Former President Jerry John Rawlings has revealed what he describes as several attempts on his life after he handed over power to former President Hilla Limann in 1979.
According to the former president, the attempts became so intense that he was persuaded to leave Ghana but he refused to do so.
Speaking at the 75th-anniversary celebration of the formation of the Mine Workers Union in Ghana, former President Rawlings alleged that Ghana’s Intelligence Agencies with support from the west wanted to bury him alive.
“After my handover to Limann’s government in 1979, there were many by the intelligence machinery in the collaboration with the Western Embassies to persuade me to leave the country as they had done with the other colleagues. My refusal to do so unleashed an avalanche of fabrications designed to assassinate my character as a prelude to my physical elimination. The Western Intelligence machinery threatened to bury me alive and they very nearly succeeded.”
Prior to becoming the first President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana in 1992, Rawlings led two coup d’etats – first in 1979 and second in 1981, 31 December, to overthrow the regimes of General F. K. Akuffo of the Supreme Military Council II and President Hilla Limann of People’s National Party, respectively.
He explained that the coup of June 4, 1979 popularly known as the June 4th Revolution or Uprising, orchestrated by junior ranked military personnel, was necessitated by the need to bring an end to the corruption, rot and abuse of power that had become the order of the day.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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"He explained that the coup of June 4, 1979 popularly known as the June 4th Revolution or Uprising, orchestrated by junior ranked military personnel, was necessitated by the need to bring an end to the corruption, rot and abuse of power that had become the order of the day". SUCH HAVE NEVER OCCURRED SINCE??? EVEN TILL TODAY?
J J Rawlings will become a preacher of the gospel one day day. For the where? May be in the after world but not in our lifetime
RAWLINGS THINKS MANY GHANAIANS ARE ***barred word*** OF THE FACTS SURROUNDING HIS FAKE COUPS. WE KNOW THE TRUTH NOW FROM ADABUGA,ADOMAKO NYANTAKYI AND THE REST. WE KNOW OF ABACHA'S 5 MILLION DOLLARS, WE KNOW OF ALL THE STATE PROPERTIES GIVEN TO YOUR WIFE AND MANY MORE. WE KNOW OF YOUR POLICY OF ONE MAN ONE TOILET,ONE MAN ONE HOUSE AND THE MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO DIED SENSELESSLY IN YOUR QUEST FOR POWER OUT OF ENVY,JEALOUSY,NEPOTISM, AND GREED. JUST BE QUIET. YOU WERE NOT BURIED ALIVE THEN BUT REST ASSURED THE DAY OF RECKONING IS FAST APPROACHING. TIME ALONE WILL TELL.
OMG! MISSED OPPORTUNITY! GHANA WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MUCH BETTER IF THAT HAD HAPPENED. YOU KILLED OTHERS OUT OF ENVY AND JEALOUSY AND YET YOU ARE AFRAID TO DIE. OBI ANKU WO A WO ARA B3WU OGYAM JATO!
What a missed opportunity! Ghana would have been better off with you burried alive than all these wasted years under your leadership. Murdering people for nothing and wasting 19years of Ghana's political life is unforgivable. Please ***barred word*** and enjoy your loot with Jezeeble. We are still waiting for you to return the $5 milion to state coffers that would earne you some respect.
Please stop diverting our minds from the hardship in Ghana and the presence of the colonialist. Speak to the scandals, speak to the inability of African leaders to assert their rights to call the prices of goods produced in Ghana, speak to the foreign loan conditions that state that there shouldn't be employment in Ghana. How long must we wait.... Ghana is fertile for a revolution.... How it's gona bee is the fear of many... It can be averted when you lead the way to expose the treachery, robbery and subjugation orchestrated by the OBRONI
J J Rawlings will become a preacher of the gospel one day day.
He always want people to think he has not done anything wrong. Eh Master Rawlings, you did a lot of wrongs
It is sad that Rawlings always wants to play the victim in Ghana politics. But the records show you to be the most wicked, deadly, corrupt person to have appeared on Ghana's political landscape. You killed people for nothing. And the gang you created and called a political party, NDC, has been the most corrupt group of people you nurtured to inflict pain and misery on the people of this country. I know posterity will not spare you. God is still alive.
ALL YOUR FRIENDS, ESPECIALLY ADABUGA, WHO SUPPORTED YOU IN THE COUP AGAINST LIMAN SAID YOU DECEIVED THEM TO FOLLOW YOU. YOU MADE THEM TO BELIEVE THAT LIMAN HIMSELF WISHED YOU TO OVERTHROW HIS GOVERNMENT AND DESTROY HIS LIFE, HIS FAMILY AND REPUTATION. JJ YOUR DNA IS LIES.