{"id":773247,"date":"2019-12-29T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T15:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/29\/the-story-of-the-man-who-took-a-bullet-for-kwame-nkrumah\/"},"modified":"2019-12-29T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T15:01:24","slug":"the-story-of-the-man-who-took-a-bullet-for-kwame-nkrumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/29\/the-story-of-the-man-who-took-a-bullet-for-kwame-nkrumah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the man who took a bullet for Kwame Nkrumah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p>Salifu Dagarti was born in July 1931 and died on 2 January 1964. He was a British trained Ghanaian police officer and presidential bodyguard who shielded Kwame Nkrumah with his body on the fifth attempt to assassinate him since he came to power in 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At about 1.15 pm on Thursday, January 2nd, President Nkrumah of Ghana left his office at Flagstaff House to return to Christianborg Castle for lunch. As he moved towards his car, across the courtyard, he was accompanied by two security guards \u2013 one Salifu Dagarti, a veteran British-trained police professional, the other an amateur provided by the President\u2019s own party, CPP.<\/p>\n<p>A rifle shot rang out. It had been fired from behind some sort of cover \u2013 perhaps about 50 yards away \u2013 by Constable Ametewee, one of the policemen on guard at Flagstaff House who had been transferred for duty there only a day or two previously. The driver of the President\u2019s car immediately disappeared. The CPP security guard hid for his life behind the car. The President and Salifu dived for cover.<\/p>\n<p>A police constable on guard outside the residence of Ghana\u2019s president, Kwame Nkrumah, fired five gunshots at him in an assassination attempt. Seth Ametwee invaded The Flagstaff House in Accra and missed with his first shot. Nkrumah\u2019s bodyguard, Salifu Dagarti, shielded the President with his body and was mortally wounded.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109552 jetpack-lazy-image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577631682_869_65431943.jpg\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577631683_241_65431943.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109552\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption>Salifu Dagarti, shielded the President with his body and was mortally wounded.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two more shots were fired. One or both of them ripped through the President\u2019s shirt but were apparently deflected by his bullet-proof vest.<\/p>\n<p>Constable Ametewee then attempted to fire his fifth and last round, but the bullet was accidentally ejected. The President, perhaps seeing what had happened, got up and ran. The distance he covered was considerable. And, as he ran, he shouted for help. A number of armed policemen apparently watched with interest to see how the incident would end but did not move.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p>Senior officials similarly watched from the windows of nearby offices, one of them confining himself to the single comment: \u2018They\u2019ve bungled it again\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>As the President approached the kitchen of Flagstaff House, the Constable caught up with him and tried to club him with his rifle butt, but the rifle slipped from his hands. Inside the kitchen, the President and the Constable finally got to grips<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\">\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"109553\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ghgossip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/18970713.jpg?fit=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ghgossip.com\/?attachment_id=109553\" class=\"wp-image-109553 jetpack-lazy-image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577631683_85_18970713.jpg\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577631683_733_18970713.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"109553\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ghgossip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/18970713.jpg?fit=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ghgossip.com\/?attachment_id=109553\" class=\"wp-image-109553\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Salifu Dagart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Constable bit the President\u2019s cheek. The President kicked the Constable in the groin and the latter momentarily collapsed. At that stage, other policemen arrived on the scene and decided the time had come to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Constable Ametewee was quickly knocked out and left lying on the ground. The President, having changed his shirt and had his cheek dressed by a Russian doctor, had his photograph taken crouching over his assailant, as he might have done had he just overpowered him. He then left for the Castle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109554 jetpack-lazy-image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577631683_206_59740052.jpg\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577631684_13_59740052.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109554\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p><em>A daily Graphic Publication of the death of Salifu Dagarti<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salifu Dagarti was born in July 1931 and died on 2 January 1964. 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The Event: At about 1.15 pm on Thursday, January 2nd, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Story of the man who took a bullet for Kwame Nkrumah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/29\/the-story-of-the-man-who-took-a-bullet-for-kwame-nkrumah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Story of the man who took a bullet for Kwame Nkrumah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Salifu Dagarti was born in July 1931 and died on 2 January 1964. 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