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Ardent follower and former National Youth Organizer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh believes the speech of forgiveness made by the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo- Addo to the family of Kwame Nkrumah over the death of J.B Danquah was misfired.

The flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called for a new spirit of reconciliation between the country's two famous political traditions- the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC).

Described as the doyen of Ghana's politics, Dr JB Danquah, a founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) died under very bizarre circumstances in the dungeons of the Nsawam prison.

Under the Preventive Detention Act which was executed and abused by the Nkrumah-led government, Dr JB Danquah was bundled and tossed into the Nsawam Prisons on suspicion he was plotting to overthrow the then government.

On an occasion to mark the 50th Anniversary of the death of Dr JB Danquah, the flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo extended an olive branch to the CPP and the followers of Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

"We have forgiven you," Nana Akufo-Addo told the family of Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

But reacting to this issue on Okay FM’s "Ade Akye Abia" Morning Show, Kabila debunked the assertion that Nkrumah abused the Preventive Detention Act (PDA), saying the PDA was meant to unite and keep the peace of Ghana.

He again stated that it was that same law that made the Northern Territory, the Ashanti Territory, the Trans-Volta Togoland and the British-Togoland emerged to form part of the colony, as the only regions existing then were Greater Accra, Western and Central regions.

He reminded that it took the work of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to bring these countries to form one nation as we have today.

To him, the UP Tradition and the apostles of the doctrines of Danquah should admit that J. B Danquah was arrested on a criminal act; arguing that the PDA was a bad law in the sense that the law didn’t limit the power of those who could exercise authority on it.

He however underscored that the letter of J.B Danquah was for moral persuasion and Kwame Nkrumah reserved the right to accept, consider or reject it; putting on record that Kwame Nkrumah sent his personal doctor to go and take care of him in prison.

Responding to Nana Akufo Addo’s reconciliation messages, Kabila told the NPP Flagbearer, UGCC, UP Tradition and the family of J.B Danquah that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had also forgiven all long before the insults and the most demeaning way they treated him.