I was 13 years old when the coup took place. My brother in-law with whom I was living then was a soldier at the Ghana Military Support Services.
I elder brother was then a messenger at the Ministry of Information.
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I was 13 years old when the coup took place. My brother in-law with whom I was living then was a soldier at the Ghana Military Support Services.
I elder brother was then a messenger at the Ministry of Information.
Comrade Kojo Addison (Kojo Addison running ideologically, courtesy Mr. Ghanattah), was a friend of the family.
My elder sister was into frying agbelikaklo.
The house in which we lived, then, was behind the Mamobi, Polyclinic, Accra, and also serves as the dining spot for the workers of the then State Construction Corporation (SCC), who were working on the project.
In the first place Kwame Nkrumah's government employed 320,000 people in the Workers' Brigade, the Civil Service and others one of whom was my elder brother.
Axing 320,000 people from state employment on 25th February, 1966 could have given the National Liberation Council (NLC), made up of illiterate military and police officers if we are to talk about patriotism, by naming objects by their very words.
The grievance of the military that came into public was that the Workers' Brigade were going to replace them, because they wear khaki, which the military wears as well as some senior police officers.
Some, of the allegations were that they were not getting milk, connered beaf, baked beans and candine.
Kwame Nkrumah has then setup the Aveyime cattle ranch that was to produce both beef and milk, feed the Bolgatanga beef factory and hide tanning, the Nsawam cannery and Kumasi shoe factory.
To reduce the cost of food in the cities and towns, the Farmers' Brigade was into baking bread, steaming kenkey, frying fish and selling them to workers and other citizens.
My own mother, just like my sister was also selling agbelikaklo, so one will not say that I came from a family that have people in the CPP thus were in prominent positions then.
It's a fact that people who want to overthrow the constitutional regime in the U.S. on 6th January, 2021 have been imprisoned and some of them are still facing trial in the U.S.
The U.S. and her allies were against the unlawful overthrow of the U.S. government on that day, so must pay together with their citizens and their coming generations the harm they had caused us on 24/2/1966.
We have heard of someone who is said to be a friend of the Minister of Information of Ghana, Mrs. Akuful calling for the recolonization of Africa, after all the harm they have caused our continent.
I was 13 years old when the coup took place. My brother in-law with whom I was living then was a soldier at the Ghana Military Support Services.
I elder brother was then a messenger at the Ministry of Information.
Comrade ...
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