Joy Amedume

Rear Admiral Joy Kobla Amedume served in the Ghana Navy.[1] He served as Chief of Naval Staff of
the Ghana Navy from June 1977 to June 1979.[1] He was appointed twice to this position first from May
1972 to January 1973 and then from June 1977 to June 1979.

Arrest and execution

He was arrested in June 1979 when Junior Officers of the Ghana armed forces staged a coup d'état on June
4, 1979, and released Flight Lieutenant J J Rawlings who had been arrested and was on trial for attempting
a coup on May 15, 1979. The officers then formed the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and
made JJ Rawlings their leader. Under the aegis of the AFRC 8 senior Military Offices including two former
Heads of States as well as Rear Admiral Joy Amedume were put on military trial and executed on June 26,
1979. In 2001, their bodies were released to their families for reburial.[2]

References
1. Past, CNS. "PAST CHIEF NAVY STAFFS" (https://web.archive.org/web/20161013123027/h
ttp://gafonline.mil.gh/past-cns/). gafonline.mil.gh. Ghana Armed Forces. Archived from the
original (http://gafonline.mil.gh/past-cns/) on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
2. "Resolving Ghana's violent past" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1305123.stm). 30 April
2001.

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