Expell Israeli Ambassador

Israeli Ambassador, Ami Mehl

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GHANA MUST EXPEL ISRAELI AMBASSADOR FOR GROSS DISRESPECT, ABUSE OF HOSPITALITY AND DIPLOMATIC INCOMPETENCE- K. K. Pratt

"On Thursday the 21st December 2017, Ghana, in accordance with its stated and considered principles and in pursuant of its long term foreign policy objectives, exercised its non alienable sovereign right as an independent state and a bonafide member of the United Nations, by voting according to her conscience in favor of the General Assembly resolution; condemning the decision of President Trump of USA to move the USA embassy to the disputed Jerusalem.

This was done after careful and utmost considerations by the president, our permanent representative to the UN, Cabinet and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, as well as in close consultations with our friends in Africa Union and elsewhere.

The Israeli ambassador issued a statement yesterday in Ghana calling it a mistake and warning the Ghana government not to repeat such a mistake again. How dare he? Are our foreign policy objectives dictated, formulated or supervised from Tel Avive?

Israel is an occupying force in Palestine and an unwanted entity in Jerusalem. Ghana and the world have long recognized East Jerusalem as the legal and administrative capital of the state of Palestine. Like other members of the International community, Ghana believes, just like the USA believed only a few days ago,  that the final status of Jerusalem can only be settled through negotiations between Israel and Palestine under the two-state principle; and that any declarations, support or intentions to annex Jerusalem unilaterally by Israel with support from any quarters is null and void and of no effect intact or international law and standing.

It is for this reason that the statement by the Israeli ambassador yesterday is not only insulting and degrading to our country, but an affront to all decency in international diplomacy and our sovereignty.  

I therefore call on the President of Ghana, the Speaker and Members of Parliament, as a matter of urgency, to restore the dignity of the country by immediately ordering the Minister of Foreign Affairs to invite the Israeli Ambassador to Ghana for a no nonsense dressing down and a demand for an unqualified apology. This must be followed be a declaration of the ambassador as a personae non grata and required to leave the shores of Ghana within 48 hours.

We must also follow it with a formal unambiguous complain to Tel Aviv about the conduct of the ambassador and call for an immediate session of the AU to discuss the conduct of both the ambassador and that of Israel on the aftermath of the General Assembly vote.

Ghana is a sovereign independent nation. Our vote in the UN and our foreign policy objectives must not be subject to the dictates of any other country."

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GHANA IN RETROSPECT 3 THE RISE AND PERCEIVED SHORTCOMINGS OF NKRUMAH.

GHANA IN RETROPECT PART THREE: THE RISE AND PERCEIVED SHORTCOMINGS OF NKRUMAH.

Guyana under siege reports that the political wave that swept Kwame Nkrumah into office as Prime Minister of Ghana was a true expression of her population. The nation was enjoying prosperity; foreign and domestic reserves were healthy; cocoa prices were excellent and stable and, in general, the prospects for the country's future were outstanding.

Nkrumah's government immediately embarked upon a very costly nationwide infrastructure improvement scheme. Roads were built and/or improved, in most cases, to all weather standards. The Accra to Tema Motorway was built to near Autobahn proportions. Medical services were greatly improved and expanded. Positive steps were taken towards implementation of the vast and extraordinarily costly Volta River hydro-electric dam at Akosombo. Tema Township and world class harbor were built.

Nkrumah focused enormous resources on improving Ghana's export agricultural base which, traditionally, was heavily dependent upon cocoa. The Agricultural Development Board was established to regulate cocoa production, purchasing and marketing and to identify, subsidize and promote the production of other cash crops to alleviate the tenuous cocoa dependency.

The Industrial Development Corporation was formed to plan and undertake a full range of industrial projects. The Management Development and Productivity Institute was chartered along with its principal division, The Ghanaian Business Bureau, designed to develop and nurture small to medium size Ghanaian-owned businesses.

Government was determined to reduce Ghana's dependence on foreign manufacturers and bring an end to the nation’s vulnerable position as a supplier of raw materials.

When Nkrumah took office as Prime Minister on 6 March, 1957, there was every indication that the above very noble activities could be successfully undertaken on a sustained basis. Cocoa prices were stable and at a near high, providing a steady and seemingly reliable source of foreign exchange.

In addition, and most importantly, Ghana was united behind her leader, succumbing to his extraordinary oratory, glib rhetoric and zeal. There was a vibrant national passion for development and self-reliance. Throughout the nation, in every region, in every Chiefdom, the population was enthusiastically and earnestly engaged in Nkrumah sponsored and supported self-help schemes; building schools, clinics, village and town centers, roads, drains and irrigation systems. Ghana of 1957-1959 experienced a massive outpouring of productive energy and was being keenly observed by the international community as the development model for emerging African nations.

So what went wrong? How and why did the brilliant, charismatic Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the outspoken Marxist/Communist, Pan-African Founding Father of Ghana, begin his political slide and ultimate ignominious fall from power? In 1965, world cocoa prices plummeted, and the enormous development spending begun by Nkrumah four years earlier, severely impacted the country's economy. Foreign exchange and government's reserves shrank and disappeared.

Unemployment rose dramatically. Food prices skyrocketed up over 250% from 1957 levels and up a phenomenal 66% in 1965. Eventually, there were massive food and essentials shortages affecting every area, sector and individual in Ghana. Economic growth, which had ranged from 9% to 12% per annum until 1960, dropped to 2% to 3%, insufficient to sustain a population expanding at almost 3% per year.

Nkrumah's response was an austere socialist budget which imposed flawed Marxist concepts of economic resuscitation on the population, primarily through harsh and unrealistic taxation. Financial mismanagement and economic chaos increased and the country was eventually poised at the brink of national bankruptcy and international disgrace.

In the meantime, to shore up his eroding political strength, Nkrumah assumed more and more power which he exercised capriciously. Obsessed with personal safety after two failed assassination attempts, he established a very well and heavily armed Secret Security Service and Presidential Guard recruited from abroad and under his direct control. Resentment by the ill-equipped Army and Police followed.

In 1964, Nkrumah declared himself President for Life and summarily banned all opposition political parties. His enemies, real and imagined, were detained. In the process, innocent people from all over Ghana were swept up and imprisoned in complete abuse of their individual rights and liberties. Laws were suspended and/or manipulated to prop up Nkrumah's faltering regime.

In the meantime, the Cult of Nkrumahism continued to develop and propound preposterous quasi-marxist theory and dogma hatched in the name of Nkrumah, at the Ideological Institute at Winneba. The Nkrumah cult, created by Nkrumah himself to perpetuate and mythicize himself, forced acquiescence by all, to what was called "the Nkrumahist Gospel".

On 24 February, 1966, the bubble did not merely burst, it exploded! In the early morning hours, Ghana's armed forces, with the cooperation of the National Police, took over government in "Operation Cold Chop", a well organized coup d'etat. The first announcement made from Radio Ghana said that the coup was led by Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka of the 2nd Infantry Brigade. Kotoka, an outstanding soldier, was a national hero, honored for valor and bravery while serving as part of Ghana's United Nations 1960 and 1961 Congo contingent. A National Liberation Council was formed to run the affairs of state. Parliament was dissolved. Nkrumah's ruling political organization, the Convention People's Party (C.P.P.), was banned and Nkrumah himself was dismissed as President of Ghana's First Republic. The reign of the Osegyefo, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was over.

Anthony Obeng Afrane

anthonyafrane54@gmail.com

Writer Social Entrepreneur, Politician 

General Secretary of Ghana        Writers Asociation (GAW)

Author of ten published titles including 

THE AGA OF A POLITICAL GURU

GHANA IN RETROSPECT  2

GHANA IN RETROSPECT  1

US SHADOW GOVERNMENT IN AFRICA