Can you believe yourself...template minds... History lessons should be written on billboard instead of library material to be researched... Complex people with inferior
There's no argument about the fact that, aside Kwame Nkrumah, Gen Acheampong added greatly to Ghana's infrastructure. In just 6 years. Rawlings had 19 years.
Africans weeping till date due to hate, tribalism,heartlessness and personal glory. May God give change of mind, hearts and leaders to lead with empathy without discreminstion.
Very wrong, he had already married no less than an Ashanti, Konadu. Joy Amedume and Utuka, Felli were sacrificed and thrown into the pot for that very reason only to satisfy the Akans.
@emmanueldogah2649 He killed more Akans than any other tribe. Note, he didn't kill any retired army officer of any tribe . There was special squad he formed within the army, who kidnapped and killed many prominent Akans.
Point of correction: Hold on right there.. AFRC was the name of the game, and Jerry John was the chairman. And the spokes person was Boakye Gyan. The rank and file wanted to kill all the senior military officers. Jerry John put his foot down in all cases it was the same people that took him out the guard room to become the chairman of the council.
It brought fear to the heart of many leader. Because of it , senior Military Leader decided to restructure Their Military to avoid being able to come together for a coup.
His worst corruption was transformed himself from military to civilian president of additional 2 terms of ruling Ghana after years of rulling as military head of state. The killing of his senior generals was more of vadental or revenge. What later happen to himself, he finally died and Ghana is moving on.
These executions were so sad and contrary to the corruption charges many were killed for unbelievable reasons. Not one case of corruption was proven with trials lasting 30 mins and no trial in some cases. Admiral Joy Amedume was shot for taking a bank loan. Two people were shot because of the region they came from in order to balance out everything. Infact there was going to be a third group of execution which was supposed to include one of the richest civilians in Ghana and a few others with whom scores were to be settled
That change was very necessary. If you were in Ghana at that time you will know or witness the level of corruption that was going in Ghana in those years. During those years,millions of Ghanaians left the country in such of basic need.
My parents knew all the 3 Former Heads of State Of #Ghana and the 5 Generals murdered. My Late Father knew Rawlings as a boy ..my late father connected General Acheampong to his Wife Faustina ...
Those junior officers never got anything from the mad man rawlings gov't, he used them. One such is Sergent Adabuga who has been very bitter with Rawlings, who was like a psycopath
All these shallow minded Ghanaians touting this as their eye opener .. this Nigerian sourced the existing history from the more detailed version thats originally in ghana as it shou;d be.
Your report is one sided. You didn't checked your facts very well before doing this video. Aside from the great Kwame Nkrumah, Rawlings is the second most visionary head of state Ghana ever had.
You are not interested in the numerous soldiers And civilians WHO were brutally mûrderéd by Afrifa and his forces in his quest to destroy Africa by overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah? What about the Innocent Ghanaians slaughtered by Nana during election 2020? They aren't not human enough,right?@#BACK_IN_HISTORY
Every video justifies its title, Sir. The title here is about the Generals that were lined up and shot during JJ's time as a military 🪖 Head of State. Thank you.
Rawling himself became very corrupt leader . His daughter were training on anf flying Ghanaian airforce planes. Anyway he later regretted the killings after he left power, and even defended himself that he was forced to authorise those executions by pressure from hos fellow coup plotters . Anyway he had also passed on
As you continue to portray Rawlings as a ruthless dictative leader, i hope you do another video listing all the people General Acheampong and his buddy Afrifra killed
You are all blaming Rawlings. Have any one bothered to find at how these general were kill. Rawlings was made to sign the warrant by the juniors soldiers after some of the generals were shot at the Teshie shooting range /range. Narrators of this history are being economic with the truth Rawlings was never happy about the killing but haven been set free by the soldiers soldiers who were in control he had no choice. For once let tell the truth.
But Rawlings also sold the nation’s property that’s Nsawam cannery to his wife how can a civil servant raise that kind of money to buy this factory 🏭.. “Rawlings the traitor “ a book 📕 by his friend Mathew Adebuga
There is a reason Abacha and Rawlings were best friends..I think it was because they were like minds. Abacha of Nigeria was the only president that successfully control inflation in Nigeria..from 47% to less than 9% at his death...if he was still alive, alot of people would have died but Nigerian economy would have been stronger because our Bankers and politicians would have been in check always.
@@ayinlondon2013 Don't worry about Abacha, how about IBB, Gowon, Obasenjo etc, Abacha's loot were only discovered because he died and was hated by other president hence they pounced on his wealth at his death..ask you parents, they will tell you prices were stable under Abacha's regime and inflation was under 9% as against 47% when he took over(I.e a good sold at #50 dropped to #26 at his death)..If Emefiele was under Abacha's regime he would have been a dead man by now.
@@CatherineEdet-km9ke I don't need to ask my parents,i was a youth during Abachas regime and I know wat it looks like, I felt it in my skin. Abacha is the beginning and ending of all collupt looting in Nigeria.
@@CatherineEdet-km9ke Do you even know what inflation is versus fuel subsidy cum other economic factors ? Please get your facts and get deep and first hand knowledge before arguing on SM .
@@ayinlondon2013 Abacha's administration oversaw an increase in the country's foreign exchange reserves from $494 million in 1993 to $9.6 billion by the middle of 1997, and reduced the external debt of Nigeria from $36 billion in 1993 to $27 billion by 1997. You sef do your research yourself you will see nobody came close to his achievement, when you consider all factors cum production activities.
Rawlings was behaving like a trigger happy kid. All the generals that he killed had an opportunity to kill him too during his prison days but spared his head. Well, now that they are all dead, only God will judge everybody.
The didn't spare his life. 4th June was the date Rawlings was to be executed. But Major Boakye and others staged an uprising and removed General Akufo.
Ask them again! A national traitor and minion of imperialist forces is now being whitewashed as a hero because they think they can rewrite history to suit their agenda
@@welbeckobeng4277 Evil AFRIFA and the matemeho who introduced coups and cold-blooded k1llings to Ghana, for short-sighted ambitions, to destroys Africas n the blackmans dreams!
Rawlings was brutal and wicked. I will never accept or agree with him and his methods. Till date corruption thrives unabated in Ghana. If he had a good ground to charge them, he should have done it properly, seize their loots and properties and jailed them upon conviction. He was wrong then and till today he still wrong.
Thanks for the enlightening video...Power is the one thing humans and even animals find very hard to share...Rawlings knew it was either himself to go or the top military generals...who went to military school together.But I am not supporting his actions,just stating the bitter complex truth of power!
It doesn’t take rocket-science to understand this. Some gullible Ghanaians will say he was doing it for the betterment of Ghana and its indigenes, but the clear answer is he did those heinous atrocities because he was paranoid and felt that those Generals must go before he goes. What the heck is “He was executed because he was too close to power”?? How psychotic must you be to end another person’s life for this reason.
Those were some of the darkest days in Ghana’s history. What a senseless and ruthless act. I recall countless businesses closing down in my city to escape the mayhems leaving their families behind. Military attacking and arresting civilians in their homes while repeatedly slapping them in their face. I cannot imagine the psychological impact and trauma of the victims families.
Even though Rawlings spent 19yrs in power, he couldn't do more than what Acheampong did in just 6 yrs and Acheampong freed us of all foreign dept. Aww tribalism, greed and envy has always been our problem. Rest well General
Rawlings was a dangerous wicket person Someone spare his life and had no compassion to imprison those Generals for their Children to visit them I wish Nana Konadu didn’t become his wife I can’t forgive him because of the execution He has no legacy to remember except his execution
Notice how all he people executed studied in united Kingdom? This goes to show that most of the millitary leaders before him were all power hungry puppets of the UK and protégés' of the Ashanti kingdom:EMMAMUEL KWESI KOTOKA was no defferent!! the NPP hail KOTOKA because brought about the downfall OSAGYEFO the only one leader who was the son of Ghana but not the son of Ashanti!
According to the stories and history those criminal executions were done in the name of corruption activities. Every story of accusation of corruption till date has not been proven. It is just the behavior of Ghanaians. Always accusing people of some form of wrong doing without any proven fact. We have ended up killing all our good leaders for nothing. It is a sad behavior. And today we have same remnants and follower of Rawling doing the same things. God save Ghana.
Never knew people could type cluelessly and foolishly this way. What do you know bout those killings and it's impact in Ghana?. You folks from other African countries ve done worst under the normal logic. Rawlings is dead and we re still back to where we were before. Corruption is at it's highest peak at the moment.
@@huzaifmusah5086 , I guess you don’t read. And were born during those years or did anyone tell you what was going on then and have you had the opportunity to check history at all.
You foolishly accept lies and assumed it's the truth without findings out if that is true. You accept it to be so because that is what you want to hear, you are those trying hard to destroy what Rawlings corrected
Point of Correction ,it was never signed or a date issued for firing squad of Rawlings and his thugs. My late Mother's Cousin Colonel Enninful was the Chair of the trial of Rawlings. He Colonel Enninful and his wife were murdered by thugs of Rawlings and Boakye Djan at dawn of June 4 1979. At the burial of Colonel Enninful at the Military Cemetary at Osu,Accra,Ghana my Mother never shook hands with Rawlings.
The Colonel and his wife were murder in their home at the breakfast table...JJ Rawlings is a Compulsive lier a murderer a Con man who became Rich in the End living a full life..his children's now living in paradise. unlike the senior military officers children's who are fatherless still in pain
He Rawlings himself was as guilty of corruption as those he killed. He was just a blood thirsty man whose hands are stained with the blood of a lot of people. May their blood continue to speak against him.
A good report but some portions are inaccurate. Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah never got to Hanoi (Vietnam). The coup took place when he stopped over in China. He flew from there to Guinea.
Do you know they keep the money out of Africa? They keep it in overseas banks! Go and see what Sani Abacha did! Over 300 million overseas we know off .
He is resting well!!!!! Because he saved Ghana from the evil that he could. In just a few years after his death look at Ghana? Some people don’t even have water because of galamsey
Some of these men had retired and living peaceful civilian lives but blood thirsty power drunk Efo wouldn’t rest until they were all dead. He blamed the killings on the people of Ghana saying “they were crying for blood” when in fact, he ordered the arrests and had the power to pardon them after their trial as the military ruler. This is in addition to the 3 judges he murdered for no reason other than doing their job. Today his family live in luxury with stolen money hidden away in Swiss banks while still influencing Ghana’s political life. This history is necessary for those born yesterday who still glorify his tenure because they are too young to realise the terror and havoc he scattered across Ghana. He died without pain but his maker is surely waiting for him.
Very good comment... JJ Rawlings become a very Rich man his children's living in paradise today unlike the Seniors military Officer's Children's who are fatherless still in pain
How is it that a figure who thrived on just simply murdering his political rivals celebrated? Just barbaric strongman tactics to sieze power with a very weak political ideology behind it seems to be the norm in west africa. As a South African I always think that since these countries got their independence decades before we did in 94 they should have been the model to follow for us but it is the other way around and they are too proud to recognize that their suffering is self inflicted. We've had 5 presidents since 94, none of them had to stage a coupe and rule through fear by eliminating all opponents. No civil war since independence and one of the strongest economies in the continent. Simple, we debate and vote!
Eventually, the igbos fought a war. Why fight the war against the Igbos when you all know that the Igbos will not be given any more opportunity to be leaders in Nigeria. It was still Awolowo who betrayed the Igbos during the civil war, the same Awolowo asked the Nigerian govt to give only £20 to every returnee from Biafra to any part of the country. We can see where Nigeria is today.
Our path and the path of SA are very different but yes, I wish WA countries were able to manage their independence well so that SA could get inspiration.
My friend from South Africa,kindly talk about the Xenophobic attacks too.When Apartheid isolated you,we prayed,sang songs, added our voices to the ills of segregation.Now you have turned against your black brothers with Xenophobia.Xenophobia would isolate you again as Apartheid did unless u desist from it.SA is a coloured,white,black or Indian country depending on whom you ask. Just look at your flag even,the segregation is in there,just look carefully.
@@jaytettehquarshie1522 If SA people were truly xenophobic just for the sake of it as you're told, there wouldn't be so many west african immigrants living here and more coming in every year mostly illegally. That's not an insult to west africans it's just the truth and reality. Illegal immigration frustrates even 1st world countries my friend and have you ever considered the genuine concerns of South africans on this matter? Go to any country and disobey their laws then see if they'll like that
@@Azikhale_ Your argument does not mean that xenophobia is not rampant in SA. Just because there were still many Jews in Germany in 1942 does not mean the nazis were not there. I saw on a documentary a SA woman crying and saying how much she hated African immigrants. It made me sick. It seems like the hatred is more towards their African brothers and sisters more than Europeans, Indians and Asians. Listen fellow African, if you need to find refuge and prosper in a foreign country here in Africa, come to West Africa. This continent is for all of us. We’ll share it with you! Actually, you host countries will gain more from you. ✌🏾
It would appear that senior officers left the army to take up juicy cabinet positions. In the process they left the weapons of war under the command and control of hot headed junior officers.
The heinous crimes these soldiers committed under the military rule are far less to be compared today with the money & corruption stolen by politicians in Nigeria under a Democrat rule
Not only Jerry Rawlings of Ghana. You also have Samuel Doe of Liberia, and a few other past Head of States of other African countries. Only the Almighty God is the ultimate judge of each one of us. Peace 🕊️✌️ and God bless 🙏...
@@Chukwudi-ze6li, You see, you're not a Ghanaian, but you're speaking like a Ghanaian who witnessed that era of our history.Even though very young then,I witnessed all that happened.For your education, Rawlings was the reason why Ghana is where we are now. There's no leader in the entire Africa continent currently who can be compared to Jerry Rawlings. We Ghanaians liked what's he did for us and no amount of misinformation can change that.
If such happens in Nigeria the tribal card will be played and everything will be turned into a tribal war and those who are trying to make positive changes will be made scape goats 😢
Friend, it's always tribal in the undertones. It's not just Ghana or Nigeria. Even in so-called developed Europe. Look at the genocides and ethnic cleansing of Muslim Bosniacs in the Yugoslavian war. Rawlings fought corruption or so he claimed but there were massive tribal undertones in his approach and persecution targets.
Ghana today is worse after Rawlings and he's part of the problem, you see no man is a judge over another man. Only God has the right judge his creation
He basically got into the high place where they were I mean high office Then he found out what has really happened in Ghana 🇬🇭 so far and the lies they told Us about Nkrumah and all the corruption going on money and power circling among a few Generals in Ghana whiles the Masses (people) suffer Regardless it was war in all seriousness and all the culprits thos involved had to go whether they've retired or still in office He has to cut the heads of all the ones he See's as sneaks so they don't come for him later This is how u can have a pieceful rule sometimes.... Period!!! 🙏
Tragic shame! I'm not Ghanaian or Nigerian.The coups and counter coups in these two countries make me nauseated. I don't feel like visiting these countries at all!!
Rest well our Gallant Generals. The murderer and the thief,is no more. No one will live forever. Rawlings came to steal for his family. Thieves NDC group
The execution was the darkest moment in the history of our nation Ghana. Rawlings was later to preside over one of the most corrupt government in the history of Ghana and many innocent civilians were abducted from their homes and murdered while others also disappeared under strange circumstances.Ghana became a lawless nation but many thanks to President Kuffour who came to restore normalcy and the rule of law.
By what criteria did you come to that conclusion? You can say all that but, the Almighty God knows that Rawlings was our saviour in that era. Akuffo Addo government is doing very well now.
God will answer you for this lie.This is the man who put Ghana on the rail to where it is today. I am very certain you or your relatives.must have been beneficiary of the rot Ghana passed through
The Rawlings execution of the generals including three former military heads of state is difficult to justify solely on the grounds of corruption if those generals themselves had not, in addition to corruption, caused the death of people. However, Rawlings brought political and economic sanity back to Ghana after his draconian rule. It could be that a country like Nigeria also needs Rawlings-style draconian rule to restore sanity.
After so many years, the bloodshed , executions, destruction of civil society, the fear and division, all Ghanaians got is nothing. There were worse corruption in Rawlings administration than any other administration since independence. I know what I'm talking about because I live in it. Rawlings had no vision for Ghana. He's all talk.
Thank you so much for bringing this up. This is a part our history we are not told
Are you serious
Can you believe yourself...template minds... History lessons should be written on billboard instead of library material to be researched... Complex people with inferior
Lol you just don't read
There's no argument about the fact that, aside Kwame Nkrumah, Gen Acheampong added greatly to Ghana's infrastructure. In just 6 years. Rawlings had 19 years.
Hmmmm
Facts only
And you were told he did nothing i guess... tribal bigots
Mumu
Acheampong really tried for Ghana, He shouldn't have been executed
The executions was the worst and most barbaric act in the history of Ghana and Africa in general.
Abhorrent
If you had the chance to kill someone who had you up for execution would you let it slide because of your believes.😂.
Africans weeping till date due to hate, tribalism,heartlessness and personal glory. May God give change of mind, hearts and leaders to lead with empathy without discreminstion.
He has peddled lies
I think Rawlings did not like the Akans, and he succeeded in eliminating all the Akans. Checked if you could find any of them from the volta region.
Don't say you think, it's a fact. Rawlings wasn't quiet for his disdain for the Akans.
Very wrong, he had already married no less than an Ashanti, Konadu. Joy Amedume and Utuka, Felli were sacrificed and thrown into the pot for that very reason only to satisfy the Akans.
You mean all the people killed were akans? False. Ewes and northerners were among. Stop this
@emmanueldogah2649 He killed more Akans than any other tribe. Note, he didn't kill any retired army officer of any tribe . There was special squad he formed within the army, who kidnapped and killed many prominent Akans.
@kwabenaobatwani4246 you're being too Akancentric. Name a retired former Gen/Head of State alive, then that was non-Akan?
Point of correction: Hold on right there.. AFRC was the name of the game, and Jerry John was the chairman. And the spokes person was Boakye Gyan. The rank and file wanted to kill all the senior military officers. Jerry John put his foot down in all cases it was the same people that took him out the guard room to become the chairman of the council.
This will show you that Voltarians are not corrupted
Since time immemorial
Great documentary, However you used General Acheampong's picture for Utuka.
That's my editor's mistake, but I take responsibility. Many thanks always.
What was his crime that led to Rawlings killing him?
The currupt today is more than before
Yes ooo
It brought fear to the heart of many leader. Because of it , senior Military Leader decided to restructure Their Military to avoid being able to come together for a coup.
Evil,Dark ,Barbaric Timeline of #Ghana ...
I still don't understand why the asantes did nothing about the killings of their own people by rawlings
So Rawlings wants to tell us he wasn't corrupt neither
His worst corruption was transformed himself from military to civilian president of additional 2 terms of ruling Ghana after years of rulling as military head of state.
The killing of his senior generals was more of vadental or revenge.
What later happen to himself, he finally died and Ghana is moving on.
As me ooooooh
Our generals are poorly train
These executions were so sad and contrary to the corruption charges many were killed for unbelievable reasons. Not one case of corruption was proven with trials lasting 30 mins and no trial in some cases. Admiral Joy Amedume was shot for taking a bank loan. Two people were shot because of the region they came from in order to balance out everything. Infact there was going to be a third group of execution which was supposed to include one of the richest civilians in Ghana and a few others with whom scores were to be settled
That change was very necessary. If you were in Ghana at that time you will know or witness the level of corruption that was going in Ghana in those years. During those years,millions of Ghanaians left the country in such of basic need.
Rawlings and his PNDC was worse
We need that now more than ever! Addo and Cecilia first
And was Rawlings' regime any better? BS!
Can you justify that?
Ama, are you a mother?
What happened to General Ankra?
Ankrah wasn't in Ghana during the executions . He live in UK until his death in 1992
@@symbwoytv6314 Wow, he was lucky. Thanks!
Acheampong not achamkpo
🙄💔🤦🏻♂️
Many thanks. I am glad you are not mistaken. Will do more to get the indigenous pronunciation next time. I appreciate you always.
My parents knew all the 3 Former Heads of State Of #Ghana and the 5 Generals murdered. My Late Father knew Rawlings as a boy ..my late father connected General Acheampong to his Wife Faustina ...
Where is Jerry Rawlins now? Cruelty on the Sons of the Soil.. did Ghana, the people's the world, get revenge in that despot?
Jerry did this on the account of fair without mercy.
This is really sad one. I am sure some of them are innocent.
The same thing Rawlings killed all theses leaders he became like them Rawlings and his wife was as corrupt as every single person he accused
Those junior officers never got anything from the mad man rawlings gov't, he used them. One such is Sergent Adabuga who has been very bitter with Rawlings, who was like a psycopath
All these shallow minded Ghanaians touting this as their eye opener .. this Nigerian sourced the existing history from the more detailed version thats originally in ghana as it shou;d be.
He is a murderer and a bad person
Your report is one sided. You didn't checked your facts very well before doing this video. Aside from the great Kwame Nkrumah, Rawlings is the second most visionary head of state Ghana ever had.
Check the title of the video. It is not a comparative analysis of the governments of Ghana.
! kotoka ? !,
You are not interested in the numerous soldiers And civilians WHO were brutally mûrderéd by Afrifa and his forces in his quest to destroy Africa by overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah? What about the Innocent Ghanaians slaughtered by Nana during election 2020? They aren't not human enough,right?@#BACK_IN_HISTORY
Every video justifies its title, Sir. The title here is about the Generals that were lined up and shot during JJ's time as a military 🪖 Head of State. Thank you.
Rawling himself became very corrupt leader . His daughter were training on anf flying Ghanaian airforce planes. Anyway he later regretted the killings after he left power, and even defended himself that he was forced to authorise those executions by pressure from hos fellow coup plotters . Anyway he had also passed on
That is Gen Boakye Gyan and co
Very Bad
Rawlings was a murderer!
As you continue to portray Rawlings as a ruthless dictative leader, i hope you do another video listing all the people General Acheampong and his buddy Afrifra killed
Be guided by the TITLE of each video, please. We stick to the title. Thanks.
You are all blaming Rawlings. Have any one bothered to find at how these general were kill. Rawlings was made to sign the warrant by the juniors soldiers after some of the generals were shot at the Teshie shooting range /range. Narrators of this history are being economic with the truth Rawlings was never happy about the killing but haven been set free by the soldiers soldiers who were in control he had no choice. For once let tell the truth.
Rawlings Jerry is in hell
But Rawlings also sold the nation’s property that’s Nsawam cannery to his wife how can a civil servant raise that kind of money to buy this factory 🏭.. “Rawlings the traitor “ a book 📕 by his friend Mathew Adebuga
There is a reason Abacha and Rawlings were best friends..I think it was because they were like minds.
Abacha of Nigeria was the only president that successfully control inflation in Nigeria..from 47% to less than 9% at his death...if he was still alive, alot of people would have died but Nigerian economy would have been stronger because our Bankers and politicians would have been in check always.
The same Abacha that stole money that cannot be retrieved even in the next 100 years?
Madam think well
@@ayinlondon2013 Don't worry about Abacha, how about IBB, Gowon, Obasenjo etc, Abacha's loot were only discovered because he died and was hated by other president hence they pounced on his wealth at his death..ask you parents, they will tell you prices were stable under Abacha's regime and inflation was under 9% as against 47% when he took over(I.e a good sold at #50 dropped to #26 at his death)..If Emefiele was under Abacha's regime he would have been a dead man by now.
@@CatherineEdet-km9ke I don't need to ask my parents,i was a youth during Abachas regime and I know wat it looks like, I felt it in my skin.
Abacha is the beginning and ending of all collupt looting in Nigeria.
@@CatherineEdet-km9ke Do you even know what inflation is versus fuel subsidy cum other economic factors ?
Please get your facts and get deep and first hand knowledge before arguing on SM .
@@ayinlondon2013 Abacha's administration oversaw an increase in the country's foreign exchange reserves from $494 million in 1993 to $9.6 billion by the middle of 1997, and reduced the external debt of Nigeria from $36 billion in 1993 to $27 billion by 1997.
You sef do your research yourself you will see nobody came close to his achievement, when you consider all factors cum production activities.
Africa have come a long way and still have a long way to go. JMO
Rawlings was behaving like a trigger happy kid. All the generals that he killed had an opportunity to kill him too during his prison days but spared his head. Well, now that they are all dead, only God will judge everybody.
The didn't spare his life. 4th June was the date Rawlings was to be executed. But Major Boakye and others staged an uprising and removed General Akufo.
Those people were executed in military junta what the 13peoples who were shot and killed instantly during election 2020 as we are in democratic arena
But speared his head where did you get that from there was a jailbreak where jj Rawlings was taken from his cell ...
@@WW24343 correct
My question is corruption has needed in Ghana 🇬🇭
Please,Where is the list of human beings brutally mûrdered by AFRIFA and Kotoka during and after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah?
Very brave point 👉❤
Ask them again!
A national traitor and minion of imperialist forces is now being whitewashed as a hero because they think they can rewrite history to suit their agenda
He isn't talking of them, wicked jj
@@welbeckobeng4277 Evil AFRIFA and the matemeho who introduced coups and cold-blooded k1llings to Ghana, for short-sighted ambitions, to destroys Africas n the blackmans dreams!
Rawlings was brutal and wicked. I will never accept or agree with him and his methods. Till date corruption thrives unabated in Ghana. If he had a good ground to charge them, he should have done it properly, seize their loots and properties and jailed them upon conviction. He was wrong then and till today he still wrong.
Thanks for the enlightening video...Power is the one thing humans and even animals find very hard to share...Rawlings knew it was either himself to go or the top military generals...who went to military school together.But I am not supporting his actions,just stating the bitter complex truth of power!
He could simply put them in jail
Rowlings executed those general simply cos he was afraid he could be toppled by those generals, their execution has nothing to do with corruption.
Well who cares 🤷🏻♂️ they all had it coming, everyone is corrupt one way or the other.
They wanted to kill him but he outsmarted them and killed them. You do me, I do you, God no go vex
It doesn’t take rocket-science to understand this. Some gullible Ghanaians will say he was doing it for the betterment of Ghana and its indigenes, but the clear answer is he did those heinous atrocities because he was paranoid and felt that those Generals must go before he goes.
What the heck is “He was executed because he was too close to power”?? How psychotic must you be to end another person’s life for this reason.
Very simple to the point no personal opinion added. Thanks.
Those were some of the darkest days in Ghana’s history. What a senseless and ruthless act. I recall countless businesses closing down in my city to escape the mayhems leaving their families behind. Military attacking and arresting civilians in their homes while repeatedly slapping them in their face. I cannot imagine the psychological impact and trauma of the victims families.
You clearly can’t be a good leader without doing these things , stay in your emotions
Even though Rawlings spent 19yrs in power, he couldn't do more than what Acheampong did in just 6 yrs and Acheampong freed us of all foreign dept. Aww tribalism, greed and envy has always been our problem. Rest well General
You are sick. What did Acheampong do? You Akans always want to discredit everybody apart from yourself.
Where is Jerry Rawlings at this time?
😂
Rawlings also died as well
Dead even had stroke
Jerry Rawlings was a criminal
But he enjoyed life to the fullest before he died
Rawlings was a dangerous wicket person Someone spare his life and had no compassion to imprison those Generals for their Children to visit them I wish Nana Konadu didn’t become his wife I can’t forgive him because of the execution He has no legacy to remember except his execution
Video had wrong photo for Gen Utuka. The photo shown is of Gen Acheampong.
Sorry about that, please. The mistake is that of my editor but I take responsibility for the mistake. So so sorry, please.
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@@backinhistory9
It's happen none of us are perfect...it's just a simple mistake your Documentary was well done
Notice how all he people executed studied in united Kingdom? This goes to show that most of the millitary leaders before him were all power hungry puppets of the UK and protégés' of the Ashanti kingdom:EMMAMUEL KWESI KOTOKA was no defferent!! the NPP hail KOTOKA because brought about the downfall OSAGYEFO the only one leader who was the son of Ghana but not the son of Ashanti!
The voice is on point, you know how to narrate stories.
What was the transformational development that Rawlings brought? Mediocrity at its fineness
Now Ghana we need someone like JJ to control Ghana too much corruption
Gen Acheampong's picture was used for Gen Utuka and this should be corrected
According to the stories and history those criminal executions were done in the name of corruption activities. Every story of accusation of corruption till date has not been proven. It is just the behavior of Ghanaians. Always accusing people of some form of wrong doing without any proven fact. We have ended up killing all our good leaders for nothing. It is a sad behavior. And today we have same remnants and follower of Rawling doing the same things. God save Ghana.
Well said
Words of foolishness
Never knew people could type cluelessly and foolishly this way. What do you know bout those killings and it's impact in Ghana?. You folks from other African countries ve done worst under the normal logic. Rawlings is dead and we re still back to where we were before. Corruption is at it's highest peak at the moment.
@@huzaifmusah5086 , I guess you don’t read. And were born during those years or did anyone tell you what was going on then and have you had the opportunity to check history at all.
You foolishly accept lies and assumed it's the truth without findings out if that is true. You accept it to be so because that is what you want to hear, you are those trying hard to destroy what Rawlings corrected
This happened when I was in the secondary school. We had Ghanaian Teachers then. Rawlings was called butcher of Africa Idi Amin de Second
Point of Correction ,it was never signed or a date issued for firing squad of Rawlings and his thugs. My late Mother's Cousin Colonel Enninful was the Chair of the trial of Rawlings. He Colonel Enninful and his wife were murdered by thugs of Rawlings and Boakye Djan at dawn of June 4 1979. At the burial of Colonel Enninful at the Military Cemetary at Osu,Accra,Ghana my Mother never shook hands with Rawlings.
But where is Rawlings himself? His.children and grandchildren will face the same situation b4 the world ends.
@@ebonyfish2993 it will come to pass.
The Colonel and his wife were murder in their home at the breakfast table...JJ Rawlings is a Compulsive lier a murderer a Con man who became Rich in the End living a full life..his children's now living in paradise. unlike the senior military officers children's who are fatherless still in pain
@@DavidOfosuAppiahI don’t think you will see that before you die Sir 😂😂
@@ebonyfish2993neither will you see that before you die 😂😂
He Rawlings himself was as guilty of corruption as those he killed. He was just a blood thirsty man whose hands are stained with the blood of a lot of people. May their blood continue to speak against him.
If he was corrupt, why didn't the npp make him answer for it?? Stop defending the corruption of the generals... you are a disgrace!
Did all these murder makes Ghana the most developed country in Africa? Nonsense
At least they don't have the ability to spread their criminal DNA. in the Ghana community.
At least they don't have the ability to spread their criminal DNA to the smart Ghanaians.
The answer is NO
Bulu bulu toy.. the corruption in his time is the same as now? Ur sense only dey UA-cam. Jon
A good report but some portions are inaccurate. Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah never got to Hanoi (Vietnam). The coup took place when he stopped over in China. He flew from there to Guinea.
I am not Ghanaian but I find it horrible to execute a person just for corruption. How about refunding what he stole and serving prison time ?
Do you know they keep the money out of Africa? They keep it in overseas banks! Go and see what Sani Abacha did! Over 300 million overseas we know off .
How do you think we can get that money back? Why are you people so stupid
A well Researched documentary. I shall give you 💯.
Quite dubious
That was the culture of barbaric African military officers,very sad stories.They actated like animals.
Yes Athiapong did make arrested Patrice Lumumba than assassinated in Congo as he was corrupted by the West to kill lim Lumumba, the overthrow Nkrumah
Rawlings himself became a notoriously corrupt and now spending eternity in HELL with some of those he declared corrupt and killed.
The soul of Rawlings would never rest. Bad man.
I dont agree wt u. If not for Rawlings , Ghana wouldve bn worst than Nigeria
He is resting well!!!!! Because he saved Ghana from the evil that he could. In just a few years after his death look at Ghana? Some people don’t even have water because of galamsey
@@KelvinEphraimephraim-b5ccorrect ooooo
Rawlings is a king..
Too much blood shed.
Some of these men had retired and living peaceful civilian lives but blood thirsty power drunk Efo wouldn’t rest until they were all dead. He blamed the killings on the people of Ghana saying “they were crying for blood” when in fact, he ordered the arrests and had the power to pardon them after their trial as the military ruler. This is in addition to the 3 judges he murdered for no reason other than doing their job. Today his family live in luxury with stolen money hidden away in Swiss banks while still influencing Ghana’s political life. This history is necessary for those born yesterday who still glorify his tenure because they are too young to realise the terror and havoc he scattered across Ghana. He died without pain but his maker is surely waiting for him.
Very good comment... JJ Rawlings become a very Rich man his children's living in paradise today unlike the Seniors military Officer's Children's who are fatherless still in pain
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Ghana too much corruption
May the almighty God forgive Rawlings and his family and his sigofants who helped him to do this Barbaric act, don't forget KARMA IS REAL
And he is walking freely after killing all those people Jerry Rawlings. 😢
Countinue Rest Well General Acheampong and General Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa ❤
How is it that a figure who thrived on just simply murdering his political rivals celebrated? Just barbaric strongman tactics to sieze power with a very weak political ideology behind it seems to be the norm in west africa. As a South African I always think that since these countries got their independence decades before we did in 94 they should have been the model to follow for us but it is the other way around and they are too proud to recognize that their suffering is self inflicted. We've had 5 presidents since 94, none of them had to stage a coupe and rule through fear by eliminating all opponents. No civil war since independence and one of the strongest economies in the continent. Simple, we debate and vote!
Eventually, the igbos fought a war. Why fight the war against the Igbos when you all know that the Igbos will not be given any more opportunity to be leaders in Nigeria. It was still Awolowo who betrayed the Igbos during the civil war, the same Awolowo asked the Nigerian govt to give only £20 to every returnee from Biafra to any part of the country. We can see where Nigeria is today.
Our path and the path of SA are very different but yes, I wish WA countries were able to manage their independence well so that SA could get inspiration.
My friend from South Africa,kindly talk about the Xenophobic attacks too.When Apartheid isolated you,we prayed,sang songs, added our voices to the ills of segregation.Now you have turned against your black brothers with Xenophobia.Xenophobia would isolate you again as Apartheid did unless u desist from it.SA is a coloured,white,black or Indian country depending on whom you ask.
Just look at your flag even,the segregation is in there,just look carefully.
@@jaytettehquarshie1522 If SA people were truly xenophobic just for the sake of it as you're told, there wouldn't be so many west african immigrants living here and more coming in every year mostly illegally. That's not an insult to west africans it's just the truth and reality. Illegal immigration frustrates even 1st world countries my friend and have you ever considered the genuine concerns of South africans on this matter? Go to any country and disobey their laws then see if they'll like that
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Your argument does not mean that xenophobia is not rampant in SA. Just because there were still many Jews in Germany in 1942 does not mean the nazis were not there. I saw on a documentary a SA woman crying and saying how much she hated African immigrants. It made me sick. It seems like the hatred is more towards their African brothers and sisters more than Europeans, Indians and Asians.
Listen fellow African, if you need to find refuge and prosper in a foreign country here in Africa, come to West Africa. This continent is for all of us. We’ll share it with you! Actually, you host countries will gain more from you. ✌🏾
Rawlings did not live forever, did he?
😢 power makes you make final decisions like you were God
For where?, And no body else.
It would appear that senior officers left the army to take up juicy cabinet positions. In the process they left the weapons of war under the command and control of hot headed junior officers.
The heinous crimes these soldiers committed under the military rule are far less to be compared today with the money & corruption stolen by politicians in Nigeria under a Democrat rule
Jerry did an abominable act of inhuman during his tenure as head of state.
Not only Jerry Rawlings of Ghana. You also have Samuel Doe of Liberia, and a few other past Head of States of other African countries. Only the Almighty God is the ultimate judge of each one of us. Peace 🕊️✌️ and God bless 🙏...
Eyadema in Togo as well@@novellprice132
I don't blame you for spewing this garbage. Get this book for your education. The Trial Of JJ Rawlings.
@danielbortier6723 You shouldn't blame me for another one evil, Mr. Education.
@@Chukwudi-ze6li, You see, you're not a Ghanaian, but you're speaking like a Ghanaian who witnessed that era of our history.Even though very young then,I witnessed all that happened.For your education, Rawlings was the reason why Ghana is where we are now. There's no leader in the entire Africa continent currently who can be compared to Jerry Rawlings. We Ghanaians liked what's he did for us and no amount of misinformation can change that.
This piece would have been perfect if the correct photograph was used for Maj Gen Utuka. The picture used here is that of Gen Kutu Acheampong.
My editor missed it, please. Apologies. Thanks for watching and making your comment. We appreciate 🙏
If such happens in Nigeria the tribal card will be played and everything will be turned into a tribal war and those who are trying to make positive changes will be made scape goats 😢
We are Ghanaians not Nigerians
Friend, it's always tribal in the undertones. It's not just Ghana or Nigeria. Even in so-called developed Europe. Look at the genocides and ethnic cleansing of Muslim Bosniacs in the Yugoslavian war.
Rawlings fought corruption or so he claimed but there were massive tribal undertones in his approach and persecution targets.
He killed Asantes the most. Foolish Rawlings, he said Gye Nyame and Nyame took him away too 👍
Rawlings is more corrupt than those leaders
@@user-bs5qr5ie4s Better yet, you and @akpewebiakolo7517 are AFRICANS foremost !
Ghana today is worse after Rawlings and he's part of the problem, you see no man is a judge over another man. Only God has the right judge his creation
He basically got into the high place where they were I mean high office
Then he found out what has really happened in Ghana 🇬🇭 so far and the lies they told Us about Nkrumah and all the corruption going on money and power circling among a few Generals in Ghana whiles the Masses (people) suffer
Regardless it was war in all seriousness and all the culprits thos involved had to go whether they've retired or still in office
He has to cut the heads of all the ones he See's as sneaks so they don't come for him later
This is how u can have a pieceful rule sometimes.... Period!!! 🙏
What is d level of economic progress of Ghana now?Rawlings only wasted d lives of d generals bcos of his security.Nothing more.
Tragic shame! I'm not Ghanaian or Nigerian.The coups and counter coups in these two countries make me nauseated. I don't feel like visiting these countries at all!!
Excellent reporting - Thank you.
Many thanks!
Rest well our Gallant Generals. The murderer and the thief,is no more. No one will live forever. Rawlings came to steal for his family. Thieves NDC group
Yet Ghana today has not experienced any difference in a civil development.
Why kill them,what were the prisons meant for😢😢
They were beyond prisons. They were traitors.
I tire oooh
His party leaders are paying the evil this murderer did to form his NDC party and will pay back by any leader of his EVIL party to his family
Is Ghana still punishing corruption convicts with a death penalty.?That was brutal.
And where is the list of Ghanaians who died in prison because of PDA when Nkrumah was president?
Did he killed them because of corruption or because he had personal grudges against them ???
Were there genuine reasons for the death sentences or was Rawlings just eliminating any potential challenge to his power?
So what good did Jerry Rawlings brought to Ghana???
Did retirememt exonerate them from their gravy mistskes, like Afrifa?!!
Killing is not good
Rawlings was the most barbaric foreign African leader that Africa ever had.
The execution was the darkest moment in the history of our nation Ghana. Rawlings was later to preside over one of the most corrupt government in the history of Ghana and many innocent civilians were abducted from their homes and murdered while others also disappeared under strange circumstances.Ghana became a lawless nation but many thanks to President Kuffour who came to restore normalcy and the rule of law.
By what criteria did you come to that conclusion? You can say all that but, the Almighty God knows that Rawlings was our saviour in that era. Akuffo Addo government is doing very well now.
Wow,do you read all of history or just a few pages. I can’t believe this🤷🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️.
God will answer you for this lie.This is the man who put Ghana on the rail to where it is today. I am very certain you or your relatives.must have been beneficiary of the rot Ghana passed through
Nonsense
I don't blame you, that is what you know...
The Rawlings execution of the generals including three former military heads of state is difficult to justify solely on the grounds of corruption if those generals themselves had not, in addition to corruption, caused the death of people. However, Rawlings brought political and economic sanity back to Ghana after his draconian rule. It could be that a country like Nigeria also needs Rawlings-style draconian rule to restore sanity.
My dear I agree with you,president Rawlings was the best ever, after Nkrumah, 🥰🇬🇭
After so many years, the bloodshed , executions, destruction of civil society, the fear and division, all Ghanaians got is nothing. There were worse corruption in Rawlings administration than any other administration since independence. I know what I'm talking about because I live in it. Rawlings had no vision for Ghana. He's all talk.
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@@victoriahutchful4066I guess you're not a Ghanaian . You only heard the noise but Ghanaians felt the heat.
@@kwabenaobatwani4246 really?? Why do u think am not?
They are not saints; nation wreckers