Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. ?Those soldiers were not fools. Ding Liren is one of the three Asians to ever become Victor Radley grew up in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, where he attended high school at Marcellin College Randwick. On 30th June, 1982 , a group of soldiers had kidnapped and murdered 3 judges ( Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong , Fred Poku Sarkodee and Cecilia Koranteng-Addow) and a retired Major Sam Acquah, shot them and burned their corpses. HIM HEM NOW asks everyone to keep your engagement on this channel humanly and with respect! Its the same way people say NDC or PNDC soldiers are under Rawlings but for all you know hes not aware, he maintained. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings to the cleaners and challenged him to come out to face him over the matters of December 31st 1981 Revolution. She worked with him for a long time until the 31st night when she ordered him to be shot at close range because he had seen and heard things.He revealed, daring her to challenge him as he has more on her and her husband. Content created and supplied by: Stephenwadawe (via Opera Cudjoe said he was detained at the Military Intelligence Guardroom and later for two months at the Special Branch, now Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), and the Nsawam Prisons for a year and a half, after which he was discharged from the Army. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct. All rights reserved. Adabuga re-appears before NRC - GhanaWeb Access Loan New Mexico Ghana: Adabuga Strikes Again - allAfrica.com Lt. Rawlings went on his rounds again. Please contact us on Facebook or Instagram now! I want you to ask him how the champagne got to the PNDC office at that time. Adabuga was speaking on Andy D TV following the launch of his book, Rawlings, Murder and Lies., READ ALSO: Landlord tries to eject tenant by ripping off the roof (Photos), He went on to say that Rawlings created other mass graves at another place near the airport called Gaddafi camp, where several soldiers attached to the Military Intelligence were killed by the express orders of Chairman Rawlings.. 17th June: when Giwa struck - The Villager He recalled how Adabuga asked him to fill the tank of one of the cars he (Braimah) used to drive, prior to the night of the murders. Its like blaming President Akufo-Addo for troubles being caused by NPP Machomen. The lion of Lahore against all unscrupulous heads in Pakistan. In the Lebanese national's last attempt to prove that Adabuga was indeed a criminal, he alleged that Adabuga was sentenced to death for killing innocent people with a document he submitted to the commission as evidence, but his allegation was rejected because the document was not certified. According to Adabuga, ?assuming Amedeka and his gang did not need curfew pass to kill Tsikata?s uncle and Yeye Boy in the Volta Region, how come they needed a curfew pass to kidnap and kill the judges? As for the NRC, they just listened and wrote their report thats all. He also revealed that Rawlings created other mass graves at another place near the airport called Gadafi camp where many soldiers attached to the Military Intelligence were killed in mass by the express orders of Chairman Rawlings. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings to the cleaners and challenged him to come out to face him over the matters of . According to Braimah Issaka, though Rawlings was a strict president who hated indiscipline to some level, he did not order the killing of Justice Cecelia Koranteng Addo, Kwadwo Adjei Agyepong, Poku Sarkodie and Major Sam Acquah. By CMatthew_01 (self media writer) | 2 years ago. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. Adabuga further revealed that he appeared before the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) to face Rawlings man-to-man, but Rawlings refused to meet him, asking for separate testimonies. Curiously, while Adabuga in his evidence said he together with nine others including Cudjoe could be credited for the success of the coup, Cudjoe said in his response to a question that he did not recollect Adabuga at the crucial stage where both men claimed they were in a convoy of two Mowags that took Rawlings to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to make his coup speech. Crafted by CCDL, Mahama is surrounded by incompetent policy advisers - Dela Coffie. I was willing to be hanged or shot when I appeared before NRC. General News of Wednesday, 24 October 2018, play videoFormer President Jerry John Rawlings. Anto was a fine officer from the Volta Region who was assigned to Mrs Rawlings by her husband himself. Corporal Adabuga Calls Rawlings a Divisive, Ewe-Tribal Nationalist! 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While ex-corporal Mathew Adabuga said in his evidence that Rawlings was a coward who never took active part in the coup and had to be arrested by him in order to prevent him from deserting them, ex-Bombardier Cudjoe has questioned that aspect of Adabuga's evidence before the NRC. Be the first to get hottest news from our Editor-in-Chief, Check your email and confirm your subscription. He mentioned Corporal Matthew Adabuga, as one of the witnesses who gave fake accounts of the June 30, 1982 incident. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. This Is When Adabuga Was Owning The Show - Him Hem Now He criticised the Security Advisors at that time for advising the grounding of Mowags leaving only two at the Gondar Barracks. Please try again later. In his testimony before the Commission, Cpl Adabuga accused former President J.J. Rawlings and Capt Kojo Tsikata of having ordered the abduction and murder of the three high court judges and the retired army officer in June 1982. The President, Dr. Hilla Limann, had been invited, but because of the security situation in the country he was advised not to attend. According to him, he has the real facts on the December 31st Revolution, and the former President's hunger for power, resulting in the maiming and killing of many people. Akuffo, he said, and added that he was called back into the Army after power was handed over to the Limann administration. Around this time, 10 soldiers, some retired, all other ranks, gathered some two miles to the south of the Camp waiting for grenades and other ammunition from their accomplices at the First Infantry Battalion at Michel Camp, about 20 miles to the East of their position. They took money from Seidu Musah. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. He was used to announce the takeover at GBC because he was the only officer, Adabuga said, stressing that If we had another officer with us, Rawlings would have been shot immediately he chickened out and asked us to escape to Benin., Adabuga said he was 24-years-old at the time and that Rawlings could only use his antics on the other ranks who could not read his mind to know that he was fake. Mr Hozaifeh said, however: " I cannot be humble with a person who is dripping with blood." By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy. Death and Pain: Rawlings' Ghana - The Inside Story, A Man of the People (African Writers Series, AWS31), Weep Not, Child (African Writers Series, AWS7), Things Fall Apart (African Writers Series, AWS1), The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, A Cowrie of Hope (African Writers Series), So Long a Letter (African Writers Series), Arrow of God (African Writers Series, AWS16), The Enemy Within (African Writers Series). He further described the two (Rawlings and Tsikata) as inveterate liars, con-men who would do anything to cover-up their sordid past without being humble enough to admit responsibilities for the numerous pain, anguish and bloodshed they unleashed on the nation. ex-Corporal Adabuga claimed he was a leading activist of the June 4 Uprising. Adabuga and Lebanese Riyal. When Professor Florence Abena Dolphyne, a Member of the Commission, asked Mr Hozaifeh to be humble, and that nobody was below anybody, Mr Hozaifeh answered he had been a humble person because his religion taught him so. Adabuga collected some in a polythene bag, Giwa took some and when they return they brief Akata-Pore. Do you believe Nana Addo ordered them to do that? ONE of the architects of the December 31, 1981 coup d'etat, ex-Corporal Matthew Adabuga, yesterday told the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) that the Chairman of the erstwhile Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), Flt-Lt J. J. Rawlings, ordered the killing of the three High Court judges and a retired military officer in 1982.