A quasi-political organisation and public holidays set up under Ghana’s former president, Jerry Rawlings, have been banned for the military. Defence Minister Kwame Addo Kufuor said soldiers were now banned from participating in the Associations of Committees for the Defence of the Revolution (ACDR), which has branches in the private and public sector and, up to now, in the army. Kufuor said celebrations on June 4 and December 31 which celebrated Rawlings “revolution” of June 4, 1979, when he ousted a military regime in a bloody overthrow, were also now banned in the military. – AFP