Lt-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa meets, overthrew Nkrumah in a Coup 11 years after

Lt-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa while at Adisadel was one of the young brilliant students in the school who got the rare opportunity to meet Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

Afrifa was a native Ashanti Region of Ghana and was born at Mampong in the Sekyere West District

A picture of the two Lt-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa and, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was shared by GHANA FACTS & HISTORY @GhanaianMuseum on twitter. The photo showed the 19 years old, then  Akwasi Afrifa being congratulated for academic brilliance by Kwame Nkrumah at Adisadel.

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Before he made it to Adisadel college where he met Nkrumah, he had the opportunity to school at Presbyterian Boys Boarding School at Mampong.

11 years later, master Akwasi Afrifa who become Lt-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa overthrew Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s government.

Lt-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa became the third Head of state of Ghana in 1969.  Life is strange indeed. If Nkrumah had known the young man he admired back in the days for his brilliance would one day lead a crusade against his government, he might have taken a different decision the first time they met. However, the future is not unknown and is therefore shredded in mystery.

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Lt-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa & Lt. Col. Kotoka were the key conspirators that organized the Feb 24, 1966 Coup.

Lieutenant General Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa was not only a soldier but a farmer, an individual who ruled as a traditional leader and also grew to love a do politics. He was the traditional leader of the Asante-Mampong Traditional Area and his stool name was Abakomahene of Krobo.

He helped mastermind the military coup of 1969 and became the Chairman of the Presidential Commission from 1969 and 1970. In 1979, the people of Ghana elected him to become a member of parliament but as faith will have it, Lt-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa was executed before he could start his work as a member of parliament. He was executed alongside two other former heads of state, General Kutu Acheampong and General Fred Akuffo.

Lt-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa has given us something to think about today…

Source: ElectionsinGhana.com