John Alex Hammah, former trade unionist and politician, yesterday told the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) how he was kept in condemned cells for four-and-a-half-months in the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons, until his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
He said he was, in January1974, sentenced to death by a special military tribunal, when he was accused of financing a coup d'tat through some soldiers.
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