Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 10 The Destabilising Moments Ghana's political history from the ousting of Nkrumah and the CPP to the onset of the Fourth Republic in January 1993, was marked by political instability; economic turmoil and long periods of military regimes interspersed with short-lived civilian administrations. Here, the study takes a look at the contributions of the leaders of the various regimes that succeeded the CPP government between 1966 and 1992 with regards to their role in the regional integration process. These regimes followed in the footsteps of Nkrumah in various ways depending on their ideological orientation, but generally, their leaders did not impact the regional integration drive as much as Nkrumah did. The series of military coup d'états helped plunge the country into economic misery and political despondency and also affected Ghana's sub-regional and continental image. Over the period, Pan-Africanism was gradually supplanted by sub-regionalism and nationalism. It also faced two other challenges­separatist movements within the newly emerging states and irredentist movements by national minorities wishing to join their kith and kin in neighbouring states. 19 The first military regime of the National Liberation Council(NLC) under the leadership of Lt. Gen. J. A. Ankrah(1966-1967) and later Lt. Gen. A. A. Afrifa(1967­1969) had a sole preoccupation of stabilising the ailing economy and returning the country to democratic rule. This was also true under the National Redemption Council(which metamorphosed into the Supreme Military Council I and II) under the leadership of Gen. I. K. Acheampong(1972-1978) and later F.W. Akwasi Akuffo (1978-1979). The same can be said of the short lived Armed Forces Revolutionary Council(AFRC) under the control of Flt. Lt. J. J. Rawlings(1979) and his subsequent come back under the Provisional National Defence Council(PNDC) from 1981 to 1992. The two democratic interludes, the Progress Party(PP) government(1969­1972) under Prime Minister Dr. K. Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo Addo and Dr. Hilla Limann's People's National Party(PNP) government(1979-1981), like their military counterparts, also had the arduous task of salvaging the economy of Ghana. The unorthodox nature of changing a government through a coup d'état at the time, prompted the NLC leadership to preoccupy itself with restoring ruptured relations between Ghana and her immediate neighbours, redeeming any damaged image and courting continental and international support and assistance. Emissaries were sent to Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia and Nigeria. 20 Being ideologically inclined towards the West and anti-Nkrumah, some were also sent to Britain, France, Canada and America. On the other hand, none was 19 Adebayo Adedeji, op. cit., 2002. p. 3. 20 G. K. Bluwey, The Foreign Policies of the Succession of Governments in Ghana 1966 to 1995. Part II.(Unpublished). p. 271.