Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang.
Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang on Saturday led a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at the Nationalism Park in Accra, in honour of the three ex-servicemen killed in the ‘February 28 Crossroads Shooting Incident’ that led to Ghana’s eventual independence.  
Sergeant Major Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe, and Private Odartey Lamptey, the three martyrs, were members of the then Gold Coast Regiment enlisted in the British Army during the World War II.  
Having seen combat in campaigns in East Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, these veterans would find themselves primarily ignored by the colonial administration upon their return, as promised pensions and benefits were either insufficient or unpaid.  
That would lead to a protest march led by the three veterans on February 28, 1948, but events took a different twist as police on guard at the Christiansborg Castle, the seat of the colonial administration, opened
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