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Ghana
Index
As public hostility toward the SMC increased, Ghana became
increasingly ungovernable. On July 5, 1978, junior officers on the
Military Advisory Committee persuaded senior officers, led by
Lieutenant General Frederick W.K. Akuffo, to force Acheampong to
resign. The creation of what was termed SMC II, however, failed to
restore public confidence in the government, largely because Akuffo
refused to abandon the idea of a union government without party
politics. As a result, there were about eighty strikes in a fourmonth period to protest the regime's economic policies. In November
1978, when junior civil servants went on strike, the regime
declared a state of emergency and dismissed more than 1,000 public
employees. Akuffo eventually succumbed to this pressure by
announcing that the ban on political parties would be lifted on
January 1, 1979, and that free elections would be held.
Data as of November 1994
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