This year's June 4th Revolution and the 30th anniversary is scheduled to take place in the Oti Region.The leadership of the party in the region in collaboration with the National Planning Committee have far advanced the preparation towards the anniversary.
The party's 30th anniversary falls on June 10,2022 and must be celebrated accordingly.Activities such as Symposia, Clean up Exercise and a Recognition Day( a day set aside to appreciate foundation members of the party)
The detailed program of the event shall be made public soonest.
The June 4th Revolution was a popular uprising in Ghana in 1979 that arose out of a combination of corruption, bad governance, lack of discipline and frustrations in the army and among the general public.It was sparked when the then Supreme Military Council (SMC II) of General F K. Akuffo put flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings on Public Trial for attempting to overthrow the government on May 15th 1979.
A military trial was set up and Jerry John Rawlings turned the trial against the government by accusing it of massive corruption and requesting that his fellow accused be set free as he was soly responsible for the mutiny. Jerry John Rawlings words 'Leave my men alone- I'm responsible' were immortals words that will continue to be the standard of true leadership in our country.
Those words remind us of the master's teaching that 'to save one's life we must be prepared to lose it'. selflessness and sacrifice was brought to the fore. What a leader!!!?. His diatribe resonated with the entire nation as there was massive suffering. Inspired by Jerry John Rawlings for showing bravery even at the point of death,young officers and other officers forcibly released him and his men on the morning of June 4th 1979.
In the night of June 3rd 1979, junior military officers broke into the jail where Jerry John Rawlings was being held and freed him, and ostensibly matched him to the national Radio station to make an announcement. The first the public heard from Jerry Rawlings was now legendary statement that he Jerry Rawlings had been released by the junior officers and that he was under their command. He requested all soldiers to meet with them at the Nicholson stadium in Burma Camp in Accra.
June 4 uprising was the most significant event on the Nation's political calendar apart from the achievement of Ghana's Independence
Celebration of June 4th should be a time for sober reflection on the issues that brought about the revolution.
The sense of lost moral responsibility and the principle of accountability and probibity in our public life must be restored.
We are of the conviction that, June 4th led by Flt Jerry John Rawlings was about values and principles and must be the core platform on which a greater and stronger nation-the cause of Justice,the cause of fairness and the cause of brotherhood.
Ghana under Akuffo Addo government today isn't different from that of 1979 that led to the revolution because we are faced with a similar canker of *Corruption,* *Greed,* *Nepotism,* *High Taxes,* *Hardship,* *Bad governance,* *lack of discipline* and *many more*.
Akuffo Addo has legalized corruption which has a repercussions of denying ordinary Ghanaian *employment*, *better* *education*, *good drinking* *water,* *good roads,* *electricity,* *social justice* *many more.*
We have to celebrate June 4th event because it offers us the opportunity to rebuild the lost confidence, fight corruption and creat equal opportunities for Ghanaians regardless of Creed, Ethnicity, Birth and Social status
Long live all the great men who laid their lives for this Country and may the soul of Flt Jerry John Rawlings rest in peace
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