Footprints on Citi TV with retired Captain Joel Sowu (Part 1 of 2)

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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
  • Captain Sowu is on Footprints to share his involvement in 1966 coup that deposed Nkrumah and the events before and after the overthrow.
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Komentáře • 62

  • @atherson2003
    @atherson2003 Před 3 lety +6

    What l like most about this old soldier is his sense of humor.😁😁😁😁😁

  • @obrightmanemyotabor9358
    @obrightmanemyotabor9358 Před 4 lety +6

    Retired Captain Sowu, you are awesome..At 80's u still looking like less than 70's..

  • @carloslois5185
    @carloslois5185 Před 4 lety +4

    I like this guy because he is speaking from his heart ,

  • @georgetitusglover4560
    @georgetitusglover4560 Před 4 lety +3

    You’re indeed a great soldier. You look very, very well for your age. Blessings

  • @georgetitusglover4560
    @georgetitusglover4560 Před 4 lety +3

    Very interesting n funny character. I love u daddy.

  • @afiyakubu1746
    @afiyakubu1746 Před rokem

    I hope some of the contemporaries of Arthur, Yeboah and Pokou are still alive. It will be interesting to hear their side of this important historical account

  • @djzyon1535
    @djzyon1535 Před 4 lety +3

    Awesome interview. A full documentary should be shot in order to give Captain Sowu the liberty to make accounts of everything he recalls 👍🏼

  • @emmaflowertv8788
    @emmaflowertv8788 Před 4 lety +1

    Finally got to hear from this man

  • @terrycrosshanger9481
    @terrycrosshanger9481 Před 2 lety

    the way he said, 'i thought i was fighting about 6 people' 😂😂

  • @herculesskinny2030
    @herculesskinny2030 Před 4 lety +5

    What about Faustina Acheampong and the wives of the generals executed in 1979, will be glad if you can have a chat with them. I hope they are still alive. Thanks.

  • @elizbethsegu6502
    @elizbethsegu6502 Před 6 měsíci

    Another huge problem was the time the Electric Blue Express train Vanished from Accra departs from Accra and arrives at Kumasi and returns to Accra again served a good purpose for businesses If he was alive Ghanaians will ask to answer where the electric blue express train Vanished to why.

  • @juliustorkpo5722
    @juliustorkpo5722 Před 4 lety +3

    I learned the woman who receive the bouquet survived a leg injury and she is still alive. I wish you find her whereabout for another insightful education.
    Regards!

    • @presilove
      @presilove Před 3 lety

      THAT LADY IS THE ACCRA ATTEMP NOT THE NORTH ATTEMP ASSANINATION

  • @afatsaosamuel
    @afatsaosamuel Před 4 lety +2

    Good Bless You! You still look great and witty.

    • @samynzita2923
      @samynzita2923 Před 4 lety +1

      No God blesses law breakers . You set Ghana and Africa back for decades. Your Maker awaits soon. Long live Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Long live GHANA and Africa

  • @dankwabismark2598
    @dankwabismark2598 Před 4 lety +3

    Herh this man is 80 ...eiiii..really looks young

    • @claimattacol8525
      @claimattacol8525 Před 2 lety

      He’s older than Akuffo but akuffo looks older than him

  • @ebencobbs7036
    @ebencobbs7036 Před 3 lety

    The vhim alone tells me he is a fearless army officer

  • @joea500
    @joea500 Před 4 lety +3

    Oh I love this man, what a character

  • @musa.9144
    @musa.9144 Před 4 lety +1

    I hope this guy and his likes are happy about how things have turned out for Ghana.

  • @Atlas24gh
    @Atlas24gh Před 4 lety +3

    he looks at least 20 years younger

  • @mohammedosman6360
    @mohammedosman6360 Před rokem +1

    Lol 😅. I admire his resilience

  • @edwardgibson151
    @edwardgibson151 Před 3 lety

    People worked with passion then

  • @spencerokai4255
    @spencerokai4255 Před 4 lety +2

    You keep interrupting the Captain sir. Let him flow and tell us so we appreciate history. You cut him off at key points then he ends up forgetting to tell us something which is of interest.

  • @smileylady485
    @smileylady485 Před 3 lety

    Nice man...

  • @kosiancraze4161
    @kosiancraze4161 Před 3 lety +1

    😘😘😘😘

  • @dicksonboffah5801
    @dicksonboffah5801 Před 2 lety

    I love this man❤️😂💔

  • @looksfine8027
    @looksfine8027 Před 3 měsíci

    23:16 Nkrumah enters the interview

  • @looksfine8027
    @looksfine8027 Před 3 měsíci

    25:54 thereabout, Nkrumah flouted the constitution and created his personal military within the Ghana Army

  • @georgetitusglover4560
    @georgetitusglover4560 Před 4 lety +1

    What an amazing character hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha

  • @nanamalik9052
    @nanamalik9052 Před 4 lety +7

    Atta Mensah,can you also start interviewing some pro CPP elements to have a balance view of our history please?Unless you are carrying out an agenda,a UP agenda for that matter.

    • @kwakuakonto8942
      @kwakuakonto8942 Před 4 lety

      You must be one of the brain washed young pioneer zombies. You are afraid of the truth being told by people who were around to tell what actually happened

    • @nanamalik9052
      @nanamalik9052 Před 4 lety +1

      @@kwakuakonto8942 who's truth?You don't know what you're talking about.i beg,park your ignorant self somewhere.

    • @carloslois5185
      @carloslois5185 Před 4 lety

      @@nanamalik9052 what is the truth and what is not the truth. we have to hear the story from all angle so we the public will do the judgement ourselves. we were not allowed to hear and see anything done or said by Nkumah.

    • @nanamalik9052
      @nanamalik9052 Před 4 lety +2

      @@carloslois5185 this is exactly what i am saying,Carlos.Like this Attoh man is saying Nyaniba is not Nkrumahs biological mom.What can be further from the truth than this?Come on,people.Hes just repeating false rumors they spread back in those days to make Nkrumah unpopular.Nkrumah was a photocopy of Nyaniba.

    • @Governor1935
      @Governor1935 Před 4 lety

      @@nanamalik9052 there is this Ga old man with this funny history claiming nkrumah wasn't a Ghanaian....🤔

  • @dicksonboffah5801
    @dicksonboffah5801 Před 2 lety

    He is so funny 😂

  • @stvhh2896
    @stvhh2896 Před 4 lety +2

    Than I will say that you are among the people destroy Ghana

  • @Felix-he8rd
    @Felix-he8rd Před 4 lety

    * Point of correction! 6:28 Superintendent Imray, British Head of Police.

  • @elizbethsegu6502
    @elizbethsegu6502 Před 6 měsíci

    Fanti Arthur

  • @kw12211
    @kw12211 Před 4 lety

    profound!

  • @rolandnatmia5754
    @rolandnatmia5754 Před 4 lety +2

    Did he say he is 80 years old? Wooow.... he look more of a 50 years old man....

  • @looksfine8027
    @looksfine8027 Před 3 měsíci

    About 26:22the beginning of the downfall of Nkrumah

  • @elizbethsegu6502
    @elizbethsegu6502 Před 6 měsíci

    Assembly Printing press. Tudu

  • @ebodantsebenjamin6372

    80 years, what? He looks 60+. Interesting accounts.

  • @el84oro
    @el84oro Před 2 lety

    what does aparahara and aparagoma mean?

  • @charlesking7331
    @charlesking7331 Před 3 lety

    Never touch the real story of guitar buys, who really planed the coup or the alleged accusation that Lt. Col. Afrifa knew about the attempted coup that silenced kotoka to his grave?

  • @emmaflowertv8788
    @emmaflowertv8788 Před 4 lety

    Currently we have invincible and delta forces akuffo addo

  • @obedassuman9199
    @obedassuman9199 Před 4 lety +2

    This interviewer is like Up propaganda

  • @abrahamnanaosabirimaamissa9505

    This man is part of the people who destroyed Ghana,

    • @nanaadjeiquansah5156
      @nanaadjeiquansah5156 Před rokem

      Why? Becos he was an officer and joined the coup?
      Have u forgotten Ghanaians Jubileted wen Nkrumah was over thrown

    • @rickeyossei7238
      @rickeyossei7238 Před rokem

      Ghana was not a Paradise under Nkrumah. Revision of the textbooks of history has made Nkrumah look like a mini God. That is totally false.

  • @Infection3d
    @Infection3d Před 4 lety

    36:18
    Lol
    🤣🤣