Lance Corporal Carlos Halidu Giwa was in the Ghana Army. He led a military coup d'etat with

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Abdul Malik on June 19, 1983.

The coup

Though the coup attempt failed, lives were changed from that day. One of the casualties of that day was

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who was shot and left at the

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for dead. He survived and became a Vice President of the

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