I had no knowledge of Rawlings State Strikes – Nana Konadu

General News on Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2018-11-28

The former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, gave an overview of her role in some historical events of Ghana.

The wife of former President Jerry John Rawlings and military leader of the PNDC who committed the failed coup of May 15, 1979 and the successful coup of June 4, 1979 revealed that she had no part in the planning and preparatory work for these events. .

Nana Konadu clarified that it was only after the commission of the acts that she was informed in both cases.

Recounting the sequence of events when she was recalled to the Good Evening Ghana host, Paul Adom-Otchere, the former Premier said that prior to the failed attempt of 15 May, she had returned home after work to meet her husband and military friends gathering "something".

She responded to their request to prepare a meal for them, after which they left home without giving him an idea of ​​what they had planned to do.

The coup d'etat, which was Ghana's third military coup, was planned and executed by a section of junior officers and corporals headed by Captain Jerry John Rawlings, within Armed Forces of Ghana, who have been harmed by the governance style of General IK Acheampong.

After the failed attempt, Rawlings and his charges were arrested and imprisoned.

"He left the house, came back with some of his soldiers, they were doing something, I'm thinking of fixing a table or something." I came home, it was one of those days when I was there. I closed early and they wanted to eat so I repaired something for and when they finished eating, they said they would come back, "recalls Nana Konadu.

Bring Tsatsu to defend Rawlings in court

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings also explained how she had badembled a team of lawyers to represent her husband at trial.

According to her, she had to reject a well-established team of lawyers that her mother had chosen so that her mother could defend Rawlings after the failed coup d'etat.

The former first lady explained that she was convinced that the only people who could defend her husband were people convinced of the problem.

She then drove to the campus of the University of Ghana, where Tsatsu Tsikata was a lecturer instructed to convince him to intervene as the captain 's attorney. jailed aviation, Jerry John Rawlings.

The events that followed and on the advice of Tsatsu Tsikata resulted in the formation of a team of lawyers led by the lead counsel and president of the Ghana Bar Association to the Period, Adumua-Bossman.

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings said, "My mother and mother went out and got some of these big lawyers and my position was that it's not these big lawyers who can get them out of this problem. The two mothers were angry at me because they said they already had these two lawyers, I took my car and I went to Legon, I did not find it, so I waited at his door, I slept in my car until he came and I told him what I wanted.He said that we needed a senior manager for us direct, but there was no problem in being part of it, but we need a senior manager who has the name and recognition. "

"So we went all the way to Adabraka and then he said that I had to wait in the car, he was going up and talking to the guy, all the time I did not know who he was. mounted, talked to him and came back and said that the guy wants to see you.It is interested so let's go and when I went it was Adumua-Bossman, "she added.

My mother told me about June 4th

The coup d'etat of 4 June 1979 took place after colleagues of the former president entered the prisons and released.

A public broadcast announcing the takeover of leadership was conducted by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation to formally indicate a change of government.

However, just like the failed coup of May 15, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings said she was totally unaware that the coup would take place on June 4 and that the show would resulting public would have taken place thereafter.

"When the broadcast came, I did not hear it.It was later that my mother came home and said that I had to leave the house.I had my daughter with me but she was too young to know what was going on, she was just a year old, "revealed the former First Lady.

These details are contained in the book by Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, "It takes a woman", which she recently launched. The book tells his political journey.