Weekly Insight

Three AFRC members called for probe ? editorial

The Weekly Insight in its editorial says sometime in 1980, Major Boakye Djan, spokesman for the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and one of his colleagues, Major Mensah Poku, called for the establishment of a probe into the three-month rule of the military junta.

The paper says they were joined in 1981 by Captain Baah Achamfuor, also a member of the AFRC, and the only officer who took in the fighting on June 4, 1979. The three soldiers, according to the paper, argued that it was important to establish the facts of AFRC rule to provide an informed basis for both official and unofficial reactions to some aspects of their stewardship.

As far as they were concerned, the findings of the probe would have enabled the Limann administration to right the wrongs of AFRC rule and to move the country on the path to national reconciliation. The Weekly Insight says the call was made against the background of rumours about members and associates of the AFRC and it was therefore widely seen as a move to clear the air once and for all.

The paper says the Chairman of the AFRC, who stood to benefit most from the call, surprisingly, opposed the setting up of the probe and preferred to be taken to a fetish. According to the Weekly Insight, the objections to the call by Flt-Lt Jerry Rawlings, then Chairman of the AFRC, have not helped him, his colleagues in the military junta and Ghana.