Word: edusei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House? No Car? Nkrumah's Cabinet was stunned and indignant, for almost everyone in high position has taken advantage of "freedom" to arrange some lucrative deals on the side. And why not? asked Minister of Transport and Communications Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who has acquired four mansions in Accra since he became a government minister. Before independence he used to earn $22 a month as a debt collector for a newspaper; now he earns nearly $1,400. "When I receive my salary am I expected to throw it into the sea?" he demanded. "I must not build a house...
...author was John Tettegah, Redlining boss of Ghana's Trades Union Congress, who has sold Nkrumah on the idea of Communist-style unionism, and is trying to muscle in on union movements in Nigeria and other African countries. Another leftist at the top: Minister of Transport Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who made a deal with Moscow for six Ilyushin airliners. Swirling uncertainly among the blacks is British Marxist Geoffrey Bing, who, as Nkrumah's Attorney General, designed the Preventive Detention Act under which more than 100 opposition politicians have been jailed without trial...
...opposition until Nkrumah ruthlessly broke the power of the tribal chiefs two years ago, the Prime Minister's machine showed its efficiency. United Party vehicles were burned; party leaders were jailed on flimsy charges until the voting was over. Nkrumah's hard-fisted Transport Minister Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei stormed into one United Party headquarters and. when he saw the Prime Minister's picture hung upside down with pins stuck in its eyes, ordered that a beating be administered to the man responsible. In an Ashanti district toured by Edusei. Nkrumah got 22.000 votes, although the total vote...