The Crusading Guide

Vincent Asiseh justifies coup against 3rd Republic

 

Acccording to the Crusading Guide, to Mr Vincent Asiseh, Press Secretary of the NDC, the December 31, 1981 coup d?etat that unseated the constitutionally-elected government of President Hilla Limann, was justifiable.

In a front page story, the paper says Mr Asiseh, answering a question in a GTV programme ? "Public Concern", a day before the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the June Four Uprising, unreservedly lambasted the late President Limann for heading a government that to him, was wrought with ineptitude, ingratitude and flippancy.

"The AFRC handed power to President Limann. President Limann won an election but then that regime didn?t last too long. Come 31st December 1981. PNDC came on the scene and with President Rawlings as Chairman. Would you say that it was significant for Rawlings to have come back?", that was a question posed to Mr Asiseh by the host of the programme, Mr Cyril Acolatse.

In reply, the NDC scribe is quoted as saying, "I think it was. We actually had got to the end of the tether. And that is a fact. "I think there was some kind of ingratitude on the part of President Hilla Limann. There was also ineptitude on the part of his government; and there was some flippancy".