Yao AGBENYO writes
YOU'RE EITHER IGNORANT OR PART OF THE AKYEM ABUAKWA HEGEMONY
Most of the youth of today do not find history a subject worth the energy to study. Yet the elders say "kaxoxowo nu wo gbea yeyewo do." To wit, it is according to the contours of the old ropes that new ones are built. Even the good old book says "there's nothing new under the sun." What this means is that everything we see today has its roots in an antecedent. Yet you don't think history has so much to say about today? Indeed! Tete wo bi ka! If you think your path has become so oblique and obscured, go ask your forebears! They have all the answers in antecedents you NEED TO LEARN.
Enough of the rigmaroles of folk wisdom, here's all I want to say: YOU ARE EITHER IGNORANT OR A PART OF THE AKYEM ABUAKWA HEGEMONY, otherwise, you’re just being used to achieve that Kibi Abuakwa agenda.
The NPP was formed to take power from the people and place it in the hands of a few selfish and ethnocentric individuals for their nepotistic and parochial gains. The NDC, on the other hand, was formed to give that power back to the people, and I’m gonna be proving this to you in a series of articles. Watch out for them.
☝🏼Since the days of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society (ARPS), anyone who joins the NPP or the postulators of their tradition with good intentions soon realises their evil mind-sets of amassing the country’s wealth to enrich and aggrandise themselves, and leaves. Every well meaning Ghanaian who joins them always leaves! Any wonder Nkrumah left and never went back to join them? These few selfish family members from Akyem Abuakwa, with JB Danquah as their ring leader, supported by his other family members- Edward Akuffo Addo, William Ofori Atta, and others, have been the torn in Ghana's flesh, the first of their agenda starting from the establishment of the ARPS to the UGCC till Nkrumah came in to join them but later breaking away, having realised the tribal agenda they were pursuing in the name of seeking independence for Ghana. Nkrumah broke away and founded the Convention People's Party together with like minded commoners, the common people. The Akyem Abuakwa hegemony came together to frustrate every effort Nkrumah made towards independence, including writing letters to the British Crown to deny Nkrumah independence, and releasing classified government information to the American government to frustrate Nkrumah's efforts. Why? Because that'd not fuel their agenda to have the nation's resources to themselves and their Ofori Panin family in Abuakwa. Fast forward, Nkrumah and his team defied all odds and finally got the Independence. In search of a name for the new nation after the 1956 plebiscite, the ethnocentric JB Danquah’s suggested name for the new nation is ‘AKANLAND’! Let no one deceive you that he was the one who proposed the name Ghana. He proposed Akanland. That just foregrounds the tribalism and ethnocentrism ingrained in the DNA of these guys.
They made the new nation ungovernable for Nkrumah with numerous assassination attempts on his life, inciting various tribal groups against Nkrumah. Finally, as masters of the smear campaign, they managed to convince some army officers to overthrow Nkrumah in 1966. As the masterminds behind the coup, Edward Akuffo Addo (Nana Addo’s father) was made chief justice, and later ceremonial President in 1969, with Busia as Prime Minister. If they weren’t the brains behind the coup, how do they assume such high positions shortly after the coup by the same coup makers? It was in the same year Nana Addo returned to Ghana and got inducted as a lawyer in his father’s office! This explains why we cannot trace his mates at law school. I haven’t said he’s not a lawyer.
Mind you, I’ve been talking about Akyem Abuakwa hegemony all this while because the other Akyem groupings: Kotoku, Bosome, and Asante Akyem have never been part of this whole destructive agenda. Thus if anyone wants to finger the whole of Okyeman in this cantata, I would not support it. It is only the Abuakwa group, the Ofori Panin children of Abuakwahene that have formed this hegemony to amass our national wealth to themselves, and this must be pointed out and condemned in no uncertain terms.
Let me reverse the history a bit to the formation of the UP and the Dombo confusion. Dombo was the leader of the Northern People’s Party. The largest section of the Union Party which was formed with other tribes Asante(made up of Eastern, Ashanti, and Bono Ahafo regions), some Anlo and Ga youth. When all these guys came together, because these Abuakwa and Ashanti guys can’t stand being led by people of other tribes, they insisted JB Danquah led the pack. Fine, he contested against Nkrumah and lost miserably. Why has the tradition always been Danquah-Busia until recently when they wanted to use the Northerners again, they’re adding Dombo to their so called tradition. As typical of them, the day they’d want to use the Ewes and Gãs, they’ll go back to history and tell you, you have always been part of the tradition. Don’t believe them. They just want to use you to achieve their selfish agenda.
Several years of rotating power among themselves and their families, and organising ARTIFICIAL COUPS and reinstating their own kith and kin, Rawlings, a junior army officer together with other officers of further junior ranks, decided to halt the circus and give power back to the Ghanaians in 1979 with the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Elections were quickly organised (Rawlings did NOT contest in the election in 1979. He merely supervised the election and went back to the barracks as a soldier). In the run up to the elections, William Ofori Atta joined forces with Dr. Limann because the Akyem group had been around for so long, and people had known them for who they were, and the evil agenda they were pursuing. So they needed to bring a new face, preferably someone they could control and use to achieve their selfish agenda. Hence the choice of Hilla Limann(the same factors affect the choice of Bawumia today). When he finally won the election, they infiltrated his government and messed up the whole country, borrowing left and right till Ghana became bankrupt! Most workers(teachers in majority) left the country to Nigeria and other countries.
The Abuakwa hegemony has been in control of Ghana for so long, messing up everything till Rawlings came. This is why the majority of Ghanaians who understood the significance of Rawlings’ intervention named him Junior Jesus. They have been around for a long time. As soon as they realise people have known them for the evil mind-sets they have, they quickly change name, and sometimes bring in new people they can control and manipulate to achieve their selfish agenda as is the case of Mahmud Bawumia in 2023.
☝🏼Anybody in Ghana now who means well for this country knows that the NDC under the leadership of John Dramani Mahama is the only hope for our redemption and restoration as a nation. A vote for Bawumia is like taking Ghana back to 1969. Bring back John Mahama to give back power to the people.
By 1981, Ghana had been declared bankrupt. Consequently Rawlings came back in 1981, seeing that the same Abuakwa hegemony was in control of the nation, with Limann the President just acting as a puppet, and that Limann didn’t have the bones to sack and dismiss when he needed to. Hence Rawlings came in this time establishing a Military government called the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). The aim was to sanitise the system, clean the house and prepare Ghana for democracy again, later, rebuilding Ghana from the state of bankruptcy to a new democracy. How he managed to navigate the country through the famine of 1983 won him the Hunger Prize which he used to establish the University for Development Studies which people have come to rename instead of building new ones.
So why has Rawlings been demonised? I’m sure by now you understand that Rawlings came to put an end to the Ashanti and Akyem Abuakwa hegemony. For denying them the opportunity to ramshackle the country’s wealth for their family gains, Rawlings became their enemy. Remember these are masters of smear campaigns. They’ll say things that are untrue about you till they become the truth if you don’t allow them to have their way. The best way to become an enemy to these people is to set boundaries and refuse to be used and manipulated by them.
Fast forward, by 1990 to 91, plans had been far advanced to return Ghana to a democracy. The lawyers from these Abuakwa guys refused to sit at table with others to draft the 1992 constitution. They frustrated the whole process till finally the constitution was drawn, the National Democratic Congress was born and the New Patriotic Party was also formed with Adu Boahen as its flag bearer after defeating Kufuor at the Primaries, but losing miserably against Rawlings who had by now become the darling of all Ghanaians. In 1996, Rawlings won against Kufuor and handed over power to Kufuor who defeated Atta Mills in the 2001 run-off.
All this is simply concluded thus: all those following NPP are just either ignorant of who they are and their intentions or are part of the grand scheme to usurp the People's rights and privileges. The same people who have frustrated every effort to develop the country, have their children hanging around here, pretending to be angels of democracy yet pursuing the same tribal and aristocratic Conservative ideologies. Reject them! Vote John Mahama. God punish npp severely. 😡
Yao Agbenyo
Communications Team Member, Tema West
Endorsed by : Christian Dela Afetor
Const. Comm. Officer, NDC-Tema West.
yaoagbenyo@gmail.com
+233 543 55 62 35
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