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New government bans political holidays

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    Ghana's new government on Tuesday banned the military from being members of a quasi-political organisation set up under former President Jerry Rawlings and scrapped public holidays established under Rawlings, AFP reported.

    Soldiers are no longer allowed to participate in the Association of Committees for the Defence of the Revolution (ACDR), which has branches in the private and public sector and, hitherto, in the army. The government charges that the ACDR, set up after Rawlings seized power in a 1981 coup, tended to breed indiscipline and divisiveness among the troops.

    The government has also banned the military from celebrating 4 June, the anniversary of Rawlings first coup, and also 31 December which, though not a statutory holiday, was traditionally celebrated by the military.

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