Despite popular imploring by many victims not to celebrate the 30th anniversary of June 4 insurrection, led ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, the wife of the former president, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, used the eve of the event to launch a scathing attack on George H. W. Bush Senior, former president of the United States of America.
Defying all diplomatic protocols, Nana Konadu accused the 41st president of the world super power of collaborating with local agents to overthrow the first Ghanaian president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in 1966.
The former first lady hit the most somber note of Wednesday evening at the Accra International Conference Center (AICC) when she loudly alleged, “George Bush Senior collaborated with agents in Ghana to overthrow Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, when he was Head of CIA”.
Her trajectory of Ghana’s political history, generally characterized by wild cheering, clapping, and singing, appeared to be far from the truth. Daily Guide investigations have revealed that Bush Senior was head of the CIA for only one year in 1976, 10 long years after the coup that toppled Kwame Nkrumah in 1966.This paper also gathered that former president Bush Senior was still only a businessman in 1966, having never held political office. It has been gleaned that the director of the CIA at the time was William Raborn, and it was his deputy, Richard Helms, who had allegedly been in contact with the coup plotters.
Whether unconsciously or it was simply the handiwork of God, Nana Konadu surprised many, probably including her own husband and the originator of “probity and accountability” in Ghanaian political lexicon when she stated that “of all the regimes in Ghana, none has been accountable to the people”.
She kept the well-packed auditorium of the AICC in suspense, as people waited in vain to hear her extricate her husband from the quagmire of the non-accountability governments.
The celebration of the June 4 event which kick-started Wednesday evening, June 3, had many sympathizers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), fanatical supporters of ex-President Rawlings and a few foreign dignitaries in attendance. One of the biggest crowd pleasers was the Attorney General, who compared the June 4 revolution with those of the United States and France, agonizing political historians who believe that June 4 mutiny was not comparable to US and French revolutions. For instance, the revolution of the United States threw off a colonial government and handed over power in elections, shortly after the British were expelled, while the leaders of the transition government all assumed civilian roles.
Source: GhanaWeb
