Kojo Boakye-Djan
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Major Kojo Boakye-Djan planned the coup that brought Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings
to power in Ghana
on 4 June 1979 with other junior officers. In 2003 he said that the main purpose was to save President J.J. Rawlings who was facing a possible death sentence for planning a coup in the previous month.
Jerry Rawlings
Jerry John Rawlings is a former leader of the Republic of Ghana and now the African Union envoy to Somalia. Rawlings ruled Ghana as a military dictator in 1979 and from 1981 to 1992 and then as the first elected president of the Fourth Republic from 1993 to 2001...
to power in Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
on 4 June 1979 with other junior officers. In 2003 he said that the main purpose was to save President J.J. Rawlings who was facing a possible death sentence for planning a coup in the previous month.
See also
- Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, GhanaArmed Forces Revolutionary Council, GhanaThe Armed Forces Revolutionary Council was the government of Ghana from June 4, 1979 to September 24, 1979. It came to power in a bloody coup that removed the Supreme Military Council, another military regime, from power. The June 4 coup was preceded by an abortive attempt on May 15, 1979 when...