Boakye Djan In Town

Osahene Kojo Boakye Djan, official spokesman and second-in-command of the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) is in town. He was spotted at the Kotoka International Airport yesterday June 1 after embarking from a British Airways plane.

The retired Major, a key player in the events of June 4, 1979 which led to the toppling of the Supreme Military Council (2) of the late General F.W.A Akuffo has been living in London, U.K since 1980. He was accompanied by three other rank colleagues of the erstwhile AFRC, namely Ansah Atiemo, Newton Gastiko and Peter Tasiri, who put in an appearance at the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) in November 2003 during which they stated their case and also rendered an unqualified apology to the victims of the AFRC rule.

Osahene Boakye Djan while in exile in the U.K campaigned vigorously against the PNDC regime led by ex-flt Lt. J.J. Rawlings, towards the restoration of constitutional multiparty democracy in Ghana.

In the process his younger brother, Kyeremeh Djan, then a student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) was executed after severe torturing by the PNDC, alongside Mawuli Goka and co.

Osahene will be in town for some few weeks.