Dr, Joseph Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah - A Tribute by Atta Akyea (MP)

 

On the 4th of February 1965, exactly 45 years ago, in a little cell at the Nsawam prisons, you departed for eternity. Why Nsawam prisons and not your comfortable bed? What was a thoroughbred son of Okyeman and Asanteman, a UK trained lawyer and philosopher doing in prison? It is because you did not believe in tyranny and resisted the oppressor’s rule.

With your asthmatic and hypertensive condition in that foul environment, it was as if your death had been teleguided by those hiding behind the pernicious Preventive Detention Act. Your family saw death in those hostile circumstances as an eventual inevitability.

 

I am reliably informed that your family sent your favourite nephew, Nana Akufo-Addo, to persuade you to yield to your captor and leave the country for a teaching job in the UK. Your response was that if you left Ghana the opposition would capitulate. Indeed, you were the symbol of the opposition against one man’s tyrannical posture against freedom.

Without freedom, which engineers development, we are playthings and automatons. We thank God for your life, for you loved freedom.

How did you survive political blackmail and vicious lies mixed with wicked propaganda that you were a hireling of the Central Intelligence Agency?

You were martyred because of the courage of your convictions.

J.B., you wrote democracy with your blood so I can sit in an air-conditioned parliament.

May the torch you lit continue to burn until we see the New Jerusalem.

Danquah never dies, your civilising mission lives on.

Fondly remembered by

The Abuakwa South Constituency

Atta Akyea (MP)

 

 

 

 

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thanks Well i think this is a good (41.210.30.xxx) 2010-02-05 00:58:30 pls also tell the leaders who have gotten the oppourtunity to lead the NPP to pls a good example.cos we are watching Reply 0 0

barnes (41.210.30.xxx) 2010-02-05 01:05:31 well done HNR. Atta Akyea for ur great commendations ,atleast we the upcoming youth will know our founders better Reply 0 0

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