The former president according to sources passed on today November 12, 2020 after a brief illness suspected to be COVID related pneumonia. He was said to have died at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital where he’s been on admission for about a week.
Jerry John Rawlings was born in Accra on 22nd June, 1947, to a Ghanaian mother from Dzelukope, near Keta, in the Volta Region, and a Scottish father.
Former President Rawlings came into power in 1979 through a coup d’etat and successfully led a military rule in Ghana from 1981 until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected President of Ghana from January 7, 1993 to January 6, 2001.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and his four children, Zanetor, Yaa Asantewaa, Amina and Kimathi Rawlings who is the only male child.
