On this day, Sergeant Cornelius F. Adjetey was shot and killed by colonial police while leading a peaceful protest of ex-servicemen in Accra, demanding their promised pensions and better treatment after World War II. His death, along with those of Sergeant Odartey Lamptey and Private Attipoe, sparked widespread riots and became a turning point in the struggle for Ghana’s independence, marking Adjetey as the first martyr of the nation’s liberation movement.
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