1964 Flagstaff Scuffle: How Nkrumah wrestled with 23-year-old Constable Ametewee for his life

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  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    ALUTA CONTINUA-GREATEST AFRICAN OF THE CENTURY-DR KWAME NKRUMAH.
    WE THE ASHANTIS VOTED MASSIVELY FOR THE TANI AKUFFO ADDO FROM THE EASTERN REGION OF GHANA TO BECOME PRESIDENT BUT AKUFFO ADDO DID NOTHING FOR US THE ASHANTIS. ...
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  • Ahem! 6 months ago

    You write this long thing for who to read? Even scrolling is a pain.

  • Chicken and Goat Story 6 months ago

    Communist inferior tactics to tickle their balls. My Uncle was a Senior Officer in the Army and he told a story about this attempted assassination after a Police Sgt found out that Nkrumah had slept with his beautiful young w ...
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  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 6 months ago

    Qur'an is toilet paper. Burn all mosques in Africa.

  • be wise 6 months ago

    If that is your logic, then explain to us how people do coups in a constitutional republic. Some of you think like chickens.
    In Ametewee trials, he rather pointed out that he was promised huge sums of money and a trip to th ...
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  • Ewvevi 6 months ago

    Deku never hanged himself. He died of old age. He died probably in his late 80s, if not early 90s. Liar.

  • be wise 6 months ago

    Deku died in 2015 at 91 years old with his own note that we call a "suicide" note." If the family thinks he did not commit suicide and that he died of natural death, it is your own cup of tea. For us, by his note left "as a r ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    @ CHICHEN AND GOAT STORY

    You have got INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Donald Trump is the leader of the FREE WORLD but he is a COMMUNIST and FASCIST-He admires Adolf Hitler, He admires Vladimir PUTIN, He is like Mousulini. I live in ...
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  • TruthisBitter 6 months ago

    Your head is filled with issues that cannot advance you in life, I say this because I feel you are not even a politician, supposing you are one then what you have in your head might propel you to limelight speaking on radio o ...
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  • Nii Kpobi 6 months ago

    The truth is well known to security men at the time. The heading should read like How Nkrumah was nearly killed after sleeping with a Police Officer’s wife in1964. Ametewee’s death sentence was commuted after a deal not t ...
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  • be wise 6 months ago

    Liar! Continue day dreaming.

  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    @ Nii Kpobi

    You have got INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Donald Trump is the leader of the FREE WORLD but he is a COMMUNIST and FASCIST-He admires Adolf Hitler, He admires Vladimir PUTIN, He is like Mousulini. I live in West and I am ...
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  • NKRUMAHIST PROPAGANDA EVERY DAY 6 months ago

    Move on, the world is moving. Can’t you idiots move beyond you tin god the Kru Man?

  • James Owusu 6 months ago

    Nkrumah is the PRIDE of Ghana.I hope you know the meaning of AFRICA’S MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM.If not,then you must go back to to school.

  • James Owusu 6 months ago

    Yours is the highest degree of stupidity and idiocy. I have been informed that your parents are Mossi from Bukina Faso.

  • Kwasi 6 months ago

    Aboa! Wõde ènna sèn na ètwere woti tenten saa?

  • Ogyatanaa 6 months ago

    Nkrumah never dies

  • MasakalaMicro 6 months ago

    Who's going to read all that mess ? Only someone who has a mental problem will write this much on social media. Were you trying to write a book ? Gee weii !

  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    ASHANTIS ARE CURSING THEMSELVES FOR VOTING FOR THE ARROGANT, UNGRATEFUL, SHORT, UGLY, LILIPUT AKYEM TANI AKUFFO ADDO, because HE DID NOTHING FOR US THE ASHANTIS. LOOK AT THE IMPORTANT POSITIONS MAHAMA HAS GIVEN TO THE VOLTA R ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    AKYEM ABUAKWA TINY POPULATION-NPP is in a state of Mental Health Psychosis- a mental state where an individual's perception of reality is significantly altered, leading to difficulty distinguishing between what is real and wh ...
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  • You cannot divide the Akan people — we are one people no matter what 6 months ago

    YOU ARE NOT AKAN

  • Wicked Intentions 6 months ago

    There are stinky senseless fools attacking my Email and phone.These senseless fools needs to stop because I will not enlighten Ghanaians.

  • Kakra 6 months ago

    Fools. Did the trial of Ametefe mentioned JB Danquah?

  • Chew and pour economist in npp 6 months ago

    JB adanqua could have written the speech After hearing of the incident. Remember information travelled very slow back then.

  • Erik 6 months ago

    The fore bearers of the npp accused Osagyefo of being a tyrant which they drummed home and abroad that led to Nkrumah's overthrow. Ametewee appealed against his sentence which was upheld. Per this article can any objective mi ...
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  • Ghanawatch 6 months ago

    Ametewee was never allowed to go free for treason. According to unconfirmed sources Ametewee was given to the lions in the Flagstaff House Zoo for dinner. A fate he rightly deserved. The lions must have sung in praise of Osag ...
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  • Sycamore 6 months ago

    The Supreme Court has always been reckless and partisan from time immemorial,this gives credence to the reasons why HE Jerry Rawlings killed most of them. There have always been the likes of Torkonoo and Gaewu at the bench.

  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 6 months ago

    If we say J B Dankwah was a traitor the NPP will come out to defend it, Ghana is where it is because of J B Dankwah and his family of thieves, Ghana must so no to political thieves

  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 6 months ago

    If we say J B Dankwah was a traitor the NPP will come out to defend it, Ghana is where it is because of J B Dankwah and his family of thieves, Ghana must say no to political thieves

  • Then Ghana was in the pocket of JB—Nkrumah’s personal sins ended his political career 6 months ago

    Nkrumah failed Nkrumah

  • Kwame 6 months ago

    Our Supreme Court has had a history of shame, now wonder it was a tool of slimy rulings recently. So, who killed Dagarti, if it is not Ametewee?

  • Pelicles. 6 months ago

    So, what happened to Constable Ametewee after the court trial?

  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    @Pelicles

    I think that after the 24th February 1966 Coup Detat-by the same collaborators-through the CIA to overthrow Dr Kwame Nkrumah, they would free Constable Ametewee.

  • Ghanawatch 6 months ago

    Ametewee never went scot free. He was found guilty of treason. According to unconfirmed sources Ametewee was given to the lions in Flagstaff House Zoo for dinner. A fate he rightly deserved.

  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 6 months ago

    There are no public records of what happened to Ametewe after being sentenced, so the rumour that he was given to lions at Flagstaff House could be true. I however do not think anybody deserves to be given to lions for food.

  • Kwabena Ohemeng,London 6 months ago

    All the attempts to kill Nkrumah was orchestrated by Busia and J.B.Danquah.These evil political duo resorted to every diabolical plan at their disposal to kill Nkrumah. Danquah was caught with a written statement to broadcas ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    @ Kwabena Ohemeng, London

    Well Said, Well Explained and Objectively concluded.
    GHANA'S DOWNFALL WAS THE SELFISH WORKS OF THE FEW-THE TINY POPULATION OF AKYEM ABUAKWA FROM THE EASTERN REGION OF GHANA

  • be wise 6 months ago

    Well done, menua. Piaw!

  • Lovejoy 6 months ago

    Stupid news, inconclusive story.
    Ghanaweb employ qualified journalists

  • Jonas 6 months ago

    Same old recycled stories about Nkrumah all the time. Ghanaweb, try to bring us news about developments that Ghana needs!!

  • KwabenaOhemeng,London 6 months ago

    The same old stories need to be recycled to educate Ghanaians about who the true patriots are in Ghana politics. The Danquah/Busia group now claim to be the patriots of Ghana even though they have never been what they claim ...
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  • Kofi 6 months ago

    Nkrumahists and their incurable headache. They’ll always make up stories

  • be wise 6 months ago

    You are sick. Your brainwashed brain never wants you to learn the truth. Continue in your delusion; you will die and go to hell to join your favorite JB Danquah, who is crying Nkrumah's name in hell right now.

  • Why did Nkrumah think he could maltreat people? 6 months ago

    We each come from a small village in Ghana, so what made Nkrumah to think he was more Ghanaian than others. Nkrumah was nobody’s master to have ordered people around. He was just myopic and a fool.

  • Kwabena Ohemeng,London 6 months ago

    Nkrumah was nobody's master but was the president of Ghana,a position J.B.Danquah and Busia envied and therefore resorted to all sorts of atrocities to get him removed from power.Nkrumah was very humble and patriotic. Unli ...
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  • Why did Nkrumah think he could maltreat people? 6 months ago

    If he was doing a good job and was the good leader he said he was, why was he overthrown. He chose to live by the sword and died by the sword. Nelson Mandela suffered more than Nkrumah but was forgiving and that saved his cou ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    @ Why did Nkrumah think that he could maltreat people

    Dr Kwame Nkrumah-NEVER BUILT ONE ROOM OR HOUSE FOR HIMSELF. DR NKRUMAH WAS A SELFLESS LEADER. DR NKRUMAH WAS A PATRIOT.
    You have got an INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Donald Tru ...
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  • Is this your main livelihood??? You’re an animal. Where from this hatred of people just like Nkrumah 6 months ago

    Those who live by the sword shall surely perish by the sword. Where is that seed that Nkrumah was sowing, his cpp? Evil men can’t grow anything. They are only good in their brains, but their handiwork is all evil. Nkrumah m ...
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  • lmao 6 months ago

    Most of what your talking about is not even true please do you're research before making such accusations against Nkrumah like it or not Kwame Nkrumah was elected African of the Millennium for a reason and sometimes you have ...
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  • Sycamore 6 months ago

    Northerners has always been hardworking, trustworthy, loyal, principled and painstaking before the emergence of BAWUMIA the serial pathological LIAR of a failed confused economist. Continue to rest well the greatest African o ...
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  • Capt. Adabuga 6 months ago

    Does that include John Mahama?

  • Bugbaba 6 months ago

    Npp never metion part of the coupe attemp by thir owned .

  • Funny how Ewes and Northerners are for Nkrumah now— they all belonged on one side with asantes Akyem etc as against nkrumah’s cpp 6 months ago

    The fact is … ABOVE

  • Fastook 6 months ago

    Ametewee tried to kill a president and they overturned his death sentence. ??? That’s insane

  • be wise 6 months ago

    NPP GhanaWeb, we know what you are doing. For your information, JB Danquah, the sore loser, was never "a key figure in Ghana's independence movement." We know the truth now, unlike the way through your UP tradition that decid ...
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  • Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 6 months ago

    GHANA MADE A VERY BIG MISTAKE FOR GIVEN AKUFFO ADDO THE CHANCE TO RULE GHANA. THESE TINY AKIM TRIBE FROM KIBI TRIED SINCE INDEPENDENCE TO RULE GHANA BUT WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL. AKUFFO ADDO DID NOT COMPLETE A SINGLE PROJECT IN KU ...
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  • Ghana Ba 6 months ago

    It looks like this tribe has coup mentality all the way down to JJ

  • James 6 months ago

    Who is jj his self make coup two times and those who plan against his he kill all them and where is he now he thinks he will leave forever

  • Why did Nkrumah think he could maltreat people? 6 months ago

    Pan-Africanism is for evil people— we are God’s children — and yet some believe in blackness or whiteness and will slaughter people for it; God cannot be mocked.
    Why did Nkrumah think he could maltreat people?
    If he ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    @ WHY DID NKRUMAH THINK HE COULD MALTREAT PEOPLE

    DR NKRUMAH WAS A SELFLESS, A PATRIOT, PAN AFRICAN-DR NKRUMAH NEVER BUILT ONE ROOM OR HOUSE FOR HIMSELF.
    You have got INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Donald Trump is the leader of the ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 6 months ago

    @ WHY DID NKRUMAH THINK HE COULD MALTREAT PEOPLE

    DR NKRUMAH WAS A SELFLESS, A PATRIOT, PAN AFRICAN-DR NKRUMAH NEVER BUILT ONE ROOM OR HOUSE FOR HIMSELF.
    You have got INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Donald Trump is the leader of the ...
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  • James Owusu 6 months ago

    You are either mentally sick or too ignorant to discuss African politics.Go and study the machinations of of CIA and British Intelligence which resulted in the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and prevented him from achieving his ...
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  • Why shouldn’t it be OUR GOAL, but HIS GOAL — this is why he failed, you can’t order people around to do what you want — even God cannot order us, His created beings to do His will 6 months ago

    You see how hollow you are. You are one of those Africans who are too evil, and want a fight with the colonialists in the name of panafricanism — that ungodly ideology; forgetting about God’s mercies. Hatred destroyed Nkr ...
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  • Ghana Money. 6 months ago

    Idiots believe this lie

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  • Ghanawatch 6 months ago

    What!!! 1000 to 1200 cedis monthly salaries? Maybe it is dollars.Ghanaians are now slaves in their own country. These are slave wages.

  • Kinte 6 months ago

    I wonder why the court later pardoned the killer of Sgt. Dagartey for the reason that he didn't intend to kill him. Is the law of "attempting to kill is killing" not introduced then, and was he not trying to kill Kwame Nkruma ...
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  • Ghanani 6 months ago

    The picture on the left is that of Kotoka and not Ametewee.

  • Nkrumah was childish — lacked true understanding of life and meaning 6 months ago

    Is this your main livelihood??? You’re an animal. Where from this hatred of people just like Nkrumah

    Those who live by the sword shall surely perish by the sword. Where is that seed that Nkrumah was sowing, his cpp? Evil ...
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  • jesus 6 months ago

    THE GHANA POLICE HAS ALWAYS BEEN CORRUPT!

  • KOFI Acheampong --Kai --Ganyo =bi--AMARTEIFIO AMARKAI 6 months ago

    The Flagstaff Scuffle---the account presented did happen but the written report is not accurate in a way-----
    1--looking at the picture --Ametewee the constable --seems to be dressed in Officers outfit
    2--did the report say ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 6 months ago

    The photo on the right is not Seth Ametewee. He was an ordinary Constable, certainly not an officer to have been wearing such a uniform with a medal on his shirt. He had never done anything to have deserved a medal in his sho ...
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  • DuMB 6 months ago

    Nkrumah is the GOAT!!!

  • Kwame 6 months ago

    I happen to meet Deku, whiles working in the Ghana Civil Service. He regretted for having taken part in the 24th February, 1966 coup.
    It looks like the Supreme Court said that Salifu shot himself with his own weapon.
    The ...
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  • Kwame 6 months ago

    I am not sure that this is the picture of Constable Ametewe, constables those days and even today don't wear police officers' uniform.
    My own late brother joined the Ghana Police Service as a constable in 1968 and was until ...
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  • Bone crusher 6 months ago

    Blacks are never lawyal to their country whites men knows this we are very easy to bribe sell out our leaders

  • Kwame 6 months ago

    Kwame Nkrumah and his aids were Varanda Boys who associate with people not depending on their status in life.
    Before 24th February, 1966 the Mamobi Polyclinic was then under construction by State Construction Corporation (SC ...
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