The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, , has provided details about how the leaders who staged the 1966 coup in the country squandered its resources to the detriment of the nation.

Speaking on Metro TV's Good Morning Ghana, Pratt detailed how the Nkrumah government, prior to its overthrow, had acquired equipment for the nation, specifically for the agriculture sector, to facilitate its transformation.

However, this equipment was sold to leaders in the USA by the new military leaders who overthrew the government.

According to him, the equipment brought in by the Nkrumah government was intended to use radiation to aid crop growth.