Brigadier Akuffo Reports on the Success of Ghana's Right-Hand Traffic Change Over | Oct. 1974
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- Friday, October 4th 1974.
Footage of a press conference held by Brigadier Frederick Akuffo, the Commander of Ghana's army and chairman of the Right-Hand Drive Committee, on the largely successful transition to right-hand traffic.
Akuffo said that accompanied by a significant drop in the accident rate.
Transcript:
"As you are aware, the change from left to right-hand traffic was successfully launched at six a.m. on August 4th, exactly two months today. The change-over to date has been smooth. Accidents connected with it, I am happy to inform you, have been insignificant, bearing in mind the magnitude of the operation ... It is interesting to note that the overall national accident rate has rather dropped, obviously as a result of people being more careful than normal. Figures recorded during the month of August this year, as compared to those of last year, bear an adequate testimony to this assertion. While last year, the Ghana Police recorded 1,153 vehicle accidents for the month of August, the comparative figure for August this year was 893. This showed a drop of 25 per cent in vehicle casualty rate."
Source: Reuters News Archive.
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The old dudes, spoke better and sweet grammar, than the current generation, ☺️💜♥️
I was thinking the same I think they were very intelligent in many ways than we do nowadays perhaps disciplinary side of things
Yes of course and that has been the reason we are stagnated in development. Big english, good english, sweet english but short of developmental ideas.
Dont forget he would have been Sandhurst trained as well as being taught by English missionaries.
My parents have the same recieved pronunciation.
Gosh I was just thinking that and came across your comment as the first... so true
Same thought came to me whiles listening to him speak. Impeccable grammar.
Wow Akuffo sounded so polished and eloquent.Thank you Mr Makinde for uploading such rich historical videos
Mr Makinde, please continue to post such very important videos of Ghana's history. I am told they were all destroyed by one government to cover up history so they don't exist any more in Ghana. Thank you for your effort.
Their Vocabulary and grammar were EXCELLENT. They were composed, POLITE and very neat GENTLEMEN.
but they broke the law
@@abdulmajidzuberu1359 what did they do?
My uncle....a proper soldier...Sandhurst trained... an officer and a gentleman. God rest his soul. Missed forever
Education was much better. Look at our current teachers, they can hardly express themselves. Gradually a lot of children are dropping out. Back in the day you can secure a job after o’levels. Now our shs students are pity. They have been overshadowed by social media they hardly do critical thinking or have time read books, do children actually read story and other books at their leisure/?
Eeeiiiii JJ Rawlings. He has a lots of blood in his hands paaa.
I tell u. He and that Boakye Djan.
Trust me. Alot
@Togbe Amega , well now,he’s a dead man. He joins Akuffo ,Acheampong ,Afrifa and the many who were killed under his watch,on the other side.
l agree but the current leaders who have abandoned our health care system and people have died as a result don't have blood on their hands also. ? Look at it both ways
@@lafete6863 what is your point here? Should the cold blood murder just pale away in the light of current occurrences or you want equal attention for both? Remember the system we now have is the result of the hate, greed and rights (without any obligation) introduced by Jerry and his AFRC/PNDC. We need to point the youth to the source of their hate for the rich in our society and by equal measure their haste to amass wealth at any cost and warn them of the consequences. May we never see a repeat or indeed anything near what was witnessed in 1979 to 1983.
pls more videos of him sir he is so sharp and eloquent
Killed at 42 years by someone who at a previous Xmas shared his table and ate his food. Lesson, beware of people.. in God, we can only trust.
Such a nice soldier n a human being was slaughtered for nothing omg. May his Soul Rest in Peace
The free flow and fluency of the language delight me. Akuffo undoubtedly spoke well.
He thief well also
He was my Crush.
Well educated man.. Well mannered and well spoken
Phil Narhkom
He was A well Educated
Thief also the Ghana people's suffer under this
Man while he was head of state all these men who form up that military junta SMC .. 1 & 2 rob
Ghana of everything
Brig. F.W.K Akuffo, RIP 🙏
The videos you upload hardly play why?
@Dafe Kinsley. You need to double-check your device.
Adeyika Makinde , you're doing tremendous job. I studied history and never watched those videos.
@@adeyinkamakinde6164 some of your videos had comments turned off
You see we have a long way to go if we don’t sit down and think deeply.
We will be fighting one another until we are totally destroyed by our enemies which we still hang on to them.
Let’s all bare in mind that the independence we claim to be isn’t:
We are still being controlled by our enemies the colonial masters whether we believe or not that’s the fact.
We aren’t English,so why do we still use english to address our people?how many people understood what the officer was saying.
Our independence must be all areas. Anything that someone who doesn’t look like us brought into this country should be dumped they are all lies and not good for the Africans unless we break away the spiritual chains for our eyes be open,we are still under the curse.
Danny Ofori-Akuffo Because English is the main international standard whether we like it or not & whether we like the fact that we were colonized or not! I put it to you that we have not developed any of our local dialects to an international standard so i usually tell people that this sentiment is always flawed & merely emotional.😊
Independence should be in all areas that is correct but your following statement is not thought through "Anything that someone who doesn’t look like us brought into this country should be dumped they are all lies and not good for the Africans"
If you strongly believe in what you're saying then you should have written your comments in a Ghanaian language, but not in English.
Kwaku Safari you don’t know what you’re talking about. Ordinary scissors was introduced to us by the whites; I was told this by a stranded Oldman (stranded because of the Rawlings curfew, who didn’t have anyplace to sleep and no lorry to take him to his village from my municipal town). I took him home and gave him a place to pass the night.
Before retiring to bed he told me stories about a lot of things in life including the scissors I started with that before they were introduced to us, we looked like animals with long uncut hairs over our heads.
So if you think that anything not developed by us is not good, then think again and stop those rhetorics.
Where are you writing from by the way? You’re not in Ghana now. How did you get to where you’re now?
We can develop without trying to put the blame on the colonial masters. Our laws are not practiced leading to civil and public servants stealing from the state. This is our undoing not the colonialists (who plundered is by the way, and I hate their attitudes)
@@MegaWinnaman good response.
Mr Makinde, thanks for the excellent work you are doing by finding these old gems. Can you please see if you can find any archives of the late Commander Mante.
"The slogan was "nifa nifa" - "nifa" meaning "right" in Twi. "Remember to keep right and stay on the right side of the road, in the right lane, everybody." The teaching in the Highway Code is that pedestrians, though, must stay on the left always, facing on coming traffic. Sadly, till today, not everyone does that, leading to disastrous consequences.
Achampoung and Akuffo= highway of corruption in Ghana at that time. I was a young boy in Lomé.
How about Eyadema clan! Are they angels. Ils sont pires que les Ghanéens en matière de corruption.
I dont think IK Acheampong was corrupt .
I could tell you are saying this from hearsay.
perceived corruption, Acheampong did more in his 6-year rule than JJ Rawlings in his 19 year rule
@@yeherzkel
U are 💯 per cent correct on your Comment....Acheampong was more corrupt than JJ
RAWLINGS
So what went wrong? I mean how come our English don’t sound as good as before?
Most of them were trained teachers before joining the army . The new generations don't learn and teachers are not well trained .The current youth are using pegion or brooking English.
The correct form is "doesn't", not "don't"..."sound as good as before." This is what happened.
They used to read. We stopped reading. We spend most of our time on something called social media and listen to Peace FM. And that's why today we don't know the difference between don't and doesn't.
I see a plural noun, so "don't" is apt. He is not wrong.
@@markdempsey1088 "Our English", in this context, is a singular noun. It refers to ONE, countable language, that is, the English language. Hence, "Our English doesn't sound so good" should be the correct rendering of the sentence.
However, if "our English" had referred to an uncountable or collective noun, namely, "the English people", then you would have been right. For example, "Our English (people, colleagues, members, students, etc.,) don't sound so good."
Hope this helps, Sir.
Its not just the english language that isn't spoken properly these days even our various african language isn't spoken or written the way it should nowadays its full of slang which is a shame
A true gentleman. RIP uncle.
This is why he removed Acheapong. He thought himself more polished and educated than the man who brought him to limelight
We have a saying in Jamaica never you bite the hand that feed you....
Oooh onipa mama hoahi
Adeyinka can you provide us with ghana v Nigeria African cup of nations 1978. It was held in Ghana. THX
I wish I could, but can't find it. I watched it as a boy. It was intensely contested. Abdul Razak was the man they were were all talking about. That is the only match that readily comes to my memory. 0-0? Will look out for it. The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and the Nigerian one really should have made these sort of events available for years.
@@adeyinkamakinde6164 That was a great match Nigeria has a tall lanky keeper called okalla and a brilliant winger called segun odegbami. It ended in a 1-1 draw
Akuffo was very corrupt .He was killed like a rat.Generals Afrifa,Acheampong and Afuffo collaborated to destroy Ghana's economy.I remember a time came when there was massive drought and famine in Ghana.
Our able sisters and mothers suddenly turned into prostitution,physicians and academics went to Nigeria for greener pastures while the rate of infant mortality was so high due to shortages of drugs and pharmaceuticals in the respective hospitals.I was then In Adisadel College .
Ghana had to seek help from IMF to create hyper inflation.Ghana a poorest country next to Haiti.Rawlings saved Ghana,trust me.Now Ghana is one of the richest and safest countries in Africa.I saw few people in Kumasi eating vultures,I swear 😢😢😢
Are you telling us that the drought and the famine were caused by Afrifa. You must be twisted in the head.
I guess Afrifa was in power during the 1982/83 famine.
Kweku Dickson you don’t know jack about Ghana during those days. Many left Ghana for Nigeria because the Rawlings government refused to buy food from the international market saying we will eat what we grow. Meanwhile the drought hit us bad and because of their ostrich approach i.e burying their shameful heads in the sand with the entire body exposed (empty socialist rhetorics) Ghana suffered
Rawlings saved Ghana. LOL!
He was 37yrs old in 1974
Thank you my friend. Whatever you think about these people morality in terms of public corruption. They were well educated. I mean judging that from any military standards. I don’t know for anglophones, but francophone NCO are absolute jokes. Some can hardly speak or understand proper French. C’est absolument inadmissible le niveau d’éducation des officiers supérieurs de certains pays francophones d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Thank you again my friend.
Youssef Camara: of course General Akuffo( 1937-1979) was an educated man who finished his education at one of the best secondary schools in Ghana and then enlisted in the Ghana army in 1957 and trained at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK and received his commission in 1960. He also attended the National Defence College in India in 1973. He fought successfuly in the Congo in the 1960's. He was a classmate of Gen. Afrifa ( 1936-1979) at Sandhurst Military Academy UK, and fought alongside him in the Congo.
@Youssef Camara
: Brigadier Charles Beausoleil appeared to have excellent diction. I notice how commentators appear to note how "correct" their modes of expression appear to be in comparison to contemporary politicians.
@Mark Korste
& @Youssef Camara: I recall a recent poster at a Nigerian site insisting that contrary to the perceptions Nigerians have of their soldiers being uneducated brutes (my words), many of them (the senior officers) are extremely well-educated with Masters level degrees and even Phds!
@@adeyinkamakinde6164 : Those who say Nigerian soldiers are not educated especially those born and grew up ( in their primes) before the waves of our African independences are very wrong. I am 100% sure that Akuffo, Kaduna Nzeogwu ( 1937-1967), and Afrifa knew themselves as they were all of the same age , entered Sandhurst Military Academy at the same time and were also commissioned at the same time. I bet they were all friends educated at the same military college. Ex Nigerian military leader J.Aguiyi-Ironsi ( 1924-1966),had part of his military education in England before he joined the Royal West African Frontier Force in 1948. Lt. Aguiyi -Ironsi was the commander of the Nigerian contingent (troops) in the Congo from 1960-1961. He was made a major General in 1965, a year before his death. Major E. Ifeajuna ( 1935-1967), was an excellent athlete who participated in the 1954 Commonwealth games in Vancouver , Canada and won a golden medal ( became the first black African to win a golden medal in such a high profile and meaningful sport) - Ghanaian General Kotei followed his footsteps. Ifeajuna was educated at the University of Ibadan. Most of these Nigerian/ Ghanaian soldiers knew themselves as most of them started their military training at Accra , Ghana before proceeding to Sandhurst in the UK. Former Nigerian president Obasanjo ( *1937) is one of those brave African soldiers who were educated in the west. Obasanjo joined the Nigerian army in 1958, started his military education at Accra military Academy together with Kaduna Nzeogwu. Nzeogwu proceeded to Sandhurst UK whereas Obasanjo to Mons Cadet School, Aldershot, UK, Royal College of Military Engineering, Poona, and the Royal College of Defence Studies in London ,UK.
Adeyinka Makinde yes. When l was teaching in Newport, Rhode Island, l met many Nigerian officer’s attending naval war college. Ils sont très bien éduqués, mais c’est l’environnement politique et social en Afrique, qui les caractérise négativement, malheureusement. Bless you mon ami.
The second coming of General Acheampong and Lt.G Fredrick Akufo watch out
This is the man they call him soldiers soldier
Not true ..Major General Neville Odartey Wellignton was the one referred to as such
smooth
I'm not from Ghana but but that seems a waste of money and resources. What was the intended benefit of changing from left to right. I hope it wasn't just to follow America and rest of Europe
Dare i ask where you come from and which side of the road u drive?
To Ghana, we were not going to limit ourselves for cars only from UK which would have been our primary source, also to let go of the hangover of colonization.
thank you sir
People are talking as if they don't the history of them they were cost of the downfall of Ghana corruption started at their time
the first coup was staged by Kotoka and his cohorts against Nkrumah with the aid and abetment by the CIA