The one-year memorial of former Ghanaian head of state, John Jerry Rawlings has been successfully held.
The ceremony was held in Accra and it was attended by some important dignitaries including the vice-president, Dr. Muhammadu Bawumia, and former president, John Dramani Mahama.
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The president, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo was not seen at the ceremony. The ceremony was broadcasted live by the Ghana Broadcast ing Network.
Watch a snippet below;
Jerry John Rawlings was born on 22 June 1947. He was a military officer and politician who led the country from 1981 to 2001 and also for a brief period in 1979.
He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected President of Ghana.
Rawlings came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d’état in 1979. Prior to that, he led an unsuccessful coup attempt against the ruling military government on 15 May 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due to take place. After handing power over to a civilian government, he took back control of the country on 31 December 1981 as the chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).
In 1992, Rawlings resigned from the military, founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and became the first President of the Fourth Republic. He was re-elected in 1996 for four more years. After two terms in office, the limit according to the Ghanaian Constitution, Rawlings endorsed his vice-president John Atta Mills as a presidential candidate in 2000. Rawlings served as the African Union envoy to Somalia. He died in November 2020, at age 73, and was accorded a state funeral (Wikipedia).
Source: www.ghgossip.com
