Military Discipline Not Return To Military Rule—Dr Henry Lartey


I did not ask for a return to military rule. We in Ghana need to go back to basics.

1. We have lost our way

2. All our institutions have broken down. from the reckless drivers to the workers who never get to work on time and leave work for home before the closing up time. The labour unions whose strikes punish the student, The aged, sick and collapse of businesses. Ghana needs Military Discipline. This means training for the youth when 18-years for 1 year before entering the university or work place. This type of military training has been positive in Germany, some in the USA and has worked very well in the far east counties.

The training will cut off all the rough edges of our youth and they come out strong, patriotic and much more ready to face the world. Germany won the world cup in brazil because of German Discipline. Ghana used to have a Brilliant civil service until the June 4th and December 31st coups. We wanted to kill everyone over 40-years old.

We hated authority because the National Libration Council(NLC) Headed by General I. K. Acheampong despite their brilliant Operation Feed Youself Programme and the building of Dansoman Estate had become corrupt with KALABULE Ghanaians were suffering with shortages and price hikes of commodities ie milk, sardines, corned beef, sugar, tin tomantoes ect. JJ Rawlings got fed up and staged a coup that failed on 15th May 1979.

JJ was sent to a court marshall and he was brave enough to ask the military court to leave his people alone. He was prepared to die alone. Fortunately for him the ranks in the military staged a successful coup and got him out of prison. Unfortunately, the Aluta continua came to hunt him (JJ).

The cadres took control of the country witch hunting businessmen and businesswomen, top civil servants ect as the cadres were not trained public service personnel everything fell apart.

The 19-years of bad service at the civil service callapsed our institutions. We have to build all the institutions back to health. Happily we have a miltary force that is respected by the United Nations and reckoned to be one of the best peace keeping force in the whole wide world. We can use their time keeping skills and good order practices to rejuvenate our institutions…..YES WE CAN.

I DO NOT MEAN MILITARY RULE: and I will tell you why.

LATE Dan Lartey was Head of Goverment Business with the ACHEAMPONG REGIME but resigned mid 1974 because he could not deal with the corruption that was rearing its ugly head from Ashley Larsson, some politicians and some top military leaders. After his resignation my father Dan LARTEY was arrested about 5 times.

The soldiers came for him during our breakfast, sometimes during lunch or dinner and for a young boy like me it was very scary. My father sent Rebecca (my senior sister and myself to the UK for further studies in November 1974 only to be arrested again in December 1974. My poor oldman went in for 3 long years. Rebecca and myself suffered to hold our own in England.

Again in 1983 JJ Rawling was frustrated with some media houses and the Judiciary so on May Day HE RANTED AND RAVED. He accused the media and the courts for getting in his way….This message instigated the WDC and the cadres to go and vandalise the law courts, beat up Tommy Thompson of the Free Press then to my father’s Press CITADEL PRESS which produced 5 news papers ie The Guadian, THE Citadel Daily, The African World, Citadel Sports and Guardian Sports. One of his papers had published a story with the caption THE RAWLINGS CHAIN.

The cadres were about 3,000 strong went to our press and house to beat or kill my father and 2 brothers Danjnr and Peter. Dan Jnr., jumped over the wall at the back of the house to escape and heard a gun shot that scrapped his neck. The neck came up with a huge boil. Dan Jnr. came to me in Bristol, UK. I immediately took him to the Southmead Hospital.

Dr Harris saved Dan Jnr who had to take-18 tablets a day for 3-years before he fully recovered. Peter was lying in his bed on the first floor of the Storey Building and the cadres started chopping his door down with cutlasses..in his bid to escape he jumped from the first floor out of his bedroom window and unfortunately land on the floor with his mouth…all his back teeth were broken and the near by neighbours cleaned the blood that was oozing out and kept him safe from the attackers.

My cousin Lartey told me that they took him upstairs to search for My father in the process they beat the living day light out of him….They could not find my father then my mother told me that she asked them to leave her Husband and children alone and kill her instead…..she said they froze when they heard those words. Citadel Press was locked and ceased to operate from that May Day. Now , tell me if I would prefer a return to military rule with such horrible life experience from the military government of the PNDC.

THE ANWSER IS A DEFINTE NO! NO!! NO!!! NO!!!!!! TO MILITARY RULE.

In addition, The movement for Freedom and Justice made up of Late Dan Lartey, Late Prof Adu Boahene, Late Obeng Manu, Late Janny Hanson, Kwesi Pratt, Akoto Ampaw, Lt. Owusu Gyimah, Lawyer Ndebugrem, Sekou Nkrumah, Ansah Dadzie etc. We are the strong and fearless force that were not scared of the PNDC AND ON 1st August,1990 held a press conference and asked for the culture of silence to be stopped and declared for a multiparty system of government which we are now enjoying. In the process I was hit…collateral damage…My charcoal exports was banned may be because I was the son of the organiser. I left with my workers and set up CHARCOAL EXPORT COMPANY Carew-Malm Assosiates Nigria alatd. God help our homeland Ghana.

Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey
Chairman/Leader
Great Consolidated Popular Party
Post Office Box GP 3077, Accra,Ghana
Website:www.greatconsolidatedpopularparty.org

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