Today marks the forty sixth anniversary of the subversion of the administration of Ghana�s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah by military cum police adventurers through a coup d��tat, with the active participation of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Declassified National Security Council and CIA documents provide compelling evidence of United States government involvement in the 1966 overthrow of the Ghanaian President.
The coup d��tat, organized by dissident army officers, toppled the Nkrumah regime on Feb. 24, 1966 and was promptly hailed by Western governments, including the U.S.
Allegations of American involvement in the putsche arose almost immediately because of the well-known hostility of the U.S. to Nkrumah's socialist orientation and pan-African activism.
Speaking to the issue on Adom FM, the NPP MP for Assin North, Hon Kennedy Agyapong bemoaned the loss of Dr. Nkrumah saying it is sad that a man blessed with such infinite wisdom and intellect suffered such a predicament.
He confessed that though he belonged to a political party whose traditions and ideologies differ from the Nkrumaists, the role and place of Ghana�s first president, cannot be over-emphasized and is well acknowledged, adding that the fact still remains that �Nkrumah would always remain a great man�.
According to him, he sometimes debates his colleagues in the NPP on the subject "did Nkrumah make good use of Ghana�s resources�. He further noted that considering the massive infrastructural projects undertaken under his administration, one can safely say Dr. Nkrumah has aided the country in various ways and remains one of the most influential Pan Africanists of the 20th century.
However, the Assin North MP, said despite Nkrumah�s good deeds he disliked the style of governance Nkrumah wanted to impose on Ghanaians, especially his proclamation of Ghana as a one party state with a Life President.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/Peacefmonline.com
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