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General News of Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Source: Starrfmonline.com

Late Prime Minister of Ghana, Prof Kofi Abrefa Busia was never a democrat, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, President of the Kwame Nkrumah Foundation has asserted in an interview with Bernard Nassara Saibu on Starr Today.

Prof Akosas comment follows a description of the Prime Minister of the second republic as a democrat and visionary leader by the main opposition New Patriotic Partys General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong when he spoke to Kafui Dey on the Morning Starr on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 while remembering the 43rd anniversary of Busias overthrow by Colonel I K Acheampong in a military coup in 1972.

According to Agyepong, the ousting of Prof Busia was totally unnecessary: we were in a democratic dispensation; everything was going on smoothly.

He was not one to trample on the rights of Ghanaians. He was just being realistic with the strength of our currencyhe felt that as a country we should be truthful about our economic circumstances, and he was taking pragmatic decisions and some didnt like it and they felt that just devaluing the currency was reducing the purchasing power of the ordinary Ghanaian and the soldiers took advantage of it and launched a coup, Agyepong said.

According to him: It wasnt a popular coup. There was no general outpouring into the streets to celebrate his overthrow. Anybody, who was in this country, will attest to that.

Prof Busia spent only 27 months in Office as Prime Minister in Ghanas second Republican dispensation under President Edward Akufo-Addo, father of the NPPs current Flag-bearer Nana Akufo-Addo.

The country at the time adopted the Westminster system of governance of which Busias Progress Party (PP) a progeny of the UP tradition, and forebear of the current Dankwa-Busia-Dombo tradition of the current NPP had the majority in Parliament.

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Busia was never a democrat nor visionary leader Akosa