The vociferous leader of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Nana Akosua Frimpomaa has lashed out at coup plotters who puddled under the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a principal foreign intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the U.S government to overthrow Ghana first constitution and President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The Coup d’état
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was unconstitutionally ousted from office through a military and police coup d’état on February 24, 1966. Nana Frimpomaa has stated that the declassified documents from the (CIA) which has never been challenged, made it clear that the then US government had been trying to influence some political stooges to overthrow President Nkrumah since 1964.
On February 21, 1966, President Nkrumah left Ghana for Hanoi, the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam, at the invitation of President Ho Chi Minh to resolve the Vietnam War. Ghana was left under the control of a three-man Presidential Commission.
Consequently, the CIA-backed coup in Ghana was carried out at the dawn of February 24, 1966, while Dr Nkrumah was still on a peace mission in Asia.
Among the key CIA stooged figures who staged the revolution were Col. E.K. Kotoka, Major A.A. Afrifa and the then Inspector-General of Police, Mr J.W.K. Harley.
In the early hours of February 24, 1966, Col. Kotoka announced on the state radio that “Kwame Nkrumah is overthrown.
His Death
Following the overthrow of the CPP administration, Dr Nkrumah sought political exile in Conakry with his Guinean counterpart, President Ahmed Sekou Toure. Ahmed Sékou Touré was the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France. Dr Nkrumah was appointed Co-President of Guinea until Touré’s his death on April 27, 1972. Africa lost the multi – visionary leader ( Osagyefo Dr Kwaame Nkrumah) at the age of 63.
Our Poor State Today
Nana Frimpomaa has said that Ghana today is impoverished and has virtually become a talented beggar. ‘We depend on our colonial masters for food and sustenance. It is sad to note that the very vision of CPP under Nkrumah to become self reliance warranting our republic status in 1960 has fallen flat on our faces as a result of jaundiced policies of the UP/NPP and P(NDC).
‘Todays youth are agitating for better livelihoods – jobs, security, housing, food, water, electricity using the FIX IT Campaign Tool prescribed by President Nana Addo’.
Nana Frimpomaa touched on the recent state of insecurity and its attendant sporadic and senseless killings and torture of innocent Ghanaians that indeed, it is the legitimate right of every youth to register their displeasure using legitimate means. Nana has called on the president to show leadership and call the military to order. Until then, the Chairperson has called on the youth to preserve their ‘lives and thumb’ in order to make informed decisions on who becomes the next visionary leader with Dr. Nkrumahs blue print.
GH PRESS CENTRE 