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Following an unsuccessful grenade attempt on Nkrumah's life in 1962, five men were charged with treason, among them three of the Redeemer's closest associates-Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, and Hugh Horatio Cofie-Crabbe, executive secretary of Nkrumah's Convention People's Party. Tried before Ghana's highest judge, the quintet got a split verdict; two defendants-an Opposition M.P. and a former civil servant-were convicted, but Adamafio, Adjei and Cofie-Crabbe were acquitted...
...Korsah, who headed the three-man court, chose to ignore the hint. At the end of a 51-day trial, he convicted two of the accused, who will be hanged, but exonerated the three top officials who were charged with masterminding the conspiracy. Among the three: former Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, 51, a leftwing, London-educated lawyer who had once been Nkrumah's closest crony. The prosecution cited as "evidence" the fact that Adamafio had refused to sit beside the President on the day that he was to be killed and claimed that later, when Nkrumah...
...five-week trial dragged on, one of the defendants, Nigerian Immigrant Malam Mama Tula, 44, testified that the real brains behind the Kulungugu attempt were three men who had been Nkrumah's closest cronies, ex-Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, ex-Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, and H. H. Cofie-Crabbe, former executive secretary of Nkrumah's own Convention People's Party. Mama Tula said that the trio conferred with the bomb throwers at a village hideout, supplied eight British-made grenades and promised a $560 bounty if Nkrumah was killed. The three have been in prison under...
Striking back, he arrested scores of Ghanaians, including three of his top aides: Information Minister Tawia Ada-mafio, Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, Convention People's Party Chief H. H. Cofie-Crabbe. In fat headlines, his controlled press demanded DEATH TO THE TRAITORS. The Evening News even printed their pictures upside down, an omen of doom in West Africa, and Nkrumah's supporters burned effigies of the three in coffins. From all over Ghana came tribesmen who sought to exorcise the evil spirits plaguing Osagyefo by offering him concoctions of yams and eggs, sprinkling sheep's blood...
Since jailing Foreign Minister Ako Adjei and Information Minister Tawia Adama-fio last month, apparently for complicity in a plot to assassinate him, Nkrumah has been hard pressed to plug the gaps. To fill the Agriculture Ministry, the Redeemer redeemed Crowbar...