1979 Killings: Meet the 8 army generals executed under Jerry Rawlings' orders

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  • Independence Day Celebration 9 months ago

    How are they different from Drr. Mac Pam of kitchen knife fame. What was his offense for being strangled to death by Jubilee House Executioners. Those idiots in the picture like coup like salad

  • Alan Gyimi Gyimi kyeremanteng 9 months ago

    I TOLD U NPP = NKWASIAFUO PEOPLE'S PARTY. UMOUFIA CARTOONS CONCERT CATHEDRAL

  • IBRAHIM, THE MERCHANT BANK LOOTER 9 months ago

    THIS J.J. THE MURDERER HAS A DAUGHTER AND A POLITICAL PARTY. So one can simply refer one of them as a daughter of a murderer and the other as a party of a murderer.

  • DEAD GOAT MAHAMALIAR IS BACK 9 months ago

    Oyiwa!!!!

  • Karikakchar 9 months ago

    The dark days of our nation. Well we've not forgotten this and Zenator and her siblings should know how they step if they're to engage in politics

  • I piss on sick dog prophet mohammed 9 months ago

    Qur'an is toilet paper. Kill muslims. ..

  • I shit on pig jesus christ 9 months ago

    Bible is toilet paper

  • Osika 9 months ago

    Why are you saying this, the one who said Quran is toilet paper, you don't know him or her either is Muslim or Christians or Hindu,

  • TERRORIST You are SATANIC Osama the Homosexual — You are Blood-Thirsty TERRORIST and Sub-Human ANIMAL TERRORIST calling ITSELF “Abu” — You are INFERIOR to Asantes and other Akans you hate. You are also, a Satanic Homosexual 9 months ago

    TERRORIST You are SATANIC Osama the Homosexual — You are Blood-Thirsty TERRORIST and Sub-Human ANIMAL TERRORIST calling ITSELF “Abu” — You are INFERIOR to Asantes and other Akans you hate. You are also, a Satanic H ...
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  • Baaba nuhu 9 months ago

    Please don’t give this idiot more vim to fool

  • Dr. Mash 9 months ago

    No,pls don't throw the stone back the guy who insulted the Holy Quran else there will not be any difference between the two of you. You are better than that. Take heart.

  • Dr. Mash 9 months ago

    Will you stop insulting the Holy Quran. Abaah!

  • Pan-African 9 months ago

    So we are not wrong to say, "Daughter if a Murderer"

    Only hypocrites will bury their heads in a pit and say this did not happen.

  • Zomelo 9 months ago

    Bam

  • Hajia Amina 9 months ago

    Double Bam! Bam!

  • Tony Bruce 9 months ago

    LOGIC: A man who kills another human being is a murderer; the daughter of that man is THE DAUGHTER OF A MURDERER. Zinator Rawlings's father killed other human beings. Therefore Zinator Rawlings is the DAUGHTER OF A MURDERER.

  • Atta Kay 9 months ago

    The sad thing is this Stupid Prostitute call Zanetor Rawlings continue to celebrate the Murder of these innocent Ghanaians with disrespect. Elsewhere in South America she would have been dispatched to the other world.

  • Kweku Tsin 9 months ago

    Simple-minded idiot... A man can kill another man by accident, court order, self-defense, or in a war. That may not be characterize as murder. We can debate the legality of the tribunal. At the end of the day these men were c ...
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  • Yelfaare 9 months ago

    But we are all bearing the consequences of those senseless killings of innocent Generals for wrongs far less than Rawlings and his envious and jealous followers would commit by the year 1999. Twenty years after the senseless ...
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  • Adanshare 9 months ago

    How many people were killed during the 2020 elections and 2024 elections?
    Who killed JB Danquah?
    How Killed John Kumah?
    Nkwasiafuo

  • Social media 9 months ago

    Kwasia! Aboa bi ba. W’agyimi too much! Sua nyansa kakra!

  • Mikee 9 months ago

    The person or persons that killed JB Danqiah is a murderer

  • The Spear 9 months ago

    Hey, 2 pence fool, it was NOT under Jerry's order but under his chairmanship, and that has nothing to do with the standing orders of the AFRC under which their death was mandatory.

    In fact, Gyan, whose idea it was in the ...
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  • Lartey 9 months ago

    He approved of the murder. He could have stopped it as the chairperson or resigned. The call to kill boosted his ego he enjoyed the new fame. For once, he felt self worth and it took his mind away from the frustration of fai ...
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  • The Spear 9 months ago

    Jerry was only a chairman, and NOT a president. He is there for on behalf of the group.
    When a decision is taken in a military council and a deal is done, the chairman can't revoke it.

  • Shaolin 9 months ago

    IF YOU KNOW WHY THEY WERE KILLED, YOU WOULD NOT BE HERE TALKING TRASH. BY THE WAY, DID RAWLINGS JUDGED AND PRONOUNCED THEIR DEATH OR HE PULLED THE TRIGGER? DID YOUR GRANDFATHER ALSO TOLD YOU THAT THESE OFFICERS ALSO KILLED IN ...
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  • Kk 9 months ago

    Tell us those innocent Ghanaians. Tha drop out good for nothing flyer is a murderer. On the judgment day he’ll also be judged by the true judge not a kangaroo court.

  • Robert Hammond 1 day ago

    Ibrahim JJ Rawlings did not and cannot order any execution. No one could take him to Court because he is a very innocent man. Ghana became a democracy under the 4th Republic. Only a Court Martial can order an execution lik ...
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  • Why some NDC don't accept daughter of murdered 9 months ago

    Your party founder kills so many apart from these high rates military officers so his descendants will be entitled for sons of murdered

  • Hajia Amina 9 months ago

    They do, they don’t want to vocalise the truth

  • Tony Bruce 9 months ago

    In the Guinness Book of Records, JJ Rawlings is the only African leader who killed 3 former heads of state within 1 month. What a record!!!!

    He is the father of Zinator Rawlings.

  • Young Jock 9 months ago

    Gyae Gyimiii no

  • Tony Bruce 9 months ago

    Animals kill othe animals for food. Rawlings killed other human beings due sheer Envy and just bury them. Hence animals are wiser than Rawlings.

    A no-wise man cannot beget a wise daughter. Therefore Zinator Rawlings a fo ...
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  • Mmra Kofie 9 months ago

    You Ayigbe scholars on this platform must reason and keep silent on some national issues. Anyway, I blame the Akans for blindly accepting these people as Ghanaians. They hate you with passion but it is your land wealth that f ...
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  • Nana 9 months ago

    The only way this country will be cleansed and reconciled is for another military takeover.This time many Ghanaians expect more NDC leaders particularly Ayigbes/Ewes supporting the violence to be sacrificed

  • Nyameasem Nyasasem 9 months ago

    Hahaha hahaha, you can try it and see the results.
    This time around the Dagombas, Gonjas, Konkombas, Grusis ,Walas, Mamprusis, Kusasis etc, are wide awake. They will never again blindly go to war and be foolishly kill ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 9 months ago

    @Mmra Kofie......KWASIA, TSINA AJEBU, TOKE B3LL3, ODWAN... The inward looking Akans do not own Ghana. You need to get off the old nkurasifuor talk. Today, there is even gold MINES in the northern region. NEWS FLASH!!! The min ...
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  • JJ WAS A MURDERER 9 months ago

    ZENITOR IS TRULY A DAUGHTER OF A MURDERER. ASK HER WHERE SHE WENT TO SCHOOL? AND WHAT DID HER FATHER DO TO PEOPLE WHO SENT THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL ABROAD IN THOSE DAYS?

  • O poor Ghana web,full of mistakes 9 months ago

    For example,Africa was born in 1979 and was excited on 16 June 1979, instead of general yaw boakye they wrote yaw yeah and many others

  • AB 9 months ago

    Is it that you cannot see or what? Where was ist written that Africa was born in 1979.

    Go back and re-read. 24th April, 1936 is written black and white in the first paragraph

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 9 months ago

    Why 8 Generals as the headline? Was Roger Felli a General?

  • Kay 9 months ago

    That is an irrelevant and foolish question from an Idiotic and Stupid Ewe/Ayigbe. You're part of those Animals from that Backward tribe

  • Zach 9 months ago

    Mostly Akans,there’s nothing new under the sun indeed,most corruption cases will have Akans dominate the lists,we need proper research here,perhaps there is corruption in the dna of Akans these people are so corrupt it does ...
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  • IRS 9 months ago

    Was it Boakye or Yeboah?

  • Justice One 9 months ago

    The Airforce Commander was called Boakye not Yeboah. And Afrifa was not born in 1979. The report is full of errors but that does not negate the facts of the executions though.

  • HOW ZANETOR COULD SAFELY NAVIGATE THE DANGEROUS MINEFIELD OF HER FATHER'S MISTAKES!! 9 months ago

    And to think that Rawlings and his gang of thugs ended up commiting at a far greater scale those very same crimes they accused the murdered soldiers of.That is the irony. Sadly late leaders like Rawling invariably end up bein ...
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  • Baff 9 months ago

    it was yaw Boakye

  • Yaok 9 months ago

    How many times do you guys want to publish this? Why don’t you talk about Arthur and Yeboah , who were executed by Afrifa and his cronies? That was the first firing squad, hypocrisy of the highest order.

  • Elizabeth 9 months ago

    That's the correct answer for ten points

  • Johnny 9 months ago

    There are many Ghanaians still praying and waiting for the RETALIATION of Jun 4th 1979 Coup Detat.That retaliation will receive massive support.

  • Sagrenti didn't whip you well 9 months ago

    Yes oooo. 38.2% massive support. Apuuuu. You idiots will run backwards. Now that there will be new recruitment into the army

  • AMARIYA 9 months ago

    There were many attempted coup or failed counter coup during Acheampong's regime, which of the coup makers was killed?

  • Alobye 9 months ago

    So should you these NANA AKOFO ADDO npp led administration supposed to be killed.. Because wicked the people you are to Mother Ghana. Thank God for democracy maturity in Ghana today.

  • Felix 9 months ago

    Then Rawlings was a real murderer. You mean he ordered the killing of all these poor guys?? Then which name fit him more than a murderer???? Just asking. And her yeye daughter said what???? Abu Jinapor please chill.

  • The Formena Treaty of 1874 9 months ago

    @ Felix. They are not poor guys. They are coup plotters and very corrupt who would have been beheaded by oblafos anyway if it were in the old Ashanti Kingdom. Sell stool lands and see what Otumfour will do to you

  • Solo 9 months ago

    Is it another reminder?
    Ask Akufu-Addo, Occultist Kuffour, how many people they have killed in Ghana through daylight shooting, poisoning etc.
    Shameless faceless people

  • no fears 9 months ago

    thank agod akuffo addo or kuffour did not strangled their bosses b4 ascending throne.

  • Yaw 9 months ago

    And the stupi.d bastar.ds want to wipe history with a twist that JJ is not a murderer. As for Asiedu Nketia, his pains will be unimaginable. I see nothing wrong calling Zanetoe ‘daughter’ of a murderer because it is an es ...
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  • Tall Moshie man with tribal marks 9 months ago

    Are the oblafos of Otumfour's palace not murderers? When a Queen Mother dies they don't want to talk. So that they cut people's head secretly in the middle of the night to go and bury with the dead Ashawo harlot

  • Kk 9 months ago

    Where is your proof.

  • Nsia 9 months ago

    How can Ghanaweb employ ignorrant farts such as JHE and co as a journalists to feed us with such tripe?
    Afrifa, born in 1979 and somebody called Yeboah was executed by JJ in 1979. Foolish and dump journalist of such ignoran ...
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  • Passco Journalism 9 months ago

    They are free SHS graduates who are now journalists. Do you know the chains of A's they had in WASSCE? Ask Adutwum

  • Nii 9 months ago

    Don't worry every reader understands the import of the story. LATE JJ RAWLINGS WAS A MURDERER WHO FOUND A CRIMINAL PARTY CALL NDC.

  • Zomelo 9 months ago

    Don’t worry every reader knows the importance of if the story. JJ Rawlings was a murderer who found the NDC. BAM

  • James 9 months ago

    …and do you know the number of people who have died as a result of the reckless debt exchange program and its attendant economic mismanagement? Nonsense!

  • Achakanapaya 9 months ago

    And so what? Ghanaweb, if this is to justify the Doughter of a Murderer comments in Parliament, let me assure Ghanaweb, if there is a Coup today, there will be more killings in the Military, Judiciary and most NPP government ...
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  • Rizla 9 months ago

    Akufo Addo's best friend is Rawlings

  • Rawlings Came to Save Himself from Poverty!! 9 months ago

    So how come his wife ended up with ownership of taxpayer funded Nsawam Cannery

    Rawlings problem was that he couldnt fathom why he a half-caste could not afford money to buy common yorke-gari but to buy it on credit, whilst ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 9 months ago

    Late JJ Rawlings was not a proper half-caste he did not know his father.Late Madam Victoria Agbotui was a Prostitute impregnated by a wayward Scottish. The man' family did not even inform his family of Little Rawlings when al ...
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  • Zomelo 9 months ago

    Rawlings did not come to save Ghana. He came to enrich himself. He killed people for sending their children to school abroad. Tell me how many of hid children schooled in Ghana. He couldn’t pay for but borrowed Gobe. He was ...
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  • JJ lives on 9 months ago

    Ghanaians pls rejoice these killings helped your nation. Many countries in West Africa wish they had JJ Rawlings to enable them sanitize their lands.
    Africa need such iron hand to iron out looters for once

  • Ama 9 months ago

    Wait till the children of those who were murdered also strike back Many Ghanaians will jump onto the street to jubilate for the retaliation. Many NDC Leader will die like chicken.

  • Yaw Yeboah 9 months ago

    Rejoice for what? How did these killings help Ghana? Corruption has become a bigger problem since 1979, not less.

  • Solomon 9 months ago

    NEXT TIME ALSO PUBLISH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WERE COLDLY MURDERED UNDER NADAA IN A DEMOCRACY

  • Show us those murdered under Akuffo Addo 2016 elections 9 months ago

    Show us those murdered under Akuffo Addo in 2016 election by NPP Boys ordered by Sammy Awuku.All die be die.Those were also Ghanaians born by Only under Akuffo Addo we saw party macho boys driving police vehicles in police un ...
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  • AMARIYA 9 months ago

    GRUESOME MASSACRE IT WAS.
    I hate to be reminded of this murdering of the Senior military officers. I makes me angry for killing these men for nothing when, because whatever they were accused of, their killers turned to re ...
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  • Akua 9 months ago

    It was barbaric . I remember one of the daughters of Utuka was my mate in boarding school. We were in school when we heard her dad had been shot amongst others. So sad.

  • Not Possible 9 months ago

    Do we still have death penalty in our constitution? Send all the Oral culprits to the firing squad.

  • Mr Coobi nose 9 months ago

    From Nkrumah to the current prez, Mahama, Rawlings is the most evil ever. Just imagine this twerp took our 50 cedis to impoverish all Ghanaians. Yet he killed others by firing squad for crime dwarfed by his own atrocities. I ...
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  • Nana Soja 9 months ago

    Pls check the date of birth you gave Afrifa...pls editor...

  • RAWLINGS WAS A MURDERE 9 months ago

    He killed all this innocent General for no any reason. He killed a lot of innocent people.He sent his children abroad to be educated with the taxpayers money. He sold all the factories created by Nkrumah and gave Nsawam canar ...
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  • Yankey 9 months ago

    JJ was a mass murderer who took delight in killings to satisfy his ego. There were many civilians who were taken to Burma Camp and never came back alive. These civilians were accused of kalabule and hoarding of essential comm ...
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  • Sokode 9 months ago

    Rawlings a great murderer . No size
    His daughter must chill . We can forgive but we shall never forget that history . It was bad times in Ghana nobody will like to live through . A megalomaniac and a narcissist. A demented d ...
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  • Mims 9 months ago

    I didn't know why JJ didn't kill more. Maybe we wouldn't have the likes of Akuffo Addo the tormenter.

  • Tozo 9 months ago

    Propaganda. This is not news worthy, please

  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS Military Greed 9 months ago

    Loving the money and get rich quick like affluent politicians drove military to coup d'etats.

    They couldn't perform like Nkrumah and the poor majority keep suffering until today..

    Greed is bad.

  • Yakubu Alhassan 9 months ago

    J.J.RAWLINGS WAS A MURDERER, HE KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE INCLUDING INNOCENT PEOPLE

  • Shaolin 9 months ago

    LISTEN TO THE ONE SPEAKING ABOUT KILLINGS

  • Oga obi 9 months ago

    good job j j

  • Osuro 9 months ago

    Someone who was born in 1979 cannot play any role in 1966 coup. Lousy journalism

  • Pee@atl 9 months ago

    What's the essence of this stupid piece of story?? Useless Ghana Web, if you don't have anything to feed us with, give us a break... gyimiiee.

  • Ruthan 9 months ago

    Bcoz you're an Ayigbe you feel Ghana was created just yesterday for everything to be swept under the Carpet.You Ewes are even praying for the Children of MURDERER Rawlings to be our future President.

  • Nyamekye 9 months ago

    Very Very Inaccurate information, how can someone be born *(General Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifah)1979* and be shot dead in 1979??? Hmmmmmm!!!!
    *Where was President Kuffour in the year 2000*??? The Dead Bodies were given to the fa ...
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  • NDC NPP SAME DEVIL 9 months ago

    HOW CAN GEN AKWASI AFRIFA AMANKWA BE BORN ON APRIL 24 1979. MISLEADING IDIOTS

  • dJ 9 months ago

    Afrifas date of birth is incorrect

  • Bomb 9 months ago

    Can you people also provide the people they all Killed.we are tired of this nonsense

  • Oooooooo 9 months ago

    THE SPEAKER SEES THIS FACT AS TABOO, ANATHEMA AND DETESTABLE. I therefore
    advise him, the speaker to sue Ghanaweb at the Supreme Court and ask that it should be said that these people were killed by Madam Akua Donkor in Ju ...
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  • P 9 months ago

    It's always good to be reminded of history

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 9 months ago

    Africa was born in 1979 but made a coup in 1966? Ei, too many fools in Ghana.

  • Abu-Nkonya Barrister 9 months ago

    Who's Africa , what's the different between you and the ghanaweb?

  • Lance 9 months ago

    He ordered no killings. The killings was the desires of the larger citizenry and the junior officers at the time. Everybody wanted the killings to happen. Jerry Rawlings had no choice.

  • Odasani 9 months ago

    Thank you Covid

  • Jules 9 months ago

    How long has this been?

    It seems to me like Ghanaweb does not do news anymore.

    These people were executed after a trial. A trial no different than the trial that Rawlings was being subjected to before June 4th 1979. Now ...
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  • Pelicles. 9 months ago

    You asked, how long has this been. It happened in the 80s and what about NDC and their never-ending probes about J.B Danquah who died in 1965?

  • THINK TWICE 9 months ago

    Why don't you write about the 1966 coup and the subsequent killing of Kotoka. Nonsense

  • Ato Amaniampong 9 months ago

    Zanetor Rawlings the daughter of a murderer, Jerry John Rawlings

  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 9 months ago

    All those who referred to JJ as murderer must read the story very well, JJ was sentenced to death by firing squad but was freed by another coup so put your legs into the shoes of JJ, will you spare your enemies ? and people m ...
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  • Bandana 9 months ago

    There was a coup in 1967. What happened to those who attempted it? And Rawlings himself, was he not on the verge of being executed after May 15? Did some of the guys you are defending here not write letters specifically askin ...
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  • Lartey 9 months ago

    Avoid insults and argue as best as possible. What did the three judges do to deserve their killing? Unfortunately, most of the people who surrounded Rawlings and urged him to let the blood flow , exploited his limited knowled ...
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  • Nyansafo 9 months ago

    A good name left behind is more important than action. A work of common sense associate with regrets. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

  • Akosat 9 months ago

    Lance, you sound very much like a murderer yourself, how do you rejoice and wish for your fellow humans death..... The Evil That Men Do, lives after them.... but the Good is Often Intered With Their Bones ..... Period... God ...
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  • Solomon London 9 months ago

    I said Ghana is a peaceful country if not Zenotor and her brothers cannot walk freely in Ghana, because all these people has a family, so the chiefs of Volta Region should stop looking for the one who said sit down daughter o ...
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  • Samus 9 months ago

    Solomon, we all know these people already. They paid a visit to WOYOME in prison to show their support.

  • Samus 9 months ago

    All the family members of the people killed by JJ Rawlings are cowards. They should have taken revenge by now.

  • Allotey Gyamfi 9 months ago

    To be very fair, the MP who shouted "Daughter of a murderer" had a solid point. Given the evidence, I do not see why he should apologise. No. He doesn't need to do that.

  • Nobody 9 months ago

    And let's not forget the murder of the Judges. They were not tried for anything. They were abducted in the night and brutally murdered

  • Ato 9 months ago

    This is a very stupid write-up

  • Alanga Joe 9 months ago

    Stupid news outlet so what do you want Ghanaians to do

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  • Total criminal 9 months ago

    Listen to everyone say the same thing.
    He was a criminal .
    He should be tried posthumously.
    His grave should be sent to his village he doesn’t deserve or belong at where he is buried now. A total disgrace and shame to ...
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  • Maame 9 months ago

    Murderer, agreed!

  • Kofi Manu 9 months ago

    The crooked generals deserved what they got especially Afrifa! They planned to killed JJ Rawlings but the people of Ghana favored JJ Rawlings and he took them out! Let the generals rest in peace and Ghanaweb stop bringing thi ...
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  • FTT 9 months ago

    This nonsense must not happened again

  • Stone 9 months ago

    So many lives wasted over nothing. These people had families but were slaughtered like animals. Whether or not the dates are correct is neither here nor there. People were unjustly murdered only for the perpetrators to amass ...
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  • ABONSAM FIREMAN, TOOTING BROADWAY, LONDON. 9 months ago

    THIS NOT TRUE!!! JJ NEVER ORDERED FOR ANYONE TO BE EXECUTED!!! ASK GENERAL JOSHUA HAMIDU IF HE'S STILL ALIVE. I KNOW JJ NEVER DID THAT!!! AND AGAIN, WE KNOW THAT GHANAWEB HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY NPP TO HELP IN LYING IN THE SOCIAL ...
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  • Masa, go away 9 months ago

    Why this post here now?

  • Hmm 9 months ago

    With these, why people are questioning about ‘daughter of murderer.
    Rawlings was a murderer . He was lucky to die at natural death.

  • .,.. 9 months ago

    THEY WERE EXECUTED BECAUSE OF CORRUPTION & MANIPULATION JUST LIKE HOW AKUFFO ADDO & BAWULAIR & THE CURRENT NPP STOLE GHANA'S MONIES. THEY DESERVED IT.

  • JustOne 9 months ago

    How can someone who was born in 1979 conducted a coup in 1966? Aih! Ghanaweb be careful! This is serious ooh.

  • No. 1 Mahama Dis- Appointee 9 months ago

    This fellow writes like Adu Boahen! Falsity, lies and a hopeless person

  • Andrew 9 months ago

    Please Ghanaweb you need to go back to school. A shameless web. Afrifa was born in 24 April 1979? Please just delete this….it do you damage than good. Errors article

  • Joy 9 months ago

    Rawlings was evil in Ghana

  • Kwame Angel 9 months ago

    "...executed under the orders of Jerry Rawlings" Nice words! But that was murder, right? But the daughter is not "daughter of a murderer"? And the NDC was not founded by a murderer? Alternative truths.

  • SO THEN WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE STATEMENT DAUGHTER OF A MURDERER 9 months ago

    That was the least to say. The man was a MASS MURDERER. There was another air force senior who fled to Togo, JJ sent killer after him to finish him off. Zenator should step in to stop the nensense demands. Afrifa had 9 childr ...
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  • ASK JJ IF KOTOKA WAS ALIVE IN 1979 WOULD HE HAVE ADDED HIM TO THE LIST TO FACE FIRING SQUAD WITH AFRIFA? 9 months ago

    We should not forget the tribal undertones of the 1971 and 2001 coups by JJ and his cohorts.

  • kulbogo 9 months ago

    Yea indeed Rawlings has done so much harm to a lots of families in ghana n yet wen his daughter is refer to as daughter of a murdera useless pipo r agitating against dat, wat abt dose he killed family, dis Rawlings must be ro ...
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  • Nana osei@KUMASI 9 months ago

    NPP GRANDPAAAS WHO WERE NOT LUCK LIKE YOU FOOLISH NPP EVIL CRIMINALS TODAY.DONT BRING YOURSELF .MOST OF YOU NPP WITH YOUR EVIL SHOT MAN DESERVE TO BE KILLED IF GHANA IS SERIOUS COUNTRY LIKE CHINA

  • Nana osei@KUMASI 9 months ago

    NPP GRANDPAAAS WHO WERE NOT LUCK LIKE YOU FOOLISH NPP EVIL CRIMINALS TODAY.DONT BRING YOURSELF .MOST OF YOU NPP WITH YOUR EVIL SHOT MAN DESERVE TO BE KILLED IF GHANA IS SERIOUS COUNTRY LIKE CHINA


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  • Adasaman 9 months ago

    Foolish Ghanaweb rogues. Was Busia a President?

  • One 9 months ago

    JJ is rotting in hell! Abu is really right, Zenator is a daughter of a wicked murderer! May the Lord spare no mercy on Rawlings! No one should sentence to die over corruption! Only a wicked soul like Rawlings and his wicked f ...
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  • THIEF OF BAGDAD 9 months ago

    What was wrong if those corrupt generals were executed they are useless generals how could a captain overthrow you the whole generals the Ghana web propaganda will not help npp this time.

  • One 9 months ago

    Fa wo kwasea ko! What a fu..k are you trying to say? Senator’s children are also the grandchildren of a murderer. Rawlings family are also known as the family of a murderer!!

  • I-Witness 9 months ago

    MURDERED BY KOTOKA : MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES MOHAMMED BARWAH!

    The heinous crime in 1966 has lasted over half a century.
    Murdered in cold blood in front of his wife and kids by the traitor paid to overthrow Nkrumah by forei ...
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  • Anani 9 months ago

    IDIOTS ARE WE GOING FORWARD OR BACKWARD :

  • The SILLY Children Afenyo Markins and Annor Dompreh 9 months ago

    Zanetor, over to you! If she has a mind of her own she probably knows that whoever made that statement spoke the fact. She must be lucky the family of those murdered have not revenged.

  • The SILLY Children Afenyo Markins and Annor Dompreh 9 months ago

    Zanetor should ask her mother to tell her the truth!!! The keys of the car that Amateyfio drove to pick the murdered judges to murder them was with her mother. How did Amarteyfio got access to the key which was with Nana Kuna ...
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  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 9 months ago

    GHANA NEEDS A LOT MORE POLITICIANS TO BE EXECUTED JUST AS J.J. RAWLINGS CAME TO DO FOR THE NATION. WE NEED A VICIOUS EXECUTIONS !!! GHANAIAN POLITICIANS HAVE COME TO "MILK" THE NATION'S FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO THEIR ADVANT ...
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  • NAME THE BANK WHERE THE MONEY IS 9 months ago

    Don't talk by heart. Name the bank where Akufo Addo has 700Million.

  • Pelicles. 9 months ago

    John Mahama paid 14million cedis to secure his party's nomination, and can you show us the bank where he withdrew that sort of money?

  • Jj 9 months ago

    Haven’t you heard of donors

  • Pelicles. 9 months ago

    Which of the military men took a loan of 10,000 cedis from the bank and was charge of corruption and killed, was it Amedume or who? JJ did such horrible things, and some Ghanaians wish he was still around to do more.

    JJ is ...
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  • Kim 9 months ago

    A military coup and killings are not considered murder; don't forget that the same people went to kill him first; those killings are called executions.

  • Ekow Anaman 9 months ago

    Most of JJ rAWLINGS ACCOMPLICES AND HENCHMEN ARE STILL AROUND AND ENJOYING THEIR ILL GOTTEN GAINS WHILST Ghanaians are suffering. BLOODY HYPOCRATES.

  • Samus 9 months ago

    Yes, they are all around and they are the ones who funded the campaign of the ndc during the last elections. Where did they get the money from?

  • Kim 9 months ago

    And who kill jj

  • Samus 9 months ago

    It was the SATAN who killed jj
    JJ IS is now burning in hell.

  • Dogs that bite 9 months ago

    Rawlings didn’t kill enough of those corrupt vampires who overthrew Nkrumah and set the nation into path of destruction. He should eliminated every single sole who participated in that coup

  • L 9 months ago

    Children of a.murder

  • Dan 9 months ago

    The key word is KILLING not MURDER

    so why daughter of murderer.

    Learn to use the right word

  • CM 9 months ago

    Rawlings 100% murderer and will die again

  • Nii Stranger 9 months ago

    Please you need a very good copy editor.

    Some of your stories are factually inaccurate

  • Kw1aky 9 months ago

    Bagbin is Dr Zenator not the daughter of a murderer?

  • francis 9 months ago

    why can't we move forward always bringing past issues that doesn't serve any purpose to the growth of the country. Let think positive a way forward and forget about the past that wont bring any glory to the nation. Ghanaians ...
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  • Chai!!! 9 months ago

    There was no Yeboah biaaa! Nsekou kwa.
    It was Boakye.

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  • Kotibrim 9 months ago

    Where's the daughter of murderer, come and answer for you father's killings!!!

  • Jah Cure 9 months ago

    There was no such person as Major General Robert Kotey.There was however,Major General Robert Kotei.
    Very sloppy piece of journalism.
    Ghana Web,please check before you publish anything.That makes you a bunch of fvcking idi ...
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  • Frank 9 months ago

    Rawlings failed 5 times consecutively his promotion exams. Major Boakye -Gyan said as a chief examination officer, he helped Rawlings to pass to avoid his sacking. Is this not corruption? Yet, he murdered others for the same ...
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  • The truth hurts 9 months ago

    Well, all of them were coup makers. Had they not been killed, they would have killed Jerry Rawlings long ago. In spite of there execution, just look at the evil and rot one single impotent, small di.ck, imbecile coward who wa ...
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  • Kwakuo Addo 9 months ago

    When did Air Vice Yaw Boakye become Vice George Yeboah?. Ghanaweb and non facts

  • Kim 9 months ago

    Ghanaians should ask who kill jj

  • Agbeli Kumordzi 9 months ago

    Nation looters are enemies yo the state punishable by firing squad or life imprisonment
    Akan have problem to correct their fellow criminals
    When the punishment come they turn around crying like baby why why
    Same thing the ...
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  • Snap 9 months ago

    All corrupt politicians in the immediate past administration must be sentenced to death by firing squad. We need a serious cleansing of this nation. These fools must not be allowed to leave let alon have to opportunity to pub ...
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  • Otenboufour 9 months ago

    The daughter of a murderer should aquenit her self and start looking for the trophies that they are maybe hiding and worshiping and apologies they are not going to help you and yours. The belles will ring one day

  • Bro kwesi 9 months ago

    Errrrrrr this happened in Ghana?The founder of NDC did this anaaa.Eerrrrr are u sure????

  • selfmade AL CAPONE 9 months ago

    There ll be WAR ONE DAY in this nation

    The nation has been fragmented by ndc tribal politics

  • Sycamore 9 months ago

    The military generals of today's Ghana Armed Forces and their senior and junior officers alike are even more reckless and corrupt and greedy than those thieves Jerry executed. The current discrimination and maltreatment again ...
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  • Adjei Kojo 9 months ago

    Reading many of the posts - I try to remind myself of facts. Zanetor Rawlings is JJ's daughter and has never expressed an opinion on the actions of her late father. Also, that JJ's second relection under a democracy was won b ...
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  • Chapter 4 9 months ago

    Yes she is a daughter of murderer indeed, whether she like it or not his father killed people father's

  • ASANTE 9 months ago

    The airforce commander executed was Air Vice Marshall George Yaw Boakye and NOT George Yeboah. Get your facts right, Ghanaweb.

  • Adanko 9 months ago

    The children of those Rawlings authorized their killing should form an association and seek redress . They must be compensated . Now the younger generation will know those who were killed by Rawling . Oh God !!!What was their ...
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  • Patrick 9 months ago

    We equally want to know: What were the political and social conditions in Ghana leading up to the 1979 coup and executions?

    How did the actions of the executed generals contribute to the political instability of the time?
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  • Eddy 9 months ago

    I wonder why the writer didn't add Cols. Arthur and Yeboah who were the first to be killed at firing squad by Afrifa and co.

  • Kofi 9 months ago

    How can a 47 years old army officer become General? If not corruption and dubious means. They put ranks that they are not deserved.
    Thieves.

    If they succeeded in killing Rawlings am not sure you will be posting this here ...
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  • Sam 9 months ago

    Fools! Can publish the names and photos of the ppl who were murdered in 2020 for the shithead akuffo addo to retain power?
    Those u are keen on publishing are known to us! Most of them were criminals just like akuffo addo. T ...
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  • obob84499@gmail.com 9 months ago

    If you had taken time to do some research before publication you would have realized the full name of Air-Vice Marshall George Yeboah as you left it is actually Air-Vice Marshall George Yaw Boakye and not Yeboah. Please cor ...
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  • obob84499@gmail.com 9 months ago

    Reading thru the comments I am ashamed at how low Ghana has fallen into depravity. Can't we be a bit civil in our comments. It's no wonder the killings are now being done by ordinary Ghanains and Intolerant young people.

  • Kojo 9 months ago

    Even people who died in 2016 and 2021 elections are more than Rawlings era. Akuffo Addo killed more people to become President. Kuffour Also killed more women to become President. He even said on political platform that, ki ...
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  • Dindee 9 months ago

    They were executed by the AFRC during the revolution. There is no sentimentality. War is war.

  • KK 9 months ago

    Can we have the list of those these generals also killed prior to their own end? I thought we've moved on as a nation, and the problems confronting us currently is bigger than who killed who...

  • Jimbo 9 months ago

    So, are we saying the killing of the Generals is not murder?

  • Ghana man 9 months ago

    This article brings back memories. It was a difficult time for some of us seeing our loved ones been pulled out from home, been beaten by the so called army. I'm wondering how he's been treated on the other side of the world ...
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  • Mensa 9 months ago

    Saint Jerry John Rawlings or will he will revert to his original name: Rawlings Jerry John now that he is sitting next to the Lord God Almighty.

  • Kofi 9 months ago

    And he became more corrupt than the people he killed. Why are people defending his murderer tag???

  • Kofi Agyri 9 months ago

    murderer rawllings and murderer boakye gyan and the rest of thm afrc people killed these innocent men out of jealousy and share evil and wicked agenda, why will zenator and those irresponsible anlo chiefs when she is referred ...
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  • Bobinsky 9 months ago

    So who said that girl is not the daughter of a murderer?? Some of the generals he shot had nine children. Where are they now? And what are they doing today?? They will have been parliamentarians if their fathers were not kill ...
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  • Northern Boy 9 months ago

    Would ghanaweb let these corrupt former mistulers seek forgiveness from their lord in their graves? The more you bring up their stories the more they get cursed and the more God will punish them. No amount of publication will ...
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  • Yelfaare 9 months ago

    Oh! You small brained-boys. Acheampong and his team fed Ghana under operation feed yourself for 8 years. Rawlings’s sold out Ghana’s factories, including the prolific meet factory at Zuarungu to Churches. Today Ghana is r ...
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  • Robert Hammond 1 day ago

    President Rawlings, the only chairman of the AFRC and PNDC did not order the execution of the General under the Rule of the AFRC. He was in Cuba on a State Visit when Mr Acheampong and another Officer where executed by the r ...
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