Oh! Oh! Oh! Sgt. Tasiri Azongo Leaves Us!
At the personal level what I remember Tasiri by immediately is when he visited me and entered my room and expressed shock that I was living in a tiny and congested space like that.
I believe he would have been shocked even the more if he had visited me at my current residence at The Odometa Intellectual Guerrilla Camp (TOIGC).
Reading my pieces in the press seemed to have made him think that I was a BIG MAN in the sense of living in a luxurious house with complicated devices surrounding me.
I had met him at the Freedom Centre that day where he expressed his desire to know my house for continued comradeship. He was truly committed to The Left.
Yes, the story of his leading participation in the June 4 Uprising (not Revolution) I found well confirmed by military companions of his and mine while I was in exile in Lomé, Togo.
He was THE one who rallied the Other Ranks to the rescue of Rawlings from cell. Yes, he was The Initiator of June 4! When the true story of that Uprising comes to be told we shall see it.
When I met him at the Freedom Centre I could liken his continued enthusiasm for change and respect for me to those of Joachim Amartey Kwei of blessed memory.
These and many others fell victims to the Shogan principle that Rawlings applied not only to come to power but also to retain it – even if that meant their suffering and death.
The painful part of it all was that Rawlings did not retain the anti-imperialist as well as the anti-neo-colonialist working class spirit that informed their collaboration with him.
Fortunately, more of such patriots continue to live in foreign lands since their escape from Rawlings’ cells at prisons in Accra. They might one day tell their stories of betrayal and defeat.
Revolution or Death!
Endswell T. K. A. McNubuor
