Aftermath of June 4th, matters
arising in Ghana
Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot
Accra, June 11, Ghanadot - Last
week, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC)
government led by President John
Evans Atta Mills, joined the
Former President of Ghana, Flt Lt
Jerry John Rawlings to tumultuously commemorate the 30th
anniversary of the June 4th uprising of 1979 in the
country.
June 4th, which was masterminded by the Armed Forces
Revolution
Council (AFRC), committed a lot of offences against
humanity, as well
as throwing the country into a state of pandemonium.
The June 4th uprising led to the removal of the late General
Akufo, the chairman of the Supreme
Military Council which overthrew the National Redemption
Council of General Kutu Akyeampong in a bloodless coup.
The aftermath was a round
up all senior military officers in politics at the time and
that included Gen. Afrifa, the
master mind of 24th February 1966 coup that overthrew
Nkrumah.
Afrifa was arrested
at his farm in Mampong Ashanti and
was subsequently executed together with
other senior military officers of the time by junior
officers of the led by Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings.
The bloodshed that occured
after the uprising did not abate. It went on to
include the murder of three judges
of the Supreme Court.
To this end, the son of one of the murdered
judges, Mr. Kwamena
Agyepong is frantically calling on the
judicial systme of the country for justice in the murder of
his father. He has laid the entire blame of the
doorsteps former President J.J Rawlings.
Mr. Agyepong stated that the ghosts of the judges and other
victims of the June 4th
brutalities would not stop haunting the Former President
unless they posthumously receive justice.
He described the events of June 4th as mutinous and not
uprising.
“The ghosts
of my dad and other several Ghanaians who lost their lives
have been aroused from their
sleep, and they will not rest until he is made
to account for his evil deeds”.
In a statement issued to the Ghanaian media, Mr. Agyepong,
the son of the late Justice K.
Agyei-Agyepong, indicated that he was moved to
issue this statement out of respect for the memory of
his father, his colleagues and
many Ghanaians who were needlessly slaughtered like
cows on the altar of the so-called revolution.
Mr. Agyepong, a Former Press Secretary of the Kufuor-led
administration, was unhappy with the utterances of Former
President
Rawlings at Kasoa, in the Central Region, where the
anniversary was
climaxed with a super mammoth rally last week.
According to him, the utterances of the Former President
Rawlings at
Kasoa showed that he has not an
iota of remorse or respect for the
anguishes he inflicted on
thousands of Ghanaians, but rather seeks to
protect himself as a contemporary day folk hero and
liberator of the
underprivileged, when in actual
fact he is not.
Mr. Agyepong, a leading member of the main opposition,
New Patriotic
Party (NPP), added that the brutal execution without trials
of eight
senior military commanders, including three former heads of
state, namely, General Akwasi
Afrifa, Gen. I.K Acheampong and Lt. Gen. F.W.K
Akuffo were former heads of state was
a crime.
Also, the family of the late General A.A
Afrifa, one of the architects
of Ghana’s first military coup that overthrew Dr. Kwame
Nkrumah’s CPP
government, revealed that they are yet to receive
compensation of
GHc80, 000 from the state as recommended by the National
Reconciliation Commission (NRC).
Ghanadot
