At Ghana's 68th Independence Anniversary durbar at the Jubilee House, President John Dramani Mahama recently announced that declassified United States intelligence showed that America's CIA orchestrated the overthrow of the country's first President, Osagyefo Dr .
Details of the events that transpired on 24 February 1966, when Dr Nkrumah was overthrown, disclosed that he was on his way to China when a joint military and police coup d'état masterminded by the Americans led to his removal.
The details of the sequence of events, shared by Ask Ghana Media on X, indicated that while Ghana's first president was unaware that he had been removed, his Chinese counterpart, Premier Zhou Enlai, was aware and was contemplating how to break the news to him.
After Nkrumah arrived at the Beijing Airport, the then-Chinese premier received him warmly and took him to the state guesthouse.
