Institute Memorial Lectures in Honor of Former President Rawlings – Torgbiga Fugah | General news

The Ewe community in Ashanti, Ahafo and Brong East regions suggested that the government institute commemorative conferences in honor of former President Flt. Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings.

According to the Community, the patriotism, dedication to duty and sense of discipline exhibited by the late president, Ghana’s longest-serving ruler, deserved to be emulated.

“We have a lot of lessons to learn from his military adventurism and his subsequent life as democratically elected president and statesman,” Torgbiga Mawufeame Fugah, president of the Community, told the Ghanaian News Agency (GNA ), Kumasi.

The late Flt. Lieutenant Rawlings, who rose to fame on Thursday, November 12, 2020, at the ripe age of 73, seized power twice in military coups (1979, 1981).

Despite this, he is seen as a driving force behind Ghana’s emergence as a stable democratic country, and is credited with the country’s return to constitutional rule in 1993 under the Fourth Republican Constitution.

His peaceful transfer of power in 2001, after twenty years of rule, would set the tone for lasting peace and successful transitions by successive elected governments in the country.

Former President Rawlings was well known for his strong belief in transparency, accountability and probity.

“We cannot talk about the journey we have made so far in Ghanaian politics without recognizing our late president,” noted Torgbiga Fugah, saying that young people in the making had a lot to learn from the country’s past.

He paid tribute to the late statesman for his selflessness and passion for national issues.

Meanwhile, the final three-day funeral rites (January 24-27) organized by the state for the late former president are currently underway in Accra.

Some residents of Kumasi, in an interview with the GNA, expressed their condolences to the bereaved family and relatives of the late president, who paid tribute to him for paying his debt to the country.