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Today marks the forty sixth anniversary of the subversion of the administration of Ghana�s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah by military cum police adventurers through a coup d��tat, with the active participation of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Declassified National Security Council and CIA documents provide compelling evidence of United States government involvement in the 1966 overthrow of the Ghanaian President. The coup d��tat, organized by dissident army officers, toppled the Nkrumah regime on Feb. 24, 1966 and was promptly hailed by Western governments, including the U.S. Allegations of American involvement in the putsche arose almost immediately because of the well-known hostility of the U.S. to Nkrumah's socialist orientation and pan-African activism. Speaking to the issue on Adom FM, the NPP MP for Assin North, Hon Kennedy Agyapong bemoaned the loss of Dr. Nkrumah saying it is sad that a man blessed with such infinite wisdom and intellect suffered such a predicament. He confessed that though he belonged to a political party whose traditions and ideologies differ from the Nkrumaists, the role and place of Ghana�s first president, cannot be over-emphasized and is well acknowledged, adding that the fact still remains that �Nkrumah would always remain a great man�.