REAL STORY: SAD NEWS HITS GHANA AS FRONTLINERS FEARED DEAD.

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It's approximately forty-two years today when an uprising arose out of combination of corruption, bad governance and lack of discipline within the Ghanaian army on June 4th, 1979 leaving many dead and several injured.

The June 4th revolution erupted in Ghana when the then military government of the Supreme Military Council II (SMC II), Lieutenant General Fred Akuffo put the then Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings on public trial after an attempt to overthrow the government on May 15th, 1979. This took place because the late Rawlings was a junior soldiers in the Ghanaian Army who with other soldiers were refused to be given their salary but low and behold, Rawlings cupsided the trial again the government by accusing it of massive corruption and requesting that, his fellow accused be set free as he was solely responsible for the military mutiny and was incarcerated for sentencing..


In the night of June 3rd 1979, Major Boakye Djan, in collaboration with the junior military officers broke into the jail and freed Rawlings from his captive and piously marched him to the national radio station to make an announcement. The very first time the public heard from Rawlings was a now legendary statement that he Rawlings had been released by the junior officers and that he was under their command. He requested all soldiers to meet with them at the Nicholson Stadium in Burma Camp in Accra.




The entire nation went up in uproar. The soldiers rounded up senior military officers including three former heads of states, General F. K Akuffo, Ignatious Kutu Acheampong and Afrifa for trial. They were subsequently executed by firing squad.

Rawlings was appointed the head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) by the revolting Junior military officers to run the country until the ongoing election was completed but he later handed over Power to Dr. Hilla Limann in September 1979. Rawlings again came back and overthrew Limann on 31 December 1981.

Though June 4th became a noted date in Ghana's history, it has been said to be a date that brings a lot of pain to people who either lost loved ones, lost businesses or had to flee from the country.


Source: en.m.wikipedia.org

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