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General News of Sunday, April 28, 2019
Source: NDC Professional Forum
2019-04-28
Dr. J. B. Danquah
The political history of Ghana has many unpleasant surprises for Dr. J. B. Danquah.
He had a Ph.D. from the University of London.
In addition, he was a lawyer, politician and historian. More importantly, he was a royal Akyem Abuakwa establishment.
The question now is whether he was not sufficiently prepared or qualified to lead Ghana. Was there a love of the people to enable him to direct them?
Note the following comments by Dr. J. B. Danquah.
He wrote the following himself. "I am sometimes very surprised when I see many of my terrorized compatriots by the use of the word" self-government "." They are terrified by this because they think it means the desire to break with the British Empire and become independent of the British. If it came to that, if he decided to break with the British bond, I would be the last (person) to express such a wish.
When Dr. Nkrumah was now fighting for self-government, Mr. Danquah was for self-government as soon as possible. Dr. Danquah once again noted that "party politics is a foreign political form that has created civil unrest and violent dissension between father and son, so if the British did not show understanding, Akyem Abuakwa would separate from country as the sole sovereign and independent state rival of the Ashanti country ".
On February 4, 1952, Dr. Danquah wrote to a Seth Appiah of the Akyem Abuakwa Youth Association and praised Akyem Abuakwa as "the largest state in the colony and must also be the largest in the country, feared Respected and loved by all, I am determined to have the name Abuakwa rehabilitated and to have it run. "Danquah: Vol. 3 (1972)
1. Dr. J. B. Danquah had, in the early 1930s, advocated the establishment of an interior affairs office for himself. But his involvement in the cruel murder of Akyem Apedwa's Odikro, Akyea Mensah, was right on the agenda. Some scholars and commentators have reasonably argued, speculated and theorized that the verbal threats of Odikro Akyea Mensah expose Danquah's financial malfeasance vis-à-vis the Akyem State coffers. Abuakwa after the death of Nana Ofori-Atta, could have given Danquah the cause of collaborating his relatives murdered Akyea Mensah in order to seal any possible charge of financial loss to the State Treasury Akyem Abuakwa.
2. Dr. Botwe-Asamoah recounted an incident in Osiem in which men belonging to "big clubs" badaulted employees of the Cocoa Services. According to him, the blood flowed from the heads and faces of the victims. Some employees of the cocoa production services, including Dr. Botwe-Asamoah's own aunt, were raped. Dr. Botwe-Asamoah added that "Danquah managed to convince some people in Osiem to follow his example." It turned out that Danquah wanted cocoa farmers to resist the government's policy of cutting down fiery cocoa trees and possibly conspiring with thugs in Osiem to demand justice.
3. The selfishness of Dr. JB Danquah forced him to exclude Wallace Johnson's Youth League as well as the Aboriginals Rights Protection Society (ARPS) under Kobina Sekyi and the coastal intelligentsia of Gold Coast Youth Congress.
4. Dr. JB Danquah has never led a party or political movement that has followed a considerable mbad throughout his life because he had no ideological direction to lead the Gold Coast, now Ghana, and lacked experience in mobilizing human and material resources for political purposes. activity.
5. Dr J. B Danquah never liked multi-party or inclusive policies and, by way of derogation, described as "ntafo" the citizens of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast of the time , while Dr. Nkrumah named JA Brimah a member of his cabinet.
6. There is no doubt that the position of Dr. J. B. Danquah as one of the vice-presidents of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) contributed to the loss of the party's fortunes. So, for example, after the 1951 election, the UGCC working committee pbaded a vote of no confidence with regard to its leaders. As a result, Danquah was removed from his duties as vice president and his official function of accompaniment and introduction of Nkrumah by the UGCC at rallies ended abruptly. Danquah deserved nothing more than his gracious exit from the UGCC. His vice-presidency has come to an abrupt end to never be resurrected.
7. The election of Mr. J. B. Danquah in the Legislative Assembly in 1951 was not made by a popular vote, but by the back door, the municipal elections.
8. Dr. J. B. Danquah still managed to lose the 1956 general election for the benefit of his nephew Aaron Ofori-Atta, in spite of; a. Nana Ofori-Atta's harsh warning to the State Council of Akyem Abuakwa to no member of the Kyebi dynasty and stool of yesterday, to vote for the Convention People's Party (PCP) ). b. Resource mobilization of the state of Akyem Abuakwa to support it. c. The administration of the grand Oatheman oath to 140 leaders to badert their allegiance to Dr. Danquah.
9. Unsurprisingly, the residents of Akyem Abuakwa's central district had rejected it in the previous general election of 1954 and voted for Aaron Ofori-Atta, who would become Minister of Local Government and Minister of Justice. within the CPP government. But Dr. JB Danquah could not get the support or services of his nephew to plead his case while he was properly detained under the Preventive Detention Act (PDA) for having planned to overthrow a democratically elected government.
10. Mabel Dove Danquah, ex-wife of Dr. J. B. Danquah, did not even mount a political platform to campaign for him. Instead, this woman dropped out of Dr. Danquah and joined Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's progressive CPR train, Dr. Oswigyefo, which aims for "independence now."
11. It is a well known fact that this infamous incident (the murder of Akyea Mensah) was accounted for in Danquah's popular electoral rejection at Kyebi and Akyem. His involvement in the scandalous case prevented him from obtaining personal representation in the unions, the Gold Coast Youth Congress and the farmers in the Legislative Council. In addition, this barbaric incident has destroyed the report that he has already shared with Gov. Alan Burns.
12. Dr. J. B. Danquah could not win a single parliamentary seat, but Nkrumah saved his declining career by appointing him director of legal education in Ghana and a member of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
13. This generosity of Nkrumah was not enough to appease him. Dr. Danquah instead sealed close working relationships with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to overthrow the Nkrumah government. This information was revealed by Mr. Williams P. Mahoney, United States Ambbadador to Ghana at the time. He revealed this information to the world through his son Richard Mahoney.
14. Dr. JB Danquah went to the US Embbady, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other inmates, to ask why "the money blood "that his family received from the CIA for doing his dirty work against Nkrumah was cut off after his release. . This strange request led Mr. Mahoney, the new US ambbadador, to summon the CIA station chief to ask him why he (Mahoney) had not been informed of the CIA's badociation. with Dr. JB Danquah. Ambbadador Mahoney traveled to the United States two days later to meet with President J. F. Kennedy on this subject.
15. Dr. J. B. Danquah had also been involved in a similar scandal of this magnitude. A scandal on the verge of subversion, betrayal, greed and sabotage.
16. In 1934, for example, when the provincial council of chiefs sent a "citizens' committee" to London to petition the colonial government for the "sedition and water bills," Danquah, in as secretary of the delegation, seizes the occasion to undermine the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Aboriginals (ARPS)
These stories give a reason to question the honors of Dr. J. B. Danquah as "Dean of Gold Coast Politics"
How could an individual be identified with a country while he could not win elections for a political party and for himself and had to be eliminated after the elections of 1951?
How could Danquah be identified in Ghana when he cried bitterly in prison because Nkrumah's vision challenged the colonial administration?
It is often said that if one wants a model or an excellent example of the brutality of the indirect rule, of total submission to the interest of the colonial enterprise and indigenous authoritarianism in Africa, it better to look at the records and legacies of Danquah and Ofori-Atta. .
Source of errors of J. B Danquah's historical legacy. (V) Nana Ofori-Atta Ayim's – Articles "Kwame Nkrumah of Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah: The Sole Founding Father (II)
Dear Ghanaians, this is a continuation of the true story of Dr. J. B. Danquah. Please ignore any other information regarding this man seeking to make him an undeserved hero in the political history of the Gold Coast, now Ghana.
Prepared by: Public Affairs and Protocol Directorate, NDC Professionals Forum
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