Accra:A 2007 interview with the late Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah has resurfaced, where he recounted events from the 1966 military coup that overthrew his father's government. In this interview, Gamal described how his mother, Fathia Nkrumah, refused to leave Ghana without her children during the coup that occurred while his father, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was on a state visit to China.
According to Ghana Web, Gamal was only six years old at the time and vividly remembered the frightening experience. He narrated how his mother sought assistance from Egypt's President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who promised to send a plane for their evacuation. Despite the initial reluctance of the coup plotters to let the children leave with their mother, Fathia insisted on taking her children along.
The family was evacuated from the presidential palace, known as Flagstaff House, and after making stops at the Egyptian Embassy and police headquarters, they were eventually taken to the airport where an Egyptian plane awaited them. They arrived in Egypt the following day at dawn.
During the same interview, Gamal alleged that former US President George Bush was involved in the plot to overthrow his father. He supported his claim by noting that Bush was appointed director of the CIA in 1976, a decade after the coup. Gamal suggested that documents from that era, accessible at the Library of Congress in Washington, could provide evidence of Bush's involvement.