Nana Addai said he was a member of the Presidential Security Personnel

that were on a trip to Hanoi where the February 24 1966 coup took place. He said he was among the personnel that took refuge in Senegal with the President until his death in 1972. They were arrested on landing with the body of the late President and detained at the Peduase Lodge, Aburi in the Eastern Region for one month.

He said the funeral for the late President, who happened to be his first cousin, was already over at the time of his release from detention.

Nana Addai, who said he was a former policeman, said he and his colleagues came to meet their rooms at Kanda Estates vandalised, with information that soldiers did that after the 1966 coup. He made a strong case for the appeasement of Dr Nkrumah, saying that the man who was widely disgraced in the press after his overthrow has now been described as the Man of the Millennium.

Nana Addai debunked claims by a Witness, at a public hearing at Takoradi that 25 bars of gold was stolen from Nkrumah at the time of his overthrow as untrue.

Commission expressed its gratefulness, for correction of the misconceptions about Nkrumah.

Another Witness, Mr Joseph Apeadu Siaw, prayed the Commission for the de-confiscation of all assets, buildings, machinery and equipment belonging to his late father, Mr Joshua Kwabena Siaw, former managing director of Tata Brewery Limited and other allied companies. He said his father who started business in 1932, later got into industry and the brewery business culminating in the establishment of the Company, which was established in 1966, but was commissioned later, because the company letters of credit were "blocked because of political interference".

Witness said a tax concession to infant industries the Company used to enjoy was cancelled under a Supreme Military Council (SMC) Decree although similar companies like the Akosombo Textiles Limited, and International Tobacco continued to enjoy those concession. Mr Siaw said during the regime of General I K Acheampong, his father was often invited to the Signals Regiment and drilled. He said the Government mounted surveillance on him and he later fled to Togo to save his life.