Nkrumah

Author: Franklin Cudjoe

Thanks everyone who attempted to debate my position that Nkrumah was a dictator. To all those who were emotional rather than provide rational arguments against my position, please do you deny answers to the following questions?

1. Did Nkrumah make himself a president for life?
   Answer: Yes he did through a flawed and rigged Referendum on January 31, 1964 with 99.91% of the votes.
2. Did Nkrumah make Ghana a one-party state by banning all political parties except his CPP from existing?
   Yes, he did on February 1, 1964.
3. Did Nkrumah suppress freedom by arresting and detaining political opponents and banning media and even threatening Judges who ruled against him?
   Yes, Nkrumah suppressed freedom with laws like the Preventive Detention Act (1958) to imprison political rivals, including figures like J.B. Danquah who was fed Garri, Salt and Water, got dehydrated and later died.

You think these were not enough grounds to remove him from power? Nkrumah was visionary when it came to African unity and perhaps the only reason we eulogise him in Ghana is simply because successive governments after his had been poorer.

Let me add that Nkrumah mismanaged Ghana’s economy and most of his state-owned enterprises were running at a loss. By 1966, more than fifty state enterprises set up were badly managed, weighed down by inefficient bureaucracies and run at a huge loss. Ghana’s official external debt reached £184 million in 1963. A year later, it stood at £349 million. It was clear that Nkrumah’s handling of the economy was frightening. He had within a relatively short time plunged Ghana, a beacon of hope to the rest of Africa and one of the most prosperous countries in the tropical world, into bankruptcy. Historian Martin Meredith explains that a spending spree of £430 million between 1959 and 1964 left Ghana “scores of loss-making industries and a fast-shrinking agricultural sector.”

Thread 1: Immediate Reactions to the Original Post

Awaafo Zakari Khaalid → Franklin Cudjoe
All the developed countries that you prefer travelling around the world didn’t start with democracy. They were all dictators. Even currently can you say that America is practicing democracy under Trump’s regime? Let’s get serious as a country. Because Nana Addo was not a dictator like Nkrumah that’s why he has developed Ghana like this.

Lloyd Amoah → Franklin Cudjoe
Franklin Cudjoe you are going to teach us about Nkrumah and Ghanaian politics. You have such audacity. Even a toddler knows the issues concerning his overthrow are overdetermined and it is at the height of intellectual duplicity to simply list some tired and twisted reasons and jump to the perverted conclusion you come to. Now granted even your simplistic glacial arguments hold then Trump should be removed by a coup too. It is intriguing how you have courage and such bile when it comes to countries like Venezuela and your own to make the most fatuous claims about their economies and politics and shrivel in fright and meekness about the US, Israel and the other states you sure consider great in your libertarian, neoliberalist, imperialism loving mode. Given this confounding but understandable cerebral schizophrenia one is hardpressed to take your takes serious. Only that we have duty to keep reminding everyone about your Janus faced (un)reasoning. But I must add if you want to hold court on Nkrumah you surely have a lot more to read and unlearn.

Replies under Lloyd Amoah

• Seidu Kabbah (Edited): pls forgive him, it’s the symptoms of parkinson
• Van Bright Amosah-Kodom: Can’t be said any better

Thread 2: Achievement vs Dictatorship Narrative

General Ahmed → Franklin Cudjoe
If this is an attempt to run down Nkrumah’s Achievements as leader in Ghana and throw dust into our eyes just cos you’re called Franklin Cudjoe, a well respected elite in Ghana, then Sir you’re part of those who failed our generation today. So you were part of those who writes ten Sins of Mahama, Ten Sins of Ken Agyapong, Ten Sins of Nkrumah but you have failed to add the Ten Sins of Kotoka or is he an angel? No amount of propaganda from Franklin Cudjoe can run down Nkrumah’s Achievements one hard truth you can never swallow.

Franklin Cudjoe → Thread continuation
“Ghana’s foreign policy, 1957-1966; diplomacy, ideology, and the new state” by Thompson, W. Scott (Willard Scott), Publication date 1969

JUSTIFIED COUPS: THE NKRUMAH PRINCIPLE:
Excerpts below are from Ghana’s Foreign Policy between 1957 to 1966. pp309-310

“Throughout the autumn of 1962, the explosions which began in Accra after Kulungugu continued, taking over a dozen lives; the Ghanaian regime laid the responsibility at Olympio’s door. On December 7th Ghana began threatening its neighbor. In a note written by Geoffrey Bing, an attempt was made to find a legal basis for Ghana’s own activities against Togo. Ghana, it said, would never contest the right of refugees to use constitutional or even revolutionary methods to secure a change of regime in their own country.
“Indeed, the Government of Ghana completely accepts the view that where a Government has ceased to enjoy the support of the majority of the people and endeavours to maintain itself in power by force every effort should be made to achieve a change by peaceful means and that a resort to force is justified when all other means to end oppression have been tried and have failed. The basic condition … is that such a desire to end an unpopular regime is backed by the will of the people.”

Guys read ooo read!! Thanks Kwame Kyei-Baffour for the text!!

Other Notable Replies

• Agbemor Quoffie → Franklin Cudjoe: I thought you re that wise oo, after the coup makers overthrown Nkrumah what was their positive contribution to the Nation? Do you think about that?
• Bernard Tettey → Franklin Cudjoe: oyiwaa
• Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.: You credit Singapore for becoming a first-world country, yet you conveniently pretend they didn’t go the Nkrumah way to become what they are today.
• Kwaku Chicano → Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.: Not to talk of China…See what 60 years of misplaced diplomacy can do.
• Albert Dioyel Bakyille → Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.: The fighters for Kotoka to remain at the airport are not even united in the fight. Everyone and a different reason.
• Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr. → Albert Dioyel Bakyille: their reasoning is absurd
• Albert Dioyel Bakyille → Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.: Very!
• Desmond Nabas Adjaison → Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.: The premise of his argument is flawed to begin with. Who says that a one-party democracy is the same as a dictatorship, or that organized opposition (i.e., multiple political parties) is the only legitimate way to express dissent against a government? What abuses of power occurred under the CPP that we did not later see, in even worse form, under the NLC? Was Nkrumah infallible? No. But his government was no less democratic than the previous administration, despite its abuses. One-party democracy is still democracy.
• Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr. → Desmond Nabas Adjaison: thank you. And people make it sound like it was imposed when it was an act of parliament which even Nkrumah was not in agreement with.
• Esi Palmer Kanté → Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.: I like how you bring receipts to expose their hypocrisy. They should leave our Nkrumah alone.
• Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr. → Esi Palmer Kanté: it’s necessary
• Osuman Abdul Hafiz Einstein II → Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.: Chief Hydra
• Rami Kafeel Alhassan → Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.: Can you imagine that… You use such disturbing words and end by saying people should debate? Debate what…
• Ebenezer Annan: Well, as Prof. Akosa said sometime ago – the happenings at the time – made Kwame Nkrumah to tighten security around his government with the Preventive Detection Act, and other measures arising because of threats on his life…. He said some of the hard-line, oppressive acts were demanded at the time. The opposition elements, also found a way out…. If you ask me – it’s like the situation of Burkina Faso – Traore today….
• Yaw Dee → Ebenezer Annan: Nkrumah had absolute control over all the coercive apparatus of the state …. Except that he cld not provide evidence to show that indeed opposition were behind those attempts! How interesting.
• Kwaku Chicano → Ebenezer Annan: please do you care to elaborate- the Burkina bit.
• Kwaku Chicano → Ebenezer Annan: Ok…thanks
• Elvis Yaw Adjepong → Ebenezer Annan: well the records show that all the “threats” emanated from his own party yet he hunted perceived opponents most of whom were not members of his party. How abt that??
• Sleek Jay → Ebenezer Annan: Nkrumah was not a saint we heard stories also Charlie he did things
• Wilson Kofi Mensah Attitoe → Ebenezer Annan: or the situation in Togo
• Sleek Jay → Ebenezer Annan: didn’t u hear of the numerous things he did no man is a saint on earth that’s all I want you to know
• Kwadwo Kusi-Frimpong → Ebenezer Annan: Why did he start the Bawku conflict? Did Kulungugu bombing happen in a vacuum+
• Geoffrey Blewudzi → Ebenezer Annan: What would have been your reaction if the current government had implemented some of Nkrumah’s policies such One Party State and Preventive Detention Act?
• M S Amadu Husein → Ebenezer Annan: No! It was waisting money of a banana Island that founded independence and needed to develop a model for African countries that would follow. Instead he was micro managing beyond the weight. What was independence when we wouldn’t allow others to do it thier way. This theory of Black man being a brother against white isn’t thought through. After all we’re the only two race around and we’re human. The best was to reorganize and reintegerate as an equal partner to the west, and that way we may have carried other African countries to the world. A tiny city state Singapore got this respect doing it by themselves. Who was Nkrumah and Ghana then to want to intervene between America and Vietnam? Which of the world powers have tried stopping America from whipping a little country? They will sit there and complain. So Nkrumah overthrew himself for traveling there. Afterall, he wasn’t even qualify for a world leader yet. We were now subsisting on leftovers funds from the British.

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako → Franklin Cudjoe
My respected brother, Franklin Cudjoe, per your drift, would you agree with those who think that the ONLY WAY the banned/proscribed CPP, a party with a NATIONAL SPREAD, could ever have participated in competitive nation-wide elections was because of the successful execution of the treasonable Acheampong coup on January 13, 1972 and the subsequent SMC 2’s lifting of the ban on political parties after the failed UNIGOV Project by Acheampong?

There are “hard-core” CPPists and even Nkrumaists who have justified the 1972 coup on the basis that it “collapsed” the ban on their party. I have had a difficulty with aspects of their rationalization, though. However, principles being indivisible, I also have a difficulty with people who were/are opposed to One Party State and yet saw/see nothing wrong with the ban of the CPP and thousands of its members by the NLC on basis of advice/inputs from its political and legal associates many of whom were of the UP political stock!

One cannot and should not be against One Party State and yet endorse the banning of political parties with divergent ideological, political and philosophical orientations. If One Party State by Nkrumah was wrong, so was or can and must be the banning, proscription and prohibtion of the revival of CPP and the display/circulatuon of anything to do with the CPP and Nkrumah by the Busia-led PP dominated Parliament of the Second Republic! Or?

Have a blessed day, my brother!

Replies under Abdul Malik Kweku Baako

• Gerald Furivuore Badong-nye: Good one!!!
• Solomon Essel: Uncle Kweku you do all. God bless you.
• Bubu C. Klinogo: Senior, you sounded very neutral. I don’t get your exact position. Was Nkrumah a dictator? Did he try to make himself president for life? Was there a free and fair means or opportunity to remove him from office? Was the coup justified? Assuming without admitting that Nkrumah was a dictator, after removing him from office, I don’t think there was any justification to proscribe CPP or members of CPP from political office because I think Nkrumah and CPP were two separate and distinct ‘persons’ irrespective of the fact that the party was founded by Nkrumah.
• Fritz Baffour: well said
• Kweku Darko Ankrah: Uncle, l am even fuming with anger. Such a very daring display of mental shallowness in analysing a historical occurance. I am not gonna take Franklin Cudjoe serious again. Even me, who is not Nkrumahist, I feel insulted with this display of unforced ignorance of events of the past.
• Togbi Wenya III: respectfully, I was expecting a direct response from you to establish whether or not Nkrumah was murderous and Dictator. Again whether or not the coup was the only means available at the time to remove him. Assuming without admitting that all those things said about Nkrumah were true at the time, couldn’t it have been fair to allow the so called democracy being yearned for the reasons for his removal to have been enforced by allowing for a multi party election to be held to see whether the CPP is still the favored by Ghanaian people in the absence of their Founder? Why was his party disbanded and their properties confiscated? Considering the aftermath of the coup which resulted to further coups and murder/execution of others, is it still justified to describe Nkrumah as murderer and Dictator as put up by Franklin Cudjoe?
• Larry Gbevlo-Lartey: Very little more to add. Nkrumah Never Dies!
• Geoffrey Blewudzi: Both actions (ie the One Party State and the Banning of CCP) were wrong and undemocratic!!

Abbey Acquah → Franklin Cudjoe
My research focused on post-independent Ghana and I had the privilege to gather data in archive repositories both in Switzerland and Britain. Switzerland was important as Nkrumah was the Chairman of YMCA.

I do acknowledge some excess in Nkrumah’s administration. However, the many attempts by western leaders to undermine and subjugate what Nkrumah was doing, especially Pan-Africanism, was very shocking to me. I believe he had to do what he had to do especially when he gravitated towards the communist countries.

To your question, if the coup had achieved its intention, then that would have been a sound justification. Interestingly, one year into Afrifa’s regime, everything was going haywire that resulted in some military leaders calling for the return of Nkrumah.

George O. Asiedu → Abbey Acquah
You see the problem of you people, hypocrisy!! You acknowledged the excess and go on to say oh it was justifiable but we should crucify Kotoka. Wasn’t his actions too justifiable if the excess were to the extent that he even charged the Ghana flag to that of the CPP? You so scholars should spare us the hypocrisy. If Nkrumah’s heinous governance was justifiable, so as the coup too was needed. You can’t pick and choose what suits you and force it down our throats.

Kwesi Emmanuel Don → Abbey Acquah
tell him

Betos-Is Here → Franklin Cudjoe
Before you start, we must eschew the lies and the evil propaganda. Nkrumah was never a dictator. It’s a lazy attempt to tag Nkrumah to excuse their evil deeds and grand failure.

Kwadwo Kusi-Frimpong → Betos-Is Here
why did he ban the 1964 Presidential and Parliamentary elections? Imagine if Akuffo-Addo had done the same in 2024 and NPP was still in power.

Betos-Is Here → Kwadwo Kusi-Frimpong
refer to global politics at that time and how it was extremely important for all other countries that went on the path of one-party state. Compare those countries to Ghana.

Ko Ku → Betos-Is Here
Calling something propaganda doesn’t erase documented history. Preventive Detention Act, one-party state, banned opposition, detained critics. These are records, not insults. Acknowledging facts isn’t hatred; it’s honesty. Nkrumah’s role in independence is undeniable. So are the authoritarian aspects of his later governance. Mature history accepts both.

 

Ben Srem-Sai → Betos-Is Here
Think over this statement again. If KN couldn’t be called a dictator, then most of us have to go back to the classroom to learn ABCD. Someone who declared a Republic less than three years after independence and abolished all other parties and declared himself President for life, no vice, parliament was a rubber stamp and citizens, who opposed any of his acts and thought could be sent to jail, without trial for four years at the pleasure of the President? My friend, if this is not dictatorship, then we are not on this earth.

Edward Cobbinah → Betos-Is Here
was ghana not one party state and people could not face trials or crimes they have commited or not

Betos-Is Here → Edward Cobbinah
your democracy has yielded thievery, nepotism, tribalism. Bigotry.

Nana Tabiri → Betos-Is Here
how did Ghana become a one-party State?

Asonaba Kwasi Ogee-BenBen Owoahene-Acheampong → Nana Tabiri
The people voted through a referendum. It wasn’t forced on the people. China is a one party state. Singapore is also a one party state and they are both better than Ghana in miles. Democracy has many models.

Dominic Kwarteng → Nana Tabiri
what’s wrong with a one party state? What’s your understanding of democracy? Do you actually think that Uganda and Cameroon are more democratic than China?

Mawuli Ablor → Asonaba Kwasi Ogee-BenBen Owoahene-Acheampong
Some group of Ghanaians will choose the so called “Democratic”, corruption ridden Ghana over a communist China because there is something functionally wrong with our brains.

Nana Twene Tevez → Nana Tabiri
through voting it was people of Ghana who voted that,because there was no political parties rather than tribal movement at that time so we needed one party to lead us to somewhere like Chinese and all developed nations did.

Nana Tabiri → Dominic Kwarteng
Does China practice democracy and communism?? Do you know of any democratic country with only one party system??

Nana Tabiri → Nana Twene Tevez
you’re not serious! Who taught you that fabricated history? When did Ghana vote to have only one party system?? If that worked so well why don’t we do the same right now??

Dominic Kwarteng → Nana Tabiri
democracy is not only about political parties and elections

Nana Tabiri → Dominic Kwarteng
what is it about??

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Asonaba Kwasi Ogee-BenBen Owoahene-Acheampong
Should we reintroduce a One Party State in Ghana today?

Asonaba Kwasi Ogee-BenBen Owoahene-Acheampong → Geoffrey Blewudzi
It will be better and more cooperating than what we have today. We would be moving with one development agenda.

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Asonaba Kwasi Ogee-BenBen Owoahene-Acheampong
And you think Ghanaians will be happy with that?

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Dominic Kwarteng
But Nkrumah came to power through multi-party democracy!

Asonaba Kwasi Ogee-BenBen Owoahene-Acheampong → Geoffrey Blewudzi
The results of that is what will matter.

Abraham Asante → Geoffrey Blewudzi
It will even be better for us. Our biggest problem boss is not even corruption, but rather lack of policy continuity and long term planning and strategizing, which are guaranteed under a one party state.

Edward Cobbinah → Nana Tabiri
eiii so you dont even ghana flag ,he turned it cpp flag.he was life presidant so by now serkou nkrumah wouid have become presidant

Nana Tabiri → Edward Cobbinah
don’t mind the children of today! They don’t read history books!

Sleek Jay → Betos-Is Here
u were not there stop writing what you don’t know

Abdul Ganihu → Betos-Is Here
Were u der also , massa stop dis nonsense

Darkwah Mensah Williams → Betos-Is Here
you are very funny… what was the PDA about?
It’s not emotions but research

Oppong Noah → Darkwah Mensah Williams
please becareful on your contribution regarding Presiident Nkrumah , it may be a ploy by Franklin Cudjoe to tag you as an anti Nkumah against your party interest.

Agbemor Quoffie → Betos-Is Here
thank you

Doris Abla Anku → Betos-Is Here
what are the triats of a detector

Benard Rhussia Awumee
It will take only the intellectuals, objective minded ones and critical thinkers to debate this.

Charles Fafanyo – Davids
By 1966, Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah had become a one-party authoritarian state, where political dissent was crushed, the Preventive Detention Act was weaponized to imprison opponents arbitrarily, and traditional authorities, especially dissenting chiefs, were destooled for challenging the government. The very institutions designed to mediate governance and protect citizen rights had been subverted or neutralized. Nkrumah had transformed the nation into a political monoculture, where opposition, negotiation, or constitutional recourse were effectively impossible.

Attempts to oppose him politically or legally were not merely ineffective, they were dangerous. Political parties were banned, the press was censored, and public discourse was stifled. Nkrumah’s control over the state and its security apparatus meant that any internal challenge from within the system could not succeed without extraordinary risk to life and liberty. The tools of constitutional change had been systematically removed.

At that moment, General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka and his colleagues acted decisively. While coups are always violent, the 1966 intervention was the only mechanism available to restore political pluralism and prevent further entrenchment of authoritarianism. It opened space for inclusive governance, pluralistic debate, and constitutional evolution, things the nation had lost under Nkrumah. It is not hyperbole to assert that without their actions, Ghana might have endured decades of one-party rule, further economic collapse, and unaccountable governance.

Critics may point to the violent nature of the coup, but history shows us that reform or internal challenge was rendered impossible by the state itself. Unlike other nations where opposition can operate within institutional frameworks, Nkrumah had weaponized the very institutions designed to protect the people. As such, any moral or legalistic argument against the coup ignores the reality that Ghana’s survival as a functioning, pluralistic society was at stake.

History can only validates this action as a turning point. The coup halted the progression toward complete authoritarianism and set the stage for eventual constitutional democracy. While coups are not ideal, in the specific context of Ghana in 1966, it was the only effective tool left to dismantle Nkrumah’s oppressive regime.

In light of Nkrumah’s dictatorship, the weaponization of the law, the suppression of political opposition, and the erosion of civil institutions, the 1966 coup was not merely a political event, it was a necessary intervention. Without it, Ghana’s trajectory toward pluralistic democracy and national stability would have been impossible. History bears witness, the coup was, in that context, the only viable path to remove a murderous, dictatorial, and one-party state.

Abraham Asante → Charles Fafanyo – Davids
What has this pluralistic democracy given you? And just give me only one country under the sun that has developed with this multi-party (universal adult suffrage) democracy you people so cherish. Remember China is a one party state. So it no sin for a country to be one party state. Lee Quan Yew, Park Chun-Hee were all dictators then per your submission, so we should mention them when we’re talking about dictators too.

Charles Fafanyo – Davids → Abraham Asante
Today, you sit in your comfort room to be able to write this view because in the past someone stood up and said enough is enough, so yes, I have given you just one and it’s the most powerful thing of all.

Abraham Asante → Charles Fafanyo – Davids
It’s so sad that we have reduced development (economic) to mean being able to speak your mind. I think that’s the least when it comes to equipping your populace to contribute to national development. That’s the reason why we have only become a country of ‘talkertives’. What matters the most is being able to train your citizenry to be innovative and problem solvers. Some of which solutions can be turned into tangible products for exports. This our ‘talk only’ democracy is taking us no where. Countries we were better off than (Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines etc) are even passing us now in terms of economic development.

Charles Fafanyo – Davids → Abraham Asante
Do you know by 1966 our economy was running in the negatives? Did you know by 1966 all the state enterprises were running in the negatives?

Yushawu Issah → Charles Fafanyo – Davids
even there is authoritarianism in multi party system.

Brako-Nana Adusei
this is not true. Nkrumah won the 1951, 1954, 1956 and 1960 elections. the opposition could not win all the elections and they employed the coupists to do the job.

 

Kwadwo Kusi-Frimpong → Brako-Nana Adusei
Was there an election in 1960? It was a Plebiscite.
From 1960 to 1966, there was no Presidential and Parliamentary election.
Even worse he cancelled the 1964 parliamentary and presidential election and replaced it with a referendum on what party state.
MPs were assigned to constituencies they had never been to or even heard of. Nkrumah just made a dawn broadcast on such Parliamentary appointments.
Do grab a copy of Operation Cold Chop and The Ghana Coup.

Brako-Nana Adusei → Kwadwo Kusi-Frimpong
There were two voting programmes in 1960. The first one was a plebiscite to make Ghana a republic. The second was election to choose a president. Both the plebiscite and presidential elections were held the same day. In the presidential elections Kwame Nkrumah defeated JB Danquah by obtaining 89 percent of the votes. If you doubt it consult your teachers.

Darkwah Mensah Williams → Brako-Nana Adusei
does it change the fact that he became a dictator?
What was the essence of the PDA?

Bernard Tettey → Brako-Nana Adusei
even that does not justify the idea of a one party state. The Kotoka coup did more good than harm.

Kweku Darko Ankrah
I am reserving my comment because this thing you have written, Franklin Cudjoe shows your intellectual shallowness and historical myopic understanding of the period and aftermath.

Sena Alinco
I will choose Nkrumah-s dictatorship over your multi party system for Ghana any day! I am very proud of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his legacy.

Nana Tabiri → Sena Alinco
I agree!!
Many people didn’t have the vision he had! Others were distraction!

Nkabom Ebusua
Franklin, don’t being yourself. How dare you attack Dr Kwame Nkrumah this way? His policy is what laid the solid foundation for Ghana. You have a dictator in North America you admire, yet hate your own? Man, wake up. In any event, did Parliament not approve everything you accuse him of? Has Senate approved any of the policies your lover is implementing in US?

Dominic Kofi Anane
Even UNDER NANA ADDO we endured and coup didn’t happened

Kwadwo Kusi-Frimpong → Dominic Kofi Anane
did Nana Akuffo-Addo ban any Presidential and Parliamentary elections?
As for SALL please blame EC.

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Dominic Kofi Anane
Yes, there was no coup because the people knew that they would have a chance to change the bad governance of Akufo Addo. But under Nkrumah, there was no such opportunity!

Agbemor Quoffie → Dominic Kofi Anane
They even killed innocent people claiming their plotting coup with kitchen knives

Bernard Tettey → Dominic Kofi Anane
if he had dared introduce a one party state, my people would have removed him. We don’t tolerate nonsense. Kotoka never dies.

Samy Kweii → Dominic Kofi Anane
Gyimmie saaaa
Foolishness where is Nana.Addo in this?
Ask who built the modern musoleum for Nkrumah? Fool know that it was done by Nana Addo. Even during covid-19 Cocoa farmers got paid.
Ofui.

Robin Vulor
Your argument is based on what you’ve been told. Remember that in any historical accounts, the chronicler’s bias will reflect in the narration. so be guided

Lloyd Amoah → Robin Vulor
eshaaaaa paaaaaaaaassss. He thinks this is the voodoo neoclassical economics of Hayek and Von Mises and Atlas he SWOONS about

Robin Vulor → Lloyd Amoah
you blast

Lloyd Amoah → Robin Vulor
those are his ideological heroes by his admission

Sappey Agboh → Lloyd Amoah
What do you know about the Austrian School of Economics? Haven’t heard anyone referred to Von Hayek and Von Mises for a long time. I am a product of the Vienna University of Business and Economics, that’s why.

Joseph Onwona Appah → Robin Vulor
Tell us what you were told.

Robin Vulor → Joseph Onwona Appah
I can read tons of mischief in your request. My submission is simple. If you’re not in agreement that’s your cup of tea

Joseph Onwona Appah → Robin Vulor
Ow
I mean no harm ooo

Safohen Kwamena Enimil → Robin Vulor
You are absolutely right about this. All the glorifications we have heard about NK were tainted with the chronicler biases

Robin Vulor → Safohen Kwamena Enimil
I’m amazed how you could leave out the narrative of the UP tradition

Safohen Kwamena Enimil → Robin Vulor
eill consider that when they come up for discussion

Kwadwo Kusi-Frimpong → Robin Vulor
He banned both Parliamentary and Presidential elections scheduled for 1964.
Imagine if Akuffo-Addo had banned the 2024 presidential and Parliamentary elections and NPP had continued to rule. That one too dod it not happen?

Robin Vulor → Kwadwo Kusi-Frimpong
what happened before the autocratic rule, you woefully failed to talk about that. Please you can’t talk about Nkrumah’s rule without mentioning the part the opposition played to bring about authoritarian constitution of the day.

Edward Cobbinah → Robin Vulor
not what he is been told but is fact. even s.h.s curriculum books wnill tell you whathe did. in economy, social and political. was ghana not one party state that when dies his children will become presidant. he himself was voted into office by ballot box but made himself life presidant. did he not pass preventive detantion act. people go to jail without trials. you people should talk trueth at least

Robin Vulor → Edward Cobbinah
what happened before the autocratic rule, you woefully failed to talk about that. Please you can’t talk about Nkrumah’s rule without mentioning the part the opposition played to bring about authoritarian constitution of the day.

Havilah Kekeli
The first point of argument is to establish the necessity for the removal in the first place. Tell us how necessary it was to remove him.

Hotor Korsi
This debate will be wild
Funny enough many do not understand that Franklin Cudjoe is just raising a debate topic and not picking a side.

Bernard Tettey → Hotor Korsi
fake spokesman

Philip Sarpong
This matter … are you not scared to bring it up?

Kwame Torash → Philip Sarpong
tell me were Nkrumah became a dictator or a murderer

Kofi Kofi Ag Harrington
My political Science lecturer, Lawrence Quarshie asked a question; were the measures taken by Nkrumah against opposition parties and other decisions necessary or not? I didn’t answer.
But, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye , in one of his books affirmed that “the only way to change government at the time was only coup”. This statement he quoted directly from one of the leaders of the 1966 coup.
I’m just quoting someone

Bra Kwabena → Kofi Kofi Ag Harrington
ei Lawrence Quarshie

Sirr Dhaglex
We agree Nkrumah was a nation wrecker
They should bring the achievements of their Nation builder forefathers who overthrew him too let’s compare and contrast too, etsɔ̃ sane

Bernard Tettey → Sirr Dhaglex
the answer is JJ

Abdul-Hamid Boushirah
Well, history has, in many respects, vindicated Kwame Nkrumah. Several of his most vocal opponents, often invoking the language of democracy, were less motivated by principled constitutionalism than by personal ambition and the desire to occupy positions they believed were rightfully theirs. Their opposition frequently reflected elite rivalry rather than a coherent alternative vision for national development.
Subsequent historical experience has also created space for a reassessment of Ghana’s post-Nkrumah political trajectory. The return to multiparty democracy has not, in itself, produced the level of transformative socio-economic development envisioned at independence. This contrast highlights the extent to which Nkrumah combined ideological clarity with practical developmental planning, qualities that have proven difficult to replicate. It is therefore reasonable to argue that a more inclusive one-party framework during the early post-independence period might have enabled the consolidation of foundational state institutions and infrastructure before the transition to competitive multiparty politics. Such sequencing could have strengthened the state against later predatory political behaviour, ensuring resilience even amid self-serving political elites.
Finally, Nkrumah’s governing style must be understood within the context of persistent internal and external threats. Having survived multiple assassination attempts, it was neither irrational nor unprecedented for him to adopt a heightened security posture. History demonstrates that transformative leaders rarely govern by universal conciliation alone. Actors actively seeking a leader’s removal, particularly, those later identified in foreign intelligence records cannot be equated with benign dissenters committed solely to the national interest.

Kwame Torash → Abdul-Hamid Boushirah
you are blessed my sister, even till today, the likes of Germany, India, Denmark, Singapore, Israel and co still have preventive detention act in their books to deter political unrest in their various countries, why are we better off than them with regards to our so called rule of law? Never, there were so many assassination attempt on Nkrumah that led to many children and innocent Ghanaians losing their lives, so these people wanted Nkrumah not to act? I always have this thought that Nkrumah was too gentle on them, so likes of Franklin Cudjo thinks this so called multi party democracy that a group of people organised themselves to win power and loot the country and get away with it with their so called rule of law is democratic? apuuutooo

Tchamuzah Zia-ulhaq Igwe → Kwame Torash
Boushirah is lady.

Tchamuzah Zia-ulhaq Igwe → Abdul-Hamid Boushirah
Apt!

Ben Srem-Sai → Abdul-Hamid Boushirah
Eeiee, brofo nie? Just trying to bambully all into submission? Please know that, the survival of one person and his actions against the interest of the whole people is a primitive instrument, used by unpopular dictators. The history of Ghana was written by people cohered by the power that be, to create a Saint out of a devil and a hardened selfish individual, full of unattainable desires, yet fostered it upon the poor people of Ghana at those times. A dictator is a person who cares for the survival of himself and his thoughts, whether good or not, to the disadvantage of the people.

Isaac Otuson → Abdul-Hamid Boushirah
well elaborated. Thank you very much

Jesse Atsrim Bridge-Wartters Jnr → Abdul-Hamid Boushirah
brilliant submission

Asiwome Dzakuma
You got to understand history with comparative analysis of countries like Singapore and Malysia to effectively debate.

Obed Osei-Nyansah
Thank you Senior.

Kojo Black
The statement is clearly conclusive on the biases of the proponent.
Let’s agree to disagree.

Amato B YW
Which of his compatriots was not declared life president? Was it Julius Nyerere, Houphouet Boingny, Keneth Kaunda, Abdou Diof, Jomo Kenyatta? Some may argue, and rightly so that democracy is a western ideal foisted on Africa at a time we were not adequately prepared. We knew kings and chiefs whose rule is not tied to terms but for a lifetime. Simple!

Gerald Anthony Freduah-Agyemang
When we defend our feelings, bigotry, reason and principles are shoved aside.

Edward Bonku
Why is only one coup being selected for DEBATE. Expand the set to look at what coups and why coups. The generalization will reveal a fundamental ISSUE!

Ziad Hamoui
Kwame Nkrumah was deposited during his trip to Hanoi. It was documented in the declassified CIA archives. You can try to look for less painful ways to narrate the story. You might even argue that Osagyeifo was becoming very difficult in his last days, but it was never the reason he was eliminated.

Obaa Guy Guy
N it would av been the best decision Ghana could av ever made to bring development cos he was doing way better than any other president Ghana has ever had….even in 2026 we r applauding Ibrahim Traore for banning all political parties to help develop his country n we all can see how development is moving faster there in Burkina Faso….

Joseph Tiero
A man survives over three assassination attempts, tightens his security, trusts less and give little chance and is labelled a dictator?
Hmmmmm

Van Bright Amosah-Kodom → Joseph Tiero
Right on

Bernard Tettey
Wow! I love the discourse here. Very very intellectual.
The coup by Kotoka and co. was justified because Ghana was not a personal inheritance of Nkrumah so he had no right to impose a one party rule on the good people of Ghana no matter the circumstances. Nkrumah made a mistake; a false move and he paid dearly for it. Kotoka, to many of us, is a hero because even though he did not live to enjoy it, that ’66 coup paved the way for what we are enjoying today. JJ Rawlings came to accomplish what he initiated ie to restore true democracy to Ghana our motherland. After all, our national anthem encourages us to resist the oppressor’s rule with all our will and might forever more.
God bless our homeland Ghana.

Isaac Osei Kofi → Bernard Tettey
You’re damned right Franklin Cudjoe. Even in God’s abode there was WAR before peace prevailed.

Kwame Torash → Isaac Osei Kofi
was Nkrumah not peaceful? If no then tell me what he did

Bawatuwey Ntigiyelsim Nsorwinne Amenga-Etego
In the annals of history there comes a moment that shakes the earth that we walk on and momentous things happen. That momentous time is upon us ! The Kotoka International Airport shall revert back to its original name: The Accra International Airport(AIA). Shalom! It is finished!

Mawumenyo Kulioh Kulewosi
Written by Akeneweo Kabiru Abdul Why Ghanaians Embraced the Kotoka Coup: A Historical Perspective..

1. I have read some strange and careless justifications for the proposed renaming of the Kotoka International Airport to Accra International Airport, and I cannot fathom such reasoning. If the argument is that because General E. K. Kotoka led the coup d’état that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah, his name should be erased from a national institution, then that argument is not only historically dishonest but morally flawed. Kotoka’s actions cannot be judged in isolation from the conditions that made the 1966 coup widely popular and, at the time, deeply necessary.
2. By the mid-1960s, Ghana was no longer a thriving democracy. Political repression had become the norm under Nkrumah’s Preventive Detention Act (1958), which allowed the government to imprison citizens indefinitely without trial (Apter, 1965). Many of those detained were not criminals but respected politicians and intellectuals. Dr. J. B. Danquah, a founding father of Ghanaian nationalism and member of the Big Six, was imprisoned and ultimately died in Nsawam Prison in 1965. Others, such as William Ofori Atta, R. R. Amponsah, and K. A. Busia, were detained or forced into exile. These actions created an environment where fear replaced public debate, and ordinary citizens understood that dissent meant personal danger (Austin, 1964; Rooney, 1988).
3. Nkrumah also targeted traditional authority, undermining chiefs who resisted CPP dominance. A notable example was Nana Sir Ofori Atta II, the Okyehene of Akyem Abuakwa, who faced political pressure and was effectively forced to abdicate in 1958 (Austin, 1964). Across the country, other chiefs were destooled, denied recognition, or intimidated for opposing CPP policies. By weakening traditional governance structures, Nkrumah alienated large sections of rural Ghana, intensifying public resentment and social instability (Arhin, 1985).
4. The political environment was further poisoned by the one-party state. By 1964, Ghana had formally become a one-party nation, and by 1965, Parliament consisted exclusively of CPP members. This eliminated electoral competition and parliamentary scrutiny, turning governance into an executive-dominated command system (Apter, 1965). The press had no freedom, and newspapers critical of government policy were shut down. Pastors, civil servants, academics, and journalists were monitored constantly, while citizens learned that criticizing the government could mean imprisonment without trial. In this context, constitutional change or democratic challenge had become impossible.
5. Corruption was another defining feature of Nkrumah’s later years. Despite the government’s socialist rhetoric, senior CPP officials enjoyed privileged access to state assets, contracts, and properties, while ordinary Ghanaians struggled to survive. State corporations, including the Ghana National Trading Corporation and the State Fishing Corporation, were frequently used to enrich party loyalists. The stark contrast between the regime’s public egalitarian message and the private enrichment of its elites deepened public anger (Rooney, 1988).
6. Economically, Ghana was in decline. Inflation had soared, foreign exchange reserves were nearly exhausted, and basic goods were increasingly scarce (Killick, 1978). Poverty was widespread. Rural villages lacked roads, clinics, and access to basic services, while the little development was confined to Accra, Tema, and Takoradi. Agriculture, which supported the majority of Ghanaians, was neglected except for small-scale state farms and the Workers’ Brigade, neither of which alleviated rural hardship (Austin, 1964). The ordinary citizen was left to endure hunger, scarcity, and economic frustration on a daily basis.
7. It was against this backdrop that Kotoka and his colleagues acted on 24 February 1966. The coup was celebrated by urban & rural populations, professional classes, and even large sections of the military and police. Political prisoners were released, fear subsided, and public debate returned. There was no nationwide uprising in defense of the CPP; there was relief, hope, and renewed optimism. The popularity of the coup reflected a clear public verdict: Ghanaians had suffered enough under repression, corruption, and economic mismanagement.
8. Kotoka did not overthrow Nkrumah when Ghana was prosperous. He acted when the country was impoverished, politically suffocated, and socially tense. To label him a miscreant today without acknowledging these historical realities is to insult both history and the lived experiences of Ghanaians of that era. The 1966 coup, controversial as it may be, was a response to systemic failure, and its popularity underscores the deep national demand for change.
9. We must confront our history with honesty. Erasing Kotoka’s name from a national edifice while ignoring the political oppression, economic hardship, and institutional decay that defined Nkrumah’s later years is selective memory and political convenience. Ghanaians embraced Kotoka because he represented the possibility of relief, restoration of freedom, and a chance for the nation to breathe again. That is a fact that cannot, and should not, be ignored.

Albert Johnson → Mawumenyo Kulioh Kulewosi
you’re a coward who post without allowing public debate or comments on your posts. Your posts are without facts – so so fabrication. You’re such a tribal bigot who calls northerners “cattle boys and watchmen”. You’re such a sick trouble “inflammator.” You go repost your lies about Nkrumah taya. Nkrumah is incomparable. Without Kotoka, Ghana would never have probably experience a coup d’état. He set that murderous example in Ghana. A wicked man no Ghanaian kid should ever remember for anything but a traitor. All other coup d’état was independent. His was to sell Ghana to the CIA. A traitor Ghanaians forever will spat at his name. Nkrumah is immortal. Almost every country in Africa has a street or institution named after him. Nkrumah was voted African of the last millennium. Which school did you attend? It was probably built by Nkrumah. Who knows kotoka apart from the airport which we will wipe his name off. Your propaganda about so much money left for Ghana which Nkrumah wasted is a lie. Of all the countries the British colonized, it’s only Ghana they left trillions of pounds? Ridiculous!

Jo X → Mawumenyo Kulioh Kulewosi
the last part of this write-up also gave out the writer on how bias he put his words. The writer never highlighted nor justified the achieved intentions of the coup. What exactly happened after Afrifa took power?

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Mawumenyo Kulioh Kulewosi
Great!

Bernard Tettey → Mawumenyo Kulioh Kulewosi
pls add wisdom to your name A+

Mawumenyo Kulioh Kulewosi → Bernard Tettey
thanks for your kind words but I didn’t write it

Bernard Tettey → Mawumenyo Kulioh Kulewosi
Aww but you posted it. You deserve some commendation.

Mawumenyo Kulioh Kulewosi → Bernard Tettey
thanks

Maame Esi Franny
Ghana’s history must be told undiluted.
Yeah… Lessons should be taken from our history

Ahmed Sayibu
Was the one party state constitutional or not

Aloysius Ayinzemi
This was a debate for our History class in Secondary School. “Was the 66 Over throw of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Justified”? I concluded that it was Justified.

Kwame Torash → Aloysius Ayinzemi
tell me why it was justified

Xteve Morgan
It was justified.it happened at the right time. Changing a country that practices multi-party democracy into one party state and declaring yourself as president for life, people were jailed without a trial etc and you think if such government is overthrown is not justifiable?

Etto Kena Pataku
Needless, at this Era. It’s Past a d gone!!!!!

Seth Kemetse → Etto Kena Pataku
no history lessons then? Getting stuck in ignorance, isn’t a reasonable alternative

Etto Kena Pataku → Seth Kemetse
HISTORY IS ALREADY WRITTEN, NO ALTERNATIVE NEED AT THIS POINT WHILES WE ON OUR WAY TO MARS!

Seth Kemetse → Etto Kena Pataku
laughable going to Mars, without history, serving as a guide and point of reference in gathering information about the way forward

Cobby Linquist
Until today I thought you were ………,

Czla Baah → Cobby Linquist
same here

Tetteh Kweku Dzangba → Cobby Linquist
Exactly. I’m highly disappointed

Fiifi Pee HD → Cobby Linquist
sensible?

Dess Kwaku Richards → Cobby Linquist
…wise

Kugbe Shepherd → Cobby Linquist
maybe he’s working for the ÇîÂ? Who might know

Safohen Kwamena Enimil
Does this call for any debate?

Ko Ku → Safohen Kwamena Enimil
yes it does. No insults, no tribal baiting. Let’s debate cause and effects

Safohen Kwamena Enimil → Ko Ku
ok

Mark Mawu
Your history teacher did a bad job.

Yaw Nsarkoh → Franklin Cudjoe
My brief contribution:
Why did Ivoriens, Malawians, Zambians, Tanzanians, etc, manage to end one party rule without coups? But we believe, or some seem to think, Ghanaians needed a coup to do so?

Axel Wiseman → Yaw Nsarkoh
why did Nkrumah also hatch these dictatorial ideas? What went through his head sef? What did he take Ghanafoɔ for? Imbeciles?

Franklin Cudjoe → Yaw Nsarkoh
perhaps they were timorous souls?

Bernard Tettey → Yaw Nsarkoh
Newton’s third law

Lloyd Amoah
Look at this libertarian, neoliberalist imperialist and Trump lover talking about dictatorship and death and murder. Anokwa!

Kwame Sarpong Asiedu → Lloyd Amoah
you won’t make it to heaven. Lol

Lloyd Amoah → Kwame Sarpong Asiedu
noooo. I want it here

Kwame Sarpong Asiedu → Lloyd Amoah
here sefff you go struggle with this sort of behaviour.

Kweku Ortsin → Lloyd Amoah
the irony; the parody; the travesty!!! Ahhhhh!!!!!

Kwame Sarpong Asiedu → Kweku Ortsin
another prodigal son. Lol

Kester Aburam Korankye → Lloyd Amoah
abotare

Odehye Kwasi Yeboah → Lloyd Amoah
Prof, don’t mind Franklin. See how agitated he was with SALL. By now, he would have been calling for the country’s name to be changed from Akanland to whatever. Despite Nkrumah’s flaws, he is the greatest thing that ever happened to Ghana.

Isu Mustapha Dadzie → Lloyd Amoah
lol.

Henry Moses K Bekialoge → Lloyd Amoah
, bam. I reserve a seat for you beside our creator.

Nana Anoff → Lloyd Amoah
more fire Boss

Nkabom Ebusua → Lloyd Amoah
Franklin Cudjoe is worse than a CIA agent.

Worlanyo Gilbert Ametepee → Franklin Cudjoe
I heard those days, Dr Kwame Nkrumah has an idol called “Kaka-nyame” which was a source of power to suppress his opponent. How true is this story?

Abeku Adams Ekumfi → Worlanyo Gilbert Ametepee
You bear the surname of a MURDERER who attempted to assassinate the President but missed and murdered Salifu Dagarti as your middle name (Ametepee/Ametewee). I Would avoid this kind of conversation if I were you. He was found guilty by court of competent jurisdiction and sentence to death.

Worlanyo Gilbert Ametepee → Abeku Adams Ekumfi
without this conversation, I couldn’t have known I bear a surname of murderer. We can’t run away from our history and expect younger generations to preserve it

Alfred Cobbold → Abeku Adams Ekumfi
Maybe he is his grandchild

King-Kweku Wiredu
That’s a technical knockout

Ko Ku → Abeku Adams Ekumfi
Dragging surnames and unrelated individuals into a discussion is intimidation, not argument. Let’s stick to facts. This discussion is about history, not personal threats or family names.

Ko Ku → King-Kweku Wiredu
that was lame honestly

King-Kweku Wiredu
Why don’t you name your children after Judas, Hitler

Talata Ashong → Abeku Adams Ekumfi
thank God Ghanaians can read and write

Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr. → Worlanyo Gilbert Ametepee
That narrative was based on misinformation. Nkane Nkane Nyame means the God of old. Nkrumah was grounded in his African heritage and did not bow to foreign Gods.

Nana Apah Kusi → Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr.
That’s not accurate! Kankan is a town in Guinea. Nkrumah had a friend herbalist from there. He was powerful and used herbs for treatment. His political opponents used that opportunity as propaganda to tell the people that Nkrumah had brought a god from Guinea (Kankan) to Ghana, hence the name Kankan Nyame (The god from Kankan).

Prevailer Simplicity → Worlanyo Gilbert Ametepee
It was a complete lie. My dad of blessed memory once told me Kwame Nkrumah had a gym room where he exercised, and when he went in and sweated, this made them think so. It was all planned against Kwame Nkrumah by the Dankwa-Bussia elements at the time. They said all manner of lies against Kwame Nkrumah just to get him out of their way.

Godson Annan → Worlanyo Gilbert Ametepee
It was a lie spread by the opposition to discredit Ghana’s first president, the Osagyefo. They even tried on JJ.

King-Kweku Wiredu
Go for refund of your school fees; you deserve every pesewa.

Yeboah Boakye Stephen
No debate about this. Anybody who doubts this should read about Busia’s history.

Robin Vulor → Yeboah Boakye Stephen
Reading this book is a non-starter since you’re never going to get a dispassionate narrative.

Cyril Badduh → Yeboah Boakye Stephen
Busia is your authority? Come on, the joke is too much.

Ronny Thompson
You want us to trust a narrative coming from Busia as sacrosanct?

Kwesi Oppong Archer
Ah, Franklin Cudjoe paaa. I forgive you.

Ko Ku → Kwesi Oppong Archer
Ghanaians always put emotions over facts. Your comment proves that.

Alhaji Iddi Muhayu-Deen
Fact.

Larry Gbevlo-Lartey → Franklin Cudjoe
How old were you at the time? Were you a member of the renowned Young Pioneers Movement where I acquired the skill of boxing and imbibed discipline?

Prevailer Simplicity → Larry Gbevlo-Lartey
Uncle is here some.

Terry Mensah-Glover → Larry Gbevlo-Lartey
Thank you, uncle. The line.

Vera Kpeto → Larry Gbevlo-Lartey
I doubt if he was.

Senyo Gbedawo → Larry Gbevlo-Lartey
Franklin Cudjoe defending a coup as the only alternative is bizarre. Is it that a smooth political operative couldn’t challenge the Nkrumah administration to the point of winning power? Justifying a coup because of the time when you know the coup was not homegrown but the administration was under attack from you know where. Are you going to justify the situation about Iran too?

Dadz Dadz
He is just looking for trends, or he has been paid to defame him. Many don’t want us to appreciate our own.

Dramani Abdulai
That would have been better than our over 60 years of jokes.

Kwame Amoanyi → Franklin Cudjoe
Uncle, you dey worry too much.

Julius RK Sowu
Will debating events from 1966 lower my grocery bill? Grin

Dzifah Hiatsi → Julius RK Sowu
This one and a wide.

Kantinka → Julius RK Sowu
He’s not put a gun to your head to debate, has he?

Charles Narimah → Julius RK Sowu
And the change in the name of the airport will?

Bernard Tettey → Julius RK Sowu
Selfish.

Ko Ku
We can’t have this debate because most Ghanaians argue with emotions and feelings. Present them with facts and they start insulting you. No wonder they say to hide something from a black man, put it in a book.

Nana Effahjnr → Franklin Cudjoe
You then, Nkrumah deɛ ibi like he chop your girlfriend in your dream. Eeeei Braa Cudjo.

Samy Kweii
So are we going to change these names too? Du Bois Center? Sankara Circle? George Bush Highway? Akoko Photo? Rawlings Park? Efua Southerland Park? Swanlake? And Jubilee House? Is it clear now?

Citizen Ofosu Agyemang
Bro, I understand your mischief, but you should have put those descriptions in inverted commas lest it seem that is a correct/truthful narrative.

Bennet Edem Akorley
We needed him at that time… let us do the comparison and stop the misinformation. Who developed with the so-called democracy? We forever idolize and immortalize Nkrumah—a leader far ahead of his peers in those days.

Kofi Okyere-Darko
What kinda response do you want/expect based on your choice of words? Let me sit back and observe…

Elisha Quamina Nketiah
Those traitors who painfully destroyed Ghana’s progress in Nkrumah’s time are here today seeking to finish us kwatakwata. Then they will leave the country in another land as illegal aliens.

Kobina Andah Andakwei → Franklin Cudjoe
You got the Nkrumah narrative wrong. Can you tell us which country in the world ever developed based on multi-party democracy, especially just after gaining independence? If you were Nkrumah, what would you do with anti-development and hostile opposition throwing bombs and plotting to assassinate you, whilst the opposition joined hands with dictators in Ivory Coast and Togo to fight the Osagyefo? I am surprised you claimed Nkrumah created huge debt. His PPP policy favored many Ghanaian entrepreneurs. The 1966 coup was unnecessary and the bane of our underdevelopment. By Nkrumah’s blueprint, Ghana was supposed to attain middle-income status by 1972. Nkrumah is an institution, not an individual.

Ato Apronti
True.

Papa Abekah Wonkyi
Ɛne ye ne.

Nicholas Asamoah
After the coup, what have we achieved?

Kazzy Akwaa Mensah Adjei
Let’s begin with an uncomfortable but necessary question: if Ghana’s one-party system was introduced through a national referendum, how exactly was it undemocratic? A referendum is one of the purest expressions of democracy… [continues detailed explanation of political context].

Eric Loloh White
Such a megalomaniac character.

Sulemana Mohammed Awal
Why are we quick to label Nkrumah a “dictator” without considering the constant threat to his life? Dambisa Moyo: Africa does not need a multi-party democracy to develop but a benevolent dictator.

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Sulemana Mohammed Awal
Someone who introduced a party state should not be called a dictator?

Yushawu Issah
If so, every coup is justified. There are reasons for every coup.

Abdallah Adam
Trying to discredit Nkrumah is like hitting your leg on a rock; match him with all past and present leaders, Nkrumah still stands tall.

Czla Baah
My father said stupid people grow old too.

Franklin Cudjoe → Czla Baah
True. Are you younger?

State Man
ɛne yɛn nnɛ.

Bismark Dzro
In that consideration, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages; betrayals like Judas existed even then, so of course he would have ensured protection.

Alex Abaka-Jacobs
Look at you too. Kpordawe loo.

Godfred Bennet Turkson
All coups mongers after him did better in terms of development!

James Amissah Ocran
African of the Millennium in 1999/2000: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and leading Pan-Africanist.

Holy Angelon
This agenda is championed by the sankwas.

Mawal Abdallah
Nkrumah was right to implement policies his opponents considered wrong. A one-party state led by a visionary is far better than a democracy dominated by corrupt elites.

Muddassir Ibn Yussuf
This Franklin Cudjoe guy is possibly working for the CIA.

Kwabena Adomako → Muddassir Ibn Yussuf
They should get him to the USA and help him then?

Akwasi Mpanyinsem
It took over sixty years for about 25% of Ghanaians to understand Nkrumah’s vision… [continues detailed reasoning about global examples].

Papa Agyingo
Know who the heroes worth celebrating in this nation are. Those who acted by their conviction in national interest are more worthy.

Nana Yaw Konadu
Dr may be or may not be a dictator, but I have come to understand the NPP and how they do politics. Take what they say with a pinch of salt.

Nana Kweku Boasiako → Nana Yaw Konadu
You won’t read to understand but just attack NPP… PNDC/NDC ruined lives, destroyed properties, and killed hundreds for 19 years under Rawlings. The NPP fought to break Rawlings’ dictatorship.

Kofi Sevor → Franklin Cudjoe
Thank you so much. The man had a bad side, but we only talk about the good side. It was recognized by the military then, hence his overthrow.

Amasah Inusah
That’s a fact.

Aminu DeGovernor Speaks → Amasah Inusah
You’re doing praise singing here. Haven’t you been insulting him?

Seidu Baluri Abdulrahman → Aminu DeGovernor Speaks
Can’t we insult and praise at the same time?

Amasah Inusah → Aminu DeGovernor Speaks
Reasoning with him doesn’t amount to praise.

Rauf Mohammed
Will comment when the traditional chiefs of that time speak.

Talata Ashong
So now tell us any good legacy of those who overthrew him, so we compare.

Alomo Gyata
Dr Kwame Nkrumah wasn’t a dictator; he was forced to work within a dictatorial structure left by colonialism.

Alhassan Mbalba
Shakespeare observed that when treason prospers, none dare call it treason. In the same vein, when dictatorship prospers, none dare call it dictatorship.

Eric Amegashie
Gyimii Saanomuaaa, where do I begin with you, you’re so dumb it’s scary. Apuu!

Daniel Yidana → Franklin Cudjoe
I agree in principle. The only way a coup leader who will not hand over to democracy quickly or willingly step down is through another coup.

Wayo Foster
What good did the multi-party system serve us?

Gakpo Reuben
Whatever necessitated Kwame Nkrumah’s removal is not relevant today. Let us project his name as the world accepts it rather than feeding negative narratives.

Desmond Atiliya → Gakpo Reuben
We are still benefiting from his major infrastructural projects. If we call his government murderous, what do we call these ones we have?

Kofi Dzoko
Today, one might expect that Nkrumah’s descendants would be managing the country’s affairs. Nkrumah was regarded as a hero during a specific period, as was Kotoka. There was nationwide celebration upon Nkrumah’s removal.

Joseph Ntsiful → Franklin Cudjoe
The last time I read news about you, I heard you are suffering from Parkinson’s disease, so I will treat your post as such. Adwin no nye edwuma.

Justice Aneel → Joseph Ntsiful
You went too far. He shared his thoughts on history; you should counter this without going this route.

Joseph Ntsiful → Justice Aneel
He said the first president of Ghana is a traitor, murderer, etc. If these fools don’t stop to accord our national heroes, we will equally insult them.

Joseph Ntsiful
Do you know what Dr Kwame Nkrumah did for Africans? Like, he won’t talk loose about him.

Daniel Kofi Abu → Franklin Cudjoe
Let me be very clear: I am an unapologetic supporter of Kwame Nkrumah and his ideology. I do not romanticize the past blindly. Yes, Nkrumah turned Ghana into a one-party state and declared himself President for Life. Those facts are not lost on me. Yet even with full awareness of his excesses, I would still have preferred Nkrumah as our president till this day… [continues with detailed achievements and generational impact].

Moses Nutekid
And where did it take us?

Eric Woode

Joseph Korto
Murderous? How and why was he killing people if those people didn’t want him dead? Dictatorial: what has democracy really done for us but create unnecessary competition and waste of resources? One-party state: if he said your party needs to be national rather than ethnic, what exactly is his crime? Today we envy Singapore, Malaysia, and China yet we love democracy?

Paul Kofi Adegah
I disagree. Ghana was under many international conventions then. The opposition could have sought assistance from UN bodies. Those conventions abhor coups to overthrow a constitutionally elected president.

Tetteh Kweku Dzangba
Which Franklin Cudjoe is making this assertion? The same was said about Lumumba, Gaddafi, Sankara, Cabral, and Troare—they all suffered the same malicious propaganda.

Ti Ti → Tetteh Kweku Dzangba
He won’t, by his Grace.

Daniel Tee
Kotoka is a household name. Even the Ga have no problem with it because it sounds belonging. Many musicians have composed music with it. There’s something behind that name. The NDC can lose votes because of that name change as Kotoka is seen as a hero in the Volta region as well as Osagyefo himself.

Ti Ti → Daniel Tee
Lose what votes? Does it change the fact that he was a traitor and shouldn’t be celebrated?

Daniel Tee → Ti Ti
This change of name is deeper than the emotions and sentiments of betrayal some of you are talking about. Our elders taught us good things about Osagyefo and that Kotoka was a hero at that time.

Ti Ti → Daniel Tee
Show us one achievement from Kotoka for just the Voltarians?

Daniel Tee → Ti Ti
Gowayu. I thought you were level-headed. Just get out of my space.

Ti Ti → Daniel Tee
I’m asking a question; if you can’t answer, you can ignore. Hero without achievement?

Daniel Tee → Ti Ti
Ti Ti Jimijimi. U are part of the people who made Ghana to be ranked low in terms of IQ. U think building a monument is the only thing that can lead to one’s recognition in society? Service is key. Anamu.

Ti Ti → Daniel Tee
Daniel Tee I said his achievement did I mention monument? Kwasiafui u
No suppose talk about IQ if u can’t differentiate between Achievement and monument. Go back and take ur school fees Ofui.

Daniel Tee → Ti Ti
Ti Ti ignoramus. U just a fool and I won’t argue with a fool. Period.

Talata Ashong → Daniel Tee
Daniel Tee pls don’t lie

Ti Ti → Talata Ashong
Don’t him he’s a f00l

Daniel Tee → Ti Ti
About what exactly

Kojo Agbanu → Everyone
By 1966, Nkrumah had established a one-party state, suppressing opposition through the Preventive Detention Act and controlling the press, judiciary, and legislature. With political and legal avenues closed, peaceful removal of his dictatorial rule was impossible. The military coup was therefore the only practical way to end his authoritarian regime, restore political freedom, and prevent further oppression.
On the other hand, while Nkrumah’s government had authoritarian features, the 1966 military coup was not the only way to remove him. The coup suspended the constitution, dissolved parliament, and replaced civilian dictatorship with military rule, creating political instability. Peaceful alternatives, such as internal party reform, gradual liberalization, or mass civil resistance, could have challenged his one-party state without undermining democracy. Moreover, the coup set a dangerous precedent for repeated military interventions in Ghana, delaying the development of stable democratic institutions and long-term political freedom.
In conclusion, I believe civilians taking the law into their own hands back then could have had a more positive outcome other than the military takeover.

Mawuli Ablor → Everyone
In China, there’s only one party ie CCP. How developed is Ghana than China. Do you call the Chinese President a dictator? Some of people erh…..

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Mawuli Ablor
Should we have one party in Ghana today?

Kweku Acquaah-Harrison → Everyone
On point. One thing one can never do is to ignore the facts of history or rewrite his own version years after the event with his own set of facts. Reviewed for convenience.

Elvis Arhin Bentil → Everyone
What would you have done if you were in Nkrumah’s shoes, facing stiff opposition from people you perceive as detractors in realizing your vision?

Ask Nankong Citizen Kaba → Everyone
If there is one thing I admire about you, then it is certainly your love for your kinsmen. You can go to any extent to defend them. Kudos

Kantinka → Everyone
So he don’t like a dictator but he loves a coup maker? Nice, make it make sense.
After being shot at, going to prison and series of attempts made on his life and finally getting independence for us, he should have left Ghana to those greedy lazy good-for-nothing fools in the name of democracy right? U people

Wilson Kofi Mensah Attitoe → Everyone
And Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia wanted to come into government by all means.

Alex Blege → Everyone
Even before Nkrumah became dictatorial, there were attempts on his life. Lives were lost because some group of people wanted to kill Nkrumah….

Robert Fianyo → Everyone
The police and the armed forces that were to protect Dr. Kwame Nkrumah became an existential threat to him. In such a political environment what must the leader do? Go after people he suspected to be the masterminds. At this point, the leader must be ruthless to deter others from attempting to assassinate him and to secure himself and ensure stability of the country.
So Nkrumah’s decisions, draconian as they are, have to be understood within the context he took such decisions.

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Robert Fianyo
Remember, PDA was introduced as early as 1958!

Sewornu Mensah → Everyone
Please show me just one country that’s developed today that hasn’t gone through the hands of a dictator?

Geoffrey Blewudzi → Sewornu Mensah
So should we have a dictator today for development to thrive?

Sewornu Mensah → Geoffrey Blewudzi
No. Most countries have gone through that stage already. We need not demonise our past dictators without studying the political environment at the time.

Stephen Dodzi Kwablagah → Everyone
God bless you.

Lilian Akosua Bediako → Everyone
Facts checked.
Ghana’s Dr. Kwame Nkrumah still stands tall in the whole world.
Godfather JB Danquah ends in Danquah Circle in Osu ~Accra

Alex Adjei Yeboah → Everyone
I have been saying these

Realboy Busia → Everyone

Nuel Baiden → Everyone
https://www.theinsightnewsonline.com/the-origin-and-case-for-preventive-detention-under-nkrumah/
Upon all these terrorizing acts, you expected the Nkrumah regime to allow the miscreants to continue their business as usual. I am certain that you supported the Patriots act passed by the USA after 9/11. How different is that from the PDA? Smh

Darko Antwi → Everyone
“It appears that the infamous coup of 1966 was not largely the conception and execution of some white men in the middle, but from deep-seated animosity for economic paralysis. But was a coup d’état the only way to have registered our disdain for untoward economic and abusive behaviour?”

Franklin Cudjoe → Everyone
Quoted from his speech at the 3rd Freedom Power Lecture, held at Coconut Regency Hotel, Accra.

Manuel Osei → Everyone
Ɛne mo nnɛ

Pops Quaye → Franklin Cudjoe
Franklin, have you been hacked?

Ing Edem Danny → Everyone

Dennis Gawuga → Everyone
The geopolitics at the time and Western posture towards independent-minded African countries needed a strong arm to lead. See Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore. The Western ideology of free democracy was the same tool used to infiltrate our ranks and sow seeds of betrayal amongst us to our detriment. Nkrumah started at the same time as Lee. To be able to forge ahead strongly and make progress required what we call dictatorship at the time.

Abdul-Razak Mumuni → Everyone
The murderous tactics adopted by the then opposition compelled Nkrumah to adopt dictatorial measures to protect himself.

Elvis Taabavi → Abdul-Razak Mumuni
Thank you Franklin Cudjoe

Muhsin Islam Sulleyman → Abdul-Razak Mumuni
Agree

Kofi Aboagye → Everyone
Read Afrifa’s letter to Gen. I. K Acheampong. Prophetic!
[Letter text omitted for brevity—full text available in original post]

Prempeh Owusu → Everyone
aww..He was sensing danger ahead..

Awaafo Zakari Khaalid → Everyone
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Ashara Bito → Everyone
Did the Chinese and Singapore do same as sowing. Have they reaped what they sowed?

Gilbert Korbla Keklie → Everyone

Sena Nombo → Everyone
“Murderous, dictatorial” ?

Kojo Tano → Sena Nombo
“the finest specimen of the neo-colonialist laboratory”. Fantastic description of this dude from a so-called think tank. Such ones can think but only as far as the walls of the so-called “tanks” they are caged in.

Nyadudzi Senyo → Everyone
What have you achieved with multi-party democracy? Sall on my mind.

Kweku Ananse Mansoh → Everyone

Peekay Peprah → Everyone
Neequaye Kotei Emmanuel Duodu Nana Abrokwah Andoh

Adurowura Ba → Everyone
Coming from a sellout.

Armiyaw Cruz → Everyone
BA Fuseini

King Rudolf Telfer → Everyone
Agyemang Duah Kweku Jr. if you could share your recent post with Franklin Cudjoe

Mufasa Samir → Everyone
The name will be changed. Debate

Ajusiyine Mbangbe → Everyone
And did that destroy or help our country? Ghana would have been like Singapore if not better. Today, we cannot boast of many things without mentioning things Kwame Nkrumah built or developed.

Nii Lantei Lamptey → Everyone
The HO Airport can be named after Kotoka.

Fuseini Osuman → Everyone
No one will debate, Nkrumah is one of the greatest humans to ever live.

Obed Akoto → Everyone
The question I want to ask is, was Kwame Nkruma doing so bad that they thought we needed multiparty democracy? Paul Kagame has been the president of Rwanda since 2000. He is obviously doing well. So must there always be a multiparty democracy?

Justice Mahmoud → Everyone
Ooh Efo why?

Julius Bart-Biney → Everyone
How dictatorial was Nkrumah?
What precipitated his stance?
Was Nkrumah the one who passed the Detention Without Trial bill or Parliament?

Richard Kwabena Fosu → Julius Bart-Biney
So we shouldn’t have chastised Akufo Addo for the introduction of the E-Levy then.

Kwame Kyere Danquah → Richard Kwabena Fosu
Haha .. I love your response

Abeku Adams Ekumfi → Richard Kwabena Fosu & Kwame Kyere Danquah
Read what the man wrote again. #Comprehension Problem disturbed your response.
Julius’ response is out ABSOLUTE IGNORANCE of the history of PDA which Richard bases his comment on. I was expecting Kwame to correct Julius but it turned out he is equally ABSOLUTELY ignorant of the history of PDA.
Let me let you understand the comment you responded to. The PDA was passed before Nkrumah became President and it was signed by Sir Arku Korsah, then Chief Justice and Representative of the Queen.
Was the E-Levy also passed before Akufo-Addo became President?
You see, you two deserve school fees refund?

Julius Bart-Biney → Abeku Adams Ekumfi
I will not prescribe any school fees refund to you though, but I will wish you do your checks again on who passed the PDA, and come back for us to discuss the school fees refund!

Julius Bart-Biney → Richard Kwabena Fosu
Have I mentioned Akufo Addo here?

Julius Bart-Biney → Kwame Kyere Danquah
Which response? Did I mention Akufo Addo’s name?

Julius Bart-Biney → Abeku Adams Ekumfi
The Preventive Detention Act in Ghana was passed in 1958 by the government led by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. This law granted the executive branch the power to arrest and detain individuals without trial for extended periods, initially up to five years, later extended further. It was a significant and controversial piece of legislation during Nkrumah’s administration.
I will not tell you to go for a refund of your school fees!
Mine is that you learn more!

Asonaba Kwasi Ogee-BenBen Owoahene-Acheampong → How does one party state system stop people from contesting to be voted for? We need a broader perspective on the word “democracy”. Singapore is virtually a one-party state but they vote.

Abdul Rauf Niendoo → And what has the multiparty done for us? His one party achievements still out doing our many years of multiparty achievements…?

Nunyala Faith → What benefits did his overthrow bring to Ghana? However, Ghana would’ve developed with the one-party state in the hands of Nkrumah. The one-party state could’ve prevented people like Nana Addo from becoming president – and your investment wouldn’t have seen a haircut.

Baba Abdulai → Hogwash!

M S Amadu Husein → Franklin Cudjoe Objective! If we understood Nkrumah made some mistakes too Ghana would be in a better place. But for us to be made to believe, some how, a dead man or his spirit will come back to take the country to the promised place is absurd. I believe Some one’s political strategy or Nkrumah’s is pinned us to a place we can’t even compete with contemporarise like South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. Even Germany after WWE II is Ghana’s age mate. Ghana must learn to mourn longer but not wait this longer. We may borrow ideas also from Nkrumah’s opponents. After all, they were thoswe who proposed something closer to what we have today. Stop the mourning and let’s go to meet the three countries I have mentioned.

Samuel Cross → Ignorance is very powerful n I’m sad u wrote all these. Read the making of Ghana written by professor Amamoo..when u rule in the midst of people who could kill everyone cos of power. Nkrumah was ruling alongside crooks who murdered the entire African continent. We’re u expecting him to be dull.

Antaru Waziri Musah → Sir, please stop fooling

Kwaku Hope → And where did it get us?

Elizabeth Vaah → Look at Nkrumah’s 7 years and compare that with all the years since. Nkrumah was doing everything right for a young country finding her way in a challenging world intent on seeing her fail. Look around you. If you still believe Nkrumah was bad for Ghana then good luck. It’s no wonder none of the governments after him has been able to achieve a tenth of what he achieved.

Ebenezer Annan → Elizabeth Vaah I don’t think that’s the full picture. I deeply believe in Nkrumah’s consciousness, but I’ve also read about his weaknesses as president. The chieftaincy institution was targeted, with some chiefs dethroned, others distilled and some even imprisoned. Governance was largely centralized. Recently, Sekou Nkrumah talked about his role in triggering the Bawku conflict. These are some of his weak points. But his strengths far outweigh them. His efforts at industrialization and championing African independence and Pan-Africanism are remarkable. Dr. Nkrumah did so much for Ghana and Africa – he’s the man of the millennium, and no president comes close to his records. The thing is, he was human, with flaws. How have we turned those weaknesses into lessons? Take the Bawku conflict – have our political parties learned from it? No, we’ve added to it. We need to talk about his other side, not to attack him, but to understand that his made some mistakes., and to learn from. Hiding these aspects creates a shock when people discover them. These were part of him, like with any human functionality. Let’s reduce the emotional overdrive and be objective. Franklin Cudjoe shared some stuff many didn’t know, but it doesn’t hurt. It should expand our discourse and analysis, helping us agree on a better future. Those weaknesses can’t outshine his strengths – Dr. Nkrumah is towering. But sharing the facts can teach us valuable lessons. Indeed, CiC Ernesto Yeboah has shared his thoughts on the Franklin post and it makes interesting reading… We have to be open-minded about life …..confront our challenges and work collaboratively to fix our continent and world.

Elizabeth Vaah → Ebenezer Annan It is not about emotions. Mr Cudjoe worships Trump. It has nothing to do with rights. Nkrumah’s behaviour then was no different from Lee Kuan Yew’s. Let’s not forget the context when we critique.

Ebenezer Annan → Elizabeth Vaah I agree, often we call them dictator, but that is not it. I wouldn’t call Traore a dictator, never. There appears to be an aspect that we fail to appreciate about Nkrumah and that was my point , but Nkrumah is a big deal.

Awoin Kwame Islam → You get it wrong sir. You are only serving your mindset.

Franklin Ampah-Korsah → He lost his way a bit and understandably, all actions he took was to prevent his forceful removal from power by elements without the nation who wanted to remove him so they get easy access to our mineral wealth….yet he still remains the greatest president ever to grace the soil of Ghana. Ten years under Nkrumah ….economically….was way better than decades under successive democratic dispensations.

Manie Ackah → Franklin Cudjoe that’s why we are at where we are as a nation, Western education is to feed the western establishment. Maybe it’s time for you to consider what is the African establishment and it’s needs.

Sammy Ladzekpo → No Efo FRANKLIN, THE one Party state declared by Nkrumah was as a result of the instability being perpetrated by the UP Corhorts at the time but I believe it could have been lifted by 1970 if Kwame had continued as President and Ghana could have developed into a middle Income country by that time, so he needed a stretch of uninterrupted time to achieve that (remember Osagyefo drew a parallel with (Lee Kwan Yeo of Singapore) before he was truncated and everything thrown overboard.

Amos Nyarko → So you of all people support it right???

Edison Kwame → I think your use of the words and phrase “murderous, dictatorial and one-party state” make the question prejudicial. It would have been fair if you had put it: “The 1966 coup was the only way Nkrumah and his CPP government could be removed/changed.” …..Discuss.

Yaw Selby → Osagyefo would have developed Ghana better. The types of industries and infrastructures he built and initiated, Ghana was on the path to self reliance. Lies was fed to people like you for Kotoka and his cohorts to overthrow him. Western classified documents shows the smear campaign mounted the Osagyefo. Anyway Osagyefo was better than USA TRUMP as who a dictator.

Kwasi Busumulu → What have we gotten from his overthrow?

Alhassan Abdul Aziz → They were machinations of the west at that time to cripple our economy by plundering our minerals prices to the lowers. Secondly, planting CIA agent in all government institutions like the Judiciary, Military, Legislature, within Nkrumah’s own cabinet, and all state own institutions to run down the state in other to fuel agitation.

Albert Adugu → Correct. That ended Prevention Detention Act PDA. Nkrumah abused the human rights of Ghanaians under the PDA. I contemporary times he would be hauled before International Courts for abusing human rights.

Samuel Adler → The claim that the 1966 coup was “the only way” is a Complex Question Fallacy. It is a rhetorical trap designed to force you to admit that Nkrumah was a “murderous dictator” before you can even speak. By accepting the headline, you are tricked into justifying a crime. We must reject this framing: the “dictatorship” was not a choice made in a vacuum; it was a defensive posture forced upon the state by an elite opposition that preferred bombs to ballots. […]

Bra Qwaku → So meaning you support coup d’etat against Nkrumah, but can you tell us any proper benefits Ghana had from those who overthrew him? Even under Nkrumahs so called “one party state” that you claiming he was able to establish so many infrastructure that you and I are enjoying. Those you claim he murdered couldn’t have kept him alive should they also got hold of him, he must protect himself against his enemies. My brother it is not just about becoming a leader but the impact is what matters. Don’t make it look like coup d’etat is the best option, let’s be measured in our submissions.

Akyem Krakye → A wise dictator developing his country is far better than this wholesale democracy where leaders starve citizens and pack the money just to buy votes during elections.

Sadic Sinare → Alright, let’s set the record straight. Some of your points about Nkrumah may look valid based on either the true lies or the lies we were told, but let’s fill some context to clarify […]

Francis Aduoffei → No debate. Your statement is even less than opinion n highly incomplete. Debate your understanding and come back Sir?

Ernest Annor → You were not talking about the attempt to kill him.

Happy Ponani Dogbey → Who should debate? And what developmental transformations has the nation benefited from the so called multiparty state system apart from taking turns in looting the little resources the country has and enriching the families of so called politicians????

Edwin Dokosi → He who builds owns it. Kotaka was traitor. He didn’t build anything, he does deserve that honour. Those who helped Kotaka turned around to kill him. Those descendants are to on rooftops making noise. The name of the Airport has changed, sealed and done. Let Ghanaians be fair to Dr Nkrumah.

Charles A. Sam → The conspiracy to overthrow Nkrumah was needless! If they had found wisdom they should have been patient and cooperated with him to carry through his progressive developmental agenda. Those who justify that coup do not realize that they merely halted our forward drive and sent us several decades backward! Posterity has proven it.

Odehye Kwasi Yeboah → You wanted those parties that were formed on tribal and regional lines to be allowed to operate? This country would have been fragmented and still be fighting tribal wars had it not been Nkrumah. He was the greatest thing that ever happened to Ghana and Africa in general.

Lloyd Amoah → Odehye Kwasi Yeboah say it again. Infact if Nkrumah had not persisted FC will not be Ghanaian to continuously spit his BILE.

Solomon Possibilities → Cash out.

Bismark Baisie Nkum → Spot on. Most of us criticising Kotoka today have no idea the wrong Nkrumah perpetuated with his party state thing. Yes, he is our hero but we should not hide his evil side.

Ebenezer Annan → Bismark Baisie Nkum I think if we are objective we could engage in a critical and objective discourse, but either side is not ready to go be intellectually frank about the issues.

Ashara Bito → Bismark Baisie Nkum so the revolutionary leaders of China and Singapore were equally evil right?

Isaac Kofi Mankoe → Bismark Baisie Nkum can you also give us details of the good things those who overthrew him did for Ghana.

Zakaria Yussif → Those trying to vilify Nkrumah are priding themselves as Ghanaians, most especially at the international stage but they forget it is Nkrumah that brought that pride Ghanaians enjoy today. Nkrumah lives, and no amount of hate or libel will change the facts of history.

Arafat Mubarak → What was the reason why his adversary wanted to kill him in 1956? Franklin Cudjoe.

英雄 → If it’ll take a dictatorship and one party state to develop Ghana then I’m down to it. Look how foolish Ghana became after he left.

Ps Kwesi Anaman → Uncle the regret is there for all to see and feel after 69-70 years of our Independence. We have nothing or less to show for after all these years of so called multiparty system. Look at China. I close my case/point. #Ghana First

Nyadudzi Senyo → Nkrumah is a celebrity beyond this generation. Your agenda won’t wash.

Adongo Alfred → Unreasonable.

Afotey Nii Otu → Neo colonialism the last stage of imperialism.

Afotey Nii Otu → We must change our minds we must change our attitudes, we are no more a colonial, if not for Nkrumah Ghana would have been worse than South Africa, in this day and age we still glorify ourselves being under IMF and colonialism, before Nkrumah came to power Ghanaian couldn’t go to Ridge hospital for treatment, do you know what that means? Nkrumah is not a God but an elect of God who is flesh and blood just like you and I.

Afotey Nii Otu → Nkrumah is not the only one who has used the PDA tactics, America used the same tactics on American soil even 2 decades ago 9/11 America used the same tactics against minority groups all over the Arab state, Senior what will you do if a bomb is thrown at you, what do you do when there is more than 3 attempts on your life? Nkrumah had his short coming but the PDA is not one of his short coming, how many people were in prison or released from prison when Nkrumah was disposed, dig that side of history too, there is only one Osagyefo and that is Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

Eric Woode → [multiple audio posts]

Mumination Bees → I don’t expect least from a person who support Trump.

Joseph Fugar → The bleeding is intense.

Asigreedwardakewine Walley → Defense from tribal agents.

Kherl Vyn → The assertion that the 1966 coup was the only way to remove Nkrumah’s government is historically and logically flawed. It presents a false dilemma by assuming that unconstitutional force was the sole option, while ignoring both the political context of the period and viable non-military alternatives. […]

Odai Mensah → Nonsensically nonsense.

Razak Awudu → Who funds IMANI Africa? Publish the source of funds of IMANI. I want to check something.

Ndary M’Bai Sambang → If this is true then Africa is a big shame. Growing up some of us saw Kwame Nkrumah as the number one hero of Africa. To now hear his own people say such negative things about his rule is shocking and hard to swallow. May his soul continue to rest in eternal peace.

Albert Gbadago II → Because you could not beat the CPP in any free and fair election.

Nyatsikor Francis → We could have achieved a lot from that dictatorship …. Check other developed countries… Ghadafi, China, Russia… They’re doing well because of good leadership…. Like Nkrumah…. We’ll be far gone in Africa Morocco, Tunisia can’t look our back.

Abukari Hashim → Hard guy.

Kwame Amoateng → Owura Qwequ I’m glad this isn’t coming from an NPP person nka by now the insults and attacks nkoaa bɛyɛ 10 billion the government needs to pay cocoa farmers.

Joshua Lesu Buedew → Franklin Cudjoe tell us the impacts the multiparty system has achieved for us ever since 1966.

Kaleshi Kwesi Datsomor → China is one party state and communist party but developed or?

Jimmy Ocran → I totally disagree; When society crowns a coup maker with heroic language, what it’s really saying is: “Results matter more than rules.” And once that logic is normalized, you don’t get stability – you get justified lawlessness dressed up as patriotism.

King Alozo → This post is hogwash. When evil people and nation wreckers were planting bombs in flowers and throwing bombs to kill the man, what did you expect him to do?

Ab Khal → Look at this.

Emmanuel Adabayeri → 1. Who says that democracy must be multi-party? 2. How many parties make multi? 3. Are the American and British democracies which are centred around two major parties multi party? 4. Having adopted western democracy, shouldn’t we adapt it to suit our system which is already divided along ethnic lines? 5. Don’t we see traces of Nkrumah’s wisdom in our Constitution today in requirement of article 55(4) that political parties have a national character and shouldn’t be based on ethnic, religious, regional or other sectional divisions? 6. Traore has just made Burkina Faso a no party state for the sake of the unity of the country. That’s a page out of Nkrumah’s wisdom which we, his compatriots, are rather trampling upon. 7. What about Rwanda where ethnicity has no place at all: can’t we see traces of Nkrumah’s wisdom there too?

Alhassan Mohammed → Murderous, no. The agents of neocolonialism and imperialism killed more people (about 1600) in the 1966 coup than the entire 15 years of Nkrumah’s rule. In Nkrumah’s own narration, not a single person was killed in his fifteen years rule. If you’re looking for murderers, look no further than those who overthrew Nkrumah’s government.

Kwame Menka → Debate yourself.

Mamood Ahmed → For a nation to develop, certain individuals especially the traitors, puppet leaders like the past ones and saboteurs need to be removed and finished.

Sulemana Ayuba → That dictatorship was way better than the current democracy, when you are dealing with demons you can’t relax.

Sulemana Ayuba → N how did it end us.

Doe Pierro → Franklin Cudjoe
Franklin, let me be blunt. What you’ve presented is not scholarship or original thinking. It’s a recycled Danquah-Busia opposition pamphlet dressed up as historical analysis. Every point traces directly to Nkrumah’s political enemies — Busia, Boahen, and their ideological descendants. You then lecture others about being “emotional rather than rational” while serving up this warmed-over manifesto. Let me dismantle this since you asked for rationality.

On “President for Life”
You throw out the 99.91% referendum figure like a gotcha. But you deliberately hide the context. Declassified CIA and MI6 documents — their own records, Franklin, not partisan claims — confirm systematic destabilization of Nkrumah’s government. The man survived the Kulungugu bomb in 1962 and multiple assassination plots. Elements of the opposition you lionize were in direct coordination with foreign intelligence services. You don’t think a leader under existential threat might consolidate power? Or should he have politely waited for the next assassination attempt?

Apply your standards consistently. When de Gaulle rammed through the Fifth Republic via referendum to make himself the most powerful leader in Western Europe, was he a dictator? When Lee Kuan Yew ran Singapore as a one-party state for three decades, crushing opposition, was he a dictator? Your framework only labels African leaders who defy Western interests as dictators. Why is that, Franklin?

And here’s the fraud at the heart of your democratic posturing. When Nkrumah was removed, did your ideological forefathers demand elections? No. They climbed into bed with a military junta. Busia served the NLC. Your democratic champions celebrated soldiers shredding the constitution. You lecture anyone about democracy while your intellectual tradition endorsed a military coup as liberation? That’s not hypocrisy, Franklin. That’s a con job.

On the One-Party State
Who were these opposition parties you mourn? The National Liberation Movement was an Ashanti ethnic-chauvinist outfit preserving elite privileges. The United Party had members actively collaborating with Western intelligence to undermine the state. These weren’t principled democrats, Franklin. They were vehicles for ethnic fragmentation and foreign interference.

And what replaced Nkrumah’s one-party state? Not democracy. A military dictatorship. Then Busia’s brief, incompetent government. Then another coup. Then Acheampong’s kleptocracy. Then Rawlings, who had people shot by firing squad on a beach in Accra. Ghana didn’t achieve stable democracy until 1992 — twenty-six years after your side “saved” the country. That’s the legacy of removing Nkrumah. And you have the nerve to say he was the problem?

On the Preventive Detention Act and Danquah
Danquah’s death in detention was a tragedy. I’ll grant you that directly. But you’re being profoundly dishonest about context.

The PDA was modeled on British colonial detention laws used extensively across the Gold Coast. The colonial government detained people without trial routinely. Nkrumah himself was imprisoned by the British. The legal architecture was a colonial inheritance, not an Nkrumahist invention. Where’s your outrage at the British template, Franklin?

And was Danquah merely an innocent democrat? Or was he connected to networks coordinating with foreign intelligence to overthrow the state? You know the answer. You just won’t say it.

Now here’s where your moral credibility evaporates. After Nkrumah, military governments tortured and killed people on a scale that dwarfed anything under his rule. Rawlings had senior officials publicly executed by firing squad. Where is your equivalent outrage, Franklin? Where’s the Twitter thread calling Rawlings a dictator with this same energy? Your silence on those regimes while reserving your fiercest condemnation for Nkrumah isn’t rational analysis. It’s ideological bias so transparent anyone can see through it.

On “Economic Mismanagement”
This is where your argument collapses entirely. You quote Martin Meredith — a British journalist whose book is regarded in serious African historiography as shallow Eurocentric commentary that exaggerates African failures while ignoring structural colonial violence. That’s not research, Franklin. That’s googling for quotes that support a conclusion you’d already reached.

Here’s the context you deliberately withheld. When Nkrumah took power, Ghana was a colonial extraction economy with no university, no industrial base, and total dependence on cocoa prices set in London. By 1966 he’d built Akosombo Dam — which still powers your country today, including whatever device you typed your thread on. He built a university system, Tema harbor, schools, hospitals, and road networks the British never bothered with.

You say state enterprises ran at losses. Name me one country in the 1960s whose state enterprises didn’t during early industrialization. Britain’s nationalized industries lost money. South Korea’s chaebols were propped up by government subsidies for decades. That’s how industrialization works — you invest, absorb losses, and build capacity that pays off over time. Every economics textbook says this.

Your debt figures are meaningless without context. Ghana was borrowing to industrialize, which is what every developed nation in history has done. You don’t build an industrial economy from a colonial extraction base with pocket change.

And here’s the question that obliterates your entire economic thesis, Franklin: What happened after Nkrumah was removed? If he was the problem, removing him should have fixed things. Instead, the NLC sold state assets at fire-sale prices. Busia stumbled from crisis to crisis. Acheampong’s corruption was so catastrophic that “kalabule” became synonymous with economic chaos. Ghana’s economy got worse for two straight decades. So either every leader after Nkrumah was also incompetent — why single him out? — or the structural conditions facing a small postcolonial commodity-dependent economy mattered far more than any individual leader. Either way, your thesis doesn’t survive basic logic.

What You’re Really Doing
You’re not conducting historical analysis, Franklin. You’re conducting an ideological project. Nkrumah’s vision of African economic sovereignty and Pan-African unity remains a threat to the liberal free-market orthodoxy your think tank promotes. That’s why you cite Meredith instead of Rodney. That’s why you mention Danquah’s detention but not the CIA’s role. That’s why you talk about enterprise losses but not Akosombo Dam. You’re curating evidence to serve a political conclusion, not following evidence to reach a historical one.

My final challenge: Why, sixty years later, does Nkrumah’s vision still define African leadership? Why is the African Union built on his blueprint? And why do ordinary Ghanaians — not the policy class, but market women and farmers — still revere his name? And why, Franklin, with all your platforms and resources, are you still fighting a dead man’s legacy and losing?

Nkrumah was imperfect. But he dreamed bigger for Ghana and Africa than anyone before or since, and the energy you devote to diminishing him tells me his ideas still terrify the interests you represent. You called for rational debate. I’ve given you one. Now answer the questions instead of hiding behind Busia’s ghost.

Kojo Brains → Doe Pierro
You can call him by any name yes, you call him evil but you must not forget that Nkrumah met people filled with evil spirits so he had to turn evil so as to meet them boot for boot.

Emmanuel Kwame Ato Pobee → Doe Pierro
To me, Nkrumah represented the true enemy of the state in this context—his authoritarian turn, suppression of opposition, and use of repressive measures betrayed the democratic ideals of the independence struggle. This pattern of governance, combined with economic mismanagement, allegations of corruption within the CPP, growing public discontent, and military dissatisfaction, directly contributed to his overthrow in the February 24, 1966, coup by the National Liberation Council. The coup leaders explicitly cited Nkrumah’s corruption, abuse of power, lack of democracy, and overreach as justifications for their swift action to remove what they saw as a dangerous and insensitive regime.

Richard Korankye-Gyebi → Franklin Cudjoe
Don’t muddy yourself with these unnecessary and unsubstantiated attacks and accusations against Dr Kwame Nkrumah. You simply cannot run him down! If you see everything right with Kotoka but everything wrong with Kwame Nkrumah, then you are no different from those who curtailed Ghana’s march to industrial development. Don’t push yourself into the ‘tribal bigotry association’.

Isaac Otuson → Franklin Cudjoe
What kind of thinking is this? Is multi-party democracy better than the development of Ghana and the whole of Africa? Are there no countries that have developed without democracy? How about China, Russia, Brazil, Korea and others? So Britain, Japan, Netherlands and Spain and Denmark which are ruled by their monarchies; are they also democratic nations? Must you embrace everything from your neocolonialists without knowing the intentions behind it? In any case what has democracy done for us?

Boatey Patrick → Franklin Cudjoe
What exactly was the benefit of that coup to Ghana? The collapse of all the state enterprises he started I guess and the milking of the state by foreign powers. Funny how the black man reasons.

Roland Walker → Franklin Cudjoe
If you are CONSTANTLY TARGETED FOR ASSASSINATION with bombs and other arsenals in the most brutal forms, what would you do as a leader? Have you gone through the CIA Files?

Angios Abang Ahmed → Franklin Cudjoe
Shallow and skewed analysis. Unintelligent individuals parading themselves as experts and intellectuals. Why didn’t you talk about the many attempted assassinations? Was he the one manning the companies?

Joseph Fugar → Franklin Cudjoe
Efo we beg. The kind of evil opposition Nkrumah had and faced, that was the only way he could make progress. The problem was less about his style of governance and more about the detractors who will even attempt taking his very life.

Arafat Mubarak → Franklin Cudjoe
Why were they trying to kill him before he even became president or before he won independence? Was Ghana a one party state in 1956 or in 1962 when the Kulungugu bomb was hurled at him? The truth is his adversary continued to trail him right from day one! Remember, the one-party state came in 1964! Today, if you are a terrorist suspect, a bomb thrower like the NPP’s forebears, the US or UK will detain without trial! Remember Guantanamo?

Ab Korantengg → Franklin Cudjoe
If you hate reading….it’s very difficult to grasp this information and make any sense of it. Nkrumah wasn’t a saint!!!

Collins Ampah Mensah → Franklin Cudjoe
Care must be taken to avoid post facto rationalization. What did his government do which USA and other modern states did not do in response to the threat of al-Qaeda and Islamic State? When he was repeatedly targeted by bombs and murderous plots? We all praise Singapore, Malaysia and China all of which effectively had one-party rule. Confused people.

Egya Blay Koasi Kilehilevole → Franklin Cudjoe
Have we really looked at the proposed one-party state or we are just criticizing it just because we have been told it is not democratic?

James Akpablie → Franklin Cudjoe
If it were you, what would you have done when they plan everything every day to kill you, even before the Detention Act? This is our sad situation we found ourselves today with indiscipline and corruption at all level of the Ghanaian fibre after they overthrow him. Sad and I’m sure you missed him too.

Dess Kwaku Richards → Franklin Cudjoe
Next joke.

Charles Antwi → Franklin Cudjoe
Wrong premise for the debate you are calling for.

Kofi Lipe Adzanku → Franklin Cudjoe
Really….??

Nathaniel Pecos → Franklin Cudjoe
God have mercy on you.

Haj Bash → Franklin Cudjoe
And what did his overthrow bring to Ghana???

Kofi Brafi → Franklin Cudjoe
Your premise is wrong! If you call someone a murderer and a dictator what do you expect people to say about him? If you describe Nkrumah as a murderer, how would you describe your Rawlings you hail as a saint? Rawlings waged a senseless and murderous campaign against many innocent Ghanaians and what did he achieve in the end? Please let’s mature in our politics and learn to be fair and balanced in our discourse. Nkrumah was a genius and political giant—it takes a certain intellectual depth to understand him and I do not fault you for your shallowness; it is indeed expected. You live in a country where thousands are killed and maimed on our roads because your leaders are so dumb they cannot institute an effective and functional transportation system—that too is a form of corporate murder. We are all at risk brother. Let’s take the good from Nkrumah, learn from it and disregard the flaws—we all have flaws wai.

Iqraami Ramadan → Franklin Cudjoe
3ne mo nd3

Kojo Mbra Assan → Franklin Cudjoe
You conveniently forgot to include the many assassination attempts that occasioned the imposition of the one-party state.

Richard Dadzie → Franklin Cudjoe
There is no way we can justify a coup. Coup is coup, period!

Alex Vhirus Media → Franklin Cudjoe
And, we will change it. How you people interpret it is your own business…

Yaw Febiri → Franklin Cudjoe
Excellent thought.

Joyy Erzah-Gyamfi → Franklin Cudjoe
“The 1966 coup was the only way Nkrumah’s murderous, dictatorial and one-party state could be removed.”

Arguments SUPPORTING the statement

1. Total collapse of constitutional avenues
   By 1964, Ghana’s political system had been fundamentally altered. The constitutional referendum transformed the country into a one-party state and made Kwame Nkrumah President for Life. Opposition parties were outlawed, Parliament became largely ceremonial, and elections lost their competitive character. In such a political environment, the ballot box ceased to be a viable tool for change. Those who defend the coup argue that when constitutional mechanisms are deliberately dismantled, extra-constitutional action becomes the only remaining option.
2. Institutionalized repression through law
   The Preventive Detention Act (PDA) empowered the executive to detain citizens indefinitely without trial. Lawyers, trade unionists, journalists, chiefs, and former CPP members who fell out of favor were imprisoned. This legalized repression created a climate of fear and political paralysis, making organized mass resistance extremely difficult. Supporters of the coup therefore contend that civil protest alone could not realistically remove the regime.
3. Political violence and security paranoia
   Following assassination attempts—most notably the Kulungugu bomb attack in 1962—Nkrumah became increasingly distrustful and security-obsessed. This led to purges within the military and police, the creation of special security units, and increased surveillance of citizens. To coup sympathizers, the state had entered a self-defensive authoritarian spiral, where peaceful dissent was treated as treason.
4. Severe economic deterioration
   By the mid-1960s, Ghana’s economy was under acute stress:

• Foreign reserves had fallen drastically
• External debt had risen sharply
• Shortages of essential goods were common
• Cocoa prices had declined while state spending increased
  Many Ghanaians associated these hardships with mismanagement, excessive state control, and costly ideological projects. Pro-coup arguments emphasize that economic suffering intensified public acceptance of military intervention, as the regime appeared unwilling to reverse course.

1. Concentration of power and cult of personality
   Nkrumah’s image dominated public life—statues, slogans, compulsory praise, and loyalty oaths reinforced the perception of infallibility. Institutions existed largely to affirm presidential authority rather than check it. In this context, supporters argue that internal reform was structurally impossible, making removal by force appear inevitable.

Arguments OPPOSING the statement

1. The coup fatally weakened Ghana’s democratic culture
   Critics argue that regardless of Nkrumah’s authoritarianism, the 1966 coup destroyed respect for constitutional governance. It normalized the idea that the military could intervene whenever a government became unpopular. This logic paved the way for subsequent coups in 1972, 1978, 1979, and 1981, plunging Ghana into years of instability.
2. The label “murderous” is historically exaggerated
   While Nkrumah ruled harshly and detained opponents, Ghana under his leadership did not experience systematic mass killings or genocide. Compared to later African military regimes, the CPP state was repressive but not exceptionally violent. Opponents of the coup argue that authoritarianism alone does not justify overthrow, especially when reform or negotiated transition might have been possible over time.
3. External Cold War interests influenced the coup
   Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanism, socialist orientation, and non-aligned foreign policy alarmed Western powers during the Cold War. Declassified materials and scholarly research suggest that foreign actors welcomed—or at least did not oppose—his removal. This raises the argument that the coup was not purely a domestic rescue mission, but partly a product of geopolitical rivalry.
4. The coup failed to deliver better governance
   The National Liberation Council (NLC), which replaced Nkrumah, reversed many industrial and Pan-African initiatives but did not solve Ghana’s structural economic problems. Corruption persisted, economic dependency deepened, and social inequalities remained. This outcome challenges the claim that the coup was necessary or beneficial.
5. Destruction of long-term national vision
   Nkrumah’s broader vision—African unity, industrial self-reliance, and ideological independence—was abruptly terminated. Even critics concede that these ambitions gave Ghana international stature. The coup replaced visionary politics with short-term managerial rule, weakening national confidence and continental leadership.

Synthesis and Balanced Judgment
The claim that the 1966 coup was the only way to remove Nkrumah reflects the desperation of a political system that had closed itself off to dissent. Authoritarian laws, economic distress, and concentration of power created conditions where force seemed, to many, unavoidable.

However, the coup also inflicted long-lasting damage: it undermined constitutionalism, legitimized military rule, and disrupted Ghana’s political maturation. In hindsight, while Nkrumah’s governance had undeniable authoritarian excesses, the military solution introduced problems that proved equally costly.

Final Position
The 1966 coup may explain how Nkrumah was removed, but it does not conclusively prove that it was the only or best way. It solved an immediate political crisis at the expense of long-term democratic stability, a price Ghana spent decades paying.

Muhammad Awal → Franklin Cudjoe
For those justifying the overthrow of Nkrumah should remember that just a few years ago the then Akuffo Addo government and the entire Ghanaian citizens became so concerned that the hardship, opulence and corruption within the country at the time could trigger a coup.
If that had happened, would you guys have justified that one too?
The truth is that we cannot eulogise coup makers.

Awunyo Michael → Franklin Cudjoe
I agree with you sir.

Agbesi Enyonyoge → Franklin Cudjoe
What benefits has multi-party brought to us aside stealing, corruption and poor underdeveloped state? Ghana or Africa in general don’t need political party governance but sensible and patriotic dictatorship like Rwanda to develop.

Lincoln Abraham Futukpor → Franklin Cudjoe
Fact! He averted the likes of Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni etc. in the country. He liberated Ghana. In him JJ drew inspiration to clean kalabuley through another deadly coup. Benefactors of coup deglorifying coup master. Ewornuku ntor.

Daniel Tee → Franklin Cudjoe
Changing the name Kotoka will bastardise the Reconciliation former president Kuffuor constituted.

Daniel Tee → Franklin Cudjoe
Why do you leave the name of Jubilee House where Nkrumah lived all his life and you intend to change the name the same people or his opponents has established since time immemorial?

Joseph Conduah → Franklin Cudjoe
The vision was there, insecurity another resultant dictatorial tendencies finally coup. My question is why Ghanaians’ jubilation when he was toppled? That means there was something really wrong.

Idris Sambo Jallow → Franklin Cudjoe
Tell us what these so-called two-party state system benefited Ghana since 1992? Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

James Jaden → Franklin Cudjoe
If the same U.P tradition now NPP plotted the overthrow of Nkrumah and are the same monsters that wrote our history, then what narrative do you think the criminals will put out there about Nkrumah?

Barima Kwabena Addae Bakopɛ → Franklin Cudjoe
A classic Neo-colonial narrative far from the truth. Sorry that won’t fly.

George Dzigbordi-Washington Kwame → Franklin Cudjoe
You too explain, if you were in the shoes of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah how would you have handled those traitors and nation wreckers?

Bra Selorm → Franklin Cudjoe
Ignorance.

Nii Adjabeng Dodoo → Franklin Cudjoe
Ignored.

Twethreethreeghana Kwadwo Omantam → Franklin Cudjoe
I don’t blame you though…. some of you are the tools and weapons the Westerners use to destroy Africa.

Stephen Nartey Mezo → Franklin Cudjoe
You talk of a murderous Nkrumah? What about the numerous bombings and the bombers behind them? How will you describe them? Smh.

Kingsley Maale-Adjei → Franklin Cudjoe
Thanks bro.

Kofi Stone → Franklin Cudjoe
Has China’s murderous, dictatorial one-party state served them well? How well has the Western democracy served others who opted for that?

Kottoh Nero → Franklin Cudjoe
You can’t rule a country like Ghana when some Akans are always ready to sabotage those that are ready to develop the country. What didn’t they do to Rawlings too? The only thing that can save Ghana is a benevolent dictator which Nkrumah wanted to use to develop the country and was sabotaged because of greed.

Apiifo Abanga Awingat Fbo → Franklin Cudjoe
I think it’s good our families scrutinize our materials before they get to social media. I just can’t imagine that Franklin Cudjoe of all people wrote and posted this.

Yuman Charlie → Franklin Cudjoe
Even Akuffo Addo who killed many Ghanaians with his misgovernance was not overthrown.

David Nii Adjei → Franklin Cudjoe
You’re very wrong with this. I see everything good in what he was trying to do. Sometimes we have to go a certain direction for the good of everyone. How can we build this country with all these tribal divisions? Today everyone will be insulting Asantes, tomorrow it’s the Asantes looking down on the northern people. The next minute it’s Dormaa having issues with Asantes. The next minute Togolands want to divide from Ghana. The list goes on. If every tribe should put aside tribalism and put Ghana first, I believe we would be far developed than this. A government will set a pace then opposition government will come and destroy everything. How can we develop? We have to unite us Ghanaians because years back we all decided to join forces to form a country called GHANA. So we should put our tribes aside and build our country. China has many different tribes but have you seen them fighting among themselves? USA is made up of different people but they call themselves Americans first.

Godwin Adjatey Nahu → Franklin Cudjoe
Murderous: you referred to a president, who is the commander in chief of the army, and had power over the police and all the security services, who underwent over five assassination attempts. And with all the powers vested in him, what he did was to get parliament to pass a universal law then, known as Preventive Detention Law, to arrest suspects. You referred to such a person as murderous. Smh. Nkrumah try papa.

Dictatorial: this is someone, after gaining independence for the people, set up a framework for the people to form parties, and people started forming parties based on clans, tribes, and on ethnic lines. He reformed the framework for party formation to cover all persons, not only based on clans and ethnic lineage. What really is dictatorial about his reign? The so-called one-party state was taken to the people to vote in a referendum and the people voted massively for it, over 90 percent in favour.

One-party state: what really is wrong with this? Is one-party state an anti-development form of government? China is a one-party state. Singapore is literally a one-party state. What really is wrong with that? Is calling a dog a bad name making the dog a bad dog, or is it about the actions of the dog?

While the young man was sacrificing himself trying to build this nation for our sake, for our wellbeing, they were plotting to thwart his efforts and to kill him. The young man commissioned one of his biggest projects, the Akosombo Dam, to industrialize this nation on January 22, 1966. Just one month after, February 24, 1966, on his trip to Vietnam and China, these greedy tribal begots made a coup against him. And guess what they named the coup? “Operation Cold Chop.” I type this paragraph with a heavy heart. My brother, see, please go pick up your books and read again wai, this time with an open mind and a sense of good judgement.

What really has the multi-party system we practice achieved for this country? Practicing this multi-party system for decades, with over 6 heads of state, yet its dividends are nowhere near the 6 years of Nkrumah’s so-called one-party state.

After they succeeded in ousting him and took over the affairs of the country, what did they do with it? They messed up the country. To have Nkrumah’s works overshadowed that of his critics is simply an indication that all that was said about him is just to mud his reputation for their greed. The 1966 coup was a grave sin committed on the people of Ghana, the cause of Ghana’s misery today, and we are still paying for that sin.

MP De General → Franklin Cudjoe
The claim that the 1966 coup was the only way to remove Nkrumah’s government ignores both historical complexity and democratic alternatives. While Nkrumah’s rule did become increasingly authoritarian, there is limited evidence that he was “murderous” on the scale often claimed, and many of these accusations were amplified by political opponents and Cold War propaganda. More importantly, coups undermine constitutional governance and set dangerous precedents, as Ghana’s subsequent years of military rule brought political instability, economic setbacks, and human rights abuses that were often worse than those under Nkrumah. Rather than being inevitable, reform through political pressure, institutional strengthening, and civic engagement could have offered a lawful and less destabilizing path to change, making the coup not a necessity but a choice with long-term negative consequences for Ghana’s democracy.

Owuraku Jay GH → Franklin Cudjoe
From hindsight, Nkrumah would have been right—if the claims of dictatorship are true. So thank you all for unintentionally proving his point. 3ne y3nn3.

Komla Agbesi Blevi → Franklin Cudjoe

Alex Asare → Franklin Cudjoe
What exactly are you inviting us to debate on, that our Nkrumah, my Kwame, was a murderer and a dictator or you are asking us to discuss the legitimacy or otherwise of that unfortunate coup? Sir, the premise of your debate topic is detestable, flawed and lacks substance. It is an unforgivable crime to use such adjectives to describe Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, the man who pieced together what later became known as Ghana!!

Ali Zakaria → Franklin Cudjoe
Chief, for this one di3, we vehemently disagree with you.

Fuseini Yussif → Franklin Cudjoe
One of his dictatorial policies is still flourishing at Bawku.

Alfred Tamakloe → Franklin Cudjoe
My against the coup debate is a response to Akanweo Kabiru Abdul’s on the subject of renaming of the Kotoka International Airport: “You have equated Kotoka’s 28th February 1966 coup to General Acheampong’s 1972 and JJ’S 1978/81 coups by implication; and you have implied that difficult and unpleasant socioeconomic conditions justify coups, which, arguably, is speciously valid. But we know that the objective conditions that evoked those upheavals were not all the same. I think because of the particular historical accounts you have given to justify the subject’s name, your narrative is only one side of the cause-effect equation that leaves out local reactionary elements and assassination activities which were steeped in COLONIAL MINDSETS of the outgone imperial power which represented external collaborators of NEOCOLONIALISM forces and less informed of the geopolitics of the time conceivable by Nkrumah and his like-minded Pan-Africanist colleagues. If you ask me, the 1966 coup was unconstitutional and very unkind; and the change of name from a name of national and international embrace to one associated with colonialists subversion is not just most unfortunate but very treasonous and diminishing of the country’s rising image and example of African liberation and aspiration for true freedom. I think that for historical reasons, the beneficiary government that came on the chaotic and atrophic waves of the coup could have named some streets in the country after the coup plotters and makers, including General Kotoka, but not the international airport which is the gateway into the young independent country of Ghana.”
I think you are doing well, President. I wish you strength and assurance of hope.

Kwadwo Effah Ababio → Franklin Cudjoe
Dictator? Did Dr. Nkrumah assume power through the gun? What kind of warped logic is this?

Ebenezer Amponsah → Franklin Cudjoe

Evans Agbenyeke → Franklin Cudjoe
For me, I will debate this in 2028 election the Voltarians’ name on national asset. Our MPs agreed, no wonder JJ Rawlings called them babies of sharp teeths.

Kwabena Amfo → Franklin Cudjoe
I heard this before and I asked myself what does such a humorous statement mean—was he a murderer, dictator, and promoter of one-party state?

Sunday Mohammed → Franklin Cudjoe
Ethnic bigotry packaged in defence of a widely condemnable assault on our collective conscience.

Alfred Cobbold → Franklin Cudjoe
Even Akuffo Addo had people jailed when he suspected they were going to stage a coup. So were you expecting Nkrumah to wine and dine with the people who had tried severally to kill him even before we had independence? If you care to know, there is no single advanced country in this world that started its very beginning with the so-called multi-party democracy. Britain was a monarch. Monarchy was all over Europe even till date. All those countries never started with the bullshit democracy. Just as China has proved to the world, it would have been better to have had a stable country for at least 20 years after independence before rushing into democracy. The jubilations after the coup had a lot of underpinning causes. Significantly among the causes was the deliberate key policies from the imperialists to undermine our economy. They successfully had the prices of cocoa very low since they knew that was the backbone of our economy and that led to depletion of our foreign reserves which brought economic hardships. Britain prevented us from getting access to some products which created shortages on the market and prices skyrocketing. Wait, when people make attempts on your life, then you dine with them?

Kofi Francis → Franklin Cudjoe
Say NO to coup d’état.

Johnson Klu → Franklin Cudjoe
I think you have nothing post again.

Prevailer Simplicity → Franklin Cudjoe
When bombs were being thrown at him? When young girls were killed? If it were you Franklin Cudjoe, what would you have done?

Desmond Nabas Adjaison → Franklin Cudjoe
The joke here rests on a false assumption that a one-party democracy is automatically equivalent to a dictatorship. Nkrumah was not opposed to criticism or dissent, and organized opposition understood narrowly as a multiplicity of political parties, is not the only way opposition can be expressed. Ironically, the killing of Nkrumah’s allies and the many abuses under the NLC are what were later presented as “democracy.”

Joseph Baidoo-Williams → Franklin Cudjoe
The China that we go begging for alms from all the time is a one-party state.

Daniel Kabon Salifu → Franklin Cudjoe
How is one-party state murderous?

Papa Arkoh Isaac → Franklin Cudjoe
If one-party state fine, but the murderous and dictatorship part, kindly do your research well. I don’t know any person Nkrumah murdered aside from JB Danquah’s death in prison. What led to introduction and approval of PDA by Parliament (presented to Parliament by Mumuni Bawumia)? How many children were dead at any event that Nkrumah was invited? How many assassination attempts were aimed at Nkrumah? The one-party state, was it imposed on Ghanaians by Nkrumah or was a general election conducted which Ghanaians overwhelmingly assented to? Did the 1966 coup aim at establishing multiple party system? After the 1966 coup, 8-membership NLC was formed which ruined the affairs of country for over years. Did the 1966 coup achieve its expectations from Ghanaians? Do you know the number of capital expenditure projects built by Nkrumah that collapsed after the 1966 coup? Do you also know that the 1966 coup rather opened the floodgate for the numerous coups that took place subsequently, which had negative impact on our economy up until now? Nkrumah wasn’t perfect but nutshell Nkrumah meant good for the good people of Ghana and its generations.

Henry Akplu → Franklin Cudjoe
We got to know the roles played by powerful Western governments, the CIA and other foreign agencies. Theirs didn’t have to do with what was best for Ghanaians but simply that Nkrumah was a threat as he was enlightening Africans, uniting them to be independent of their colonial masters. Of course, they had puppets in Ghana who were campaigning against Nkrumah covertly. Ghanaians cried about shortages of “essential commodities” like sugar, corned beef, and sardines which were all imported. Nkrumah’s downfall was not only about what happened internally; it was more about colonial powers fighting to stop Nkrumah from endangering their control of Africa.

Nathaniel Bawah → Franklin Cudjoe
Facts.

Andrew Essiaw → Franklin Cudjoe
The 1966 coup was the only way Ghana’s progress could be derailed. Debate.

John Sedoaya → Franklin Cudjoe
You see that period of our histories, post colonial independence of many African countries freshly acquired through bloody battles and the desire to protect the sovereignty of our countries and enforcing the new dynamic on the minds of the people, many regimes seemed at the time to be dictatorial and they were not given enough time to carry out their visions. Those coups cut shortly everything and the successive regimes that came after them seemed to perform worse without any vision at all. Most of those coups were initiated, planned and executed by the West powers to keep our fresh independent countries in their armpits all to put their hands on our natural resources.

Marcus McKeon Drea → Franklin Cudjoe
Ah! #Tɔgbui Franklin Cudjoe paaaa. To argue that a military coup was “the only way” to remove Nkrumah is to normalize illegality and romanticize force over institutions. It assumes that bullets are superior to ballots, and tanks are a substitute for civic responsibility.
History teaches us something deeper: coups do not cure authoritarianism—they reproduce it in uniforms.
Yes, Nkrumah’s later years reflected troubling excesses of power. But the proper antidote to political overreach is not military intervention; it is constitutional reform, civic pressure, and democratic evolution. Once soldiers are invited into governance, they rarely leave quietly—and Ghana paid that price for decades through instability, stalled development, and recycled juntas.
Nkrumah was not perfect. But he was a visionary whose pan-African ideals, industrial foundations, and insistence on sovereignty still shape Ghana’s identity. To reduce his legacy to caricature while celebrating a coup is to confuse correction with destruction.
A critical examination of the political machinations and destabilizing efforts orchestrated by elements within the UP tradition (now NPP) provides important context for his firmness in governance. One is compelled to ask: absent Nkrumah’s decisiveness, would Ghana have achieved the foundational infrastructure and institutional development that citizens continue to benefit from today?
A nation matures when it learns to fix itself through law, not force. Coups don’t liberate democracies. They interrupt them.

Kwesi Brew → Franklin Cudjoe
First of all Nkrumah’s government was neither murderous nor dictatorial. Its removal on the pretext of it turning Ghana into a one-party state was not even engineered internally. The enduring impact of that coup has been more negative than positive! Today the truth about why Nkrumah was removed from power and by who is there for all who care to know. Your question only manifests the malaise of neo-colonial mentality that years of education has sadly and regrettably failed to cure. Nkrumah, the universally acclaimed African of the Millennium, indeed NEVER dies!!

Ivan Liptic → Franklin Cudjoe
Would you be unconcerned if opponents are always following with bombs? Moreover, which country developed without having a strong leader who was tagged DICTATOR?

Joseph Nii Quaye → Franklin Cudjoe
Well but what factors contributed to Nkrumah making Ghana one-party state and being a dictator? How many assassination attempts can make a man paranoid?

Emmanuel Baah → Franklin Cudjoe
Massa go and sleep.

Nyakpo George Crony → Franklin Cudjoe

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Edward Kojo Goldman → Franklin Cudjoe
Overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah got Ghana in a downward spiral until the coming of JJ Rawlings in 1979/81.

Kwaku Chicano → Franklin Cudjoe
Looks like you need to be on the fence for this one sir.

Victor Teye Narwortey Manihey → Franklin Cudjoe
No debate. But why did Rawlings remove a democratically elected government and he is a hero and Kotoka is not?

Kwame Kyere Danquah → Franklin Cudjoe
Your current constitution even frowns on dictatorship, thus giving no room for a one-party state & arbitrary incarceration of citizens without fair legal trials. Nkrumah’s rule & the 1966 coup really shaped our thinking going forward as a nation. We don’t want those excesses that triggered that coup any longer.

Charles Jatong → Franklin Cudjoe
I have read several people who have used this issue of one-party state to criticize Nkrumah. What have we achieved as a multiparty democracy that one-party system couldn’t have achieved? Is it the hatred or the corruption that this multi-party system has brought or what good has it served that we think Nkrumah who took the bullet for our independence would have used one-party state to destroy Ghana? We have seen the fruits of multiparty system which is corruption and division. Can we say same about the one-party system which didn’t see the light of day? Those of us who do not fault Nkrumah for his actions still hold the view that if this country had stayed with the one-party system, it would have been far advanced today than where we are moving in circles from IMF to over borrowing and to corruption which is fought with lip service. The only place I fault Nkrumah was his failure to make this country a monarchical state after gaining independence for us.

Kwasi Ayisi Mensah → Franklin Cudjoe
China is way ahead of your Western paymasters with one-party state sir.

Eddy Frixn → Franklin Cudjoe
Truncation of the so-called “murderous, dictatorial” methods you accuse Kwame Nkrumah of are precisely why Ghana left the starting line a decade ahead of Singapore and still trails far behind it today in quality of life and national development. It’s been 34 years of the 4th Republic, and yet, some medical personnel and patients have to shit in ‘Wheetom’ in hospitals in parts of Ghana.

Osman Danfodio → Franklin Cudjoe
What is democratic about Nana Addo’s..8 years regime..could we have subjected Ofori Attah to accountability?..what kind of democracy is this

Osman Danfodio → Franklin Cudjoe
Master

King MA → Franklin Cudjoe
If Dr. NKRUMAH was such a bad leader that Ghanaians at the time didn’t like him how is it that the coup makers were also deposed shortly after the overthrow of NKRUMAH? We all know the coup against NKRUMAH wasn’t locally motivated but foreign orchestrated by the CIA.

Solomon Okutu → Franklin Cudjoe
Did we end Rawlings coup with another coup?

Richard Kwabena Fosu → Franklin Cudjoe
This’s the part the whitewashers and the revisionists don’t want to hear.

Alexander Atinga → Franklin Cudjoe
Busia, Akufo-Addo, Hilla Limann were also dictators, reason they’re also ousted out by coups. An award ceremony should have been organised for the coup makers by Nkrumah after he had survived about three assassination attempts.

Awudema GH → Franklin Cudjoe
BECAUSE KOTOKA IS FROM YOUR LIKPE RIGHT?

André Larbi → Franklin Cudjoe
Nkrumah was right to implement such acts. Just look at what Nana Addo and his NPP did to Ghana in his eight year rule.

Timothy Laari → Franklin Cudjoe
Fact!!

Gilbert Korbla Keklie → Franklin Cudjoe
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Prempeh Owusu → Franklin Cudjoe
NLC

Benjamen Mante → Franklin Cudjoe
This was written by the cia for you to come and post , all the traitors will be seen, how did you want the African unity to be if cia has been able to ask our own people to assassinate Nkrumah kooks is the reason why Africa is not united trust me.

Lawal Fuseini → Franklin Cudjoe
Is a debate u can’t win, we left him with nothing than to ask to do what u accused him of. Your problem bro is You can’t use one History to Judge Another. U lack the knowledge of HISTORY and until u have it, is pointless debating u period.

Eric Woode → Franklin Cudjoe
THE TRUTH IS AN OFFENCE Then and now GHANAIANS of having guidance and direction, whether from God’s word or a clear Sense of Purpose… [truncated for brevity]

Emmanuel Mawuenam Israel-Alorng → Franklin Cudjoe
Franklin Cudjoe please stop this

Keli Ketor-Tay → Franklin Cudjoe
Supposedly you Franklin Cudjoe are a thought leader? Pathetic.

Kojo Brains → Franklin Cudjoe
Do you mean to say that coup was the only way to stop Nkrumah from developing Ghana ?….Oh ! What a group of wicked people your ancestors were . I am sorry you have been born with the same blood and mentality.

Okyeame Qouphy → Franklin Cudjoe
No one Can tarnish the name of Nkrumah.Most of you speaking evil about him benefited from the University he built….a man who did not even build a house for himself…..

Abdul Ganihu → Franklin Cudjoe
Look at this Togolese, no wonder God created u so ugly. People like u are the enemy of state , do u even have any credibility to talk about someone who is better than ur entire generation. Old dotard fool

Paul Yin → Franklin Cudjoe
Shame on you and your evil thoughts

Kojo Brains → Franklin Cudjoe
Don’t forget that Nkrumah’s dictatorship was what Nana Addo branded it as democratic dictatorship, and that was even worse than the raw form Nkrumah practiced. You compelled him to go that way. He did so because of the diabolic mind set of you forefathers.

General Ahmed → Franklin Cudjoe
If this is an attempt to run down Nkrumah’s Achievements as leader in Ghana and throw dust into our eyes just cos you’re called Franklin Cudjoe a well respected elite in Ghana then Sir you’re part of those who failed our generation today. So you were part of those who writes ten Sins of Mahama, Ten Sins of Ken Agyapong , Ten Sins of Nkrumah but you have failed to add the Ten Sins of Kotoka or is he an angel? No amount of propaganda from Franklin Cudjoe can run down Nkrumah’s Achievements one hard truth you can never swallow

Bernard Tengey → Franklin Cudjoe
Leave Nkrumah alone, after the coup what happened? Were you guys able to develop the country? Even now in 21st century you guys don’t have the brains to do anything, masa make we think wai

Sultan → Franklin Cudjoe
Seriously, this is a fo*lish point of reasoning.

Bana Sackey → Franklin Cudjoe
Murderous, dictatorial and one party state? Yes. Go tell that to China! It was the activities of the opposition, like trying to assassinate him and opposing Nkrumah just for opposition sake that led him to introduce draconian legislations to enable him rule the country. Nkrumah was not a saint, he was not Jesus. He was a human just like you and I and that’s why he made some mistakes but he put Ghana on the high and set the country up for economic achievement with his massive industrialization plan. Kotoka was a traitor and does not deserve to be celebrated.

Arafat Mubarak → Franklin Cudjoe
How many Ghanaians did Nkrumah murder in spite of the NPP’s forebears the UP/PP/Matemeho throwing bombs to kill him even before he won independence or became President, compared to the number a so-called democratic Akufo Addo slaughtered to hang on to power? Franklin Cudjoe Franklin!! You think people could be attempting to kill a western president, and they will get away free? How many countries could even start as democracies? America or the UK? Even before he became president, before independence, there were attempts to kill him! Was it because of a ONE PARTY STATE?of a disappointment!!

Kwame Boadu-Ansong → Franklin Cudjoe
Bros, you didn’t call for a debate, you made a categorically derogatory, historically inaccurate statement. Now your once heralded intellectual prowess is dipping low. This was unnecessary.

Caesar Gbedevi Nutepe → Franklin Cudjoe
You are right. His children must stop making him look like he was an angel. He was a dictator parexcellence

Rami Kafeel Alhassan → Franklin Cudjoe
Franklin Cudjoe what really is there to debate after calling the man a Murderer and a dictator? You cannot use such words and end up asking a people to debate the sweeping generalization you’ve made about Dr. Nkrumah. Sorry.

Edward Cobbinah → Franklin Cudjoe
Ghanians most are hypocrites, he was voted into power through ballot box but made himself life president. If not that coup his son Seykou Nkrumah could have been president. Did he not pass preventive detention act?

Ade Sawyerr → Franklin Cudjoe
The first time I met you, you came up with the same twaddle – shame that some of you did not bother to learn the history of the country and swallowed up the revisionist right wing nonsense. I do not have the patience to engage you in this debate on the Day of Shame, 24th February 1966. Let me ask you: since 1992, what has a two-party state done for Ghana that the one-party state did not do between 1964 and 1966? Less theft? Less murders? less dictatorship. Let us debate the counterfactual – where would Ghana be if there had been no coup and there are several countries to compare with – but let us start with Norway!

Ibrahim Buba → Franklin Cudjoe
From a typical Zio-Masonic agent

Mashood Bagmaara → Franklin Cudjoe
I never knew this guy was so low in wisdom

Nana Yhaw → Franklin Cudjoe
Did you really author this post or you account has been hacked. Please RESPECT YOURSELF SIR.. and never speak ill of OUR KWAME NKRUMAH. He’s done more for this nation than all presidents put together.

Edmund Opoku-Agyeman → Franklin Cudjoe
What kind of vacuous comment is this? You sound like an apologist for the terrorist attacks on Nkrumah that preceded the declaration of one party state. The reactionary elements forced Nkrumah’s hand.

Kojo Egbert → Franklin Cudjoe
…AGYAPADE3 8-YEAR REIGN RESURGENCE… [truncated for brevity]

Waled Twene → Franklin Cudjoe
You support Trump’s kidnapping of MADURO and hail him but calls Nkrumah a dictator? Are you for real?

Alfred Quarshie → Franklin Cudjoe
So you are a coup supported. Nice

Samundeen Joseph Nabila → Franklin Cudjoe
Franklin Cudjoe can we say anyone with such mentality is delusional and a drifter?

Listowel Vigbedor → Franklin Cudjoe
And what did we get from the multy-party-state? So so rhetoric and unfettered high level thievery.

Jude K. Nartey → Franklin Cudjoe
Can you explain what you mean by “dictatorial” or dictatorship? Immediately you decided not to be a western puppet, you’re called this word. Museveni of Uganda, Paul Biya of Cameroon, etc are not called such names. Franklin Cudjoe you’re a learned!!

Kenny Wailer → Franklin Cudjoe
The only beneficiaries of Nkrumah’s overthrow were the colonialist and the neo-colonialist, and a few internal players whose brains had been hacked by the very people who sent them, it’s just like some adult criminals hiding somewhere and sending kids to go and steal their parents coins for them.

Jerry Tanko Rashid → Franklin Cudjoe
Empirical evidence and hindsight show that Ghana and Ghanaians would have been way way better off under Nkrumah’s dictatorship. Give me a benevolent and competent dictator and rubbish your yeye multiple party politics. CHINA is a great example.

Atimolga Ka → Franklin Cudjoe
People like you are Ghana’s problem. You think you know everything.

Simba Alan → Franklin Cudjoe
#simbafromupendi You’re simply repeating the CIA terms applied to leaders who refuse to sell out their country to western imperialists. I’ll pardon an illiterate or ill informed person writing this but for a multiple degree holder, I’ll call it deliberate buffoonery. That “murderous” and “dictatorial” one party state gave us much of what we still survive on today. If you doubt, shut down just the Akosombo Dam and let us see how far your so called democratic and multiparty system has impacted this country. I prefer a goal oriented one party state to a useless multiparty system in which thieves alternate every 8 years to plunder and impoverish the nation. … [truncated for brevity]

GH Analyst TV → Franklin Cudjoe
People who use this western talking points to run down their own transformational leaders really make me sick. They use same words to describe Xi of china but see where china is now. Even Rwanda. You overthrow Nkrumah by describing him with all this words only to create way for Nana Addo and his bunch of nation wreckers. I will always choose Someone describe like Xi than have nana Addo and his thieves.

Godson Greene Kpodo → Franklin Cudjoe
Your argument reflects poorly on your intelligent self. Obviously, you fed into western deception of what democracy is, to designate this description to Nkrumah.

Citizen Foster → Franklin Cudjoe
You whose favourite president is Donald Trump can’t be trusted with this statement. After all that part of the history is just as someone finding faulty reasons to lay After murder.

Mubarak Mohammed → Franklin Cudjoe
SAME PPL WHO COMPLAINED ABOUT THAT WHAT DID THEY DO WHEN THEY GOT POWER PLEASE ANSWER ME

Salim Saalim → Franklin Cudjoe
When we press you further on geopolitics you’ll end up justifying the killings of Palestinians.

Pii Clement → Franklin Cudjoe
Couldn’t expect more from a Trump supporter. The joke is on us if we expect more from you as far as imperialism is concerned.

Godwin Adjatey Nahu → Franklin Cudjoe
Murderous, dictatorship, and one party state. Guy go pick up your books and read again, this time do it with an open mind and with a sense of good judgement.

Innocent Ubiquitous Sackey → Franklin Cudjoe
Murderous as in.. Some of u learn to some point in life den u start to say non fa….tell me one country that democracy has helped…. mtchewwwwww China that everyone admires nu u see dem practicing Demo whatever abi….

Desmond Darko → Franklin Cudjoe
Absolute falsehood.

Awudema GH → Franklin Cudjoe
YOU ARE DOING ALL THESE BECAUSE KOTOKA IF FROM YOUR HOMETOWN.

Burger Ba Jay → Franklin Cudjoe
Nobody will give u any attention. At least he was a pure man amongst all. All are evil.

Alhassan Samudeen → Franklin Cudjoe
The most useless debate topic on this planet Franklin Cudjoe

Golden Chain → Franklin Cudjoe
I firmly believe your grandparents were among the wicked souls who destroyed Ghana. And you are also on the same move.

Diyanah Kasia → Franklin Cudjoe
The irony of you being MAGA and calling Nkrumah a dictator

 

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