Source: newsthemegh.com
On Friday, January 26, 2024, the final funeral rites for the spokesperson of the now-defunct Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) will be performed.
The body of the dead will be placed under guard in the State House Forecourt before to being interred at the Burma Camp Military Cemetery in the Greater Accra Region.
Former Ghanaian military commander, retired major Kojo Boakye-Djan, played a crucial role in organizing the June 4, 1979, coup that installed Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings.
At the age of 81, Major Boakye-Djan passed away at the 37 Military Hospital on Wednesday morning, August 30, 2023.
Major Boakye-Djan, a former member of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), was instrumental in the military takeover of Ghana on June 4, 1979, which lasted until September 24, 1979.
After an election with universal adult suffrage, held on September 24, 1979, the AFRC subsequently turned over control to President Hilla Limann.
Serving as the AFRC’s spokesperson, Major Boakye-Djan—who is widely acknowledged as the principal planner of the June 4, 1979, uprising—named the late Flt. Lt. J.J. Rawlings as the uprising’s leader.
Boakye-Djan received his schooling at Opoku Ware School in Kumasi, where he completed his Ordinary (O) Level, and his sixth form Advanced (A) Level at Achimota School.
He served in the military for a long time, most notably with the Fifth Infantry Battalion prior to the June 4, 1979 coup that resulted in the AFRC taking over as the government in place of the Supreme Military Council.
Boakye-Djan planned to become the head of state as a senior army general in the 1980s, and he was active in the Free Africa Movement in the early 1970s.
Flight Lieutenant Rawlings’ failed coup attempt on May 15, 1979, spurred them to action and resulted in the June 4, 1979, coup.
Boakye-Djan used a UNDP Fellowship to pursue postgraduate studies in the UK following the AFRC rule.
He continued to be affiliated with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the years.