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Mahama Accuses CIA of Being Responsible for Removal of Ghana's First President
Mahama Accuses CIA of Being Responsible for Removal of Ghana's First President
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Ghana marked its 68th Independence Day on March 6th. This day commemorates the moment when the country became the first sub-Saharan African nation to achieve... 07.03.2025, Sputnik Africa
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Speaking during Ghana's 68th Independence Day celebration, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama stated that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was responsible for the removal of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah.Mahama stated that declassified US documents confirm the CIA orchestrated the coup that ousted Nkrumah while he was abroad. He declared that the historical record is "loud and clear." The president also argued that Nkrumah's ouster caused years of instability in the country and ended his vision for Ghana. In February 1966, while Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was visiting North Vietnam and China, his government was overthrown in a coup led by the military and the police service, with the support of the civil service. John Stockwell, former Chief of the Angola Task Force of the CIA, wrote that CIA agents in Accra had "intimate contact with the plotters."
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Mahama Accuses CIA of Being Responsible for Removal of Ghana's First President
16:02 07.03.2025 (Updated: 16:54 07.03.2025) Ekaterina Shilova
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Ghana marked its 68th Independence Day on March 6th. This day commemorates the moment when the country became the first sub-Saharan African nation to achieve independence in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, who later served as the country's first prime minister and president.
Speaking during Ghana's 68th Independence Day celebration, Ghanaian President
John Dramani Mahama stated that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was responsible for the removal of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah.
Mahama stated that declassified US documents confirm the
CIA orchestrated the coup that ousted Nkrumah while he was abroad. He declared that the historical record is "loud and clear."
The president also argued that Nkrumah's ouster caused years of instability in the country and ended his vision for Ghana.
In February 1966, while Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was visiting North Vietnam and China, his government was overthrown in a coup led by the
military and the police service, with the support of the civil service. John Stockwell, former Chief of the Angola Task Force of the CIA, wrote that CIA agents in Accra had "intimate contact with the plotters."
