On this day in history, Dr.Joseph Boakye Dankwah was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act

On January, 8,1964, Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah was arrested after Ametewee failed assassination attempt against Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

After the failed  of Ametewee assassination attempt against in Nkrumah in 1964, Dr.Joseph Boakye Dankwah was detained by Nkrumah’s administration with intentions that he was the brain behind Nkrumah’s assassination.

Th Preventive Detention Act (PDA) was introduced by Nkrumah to prosecute those who wish for his downfall.

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Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah arrested came immediately when Seth Ametewee failed to kill Nkrumah around Christianborg Road on January 2, 1964.

Joseph Boakye Danquah was accused because of his rival with Nkrumah and the executives members of the Convention People’s Party.

It was revealed during investigation that, the Executives Members of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) planned for Nkrumah’s downfall.

It also became clear that many people wished for the downfall of Nkrumah because of his dictatorship.

The executive members of the position United Gold Coast convention into (UGCC) were outside the Country when Nkrumah was overthrown by the National Liberation Congress (NLC).

Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah was born in December 1895 at the Bempong in the Akyem part of the Gold Coast.

Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah who came to be labeled as the doyen of the Ghana politics became a very important nationalist during the Independence struggle. Hailing from one of the most influential families in Ghanaian history (Oforipanyinfie) and thus wielded a lot of respect.

Joseph Boakye Danquah studied in the United Kingdom.

He was a law student  and philosophy at the University of London.

He became a very prominent lawyer in Gold Coast after he had become the first from the African continent to have to be awarded a Doctorate degree in law from the of London.

Upon his return to Gold Coast, he went into private practice and admired another Gold Coast nationalist, Joseph Casey Hayford.

Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah advocated for a bicameral system in 1951 when he was elected into the Legislative Assembly.

Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah died after a year he was jailed by Nkrumah in Nsawam prison.

Following his death, the government banned any public celebration of his life.

Dr.  Joseph Boakye Danquah wrote two documentaries on the life and politics of the Akan People.