Major Retired Osahene Boakye Gyan, one of the brains behind the June 4 uprising, has described former President Jerry John Rawlings as “a walking illegality”, who must be arrested and hanged for his role in the overthrow of the legally constituted Hilla Limann government in 1981.
He said per the dictates of the 1992 Constitution, Mr. Rawlings must not be walking a free man because treason is punishable by death.
“He has hanged himself; I’m not the one saying it. Because the current constitution says if you overthrow a constitutionally elected government, you have committed high treason punishable by public execution; it doesn’t matter how long it takes because crime has no time limit”, Osahene Boakye Gyan said in an interview with Okay FM.
“Indemnified by whom; I didn’t indemnify him and are you saying I’m not a Ghanaian; and there are a lot of us who never indemnified him from that nonsense, especially when you and I have used the same principle to hold other people to account, how do you indemnify yourself from that”, he quizzed when his attention was drawn to the fact the 1992 Constitution gives indemnity to the former president.
Major Boakye Gyan also described the 1992 Constitution as Mr Rawlings’ own “death warrant” because Article 1 section 3 to 10 “is clear on it. I wasn’t part of those who wrote the constitution; he himself signed it, so he signed his death warrant, that’s why I say he’s a walking illegality”.
“Get the constitution and let’s read it through and Ghanaians would understand what I’m trying to talk about; if you are a Head of State and you sign that constitution into law, you cannot criminalize something in the future and decriminalize it in the past; it’s not possible, the law is the law”, he asserted.
“I’m not the one saying it; he has signed the constitution to hang his own self but if for some reasons it can’t be enforced, that’s not my problem; it’s a problem for all Ghanaians; that’s why I’m saying the 1992 Constitution needs to overhauled because it is an emergency constitution”.
Major retired Boakye Gyan has been an avid critic of his former friend following the 1981 coup d’etat that ousted the Hilla Limann government, though he was the main architect of a similar action in 1979 that “cleaned” a lot of state officials and private businessmen in Ghana at the time.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Boakye Gyan, you are the one to be arrested and made to face the law. Rawlings was arrested and you went to set him free.And this man had to chanceto otrganise another coup. So you Baokye Gyan should be arrested.
This man is confused after being in exile for years
masa boakye, you are among the people who have caused ghana so much pain. you had the chance to rule ghana but gave the opportunity to him. pls keep quiet. we have moved on. let posterity judge him. no hanging. if we hang him be prepared as well. coup is coup whether it ousted military or civilian. if you and your cohorts had not overthrown akufo government rawlings may not have existed to stage the 1981 coup. pls ***barred word*** cos we have forgiven and forgotten
masa boakye, you are among the people was have caused ghana so much pain. you had the chance to rule ghana but gave the opportunity to him. pls keep quiet. we have moved on. let posterity judge him. no hanging. if we hang him be prepared as well. coup is coup whether it ousted military or civilian. if you and your cohorts had not overthrown akufo government rawlings may not have existed to stage the 1981 coup. pls ***barred word*** cos we have forgiven and forgotten
Mr. Gyan, I am not supporting the coup that took place in 1981, but does a constitution written in 1992 applies to crime committed in 1981?