"Wow, then this Rollins is president, right? The emirate king you're talking about has returned to Ghana from Hong Kong, right? "I said after listening to Chen Wenqi's history. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Not exactly, Rollins didn't choose to be president after he succeeded." Chen Wenqi took a sip of tea and said slowly.

After the successful coup, the Revolutionary Council of the Armed Forces, consisting of 11 soldiers, was formed, with Air Force Captain Rollins, 32, as the top leader, making him the youngest head of state in Ghana. The second man was Captain Boaquiye Jain, and the other members were Major Mensa Opoku, Major Mensa Bedma, Second Class Warrant Officer Auburn, Private Owusu Allah, Private 1st Class Gaziko, Corporal Owusu Boateng, Sergeant Alex Ajiei, Private 1st Class Peter Tasiri Azombo, and Lieutenant Colonel Hesi Apallo. It is clear that the supreme state power is in the hands of captains and soldiers. The officers of the colonel-level who participated in the Revolutionary Committee were all on the side of the coup d'état in the contest between the coup d'état and the anti-coup d'état, and played a certain role in the final victory of the coup. The Revolutionary Council ordered all generals in the armed forces to retire and appointed Colonel Dan Pura as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Colonel Bruce Quinu as Commander of the Army, Colonel Jabaa as Commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant Commander of the Navy as Lieutenant Commander of the Navy and Lieutenant Colonel Saidu Ayoma as Commander of the Border Guards. Rawlings was a brilliant politician who insisted that the posts of senior commanders of the armed forces must be given to military professionals and senior officers with some authority in the armed forces.

In order to stabilize the political situation, revive the economy and establish a clean regime, the Revolutionary Committee of the Armed Forces, headed by Rawlings, took three important measures: 1) to fulfill its promise to return government to the people in the short term; 3. Strengthen market management to revive the economy. The people of Ghana have suffered greatly from a long period of instability, especially military rule, and are eager for a civilian government. As a result, differences of opinion arose within the Revolutionary Council and the armed forces on the question of whether or not to "return government to the people". The majority advocated that the military should continue to be in power, but the minority faction headed by Rawlings insisted on handing over power, declaring that the purpose of the "revolution" must first take into account the interests of the entire nation, and that it was by no means a "revolution" for the sake of becoming an official. Because of Rawlings' prestige and influence, the Revolutionary Committee finally made the decision to "return government to the people" as soon as possible. General elections were scheduled to be held on June 18, 1979, half a month after the coup, and the People's National Party led by Sheila Liman won the general election, in which Liman was elected president. On 24 September, the Revolutionary Council handed over power to a civilian government headed by President Liman. Rollins demanded that Liman should first carry out a purges of purity within the People's National Party and form a clean and efficient government.

After the Revolutionary Council came to power, Rawlings stressed the need for a "war" against social injustice for the sake of Ghana's health, sweeping away the malignant tumors in Ghanaian politics and the toxins that disrupted the economy, the main source of which was the corruption of the generals. As a result, the Revolutionary Committee made the decision to carry out the "Great Purge". The campaign is aimed at corrupt generals and senior officers within the armed forces. As everyone knows, Utuka, the former commander of the border guard, was given the title of "smuggling commander" and used his power to investigate and prohibit smuggling to engage in smuggling activities on a large scale. Ghanaian public opinion claims that the head of state has become an exchange, the Burmese battalion (the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces) has been turned into a trading company, the armed forces are the Ministry of Commerce, and the police force is a smuggling brigade. A considerable part of the government's revenues went into the pockets of generals and officers, many of whom had private deposits in foreign banks.

Rawlings openly stated that "in order to clean up this country, blood needs to be shed." The Revolutionary Committee ordered the dignitaries of the successive military governments to declare their assets truthfully; Announced the freezing of bank deposits and other property of 81 high-ranking military officers and 11 large businessmen with collusion with the military; Officials who undermine the country's economy, embezzle state property and extort money from the people are interrogated. Soon after, Lieutenant General Akvas Amankawa Affrifa (2 April 1969 – 7 August 1970), Lieutenant General Ignatius Koutu Achampong (13 January 1972 – 5 July 1978), Lieutenant General Frederick William Kwasi Akufo (5 July 1978 – 4 July 1979) and Colonel Roger Ferry of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Major General Robert Kotey, former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Eight military dignitaries, including former Navy Commander Rear Admiral Joy Amedunan, former Air Force Commander Air Rear Admiral George Iwa Boakiye, and former Border Guard Commander Rear Admiral Eduard Kwaku Utuka, were sentenced to death by the People's Court on charges of corruption and were summarily executed at the Tesheh military range in Ghana.

The Revolutionary Council's approach to the "bloodshed treatment" was supported by the majority of Ghanaians. Ghanaian trade unions, student unions and other social groups issued statements expressing support for the Rawlings junta's purge of the military ranks. However, this caused panic among the upper echelons of Ghanaian society, senior and senior officials and military officers, and clandestine activities within the armed forces to instigate a coup d'état. At the same time, the leaders of a number of African countries and Western countries called on the new leaders of Ghana to stop the "shooting of former heads of government and senior officials." Under pressure from home and abroad, Rawlings announced in a June 30 broadcast to the nation that his government would not execute former junta criminals and would send those who had gone on trial to serve in farm labor or re-education centers.

In order to rectify the economic order, increase the revenue of the state treasury and curb prices, the military government of Rawlings adopted severe repressive measures against the national bourgeoisie of Ghana, such as the immediate payment of arrears of taxes by industry and commerce, the confiscation of hoarded grain and daily necessities, the forced lowering of prices, the public flogging or parade of merchants who sold goods beyond the limit price, and the severe punishment of business owners who colluded with officials in private business. But while cracking down on hoarding and speculation, it also hurt small businessmen who were small and profitable. As a result of the rectification, industrial and commercial enterprises went to the tax bureau one after another to pay their tax arrears, prices in the market began to fall, and the living standards of the residents improved.

More importantly, the Revolutionary Council of the Armed Forces has set an example by sweeping away the corrupt practices of the military junta leadership of the past. The members of the committee do not live in luxurious and comfortable official residences, they do not participate in private economic activities, they concentrate on the offices of the Ministry of Defense and refuse all special treatment. It shows the style of the leading group of the military government to be honest and honest.

The "revolutionary style" of Rawlings and other members of the Revolutionary Council set a good example for Ghana's goal of establishing a clean government. This is conducive to the healthy development of Ghana's politics and the improvement of Ghana's economy.

Nkrumah, who had been criticized by successive military governments, regained a fair evaluation, and Nkrumah's ideas of African nationalism and the practice of "African socialism" were again respected, and in some form, as the "guiding ideology" of the revolutionary committee to govern the country. But the Revolutionary Committee did not fanatically and unconditionally copy it.

The Revolutionary Committee insisted on the promise of "returning government to the people" and handed over power to the newly elected government of the People's National Party (PPP) led by Sheila Liman after only three months in power, establishing the first truly democratically elected civilian government since the military coup d'état of 1966. This has led to a change in the image of the majority of Ghanaians towards the armed forces controlled by the Young Zhuang military and has led to communication between the armed forces and the people, especially between the armed forces and youth organizations dominated by university students.