After the late president and military leader, Jerry John Rawlings, assumed office for the first time through a coup d'état in 1979, he caused the arrest of some senior military officers in the Ghana Armed Forces.
Some of the senior military officers who were arrested also served as Ghana's heads of state, also after earlier overthrowing civilian leaders such as Kofi Abrefa Busia, among others.
The eight generals killed in a firing squad in 1979, which was approved by the late Flight Lt.
Jerry John Rawlings, has become a national topic even up to date.
