Salifu Dagarti (c. 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][3][4][5][6]
IncidentEdit
A police constable on guard outside the residence of Ghana‘s president, Kwame Nkrumah, fired five gunshots at him in an assassination attempt. Constable Seth Ametewee[7] [8]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.[9][10]
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