Information gathered by Townflex now has is that the former president of the Republic of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings is dead. died at age 73.

He is said to have died Thursday morning November 12th, 2020. At the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra after a short illness, this is a very bad news hitting Ghana.

This is so bad, Rawlings recently lost his mother, Victoria Agbotui who also fell ill and passed on, but was buried last month.

Background

Jerry John Rawlings was a former Ghanaian military leader and subsequent politician who ruled 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.

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Rawlings attended Achimota School and a military academy at Teshie.^[4]^[7] Rawlings is married to Nana Konadu Agyeman, who he met while at Achimota College. They have three daughters: Zanetor Rawlings, Yaa Asantewaa Rawlings, Amina Rawlings; and one son, Kimathi Rawlings.

Mr Rawlings initially came to power 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 May 15, 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due to take place.

After initially handing power over to a civilian government, he took back control of the country on December 31, 1981 as the Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).

In 1992, Mr Rawlings resigned from the military, founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and became the first President of the 4th 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.

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