Former Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko, has recounted a chilling experience of his arrest by soldiers near the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation during the 1983 Giwa coup d'état.
He recalled being forcibly bundled into an armored personnel carrier and driven to the Air Force station in Accra on the orders of an unknown senior military officer.
Upon his arrival, stricken with fear, he spotted his senior from secondary school, Captain George Partington, which momentarily gave him a sense of relief and hope.
Calling out to him by his school nickname, "Alhaji," Agyarko was shocked when his former senior instead ordered the soldiers holding him to "go and make mincemeat out of him." Boakye Agyarko, a stalwart of the New Patriotic Party, recounted that while being transported in a car to an unknown location, he began praying aloud in Krobo.
