Former President Rawlings bodyguard finally speaks out about the coup 

This is no longer an interview it is now like a debate or interrogation. Allow the guest to tell us his story.

The JJ Rawlings i grew knowing as president is a man to be praised by every Ghanaian today. His past just like most ours might not be beautiful but he stands for something valuable in Ghana. My sincere apologies to everyone who has suffered in one way or the other as a results of JJ's past but the fact still remains.... when we mention Ghana today, names like Nkrumah and Rawlings remain immortals. Peace

This interviewer hates Rawlings, he is horrible instead of asking questions fairly he is focus on discrediting Rawlings. Ghana will not be what it is today without JJ Rawlings take it or leave it. I wish Cameroon had a Rawlings RIP Sir you did well for your country

Simple and straight forward, the host had no intention in obtaining the facts or any amount of truth from the get-go. Andy in all of his interviews on this particular matter was only interested in imposing all the damages on one man. It's easy to tell from this interview that he is filled with so much hatred and bitterness, and for that matter he tries as hard as he can to get his guests to dance to his tune of "Crucify Him" all in an attempt to discredit Rawlings alone or anyone who tries to call a spade a spade. Andy, clearly integrity deficiency is on your side, therefore I recommend you conduct some self assessment before your next guest shows up.

Thanks for uploading these interviews Lawyer Andy, God bless 🙌 you more for preserving History critical for Ghana 🇬🇭

Andy sounds like he’s got personal scores to settle with Rawlings and wasn’t happy hearing something that goes against his perception of the man. But it was obvious at least to proper thinking people that Adomako Nyamekye and the rest wanted to overthrow him(Rawlings). If Andy were in the position of Rawlings, would he have allowed that happen? What he’s losing sight of is that, the rest didn’t have any VISION. Sorry about the lives that were lost and I personally think if all these people(Rawlings inclusive )can be fairly tried and found guilty then God...every single of them should pay for their sins. Lastly, if not for Rawlings’ vision the other parties and the democracy that’s given them the freedom to express themselves and put out their thoughts wouldn’t have been possible. GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA AND MAKE OUR NATION GREAT AND STRONG. As unfortunate that some of the situations might be we need to taste the bitter sometimes in order to appreciate the sweet.

Everything in this world came out of words Andy, come on Andy show a bit of maturity. Like Charles said, you are a lawyer. Stop it Andy, these are people who saw what you did not see. Some of us are losing interest because of the bias.

Mr. Mensah was too good and bold enough not to be misled by the joke interviewer whose sole aim is to discredit prez. Rawlings

This interviewer just has an agenda against Rawlings, its telling

Mr Andy, if you want to have an interview you should come clean. Don't come with prejudice. Whether you like Rawlings or not, you should have your interview on neutral grounds. It's a shame watching your interviews. You are just like a biased referee. Even your interview technique is questionable. People really want to hear and learn what actually happened but your mindset for these interviews is really shameful. Pathetic!!!!

Given the chance l would also have ordered the execution of all those who took part in the plotting and overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah. They have sinned so much against our beloved country Ghana. In some countries their whole families would have been wiped away with them. Ghanaians should stop blaming Rawlings. I think what this guy is saying about him is correct. He is speaking with honesty

This presenter should be changed He doesn't allow the man to prove his point

Andy, this guy is genuine. I was in the barracks then. I polished the boots of Nyamekye, Osei (the percussionist), Jude (the defense stars footballer), Morro (the boxer) etc and RSM Musah from the squadron horse unit asked us to be riding the horses to graze them and sometimes send them to the polo club for games. I wonder why I can't remember your guest. I was also in the flagstaff bungalow 19.

You are speaking the truth, our down fall.was when they removed Dr Nkromah from power. Speak all.

Its true. I saw President Rawlings himself in 90's tidying up a gutter around Ada Station in Ashaiman in a white overall. I was humbled by that gesture ever since

The more you intensify your prejudices the more I love Jj Rawlings

like seriously.....comparing Rawlings with Charles Taylor. Massa your line of questioning is childish.....careful Bro. Eloquence is not equal to Intelligence u know

Mr. Lawyer, how about you call other corrupt politicians who looted our money (and killed our pockets) to come out and apologize too.

I LOVE THE WORD THAT HE SAID LET US ALL COME TOGTHER SHAKEHANDS AND SAY "WE ALL MESS UP " .

Andy, why don't you try to interview Rawlings and let him speak for himself? Mr. Dankwa appears very credible.

About (Dr Nkrumah,s) overthrown, is Ghana, and Africa,s downfall, so those who said Nkrumah did bad doesn't have brain in their head, Dr Nkroma was not thinking about Him self, but the Country first, so those who were trying to boycott His plans, what does Nkrumah have to do to them, those who are written Nonsense if you are thinking positive about your country, and side guys are thinking negative against you, or that, what will you do to them, so that is for Nkrumah's side"

Whenever the west doesn’t like u , then u must have been doing something good for your people. The biggest downfall of Ghana was the NLC Coup that overthrew Nkrumah. It changed our gusty and that if Africa for good. His idea of the one party state so he can work with all whether opposition or not would have been great , the whole country belong to one party and we all work hard to develop the country without depending on the west. But what happened? Our own selfish and greedy people who wanted to have all for themselves overthrew him on the pretense of making the country better , that’s the origin of our immature democracy . 64 years down the line what have we achieved as a nation ? Our country has become testing grounds for democracy and various military rule, serving as breeding grounds for politicians to come and loot for 8 years after which their successors come to do same . That’s the same cycle we are living with now. It has caused great division that politicians don’t thing Ghana first but their respective parties so no political party want to continue the works of their predecessors cos the praises will be for the previous parties should they complete their projects thus they leave it to go waste wasting the same money we borrowed for investment and thus leaving us highly indebted. Why can’t we as a nation have a one party state or a single plan for the nation regardless of which party is in power. We as a nation can make a long term plan and break them into 5 year blocks for completion and access how far we’ve reached after every 5 years and carry on with the next 5 year plan if the previous one is completed or finish it if not completed regardless of which party is in power.we the youth should rise up cos if we don’t do something this selfish partisan political cycle will continue till they ripe us of all our dreams. We Africans can only be accepted in our land so let develop it. We have to rise as a nation and a continent. The youth need to rise up. African will have the added advantage of having the most youthful population in all over the working some years to come if we don’t psych ourselves with the right mentality , we are bound to fail again. ✊🏿

Andy D, as a lawyer I believe you should know better and understand the effects of revolution. I think you should learn how to ask thought provoking questions rather than laying blame on Rawlings. Please do your homework well when going on set the next time.

NICE ONE ANDY TV ,THANK YOU AND KINDLY KEEP THEM COMING

Andy = Unnecessary question

I like this program honestly, but it seems Andyd seems to take this very personal because he might have lost a loved one. But it was a military regime and its kill or be killed. If he Rawlings signed for his own nephew to be shot for shooting someone then I think he was for the people. Shit happens, it’s very difficult to kill a family member and if he did that then I guess he did it for his people. The others who spoke bad about Rawlings just wanted the gains, after all he stayed back in the country to rule and didn’t go on exile but rewrite his wrongs. Even now in Ghana people wear military uniforms to bully others and even the soldiers themselves bully people, we have bad nuts everywhere.

I remember the days of Young Pioneer,... We sang, " We are figthing for the good always, We are figthing for the good always, We are the young pioneers of Ghana we follow Dr Nkrumah, Osagyfo dense to Africa. ". He was right for Africa. He was indeed a Messiah andwas not wanted by the so call democratic Guards. Mansa Musah is a historian.

I remember this man. He was such a handsome young bodyguard.

This is a true story which I personally witnessed. People were actually botched during Rawlings era. ASSETS were confiscated unlawfully and killed. He turned round and did the same wrong doings he killed innocent people for. Rawlings was the brain behind all those atrocities. I was in secondary school form one in Ghana Sec School.

Wow. This Rawlings’s bodyguard was very mysterious at that time. No one heard him speak. Respectfully;as a child, there was a rumor that he was deaf and dumb. now I hear him speak makes me realize being a child and being stupid is indeed kind of wonderful 😂. There were so many rumors in the 80s and 90s.

I salute you sir , much respect for JJ now

The spirit of our military then was far better than what we have now. I know most of the army officers in Achiase jungle warfare school. This man has worked very well and he a true speaker.

I respect this Mansa Musa man, even though I do not agree with some of his views. He appears credible, in my opinion.

Mr. Lawyer, acknowledge the difference between a constitution and a decree and stop heckling the guy.

Civilians will never understand the mindset of a military personnel

Andy I'm going to keep my comment or rather feedback simple. Firstly I admire what you doing in terms of the space your channel has created for political discussions, however your approach is a bit dualistic, and a more holistic approach will better engage your audience. Having grown up in South Labadi estates where Rawling had is formative years from childhood till he joined the airforce, though a few decades apart, I can identify with the environmental factors that shaped his way of thinking, outlook on life and yern for fairness which let to him taking action. Remember no human is perfect.

Hello Andy, I am a Gambian watching from Banjul. I like your channel and much more your interviewing style. But let me also point out that you should work on your voice projection. Your words sometimes fail to be clearly captured by the mic. I t is either that you lower your voice too much or that your mic is not properly positioned. Thank you.

We need Rawlings type to come and take over the presidency. The corruption is too much we are suffering.

MUCH love & admiration here for Mr. Charles Dankwa (True Soldier). Andy on the other hand seems too bias....pushing the "let's hate Rawlings "agenda too hard!!You've already done too much of that with your choice of interviewees,leave that to them please & at least pretend to be neutral when asking those shallow questions!!C'mon Andy!!

Coups never succeed if the people don’t demand for it..... so I guess it was necessary that time

Andy the man is saying the truth. So far he is the guy who have said the real things. Ghana should have kept this commandos,we would not have been going through all this kidnapping and all this robbery,,any country without security is very bad.if Rawlings were to be a bad person like some people think, he would have been dealt with long time ago. All those you interviewed left the country why didn't they stay, now the country is stable they are coming to make blablabla.this guy is correct guy and all what he said are true.

Andy, Rawlings did apologised in his last speech to parliament before handing over to President Kufour. These were his words; '...for the excesses committed during the PNDC era, I am sorry'. Please check. And please this your interviews of people who saw certain things during Ghana's recent history is very educative especially for some us who were young during the '79 revolution. But you need to be objective in your interviews. You seem to just gear your questions towards projecting Rawlings as a killer and demon. Allow each of your guests to say what their experiences and opinions are without forcing them to say otherwise. Your interviews are skewed compared to any other interviews I have seen. Please be more objective.

Why can't this interviewer just allow the guy to tell his story..would've been an informative interview but @ANDYD ruined it🗑

I love this soldier

Andy, you are not being objective with your show. We all know some of the things that happened during the PNDC were not correct, but you are taking it too far. Your guest is trying to be honest with the issues, but you are trying to push him to say worse things about Rawlings. You are happy when rawlings is demonize. Call Rawlings on your show and interview him. This is a shame!

I like the passion in his submissions

Andy, be realistic. What is your agenda? There is no redemption without blood shed. Same is revolution. We Ghanaians are enjoying the peace we have because of the revolution.

I love this bodyguard, he's being candid, his last part killed me 😂😂😂 #there are so many women @ OSU, so I mean.....he probably chop some...lmao 😂😂🤣

The host has his own opinion about Rawlings so nothing will change it.... I don’t think he will call himself a wise man

Thank's brother. God bless you.

Andy is a joker in his questioning here!!!!!

I respect and Honour Mr Mansa Musa

Andy; Rawlings’ coup was different from Taylor’s Rebels’ incursion. If both took the same route, you would’ve had more death in Ghana like Liberia.

Andy, I would have loved to be an ardent follower of your channel, but for your skewness in questioning. What did you mean by "wasn't it too early" vis-à-vis Nkrumah? Why didn't you ask the same question about winning independence for us? I think you have an agenda - an agenda to demonize people like Nkrumah and most especially, Rawlings. No matter what you say about Nkrumah, he is the best thing to have happened to this country. The man on your show is an Akyem man, judging by his name. He could say all manner of things to demonize Nkrumah, but he was very objective. Nkrumah became what you think he became because his own colleagues hated and envied him for no reason. If you were him, would you have sat aloof and unconcerned? For Rawlings, whatever your agenda for him is, he is still alive so you can take him on. Glad you are a lawyer.

This man is taking like x bodyguard good job

Andy....I think you are naive. What do you want Rawlings to apologize for? He was running a country.. he did the best that can be expected. He was constantly under attach and criticism. African politics, as you should know by now, is not same compared to that of the western democracies. You say you are not against Rawlings.....the non-verbal communication you evoke says otherwise.

I am beginning to like Rawlings from these educators

ANDY your show is great but you need to relax and just let people talk. Too much interruption and insinuation. It ruins the flow of dialogue that should really just be monologue. It is not your place to change the perceptions of the person being interviewed. They were there and now telling us history how they saw and evaluated it. You and I weren't there to have much say towards persons like this. Thanks

True talk Mr bodyguard and for Ghanaians who are saying that rawlings has killed people you must stop saying that because if you think that you lost some of your family member during that time ask yourself and be faithfully are they the only Ghanaians they are not and they are the people who are try to spoil our Ghana that's why they are killed so my fellow Ghanaians try to follow the truth and stop covering their fault because if didn't do anything wrong they will not be killed the are planty Ghanaians who are not killed because they didn't do anything wrong or try to spoil the country

God bless you

Ghana was very corrupt during the late 70s. Food was very expensive, technical education was for those who can bribe the school, poor people didn't have a chance, the government will give flour and maize allocations to bakeries and vendors, these vendors will make twenty times the profit. I use to walk from Accra Tema station to Achimota to school and walk back to catch a bus to Nungua, because I couldn't afford a bribe to go to school in Nungua. Rawlings came to power, and forced food prices down. Ghana suffered during Rawlings regime because all foreign investors who were fueling corruption in Ghana left Ghana. We were abandoned, but, there was discipline.

Please you can not compare Rawlings with Charles Taylor. You doing the wrong thing in your interview.

That public trial of Rawlings after the failed May 15, 1979 made him rather popular than to punish him. The hearing rather gave him a platform to sell his ideology to the other ranked soldiers and the civilians.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR THE TRUTH, ITS ONE BUT VERY BITER TO HEAR GOD BLESS JJ FOR HIS GREAT WORK

That is a great topic for discussion. Please i need him for a Thesis i am working on which is related to the various coup in Ghana. The topic is "The Forgotten Holocaust".

what happens in the heart and the brain affects you more than anything else...True talk. ....if you believe on Karma, physical torture isn't necessary ..

It is obvious the interviewer is too young to understand what Ghana was like in those days.

Hey man you know your stuff. I like your sincerity and keep it up.

Is this an interview or an interrogation.

The host interrupts too much. Allow the story to flow in subsequent episodes. The story is too distorted from the interruptions

Many Ghanaians are so quick to criticize people. I listened to the whole interview, and the guest is not fake. Anyone who paid attention to the beginning of the interview would know that the guest explained quite clearly, that he was not in the ghana army prior to 1982/83. Because Andy was not paying attention to what he said initially, he continued to ask him about events that transpired prior to 1982 before he even joined the army. The guest expressed his opinion on those prior events based on what he heard from his friends in the army around that period, and what he himself thought as a civilian. There is nothing fake about that. Andy should have paid attention to what the guest said about his timeline of joining the army, then he could have steered the interview in the right direction by asking the guest only about events that he was part of. Please Ghanaians, let’s be slow to speak/criticize, and quick to listen.

This Andy guy is half-baked in logic and interviewing skills; with prejudiced mind.

This show is solely about Rawlings. A platform for people to hate on Rawlings

The interviewer said Adebuga apologized for killings, but this is wrong, because Adebuga apologized only to those he killed during the revolution and clearly disputed the claims that he killed people after that.

like seriously Andy...you expect an apology from Rawlings but not the rest.....Will the market women and men who tripled food prices and profited from them; causing painful hunger, etc......Please Let us learn from the past and move forward. We like licking out wounds too much. Ah!!!!

Rawlings has long time apologised in June 1992 at Axim.

This Andy guy is so bias. Why does he always try to divert the guest from a point he's(guest) making? Does he(Andy) read from our comments to change at all?

Why comparing JJ to CHARLES TAYLOR are you okay ANDY, you just hate JJ

Where is useless international criminal court ?

The guy is telling the truth I know The SAPATO man he is talking of .

The "clean up" was necessary. As a child I remember the scarcity and corruption that was going on. I don't know how old you were but you should have done a proper research on the events that took place. Now Ghana enjoys the benefits of "clean up" that took place. Ask other West Africans how much they wished they had the kind of leadership we had back then.

Andy,this is a great show with very good content but your interviewing skills need to be shored up, bro.

This Andy guy is Anti Rawlings. He interviewed Adabuga and other guys who plotted 81 coup which faild anyways. Issaka Braimah who was part of those who plotted against Rawlings say otherwise about what Adabuga and Andy discussed.

The “WE and THEM” that is one of the African’s mentality!

Andy I can see your dislike for Rawlings but to compared him with Charles Taylor is pathetic , disgusting and disgraceful.

This man was trained as a commondo to protect PNDC, he didn't know what was really going on in Ghana then and now; they were just bodyguards on orders, please he doesn't know anything, he talking like a child, PLEASE don't interview people like him, people are hiding serious crimes

I'm not for Rawlings but this Andy guy has already made his mind. Just to blame Rawlings

Andy, you're doing a great job, but the level of ignorance you exhibit before your panel is alarming. If u are not sure, don't exhibit it.

This interviewer seems to be bias, he act like he already knew the truth but still want to Interrogate him. 😐☹️

Please don't compare Charles Taylor to JJ Rawlings

Andy is a small boy. He was not aware of the situation Ghana went through....

They still defend that nonsense they did

Mansa musa ..proper barracks boy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is the way Ghanaians comment, whatever opinion the first person expresses, they all follow follow it without applying the CS. Oh Ghana!

This guy is real trust him and believed him please

Indeed Rawlings vrs Charles Taylor is a huge difference.

It seems Andy has personal issues perspectively against Rawlings's regime. But brother lets drop those and open up and see things from every angle equally without bad feelings against anyone. Our fore bearers did what they could, thinking what they thought from their perspectives. We need to look at everyone's angle and that would be the begining of understanding to lead us into the right progress.

Andy, I love you so much, especially when I first watched your production, but there something I have noticed about you and that is, you personally hate the former president Jerry John Rawlings. Because, anytime you are interviewing these retired soldiers, you impose accusations on Mr. Rawlings. Your interview with Adomako Nyamekye, this man was reigning insults on Mr. Rawlings but you never stoped him. By that interview, I also started developing hostility against you and thought of telling Mr. Rawlings not to grant you an interview. You can profess to Mr. Rawlings but your actions questions really tell what is in your heart against him. Because, even when you are have been clarified on certain things you don't want to accept it and wondering how you can sit in front of that innocent pursue driven man for an interview. And mind you, he is not going to apologize anybody today or tomorrow. You, keep your feelings.

Andy, the man you hated so much, has passed on. I think your wish has been answered. Shame on you

Andy, you may have been too young; but PRESIDENT Rawlings on many occasions, apologized for excesses of the revolution!