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play videoThe late Jerry John Rawlings and wife Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings The wife of Jerry John Rawlings, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, has said she had to learn a lot when she met the former President, including coping with his friends, but she could not and her late husband called her “snooty” which is the show of disapproval or contempt towards others, especially those considered to belong to a lower social class.
Many had lamented, how the Great JJ Rawlings ostracized most of his friends, acquaintances, family members, political comrades, military colleagues among others and suffered loneliness while in office and many years after his 19 years rule.
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings with her late husband JJ Rawlings The wife of Jerry John Rawlings, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has said she had to learn a lot when she met the former President.
In a tribute read on her behalf by her daughter, Princess Amina Rawlings, she admitted that she and her husband “started on a journey that was free and easy in spirit.”
She disclosed that when she met Mr Rawlings, she was green and there was a lot she had to learn about real life, considering the fact that she had overprotective parents.
“I was innocent and you were streetwise. There was so much I did not know and understand about the real-life outside the wings and home of Mr and Mrs J.O.T. Agyeman since I had lived a very protected life under their roof.”
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Reading the tribute at the final funeral ceremony of the Founder of the NDC at the Black Stars Square in Accra on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, she said her father was courageous and endearing in every way to Ghanaians. You were courageous and endearing in every way. You were a warrior.You were always a man of the people. You always wanted us to learn discipline, self-defense, and have a sense of community, Zanetor Rawlings said.
She added: You had a sense of humuor and liked to make fun of people. You taught us to stand up for those who could not even if it meant standing alone.