Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey

Emmanuel Obetsebi Odarkwei - Lamptey (* 1902, † January 29, 1963 in Accra, Ghana) was one of the leaders of the British colony of the Gold Coast and in the young state of Ghana. In addition to Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, Joseph Boakye Danquah, William Ofori Atta, Ebenezer Ako Adjei - Akufo - Addo Obetsebi and Edward was one of the Big Six of Ghana.

Career

Obetsebi - Lamptey is co-founder of the first party of the Gold Coast, the United Gold Coast Convention ( UGCC ). After it had come to break with Kwame Nkrumah founded Obetsebi - Lamptey together with Danquah, Nii Amaa Ollennu and Kofi Busia Abrefa still in the Gold Coast colony, the party Ghana Congress Party ( GCP). Later he left that party because of a power struggle with Busia and founded the Nationalist Party.

Family and death

On August 1, 1962 President Kwame Nkrumah returned from a meeting of Tenkudugu with the President of the then Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) Maurice Yameogo back to Ghana. In Kulungugu, in the Upper Region of Ghana a bomb attack on Nkrumah was attempted, but failed. Nkrumah blamed for the attack his former closest associates and members of his own government.

Obetsebi - Lamptey was arrested in this connection, at the instigation of Kwame Nkrumah on October 5, 1962, brought into the Nsawam prison near Accra. Here 's health deteriorated rapidly, so that Obetsebi - Lamptey died near Accra on 29 January 1963 at the Nsawam prison. The funeral was not allowed to be performed by the family, but was held by the prison authorities.

Jake Obetsebi - Lamptey is born in 1946, son and current member of the government of John Agyekum Kufuor as the Minister of Tourism and Minority Affairs ( Minister of Tourism & Diasporean Relations ).

Honors

In Accra, a roundabout on the Ring Road after Obetsebi - Lamptey was named. In 2007 also the 10,000 Cedi note with the image of the Big Six of Ghana and therefore also with Obetsebi - Lamptey has been put into circulation.