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3 unusual facts about Provisional National Defence Council


Defence Council

Provisional National Defence Council, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown on the previous election

Joachim Amartey Quaye

Amartey Quaye was one of the original seven members of the Provisional National Defence Council appointed after the military overthrow of the Limann government of the Third Republic of Ghana.

Paul Victor Obeng

P. V. Obeng served as the chairman of the Committee of Secretaries under the Provisional National Defence Council regime (PNDC) from 1982–1992.


Media of Ghana

This did not last long however, as John Rawlings, citing "corruption and maladministration", once again seized power under the Provisional National Defence Council on 31 December 1981, and repealed the liberal media reforms instigated by Limann.


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