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Salifu Dagarti

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Incident
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Salifu Dagarti ({{circa}} July 1931 — 2 January 1964) was a British trained Ghanaian police officer and presidential bodyguard who shielded Kwame Nkrumah with his body on the fifth attempt to assassinate Nkrumah since he came to power in 1957.^[1]^[2]

Incident

A police constable on guard outside the residence of Ghana's president, Kwame Nkrumah, fired five gunshots at him in an assassination attempt. Seth Ametwee^[3] invaded The Flagstaff House in Accra and missed with his first shot. Nkrumah's bodyguard, Salifu Dagarti, shielded the President with his body and was mortally wounded.^[4]

References

1. ^"Ghana President Nkrumah Target of Gunman", Pittsburgh Press, January 3, 1964, p3
2. ^South African History Online.
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/08/archives/policeman-sentenced-to-die-for-attempt-to-kill-nkrumah.html|title=Policeman Sentenced to Die For Attempt to Kill Nkrumah|date=April 8, 1964|via=NYTimes.com}}
4. ^Eric S. Packham, Africa in War and Peace (Nova Publishers, 2004) p173

2 : 1931 births|1964 deaths

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