I hate to be political but let the TRUTH be told: GHANA IS NOT POOR!
However the rich who enter politics and those who enter politics to become rich, are the evil who since Nkrumah’s time have worked to make Ghana look so poor! These people hated a man from poor background like Nkrumah transform Ghana to provide opportunities like Education to the poor.
Since some of us were children in the 1950s I have been struggling to understand why people hated the man,, and it’s becoming clear!
The good book of the Christians says:
“He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. (Proverbs 22:9)
“He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. (Proverbs 22:16)
Some forty or so years ago one Finance Minister Dr. Kwesi Botchwey said he was imposing a “super sales tax” of 500% duties on luxury vehicles! Why? Because some people were living too high above the level of the ordinary people.
The evil of “Envy politics” seems to have started when Nkrumah came to power, and turned the rich against the poor, and when the military and later the low level opposition boys also wanted to take government “free” after the 1966 coup.
Then came Rawlings and the PNDC, who took it to the highest level with high taxation and port duties for all but the politically well connected exempt!
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