Word: boateng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with the other defendants-a former foreign minister and a leader of Nkrumah's ruling Convention People's Party-Adamafio was formally "discharged" by the court. But the trio was immediately bundled back into the cells. Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng cynically explained that their acquittal "was the sole responsibility of the judiciary, not of the government, which is therefore not bound to take any cognizance of it." They will remain in jail under a law that permits the government to detain any citizen for ten years without trial "in order to prevent him from acting...
Roseveare's superior. Archbishop of West Africa Cecil J. Patterson, defended Roseveare's criticism as "temperate and necessary." But last week Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng called Roseveare on the carpet, ordered him to leave the country within nine hours; then for bad measure he banished Archbishop Patterson as well. Sneered the Ghanaian Times as Roseveare departed: "His presence in our dear land was not conducive to the public good. Perhaps a knighthood from his imperialist monarchs and some violent falsehoods about Ghana will compensate for the egoistic propensities of this Lucifer of a priest.'' Kwame Nkrumah...
Nkrumah's closest advisers are those who toady to him the most. Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng often throws himself on his knees in Nkrumah's presence and cries: "Osagyefo, you are my God." Other associates snicker at the Osagyefo legend, but exploit it to further their own ambition. Ghana's masses are openly skeptical of the Nkrumah cult. Hit in the pocketbook by prohibitive compulsory savings taxes and threatened with jail at every turn, they are in a rebellious frame of mind. Barricaded behind Bren guns in the presidential residence, Nkrumah is becoming increasingly aware...
...businessmen, bankers and Government officials with experience in Africa took a more skeptical view. Detwiler had urged on Ghana a development plan similar to his Congo contract, and was turned down. Said Ghana's Minister of Information Kweku Boateng: "If he comes here again, we will kick...