On September 29, 1962, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, aka Afro Gbede, one-time confidante of President Kwame Nkrumah, Founding Member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and Minister of Finance for seven years in the CPP Government wrote an open letter to Nkrumah from his exile in Togo expressing concern about the Seven-Year Development plan –Work and Happiness for All – and shared his views on the state of Ghana at the time.