Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, has called for a renewed commitment to justice and institutional integrity while decrying what he describes as decades of vilification against Dr. J.B. Danquah and his political tradition.
Speaking at a memorial service at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church in Kyebi to mark the 60th anniversary of Danquah’s passing, Afenyo-Markin criticized the continued spread of falsehoods about the late politician.
“Let us commit ourselves to preserving justice, strengthening our institutions, and ensuring that no Ghanaian ever suffers the fate he endured.
“It is, indeed, a mark of the undeserving indignity he suffered and the evil lies that Dr. Danquah still endures that on the occasion of Parliament marking this 60th anniversary, a member of the Majority told a bold and naked lie that Dr. Danquah was a CIA spy and, to support this lie, referred falsely to a book that rather praises the Doyen of Ghanaian politics,” he stated.
He highlighted how, during Danquah’s lifetime, political opponents consistently sought to undermine his legacy through false narratives.
“Danquah in his lifetime lamented over these lies against his person from his political opponents.
“When he led efforts to raise money from Britain to build the Accra Sports Stadium, his opponents twisted it to say, apart from Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Danquah and the others in the UGCC had been bribed to abandon the independence struggle for sports!
In the end, we got both—independence and the stadium, which still stands today,” Afenyo-Markin recalled.
He further lamented how political divisions fractured the anti-colonial movement, emphasizing that the use of populist propaganda deepened divisions in Ghanaian society.
“Danquah lamented how the front of the people, united for a greater anti-colonial struggle, was split by those who split from the UGCC to become its political opponents; those who used populist, false propaganda to create an unhealthy society of ‘us against them,’” he added.
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