John Kofi Barku Tettegah

**John Kofi Barku Tettegah** (1930–2009)  ɗan ƙungiyar ƙwadago ne, jami'in diflomasiyya, kuma ɗan siyasa. Ya rike mukamai masu tasiri da dama a gwamnatin Ghana musamman a lokacin gwamnatin Nkrumah, inda ya zama babban sakataren jam'iyyar Gold Coast Trades Union Congress (TUC), a matsayin mamban kwamitin tsakiya na jam'iyyar Convention People's Party (CPP), da kuma babban sakatare na kungiyar kwadago ta Afrika baki daya . Ya kasance mai tasiri ga manufofin cikin gida da na waje na Kwame Nkrumah, kuma ya kasance daya daga cikin masu shirya siyasa mafi tasiri a tarihin kwadagon Ghana. 

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi John Tettegah a ranar 12 ga Satumba 1930 a Ada, Gold Coast (yanzu a Ghana). Ada wani karamin gari ne a kudu maso gabashin Ghana inda Kogin Volta ya haɗu da Tekun Atlantika . Ya halarci makarantun Katolika da Kwalejin Sakatare a Accra . 

## Gwamnatin Nkrumah
Lokacin da TUC ta sake haɗuwa a 1953 bayan rushewarta bayan yajin aikin janar na Janairu 1950, an zabi Tettegah a matsayin babban sakatare na TUC a watan Satumbar shekara ta 1954.  A lokacin da yake babban sakatare na TUC, Tettegah ya nemi karfafa dangantakar kungiyar da CPP a karkashin Kwame Nkrumah yayin da yake tabbatar da ikon cin gashin kai na kungiyoyin kwadago. Tettegah ya kasance abokin tarayya na kusa da Tawia Adamafio kuma reshe mai tsattsauran ra'ayi na CPP, don haka jim kadan bayan an zabe shi babban sakatare na TUC ya kuma zama memba na kwamitin tsakiya na CPP.

### Ayyukan kasa da kasa
A lokacin da yake aiki a matsayin babban sakatare na TUC, Tettegah ya kuma yi fatan yin alaƙa da ƙungiyoyin ma'aikata a duniya. Lokacin da aka zabe shi sakatare janar na TUC kuma aka nada shi a kwamitin tsakiya na CPP, TUC ta kirkiro wata kungiya don nazarin yanayin Ghana da ƙungiyoyin ma'aikata a duniya, tare da cikakken goyon bayan tasirin CPP da kudade. Tettegah ya fara tafiya zuwa Isra'ila da Jamus ta Yamma a 1956 kuma ya burge shi da tsarin siyasa na tsakiya na ƙungiyoyin Isra'ila, wanda aka ruwaito yana cewa "Isra'ila ta ba ni fiye da yadda zan iya samu daga shekaru biyu a Jami'ar Burtaniya". Tettegah ya kuma jagoranci taron farko na Kungiyar Kwadago ta Afirka (ICFTU) a shekarar 1957, kuma ya jagoranci taron don ƙirƙirar ƙungiyar ma'aikatan Pan-Afirka. A shekara ta 1958, an shirya taron jama'ar Afirka a Accra, babban birnin Ghana, inda aka kafa kungiyar kwadago ta Afirka. A watan Agustan 1959 Tettegah ya gabatar da jawabi a wani taron hadin gwiwa na TUC na Ghana da Najeriya da aka gudanar a Legas, Najeriya. Jawabinsa yana da taken Towards African Labour Unity .  An nada Tettegah a matsayin jakadan Ghana a watan Yulin 1960, wanda ya nuna canji a matsayin Ghana a duniya. An dauki nadin Tettegah a matsayin karfafa iko na karshe ta bangaren hagu na CPP, yayin da manufofin kasashen waje na Ghana suka zama mafi kusanci ga dangantaka da Tarayyar Soviet, China, da Gabashin Turai. Nkrumah a bayyane ya dogara da wannan bangare na CPP don yin "cikakken hari na ilimi, ilimi da ƙungiyoyi a kan dukkan fannoni na mulkin mallaka, neo-colonialism da imperialism. "  Tettegah ya kuma taka rawar gani wajen lalata dangantakar da ke tsakanin Ghana da Isra'ila, yayin da abokan hagu na Tettegah kamar Tawia Adamafio suka maye gurbin wasu mambobin gwamnatin Nkruma masu matsakaici, kuma dangantaka da duniyar kwaminisanci ta zama kusa.  Tasirin hagu na Tettegah ya ci gaba da jagorantar manufofin kasashen waje na Ghana har zuwa faduwar gwamnatin Kwame Nkrumah a shekarar 1966.

### Tasirin cikin gida
Tettegah ya yi amfani da abubuwan da ya samu tare da ƙungiyar ma'aikata a ƙasashen waje kuma ya yi amfani dashi ga yanayin da ke Ghana. A taron shekara-shekara na goma sha huɗu na TUC a shekara ta 1957, Tettegah ya ba da sanarwar manyan canje-canje a cikin tsarin TUC, gami da karfafa ƙungiyoyin kwadago sittin da huɗu na Ghana zuwa 16, wanda aka tsara bayan tsarin ƙungiyoyin kwadoro 16 na Jamus ta Yamma. A takaice a 1959 ya kuma jagoranci Kwame Nkrumah's Worker's Brigades, shirin da aka tsara don taimakawa matasa marasa aikin yi na Ghana. Tun da Tettegah ya kasance mai aiki a cikin yunkurin 'yancin kai na Ghana kuma ya goyi bayan Jam'iyyar Jama'a (CPP) mai mulki tun daga farko, ya yi amfani da tasirinsa don karfafa aiwatar da Dokar Dangantakar Masana'antu ta 1958, wanda ya sanya TUC kawai wakilin yunkurin ma'aikata na Ghana. Tettegah ya yi amfani da wannan damar don karfafa jagorancin TUC a cikin tsari na tsakiya da kuma hana rashin amincewa a cikin ƙungiyar ma'aikata. Ayyukan Tettegah a cikin TUC sun kasance da tasiri sosai wajen aiwatar da aikin kishin kasa na Nkrumah na ƙirƙirar haɗin kai na akida a Ghana da kuma canza jama'ar Ghana zuwa ma'aikata na zamani.

## 1966 juyin mulki, gudun hijira, da kama
Lokacin da aka hambarar da gwamnatin Kwame Nkrumah a cikin wani mummunan juyin mulki karkashin jagorancin sojoji da 'yan sanda wadanda suka kafa Majalisar Ceto ta Kasa a shekarar 1966, Tettegah ya shiga gudun hijira ta son rai, yana zaune a Tanzania, Misira da Guinea. Ya koma. Ghana a cikin 1973 .  Ba da daɗewa ba bayan ya dawo Ghana, an kama Tettegah tare da abokin aikinsa na diflomasiyya Kojo Botsio, kuma an tuhume su da makirci don hambarar da gwamnati. Yayinda aka yanke masa hukuncin kisa, an sauya hukuncinsa zuwa rai da rai a kurkuku a watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1974. Ba a saki Tettegah ba sai Nuwamba 1978, bayan zaben raba gardama na gwamnati na Ghana na 1978.

## Ayyukan siyasa bayan Krumah
A cikin 1980 Tettegah ya yi tafiya zuwa Najeriya don gabatar da na farko a cikin jerin laccoci na ranar haihuwar Obafemi Awolowo . Na farko ya faru ne a Benin City, na biyu, Ibadan kuma na uku, Legas. 

A shekara ta 1983, gwamnatin Tsaro ta Kasa ta wucin gadi (PNDC) ta nada Tettegah jakadan Tarayyar Soviet kuma daga baya ta wakilci Ghana a Gabashin Afirka. Ya kuma goyi bayan Jerry Rawlings a zaben shugaban kasar Ghana na 1992.

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