Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey
Emmanuel Odarkwei Obetsebi-Lamptey (* 1902 , † January 29, 1963 in Accra , Ghana ) was one of the leading politicians in the British colony of the Gold Coast and in the young state of Ghana. In addition to Ghana's first presidents Kwame Nkrumah , Joseph Boakye Danquah , William Ofori Atta , Ebenezer Ako-Adjei and Edward Akufo-Addo , Obetsebi was one of Ghana's Big Six .
Career
Obetsebi-Lamptey is a co-founder of the first Gold Coast party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC). After the break with Kwame Nkrumah, Obetsebi-Lamptey founded the Ghana Congress Party (GCP) together with Danquah, Nii Amaa Ollennu and Kofi Abrefa Busia in the Gold Coast colony . He later resigned from this party due to a power struggle with Busia and founded the Nationalist Party .
Family and death
On August 1, 1962, President Kwame Nkrumah returned to Ghana from a meeting in Tenkudugu with the President of the then Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso ), Maurice Yaméogo . A bomb attack on Nkrumah was attempted in Kulungugu, in the Upper Region of Ghana, but failed. Nkrumah blamed his former confidants and members of his own government for the attack.
Obetsebi-Lamptey was imprisoned on October 5, 1962 at the instigation of Kwame Nkrumah and taken to Nsawam prison near Accra. Here his health deteriorated rapidly, so that Obetsebi-Lamptey died on January 29, 1963 in Nsawam Prison. The burial was not allowed to be performed by the family, but was carried out by the prison authorities.
His son Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey (1946-2016) was a member of the government of John Agyekum Kufuor as Minister of Tourism and Minority Affairs ( Minister of Tourism & Diasporean Relations ) .
Honors
In Accra , a roundabout on the Ring Road was named after Obetsebi-Lamptey. In 2007, the 10,000 Cedi note with the portrait of the Big Six of Ghana and thus also with Obetsebi-Lamptey was put into circulation.
See also
Individual evidence
Web links
- National Reconciliation Commission , Volume 1, Chapter 3, Pages 27-29 (PDF file)
- Modern Ghana , report of a commission of inquiry into death and imprisonment, engl.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Obetsebi-Lamptey, Emmanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Obetsebi-Lamptey, Emmanuel Odarkwei (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ghanaian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1902 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1963 |
| Place of death | Accra , Ghana |