The Abandoned Factories Built by Kwame Nkrumah 

To be fair, when the National Liberation Council ousted Nkrumah and sold our country, they didnt allow free speech. Even today, with our democracy, threats and attacks are being made on people like Anas for trying to expose corruption

Very true

The cause of all Ghana’s woes is the unpatriotic and wicked leaders Ghana has had after Osagyefo. How can leave a factory that can employ Ghanaians and reduce your dependence on foreign imports to rot while your people suffer? It is a real tragedy.

KFC, Coca Cola and the rest are private owned business organizations, which are capitalist oriented model. What brought about the collapse of USSR and socialism/communism? Why did China embrace the market system to become the super power it is today? The collapse of factories built by Nkrumah is attributable to the fundamental flaws of socialism. Hence, with or without the overthrow of Nkrumah those factories were not going to be sustainably efficient in the long run. In my personal opinion, this is where NPP would always have the edge over the NDC, cos by their traditions or ideologies NDC can never champion industrialization the way NPP would do. The 1D1F is a laudable policy that if there could be bipartisan support with all the necessary incentives, not only would Ghana become the industrial hub of West Africa, but would rather encourage more private investors commit their resources to grow the economy of Ghana.

@@geoffreyosuji6166 it has been 7 years of NPP with their 1-district, 1-factory. What has been results so far? How many factories are thriving and reducing Ghana’s imports? Also, there was the 8 years of Kuffour. How did that help Ghana industrialise? And, those who overthrew Nkrumah claimed to be capitalists and champions of private enterprise. How come their capitalism could not run those factories efficiently even after privatisation?

​​@@talkingAfricaAnd there was how many years of PNDC/NDC.? And how did that help the industries.? You guys think about your political parties first before Ghana and that's Ghana's problem. Most of you guys are more corrupt in your private dealings than those greedy politicians.

@kojoboahen1031 please, do not attack me baselessly. My reply was in response to claims made. I do not have an interest in picking sides between two parties(NPP & NDC) who have taken turns to run Ghana into a ditch after 32 years. Both parties and their forebears have been the ones who have systematically dismantled Ghana’s industrial base to the great detriment of Ghanaians. Both NPP & NDC are enemies of the people of Ghana.

Because they overthrow him that’s why

Lots of them were in western region.

Thanks all are the hatred of Ashanti's

Unfortunately you cannot survive without the Ashantis, whether you accept it or not.

It's a lie. The coup makers of 24th February 1966 were the cause of our woes.

That's not true. It was Progress Party now NPP that killed all the factories. Know your history.

JJ rawling sold them to wife, families and friends

JJ Rawlings indeed

Please we need another Nkrumah NOT JJ Rawlings. I believe Nana Kwame Bediako is another Nkrumah. He Upholds the Vision of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah with a Passion

“Lieutenant-General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka Born (26 September 1926 - 17 April 1967) was a Ghanaian military officer who was a member of the ruling National Liberation Council which came to power in Ghana in a military coup d'état on 24 February 1966. This overthrew the government of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of the republic.”

You can say that again, at times I don’t know what’s wrong with we Ghanaians .

It starts with making sure we can control our politicians and they have no godfathers

TV3 was a handiwork of Nkrumah sold to politicians by politicians ! Do your research!

The US is the one who overthrew him with the help of sellouts within!

Hhhmmm

The overthrow is part of the curse

Not only NPP is both NPP and NDC

For your information your own ndc/pndc collapsed most of these industries. Learn your history and stop talking rubbish.

​@@EbenezerAtiemo-ie5btI was about to make similar comment. After all NDC is Nkrumaist. If PNDC collapsed the factories, why did the NDC not revamp them?

Let's wake up. I think we should vote for Nana Kwame Bediako. Let's not think we are going to waste our votes. Every journey of a mile begins with a step. At least even if he doesn't win, it'll be a sign for our leaders to know that Ghanaian Youth have started Wising Up. And they may start doing things right

Amen

Yes they can but Ghanaian leaders clearly do not care

“How Europe underdeveloped Africa” A book written by Dr Walter Rodney!

They are only interested in stealing and no foresight.

Yes, many of the factories can be revived. In fact, the current government in Ghana appeared to be interested in reviving the Abosso Glass Factory and the Bonsa Tyre Factory. The President announced that a feasibility study was being done back in 2017 and GIHOC later claimed to have taken over the Bonsa factory but nothing appears to have come out of it.

@@talkingAfrica Thank you

@@lindaesmerada you’re welcome 🙏🏿

They're all sleeping

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But still they always talk bad about him including the chiefs in Kumasi, hhhmm do you know why … because OSAGYFOU Dr Kwame Nkrumah is not an Ashanti man. Tribalism people hhhmm

Oh my brother , you know everything? Please allow

If you know then go take your camera a report aswel, at least people who didn't know about something like this will now know.

When was the NDC formed? The people who overthrew Nkrumah regime were the people who destroyed the factories.

@@felixotoo8498 just go back to the history of Ghana is ndc party and jj and his friends destroy Ashanti Region since 19 82 what they did to Asantes shameful

Don't mind Them, they were happy when J J Rawlings was destroying those industries in Kumasi, but what they forgot realized was that it would come back to hurt all of them.

@@agoogo5026 and how many years did and have npp too,and what did they do to that destroyed factories and aside that kuffour coming from Ashanti region what did he do too?bro be smart they are all anti nkrumaist to destroy our future same thing JJ sold all of ships on the takoradi port so u see now kuffour sold Ghana telecommunications a whole communication network for the country which today could have employed huge mass of the populace

There was hardly any "private sector" back then. They were mostly traders and merchants. Some of the Chinese factories that build our roads are state-owned.

1. The role of government is not to open factories. According to who? 2. Everybody knows that Kwame Nkrumah built all kinds of necessary infrastructure across the country. Schools, hospitals, roads, housing, bridges, Harbor and the Akosombo dam. So, that cannot be a point because it was done. 3. The over 100 factories were sold to private sector by the NLC in 1966 and then by JJ Rawlings in the early 90s. What has been the result of that since you claim private sector is best at managing factories? Government after government have been touting private sector. Where is the benefit of that since 1992? Where are the thriving factories owned and run by the private sector? It is baseless to say government should not own or run factories. Under Nkrumah, those factories were operating satisfactorily. They were abandoned and sold off by traitors on the orders of their western masters who opposed the industrialisation of Ghana. That is the fundamental issue. That Ghana cannot be allowed to industrialise and sadly, they have had sellout Ghanaian leaders who had no problems collapsing these factories even as thousands of Ghanaians became employed and poor as a result

​@@z.t.8950At a point they should have been revamped and privatized.

​​@@z.t.8950 God bless you, my brother. I was coming to take him on, which you have done. Years ago, Kwame Pianim delivered a lecture at the British Council. During question time, I got up and asked him: Kwame Nkrumah said colonialism had prevented our people from building private wealth which would have supported industrialisation. As such, it was left to the state, which had the means, to initiate the process of industrialisation. Please Sir, 50 years down the line, do you think the indigenous private sector has the capital to lead our industrialisation? Ooh boy, my brother, it was as if I had poked the man's anti-Nkrumah wound. Instead of responding to this poignant question, the man rather descended on Kwame Nkrumah and flayed him like there was no tomorrow. At the end of the event, when we were filing out of the hall, Mr. Pianim said this to me: hey, young man, stop those Nkrumah things." Those around could not help themselves with laughter. This incident remains one of my saddest moments in life. It's sad, how we did not only allow the west to enslave us physically but mentally too. Our biggest problem today is that we have become slaves to Western ideology. We're teaching our kids in uni that protectionism is bad, farmers subsidy is bad; unbridled market liberalisation is good, unchecked competition is good, free, lopsided trade is good, and on and on. Then we say we don't get why our currency is never stable. Funny enough, the West does all of these things it advises us against. When they say the state has no business doing business, they stu-pdl-y forget that the private sector needs capital to build industries. They forget that even the west started with massive govt funding of not just infrastructure but corporations. It's sad. Look at China today. Aren't private entrepreneurs emerging out of the massive industrialisation drive by the state? It's natural. If Nkrumah's factories had remained, people who worked there would acquire skills and those who are able to build or raise capital would set up their own match, glass, or plastic manufactures. I always use Kumasi, which is the hub of locally made shoes/sandals as an example. Have any of these anti-state business people ever asked why Kumasi is popular for shoes? That is the trickle down effect of Nkrumah's shoe factory over there, if they don't know. Tcheeew🙄 Stop allowing them to fool you with the capitalism vs socialism/communism argument. These ideologies are not cast in stone. The facts of history are my witnesses.

@@brofutv1853amazing insights!👏🏿👏🏿