The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jr, has sought to explain the perceived impression behind United State of America's (USA) tariff imposition on Ghana and other countries.
According to him, the directive by President Donald Trump smacks of the thinking that countries were unduly benefiting from the western country at their detriment. "These imposition of tariffs by America appear to suggest that it is being cheated by the world, but this impression is absolutely wrong as it is America that has cheated other countries through wars, transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and neocolonialism," he said on Pan African TV on April 12, 2025.
He argued that America had schemed to remove thought leaders like Dr Kwame Nkrumah who led a revolution to make the African continent politically-conscious.
He noted that the obvious drive to industrialise Ghana by Dr Kwame Nkrumah led to his overthrow, which was allegedly orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
