In his evidence, ex-Bombardier Mathias Cudjoe did not distinct role played Adabuga. //]]> The National Reconciliation Commission was established to look into and establish an accurate historical record of human right violations in Ghana by governments in power during that time period. Mathias Cudjoe, who says he is now an evangelist said he is now an evangelist said he single-handedly used a pair of scissors to scare soldiers on guard duties at GBC in Accra in 1977. "If I've ever killed, it was sanctioned by your boss, Flt Lt Rawlings," Ex-Cpl Adabuga said, and again apologised for the deaths of some children he said he killed through an accident. At the end of the day, Adabuga was able to answer the questions asked satisfactorily and prove who truly masterminded the executions and other crimes committed, despite the Lebanese nationals attempts at making it seem like he acted alone. Opera News does not consent to nor does it condone the posting of any content that violates the rights (including the copyrights) of any third party, nor content that may malign, inter alia, any religion, ethnic group, organization, gender, company, or individual. I want you to ask him how the champagne got to the PNDC office at that time. He was used to announce the takeover at GBC because he was the only officer, Adabuga said, stressing that If we had another officer with us, Rawlings would have been shot immediately he chickened out and asked us to escape to Benin., Adabuga said he was 24-years-old at the time and that Rawlings could only use his antics on the other ranks who could not read his mind to know that he was fake. 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Rawlings, ordered the killing of the three High Court judges and a retired military officer in 1982. Copyright 1994 - 2023 GhanaWeb. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. See More, Opera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. The former military driver stressed the revolution period exposed Ghana to several unlawful acts with soldiers putting the laws into their own hands to abuse civilians including the flogging of women who dressed indecently. Mathew Adabuga who is considered one of the main architects of the December 1981 coup also repeated his allegation that among others Rawlings popped champagne to celebrate the murder of the 3 judges and a soldier when Amartey Kwei came to inform him. Adabuga and Lebanese Riyal. He took their bodies to a plantain farm near the Broadcasting House. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. According to him, Jerry Rawlings gave the order for numerous murders for both soldiers and civilians who were buried in mass graves at Achimota Forest and Airport runaway. Death and Pain: Rawlings' Ghana - The Inside Story, A Man of the People (African Writers Series, AWS31), Weep Not, Child (African Writers Series, AWS7), Things Fall Apart (African Writers Series, AWS1), The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, A Cowrie of Hope (African Writers Series), So Long a Letter (African Writers Series), Arrow of God (African Writers Series, AWS16), The Enemy Within (African Writers Series). It was not until around midnight that he returned to his official residence at the Castle. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings to the cleaners and challenged him to come out to face him over the matters of December 31st 1981 Revolution. Home; About. It was not until aroun. When Professor Florence Abena Dolphyne, a Member of the Commission, asked Mr Hozaifeh to be humble, and that nobody was below anybody, Mr Hozaifeh answered he had been a humble person because his religion taught him so. Cpl Adabuga, who lost his job as a Red Cross officer in Norway after staying too long in Ghana to testify before the NRC, described Rawlings and Tsikata as conspirators in the plot to abduct and murder the High Court Judges asking ?even in those heady days, he did not see how Lance Corporal Samuel Kweku Amedeka and others would have taken orders from a civilian like Joachim Amartey Kwei, without any reference to Rawlings or Tsikata. He also met Albert Gbafa (of the infamous Rawlings tape) and Dan Dzigbolosu, who he said was more or less staying with Rawlings. Ex-Corporal Mathew Adabuga, a former corporal in the Ghana Armed Forces and a bodyguard of former President Jerry John Rawlings has said Rawlings cannot absolve himself of culpability in the. Here is a MyNewsGh.com Ding Liren is a Chinese chess Grandmaster who has made a name for himself on the international chess scene. Adabuga collected some in a polythene bag, Giwa took some and when they return they brief Akata-Pore. It is only Lance Corporal Samuel Amedeka who knows those involved in the killing of the judges and he was not ordered by Rawlings. He mentioned Corporal Matthew Adabuga, as one of the witnesses who gave fake accounts of the June 30, 1982 incident. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct. We did bad things against this country and many families. HIM HEM NOW asks everyone to keep your engagement on this channel humanly and with respect! Adabuga further revealed that he appeared before the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) to face Rawlings man-to-man, but Rawlings refused to meet him, asking for separate testimonies. Content created and supplied by: Stephenwadawe (via Opera Adabuga was speaking on Andy D TV following the launch of his book, Rawlings, Murder and Lies., READ ALSO: Landlord tries to eject tenant by ripping off the roof (Photos), He went on to say that Rawlings created other mass graves at another place near the airport called Gaddafi camp, where several soldiers attached to the Military Intelligence were killed by the express orders of Chairman Rawlings.. Not knowing they had planned to use it that night for the crime. 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Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, wife of Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has been exposed by an insider who led the charge on the broadcasting house during the 1981 coup, Matthew Adabuga of allegedly masterminding the cold murder of her bodyguard because she became uncomfortable with what he knows after guarding her for some time. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. anytime anywhere, especially the former chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings (Rtd).? Do you believe Nana Addo ordered them to do that? They planned this with Boakye Airforce Corporal who later went to report them but they all denied, he claimed. According to Adabuga, ?assuming Amedeka and his gang did not need curfew pass to kill Tsikata?s uncle and Yeye Boy in the Volta Region, how come they needed a curfew pass to kidnap and kill the judges? Corporal Adabuga puts the matter even more bluntly, if also more eloquently: "The NDC is saying that Professor John Atta Mills can rule this country without interference and intimidation from Jerry Rawlings. Mr Hozaifeh in his evidence alleged that Ex-Corporal Adabuga had been sentenced to death for killing innocent people and wanted to prove the allegation with a document but the Chairman rejected the document when Counsel for the Commission, Lawyer E. A. Content created and supplied by: CMatthew_01 (via Opera He told the NRC when he appeared before the commission in 2004 that he was with the former President when Joachim Amartey Kwei came to inform him he had finished the Judges and the Army Officer, claiming Rawlings popped a champagne upon hearing the news. Correspondents are everyone in the world on current affairs and expect a balanced opinion in our world kicking happenings. Adabuga, a former corporal in the Ghana Army told the Commission that Jerry Rawlings gave the order for the murder of three judges and a military officer in 1982. BREAKING News: Gregory Afoko acquitted after 8 years, Soorebias Made In Bolga Festival: A Celebration of Northern Ghanaian Heritage, John Mulaney Siblings: Meet Chip, Peter Martin, and Claire Mulaney, NPP flagbearership: UEW lecturer joins race, Harry Belafonte Cause of death, Age, Wife, Children, Net Worth, Funeral, Ill beat Kweku Ricketts skillfully in the NDC primaries Orkortor Perry brags, How To Gain More Social Media Followers with Ease, Copyright 2020 MyNewsGH. News ), Opera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This is not possible, given the true nature of Rawlings. He said Rawlings walked to the fridge and took a champagne to pop and smile. Braimah Issaka, an ex-driver for former President Jerry John Rawlings, has defended his former boss over his alleged role in the killing of three High Court judges and a military officer during the PNDC era. Send your news stories to Editor of Ghana Guardian via WhatsApp on +233501061949. The chicken is finally coming home to roost. READ ALSO: IGP in hot waters; found guilty of contempt by a court, Ghana News Today: Ebony Wins Big at 2018 Ghana Music Awards UK | #Yencomgh. Uganda university shut down after student protests, I Have Not Leaked NDC Secret - E.T. General News of Wednesday, 24 October 2018, play videoFormer President Jerry John Rawlings. But when these happen, they are labelled as NPP Machomen. A relevant piece of Ghana history is in this book. The Broadcasting House became his abode thereafter, he said, adding, late one evening, Mr. Amartey Kwei, a member of the PNDC, came with Amedeka to the Broadcasting House and asked him to accompany him to Dansoman (a suburb of Accra). According to Braimah Issaka, though Rawlings was a strict president who hated indiscipline to some level, he did not order the killing of Justice Cecelia Koranteng Addo, Kwadwo Adjei Agyepong, Poku Sarkodie and Major Sam Acquah. The cross-examination by Mr Hozaifeh, who had so far made a sixth appearance at the Commission's public hearing, was in response to evidence given by the Ex-Corporal Adabuga, to the effect that Mr Hozaifeh and one Wallace Gbedema, then Chief Operations Officer, had taken them round and shown them houses of Asians, who dealt in gold and diamonds. Adabuga said Rawlings popped champagne. Adabuga said he appeared before the National Reconciliation Commission to face Rawlings man-to-man but Rawlings refused to meet him, asking for separate testimonies. According to him, he has the real facts on the December 31st Revolution, and the former President's hunger for power, resulting in the maiming and killing of many people. Its the same way people say NDC or PNDC soldiers are under Rawlings but for all you know hes not aware, he maintained. Adabuga who described himself as one of the main architects of the December 1981 coup also alleged among others that Rawlings popped champagne to celebrate the murder of the four persons. The murder of the high profile judges shook the nation leading to the arrest of some of the suspects who were tried and found guilty. Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. When the Lebanese national made a statement that Adabuga was below him and a criminal, a female professor acting as a member of the commission admonished the Lebanese national to be humble and reminded him that nobody was below anybody as the cross-examination came to a close. According to him, Lance Corporal Samuel Amedeka, however, confessed he led the soldiers to commit the murders. Their objective: to seize the country and form a new government. He drove it to filling station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, but he did not pay for the fuel. But the soldiers involved also had a different agenda, he noted. Mrs Rawlings and her husband must seek forgiveness for their crimes too. He added. 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According to Matthew Adabuga Mrs Konadu Rawlings is as guilty as her husband when it comes to the murder and he admits that while he also has blood on his hands as a bodyguard who was used for some operations, he is willing to atone, but that Mrs Rawlings is also murderer and has blood on her hands. Thanks for reading from MyNewsGH as a news publishing website from Ghana. Mr Hozaifeh at a point when the cross-examination got heated wanted to know from the Chairman if he could ask questions, apparently bordering on criminality of Ex-Corporal Adabuga, but the Chairman replied: "When I interrupt, you always complain. Mr Justice Kweku Etru Amua-Sekyi, Chairman of the Commission, had asked Mr Hozaifeh to use his allotted cross-examination time usefully. Curiously, while Adabuga in his evidence said he together with nine others including Cudjoe could be credited for the success of the coup, Cudjoe said in his response to a question that he did not recollect Adabuga at the crucial stage where both men claimed they were in a convoy of two Mowags that took Rawlings to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to make his coup speech. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings to the cleaners and challenged him to come out to face him over the matters of . matthew adabuga biography. Ex-Corporal Mathew Adabuga, a former corporal in the Ghana Armed Forces and a bodyguard of former President Jerry John Rawlings has said Rawlings cannot absolve himself of culpability in the murder of the murder of three judges and a military officer in 1982. One time close pal of Flt Lt Jerry Rawlings and chief architect of the 31 December 1981 coup, Matthew Adabuga has let the cat out of the bag alleging Rawlings knew of the killing of the three high court judges and a retired army officer in 1982. Ex-Corporal Adabuga, who is now an aid worker in Norway was a personal bodyguard of Mr Rawlings before they fell out and had to embark on an exile. Witness, who had said Ex-Corporal Adabuga was below him, said it broke his heart that a person like Ex-Corporal Adabuga had been given amnesty and added that all that the Ex-Corporal had said were lies, false and against the principles and people he worked with under the revolution. The President, Dr. Hilla Limann, had been invited, but because of the security situation in the country he was advised not to attend. Their objective: to seize the country and form a new government. He said after his return home from Togo in 1980, a sub-chief from his hometown informed him that Rawlings was looking for him. She worked with him for a long time until the 31st night when she ordered him to be shot at close range because he had seen and heard things.He revealed, daring her to challenge him as he has more on her and her husband. He further described the two (Rawlings and Tsikata) as inveterate liars, con-men who would do anything to cover-up their sordid past without being humble enough to admit responsibilities for the numerous pain, anguish and bloodshed they unleashed on the nation. They took money from Seidu Musah. He said Rawlings walked to the fridge and took out a champagne to pop. HIM HEM NOW is an online press meant to deliver the world's kicking happening while going deep on what is eating the bean from the inside. Speaking to Daily Guide on Saturday from his base in Norway, Adabuga related that he wants to make it known to all Ghanaians that he stands by every word he had spoken during his appearance before the National Reconciliation Commission last year. Ex-Cpl Mathew Adabuga Ex-Cpl Mathew Adabuga, one of the key architects of the 31st December, 1981 military junta that truncated the Third Republic, has described former president Jerry John Rawlings as a coward and ethnocentric person, who is responsible for the tribal polarization in the army. Ex-Corporal Matthew Adabuga, a former bodyguard of Former President Jerry John Rawlings, has casted doubts about Rawlings innocence with regard to the death of three judges and a military officer in 1982. I arrested him and put him in one of the Mowags because I said he could not abandon us, Adabuga told the NRC in his evidence late last month, adding that Rawlings was in hiding during the coup and only emerged to assume leadership by virtue of his rank after its success., He said Rawlings was not actually part of the team that fought to capture power. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. "That's is not important", Corporal Adabuga said. David Copperfield (Bestselling Illustrated Classics), Tickling the Ghanaian: Encounters with Contemporary Culture, My First Coup dEtat: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa, Booknook Leadership Pack: My Time My Nation, From the Hut to Oxford, Working with Rawlings, The River in the Sea, Sam (5 Exceptional Ghanaian Leaders), The Political History of Ghana (1950-2013): The Experience of a Non-Conformist Pre-Order, Ogyakrom: The Missing Pages of June 4th (Fireman Series) Paperback, The Trial of J.J. Rawlings: Echoes of the 31st December Revolution (2nd Edition), On 30 December 1981, the Ghana Armed Forces held a party at the Ministry of Defence at Burma Camp. To a question from Mr Hozaifeh for Ex-Corporal Adabuga to name two of the Asians whom Ex-Corporal Adabuga had identified as Lebanese, Syrians and Indians, the Ex-Corporal named the Irani Brothers and added that they even burned their Nissan Patrol. During cross-examination proceedings conducted by the commission in Accra, Mr. Matthew Adabuga who was an ex-corporal in Ghanas military service, one of the masterminds behind the PNDCs December 1981 coup, and former bodyguard of Rawlings was cross-examined by a Lebanese national residing in Ghana who was reported to have been involved in filming the killings and executions carried out during the PNDC era. Please try again later. Speaking to Daily Guide on Saturday from his base in Norway, Adabuga related that he wants to make it known to all Ghanaians that he stands by every word he had spoken during his appearance before the National Reconciliation Commission last year. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. Cpl Adabuga, who lost his job as a Red Cross officer in Norway after staying too long in Ghana to testify before the NRC, described Rawlings and Tsikata as conspirators in the plot to abduct and. Adabuga was speaking on Andy D TV following the launch of his book, Rawlings Murder and Lies. Our Staff; Services. Dzigbolosu and Gbafa, Concord can reveal, were part of the abortive May 15, 1979 coup attempt by Rawlings.
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