J.J Rawlings went home just this past Wednesday but it is almost as if he is still alive. He would forever live in our hearts and our minds— some have found a more permanent way to keep him in their hearts. READ ALSO: Nollywood In Shock As Controversial And Sanctimonious Actor Uche Maduagwu Comes Out … Read more
Veteran hi-life singer and dancer Akosua Agyapong is crying out loud not only for the passing of JJ but equally not heeding to any of his advice. Akosua says JJ constantly told her to bring back highlife shows because they missed it so much and she kept postponing it. READ ALSO: Ned Nwoko Denies Ever … Read more
The wake of former President J.J Rawlings is still on-going at the International Conference Center. He has been in state since yesterday as people from all walks of life file pass him. READ ALSO: Broke Mr Eazi Finally Confesses He’s Dating Temi Otedola For Her Money Today, 26th January has been set specifically for dignitaries … Read more
The mother of Former President, J.J Rawlings, Victoria Agbotui goes home today, October 24th, 2020. The final funeral rites of Madam Victoria Agbotui is currently ongoing as family and sympathizers bid her farewell. READ ALSO: Gone Too Soon – Details Drop for Esther Owusu Ansah’s One Week Observation In a video that has surfaced on … Read more
Exactly 37 years ago, on 19 June 1983, Corporal Carlos Halidu Giwa led a group of rebels in an unsuccessful attempted coup d’etat which came very close to overthrowing the ruling Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) led by Flt. Lt Jerry John Rawlings. On 19 June 1983, rebel soldiers, based in Togo, attacked two prisons in … Read more
Ghana’s Former President Jerry John Rawlings has surprised many Ghanaians as he turned up to address a virtual celebration of the June 4th uprising, looking like the revered Nigerian academic, Wole Soyinka. Spotting a bushy grey hair and bushy grey beard, Rawlings made his way to address the 41st-anniversary celebrations of the June 4th military … Read more
The office of former President Jerry John Rawlings has released a statement announcing the former leader is in good health and was not rushed to hospital as some reports have sought to portray.
The former President had a health scare last week, but according to the statement is now back home in good health and able to carry out his daily routine.
The office of former President Jerry John Rawlings has released a statement announcing the former leader is in good health and was not rushed to hospital as some reports have sought to portray.
The former President had a health scare last week, but according to the statement is now back home in good health and able to carry out his daily routine.
Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings has expressed pleasure at the fact that it’s the NPP and not the party her husband founded that’s in power.
According to Nana Konadu, the NDC are nasty and filled with dirty games and a lack of decency, not to mention lying to Ghanaians and destroying the nation’s economy over the last four years.
Tv Personality, Berlinda Adardey has rated Ex-President J.A Kuffuor as the best among the kinds of John Mahama, Attah Mills and J.J Rawlings.
According to Berla Mundi, her choice of Jak as the best is not because she’s NPP bias but from what she has experienced during Kuffour’s reign.
Ex-President Rawlings is still a man with some charisma that sort of entertains those around him only if it’s not a boom.
The one-time military ruler turned 70 recently and he brought his swag on when he posed by a 90s Model Chevrolet Smart Car he received as a gift.
Former President of Ghana and the founder of PNDC, the party which gave birth to the ruling NDC party-Jerry John Rawlings has surprisingly said, the leader of the NPP-Nana Akufo Addo is not corrupt and the party is blessed to have him. His statement takes a deeper shape that sort of indicts the ruling government … Read more
The cry against corruption in Nigeria under Goodluck Jonathan’s government was no different from what we are experiencing in Ghana—and considering how the electorates rejected corruption by voting out Goodluck Jonathan and his bunch, the question is; can Ghanaians do the same?
Former President-Jerry John Rawlings who has on multiple occasions accused the Mahama-led NDC government of corruption has stated that, “Nigerians have taken the lead in the rejection of corruption”—meaning Ghana must follow…
So are Ghanaains ready to end the NDC reign which they call corrupt? Read J.J Rawlings’ full statement below…
Though we are yet to see any leader calling himself corrupt, the many of our African leaders (past and present) perfectly fit the word…
Despite countless allegations of Human Right Violations and Corruption that were thrown at him and his government when he was the President of the Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings has come out to state that, he is one of Africa’s cleanest leaders and that he was never corrupt…
Pretty interesting right?
According to RadioXYZ;
Former President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana has said he is one of Africa’s cleanest leaders to have been head of state.
“I will dare you to go and line up some of your finest policemen, some of your finest heads of state, some of your finest judges. Make any allegations against me. You included. Whatever questions you want to ask; take me through a chemical interrogation. I will be the one who will pass. I wonder how many of you will pass,” Mr Rawlings told some African youths at a forum outside Ghana recently.
Responding to a question from a member of the audience about allegations of corruption leveled against him back home by critics, Mr Rawlings retorted: “…Chief when it comes to accusing me, don’t forget, eight generals, three former heads of state, painfully executed. I Rawlings will not turn round and commit the very crime for which another man lost his life.”
It will be hypocrisy on my apart to suddenly claim that no one has the right to take away the life of another, because life is a God given gift—on the grounds that I don’t even believe in the existence of such a God.
However, even with the absence of objective moral values (as some people argue), right to life is a basic right, inherent, and until a Court of a land through fair trail has ordered so, it becomes illegal to take the life of another—-no matter the justification you can buy from somewhere…
Without a fair trail as we will all accept, J. J Rawlings had no legal right to kill or order the killing of any of the people he did. It is therefore unfortunate that even as at today, he still thinks his actions are justified and proper.
According to RadioXYZ;
Former President Jerry Rawlings says the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council necessarily needed to have executed Generals Afrifa, Acheampong, Utaka and other senior Military Officers in 1979 to save the country from implosion.
“We had no choice. We thought let two go. Acheampong and a certain Utuka, very corrupt Generals. They were sacrificed. It was not enough. Ladies and gentlemen, 10 days later, we had to sacrifice another 6 and some of the Commanders were innocent good people but it had to be done because the rage in the country was too high, too much”, the former Military leader told students in the Volta region where he spoke as the Guest of honour at the closing ceremony of the regional camp of the International Youth Fellowship at the Adidome Senior High School.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed—Mark Twain According to DailyGuide; Former President Jerry John Rawlings has warned that unless the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) undertook crucial reforms by enlarging its electoral college, victory for the party in the 2016 elections will be illusive. “Our party the NDC needs some … Read more
Ghana’s former President and Leader of the 31st December Revolution, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has in a statement to mark the 31st Anniversary of the Revolution, sought God’s guidance for the people of Ghana as well as President John Mahama as he prepares to take up the mantle as fourth elected President of the Fourth Republic.
He prayed for God to provide President Mahama with the wisdom to pick men and women of integrity to man his administration and the courage to ‘prevent leeches, parasites, thieves and liars from taking refuge” in the corridors of power.
President Rawlings added that he wished President Mahama well as he prepares officially take up the mantle of leadership on January 7.
The former President who spoke after lighting the perpetual flame to mark the 31st Anniversary of the 31st December Revolution, also called on all Ghanaians to resolve in the coming year to work to improve sanitation across the country because of the major health issues that have surfaced as a result of poor sanitation.
President Rawlings paid glowing tribute to persons like Dr Ayirebi Acquah, WO Albert Baffa and WO Salifu for their sense of bravery and fortitude during the early days of the revolution.
He said Dr Ayirebi Acquah left his lucrative job in Zimbabwe to return to Ghana at the onset of the revolution and recounted how the doctor’s only Volvo saloon car was used to inaugurate branches of the June 4 Movement across the country.
For some reason, I have even forgotten about Wikileaks and their release of US classified reports. In our forgotten minds, Wikileaks has hit Ghana with reports they released on 30th August, 2011 which are; US Embassy cable that says former President Jerry John Rawlings uses drugs and his finance minister at that time was alarmingly incompetent. And another report by former United States Abbassador to Ghana, Pamela Bridgewater, on the profile of NPP presidential aspirants ahead of the 2008 elections.
On J. J. Rawlings, the cable which was created on July 31, 1997 states “Ambassador Princen’s wife concluded emphatically that Rawlings is a drug-user. Periods of high-level energizing were followed by Rawlings’disappearance for thirty minutes, and upon his return he was subdued and even mellow. He perspired profusely at short notice, and consumed large quantities of non-alcoholic drinks. Princen reinforced my own impression that Rawlings’ attention span has shortened of late. But the Princens found the President open, indulgent towards his children, and extremely deferential – even obsequious – towards his spouse.”
