Ghana's Story in 58 Lines - (41-45)

By Angelina K. Morrison and Naana Ekua Eyaaba

Ghana

41. On the blind side of President Kwame Nkrumah, many of his ministers led by the semi-illiterate Krobo Edusei, had sown the noisome seeds of corruption in Ghanaian society; a rancid phenomenon, which would continue to develop into the palpitation and prevalence of corruption in the national blood.

42. The National Liberation Council which replaced Nkrumah’s government ruled for three-and-a-half years and handed over power to Prof. Kofi Abrefa Busia’s Progress Party (PP), a sort of resurrected United Party, after new democratic election in 1969, under the new Westminster-style Parliamentary democracy of the Second Republic.

43. Busia was confronted by dire economic straits, with falling world prices, and a grossly over-valued cedi.

44. The PP Government of Busia embarked on rural development, which would have minimised the uncontrollable current urbanisation, with its huge and potentially disastrous social and economic consequences for Ghana.

45. However, Busia’s policies of devaluation of the cedi, Aliens’ Compliance Order (which swung open the portals for Ghanaians to enter the retail trade and smother diamond smuggling by the Lebanese) did not sit well with certain sections of the population, and on 13th January 1972, was overthrown by a group of colonels and majors of the Ghana Army led by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

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Author 1: Angelina K. Morrison is interested in national development, true religion, and self-improvement. She enjoys thinking, and writes stories only when the muse grips her. Her first short story, Gravellatina is a breathtaking five-part series available now at Amazon. You can email her at angelinakm75@gmail.com, or find her at www.angelinakmorrison.blogspot.com or Facebook page.

Author 2: Nana Ekua Eyaaba has an overarching interest in the development of the African continent and Black issues in general. Having travelled extensively through Africa, the Black communities of the East Coast of the United States as well as London and Leeds (United Kingdom), she enjoys reading, and writes when she is irritated, and edits when she is calm. You can email her at neeyaaba@gmail.com.