The Crusading Guide

The Crusading Guide in a front page story says contrary to the general perception by A cross-section of Ghanaians that the June 4, 1979 revolt had the same objectives and characteristics of the December 31, 1981 coup.

The paper says the former was a product of years of frustration and anger among a section of the military Drawing a line between the two military insurrections, the Crusading Guide quotes ex-Captain Baah Acheamfuor, a member of the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), who is in voluntary exile in London, as saying unlike June 4, 31st December was not designed to deal with any injustices or deficiencies either in the Armed Forces or in the Ghanaian society at large.

"December 31was planned and executed by a group which had long sought power but had been unable to do so because they constituted a minority in our society", he was reported as saying.

According to the paper, in the words of ex-Captain Baah Acheamfuor, the incompetent manner in which the Limann government handled the aftermath of June 4, provided the minority group of soldiers with an opportunity they would otherwise not have had.