Working with Rawlings was tumultuous Joyce Aryee eulogises LISTEN 2
A former Secretary of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), Joyce Aryee has described her working experience with the late ex-president, Jerry John Rawlings as tumultuous.
According to her, “he was very intense about certain things and usually thought things could happen at the snap of a finger because of his military background and often got frustrated when things didn’t go a certain way but eventually got to use to not having things done his way.”
Mr. Rawlings passed on in the early hours of Thursday, November 12, 2020, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and was buried yesterday at the military cemetery.
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+ Mrs. Joy Otabil presenting the cheque to Dr. Catherine Segbefia of the Korle Bu Children’s Cancer Unit
The Head of the Paediatric Oncology Unit at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Lorna Renner has described Christ Temple of the International Central Gospel Church’s annual support for the Children’s Cancer Unit as a life-saving gesture.
Since 2011, over 1500 children have benefited from annual support by the church to the unit.
In 2020, the church donated GHC200,000 to the center. Over 200 children have benefited from the donation made in support of treatment of children with cancer.
On Wednesday, the church again donated an amount of GH¢200,000 to the unit.
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday paid a glowing tribute to the late former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, whom he described as a “charismatic, energetic and fearless leader”.
The President said the young Air Force officer burst onto the political scene like a meteor that did not disintegrate but remained potent till the end of its life.
“On the contrary, it remained potent until the very end of its life, leaving strong footprints in the sands of time,” he said about the man he affectionately called ‘Comandante’, a Spanish and Italian expression for Commandant.
President Akufo-Addo’s tribute was delivered at the final funeral rites of former President Rawlings at the Black Star Square to climax three days of national mourning of the first President of the Fourth Republic and longest-serving Head of State.
I cannot find words in which to bid you goodbye. former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu eulogizes former President Jerry John Rawlings.
The former President passed away in November 2020 at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. He was buried on Wednesday, January 28th, 2021 at the Military Cemetery in Accra.
Martin Amidu in a tribute to Papa J recalled their encounters before his demise.
Read his full tribute below
I was taken aback on 29th September 2020 when after paying my condolences and expressing my experiential emotions of what a toll the passing of your dear mother could have had on you despite your old age, you told me that: “Chief, it is good it happened now. Chief you people never knew. Two or three years ago I was in bad shape with my health and I feared I would go before her.
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