GHANA: BACK INTO THE COLONIAL FOLD

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By: Abena Osegu Boateng

Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo-Addo is most certainly an extraordinary President. He has done what no Ghanaian President after independence in 1957 has had the guts to do.

Akufo-Addo has managed to take Ghana which led the independence struggle in Africa south of the Sahara back to the colonial fold.

One of the very first acts of his government was to enlist Ghana in the community of former French colonies, the Francophony in addition to getting stuck in the British Commonwealth.

Indeed, the stupidity of this move is explained publicly as a consequence of the Ghanaian leader being a fluent French speaker who was educated partially in France.

Last week, Akufo-Addo played host the Vice President of the United States of America (USA), Kamara Harris and completely surrendered the management of the Ghana economy to Uncle Sam.

At the end of the visit which was officially styled as a charming offensive, it was announced that the US government has appointed a resident economic advisor to Ghana to help fix West African country’s economy.

Woow!

In ordinary language, from now on the Ghanaian economy will be run by somebody appointed by the Government of the United States of America which overthrew the Government of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, on February 24, 1966.

As a fact, Ghana’s current economic difficulties spring from very bad advice given by the US to the puppets it installed in power in 1966.

These puppets were told to jump into the road to neo-liberalism, to privatize state enterprises, to devalue the national currency, to remove subsidies on social services, kill the nuclear power project with the Soviet Union and to make education a privilege and not a right.

After more than 60 years of religiously following advice from the United States of America, Ghana has become bankrupt unable to pay her loans and generate resources for her own development.

Ghana today is also host of a US military base which is part of the infrastructure for imperialist intervention in Africa.

Under the agreement allowing the US army to operate from Ghana, US soldiers have more privileges than Ambassadors and High commissioners under the Geneva Convention.

They don’t need visas and passports to come to Ghana. All they need is their US army identity cards.

US soldiers can also not be put on trial in Ghana for killing citizens or destroying their properties. They are also entitled to the free use of frequencies for communications.

If you think Nana Akufo-Addo has done the unthinkable already, just hold on a minute.

Can you believe that on a recent visit to the US capital, Washington the Ghanaian President actually asked his masters in Washington to help him to fight the Wanger Group, the Russian security firm in Burkina Faso?

Is there still any doubt that Akufo-Addo has handed Ghana back to colonizers and imperialists?

Poor Ghana!