Word: akuffo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rawlings' overthrow of the military junta headed by Lieut. General Frederick Akuffo, who came to power by toppling General Ignatius Acheampong last year, was unusual in two respects. First of all, it was Rawlings' second try in only a month; until being sprung by air force compatriots, he had been locked up in an Accra prison while being court-martialed for his role in plotting an abortive coup in May. Second, the overthrow of Akuffo's regime came only two weeks before elections that were supposed to restore civilian government to Ghana after 13 years of almost...
Acheampong was succeeded by Sandhurst-educated Lieut. General Frederick W. K. Akuffo, 41, his second in command. Ghanaians wondered just what effect the change would have on the return to civilian government by next July that Acheampong had promised. Acheampong had called for a nonparty "union government" in which military officers would be included as advisers; Ghana's politically active professional class criticized "unigov" as a disguise for continued military rule. After they accused Acheampong of cheating on a unigov referendum, over 100 opponents were jailed...
...Akuffo's first move last week was to free a prominent dozen of the prisoners. Observers applauded, but waited to see how the new leader would handle the problem that has now toppled three governments: galloping inflation, which runs over 100% a year and puts a basic meal of yam and milk beyond a laborer's average daily wage-about...