I have buried Rawlings in dignity -Akufo-Addo
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has indicated that he had a duty to ensure that former President Ft Lt Jerry John Rawlings was given a burial befitting of his personality and that was exactly what he had done.
According to President Akufo-Addo, as a former President of the nation, there was the need to make Rawlings’ burial a priority and to pay proper last respect to the former Commander-In-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces.
President Akufo-Addo was addressing a delegation of Mr Rawlings’s family, which had called on him at the Jubilee House yesterday
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“I know that God created us for each other, and together we made a formidable team, notwithstanding the ups and downs of life.”
This was how the former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, chose to describe her late husband, former President Jerry John Rawlings, in her tribute.
At the state burial service for the late former President at the Black Star Square yesterday, Mrs Agyeman Rawlings, in three pages, told the world all she wanted to say about the man with whom, for over four decades, she built a relationship, first as a schoolmate and then a soul mate and then a life-long partner.
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The Cuban Trained Ghanaian Graduates Association (ESBECAN) has commended the late former President Jerry John Rawlings for fostering a good relationship with the people of Cuba that led to the training of rich manpower for the country.
They said there were thousands of professionals trained in Cuba who were making huge impacts and differences in the country and said Ghana’s association and close ties with Cuba should be maintained and improved.
The President of the association, Alhaji Musah Swallah, said this when the Esbecans held a candlelight vigil and memorial service to celebrate the life of the late former President Rawlings for his great vision which had impacted on the lives of members of the association.