The late Gen I.K. Acheampong The late Dr. K.A. Busia
Last week January 13, marked the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of the Busia government by the then Col Ignatius Kutu Acheampong regime.
A certain John Mensah has expressed concern that the date has come and gone without anybody mentioning it.
Speaking to the DAILY GUIDE a few days after the date, he said “such important date although a sad one for the people of this country should be remembered so that nobody allows military adventurists to truncate our democracy. They come in with all manner of promises to alter the direction of the lot of the average Ghanaian.”
A retired senior citizen, he recalled the many great strides Dr. K.A. Busia was making while he was at the throttle of government until “that Acheampong used the gun to end the regime.”
No longer should we allow such nonsense to take place in our country, he said.
The rural development agenda of the late Dr. Busia, he recalled would have changed the face of our rural areas beyond what we are seeing today.
The lessons in courtesy which the late Dr. K.A. Busia introduced should have been sustained over the years. He recalled the publication ‘Courtesy for Boys and Girls’ distributed gratis to school children across the country, and added “never again should democracy be replaced with a dictatorship of a junta.”
Dr. K.A. Busia’s government was overthrown while he was in the United Kingdom for a medical checkup. He passed on while he was engaged in academic work at the Oxford University in August 1978.