80-year-old female tractor driver says she worked under Kwame Nkrumah

Nkrumaist, 80, Comfort Boko Mensah, urged political leaders to always seek the best interests of the people and the country first, other than personal gain.

According to her, Ghana under the leadership of Dr Kwame Nkrumah is no longer the same. She blames political leaders for what she calls the country’s “backwardness”.

Comfort Boko Mensah was active during the time of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

She says that in her search for someone to help her study, she eventually came into contact with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

“Nkrumah personally handed me over to the one who brought in the workers’ brigade, he told her that this woman had something in her, was giving her job,” she said.

She later received three months of training to drive tractors in the Workers’ Brigade, making her the first woman to do so in 1961.

“The tractor has six speeds, three forward and three backward,” she said.

Comfort Boko said that when some people attempted to poison Dr Nkrumah while he was in James Fort Prison, she was the one who was sent to deliver a message sealed in a roll of toilet paper to some prison officials.

She says she was arrested and sent to prison three times. The mother of 8 was the CPP cheerleader.

The 80-year-old, however, is not satisfied with the level of partisanship in the country’s body politic.

“This is not the country that we started, the leaders are now very partisan and if this were to continue the country would not develop.”

—3news.com