Former President Jerry John Rawlings has promised to drop a ‘bombshell’ very soon about the ongoing documentary by Multimedia News Channel, Joy News, on the killing of the three High Court judges and a retired army officer in the heat of the revolution.
He said at the Accra Digital Centre where he attended a United Nations Youth Summit yesterday that he would attend another public lecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (NKUST) in Kumasi in the coming days and take the opportunity to put issues into perspective.
Rawlings appears to be at loss as to the motive of those who put together the documentary on the incident which occurred several years ago.
“I’ll release a bombshell at UST during a public lecture”, he added.
In recent times, Joy News and The Multimedia Group have been broadcasting a comprehensive documentary on the killing of three judges and a retired army officer in 1982 when the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) military junta, led by then young Flt. Lt. Rawlings, seized power from the democratically elected government of Dr. Hilla Limann.
The documentary is pushing that the prime suspect, Joachim Amartey Kwei, could not have committed the crime without the backing of the authorities in the PNDC.
According to the documentary, the dreaded Captain Kojo Tsikata agreed that Amartey Kwei ought to have obtained the pass from a higher authority before having unrestricted movement on that fateful night when there was curfew.
The documentary revealed Amartey Kwei mentioned the names of the authorities with whom he planned and killed the judges to the extent that he was on hunger strike before Dr Koranteng of Police Hospital pacified him.
The dastardly act remains a dark spot in the nation’s political history after the three High Court Judges namely, Justice Fred Poku Sarkodie, Mrs. Justice Cecilia Koranteng- Addow and Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyapong, as well as a retired army officer, Major Sam Acquah, were callously murdered under strange circumstances at the Bundase Military Range in the Accra Plains.
Their bodies were found on 3rd July, 1982.
According to the records, all the three judges had adjudicated on cases in which they ordered the release of persons who had been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment during the tenure of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) in 1979.
Investigations were conducted into the matter, after which some active and retired army officers were prosecuted, but there is still the belief that the real people who gave the order for these judges to be killed have been left off the hook.
Special Investigative Board (SIB), chaired by Samuel Azu Crabbe, recommended the prosecution of 10 persons.
Two of them, Joachim Amartey Kwei and Alolga Akata-Pore, were members of the PNDC.
Names like Captain (Rtd) Kojo Tsikata, Sergeant Alolga Akata-Pore, J. Amartey Kwei and Lance Corporal S.K. Amedeka, Michael Senyah, Gordon Nsurowuo, Gowu, Ransford Jonny Dzandu, Gomeleshio and Evans Tekpor, alias Tonny, have always come up for scrutiny as far as the case is concerned.
Even though Amartey Kwei, Tekpor, Senya and Dzandu were executed, Amedeka escaped from jail.
Source: Daily Guide
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What is bombshell? If you are truthful, you would have told the truth a long time ago. Liar!
All is not over until it's over. Who ever thought that Afrifa and Acheampong who had already out of power would be picked to be executed. No one know how both Rawlings and tsikata would end. Just think about Kofi Awonor. who ever imagined that for him. Nature has a way to exercise justice for any injustice committed.
The Rawlings is the luckiest man in the history of Ghana politics and I wished he rather blew his own head in a bombshell. Even, those real Ghanaian patriots who had a good and visionary political intent died in prisons and some executed by him, Rawlings. I am not whatsoever saying that those who were executed didn't make their mistakes. Did it worth losing their lives, and Rawlings roaming about always blaming others? Therefore, for me, it is an eyesore for, Mr. JJ after all those atrocities, to have the audacity to speak to the Ghanaian public, let alone condemn the Former Head of State, from Pr. Kufour to Mahama and now claim to drop a bombshell about the abduction of the 3 judges under his watch and go scot-free. Who can he blame more than himself? I think he is better adviced to keep mute
@ willie. IF THAT IS YOUR THINKING, MAY THE LORD HAVE MERCY ON YOU.
@ SH+T HOLE JUDGES.AS MUCH AS I AGREE WITH YOU ON YOUR THOUGHTS, THE TRUTH MUST BE KNOWN.YES THE GHANAIAN JUDGES ARE THE MOST CORRUPT AND UN RESPECTED DUE TO THEIR LACK OF TRUE AND HONEST JUDGEMENT AT LEAST THESE JUDGES WHO WERE KILLED WILL RENDER JUDGEMENT OF ALL THOSE INNOCENT SOULS MURDERED BY THE VERY EWE CLAN BEING RAWLING,KOJO TSIKATA AND HIS BROTHER LAWYER TSIKATA.THEY ARE CRYING IN THEIR GRAVES. YOU SEE THE DAY OF RECKONING IS FAST APPROACHING AND THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELD GHANA TO RANSOM FOR ALL THESE YEARS WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
Is he going to tell the truth now?
Four people killed many many years ago and Ghanaians are still talking about it. Are those four better than all other Ghanaians who died during Coup d'etats? Govt people and Politicians steal and rob the nation, no one cares but a hungry commoner who steals plantain is sentenced to many years in prison. Are Ghanaian Judges mad? This is what will happen to them when they can't use their brains to pronounce rational Judgement. I-d-i-o+t+s.
JJ Rawlings please say that to the dogs. Please I would want to ask Rawlings and the Tsikatas these simple questions: Who authorized the three (3) year old curfew on Ghanaians. Who were allowed to operate on this curfew hours. The fact is that KOjo Tsikata was the PNDC security guru who supervised the three year curfew imposed on Ghanaians; Where did Amedeka & co. got the car keys for the operations. If Rawlings and the Tsikatas could answer these questions then the "WHO KILLED THE JUDGES" will be cleared. To me Rawlings and the Tsikatas (KOJo & Tsatsu Tsikata) were the master mind behind the murder to pave way for EWE HEGEMONY which was the aim of PNDC.
JJ try to keep quiet ooooooo because your name is everywhere in the video.
I can see Capt. Kojo Tsikata Gbagblagdja having loose bowels all over. Spill the beans and don't take any secrets to your grave.