The assets of Ghana’s late prime minister, Kofi Busia, confiscated by the state well over 20 years ago are to be returned to his family on humanitarian grounds, PANA reported on Wednesday.
The government of President Jerry Rawlings has approved recommendations issued in 1976 by a committee of enquiry that legally acquired assets be returned to the Busia family as part of the process of reconciliation. The committee, set up by the National Redemption Council (NRC) which ousted Busia’s party in 1972, was mandated to determine which assets had been legitimately owned by Busia.
Busia, who was prime minister of the Progress Party during its term of office from 1969 to 1972, died in the late 1980s. The military NRC was also removed from power in the late 1970s by other defence chiefs who favoured a return to civilian rule, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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