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Gen. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa

NLC Chairman · Head of Presidential Commission

Tenure
2 April 1969 – 7 August 1970 (Presidential Commission)
Born
24 April 1936, Mampong-Ashanti
Died
26 June 1979 (executed)
// Achievements

What they delivered for Ghana

  • Returned Ghana to civilian rule in 1969 after three years of NLC military administration
  • Oversaw the 1969 referendum and elections that installed Dr K.A. Busia
// Controversies & scandals

Public-record allegations

Summaries of widely reported matters · not verdicts

  • A co-leader of the 1966 coup that ended Nkrumah's government — still debated
  • Executed by firing squad under the AFRC on 26 June 1979 along with other former heads of state
// End of tenure

Executed 1979 during the 'House-Cleaning' exercise of Rawlings' AFRC.

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