How a millionaire locked up Mercedes Benz for almost 40 years because of Rawlings

The horrific and heartbreaking stories about military dictator Jerry John Rawlings will never go away.

One such story was shared by sports journalist Saddick Adams (Sports Obama) about how a very wealthy businessman in the early days of former President Rawlings’ PNDC regime.

The businessman whose name Saddick gave the name of Alhaji Agyaa, was forced to lock his exotic and luxurious Mercedes Benz in a reinforced garage to prevent it from being confiscated.

Saddick Adams revealed on his Twitter feed:

“For those who grew up in BA [the then Brong Ahafo Region], this man was very rich and popular in the years 1970-80. He was the only millionaire who could acquire this Mercedes in the early 1980s when JJ Rawlings was military commander. Rawlings wanted to seize the car so the man created a special metal garage to hide the car. “

He added that the garage was forced to open after more than 35 years

“This car was once the talk of the town of Techiman. I saw it on Anas Sabit Facebook.

“Alhaji Agyaa was his name. The car was popularly called“ Alhaji Agyaa Benz, ”he wrote.

The post has since attracted several comments and reactions from people who recounted their experiences of how frantically they were trying to get a view of the car at the time.

“He’s still alive and well, those days when I remember when we would go by the garage to look at this car, we were told the car is stealing, it has a machine gun. This man is a great man, ”@boyfriction wrote.

A Jibril Idris commented:

“The man is still alive. He remains in Techiman zongo.

See below for photos of the Alhaji Agyaa Benz when the garage was finally opened: