Legacy

Legacy

JJ Rawlings’ Recognition At Ghana Energy Awards

The Klottey Korle MP and daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings has stated that her father’s vision did not die with his passing nor did it die with the end of his tenure in office. Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings said her father’s legacy was not his alone but also for all Ghanaians.

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The man JJ Rawlings

On June 4, 1979 a young Flight Lieutenant in the Air Force of Ghana, broke all bounds of military discipline and stormed the airwaves announcing a military take-over of the reins of government in Ghana. Rawlings was only 32 years old. He did so with the help of a handful of soldiers most of them junior officers

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Jerry Rawlings: Remembering Ghana’s ‘man of the people’

Ghana's longest-serving leader, former flight lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, who died on Thursday, was an influential figure for a generation of people like me born in the late 1970s. At the time he got involved in national politics, Ghana was in the throes of food shortages..

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We remember Jerry Rawlings for rural electrification — Senior Citizens

Some Senior citizens in the Bono Regional capital say ex-President Jerry John Rawlings will be remembered by the people of the region for the rural electrification project he implemented in the then Brong-Ahafo Region.

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