Who exactly was Lieutenant-General Emmanuel Kotoka?

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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    Kotoka TOOK CIA SPY BRIBES OF 10 MILLION US DOLLARS TO BETRAY MOTHER GHANA. KOTOKA MUST DIE BY FIRING SQUAD. A TRAITOR AND AN UNPATRIOTIC SELFISH MAN. KOTOKA HATED GHANA BECAUSE HE IS FROM THE TOGOLAND.
    Kotoka is a MURDERER ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    KOTOKA-WAS-KILLED-Y-GOD-FOR-EING-A-TRAITOR-WITHIN-ONE-YEAR-OF-HIS-COUP-DETAT.-KOTOKA-CAME-TO-THE-AIRPORT-TO-SEE-DR-KWAME-NKRUMAH-OFF_TO-CHINA-AS-A-TRAITOR-DR-KWAME-NKRUMAH-EDUCATED-AND-PROMOTED-KOTOKA-THE-TRAITOR
    Kotoka TOOK ...
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  • BAMBILLO 8 hours ago

    After all the millions that he collected to help betray the Great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Emmanuel Kotoka could only live up to a measly 41 years, being brutally murdered with his body left in the hot African sun for hour ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 6 hours ago

    He did not have to betray Nkrumah as Nkrumah was a dead man walking. Five assassination attempts were made on Nkrumah's life, with others pending. The coup saved Nkrumah's life.

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, cleanliness is Godliness 2 hours ago

    Nlrumah would have eventually been assassinated just as kennedy im sure because the Germans, British and Americans were all after the guy Nkrumah knew this thats why he chose nit to use force he knew there were local mercenar ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILT ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    ===AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFF ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, cleanliness is Godliness 2 hours ago

    In Canada and America, airports are named after very prominent people bevause a lot of money goes into constructing them..America decided to right its wrongs and rename Idlewild airport in NYC after jfk..Ghana must follow sui ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    Kotoka TOOK CIA SPY BRIBES OF 10 MILLION US DOLLARS TO BETRAY MOTHER GHANA. KOTOKA MUST DIE BY FIRING SQUAD. A TRAITOR AND AN UNPATRIOTIC SELFISH MAN. KOTOKA HATED GHANA BECAUSE HE IS FROM THE TOGOLAND.
    Kotoka is a MURDERER ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    KOTOKA-WAS-KILLED-Y-GOD-FOR-EING-A-TRAITOR-WITHIN-ONE-YEAR-OF-HIS-COUP-DETAT.-KOTOKA-CAME-TO-THE-AIRPORT-TO-SEE-DR-KWAME-NKRUMAH-OFF_TO-CHINA-AS-A-TRAITOR-DR-KWAME-NKRUMAH-EDUCATED-AND-PROMOTED-KOTOKA-THE-TRAITOR
    Kotoka TOOK ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILT ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    ===AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFF ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    ===AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFF ...
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  • dickson kwaku 9 hours ago

    KOTOKA, AT THAT TIME WAS A HERO TO LIBERATE GHANAIANS FROM THE TYRANT LEADER, KWAME NKRUMAH.
    DIURING NKRUMAH'S REGIME, THERE WAS NO COMODITY, NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH, GHANAIANS WERE MORE THAN SLAVES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
    GOING ...
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  • Malone 9 hours ago

    See another Akufo Addo family

  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    Dickson-Kwaku
    GET-LOST-YOU-MAD-MAN-ARE-YOU-INSANE?
    The White man and woman CAME TO AFRICA TO SCAM US, TO STEAL, TO DEPLETE OUR RESOURCES-MINERALS-HENCE GOLD COAST and THE SLAVE TRADE.
    The Whites or England left Ghana with ...
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  • Malone 9 hours ago

    HE IS A BETRAYAL OF DR. OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH

  • Zionism is racism 9 hours ago

    Ghanaweb tell all the truth. The 1966 coup was planned, financed and led by the CIA. Kotoka and gang were just the corrupt puppets who placed greed before national interests

  • OGyam 9 hours ago

    We know exactly who Kotoka is/ was.
    A Quisling = Traitor. Conversation over!

  • K Poku-London-UK 9 hours ago

    Kotoka was a wicked Murderer who personally executed his superior officer General BARWAH-infontof-his-wife-and-children for absolutely nothing except his hatred of Northerners. Kotoka had no intellect or ethics. He betrayed h ...
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  • Pelicles. 7 hours ago

    Yes, Kotoka was a murderer who killed General Barwa, and what about JJ who killed 8 generals who did absolutely nothing to them? How many people did Nkrumah send to prison on hearsay charges especially through his "Young Pion ...
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  • Captain FukOff 1 hour ago

    DEAR K Poku-London-UK,

    GO AND YOURSELF ...

    RESPECTFULLY!

  • Abi 8 hours ago

    Kotoka was recruited by Western Intelligence in Congo. The whole Congo episode was rendered useless by these same agencies. The British Commander of Ghanaian troops in the Congo, General Alexander, defied Nkrumah’s orders t ...
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  • Agbelimor Paris 8 hours ago

    Kotoka was a good man

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 7 hours ago

    THE NAMES KOTOKA AND AFRIFA ARE TRAITORS WHO BETRAYED GHANA. NOTHING GOOD CAME OUT OF THE 1966 COUP. HIS NAME MUST BE REPLACED AT OUR AIRPORT.

  • King Vasco 7 hours ago

    That's all!! Kotoka was a good man and redeemer just like JJ. Who is this K Poku-London, who doesn't seem to be in this world? He doesn't understand anything in this world apart from hating and insulting Ewes. How old is this ...
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  • Kojo poku-London UK 6 hours ago

    Indeed. Kotoka murdered Lt General BARWAH INFRONT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. Kotoka was a TRAITOR and an UNPATRIOTIC EWE very inward looking EWE and selfish by collecting CIA bribes 10 million US dollars. The same applies to ...
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  • Kojo poku-London UK 6 hours ago

    @ King Vasco
    Indeed. Kotoka murdered Lt General BARWAH INFRONT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. Kotoka was a TRAITOR and an UNPATRIOTIC EWE very inward looking EWE and selfish by collecting CIA bribes 10 million US dollars. The s ...
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  • Django 6 hours ago

    You seems to be sick of hatred!!! Can you reason at all??? You write with such hatred that you can’t think well, sorry for you

  • Asakramitoga 7 hours ago

    Afemenyo Markin should know that Kotoka was a traitor, a CIA collaborator and not a heroe for we Voltarians

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 7 hours ago

    THERE IS NO SENSE IN THE HEAD OF EFFUTU/ EWE AFENYO MARKINS. SENSIBLE GHANAIANS SHOULD IGNORE THAT FOOL

  • Kotoka international airport 7 hours ago

    Still maintain the name for our airport, that is what we want and nothing more.

  • my eyes everywhere. 7 hours ago

    Great man ,to free Ghana from dictatorship.Later it came back and some greedy politicians wants to bring it back. Hail the Great.to cut short of dictatorship. Kwame Nkrumah did his part but he is not a SAINT.

  • Awuradebasa 5 hours ago

    Yes....

  • COOLBLUE 6 hours ago

    If because fighting broke around Accra Airport area he was named after the Airport then he doesn't deserve the acolade. For Kotoka to have rushed to the broadcasting house to announce overthrow of Nkrumah and assume leadershi ...
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  • Jesus gives eternal Life 6 hours ago

    Where we spend eternity matters, and the lives we lead now determine that future. Take a second to check in with yourself—do your words and actions align with where you want to go? You have the chance right now to start ove ...
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  • Osei Bonsu 6 hours ago

    You can imagine such a character derailing the forward march of the nascent Ghana. The airport must bebrenamed

  • Kojo poku-London UK 6 hours ago

    Indeed. Kotoka murdered Lt General BARWAH INFRONT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. Kotoka was a TRAITOR and an UNPATRIOTIC EWE very inward looking EWE and selfish by collecting CIA bribes 10 million US dollars. The same applies to ...
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  • Kooko shew 6 hours ago

    What at all govt is waiting for ? Just clear clear cleaaar his name off like rooting out cassava, and rename it Accra international airport simple. How can a honest, partrotic man ever betray a hand that lifted you up on ...
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  • Pelicles. 5 hours ago

    NDC should also change the name Ghana to Gold Coast because the name Ghana has something to do with J.B Danquah.

  • Know your boundaries 4 hours ago

    Ghana killed Nkrumah indeed
    Ghana killed Kotoka
    Change the name to Ghana Airport

  • Kwame Angel 4 hours ago

    He was a stupid, corrupt mole in the Ghana Army who took monies from the CIA to destroy his own country.

  • Prayer 3 hours ago

    When fiction become fact!! Kotoka took 100 million dollars from the CIA to betray Nkrumah? The man's family is poorer than church mice so where is the 20 million? Which CIA will openly admit given out 10 million to someone to ...
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  • 4 Year Old 3 hours ago

    This is the illusion, horror and disaster of coup d'états: A total loss at the end of it all; waste of human and state resources. Think of it with the following few examples:
    -Gaddafi- all his ideas were and are albatross ...
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  • Asonaba asiedu 3 hours ago

    The writer failed to mention the CIA connection.

  • Asida 2 hours ago

    It's clear Ghanaians don't like reading. How can we have all these as part of our history but those of us who were born in the 70s would not know. Based on this writeup, Kotoka afterall was a hero. Ghanaians hailed him for l ...
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  • Kofi Ghanaba 2 hours ago

    General Kotoka an Ewe developed a friendship with General Afrifa an Ashanti.This symbiotic relationship between an Ewe and an Ashanti led to the liberation of Ghanaians from Nkrumah’s tyrannical government.My good friend Nk ...
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  • Kotoka was Originally from France/ Togo, A Town Called Aneho. 2 hours ago

    Kotoka was an Agent Working For France/British Intel,within Ghana Army,He Core Asignments to Sabotage Dr Kwame Nkrumah , France Is Enemy of Oeace Progress Devolopments

  • NKRUMAH TOO WAS A BIT TOO GREEDY!! 2 hours ago

    He decided to turn 1 term in Office into an Everlasting Forever and Ever Amen Term in Office. Not nice!

  • True Ghanaian 1 hour ago

    But for kotoka and his ilks, Ghana would have been kike Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, or South korea. God will punish kotoka, afrifa, and all those who took Ghana 100years backwards.

  • Talk true 1 hour ago

    Ghanaweb please, check September 26 1926 to April 17 1967 he is army
    Totally wrong

  • Passah Samuel 19 minutes ago

    The policy of changing the name of an airport is like we are living in the past instead of learning from the past.How many democrary elect president havn't cost the state into debt?
    List them down and lets go through their r ...
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