{"id":396482,"date":"2017-06-21T09:27:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/21\/nkrumah-killed-ghanas-democracy-kufuor\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T09:27:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:27:58","slug":"nkrumah-killed-ghanas-democracy-kufuor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/21\/nkrumah-killed-ghanas-democracy-kufuor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkrumah killed Ghana&#8217;s democracy &#8211; Kufuor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/adomonline.com\/ghana-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Kufour.jpg\" data-caption=\"WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 15:  (AFP OUT) Ghana President John Kufuor delivers a speech and toast during a state dinner in his honor at the White House September 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. Kufuor is on a three-day state visit to the United States.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"443\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/xJohn-Kufour.jpg.pagespeed.ic.hwVvYpbZ-V.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"President And Mrs. Bush Hold State Dinner For President Of Ghana\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON &#8211; SEPTEMBER 15:  (AFP OUT) Ghana President John Kufuor delivers a speech and toast during a state dinner in his honor at the White House September 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. Kufuor is on a three-day state visit to the United States.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said that Ghana\u2019s first leader, Kwame Nkrumah, plunged the country into chaos and virtually eradicated democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-President Kufuor, who was interacting with the leadership of the International Democratic Union (IDU) which paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Accra, said on Tuesday, June 20 that Mr Nkrumah misused Ghana\u2019s resources and plunged the country into poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining further, he pointed out that by 1963, \u201cour then President Nkrumah, left of centre politician, moved the country into a one-party state with a lot of intolerance; he built a whole prison just 22 miles of Accra for the detention of political opponents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He observed: \u201cDemocracy as we are espousing was virtually killed,\u201d and was quick to add that \u201cby 1966 the country had had too much and it was labouring under poverty it had never known before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kufuor, who served as president between 2001 and 2009, said the country was \u201clabouring under intolerance and people were not allowed to express themselves [under President Nkrumah]\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that it was after 1992 that the country became stable and democracy was introduced and hopefully has been strengthened over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The IDU, of which the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a member, is a working association of over 80 Conservative, Christian Democrat and like-minded political parties of the centre and centre right.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP was able to join the IDU courtesy the intervention of Mr Kufuor when he was the president of the Republic of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the leadership of the Union deemed it fit to pay a courtesy call on him before the commencement of a meeting by the IDU in Accra.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; SEPTEMBER 15: (AFP OUT) Ghana President John Kufuor delivers a speech and toast during a state dinner in his honor at the White House September 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. 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(Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images) Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":396483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nkrumah killed Ghana&#039;s democracy - Kufuor - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/21\/nkrumah-killed-ghanas-democracy-kufuor\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nkrumah killed Ghana&#039;s democracy - Kufuor - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON &#8211; SEPTEMBER 15: (AFP OUT) Ghana President John Kufuor delivers a speech and toast during a state dinner in his honor at the White House September 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. 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