Major Gen. Albert Kwesi Ocran, the last member of the National Liberation Council (NLC), the military cum police junta that overthrew Dr Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, has died.
He died at the weekend in his hometown, Brakwa in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District of the Central Region at the age of 89, a family spokesperson said.
Maj. Gen. Ocran was born on July 21, 1929 and was commissioned as an officer in the Gold Coast Regiment of the United Kingdom's Royal West African Frontier Force in 1954. He later rose to become a Colonel in the Ghana Army after independence.
He was the commander of the First Infantry Brigade of the army, now known as the Southern Command, at the time of the coup d'état in 1966.
Maj. Gen. Ocran was promoted to Brigadier following the coup and made Chief of Army Staff, a position he held for six months.
He was reappointed Chief of Army Staff in May 1967 and again promoted to the position of Chief of the Defence Staff in November 1968 and continued as such until November 1969.
NLC member
As a Colonel, he came into national prominence with his involvement in the first coup d'état in the country, which led to the overthrow of the Convention People's Party (CPP) government of Dr Kwame Nkrumah on February 24, 1966.
After the coup, he was one of the eight members of the National Liberation Council (NLC), the junta which replaced Dr Nkrumah’s civilian government.
After the parliamentary election of 1969, Maj. Gen Ocran became one of the three members of an interim Presidential Commission which ushered in the Second Republic.
The other members were Mr John Willie Kofi Harlley, the Inspector General of Police Police and Lt Gen. Akwasi Afrifa, who was the chairman.
Source: Daily Graphic
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He should fuck off. A traitor. He took money from the CIA to destroy our country. He is one of the cause of our woes today. We can never get to where we were before their ***barred word*** coup. God punish him.
YOU HAVE DONE YOUR PART RIP MY NATIVE BRAVE WARRIOR, YOU INSPIRED MANY YOUTH IN BRAKWA AND KOKOSO TO JOINED THE ARMY.
Kwame , your fact is correct.
Please fact check this - 'Maj. Gen. Ocran was promoted to Brigadier' The rank of major general is higher than Brigadier general
Indeed you did your part for father Ghana; right or wrong if for God to tell through Jesus Christ at the final judgement. But please find time to tell Dr. Nkrumah what ndc and npp are doing today. Tell him the dollar rate, tell him the broken patriotism and social manners, tell him about the meeting in the forest, tell him about the loosing of pylon bolt and nuts and tell him how everything is politicize.Tell him that the black man is not capable to manage his own affairs any more and we now go to IMF or oversubscribe 1million years bond. tell him
ok so finally finally you too die some? Nante yie. Gor and sort it out with an Nzema ghost for there. Nkrumah has been waiting patiently for your side of the story. You better hurry up because it is possible that your earlier brother has shifted the goal post on you just like ndc and npp does here
you will certainly meet the Great Osagyefo and would see you leve. Even on earth no body is aware you ever exsited