How Afrifa, Felli, Others were buried

The Evening News says twenty-two years after their lives three former heads of state and their colleagues were terminated, few clues are now emerging as to how they.

Gen. I.K. Acheampong, Gen. Fred Akuffo, Lt-Gen A.A. Afrifa, Major-Gen E.K. Utuka, Maj-Gen Robert Kotei, Colonel Roger Felli, Air Vice Marshal Yaw Boakye and Rear Admiral Joy Amedume were in June 1979 blindfolded tied to stakes at Teshie Military Range and sprayed with bullets.

Their offences included the acquisition or obtaining of loans, properties, material, promise, favours or advantages whatsoever by abuse or exploits by virtue of their official position in the public service.
Joy Amedume was indeed, accused of taking 50,000 cedis (Fifty thousand cedis) bank loan.
Their death, the popular notion had been that they were given a mass burial at Nsawam and that the site could not even be traced.
But the current Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Mr Richard Kuure, dismissed that notion in a JOY FM radio programme in Accra last week, disclosing that the slain men were buried in makeshift coffins provided by the Prisons authorities.
He said the Prison Service had no hand in the executions but were there when the bodies were brought to them at Nsawam for burial with no clear reasons given as to why the bodies should be brought to them.
The Prison boss could, however not tell whether any form of religious ceremony was performed before they were buried.
He said in the face of current agitations that the former gallant men of the Armed Forces must be given a decent burial, the prisons authorities would assist in that respect.