Word: ankrah
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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General Joseph Arthur Ankrah, chairman of the National Liberation Committee that now ruled Ghana, got work going on a new constitution that would eventually return the nation to civilian rule. "We do not want to have a dictatorship again," he said. In the meantime, all political parties would be banned. Ankrah also announced that new stamps and coins had already been ordered to replace those bearing The Redeemer's face...
...later, the general was back on the air with even better news. "Ghana's burden of taxation is the highest in Africa," he said, announcing a wide range of tax cuts on everything from basic foods to income. To spur the private enterprise that Nkrumah had always shunned, Ankrah pledged that private companies would no longer be forced to accept government "participation...