James Kwabena Bomfeh, popularly called Kabila, has sought to expose the biased and partisan character of Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye.
Reacting to comments by Prof. Mike Oquaye on a lecture about Ghana's destiny, Kabila was disgusted by what he terms as a "deliberate attempt" by the Speaker and the NPP government to write off the historical legacy of Ghana's First President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Delivering a public lecture in Accra on Friday, August 4 on the theme "4th August; Ghana's Day of Destiny", the Speaker of Parliament is quoted to have said the country wasn't founded by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as widely held in the history books of the country.
According to him, there's the need for the Ghana's history to be told in its entirety; in that J.B Danquah, a Ghanaian statesman and one of the doyens of Gold Coast liberation deserve to be celebrated as playing a major and significant role in founding Ghana.
Prof Mike Oquaye also indicated that the if the Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) would survive, they should concentrate on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) because they created rift in the CPP.
“The CPP has been penetrated by the newly created NDC . . . and that they have created confusion within the party which was then broken and fragmented into six political parties. And I wrote if the CPP wants to survive, they should not look our way because we are not out to destroy them. They must proceed to extricate themselves from the bowels of the NDC, then they will survive because as at now they are swallowed and as a truism, they know or should know who swallowed them," he said.
But speaking on Peace FM’s 'Kokrokoo', Kabila has lambasted the Speaker for delivering a partisan speech on what he believed was supposed to be a national commemoration of the achievement of independence by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
To him, Prof. Mike Oquaye distorted the facts to suit him and his NPP, and so deliberately chose to take the shine out of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
He noted that he (Mike Oquaye) shouldn't have been allowed to deliver the public lecture because "he wasn't the right person" for the occasion.
He further said Prof. Mike Oquaye was insisting that J.B Danquah somehow founded Ghana and also went ahead to link him to the establishment of the University of Ghana and Akosombo Dam.
All this, he stated, were false historical accounts to downplay the heroic achievement of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as the founder of Ghana.
Kabila however commended J.B Danquah and the other big six who helped in Ghana's struggle for independence but he cautioned Prof. Mike Oquaye not to distort and rewrite the country's history.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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such ***barred word*** twerps who call themselves CPPist who will never learn from history and the truth.No wonder their parties have disintegrated and scattered. For lack of knowledge my people perish. Nkrumah was an over-hyped megalomaniac, ask Komla (Afro Gbede)Gbedemah, but the truth will out eventually. a people without a history......... Meanwhile Kabilla stop boozing the akpeteshie and read so you can talk sensibly...
IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT NKRUMAH FOUNDED GHANA GO AND DIE. PEOPLE EXISTED BEFORE KINGS WERE BORN. FOOOOOOLISH AND RUUUUBISH HISTORY COINED BY A PROFESSOR AND A MINISTER OF GOD PEOPLE CLAIM? I FEEL ASHAMED FOR HIM AND ANYBODY WHO SUPPORTS HIM MUST BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF. WE HAVE NKRUMAH'S GHANA AND NOTHING ELSE. DIE!DIE!DIE! IF YOU DISAGREE.
I AM REALLY SURPRISED AT THIS KABILA GUY. LISTENING TO HIM SOMETIMES IS SO NAUSEATING. THIS AKPETESHE DRINKING MORON THINK HE IS AN AUTHORITY ON GHANA HISTORY. PLEASE GIVE US A BREAK BECAUSE WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR RU-B-I-SH. THE TANGENT YOU ARE GOING WILL SOON MAKE YOU IRRELEVANT LIKE KOKU ANHIDOHO AND THE REST OF THE STOMACH LED JOURNALISTS IN GHANA. MY ADVISOR TO YOU IS, STOP THE "APIO" BECAUSE IT WILL DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH.
Mr. Bomfeh, you must cut your coat according to your shirt, as they say. J. B. Danquah's exploits in Ghana has nothing to do with the current President. If a party is formed to which Nkrumah was invited to join then how can the invitee rather become an only founder of the nation? It beats common sennse. You don't have to be a professor to appreciate this! If one man leads a group to convince the British Crown to build the only University for British West in Ghana (Legon) does't that individual need to be commended? Do you also know that it was J. B. Danquah who convinced Ashantiman and The North to join the Gold Coast Colony? What Nkrumah did on 6th March 1957 was to baptize Ghana, not to give birth to it. Did he even know where the name Ghana came from? We all know Phillip Gbeho composed the National anthem, but what about the source of the name Ghana? At least on the independence day Ghanaians should have been told. The division Nkrumah's coming to Ghana has brought to nation needs a national healing and not people who know next to nothiing about the nation's history jumping from one radio station to the other.
THIS IS NKRUMAH'S GHANA!!! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, GO TO TOGO OR BURKINA FASO!!WE WILL BE MONITORING THE HISTORY BOOKS GIVEN TO OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN INCASE NPP TRIES TO SMUGGLE THEIR BRIBE-TAKING UGCC FOUNDERS INTO OUR SCHOOLS!!