15th April. 2023
LEST WE FORGET: Nkrumah Submits Application for Ghana’s Membership to the Commonwealth
Let us put on record the submission of the application for Ghana’s Membership into the Commonwealth of Nations soon after her independence in 1957.
A careful scrutiny of the above video suggests the position of the Republic of Australia during a sitting at the General Meeting of the Commonwealth of Nations where the representative of Australia made some comments on the Ghana’s Membership to the house in which the speaker made reference to the Charter of the UN which Ghana subscribed to but which sadly was not adhered to by the Republic of Ghana in relation to to Western Togoland as a Trust Territory under British administration.
* The speaker whiles trying to draw the attention of the house to some details of the charter, made reference to the fact that the United Kingdom or Britain played a vital role in the the rapid evolution of Ghana towards independence and towards it’s membership into the Commonwealth and the league of nations (The United Nations)
* Indeed the speaker was emphatic that Britain played a vital role in ensuring that Ghana got it’s independence from Colonial British rule that Britain further ensured that the people of Western Togoland chose whether they wished to to unite their territory with the Gold Coast at the time. He went on to commend the people of Western Togoland for the bold choice of joining their territory with Ghana after a decisive Plebiscite which actually represented the manifest will of the people of Western Togoland.
* The speaker whiles acknowledging this feat, said it was always exciting to witness the foundation of a New state- this is the first time that the UN has granted freedom to the people of a Trust Territory, referring to Western Togoland under the Trusteeship System, representing a free and independent country in West Africa.
What we need to emphasize is the fact that, the independence of Ghana was by this assertion intertwined with the independence of Western Togoland from under British administration.
What this suggests is that British Togoland attained the same status as Ghana during the time of Ghana’s independence albeit Western Togoland not being a colony of Britain, but a UN Trust Territory under British administration.
Our view here is that if all of the UN and the Commonwealth knew the status of Western Togoland around the time of Ghana’s independence, why then was not the same procedures leading to Ghana’ s independence applied in the case of Western Togoland.?
This further goes to buttress the position of the PLC that there were some underhand dealings in relation to the case of Western Togoland, thereby shortchanging the will of the people of Western Togoland and a calculated attempt to annex the UN Trust Territory to Ghana.
The PLC wishes to reiterate it’s strong held position and conviction that the necessary democratic and constitutional steps be taken to ensure that the right thing is done in implementing the the UN’ directive to Great Britain and Ghana in the implemention of the UNION between the two independent nations, by engaging and negotiating with the people of Western Togoland in the interest of peace and coexistence as enshrined in the UN and Commonwealth charter which were the prerequisites for the admission of Ghana into the Commonwealth and the UN in the first place.
Indeed Ghana and her British collaborators might have connived to rob the people of Western Togoland of their fundamental freedoms and liberties as is evident in the aftermath of the Plebiscite. It is the hope and prayer of the People’s Liberation Council that the needful would be done going forward in the interest of peace and harmony between the two states. That and only then will the Togoland issue be put to rest.
Long live Western Togoland, Long live the Republic of Ghana and Long live Ghana and Western Togoland UNION.
Let us once again remember that the Voice of the People is the Voice of God ..!
