{"id":1208950,"date":"2022-09-22T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/nkrumah-memorial-day-osagyefo-is-the-only-thinking-president-ghana-has-ever-had-cpp-man\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:05:00","slug":"nkrumah-memorial-day-osagyefo-is-the-only-thinking-president-ghana-has-ever-had-cpp-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/nkrumah-memorial-day-osagyefo-is-the-only-thinking-president-ghana-has-ever-had-cpp-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkrumah Memorial Day: Osagyefo Is The Only Thinking President Ghana Has Ever Had \u2013 CPP Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/afc99633ae0e4abaa7898642e9c2acfd\" alt=\"Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, Suame near lynching \u2013 More Ashanti NPP MPs will be dealt  with in same manner - GhanaPlus\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The National Youth Organizer of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) Comrade Osei Kofi Acquah, has paid glowing tribute to Ghana\u2019s first President Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah as the nation remembers him on his birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">According to Mr Acquah, Dr Nkrumah&#8217;s government has been the only visionary leadership that Ghana has ever witnessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He says all the leaders that came after him have demonstrated a clear lack of focus and the thinking capacity needed to transform the country beyond the level Nkrumah did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018\u2018Oh yes, the CPP was a thinking government, we set up industries, the 7 years industrialization plan is there for people to see\u201d, he said on Kumasi-based Ultimate FM on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018\u2018Osagyefo after building the Akosombo dam said all regions needed a hydro dam to kick start industries in every part of the country, what do you call such a government?\u2019\u2019 he questioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Mr Acquah took a swipe at both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the two leading political parties in Ghana at the moment, for how badly they have managed affairs of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018\u2018Once upon a time, a thinking government brought the state farming, the government went into farming to feed the citizens, today most of the causes of high inflation is in the agricultural sector\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018\u2018The 50 pesewas kenkey is now 3 cedis, the gari and beans is now high, a tuber of yam, you don\u2019t want to hear it\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018\u2018How do you expect the ordinary Ghanaian to survive in this hardship,\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018\u2018The CPP, was a thinking government, since the inception of the 1992 constitution, the NPP and the NDC are not thinking, I don\u2019t want to say they don\u2019t have brains but they are not thinking\u2019\u2019 he said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018\u2018This is what they do, they get a little money, they spend it haphazardly, they go to the IMF and tell them that we have come to teach us what to do, give us credibility policy and all those things\u2019\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The CPP National Youth Organizer further advised the current political leadership to adopt Dr Nkrumah\u2019s vision since they have shown a clear lack of same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah set up supermarkets, ask the NDC where are they? Today you go to Kumasi mall, Accra mall, and you see the Chinese malls and all those malls. Where are our state malls? We are jokers. I am telling you again, once upon a time there was a thinking government. What we have now is the government which doesn\u2019t think\u2019\u2019, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">September 21, the day Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was born, is marked each year to remember the legacy and achievements of Ghana\u2019s first President and founder of the CPP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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