[1] This investigative organ allegedly carried out acts of torture against former military, government officials and business owners as part of the AFRC's "housecleaning" exercise.
[3] On 12 November 1979 Okaikoi and his co-accused escaped from the Ussher Fort Prison in Accra, and managed to flee to the United Kingdom where they were granted political asylum.
[6] In July 2011, as his campaign was still in its early days, Okaikoi was taken to court by a Ghanaian living in the United Kingdom over a GH¢15,000 property deal gone bad.
Okaikoi and the buyer's deposit refunded to him because he had failed to keep the agreed schedule of payments for the balance: the judge found for the accused.
[10] In the end, Vanderpuye won by a smaller landslide than expected, with 45,967 votes (63%) against 26,269 (36%) for Okaikoi and 745 (1%) for Emmanuel Odoi of the Convention People's Party.