Daughter of former Ghanaian army officer and politician, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, says unlike her father who faced firing squad, Rawlings’ death is too easy and comfortable.
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian army officer, who, after leading a military revolt that overthrew the government of Kofi Busia, became Ghana’s Head of State in 1975.
In July 1978 he was forced to resign, and the following June he and his successor, Lieut. Gen. F.W.K. Akuffo, were executed after a coup led by young officers, whose Armed Forces Revolutionary Council returned Ghana to civilian rule in September 1979.
Acheampong was court martialed and executed along with General Edward Kwaku Utuka by firing squad on 16 June 1979, ten days prior to the execution of two other former heads of state, Akwasi Afrifa and Fred Akuffo, and senior military officers Joy Amedume, George Boakye, Roger Joseph Felli and Robert Kotei, following the 4 June military uprising that brought Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings and the AFRC to power who were young officers.
Reacting to the News of former President Rawlings’ death, Daughter of Kutu Acheampong, Nana Serwaa Acheampong who was only 6 years when her father died, wrote on facebook that she feel cheated Rawlings’ died an easy death.
According to her, Aside from the pain Rawlings brought to her, she feels nothing about Rawlings’ death, except pity for his children who now know the pain of losing a father.
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“Now he’s dead, and somehow I feel robbed, cheated because unlike my father, Rawlings’ death was too easy, too comfortable probably.
Death by firing squad, that’s how my father died, when I was just 6 years old. At the time I didn’t understand, but as I grew up, it started to become clearer, I had no one to call father.
Now I think, his children and I are the same fatherless! But at least they grew up knowing their father, they grew up being provided for and protected by their father.
So no we are not the same. Rawlings took my father away from me by firing squad, leaving me with no father to provide for me or protect me. Rawlings is dead and I feel cheated.
If there is an afterlife where you meet those who have gone before, I wonder what Rawlings will say to my father, who showed him kindness, and all the others he killed so ruthlessly.
In this life, Rawlings never acknowledged the pain he caused so many of us, never said sorry for our loss or showed remorse.
Nothing! So Rawlings is dead, to me his death was too easy, too comfortable, unlike the death he gave my father and countless others.
Aside from this I feel nothing about the man, except pity for his children who now know the pain of losing a father.”
– Nana Serwaa Acheampong, Daughter of Kutu Acheampong
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