The 1979
revolt gave Ghanaians the will to demand probity and accountability in national
governance, Major Kojo Boakye Djan, Spokesman of the erstwhile Armed Forces
Revolutionary Council (AFRC), has said.
In a statement issued to the Ghana
News Agency to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the June 4 uprising he said,
”It is a lesson we have bequeathed to this country and we are proud of it.”
It said laws were broken and
enforced and added “ We rose up in 1979 to enforce our laws that had been
broken in 1966 and 1972 with impunity. These laws starting from the criminal
code of 1960 section 12 have been codified under the 1992 constitution and are
therefore still in force. We therefore committed no wrong in holding to account
all those who had broken them.”
It called for an industrial
Military complex led development paradigm under the supervision of politicians
who would still operate a multi-party system under a consensus rule regime, a
system which was advocated for and rejected.
The statement said the trust of
the plan was that under the collective leadership of civilian political class
preferably, the multi-party type, Ghana was to embark on a sustained
development efforts and industrial complex programme for the following four
years subject to review.
“We believe that today as we did
then that Ghana made a wrong turning when our plan was rejected,” the statement
said.
(GNA)
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