Komla Agbeli Gbedemah

**Komla Agbeli Gbedemah** (17 ga Yuni 1913 - 11 Yuli 1998) ɗan siyasan Ghana ne kuma Ministan Kudi a gwamnatin Nkrumah ta Ghana tsakanin 1954 zuwa 1961. Wanda aka fi sani da "**Afro Gbede**", ɗan asalin Anyako ne a Yankin Volta na ƙasar Ghana.

## Rayuwar farko da aiki
An haifi Komla Gbedemah a ranar 17 ga Yuni 1913 a Warri, Nigeria, na Ewe. Ya halarci Makarantar Mfantsipim a Cape Coast don karatun sakandare daga 1925 zuwa 1929 da Kwalejin Achimota daga 1929 zuwa 1933.

Farkon aikinsa ya kasance malamin aiki a wata makarantar sakandare a Akuapem a Yankin Gabashin Ghana. A cikin 1939, ya zama Masanin Kimiyya a Accra Academy a Jamestown. Tare da koyarwa, ya tsunduma cikin sana'ar katako da kayan zaki. A cikin 1943, ya bar aikin koyarwa a Accra Academy don shiga cikin cinikin katako cikakken lokaci.

## Aikin siyasa
Asalin Gbedemah memba ne na United Gold Coast Convention. Ya tafi tare da Dr Kwame Nkrumah don kafa Jam'iyyar Jama'a (CPP). Gbedemah ya kasance memba mai mahimmanci a CPP saboda iyawar ƙungiyarsa. Ya yi tasiri wajen zabar Nkrumah a Majalisar Dokoki a ranar 8 ga Fabrairu 1951 a Zaɓen Majalisar Dokoki. Ya shirya kamfen din Nkrumah gaba daya yayin da Nkrumah ke cikin kurkuku, wanda gwamnatin mulkin mallaka ta tsare. Nkrumah ya lashe kujerar karamar hukumar Accra ta tsakiya. Wannan ya sa aka saki Nkrumah a ranar 12 ga watan Fabrairu 1951 kuma aka gayyace shi ya kafa gwamnati. Gbedemah yana cikin wasu rahotanni mai suna a matsayin wanda ya fara maraba da Nkrumah bayan an sake shi daga gidan yari na Sansanin James.

Gbedemah, wanda da kansa aka zabe shi a Majalisar Dokoki, ya zama Ministan Lafiya da Kwadago na farko a gwamnatin Nkrumah. A shekarar 1954, ya zama Ministan Kudi, matsayin da ya rike na tsawon shekaru bakwai. Ya yi tasiri wajen samun gwamnatin Amurka da farko ta nuna rashin jin daɗi don tallafawa ginin madatsar ruwa ta Akosombo. Daga baya, yayin da alakar sa da Nkrumah ta tabarbare, Nkrumah ya sauke Gbedemah zuwa mukamin Ministan Lafiya a watan Mayu 1961. Majiyoyin Amurka sun yi zargin cewa a wani lokaci Gbedemah yana tunanin kifar da Nkrumah. An nakalto yana cewa: "Zan yi nadamar yin hakan amma ƙasar ta ishe girman kan Nkrumah, son zuciya da hauka." Nkrumah ya nemi Gbedemah yayi murabus a watan Satumba 1961.

An tilasta Gbedemah zuwa gudun hijira daga baya a wannan shekarar, bayan da ya tabarbare alakar da ke tsakanin sa da Nkrumah kan abin da ya ke ganin rashin da'a na Nkrumah. Ana zargin ya gudu ne saboda ana shirin tsare shi a tsare. Yayin da yake gudun hijira, an san cewa ya ci gaba da yiwa Amurka zagon kasa kan aikin dam din Akosombo.

Gbedemah ya kafa kuma ya jagoranci National Alliance of Liberals cikin babban zaben 1969. Taken yakin neman zabensa "Ku faɗi da ƙarfi, ni baki ne kuma ina alfahari!" An ɗauko shi daga sanannen waƙar James Brown. Bayan zaben, an hana Gbedemah hawa kujerar sa a majalisa. Wannan ya biyo bayan hukuncin da Kotun Koli ta yanke, inda ta goyi bayan NLC ta hana mambobin CPP da ake zargi da laifukan kudi rike mukamin gwamnati na tsawon shekaru goma. Wannan shawarar ta sa ya yi ritaya daga shiga harkar siyasa.

### Haɗarin gidan abincin Howard Johnson

A Amurka, Gbedemah ya fi kowa sani daga wani abin da ya faru a ranar 10 ga Oktoba 1957 lokacin da Shugaban Amurka Dwight D. Eisenhower ya ba shi hakuri bayan an hana shi hidima a gidan abincin Howard Johnson a Dover, Delaware. Gbedemah ya gaya wa ma’aikatan: “Mutanen da ke ƙasa sun fi ni matsayi, amma suna iya sha a nan kuma ba za mu iya ba. Kuna iya ajiye ruwan lemu da canji, amma wannan ba shine na ƙarshe da kuka ji ba wannan." Lamarin da ya sa aka gayyaci Gbedemah zuwa karin kumallo a Fadar White House.

## Matsayi

* Jagora, Ƙungiyar Jama'a don 'Yanci da Adalci (1991 -?)
* Wanda ya kafa kuma Jagora, National Alliance of Liberals - (1969)
* Memba, Majalisar Dokoki, Ghana (1951 -?)
* Manaja da Edita, *Accra Evening News* (1949 -?) 
* Mataimakin Shugaban, Convention People's Party (1949 -?)

## Ayyuka

* Gbedemah, K. A. It will not be "work and happiness for all"; an open letter being also an appeal to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and comment on and criticism of the proposed new 7 year Ghana development plan. [n.p.], 1962. [32p].

## Manazarta