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Editorial News of Tuesday, 8 June 1999

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The Guide



The Guide in a front page banner headline story, says the more President J.J. Rawlings sees the

celebration of the June 4 Uprising as an indispensable part of his life, the more unsavoury





revelations that come out of that era.



The paper says last Thursday, June 3, various allegations and revelations were made on an Accra radio station, that brought into the limelight certain personalities who have never been linked to the ?controversial? June 4.



It names Mr P.V. Obeng, member of the erstwhile PNDC and former Presidential Adviser on Governmental Affairs, Captain Kojo Tsikata (rtd), a PNDC member and a former national security boss and Lt-General

Arnold Quainoo, also a member of the PNDC.



The Guide reports Sgt Peter Tasiri, a member of the defunct Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) as saying the three men and Flt-Lt Jerry Rawlings regularly met and discussed issues secretly without the knowledge of the AFRC.



The paper says these disclosures came out when an Accra Radio Station "Choice FM", discussed the

issue of the June 4 celebration. Sgt Tasiri, the paper says, mentioned those names in response to an allegation made by another member of the AFRC, Major Baah Acheamfuor who had stated that Generals Afrifa, Acheampong, Akuffo and others, who were executed in the second batch of Killings, met their fate on what he described as the decision of the ?Dzelukope Mafia? and Rawlings.