The Army Commander who Prevented a Blood Bath in Ghana with his Life.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- History will always recollect the bravery exhibited by the Late Ghanaian Army Commander who resisted the June 4th uprising by junior ranks of the Ghana Armed Forces to his death. This brief video explains in detail how this army commander met his death whiles trying to foil the June 4th uprising.
The issue i see is that the generals underestimated the intentions of Rawlings and his soldiers
The SMC was never the same again in strength and grip over the army the moment they removed General Acheampong in a Palace coup. Coincidentally General Ordartey was a key figure in that palace Coup. In as much as I’m against the bloodbath that had to go on, I think the SMC misread the situation on the grounds and dug their own grave.
Thank you, merci beaucoup! Very interesting and informative. Hopefully, those days are definitely over for Ghana.
Do you think so??Hell for those corrupt politicians.
@Mo the bloodshed among Ghanaian to solve their country structural and economic problems are definitely over l hope. I was in Accra in summer 1978 as a young 19 years old from Paris where l was student. Le sang et les exécutions politiques ne sont jamais des solutions durables pour régler les problèmes du Ghana.
May his soul rest in power🙏
Based on his utterances from the two broadcasts' excerpt on this video, he was either delusional, autocratic, or both. In his first broadcast, he lied to the nation that the mutiny was quelled, he ordered all military personnel to return to their units, and urged citizens to go about their normal business. in the second broadcast, he urged all soldiers to return to their unit, directed stoppage of military aircraft flying, and urged Rawlings and gang to meet him. These conducts defied professionalism because he was not demonstrably in control of the situation at which he was giving orders and assurances; he dug his own grave with that invitation to the coup plotters.
Easy to say in retrospect
@@gmnboss :Not really, I excerpted his words as illustrative of his actions. Had he acted like a well trained soldier that day, at a minimum, he would have survived the insurrection.
@Zaramoku like how! Order to blow everything sky high or what.
That's right. He had no idea who was siding with Rawlings. He only had the Marine Force commander, his own ADC and his body guard. He was blindly throwing out orders and instructions, unaware of who would heed them.
@@petitben5240 No. At least he should not have gone to meet them, and he should have kept them confused/guessing as to what was going on by being taciturn, instead he talked too many times and those broadcasts alerted the coup plotters to the reality that he did not know exactly what was going on. Of course it is late now, my comment is for precaution in the event of a future occurrence.
What I heard was, Odartey Wellington took refuge at Nima police station after making that broadcast.
The junior officers confronted him at Nima police station, a shoot out resulted
U are correct...
Africa must unite 🙏
Memory lane... Ghana😢
Loyalists linked to General Wellington later turned up at the Nima Police Station. It were prisoners in the cells who told the Afrc thugs that General Wellington was in the Police Station.
No Odartey didn't...he exacerbated it.
His attempt to quel the uprising what JJ calls a volcanic eruption was a bold but big mistake.
The anger was beyond control it had started from the generality of citizenry ...that's what we are experiencing under Akufo-Addo...
Absolutely! I was in Accra in August 1978 on a school vacation from Paris with my first ever girlfriend, a Ghanaian by birth. That violent explosion was just a matter of time.
So the soldiers were killing them selves?
It will happen in 2025
@@georgeabizy8492 the situation are not similar. I was in Accra on vacation in summer 1978, with my Ghanaian girlfriend who still lives and works for UNESCO in Paris. The explosion the following year was just matter of times because of poverty and destitution of Ghanaian. You could see the humiliation and despair in the face of people. C'était vraiment pathétique à voir le Ghana à cette époque.
@@petitben5240 my brother what's happening now in Ghana during akufo ado,s time bring a coudat again. It would happen 2024 election to 2025
Yeaaa because they were all hungry for power
@@georgeabizy8492why year 2025????????
Major Suleimana of Recce Unit who arrested Rawlings on May 15 1979 ,was the one who dropped General Wellington at Nima Divisional Police Station and the GBC.
I remember the day very well. That was the day JJ demonstrated his airmanship, rolling the aircraft like a bird, thereby scaring the bystanders.
Inadequate HEADING
Odartey would ve crushed them INSTANTLY using his power
HE maturely did not want a Rwanda in Accra.
Mature Generals refusing to cause carnage became MATYRS
He was outnumbered and in a very weak position. Totally, generations have no idea about the state of Ghana in summer 1978 when my Ghanaian girlfriend invited me to come with her to visit her parents in Accra. We were both young 19 years old students in Paris. The poverty and desperation l saw that summer will stay with me for the rest of my life. C'était vraiment incroyable à voir!
What power? Please stop the fairytale. He was outnumbered and out gunned, plus he had run out of armo
@lentisas his daughter, was saying that the general was never in position to fire a single gun that day, either the GBC or Nima police station. You are correct, though, that he was severely out man and out gun by the rank and file. Sad story, but Ghana today is way better than the summer 1978 when l visited the country from France where l was a university freshman.
If he wanted to fight that would ve been no problem
@@yawbee7711 how! He was outnumbered and outgunned by the rank and file.
Those were dark days in the country called Ghana.
My late Mother was a pal,buddy of General Wellington and her Sister .
I heard he ran out of ammunition so he went to the Nima Police station for some
He was a soldiers soldier. Rest in General.
So true,he and his sister were buddy of my late Mum.
Can you imagine the ruthlessness of these soldiers at the time.
Madness
Not the police headquarters. Its the Nima police station please