A former member of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), Major (Rtd) Kwadwo Boakye Djan, passed away, according to reports in Accra.
According to a report by Accra-based Asaase Radio, the former serviceman passed away on August 30, 2023, at the 37 Military Hospital, following a brief illness.
He was a political and military leader in Ghana who was well-known for his contributions to those fields.
Boakye Djan attended Opoku Ware School for secondary education during his O Levels and Achimota School during his sixth form.
The late Boakye Djan claimed that former president Jerry John Rawlings committed murder and died as a result in a June 2021 interview.
He asserted that Rawlings ought to have been tried before passing away.
Boakye-Djan claimed that Rawlings’ participation in the second coup on December 31, 1981, could result in posthumous prosecution.
“He died as a walking criminal,” Boakye-Djan said.
“The fact that I built a democracy doesn’t mean that I could bear responsibility for somebody destroying it. Remember we handed power over to [Hilla] Limann… and I left to London to do my postgraduate course and 31 December came, I was not here but on the same day I opposed it and put down my uniform to roll it back which in the end I succeeded in doing.”
“The fact that he is dead does not exonerate him. He can be tried posthumously if people have the nerve and sincerity that what happened was wrong and should not be encouraged.”
Despite the widespread condemnation that followed the June 4 uprising, Boakye-Djan claimed he has no regrets about it.
In other news, ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba, has appealed to the international community for assistance in freeing him from the house arrest imposed by the military junta in Gabon.
The video sighted by InsightNewsgh.com on Twitter has immediately garnered a of reactions from social media users.
Speaking in the recorded video, President Ali Bongo seated in his office in his home pleaded with people and the media to make noise about the coup staged by the military juntas in Gabon.
According to him, he has been under house arrest and doesn’t know what is happening in the country at the moment. He added that both his wife and son have also gone under hiding.
