One of the soldiers who took part in the infamous firing squad on June 16, 1979, at the Teshie Military Range, WO1 Nickson Tetteh says the daughter of the late Kutu Acheampong, Nana Serwaa Acheampong is naive about the evil deeds committed by her father.
Speaking on Dadi 101.1Fm Morning Show dubbed “Efa Wo Ho” hosted by Abena Opokua Ahwenepa on Friday, WO1 Tetteh said, Kutu Acheampong was very corrupt and greedy that he was found guilty of many inequities which were detrimental to the progress of the country.
According to him, the firing squad was carried out by Junior Officers who were not happy with happenings in the country then. He said the late Jerry John Rawlings had no direct hands in the execution therefore advised Serwaa Acheampong to go back and learn well the history of Ghana.
Daughter of later Kutu Acheampong, Nana Serwaa Acheampong took to social media a few hours after the death of President Jerry John Rawlings on Thursday, November 12, 2020, describing his death as “too comfortable.”
“Now he’s dead, and somehow I feel robbed, cheated because unlike my father, Rawlings’ death was too easy, too comfortable probably. Death by firing squad, that’s how my father died, when I was just 6 years old. At the time I didn’t understand, but as I grew up, it started to become clearer, I had no one to call father.”
“Now I think, his children and I are the same fatherless! But at least they grew up knowing their father, they grew up being provided for and protected by their father. So now we are not the same. Rawlings took my father away from me by firing squad, leaving me with no father to provide for me or protect me. Rawlings is dead and I feel cheated. If there is an afterlife where you meet those who have gone before, I wonder what Rawlings will say to my father, who showed him kindness, and all the others he killed so ruthlessly.”
“In this life, Rawlings never acknowledged the pain he caused so many of us, never said sorry for our loss, or showed remorse. Nothing! So Rawlings is dead, to me, his death was too easy, too comfortable, unlike the death, he gave my father and countless others. Aside from this, I feel nothing about the man, except pity for his children who now know the pain of losing a father.”
History
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong was executed by a firing squad on June 16, 1979, after being convicted of squandering Government funds.
The 47-year-old former army general, who ruled the country for more than six years, stood trial before a revolutionary court set up by a group of junior officers led by the late Jerry John Rawlings who seized power.
Another British‐trained officer, Lieut. Gen. E. K. Utuka, former commander of the border guards, was found guilty of the same charges and executed with him.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
