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NKRUMAH BROODED OVER GHANAIANS' PLIGHT EVEN IN EXILE - TOURE'S WIFE

Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's First President, brooded over the plight of Ghanaians, while staying in exile in Conakry, Guinea after his overthrow in a military coup in 1966, Hajia Andre Toure has said.

Hajia Toure, widow of Ahmed Sekou Toure, First President of Guinea, who was speaking when Vice President Aliu Mahama visited the house where Osagyefo Nkrumah stayed during his exile, said he was always upset when he heard the news that Ghanaians were suffering and could not even buy bread to eat.

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KUFUOR & CO AMASSED RIDICULOUS AMT OF WEALTH

JAK's son acquired an $8 million hotel
The flag-bearer of the NDC, Prof. John Atta Mills says the quantum of wealth “the Kufuor administration in seven years has been able to amass is ridiculous”.

He said the president’s son acquired an $8 million hotel within one month of President Kufuor’s coming into office.

“We’ve complained about corruption in this country…what does one want? President Kufuor comes to power and within one month, his son is able to acquire an $8 million hotel,” he said.

Prof. Mills said these in an exclusive interview with The Africa Report and published in the Thursday, October 2, 2008 edition of the Daily Dispatch.

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KUFUOR & CO AMASSED RIDICULOUS AMT OF WEALTH

JAK's son acquired an $8 million hotel
The flag-bearer of the NDC, Prof. John Atta Mills says the quantum of wealth “the Kufuor administration in seven years has been able to amass is ridiculous”. He said the president’s son acquired an $8 million hotel within one month of President Kufuor’s coming into office.

“We’ve complained about corruption in this country…what does one want? President Kufuor comes to power and within one month, his son is able to acquire an $8 million hotel,” he said.

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COULD WE HAVE SAVED BAAH-WIREDU?

11.06 Baah Wiredu Only the good die young,’ goes a popular American song. And so it was that at the relatively young age of 56, Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, died suddenly on September 24, 2008, at a hospital in far away South Africa.

But rather than mourn his passing as just another death of a popular public official, we should consider it an opportunity for critical, if uncomfortable, reflection over the issue of access, equity and efficacy in the delivery of health services in Ghana.