There is a renowned image of a down and out looking Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah which for the most part accompanies the inscription, ‘this is the secret Kwame Nkrumah responded when he got fresh insight about his defeat’. That photograph of Nkrumah in a suit, covering his face in his palms while a strolling stick lays on his thighs is generally shared as the photograph of Nkrumah’s quick response to the overthrow that brought down his government.
It truly does anyway create the impression that the photograph and the account around it probably won’t be valid, basically from a relate of occasions by a man who was with Kwame Nkrumah at the hour of the occurrence. Alex Quaison-Sackey, in his book ‘The Makings of A Diplomatist: The Diaries of Alexander Quaison-Sackey’, point by point how the then, at that point, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Hua imparted the principal overthrow endeavor and ensuing defeat of the public authority to Kwame Nkrumah.
“The plan was that the authority designation ought to collect at Osagyefo’s suit when we had washed and unloaded, to talk about our gathering with the Chinese government authorities and the feast in the night. When we had washed and unloaded: No sooner had we gathered than the security official, declared that the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Hua needed to see Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
“At first we were reluctant to open the entryway as we didn’t believe the Chinese should forestall us, by a contention, from going to Hanoi. Yet, on doubts, the President asked that the Ambassador be introduced. With a precarious hand and a trembling voice, Ambassador Hua read from a piece of paper that contained an observed message from the Chinese Embassy in Accra. That’s what the message read “a part of the police and a segment of the military are endeavoring to hold onto power in Ghana. There is battling happening around Flagstaff House. The head of the overthrow producers is Colonel Kotoka.” Quaison-Sackey further expressed that despite the fact that Nkrumah excused that first message, accepting the overthrow producers will not succeed, the Chinese Ambassador returned later with an alternate report.
“Any of us present – Messrs. Dei-Anang, Okoh, Kwesi Armah, F. S. Arkhurst, Yaw Eduful, and myself – all showed shock. However, Osagyefo set up a striking front and said that this was nothing, it would burn out. The Chinese Ambassador pulled out however returned not long after with another message which affirmed that there had been a rebellion in Ghana and that Major-General Charles Barwah had been killed. There were showings before the Chinese Embassy while there was all the while taking shots at Flagstaff House.
“The remainder of our designation was holding up at the lobby at the same time, from their faces, it was apparent that they had caught wind of the overthrow. Osagyefo let the gathering know that “they say certain individuals are attempting to take our power in Ghana. Allow them to attempt.” There was a conversation about whether we ought to go to the feast that evening. I had before proposed that we ought to get the Chinese government to give us an exceptional plane so we could continue without a moment’s delay to Cairo and, if conceivable, from Cairo to Accra. I demanded that we ought to drop our arrangements for Hanoi. Osagyefo jumped on me and said “Your meaning could be a little clearer. With respect to you, Quaison-Sackey, in the event that I follow you, I will waste time.” He expressed this in the Fante language. In any case we went to the dinner at around 8 p.m. Chinese security,” he related in his book.
On February 24, 1966, Nkrumah was ousted by means of an overthrow by the National Liberation Council in an activity named “Activity Cold Chop”. The NLC was driven by Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka and Major (later General) Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa.
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