Who Killed The Generals? -A catalogue of misinformation

The article by Justice Abban, credited to Graphic and carried by your site, is built on the kind of misinformation that I must correct so that the discussion on that important subject must proceed on a correctly informed basis.

Here are the crucial errors of fract: One, Adumua Bossman did not appear at the National Reconciliation Commission to answer Adabuga's testimony at the Commission. He appeared there to rather answer Wing Commander Tagoe's earlier testimony at that Commission that Adumuah Bossman was one of named thirteen individuals who master-minded the executions of the Generals. My name was not on that list.

Two, Adabuga did not claim that he was a leading member of June 4, 1979 Uprising. In fact he boldly claimed that he and named others created the 31st December 1981 coup.

Three, in Adabuga's testimony he did not refer to the executions of the Generals. He rather refered to the abduction and murder of the three judges and the major and went on to implicate one of Abban's high profile heroes.

Four, Major Mensah Poku and I did not fly into any voluntary exile after handing over to Liman administration in September 1979, because there was no need to do that. We had in fact been ordered to proceed overseas to study by the Army. With UNDP Fellowship I was ordered to follow a postgraduaste course in War Studies at the University of London King's College and after that come back to the Army to develop a similar programme. When I left in 1979 I was still a serving officer.

Five, the press conference referred to in the article was held by me amd Major Mensah Poku in 1980, 22nd February and not in 1983 as he claims. The purpose of that conference was to refute such fabricated allegations as it is now been peddled by Justice Abban. In fact I left Ghana freely and for the last time in October 1981 and I have never returned to Ghana since then to be in position to hold a press conference in 1983.

I have taken note of his expectation that I will come home to offer an explanation for the substantive issues of the "WHO" and "WHY" of the executions of the Generals during the June 4 Administration.

I have always mantained and I stilll maintain that I shall come home to do this at the appropriate time and that I shall not be bounced by anybody to come home on their terms especiallly when they attempt to do this with such blatant and provcative errors of facts and judgement and at the level of rumour and media trials. For such rumour and media trials by faceless accusers in the end prove nothing. In the end they only succeed in either creating or destroying, however temporarily, perception of people and events. It is against this background that since 1980 I have consisitently asked for a Commission of Inquiry of some sorts to probe AFRC and other unconstitutional governments in Ghan to come out with contested truhts.. I believe that whatever its limitations the ongoing National Reconciliation Commission is the best available thing for us at the moment and when the time is appropriate I shall come home to testify at the Commission without any preconditions whatsoever.

Major Kojo Boakye Djan
United Kingdom