Former President Jerry John Rawlings wanted Nana Adomako Nyamekye dead, his escape to exile (PART 2)

hello welcome back viewers thanks for staying with us no not you you way make them yes I know this is a very sad segment for you yeah you you were in the Armed Forces yes as a musician as a musician Rollins yes time yeah Rollins time he merged the cool you were involved with the former President Jerry Rollins yes you were involved in that cool the very first one okay we finish and I'll give you the answer what were you in a position or were you in favor way do you understand well I I wasn't involved in the cool of the to face the same but that brought Rollins to power but I knew the preparation how it was how it started and how release was brought to power because the boys that were used by Rollins to stick that at the first crew didn't zimba when my platoon mates before you play the army band if you're a tradesman if you are a carpenter for engineer you are first given the basic training of army before you go to do trade so I was trained as a soldier before I started playing my band in the blackberries could belonged to the REC arrangement of the Ghana Armed Forces and the Condor barracks that is where Rollins was brought and the boys he used hada Baga Joseph a jacuz Erica sorry Brahma Sokka this other burger came from boys company but he was the first contact that Rowland's and a category contacted and a wrecker raiment they told me because because of my music this boy's respected me so anything they wouldn't hide from me so on the 31st December that day that course that that coup d'etat her to happen they had wanted to task me and my friend are I wanted to come with Francis at Ocean he is a precaution is my senior that President Lee Mong and the grab Johnson have been invited we the blackberries we were entertaining the air force officers mess because the air force in Accra don't have a band so it's we recommend the Blabberize that entertains the air force odious so a double that sukoon and this my mate told that they wanted to give s the advancement attest that if President Lee man and Arab doesn't comes to death you know doesn't floor to dance we should be armed to shoot them or arrest them but I told them we are mates and in the army is like classmates you have to trust and love yourselves I gave them my word that I am a singer singing for somebody to enjoy my music I would never reason up against anybody but I would not betray you if I had betrayed them Rollins wouldn't have come to that power God they would have arrested his boys and he wouldn't be anywhere to come to hood Ghana this is the honest fact I can give you an a bogus number I can give you at the crimson Lama is a pasta in Ghana now and they will confirm this to you I didn't take part but after the coup became successful why did you watch it happened but if you those days you know if you know report this kind of things people are going to die and we remain unaware our young boys at that time I was just about 26 years see there was no ambition of any political oh there was no maturity issue it if it was today I would have known a way of reporting it so that present president lemon would have lived to rule Ghana but our seance boy who think my brothers or friends want to do something yeah actually I should be ignorant actually let it happen what wide you think they wanted Raleigh's one tell him I'm out of power was it doing anything bad at the time well those things I cannot go that deep they told me why they had to take president man away because of one two three four things ask them so why do you want me to take part in this we are young boys that time I was the only one who was even married among all these boys so we are not even have a response responsibilities so if you do this what rule can we as young boys play for this next country Ghana and say well this is what are always a category was the one who really made a contact to these boys this is what he told them they said that hood I don't want to go deep I will tell you behind us and you know how to do that okay but to press it on the surface I knew it was coming I was told but I didn't report it it happened and well Rawlins came these boys my friends everywhere they go we go together it was that heat of day the coup d'etat and we call it revolution at that time I don't know why if gonna really needed that at that time because Ghana was a constituted government and it was going and why should you come and destroy it but the maturity was not there at that time we were young boys I would have if to us today if I was a responsible man at that time I don't think I would have let it happen because about three of my advancement knew this was going to happen and we even tasked to arrest or shoot Ramon and DiBiase because they were coming to the 31st December dance and we were playing so I'm always standing in front so if the president is coming to dance if I want to shoot him shoot him easily Madera fixes but I did a report so after that it was going on then this boy called a de Booga what was the first contact of rowlandson a catapult to make that the defensive is the first coup d'etat was arrested they were killing people just like slaughtering people just take another time so the killer diverted their couldn't kill him because all the recce Regiment soldiers know that it was this boy who architected this school for it to happen so if he has been arrested get the whole record regiment want to strike nobody wanted the coups everybody school everything was closed so they have to bring Arabic everywhere we talk God adapt and in those days at that time when somebody's arrested in that manner it is a hundred percent sure that he's been killed so we knew this boy has been killed so we were angry because we know who brought that infest tend to exist so if they have taken him and we don't know where they have sent him we knew he has been killed but as we said we want this ball to be brought back to the wreck arrangement that's what we were asking for so I was not playing any pan but as Iraqi soldier and as a friend they brought this boy on the 28th of November 1982 Ricky regiment Banda barracks buried they were separate the army commander came and he spoke they brought a double cow helicopter they were really going to kill this boy why because we said no we want this way back this world third person who will roll is used for that the defence cool so Esther he's the first contact in the recce regiment that boy he was he was the youngest among all of us he wasn't just about 18 or 19 years because he came from boys company but he was in our Ricci regiment they arrested him so all the ricky soldiers we said no we want this boy he brought him and we were all at the parade so after they brought him not knowing Takata and his army commander at that time called are not Quino they have planned this boys of Ricky we have to kill them because they what this PN DC to exist if we don't get rid of them they would not have peace to do when they want you in the country so we have to kill them well this was after we were in jail that we had so they were after the brother Deborah we the whole Reiki regiment was happy that this boy has been brought safely his birth date so we were all jubilation in prison no in they've got Ricky regiment the Conda Bharat's at the point where no okay I wasn't arrested okay at that there was a bigger when they have to bring this boy the bigger was sounded and in the army won't be till sounds and you're in the barracks you have to go to the parade so I went there like any order riki rachtman soda but because of my familiarity with these boys when I was doing this my album can mi nie it was the omocha Holly did you were at the bouquet Erica sorry Brad my Sokka they carry me with the AL ambika to put me a gunner from to do this recordings when I finished the atomic era me and one one is here is Coco Fianna man I banana man okay he will always bring a mocha because they were all crazy to see their mate we were young singing very popular word I was very famous in the gunner army because of my music but because I was a good soldier you know so these boys were around me like brothers who have been playing together so when they decided to arrest all these boys and then finish them or do whatever the world after the book I was sent to his room not moving they detained him with bodyguards so it was at a plan to arrest all the young soldiers who think we know we protested against that because arrested so this was after you requested that they bring him yes the bottom of a helicopter you can ask any soldier in ghana uganda barracks at that time and i can give you contact numbers to call if what i'm telling you now it's a lie do you confirm to you that is a lie yeah when you noted that he was in custody they've taken him and we didn't know they sent him to when they brought him to the parade we saw him with the helicopter so we saw that this boy has been approached oh you were happy the parade was still there they sent him out of the training Rosen to where he lives and we know where he lives so we taught you have got to leave him there not knowing to have detain him so then they came back and because when you are the parade you don't have gone don't have anything so they came to say that okay all the recce boys all the Reiki Regiment boys we were fifty to my platoon is over 52 and it's like almost everybody supported this boy all the recce recommend soldiers who supported know that this boy must be brought back I wanted an Acosta but that means the whole Reiki regiment so when when they asked that what what came into your mind we were at the barracks and that time Rawlings you know people who have come to join the revolution and this and that there were many about 500 of them and rectly good people at the parade over just about 40 or 50 so they came with guns there were battalion guys there were Air Force guys who were among the parity so they had to pick the recce soldiers from one bow I wasn't thinking they were going to pick me so eventually they came to my turn you step forward you are water at the castle fun use the poet you have another castle top so they rounded us up so all the subject regular soldiers who had a parrot whom they think we are not siding with them or they have to arrest everybody so I was swept among this voice because they did the revolution they did the coup I didn't take part but yeah my friends we were like brothers growing together so I was swept among them to the castle at the castle then the kangaroo court started I cannot be no much time to elaborate about this there at that time this my song my face I would have started the jingle subtitle did you were playing on the air it has been brought to UK here because those days the LPS were printed here and then exported back to Ghana I was waiting for this song to start you know come in and then I had even decided I want the songs that come into the market I was going to desert from the Army and come to Europe which I was really good to easily you know I do so while in prison or the castle my song started being played on the radio they didn't actually think of it they could have stopped this song but it was being played because at that time the P and the P and is if you put it didn't know I was the one who made that song before he realized the song the Dabo has already been popular in the country where I was still in the prison at a castle at the castle so it was at the castle then one of the P and EC members called exhibition Warrant Officer Giovanni he came to krakow called the kangaroo court UOB in the guy room to come and pick you up at two o'clock in the night and then come they go and try you some of kimbab somebody think um how many people were killed as far as your knowledge I cannot tell you figure the new vs God because many people went how did you feel when you were in the being called one by one because you are in the prison and the custom at that time you don't know what has happened to that person until we came out for whatever means that we realized that all those people who were called when we were inside we have been killed see what I mean so it was at the castle that this javadi about two o'clock they came to take me from the garden castle to the a kangaroo about 2:00 a.m. tonight then this my son Umbra Bible now because I think that they did everything to prosecute me they found out that no this guy is just a musician yes that he is among these boys but he has nothing to do with whatever that was going on so we have to leave him then that idea body who is a Santa man or interpreter who understand my lyrics came to say that no I am doing something that could drink a government the pnd sitting down just from listening to your music so I didn't know what they were talking about then he told me that there is a phrase I have used in my son that's only a mere Mostafavi not what I am to say so we hope I could to vote win over some more than Zagreb Urbana can you tell is the meaning of that I said what so is it part of this data had been attained honestly I started this recording for about four or five months before the P and EC even came to exist so this song these lyrics have already been sung at the gonna flames studio before the peonies came to exist so this phrase you are talking well some odd ages can compensate some people that consider I have been more rap so if you are doing something wrong and it if somebody is using a freeze in whatever language you think you claim that to be you so I told them that that then that this man is asked mean about was recorded before I even had that pianist was even coming to exist so they wanted to proof so they have to go together from the engineers who recorded me idea more Boozman than mr. Bochy to see in their book that if black birds are not at Makaha Vijay and his band have recorded on this date isn't that what was going through head at the time not knowing whether they can come back with the proof yeah because I I told them at the tribunal and that kinda record that if that is what they are going to use to prosecute me then that is not good to happen what is not true I didn't direct that problem against anybody it is an adage I heard from my grandfather and I phrased it in my song and that song was recorded before even the P and it came to exist so how come that proverb can be directed against the PNAC so that is not acceptable that's not true so one day I went to the gonna firms to see that yes proof there that started recording these days with my advant and those this with the brought back and I went to another tribunal there was one advisor to the pn d sonata called mr. beebe dias agua there was adviser to the P NDC he was sitting in the court that kangaroo court that night he listened to me and he told cotta and those guys those audacity executioner's when they say you are guilty that's all they kill you and throw you in the sea so maybe there's a more said and I swear to God and I can say it anyway if that man is alive or dead that he said this boy must be set free to go he has proved beyond any doubt that this well first and foremost we arrested him among this sergeant Ricky boys he is somebody who's really mad with his music he is not concerned about politics or whatever so if that didn't work and you are bringing this against this boy I think it's not is relevant so we should let this boy go then there was an Air Force side and called salicin from airborne he was one of the execution list and the Tribuna he said no an idea but they also said no if we let this boy go out the source is going to sink is really going to topple our governments so better getting you know stayin here so because of me I had that miss Abby Vidya Sawa was discharged from the appeared DC system because I am an enemy to the P NDC and he says actually be set free okay now what point did you meet Rollins at the castle one night uh no one is very much very very well because we the black barons Bonnie used to pass out to the action water cadets Rollins she liked music and he was involved with this action motor cadets so during most of the pass out you come there and you see me singing and most of the time when we play at the air force of assessment he wasn't my friend and this was we're doing whatever they are to him but I know him and he knows me as a singer in this band so he liked my music especially this I hear some of the qualities presidents he danced several times to my music she sometimes you play in some way before you see he has come there with his car she come into the night because he knew most of the bass men who were there before I was recruited most of them were his friends see so but he came to promise her that if we misbehaved we were going to be shot was in the world shot in your present ever not in my presence by Rollins and his bodyguard one he was a Reiki officer called Richa Adam was a cop cast like Rollins himself came somebody might have gone to tell Rollins and his people that really the soldiers or there was not even only soldiers political detainees at the guard room were misbehaving so Rollins came this RV like this to tell us he was promising us if we misbehaved we were all going to be shot and the castle so most of the killings were going on in the castle yes yes I was three months at the castle before I was transferred to the Nava base so that the Nava base was to start an indefinite detention Wow okay why there then we had a Rima God was so good at they were planning to execute all the political detainees and soldiers they were planning that had a castle and one good Samaritan of these bodyguards sneaked to go and tell the recce soldiers some of the boys company but most of them were boys container soldiers that this is what they are going to do on the Syst end of November 1983 they were going to mass as recruit us so 13 June until the treeview head of a German week we had to do everything that it takes to get out of the prison before they come on sweepers like chicken that was not us so that is how we broke jail from neverbeast fighting with the Roland's body guards and security who were they we fought like soldiers to liberate ourselves we were not politically invested we didn't want to do anything government but we really because they were going to kill us so we had to fight and get out of that prison and go because they were they were really going to kill us because one of the bodyguards whose name we've always preserved and we always say thank you to him it saved up a 600 people the Corollas was really good too much as here Takata was good too must execute us and this bodyguard sneaked out to tell some of the worst company boys and the recce boys that this is why they have planted a castle so the thing they have to do something to the money to pass on the information to us those in the guard room Andrews in the prison sentence Oliver Diana so we planted that 18 June can watch me and God being so good my mother came there on that one day on the other 12 to tell me that he had a dream that if I didn't get out we did two or three days from that time he's think that was the last time she was going to see me but she they by the grace of God I will get her that one day 12 of November 13 from the jail in the front in the fight look I heard a gunshot this is a bullet it's hit here and came out of there but God by the grace of God has survived and escaped into exile so politically does how it came in I wasn't involved I wasn't interested but I was swept among them and they tried to you know combine some pills that didn't exist oh well sorry well most of the people there like yourself but most of them innocent no interested in any political yeah well they're soldiers my mates and those I know who took part in the to the fest that brought rollers the power they were involved in the politics they were his his bench man they were they were the people who I know him yeah but well those I know they were politically they were involved so they have any suspicion that the thing if they didn't get rid of them these people are going to really always tell them the wrong things they are doing so in order to silence the enemy just to tell you a secret yes a typical what happened to him his life he should weren't you excited to know him he when we Fred garner he wanted to go go okay he's now living in knowing well have you met Rollins after this event no would you like to meet him well I am a born-again Christian and I think before I was in exile I didn't have that instinct in me but I think like God said forgive God I know if he had the power if God has really permitted him to kill me he would have done it but God's willing and God's power I believe in so whatever atrocities committed that one is the judge are forgiven you think you should go and face the hitch tribunal well that is up to the law because of the country to decide I'm a musician I would not think about that but atrocities committed are obvious ghanians know those who were not born didn't know at what point did you decide to ever come back together hey it was by the help of audit opponent requirement under 1996 because my mother was ill and I know if I didn't go to see her she may be dead and over hell I'll never know where she is even buried and man and Purdue was the president of the music at that time the musica has been organized so the audit opponent no comment but who was the head of musica so and he was involved with the P and E C so he I sent my wife to Ghana so you want to return to Ravnica member he said because I was declared wanted to be short on sight anyone who sees me for the 21st of November 22nd 23rd 24th 25th if you get those papers in Ghana you see me there and full power the first picture that ticket on the Roland declared that we must be killed in what who sees as must kill us about about 50 of us who managed to get out of the hospitals because you knew he was going to kill us so we managed anyway so how as we brought digital civilians who were also unlawfully detained had opportunity also to run because we broke all the gears in Ghana we were the first to come out so we went to OSHA for Jim's fault from death and some we were just breaking the jail so that these people can get in life because we were the first come out so we had to go and help them so we did that that a lot of lives were saved you did well what you did well you you have now been also introduced back into politics which I'm I'm not sure that you've accepted position how do you feel Queeny you know being appointed by the current government to do some of the good stuff I should finish that when I first time I good I went to Pelican on Purdue did everything and then my wife came back to tell me that number two said he's laid out on the ground you know plans down that she knows I'm wanted but with his position I said president of musica gun at that time he guarantees my safety life so II think I should come together but even my family back home said no they were afraid they don't think it will happen so the number do some of my relative family man my uncle Pina was alive at that time we went to him this Pope said his position in the government he think I haven't done anything wrong politically it's like I've told you they swept me among these boys and come stanza surrounding it was going to lead to my death but by the grace of God have survived how these ordeals so he think he spoken to whoever's got saying about security so when my plane landed had could to cut and I'm to do was at the gate of the plane with delegation of the musica and whoever they think supposed to be there to make sure our safe so that I Purdue walked with me from the plane to sit in his car so the one man that has painting Donna asks if you go to gonna go to the numbered one asked him oh you can delegate anybody got to go to number one ask him I slept in the same bedroom for you different under community didn't the last day I left cada because well just for your safety yes he said he assures me if I was out he think I could go to my hometown anyway ii ii ii ii ii think nothing can happen to me but because I wasn't sure of my safety and my family also said no they don't trust these guys then an umpire said then Kwame is my my son I would take him and make sure he leave this country back safely so and I'm pretty protected me asleep and ate with him till the day I'll have to leave and he brought me to the airport boarded the plane came back to Europe so to do another do then this is 1996 for me a wonderful man yes he's a man of God he's a wonderful whatever people speak about him he is my idol from the night from from the time I sang the first first note but till now I still adore him as my savior I don't it was he did a load to Putin's right going back to my question how do you feel going back into politics no being in charge of a department I mean your brother is yes is a speaker yeah well politically I don't have any ambitions because of what is my superior from my youth you know period in life I don't want to get involved in politics what God have done to be musically it's worth living for it and I'll continue to live with my music because I well I people have suggested my family members friends said no with your name I'm Mike ability in the country if you want to play a role I think it'll help or what her I've rejected every notion according to my sources you are probably going to but you are still not gonna miss you well I'm sure the government has god Bernie to do and how eating God went on when I am yet to hear that I have friends who ain't government I have relatives and friends who I really do be involved but I'm not interested in politics nor because I really seen the bitter part of it at my age of life so I don't want to go into it I don't understand it's quite a you know it's a bad experience would you feel that you still holding back if you say because of your experience you know you don't think you ever go into politics do you feel you're still holding back on - well that might come change in where like I said people can change if they want to change I may consider it in a latter part of my life maybe I don't know but I haven't decided anything yet but well well if I really understand what every policy bill administers to go and save your people so I'm always a servant but a music that I'm relaying and giving to console people who are they in happiness or sadness it's a service already I'm rendering to the people but when it should come to a political point where aspect of it God will provide that time and I think and they think of it so what what changes has this or what impact has this experience made on your life yeah but at the early stages of my being forced into this exile was very bitter very very bitter that it was very very unfair for people who think that I've grabbed power by force can guess decide people's fate and destiny I was very angry for a long time until a man of God really baptize me to say like look if you really think God is the one who have to do vengeance or revenge because your life that you possess today was not protected by yourself if you have that belief then let it go and give it to that man so he is the right change so I think I'll leave it to God - yet I was very bitter but since I became true Christian I think I easily let it go it's not what is the secret behind you're looking a younger and and five times II see no well no Buddhist NB a-- me amateur madonna motto eyes and word that's enough I've been baptized I could sleep without thinking about going to revenge whoever have done this to me on that because I was still young and the pain was still there so why should somebody just grabbed me like a chicken and put me in a jail and decide my fate you want to kill me at that time no it was wrong so but since I to God I'm quite interested in you as a person and your experience so when you went to exile I'm guessing you were by yourself and not with a family no did you have any children at that time oh no I was married but was it just like a zero therefore a tap of 10 not so Martin not but we were living together yes that's a million my booze you know the gal I used to sing Amelia say Opelousas over cannon once a month and very little guys the words you use and it entires the ladies just dude I don't think they were ever ever be able to reach your standard like well we never know I never seen ever but our mothers and fathers this is what one of my music to test told me that the mother and the father who brought you into this world no matter how you excel in life never underestimate them because is the two of them who have made you what you are everything or everybody who is in Ghana if he called him or herself agony and is coming out of our culture her life so hip high life is the invention of our music then the sugar under estimate our life because that is rule that is the culture all the culture Ghana no intertwine together blending it to harmonize it to present it as music and then they called in highlight by the British in those days before our the mothers and fathers were born so they should not underestimate that name high life ruin forever high life will reign forever it has been a pleasure and you know happy you are as our guest and we hope to see you very soon but like I said we still always the most the most controversial one two three four shut up funny video by them a bit even ever them shut up shut up shut up 700 it up god no my dear to me a mere no Mumma for you know thank imagine me look for you come on a classy or whatever free yeah you yeah my to open up money hey oh yeah Wow how can you become a prey and I mean Nadine I've got primary focus on Tia Babu question Akana you don't know Ramona we're men semi de baño the animals open is an essential Barrois vijnanam Nakia Nakia - a pramana war prey and crab on you I drop my powers for one Soria de ponerse want a beckoning him you did not achieve everyone so yeah no way and in annual or no so I can't universe I am I am I'm only a GOP nominee I drove up in a van as a weapon [Music] we will continue this segment on another show that's all right yeah so now you new eyeballs are coming is that the pipeline sorting on is the you maybe it would come and introduce and protect it here definitely and trust me we are also in discussion or one of the hottest books that will be coming out soon dadly thank you you're gonna let me down so hard to get most people missed this segment will love to hear your true story in a book and i'm praying he accepts it and I think pledges on this show mm-hm watch out watch out okay guys thanks for staying with us you know today I'm really really happy I've learned a lot from Nana he said music is the food for the soldiers and never estimates the people that you came to me never assume a underestimates your heavens definitely and God view it this is just the beginning there is more to come on our next segment so please keep it locked with on DD T V and we'll see you next time if you want to really know more about Nana DeMarco then please stay tuned to and EDTV thank you for watching see you next time thank you thank you very much [Music]

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Published: Tue Feb 20 2018