Kwame Nkrumah's Secret Camp - Obenemasi, Ashanti Region
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Secret
Camps ran by Chinese and Soviet experts to train agents to subvert
O.A.U. member nations, Listening to devices must be placed in the rooms of delegates
to the O.A.U. conference in Accra ." Osagefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (Kofi Nwia) The secret
camps were located at Damongo, in the Northern Region, at Half Asini , at Mankrong
and at Obenemasi.
The first of these training camps was that at Mankrong, identified in the Bureau
of African Affairs files at the M.K.G. project, and it was opened in November, 1961.
Mankrong is situated at the bank of the Afram river some 35
miles from the town
of Mpraeso. In December, 1961 the Bureau of African Affairs took over four government
rest-houses, those at Mankrong, Worobon, Kwahu, Adawso and Mpraeso, for its exclusive
use and no one was permitted even to enter the grounds of these rest-houses. The first course offered at the Mankrong began on 3rd
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December 1961, but little was accomplished until the arrival of two Russian instructors,
sent from
Moscow
for this purpose. The first course was completed on June 23rd 1962 and the Russian
instructors left for
Accra
and then for
Moscow
the following day.
The second course began on 4th September, 1962 and was completed sometime in April
1963, since the four rest-houses were released by the Bureau of African Affaires
on 2nd May 1963. The instructors were two members of the Bureau who had themselves
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Obenemasi Secret Camp Grounds - Ashanti Region |
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On 14th September 1964, Barden wrote
to Nkrumah concerning the funds required to provide the basic needs for the Chinese
instructors (four were expected at the time) for six months. This included food, furniture, refrigerator, stove, bedding and cook-steward. The entry
of the Chinese guerilla
warfare instructors in
Ghana
was kept secret at the request of the Chinese Embassy. In advance of the instructors'
arrival, the Embassy informed the Bureau of African Affairs that it would not be
safe for the men to live in a hotel and that special arrangements should be made
for their accommodation in
Accra
before they proceeded to the camp.
The Embassy said that this was necessary in view of the delicate nature of their
assignment in
Ghana
and also in view of the various allegations by the imperialists that
China
was encouraging subversion in certain countries.
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