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…Rawlings initiated his debut coup d'tat on 15 May 1979, leading a group of military personnel in a coup attempt on General Fred Akuffo which resulted in his arrest, imprisonment and facing a death sentence. On June 4, soldiers sympathetic to his motivations broke him out of jail, and he led ...
Lieutenant General Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo (21 March 1937 26 June 1979) was a soldier and politician. He is a former Chief of Defence Staff of the ...
He became Chief of Defense Staff in 1978, following the palace coup that replaced General Acheampong with Lt. General Fred Akuffo. ...