Ghanaians poured bottles of Whiskey on the streets to celebrate Kotoka toppling Nkrumah – Rtd Maj. General

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Retired Major General Kwamina Sam

Retired Major General Kwamina Sam has recounted how Ghanaians at the time poured bottles of whiskey on the streets in celebration when General Kotoka toppled Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah.

According to the retired General, Ghanaians at the time poured whisky on the streets, thanking God for relieving them from oppression.

He highlighted that Kotoka was considered a hero when he toppled Nkrumah.

The General stressed that Nkrumah was not in sync with his colleagues and did not carry them along, adding that the intelligencia were brainwashed and didn’t see what Nkrumah was doing.

Speaking with Kafui Dey, in an interview, the retired General stated, “At a time, Nkrumah fell, if you were alived at saw what happened, you could not blame Ghanaians for naming the Airport after Kotoka, there was total jubilation.

Part of the problem with Nkrumah was that he was not in sync with his collegues he meant well, but he could not carry his people with him. The intelligencia did not follow him; they had been so brainwashed and didn’t see what Nkrumah was trying to do, so the Kotoka thing was a relief.

Somebody will take a bottle of whisky and pour it on the streets after the coup, thanking God for relieving Ghanaians from oppression, so there were extreme things, ban Nkrumah, ban his book, ban everything so naming the place after Kotoka was not difficult since he died at the Airport the champs that captured him, took him to the airport and shot him there”, he added.

Retired Major General Kwamina Sam, according to a post by Kafui Dey on Youtube was part of the first batch of trainees at the Ghana Military Academy and served as a CDS at some time in his career and also witnessed the overthrow of Ghana’s first President, Kwame Nkrumah.

The video has emerged at a time when Ghanaians are debating the Mahama government’s decision to replace the name Kotoka on Ghana’s International airport.

Also, Paul Adom-Otchere dropped the ills of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, which ended with Lieutenant Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka masterminding a coup against him on February 24, 1966.

Adom-Otchere, over the weekend on JoyNews NewsFile, detailed his claimed terrible things Kwame Nkrumah did, which, according to him, warranted his overthrow in 1966.

He claimed that Nkrumah’s amendment of the Constitution of Ghana to make himself a lifetime president of Ghana, also changed the national flag of Ghana to his party flag and prosecuted his political opponents.

Speaking during a panel discussion on JoyNews’ NewsFile on February 7, 2026, Adom-Otchere stated, “The 1960 Constitution, which Nkrumah put together, which I have in front of me. Nkrumah’s name was buried in the Constitution, Article 10, where it talks about Kwame Nkrumah as president of Ghana.”

“There’s also a bit more… There was an amendment to the 1960 Constitution in 1964, and if you look at the amendment, it will interest you to know that the amendments provided in the 1964 amendment included the fact that Kwame Nkrumah was now able to dismiss judges. Yes, he was able to dismiss judges,” he said.

He added, “Now, there was nowhere else to go, because if you look at the amendment of the Constitution, Nkrumah had made himself a life president, and he had also made CPP the only legitimate party”.

“In fact, if you look at the usage of the PDA between 1958, when it was set up, and about 1961, it was minimal. But from 1961 to 1964, the PDA was railroading everywhere, and every home was afraid”.

“What we would like Ghanaians to see. And at the end of the day, the government will make its decision, and then we will have to decide whether it’s a political decision that we vote on the next time, or whatever we do”.

“But we cannot ignore history. We have to make obeisance to history. The history is that from 1960 up to the time Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966, he was a despot. He was not good for Ghana; he was terrible for Ghana,” he said.

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