Word: edusei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a matter of time before Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, 46, returned to President Kwame Nkrumah's Cabinet; he has all the qualifications. A squat, bombastic bully from Ashanti, Edusei was Nkrumah's eminence noire in the Cabinet until last April, when he was finally tossed out during one of Nkrumah's brief experiments in making his colleagues practice what he preaches...
...government should have a house worth more than $56,000. Crowbar, a former $22-a-month debt collector, had five houses; one of them-a $200,000 pleasure dome outside of Accra-would be called a palace even by Osagyefo. However, it was not Chateau Crowbar that led to Edusei's downfall, but a golden bed that was snapped up by his wife Mary in London. In vain Crowbar pleaded with her to send it back to the store. Implored Edusei: "An $8,400 gold-plated bed is not socialism." The aftermath in Accra: his palace was confiscated...
...Edusei might even get his palace back. Mary, still contrary, still...
...reference to the conspicuous consumption of Mrs. Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, wife of Ghana's ex-Minister of Industries, whose purchase of a gold bed while on a shopping trip to London cost her husband...
While sojourning in London, the wife of Ghana's Minister of Industries Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, 46, whimsically picked up an $8,400 bed. Back in Accra, the indignant minister telephoned his wife to return it at once. So conspicuous a kip, insisted Crowbar (who has risen from a pre-independence job as a $22-a-month debt collector to ownership of five mansions), just was "not socialism." He explained that his spouse has been abroad for months, and perhaps "does not know all the dynamic and progressive changes that have taken place in Ghana since." Distinctly unprogressive, Mrs. Edusei...