Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe on coup plotting against General Acheampong | Footprints on Citi TV

[Music] silence they nobody asked him any question so yeah so I was young may not be good questions to us and I assume I say Raja you can address I mean your commander brief is fascinating in those days Raja sir I don't think we have been commissioned to command or get involved in politics actively then it smiled I remember where I smiled and said oh yeah you know things have changed well it's changing so I kept quiet and unfortunately driven be a secretion of the GM generals it was one of those horses Achilles that's true that's almost 40 years ago so when we came back actually exactly 40 years oh yeah well we came back from the Middle East through with after my arrival I was arrested by the military and I was in our rest up for nothing I was arrested because when I came back I had a call from somebody afternoon when I was at the age of 15 1 5 by the name of GE octo quashy mother had the name of course from from from the top that's right yeah now I want to see G as we call him and when I got in there I saw one of our senior officers I've never met I just see him in pictures someone by the name of Colonel George Minya Minya la may he rest in peace I think his pass on knows not too long ago right not too long ago the later became an ambassador to Appa Baltar during the time of year before so I made George without oh gosh she and George told me that he's happy to have seen me he talked about his plan to change the government it was very blunt and he's been in government before no he was once a commissioner and very was position also later Regional Commission as an original common in the eastern region is to transfer edited recovered the so called who fooled ya flowers exactly with the landscape in an old as in Eli's to be critical yeah I was responsible when it spewed I mean it was quite positive and what you were saying and then when he realized I was from 5bn that I feel battalion of infantry try battalion infantry he was even more interested so he asked me if I had a friend I can trust him yes so I mentioned a friend who was then captain Sammy totemic some Heights trade off so I I talked to Sammy and invited Tammy - a toast please and we met him discussions were going on we have been attending meeting with the aim of our own example but what wanted he said that even got me more interested in what was that with the removal of a champion or if I Shambo is removed I'll stay as a government would be very brief and then quickly bringing civilian content is what you said not attack while we were preparing for a coup d'etat Riordan series for me today I didn't he got somebody also again who leader give who is this person follow the reason I wouldn't like to machine snow but it is still alive yourself if you are watching [Laughter] unfortunately if ours is to inform the blew your cover Politico five ounces and he was still attending meetings but nobody suspected him so now you have a mole in there anything that you did offset see he defined our political culture that was to be later there's always the most honest right so they did they rode at night before the d-day we had a last meeting at some Wayne condition just when I got back home a car drives in or drove in and where were you living at the time I wasn't at Michele camp but I have come down to Accra okay so you are waking my wife yeah in Bama comp is it you're working at five billion in Burma come yeah but are you living in Michigan I was in Michigan before I came to fight birth so I was doing in my wife I can I came down to Accra for the weekend I remember it was a Friday my wives their parents house you know that was where I was arrested okay I was arrested integral Street to Spanish Konishi yeah left garnishing and then your wife's your in-laws places will be where oh yes a woman rich Roman reigns you know what idea I came there because the idea was we're going out to do a disco okay the man about town to get the key we had a lot of network addresses very interesting so when I was arrested I was sent straight to Special Branch Rinaldi our detention places Hamas opposes the military hospital yeah 37 yeah over I knew what I was wondering what else did you die exactly as I'm by then I had no idea that they had been a mole also later on I got to know all we got to know they notice also that my other colleagues about him picked up but you know after why she was picked up captain techno speak drop cap CIA was pick up and can I mean Hannah was pick up now what he did was that the sand is not only to office was sent to the special answers one Monday copy ni formally introduced because special personal branch yeah so what I sent you a special branch cells you will never know who who is next to you yeah you strip down naked with all your pants on that one you sleep the mosquitos you can imagine they had a light from very powerful eyes like this and 24 hours so we're there for a couple of days she was getting in two weeks you know that that something's happening then they started with the usual questioning about 600 were sent to I was sent to or for Deepika individually I was sent to one of the meetings where I was questioned now let me put this thing in context so you are a young military officer who was also a professional as in terms of your medical practice you're practicing medicine Sriman and you were drawn into this whole coup d'etat thing and so you had hopes of getting into leadership of some sort or determining who becomes the legitimate leader very so you've been passionate about leadership right from that's absolutely who a man is just and driving firm and with somebody who is really competent mm-hmm okay so they took you to do you remember some of the people that question do you remember the chairman for that particular interview was I think still around it wasn't cheap stupid enough police unit I became minister of national it goes round interesting very interesting Frances I remember and you know it was such a gentleman very calm and cool questioning and but I not just one thing that if you really want to sort of go they have all information already with my experience in psychology and whatnot you know you either tell them what you know yeah don't try to you know have well if you try to evade certain questions rather then they will be physical on you francis was such a wonderful gentleman and after we were released we have become very good friends till today so so under what condition were you released and where all of you I mean it's quite interesting when we were in [Music] in Special Branch cells we stayed there for three months the rivals in the sunlight that's where you do everything that's where you live that's where you sleep then I remember one fine morning we were asked to get ready to go and meet a gentleman and it was he was then in charge of intelligence it was a police officer and in the name is Bachmann Bachmann another fine gentleman we met him and we thought we were going to be released because George Miller kept on saying that they can never tries the way he was once in government he knows that why he says so so when we met this gentleman Bachmann fine officer you had a chart we face but then there were a lot of problems in town Chapman was faint facing a lot of problems very very common in government at the time oh he was in head of security you follow me national security was a fool named Bachmann they were - one was a soldier but this one was a police officer it was the police officer I'm talking about okay those one was very popular in the 70s and that was captain Bachmann that was a Sioux where this one revenues I think it was Commissioner of Police oh okay you spoke with us nicely we thought we are going to be released but one definition just much back to ourselves Oh varied support what he did was I here are allowed this to be given Mills from whom that was a listenin having that didn't even take a long time in two three days later we asked once again to get together they brought us our uniforms of what we dress up were put into a van with cars with guns and we started the vehicle was moving towards the northern part of the country hmm we had many left Accra noted that we had in not we pass through the various what-do-you-call-it villages along then someone wrote and lo and behold we ended up adding some prisons [Music]

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Length: 13min 30sec (810 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 24 2019