Did June 4 really harm Ghana, Arthur Kennedy?

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kaketonti 6 years ago

WELL WRITTEN.
ALL GHANA CRIED"LET THE BLOOD FLOW"

WELL WRITTEN.
ALL GHANA CRIED"LET THE BLOOD FLOW"
Ogehdeh 6 years ago

When have Ghanafuo chased away any successful coupists?

Post-1966 Ghana transformed into a "mob-state"

When have Ghanafuo chased away any successful coupists?

Post-1966 Ghana transformed into a "mob-state"
Nii Teiko 6 years ago

The legacy of the June 4th Movement is on Life Support in the Intensive Care Unite of the Atinga-Trokosi General. And just as Kwame Nkrumah died with his CPP, so will the NDC die with Rawlings( may he live longer to see how b ...
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The legacy of the June 4th Movement is on Life Support in the Intensive Care Unite of the Atinga-Trokosi General. And just as Kwame Nkrumah died with his CPP, so will the NDC die with Rawlings( may he live longer to see how better Ghana would be without his input).
kaketonti 6 years ago

Nii Teiko,NKRUMAH NEVER DIES.

Nii Teiko,NKRUMAH NEVER DIES.
Kwabena Yeboah 6 years ago

Writer:

"It was a God sent House Cleaning Exercise and when Nigeria protested the execution of General Akuffo in 1979 and stopped supplying crude oil to Ghana..."

June 4 insurrection was a criminal act and God does not ...
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Writer:

"It was a God sent House Cleaning Exercise and when Nigeria protested the execution of General Akuffo in 1979 and stopped supplying crude oil to Ghana..."

June 4 insurrection was a criminal act and God does not endorse criminality. It is interesting the writer refused to use the word 'revolution'. The architect of the coup has named it June 4 Revolution, but was it a revolution by any stretch of the imagination? What fundamental socioeconomic changes did the revolution achieve? Or was it a mere criminal act by disgruntled non commission officers?

We are old enough to know what revolutions look like; Mao Zedong China revolution transformed the hitherto impoverished China into a new industrial giant. The industrial revolution literally pushed the world into absolute mechanization; the American revolution, ditto; French revolution, ditto.

Arthur Kennedy was 100% right! Rawlings' arbitrary celebration of June 4 Revolution is an insult to our collective conscience and we should under no circumstances allow such criminality to be celebrated.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 6 years ago

In all sincerity, there were some few aspects of June 4th that benefited Ghana. On the whole it worsened the situation. It heightened tribalism in Ghana and that has been our bane till now. Guns went to wrong hands, people st ...
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In all sincerity, there were some few aspects of June 4th that benefited Ghana. On the whole it worsened the situation. It heightened tribalism in Ghana and that has been our bane till now. Guns went to wrong hands, people started to sing only praise songs to those in authority.So many evil that we have in our society can be traced to 4th June and 31 Dec military adventurism.
I never heard of Jerry himself picking up a gun but people did it at his behest. He did not kill but who signed the death sentences? Tribes were pitched against each other, others were just used. Who were Jiwa, Akatapore among others? They were Northners who were used for others to enjoy. Let the writer of the article know that some of us were not young and know some things that went on. We lived in a culture of fear and insecurity at that time. Some people were even executed for taking bank loans for projects. Up till now, where is BB Bismarch of Aburi who was abducted at night during that time.
I do not blame the writer of the article because he is apolitical sycophant of Rawlings' coups.
OYIWA 6 years ago

So where was all the taxes they collected?So the 50 cedis notes that was collected from the poor people and never accounted for was also taxes.
Bro sorry that he didn't kill any of your family so you are happy with it.What G ...
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So where was all the taxes they collected?So the 50 cedis notes that was collected from the poor people and never accounted for was also taxes.
Bro sorry that he didn't kill any of your family so you are happy with it.What Ghanaians went through this era was very bad.So please stop your bais writing and save us from thinking back
francis kwarteng 6 years ago

The J.J. Rawlings's 4th Juni was all about an inhuman cold blooded atrocity.

Francis Kwarteng, Ghanaweb/Modernghana columnist.
franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com
Maryland-USA

The J.J. Rawlings's 4th Juni was all about an inhuman cold blooded atrocity.

Francis Kwarteng, Ghanaweb/Modernghana columnist.
franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com
Maryland-USA
Nii Teiko 6 years ago

Egya Clement, you should be ashamed of yourself for being part of the vindictive and ethnocentric movement which was surreptitiously formed to deal with Akans( Asantes,the so called 'ma te me hos', in particular), and to wipe ...
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Egya Clement, you should be ashamed of yourself for being part of the vindictive and ethnocentric movement which was surreptitiously formed to deal with Akans( Asantes,the so called 'ma te me hos', in particular), and to wipe the entire Asante Kingdom off the map of Ghana.

But God cannot be like Them! The plot which would later backfire in their wicked razor-blade tribal-cut identified faces. Nuff thx to civilization.

These gullible sycophants who followed the June 4th Movement like lobotomies were made to believe that the bloody stinky Movement was nationalistic in nature, little do they know that their Trokosi leader( call him Junior Judas, Devil's Incarnate if you want; all descriptions perfectly fit him) had ulterior motive of establishing Trokosi hegemony in Ghana.

This evil plot rear its ugly face when Serial Coupist, Rawlings, staged a senseless coup which toppled a young democratic government under the Leadership of Hilla Limann of blessed memory in December, 1981.

The senseless killings and the open victimization of industrious Akans would then begin. Three High Court Judges(All AKans) who sentenced Rawlings to death for leading an abortive coup in May 1979 were abducted from their homes, killed or burned alive.

It must also be recalled that this same buffoon, and equally disgusting backers, who want the killers of Major Mahama's killers to be sent to the gallows did assemble some former head of states in June 1979: Okatakyies Afrifa, Kutu Acheampong, Akofu, all Akans, were sent to the Teshie firing range and summarily executed in a military style. In fact these injustices were administered in fulfilment of the Trokosi Dream, thus to get hold onto power in perpetuity.

Of course there were other casualties. In other to hide the main agenda of the ethnocentric cleansing that would pave way for their course, Rawlings and his apparachiks criminally selected some Atinga-Trokosi Army Generals, and some Police Officers, shot them alongside the 3-Akan former Head of states so as to confuse the people of their evil machinations.

And instead of burying their faces in shame and apologize to Ghanaians for causing indelible wounds in the hearts of many we have these dummies, invented by the June 4th, hopping around the country annually to stupidly demonstrate their insensitivity to the plight of Ghanaians, especially to those who lost their loved ones in those days.
21st century boy. 6 years ago

Your mother. Which tribes did metemeho deal with? Too ignorant. Do unto others what u want them do unto u. Akans are never targeted. At the time akans might be the majority thieves and nation wreckers.

Your mother. Which tribes did metemeho deal with? Too ignorant. Do unto others what u want them do unto u. Akans are never targeted. At the time akans might be the majority thieves and nation wreckers.
Boboso 6 years ago

Thanks Sir, very sensitive and educational political history.
Well written and embarrassing.

Thanks Sir, very sensitive and educational political history.
Well written and embarrassing.
Jango Albert 6 years ago

I miss your write-ups. Thanks for coming back. Gariba-nye!

I miss your write-ups. Thanks for coming back. Gariba-nye!
21st century boy. 6 years ago

I think professor Okuampa Ahofe would read this and come forward to tell us what metemeho stands for. This group of people NPP and their stronghold. In fact if u ever have the opportunity to interact with them they don't jus ...
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I think professor Okuampa Ahofe would read this and come forward to tell us what metemeho stands for. This group of people NPP and their stronghold. In fact if u ever have the opportunity to interact with them they don't just know themselves. I mean the people are very blank. Such blank people can commit crimes and turn to blame other people. They are very blank.
Paa kojo 6 years ago

Hypocrites and pseudo/champagne socialists.What a useless attempt to rewrite history of the June 4th to favour JJ.
Where is the $2m dollars from Abacha?
Brazen liars- who stole state money to found NDC? You are lucky that ...
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Hypocrites and pseudo/champagne socialists.What a useless attempt to rewrite history of the June 4th to favour JJ.
Where is the $2m dollars from Abacha?
Brazen liars- who stole state money to found NDC? You are lucky that Ghanaians are very forgiving people; you lot are riven with envy, period!
BIG TIME 6 years ago

Well said, Clement! June 4 Uprising came as a matter of cause and JJ can't be blamed for it. You rightly mentioned big democracies like France, USA, Britain etc which went through similar revolutions like the June 4 of Ghana. ...
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Well said, Clement! June 4 Uprising came as a matter of cause and JJ can't be blamed for it. You rightly mentioned big democracies like France, USA, Britain etc which went through similar revolutions like the June 4 of Ghana. Bloody campaigns, bomb throwing and mob action in Ghana were started by the grandparents of the self-righteous political party which now calls itself, NPP. God knows better. Nobody can re-write the history of Ghana to suit their selfishness and bigotry without encountering the displeasure of God in one way or the other.
save Ghana 6 years ago

piece of shit. useless write up

piece of shit. useless write up
bukari Ali 6 years ago

Pathetically empty.

Pathetically empty.
Mr Bond 6 years ago

I can't believe a this imbecile can never seen anything wrong wrong with June 4 uprising that devastating Ghana and families.Families were destroyed by irresponsible criminals put bullets in innocent men working hard to provi ...
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I can't believe a this imbecile can never seen anything wrong wrong with June 4 uprising that devastating Ghana and families.Families were destroyed by irresponsible criminals put bullets in innocent men working hard to provide food for their love ones.industries deliberate close to create unemployment for families not able to provide responsibilities and businesses were talking from owners hoe wicked is that and this lunatic writer do not see anything wrong with it and he call it God sent is blasphemous and an insult to Ghanaians.This criminal lunatic is part of the criminal organization that brutalized Ghanaians and that is why he wrote his nonsense of not seeing nothing wrong with June 4.
Adanko[the digger] 6 years ago

There is a point made by the writer which nobody can deny-that the tradition of the NPP is steeped deep in bloodletting from the pre-indepedence era when the Matemeho Action Troopers were formed by the opposition United Part ...
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There is a point made by the writer which nobody can deny-that the tradition of the NPP is steeped deep in bloodletting from the pre-indepedence era when the Matemeho Action Troopers were formed by the opposition United Party.It is just like the Invicible Forces which Akuffo-Addo's NPP government has formed to harass and intimidate ghanaians.Then in the 60s the opposition,led by Busia, resorted to terrorism,throwing bombs to killl Kwame Nkrumah which resulted in the killing and maiming of several innocent ghanaians.
Marcus Adepaye 6 years ago

Clement, u see how funny u are? ?? If June Four was truly a revolution, Mahama nd co wudnt have been able to steal the way they stole Ghana in the last four years. Did u hear people looting state coffers in the aftermath of ...
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Clement, u see how funny u are? ?? If June Four was truly a revolution, Mahama nd co wudnt have been able to steal the way they stole Ghana in the last four years. Did u hear people looting state coffers in the aftermath of the revolutions u mentioned in ur piece? ????? Thieves hiding behind a so called revolution
Nii 6 years ago

This is nonsense ok. useless man like you, you think we don't know what happens that time?What happens to Pndc account 48?What happens to all the money those criminals collected from Ghanaians? What about THE GNTC propertie ...
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This is nonsense ok. useless man like you, you think we don't know what happens that time?What happens to Pndc account 48?What happens to all the money those criminals collected from Ghanaians? What about THE GNTC properties? Nana Konadu stole all of them. Who killed Yeyeboy ? tell us and stop the nonsense.
Ogundipe 6 years ago

How old is this writer? He needed to be schooled to know the facts about June 4.

How old is this writer? He needed to be schooled to know the facts about June 4.

Did June 4 really harm Ghana, Arthur Kennedy?

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