31st December 1981 Coup - Upfront on JoyNews (1-1-20)
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- 31st December 1981 Coup - Upfront on JoyNews (1-1-20)
Rawlings’ comments are borne out of ignorance - Zaya Yeebo
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Raymond wins my Admiration hands down, his incisive, and intelligent questions are really, truly intellectually stimulating.
Compared to that UK lawyer
Hahahaha
Let's
@@yawjay7049 1
"Calling someone a coward is not a historical fact" - Zaya Yeebo 😂😂
Good production UpFront Team.
Thanks for helping us uncover what it is that has gone terribly wrong in the building of this nation.
Very eye opening.......basically what happened behind closed doors
Very humble and remorseful
These AFRC members who were desperate for wealth took money from the government and traveled abroad, now claim Jerry who stayed to selflessly build the Country without enriching himself didn’t deserve any credit. Even, America that is credited as the longest and most stable democracy in the world has also gone through a period of revolution. Had Jerry who was an Air-force pilot then traveled to seek greener pastures or become an Air-force member in the US or UK, he’ll be greatly more successful than becoming Head of State in Ghana and celebrated like the Late John McCain in the US.
I honestly agreed with you
Of course you'd say that... micro nationalist that you are....two main goals of the cabal.... revenge kotoka's death ( Afrifa's execution never left me sad he deserves it may be not for the same reasons you and your friends think) .. punish mother Ghana for dividing the Ewe "empire" and allowing Eyadema to lord it over the people who think Togo belongs to them...You can support rawlings and his people based solely on tribal affiliation it does not change the fact that Ghanaians from the North were idealistic and were used by those from the Volta region. they were naive to put it mildly. Same way Afrifa and by extention used Kotoka and the Ewes to overthrow Nkrumah... and the Asante/Akyems used the Ewes to mess up Ghana by overthrowing Nkrumah.. To your people Nkrumah having "defeated" Olympia (whom I admire for being the Francophone Nkrumah) by dividing the greater empire.... he needed to be punished... Nkrumah he needed to be overthrown ... Harley, Deku, Kotoka...
Did you say JJ didn't enrich himself?
He didn't travel,but he was clever to sent his children to abroad for schooling, and don't tell me that,he was not rich,one thing for sure his family will never work in their life again unless they want to.we are not blind
@@kwameyiadom8153 I know market women in Ghana whose children are Abroad for school. You don't need to be head of state to send your children abroad. I schooled in the US but my parents have no money.
Why are we given these people air space if they can't be prosecuted what's the point what are we trying to achieve.
We want that STINKY INDEMNITY CLAUSE DELETED from our CONSTITUTION.
@@herculesskinny2030v. #qqp
It is because we have had National Reconciliation under Prez Kufour, based on which their sins have been pardoned. But think of it, what will prosecuting them bring? Human lives back to life?
Sometimes we must or indeed learn things that we couldn’t afford to be there
WHAT ROLE DID THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN PLAY?
You are'er genius .Sgt. sir.:-) L/cpl )rtd.
Ask Akata-Pore if indeed he planned and agreed with Liman to launch a coup detat and have an opportunity to remove Imoro Igara and the old CPP guards who were the ones who put Liman up as presidential candidate which finally made Limann president from disturbing Limann. You Akata-Pore announced the coup and started inviting Rawlings and Rawlings brought in Tsikata, Anauld Quaynoo and the rest. That, when Rawlings turned the government into an Ewe regime, you fired a warning shot at Rawlings and that episode got you into prison. That the plan was to remove Limann and after the house cleaning restore Limann to power again. Is that true?
Liman was betrayed by his own northern brothers(Alolga Akatapoore,Captain Awuni, Adebunga) who was also deceived by JJ. They were hated in the north that they were scared of coming back to bolga (those days)
Did he say free homework?
Why all of a sudden this coup issue. Instead of thinking about how the country is going? What wrong with Ghanaian journalists?
Have you watching BBC and A JAZEERA they always show documentary's like this for people to learn, so please relax wai
Because history repeats itself. The victimised souls will not have peace until they have found justice. Until the whole truth is exposed, the culprits punished and victims properly compensated, the diggings into the past will continue.
Within 12 mins he say it does not make sense to be capable of predicting bad governance within 3 mths. I predicted Mugu Yaro's bad governance during his campaign.
We want to know ...if its u or Adebuga madethe coup?
And killing of Korangteng Addo
Adebuga put the troops togther to fight. Rawlings was an airforce man trying to use recce boys who he didnt know. Adebuga was the toughest other rank at recce and they needed him to organise the boys at recce. Akata Pore was put in as a leader to think like an officer even though he was a sergeant but he was a radical
What I take from Alolga Akata-Pore’s interview is a person who has become remorseful and contrite in the role he played to open misery and hell gates on his people.
No sooner had they staged the 31st December 1981 coup did he realize he has been used as someone’s tool to achieve an objective he didn’t share. Used and dumped and now he is sorry. He also realizes that just as the generals were tied to the stakes and shot for overthrowing civilian constitutional governments, he too may be hanged the same, if we have our way and go by the book.
Bottom line, Rawlings is a conman, a murderer and undeserving of our respect. He must apologize for the wanton destruction of human lives and atone for his sins by returning all his assets - he and his wife - back to the state, and apologizing profusely. Aboa like that.
I wish Alolga was asked questions about the kidnapping and murdering of the judges exactly 6 months into the administration of the PNDC, of which he was a part at the time? What did he know, when and how and for what?
And where is that Chris Atim? Is he dead or alive?
Philty McNasty chris Atim is alive and well he’s the CEO of an investment firm on wallstreet ,yes of all those soldiers he’s the most successful one of them all he needs to be brought to justice and face the death penalty he and his friends have to the generals and the heads of state
Rawlings is the reason you're enjoying the democracy you're currently enjoying in GHANA. He's no saint. But you cannot diminish his role in history.
@@Judging_Politics_Network May God forgive you, for saying Rawlings is the reason I am enjoying the freedoms I have today. Say that to babies, but know that I was born in the 1950’s and have seen every government from independence to date. How dare you!
Rawlings convinced them with Nkrumah's idiology and when he gained power, he sold all that Nkrumah did built to move the nation forward. For 19 years he could't replace even one of them. What an irony. In his final days, rawlings was traveling to switzerland with his wife for medical attention because he did nothing to replenish ghanaian hospitals. Shame on this family. Ghana is a failed nation.
You're a liar. Jerry did Alot for GHANA. Stop hating on Jerry.
@@Judging_Politics_Network could you please tell me some of the land marks of rawlings's PNDC & NDC thank you.
Everyone is talking about Rawlings involvement with the Judges. However no is is talking about the role that the judges played against Rawlings that led to their demise. Rawlings might have masterminded. who knows?
Any enlightenment about the judges?
Those judges did nothing Jerry. The records don't show anything like that. They only applied the law
Those judges exonerated peoples convicted by the Rawlings AFRC. They were tagged anti revolution judges.
According to Akata-Pore and Adabuga, those judges freed the so called AFRC convicts who were given abnormal sentences without trial and that made JJ upset and even went on air and threatened to punish the judges until their death.
Matthew Adabuga again said on Andy D TV that, there was a meeting between the PNDC members before the abduction and the only members who were absent from that meeting were Father Damoah and Gen. Nunu Mensah that was why when the news broke out, Gen Nunu Mensa went to the PNDC office and confronted JJ and that was what led to his resignation as the Chief Of Defense Staff...
Rawlings had no hand in the death of the Judges. It was a set up! None of the judges were involved in any of Rawlings' cases.
Such a person was a member of a ruling government that sat to make decisions for Ghanaians. God have mercy on us.
EXACTLY
Who doesn't know Rawlings is dirty? A murder!
Probably Demon BloodThirsty was directing
Wow... Ghanaians really do not like the IMF
Jerry used these innocent and ignorant boys for his own gains.
. I still maintain, no human has the right to take another man's life, no matter your reasons you are murderer.
Judgement goes to all those behind these deaths
Danny...tell us ur side of the story...
U just allowed him to use you against your brother. Its always been like that. Adabuga, Captain Awuni etc were all used. Liman was betrayed by his own brothers and Rawlings being the man that he was buried the guy in Ghanaian history no one remembers him, but its his spirit that troubles you now.
The only thing Baba Awuni did was to disarm the rece regiment boys who demanded that Adabuga be brought back to the regiment after he was being taken away and he executed that perfectly.
He wasn't involved in anything apart from that
Is true Jerry only need the power back
He didnt want to hand over
2nd segment please.
No matter what anyone says,I still believe kwame nkrumah can be blamed for military governments in ghana,which culminated into AFRC and PNDC govt which unleashed mother of all inhumane atrocities in ghana.Had nkrumah who was privileged to live and acquired western education in America,embraced America style constitution which allows a president two terms in office and use his likely two terms in office,utilizing ghana resources to modernize agriculture,so that food production can keep up with population growth,and build infrastructures across ghana and supervise a smooth transition of power.Ghana would have had a steady government and the next government would continue the good initiatives started by him.All the attempts on nkrumah life were driven by his dictatorial rule.The Europeans watching ghana and the sound management display by nkrumah would have convinced them that the black man is indeed capable of managing his own affairs and rethink their continue colonization of Africa.Remember the cold war and Berlin Wall came to abrupt end without America or former Soviet Union having to use weapons of mass destruction,
@Bantze Hotep Nkrumah assumed he had monopoly of wisdom and knowledge hence he must rule till death.I still believe nkrumah strategy to free other Africa countries under colonial rule was costly to ghana and not the best option.If a guy full of muscles,realizing that you skinny and you are no match for him in fight,use his power to take say your shirt,your best option is not fighting the guy,but rather you approach the guy in diplomatic way.if the guy is reasonable he would realize that he is wrong and reconsider his action.Had nkrumah utilize ghana resources to build infrastructures across ghana and modernize agriculture.Ghana would have had steady food production and supply and the 1966 coup could be averted.High food prices typically generate serous demonstration and protest,making the government unpopular.Any time l hear people talking about nkrumah and his 18 miles tema motor way,I just laugh because I believe nkrumah could have completed a similar motorway from Accra to paga,if he had not embraced costly war to free Africa.Again Remember the cold war and Berlin Wall came down without America or former Soviet Union having to use weapons of mass destruction.Not every conflict is resolved by going to war.
Hey Danny..explain how 31st was done..u r beating abt the bush
PARLIAMENT must DELETE that STINKY INDEMNITY CLAUSE.
Aloga,I think you must check spending all the time,whether you have a lot of resources or not,Ghana is going through hard times now,in part because Nkrumah inherited a rich nation became allogant and embarked on gargantuan spending spree,without coherent strategies to replenish outlays from inherited assets.A newly independent nation of six million people,experiencing exponential birthrate and government service jobs expanding.Cutlass and hoe way of farming become unsustainable to produce enough food for the masses.A visionary leader top most priority would be allocation of resources to achieve mechanized farming throughout the country,Farmers equip with modern farm tools would require fewer workers and even layoff some existing workers,Then large scale import substituting industrialisation become very essential since it would provide jobs for displaced farm workers and others.The rush to industrialize ghana shortly after independence merely helped the newly created manufacturing jobs in cities to be filled quickly at the expense of agriculture and the root cause of ghana burden with food importation,Also foreign aid alone can solve problems in ghana,Most efforts must come from within.Ghana cannot continue to import rice,creating jobs those countries while ghana arable land and human resources lay idle.Malaysia afteindependence emphasised strong agriculture base especially in the area of Palm oil and today having factories depending on domestcaly grown agriculture goods,
ASAP
so sad...sorry for our people killed by coup back then
Akatapore did not run away, his life was in danger.him like adabuga and co were lied and mislead by jj. They turner against him upon findings of betrayal soo rawlings sort finish them in prison but they managed to break away.
Jerry was killing the Sarkodies and said cowards were running away
It was bravery for those who saw danger and refuse to fall victim and instead went to exile
He would've been killed had he not went into exile.
We can't change history, it is past but we can learn from history and and make a change for the future. I wish the dead to be alive and search is an error, retaliation isn't a sound advice, it will be the same tit for tat game. I believe we are all missing some of them at least.
Yes I can understand that this 2men were enjoying been minister looting money 💰 for themselves and their families so obviously life was very difficult for most Ghanaian, which forced most Ghanaian to travel to most African countries.
The celebration of stupidity two times every year need to be confronted.
If its good -Jan 13, the 66 coup Arthurs and RR Amponsah s dates need to be celebrated annually
And those who lost people should have funerals for those they lost
Vegeance is the Lord
please adabuga was the main man , interview him
Mr. Akata-Pore is not making any sense here.
Why is everyone running away from responsibility , but they take credit for the coup?
All the people who supported Rawlings in his coup adventures are admitting that they were lied to by Rawlings. What were they thinking when he was meeting with them and selling stories to them promising them milk and honey, using tribal politics to stage coups ?
he is a con man ... period full stop.... remember unless we git rid of mental slavery we are doomed... most ghanaians see anybody with obroni/blofo blood as sacrosanct and cannot lie
majority of them were teenagers bro. i think the eldest among the soldiers was Alolga. Giwa, ERic Asare, Brimaa Isaka, Sarkodie Addo, Adabuga etc were all teenagers who cannot be blamed due to ignorance that's why they are feeling remorseful now and apologizing to the public.
Hmmm
Old evil murderers
1. Limann was not pursuing Nkrumah's goals. His government took money from the UK to send the Revolutionaries out of the country to school. Nkrumah would have understood the revolution and made use of the revolutionary; not gotten rid of them.
2. Kala bule was returning. The judges were overturning all the revolution's achievements.
3. Limann left handling the AFRC memebers who didnt leave to school to the Military Intelligence, who manufactured stories to justify killing them.
4. Rawlings was faced with the option of being murdered, or kicking the PNP out. Also, the corruption was returning. It was clear the PNP didnt understand why the 4th June revolution actually happened.
5. After the murder of the judges, Akatapore started to instigate coup attempts against the PNDC. People like him felt it was a betrayal that JJ threw the case to the civilian commission. It is possible that they were behind it, and felt the PNDC would adopt their more extreme Maoist ideology, but JJ did not go down that path. When the Giwa coup happened, Akatapore was in jail for an earlier attempt. They broke him out, in the same way, on June 4th, soldiers broke JJ out. Unfortunately, Akatapore is no JJ. Rather than lead the rebels he had cultivated, he fled the country. He conveniently skips this context when he said he went in exile. It was on the day of Giwa's coup. And he run away like a coward, rather than finish what he started.
6. CIA files clearly labeled Rawlings as Socialist. Akatapore was not socialist. He was communist. His views were that everyone over 40 should be executed, everyone with over 50k Cedis in their bank account should be executed. His version of 'socialism' was more like Pol Pot and the K'Mer Rouge and Mao's China. The PNDC would not have it, and Akatapore tried to have Rawlings killed.
Any source for this
@@michaelacheampong2869 Several books:
Read Revolution betrayed by Barbara Okeke
Or The trial of Jerry Rawlings by Prof. Kojo Yankah.
There are files by the CIA on his bent.
As for the Akatapore bit, I fear the 80s suffered when saboteurs burned GBC down in 1988 and 1993, as well as Rawlings' house (with his family in it) in the early 2000s, so media and records of the PNDC are scarce; which is why today's commentators can speak so loudly, because they know much of it can only be challenged by hear-say.
However, there are insiders open to talk; from lower ranked soldiers to former ministers (secretaries) of that era, who faced down the Akatapores and Giwas head-on.
The issue arises with the Nkrumaist elements who saw Rawlings as simply warming the seat for their own Nkrumaist party. So once Rawlings was preparing to get off the seat, they orchestrated a political coup and made themselves 'kingmakers'. Over the last 20yrs, those who have not been co-opted by Kufuor's camp, have been co-opted by The Ahwoi and Mahama camp to twist the story.
There are records of the discrepancy between what they are saying now, and what they said 20+ years ago. But you'd need to look for yourself
Ook
SMH. U people read nonsense. I still maintain, no human has the right to take another man's life, no matter your reasons you are murderer.
If Victor had won Jerry s coups will have ended
AKATAPORE LOOKING YOUNH
Nicely used to cause mayhem
FraFra man lol.
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I didn’t hear Adabuga,I thaught he was the brain behind it
CHRISTOPHER AIKENS ....Adabuga was the main man on the ground but Akata-pore is the actual brain behind everything and Rawlings the beneficiary
3SR3MU GYATA i think Akatapore ,Adabuga,Chris Atim,Rawlings ,Boakye-Gyan(1979 killings),Kojo Tsikata,Gbedema they all need to be trialled in the international criminal court in The Hague for the murders and disruption of civil liberty and human right abuses
at 19? according to all the eye witnesses, he played a big role but wasn't the master planner
Adabuga play major roll in everything but he wasn't smart enough Educational
practically he is good at fighting fireing gun ...i mean he was fearless
Boakye Gyan realman
There was a need for the coup/revolution to take place. There is nothing Jerry has to apologize for. We needed it.
79' then 81 is not a sign that he knew his left from right
If you do not understand anything just drink , eat , thank your stars and sleep.
Covering the sins today could affect your childten
@@yawjay7049 you are absolutely right yaw jay because i am one of those who think that rawlings must face justice.
Massa how old are you
So sad ,news of the events of 31st December 1981 took Ghana back to the dark days of blame games,hatred, bigotry, treachery, envy,jealousy, pettiness, lawlessness, unpatriotic behaviours and blatant disregard for authority.This was the period of acrimony, insulting generation snatching and arrogating to themselves the authority of supervising the sale of essential commodities at control prices,the militia groups of some sort with questionable characters were trained in weapon handling,Akata Pore it's clear now that you are a traitor of the highest order,in war criminals and miscreants are the characters that call the shots,another traitor of the sort Chris Atim, you should be ashamed of yourselves in bringing down this nation Ghana by selling Dr Kwame Nkrumah's factories and warehouses to wives, family members, cronies, friends Gen Acheampong never sold a whole factory to Mama Faustina Acheampong of South Suntreso,31st December 1981 is the history that has not been written,cowards and hoodlums, hooligans and looters of the state assets.you need to apologize and tell the truth,nothing but the truth.shameless generation of youth
rawlings the most evil wicked man...
Rawlings can’t convince Ghanaians that he didn’t do anything wrong during his time as a leader, any sensible person would Know that’s not true. He just need to admit his wrongs and apologize.
We were part of the problem,you have so many information that could have help .Empty talk saaa .You talk too much without give us the proper information what is that.Tell us what happen on the coup u are saying there are 4 people u have to apologize to b4 what.Nonsense if u don’t want to give any information shut up.All that u said was nothing
Say it again, jxt beating Abt the bush. Akatapore or whoever jxt be factual. Your commentary is distort history. Simple ? What happened on the 31st Dec.1981? You answer n add the surplus but deviating from the ? n not answering it makes it not worth watching further. No matter how u judge Rawlings u are part of the problem. Murder or no murder. A sin is a sin period.Gid have mercy on all of you.
Zaya Yeebo has lost it......that coup was justified, period.
Nonsense