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Dr Hilla Limann was imprisoned aft his overthrow successful 1981
A tribute by Junaid Limann, lad of the precocious JB Limann, has shed airy connected a daring but yet unsuccessful program to escaped his uncle, erstwhile Ghanaian President Dr Hilla Limann, from imprisonment, pursuing the 1981 coup led by Jerry John Rawlings.
According to Junaid’s account, his father, a lawyer and younger member of the ousted president, successful a amusement of profound familial bond, risked his beingness successful a bold effort to unafraid his brother’s release, amidst Ghana’s turbulent governmental landscape.
Dr Hilla Limann, who served arsenic President of Ghana from 1979 to 1981, was overthrown connected December 31, 1981, successful a coup that plunged Ghana backmost into subject regularisation by Rawlings who had antecedently handed him powerfulness pursuing the 1979 elections.
Dr Limann was imprisoned connected charges of causing fiscal nonaccomplishment to the authorities and according to Junaid Limann’s tribute, his father, who was past a instrumentality pupil successful the UK, was devastated by the quality of his brother’s detention.
“My begetter was near stunned, angry, and stranded successful the UK. He soon learned that his member had been imprisoned,” Junaid wrote.
Determined to act, JB Limann abandoned his ineligible studies and traveled to Nigeria, wherever helium collaborated with Dr Limann’s allies to devise a rescue plan.
“Disguised and utilizing a counterfeit passport, my begetter bravely crossed the borderline into Ghana,” Junaid recounted.
In Ghana, JB managed to conscionable with a high-ranking wide to beforehand the plot. However, the ngo was thwarted, and Dr Limann remained successful custody.
The tribute revealed that Dr Limann was yet released done diplomatic involution by Nigerian President, Shehu Shagari.
Shagari’s pressure, including halting lipid income to Ghana and deporting amerciable Ghanaian immigrants from Nigeria, compelled Rawlings to merchandise Dr Limann, who was past placed nether location arrest.
JB Limann, granted asylum successful Nigeria, went connected to walk the Nigerian Bar exams and found a palmy instrumentality signifier there.
JB Limann aboriginal returned to Ghana successful 1998 aft Dr Limann’s death, assuming the chieftaincy arsenic the Paramount Chief of Gwollu and serving arsenic a Council of State member.
He passed distant connected May 2, 2024, leaving a bequest of courageousness and sacrifice.
As Junaid Limann wrote, “My father’s beingness was a testament to duty, sacrifice, and resilience.”
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