I have retired from politics - Akata Pore

One of the key figures of the June 4, 1979 uprising, which launched Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings on to the political scene for the first time, Sgt. Anloga Akata Pore (rtd), has announced his retirement from politics.

The main reason he assigned for his decision was that Rawlings, who was the Chairman of the defunct Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), the erstwhile Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and former President of the 4th Republic of Ghana, had disillusioned him (Akata Pore).

According to Sgt. Akata Pore (rtd), one thing Rawlings had taken out of him is trust. The former AFRC man, who is in exile in London, made the assertion in an interview with the Editor-in-Chief of The crusading Guide, Kweku Baako Jnr. when the latter paid him a visit in London during his (Baako's) one-month stay in Cardiff, Wales.