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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That is our man JJ, I like JJ Rawlings so much bcos his foundation for economic take of in Ghana is still solid. You may like him or hate him. He is a hero who never mind to dirty his hands
Fellow Ghanaians, this same Rawlings man defended the Ishmael Gwazo handshake from Sani Abacha and claimed he never received anything form him. A few years down the line he admitted taking Two Million Dollars from Abacha saying he put it on a table and his officers picked them up in pieces for National Assignments. His apponkyes also defended him to the hilt but finally he gave in. In the same way, he will drop the bombshell that he planned the slaughtering of the judges but it was 'someone' who brought up the idea. After all, the keys to the Fiat Campagnola used in the slaughtering were picked from Nana Konadu's dining table at the ridge house. May the soul of JJ Yidana rest in peace. His good investigative job will not be in vain.
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CANT ANYONE TELL THIS RAWLINGS MAN IS LUUSSING IT?THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL. THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED EVEN NIF IT TAKES A CENTURY-THEIR DECENDANTS WILL SUFFER SAME FATE. JUST MARK IT ON THE WALL
please is it true Rawlings were remitting Amedeke when he was in Togo.
Jeremiah John Jerry Rawlings does not need to drop a bomb concerning the death of the four Ghanaians. All He has to do is the following: 1. Provide/Share all the information in his possession. He must put it all in the public domain. 2. Be truthful when rendering his version of the incident. 3. Spare no one and tell it all. That's all, JJ. Ghanaians can discern the right from the wrong without anyone putting their thumb on the scale. It is Rawlings" to come clean.
u see joy FM and multimedia group have an agenda towards NDC and will do anything to bring the party down.the question is why now. what is the motive . is simple trying to satisfy NPP.
In contemporary Ghana whoever thinks the Ashantis are uneducated is only ***barred word*** and making the most unwitting mistake not backed by evidence and records. Even those days the able illiterate cocoa farmers could send their nephews and sons to the UK to study law and what have you. The Ashantis are most hardworking folks in Ghana and through their hard work they could easily adapt to misfortunes or trends positively, be it education, for example, the heydays of secondary schooling in Ghana , traveling for greener pastures when things were hard during the so-called the Revolutionary time in Ghana because they were most severely affected by the ***barred word***. However, they were the most resourced, capable to make their ways to Abroad for better lives and send money home to help their relatives and build houses in Ghana. And I bet you most of them are well educated in the US and Europe.
Asante ppl bore the brunt of those curfews time atrocities. But stupidly,they will elect wrong ppl in the name of political expediency. I wish there would be a repeat of the curfew. Let’s us think...Rawlings,go on and chill,you re a free man I declare!!! Ashanti’s are very uneducated and will forever remain lost and unaware.
Why are people on here talking pleeeenty.?? Most of npp folks on here are watching gleefully whiles President akufffo addo eulogize Rawlings at the least opportunity. To the point that he hs even appointed Rawlings’s wife’s trusted small boy owusu bempah!!! Are u daft??? U have voted for a man who is this close to Rawlings and tsikata and u expect what??? During Kuffour’s time Akuffo addo deliberately backtracked on tsatsu tsikata trial u til changes were made to the procecution. I just don’t get it...sometimes the very people you are fighting for are the ones who will take money and betray you.akuffo addo should have never been elected on the ticket of npp in the first place. Asante ppl bore the brunt of those curfews time atrocities. But stupidly,they will elect wrong ppl in the name of political expediency. I wish there would be a repeat of the curfew. Let’s us think...Rawlings,go on and chill,you re a free man I declare!!! Ashanti’s are very uneducated and will forever remain lost and unaware.