Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (born 1931)

Ignatius Kutu Acheampong

Head of State of Ghana from 1972 to 1978

Ignatius Kutu Acheampong was a Ghanaian military officer and politician who was the military head of state of Ghana from 13 January 1972 to 5 July 1978, when he was deposed in a palace coup. He was executed by firing squad on 16 June 1979.

List of heads of state of Ghana

This is a list of the heads of state of Ghana, from the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present day.