Supreme Military Council 1&2 Regimes - UPfront on JoyNews (9-1-20)

she built the estates the factories the things that was known for priests you feed yourself and all of those are the things but money was not actively involved in the governance of the state who really was a temple I would say he is a soldier he rose through the ranks went to Fort Leavenworth in the United States for senior commander course if a he tells me that it was at that point that he realized that in Kansas okay you have three months weed in which you should plant and get everything done because for most of the yeah it's winter and there's nothing that we can do so he came back with the idea that there was there's the possibility of taking advantage of our resource and doing something but anyway take him back to the army so events happened but he became the head of state so we try to to use I think the quality that our emphasize at this point is the man management that good Millett officers are supposed to exhibit okay so he took care of those who work with him because like a soldier I know they do fall or rise together and that was one feature that I had I had I was very young at that time I was 25 years when our my my my boss goody two and if someone would need to be mentioned very blue in terms as a medium and it was for my GN a manager for a very long time a lot of the information services department so he could do one morning after had joined the civil service from okay from graphic graphic operation that I should go to the castle to see forces under who were the first secretary and apparently that was how he wanted me to go assist FSS I go to the there to the place and he give me a seat and I understood him for a year it became the Northern Regional Commissioner before it was because I was asked to act in history at acting facility at 25 25 yes I mean being the press secretary for and military government how was it like you basically are you know I'm a lucky man - so what really were you doing I think I needed a skill okay to communicate and buy groceries I had had that from the University I found myself editing that magazine the famous or infamous Aryan magazine of and we did a lot of things that until the Houmas I think that I'm the greet man professor officer who was in the money chairman of the board of graphic decided to I recruit some graduates to go and mix up with the train hands experience on that graphic so that's how I got myself into general is around within a year or so he had arranged for some of us to go to Britain I was attached today like I said when he puts in Preston for three months you know the rudiments of journalism and all that so I came back then their information services department advertised that they wanted some people that would train as diplomats for information I I applied I was recruited and subsequently our sent to the castle I said well what's a chapel corrupt just call it somehow corrupt us in getting I don't understand sir corrupt us in English there's no one who is perfect yes but this was head of state is different from me yeah his corruption would have fed the state Mona gets the damage so I buy that i buy that and the reason why I said that is that I went that work as a professional I did not see him put his hand into the kitchen I wasn't given that opportunity okay I hear stories but I cannot versus I cannot say that I saw them and I don't think because I will emphasize the fact that since the events of this over - I know very well the family and no one to foresee the wife and I know that at times some of us have had to to literally assist some harmful object if they had touch of any amount some way I know she would see what are falling on that and I have I'm here to hear anybody who can point to a burden that this is a champions house or this is what she was building apart from the family home into boom in central region I don't know if any but I self operation if anybody knows of any bank account that you had any house that he had once I was the persecutory I didn't come up and in fact if you thought that we have been so I had developed the kind of fearless integrity with which I could have asked I can give you an example of what I mean I realized that for instance many people were talking about the way he read his speeches so I think I don't know whether I was I was bold enough for something else I went up to him and I told him Papa I think that you see what I know about my profession is that even the President of the United States does not write his own speech the species are written for them and they mastered them they own them and their speeches before they come on so if we don't mind I will look out for someone who would take you to elocution and so that your presentation of speeches would improve okay just like that so I knew the late John Hammond first class news reader actual Uncle John I have a test for you so what what is it I told him and they did I know I saw them take lessons he was ready to leave then he was ready to study he felt that there is no template for running a modern state with the resources on the size and the human resources that we have that there should be some creative way of making an impact other people how he went about it something else you probably would understand him better the period of India mm-hmm the period of appreci fideos own when he thinks that emanated from his being or he was ideologically inclined to oppose them did he regrets them at a point in time no no never no he felt that to quote him some of the deaths that the nation old were visited by corruption and to that extent they should be exposed that is the basis of the entire and then because of that and as a result of that we paid our way through no huge bones were taken and very little was taken by way of laws to be loaded on future generations you know and associate official figures that was one of the nicer construction features that he had in mind to turn this country around that is as far as I could see from the people that I had what I had to interact with there okay a foreign press as to what was actually happening and to that extent and there was a program of changing things now the understanding you can get from someone of this sort it's also what his vision for Ghana was ultimately do you think he had the good interest of this data taught yes as far as I can recall he believed that we had enough resources to be independent we had enough resources to turn with Lance into productive areas at that time though he was a wasteland and some of us must some subsidies we are true to the way and with pickaxes to dictate as to ensure that an irrigation pool forget was in place and if advance farewell similar things were started in other parts of the country to attend this country from a rain-fed pattern of agriculture into irrigation assisted agriculture that was a major major major okay and that transform that kicked in into the operation feed yourself and pretty soon were so sufficient in some other games bond and I remember that all this was achieved from the year that it took over and 72 to 75 on the SMC - okay so we're talking about a four pack he got it wrong we're not Union government today as you admit that that no I think history should be kind to him in the center what he wanted to do was to get a system whereby the military the civilians and the police would have a way of running the country in a way that would cut out the other cost that come with other forms of government okay you may debate that but he was convinced that it was possible and to that extent he picked us to send out his very life on it and don't forget that to back it up we they also handed the National charter of redemption by which the principles were to guide people to accept issues like this country being one nation one people with a common destiny that was a fantastic idea around which we could gather as a people and move the country forward and the there was their vacations okay in the way to organize regional committees they had meetings I myself for some time I had an ex-official rule on the national charter committee okay well I had mrs. Tatem and a few other people and at the meetings at that time you didn't see anybody going for selfish ideas certainly certainly certainly the whole period that I was in the castle I had my civil service be as first scene information officer of the Ministry of Information and then principal information officer and subsequently a deputy deputy director those those salaries came to me in the castle with no a decent extent there's the conversation that comes up in this case this conversation is tilted to the point that the the Guinean people were fed up with the military there was color billion of those things around you wouldn't dismiss that I was kind of you know I went this way that I wonder if if you I don't know if even the Satan himself comes at any stage into Ghanian affairs at any stage you'll be able to point fingers at some recruits if I can put I see but there's a point I want to ask you about so why did his own colleagues remove him well as he definitely I think from my side view that I have her point when you want to move something there must be someone who would drive it so he was driving the engine if so if you want to put it that way and as a result you had to assume like most other political leaders we've had you assume that that your your followers would follow you throughout but it got to a point that especially after the initial success that nobody can dispute or the agriculture front and the way things were picking up and sts that he was building the pond down and other things it got to a point that when the resources started Wendling difficulties came the highest realities of her okay and weather also impacted on it and therefore the village guy the top guy started development on Achilles heels okay and that is what at that point I think are good professionals for good or bad so that he has been there too long and therefore this whole idea of Union government was only to entrenching and therefore they wouldn't even listen to what you were saying they were fed up with that but I believe and I think that perhaps if initial the initial successes had been the platform on which he had sold the idea perhaps they would have been better that's my own theory okay I get your point but I'm just seeking to get some clarity on these periods - so ss SMC - you continued as press secretary there's a very interesting point you know as I told you I went there as a professional I had a training from Britain I had a training even from the University what - how to write things to have an impact another time the sign was quite notorious for sort of vagueness and under graphics we under command dude we did fantastic things you know so of course at that time you have lizards on honey badminton and daniel soccer been documented hakuna we were quite a team so we were always bouncing of ideas and therefore we knew what proper information should be with that able to I was able to handle myself in such a way that let me tell you what what happened and then you know what I mean I was there about 2:30 the day that he was removed that Miss Erica Bachmann okay who was in charge of security called me on the intercom it's a commoner could you come to my office I went Elsa put out an announcement that the general has resigned say no no so I said was a book by 9:20 we can do it that way I think let me call the outside broadcast van to the castle let's prepare him so that he can see to the nation that in view of what went well if horrible been going on he believes that if he stepped outside then there will be a greater chance for for people to accept the way forward he looked at me as if I was coming from Mars said I see you don't know what is happening Blair Markham go ahead put it out and I didn't know what was up it was platinum in the castle okay and somehow he had nothing well for some time sorry so I was a bit bemused I was in the castle to cook and I know it had to come out about three how was I going to draft it and send it at that time nobody was prepared to do it so I had to go to my office I picked the phone called the National newsroom accustomed to my good friend I said we Superman who a diet of innocent kind of face I said it would see we have a problem take my the way you know me take my integrity I'm going to tell you something find someone in the newsroom let him stand by you and put out the statement before put out the last week up before I tell you what I said this is common animal the press secretary from Akasa asking you miss a possible plan to announce that the chairman has resigned and that if the general lwq fall or that that was reasonable material why nobody caught me because I literally announced the overthrow mmm from my office in the castle and I thought that we were in the second session later on then it dawned upon me as true the weight of what I had just done so how come that I was also taking taken on by how khufu when they finish the palace coup he called me in the presence of his ADC my good friend on my junior in offense man let's have a media been acquitted okay and say that my gentleman I want you to continue your work as press secretary in the same manner that you did for example so you'll be my press secretary that was it so it was seamless I did my work the work that I used to do I did it some that I had a different role this conversation we should continue but I mean I'm convinced that this is just part one of it what folks I need to end it here but this conversation certainly must continue my guest has been James and a man he was press secretary to both a champion who had the SMC one and dinner at the big fufu whoever the SMC to I'm sure you now got to know how he became thee and he basically announced that general temple are designed thank you so much for watching [Music]

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Published: Thu Jan 09 2020