
Still, what does "Ghana’s reserves were
totally decimated" mean, in fact.
Is Mr. Casely-Hayford, like Kwadwo of
Ghanaweb, saying he has data showing Ghana's
total reserves at the beginning of 1966 was
just £500,000, or less, when Nkrumah was
"escorted" off the scene, according to Mr.
Casely-Hayford?
As we informed Kwadwo in several comments
under Mr. Casely-Hayford's article, that was
another one of those fabrications by the NLC-traitor
gang.
But, in 2016, should we still continue to
believe coup plotter narratives when there
is data all over the place that speak
intelligently about the real situation?
Why should we give the NLC the benefit when
they conveniently neglected to inform
Ghanaians the CIA actually directed and
funded the "escort" and overthrow of their
President?
Foolishness!
Here is the data and arithmetic for Kwadwo
and Mr. Sydney "Aha a y? din papa"
Casely-Hayford. Employing a conversion
factor of 2.79 for 1966, Kwadwo's "£500,000
in reserves" gave us approximately
$1,395,000.00 of total reserves.
But, that is still a lie, heresy!
Here are World Bank figures on Ghana-Total
Reserves, 6 (six) years before the
overthrow, and 6 (six) years after the
overthrow:
Year Value of Reserves(Million$)
1960 $277,926,000
1961 $155,954,000
1962 $181,711,200
1963 $209,312,800
1964 $125,519,200
1965 $115,809,200
1966 $111,130,400
1967 $82,732,000
1968 $97,004,000
1969 $71,832,000
1970 $42,579,200
1971 $43,092,220
1972 $104,041,100
(Source: www.indexmundi.com/facts/ghana/total-reserves).
Realize that in 1966 Ghana's reserves were
in the neighborhood of $111,130,400.00.
"Ghana’s reserves were totally decimated"
our foot!
All of this is especially galling
considering that practically all of the
so-called reserves were actually accumulated
by the CPP government internally, as
definitively argued by Professor Kwame Botwe
Asamoah, and many other scholars and
researchers.
What, after all, did the British leave Ghana
but plundered resources and economic and
production networks that did not serve
Ghana, but were solely oriented to UK, to
serve that colonial power?
Here is some additional information for Mr.
Casely-Hayford.
Records show that in 1966 and 1967, Ghana
actually received less aid from the US, than
Ghana received under Nkrumah the previous
years leading up to the overthrow.
In fact, for the first time ever, trade
between Ghana and the United States was a
negative, in 1966, the year the NLC and the
civilian rascals affixed their ugly faces to
that coup d'état. In other words, in 1966,
even as Ankrah was begging the US for
"...sardines, corned beef and ice cream",
for his elite friends, the US was in no
hurry to assist Ankrah and was in fact
importing even less from Ghana.
The US, after all, used the NLC
(Nonentities, Liars and Crooks) to achieve
its primary objective, that is, the
elimination of Kwame Nkrumah immediately
after the successful execution of the
Akosombo Dam/VRA project. Lest other African
leaders took a lesson or two from Pan-Africanist
Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.
That is official, it is documented fact!
So, go figure, Mr. OccupyGhana Sydney "Aha a
y? din papa" Casely-Hayford.
Check you facts, and give us some data, sir!
To cloak all that diatribe and historically
inaccurate verbiage against a President more
than 50 years removed from the living and
political power, to attempt to brand all
that under the OccupyGhana banner, is the
height of irresponsibility and reckless
debasement of true Ghana-Centeredness, and
huge disservice to the government in power
that can't even bring itself to enact a
Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for
Ghana's oil. Instead, they sit in Accra as
"Hybrids" supervising the plunder of
Ghanaian oil that now amounts to more than
$6 billion loss in oil revenues to Ghana.
OccupyGhana?
Yes, those are some of the same people who
cannot even be bothered to support the
Fair-Trade Oil Share/PSA campaign that seeks
to save Ghana another $6 billion-plus oil
revenue loss.
And yet, Sidney Casely-Hayford now has power
and energy to condemn Kwame Nkrumah two
generations removed from life and ephemeral
power.
To complain in 2016 about lack of Tetteh
Quarshie cocoa processing factories, and
about lack of water, and about lack of
power, and about poor roads to get to
anywhere in Ghana, etc., exactly 50 years
after Nkrumah was overthrown by people like
Sydney Casely-Hayford.
To complain about Kwame Nkrumah and
"edifices and factories, which we had to
leave to rot."
Doesn't even village idiots know to make
lemonade from lemons!
Yes, the "Casely-Hayfords" who always knew
back in 1966 that "...the source of raw
material input needed to be developed in
tandem with infrastructure...that private
enterprise in the end trumps central control
and resource manipulation...".
We see how nonsensical all of that is!
And by what special insight, logic, and
Occupy-Ghana-Centeredness is Sydney, our
friend, able to divine, "...saying the CPP
is done and will never rise again..."
But that one!
That is not ours to fight or argue.
Even so, every village idiot knows that
today's CPP is not Kwame Nkrumah's CPP.
As we've always said, there is always a
reckoning behind every record.
But, maybe, just maybe, we could entertain
the idea of pardoning Mr. Sydney "Aha a y?
din papa" Casely-Hayford. Fact is, he
informed us he "...was so traumatized (that)
week..".
Well, let thy brush-strokes reflect well for
thou self, sir!
Till we meet again!
So it goes!
SOURCE:
1. Sydney Casely-Hayford. Siding with our
President. 10th February, 2016 http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Siding-with-our-President-414369.
2. Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah. 3 July, 2015.
The Fallacy Of Britain Leaving Huge Sums Of
Money For Nkrumah’s Government. (http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/The-Fallacy-Of-Britain-Leaving-Huge-Sums-Of-Money-For-Nkrumah-s-Government-365901).
3. Contact us, if you seriously want to know
more about the data and our sources. But,
before you do that, please take a moment and
sign the FTOS-Gh/PSA petition. From where we
sit, that is the more serious business for
Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. We hope you agree!
NOTE:
1. Fair-Trade Oil Share-Ghana (FTOS-GH/PSA
Petition/Campaign):
Read about it, join it, sign it: https://www.change.org/p/ghana-fair-trade-oil-share-psa-campaign-ftos-gh-psa).
www.GHanaHero.Com/FTOS_Gh_Campaign, for more
information.
(Join the action! Read mo! Listen mo! See
mo! Reflect mo!).
©Prof Lungu is Ghana-Centered/Ghana-Proud.
@professorlungu - Twitter
Prof Lungu is based in Washington DC, USA.
Subj: OccupyGhana's Casely-Hayford Bashes
Kwame Nkrumah So He Can Side With Mr. Mahama?
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February, 2016.
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