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General news for Thursday, November 26, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-11-26
The late former President Jerry John Rawlings with his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings
In 2018, the former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, told Ghanaians that she was not involved in the processes that preceded the coups carried out by her husband, Jerry John Rawlings.
In an interaction at Good Evening Ghana hosted by Paul Adom-Otchere, he said that it was only after the coups took place that he was informed, in two separate cases: May 15, 1979, and June 4. 1979.
Narrating how everything happened in the first coup attempt, she said that at that moment she returned home from work to meet her husband with some military friends putting together “something.”
“He left home, he came back with some of his military. They were doing something; I think fixing a table or something. I got home, it was one of those days that closed early and they wanted to eat, so I fixed something for them and when they finished eating, they said they would come back, “recalled Nana Konadu.
The coup, which was Ghana’s third military coup, was planned and carried out by a section of junior officers and corporals led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings within the Ghanaian Armed Forces, who felt aggrieved by the style. Government of General IK Acheampong.
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings also recounted how she assembled a team of lawyers to represent her husband at trial after the first coup attempt failed.
Read the full story originally published on Nov 28, 2018 on Ghanaweb
Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, has given insight into her role in some of Ghana’s historical events.
The wife of former President Jerry John Rawlings and military leader of the PNDC who committed the failed coup of May 15, 1979 and the successful coup of June 4, 1979, has revealed that she was not involved in the planning and preparations leading up to these acts. .
Nana Konadu explained that only after the events were committed was she informed in both cases.
Narrating the sequence of events as she reminded Good Evening Ghana host Paul Adom-Otchere, the Former First noted that prior to the failed attempt on May 15, she returned home from work to meet her husband with some reunited military friends. ” something”.
She complied with his request to fix them a meal, after which they left the house without giving him a clue as to what they had planned to do.
The coup, which was Ghana’s third military coup, was planned and carried out by a platoon of junior officers and corporals led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings within the Ghana Armed Forces, who felt aggrieved by the style. Government of General IK Acheampong.
After the failed attempt, Rawlings and his charges were arrested and jailed.
“He left home, he came back with some of his military. They were doing something, I think fixing a table or something like that. I got home, it was one of those days that closed early and they wanted to eat, so I arranged something for and when they finished eating and said they would come back, “recalled Nana Konadu.
Get Tsatsu to defend Rawlings in court
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings also recounted how she assembled a team of lawyers to represent her husband at trial.
According to her, she had to turn down a team of well-established lawyers her mother had put together to defend Rawlings after the failed coup.
The former first lady explained that she was convinced that the only people who could defend her husband were people with conviction on the subject.
He then drove to the campus of the University of Ghana, where Tsatsu Tsikata was a professor, to convince him to step in as an attorney for imprisoned Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings.
Subsequent events and Tsatsu Tsikata’s advice resulted in the formation of a team of lawyers led by the Chief Counsel and the President of the Ghana Bar at the time, Adumua-Bossman.
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings said: “My mother and her mother went and got some of these great lawyers and my position was that it is not these great lawyers who can get them out of this problem. You need lawyers who have a conviction about what they are doing. The two mothers were mad at me because they said they already had these two lawyers. I took my car and drove to Legon. I couldn’t find him, so I waited at his door, sleeping inside my car until he arrived and told him what I wanted. He said that we need a high-level person to guide us, but that he has had no problem being part of that, but we need a high-level person who has the name and recognition. “
“So we drove all the way to Adabraka and then he told me I should wait in the car. He would go up and talk to the guy, the whole time he didn’t know who he was. He got in, talked to him and came He came back and said the boy he wants to see you. He’s interested, so let’s go and when I went it was Adumua-Bossman.
My mom told me about June 4.
The coup d’état of June 4, 1979 occurred after some of the former president’s colleagues broke into jails and released him.
In Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, a public broadcast was made announcing the inauguration of leadership to formally signal a change of government.
However, like the failed coup on May 15, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings says she had no idea that the coup on June 4 and the subsequent public broadcast that followed was going to take place.
“When the transmission came I did not listen to it. It was later my mother came to the house and said that I had to leave the house. I had my daughter with me, but she was too young to know what was happening. A year,” he revealed the former First Lady.
These details are contained in Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings’ book “It Takes A Woman”, which she recently released. The book narrates his political journey.
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