Attempts were made to kill me after Limann handing over – Rawlings recounts
- John Rawlings has opened up about how his life was alsomost taken after he handed over power to Hilla Limann in 1979
- He said the attempts became so much that he was persuaded to leave the country
- Rawlings revealed that his refusal to leave the country caused various assassination plots against him
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Former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has opened up about how his life was alsomost taken after he handed over power to Hilla Limann in 1979.
According to Rawlings, the attempts became so much that he was forced to leave Ghana for his own safety but he refused to do so.
Speaking at the 75th-anniversary celebration of the formation of the Mine Workers Union in Ghana, former President Rawlings alleged that Ghana’s Intelligence Agencies with support from the west wanted to bury him alive.
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“After my handover to Limann’s government in 1979, there were many by the intelligence machinery in the collaboration with the Western Embassies to persuade me to leave the country as they had done with the other colleagues.
Rawlings revealed that his refusal to leave the country caused various assassination plots against him.
My refusal to do so unleashed an avalanche of fabrications designed to assassinate my character as a prelude to my physical elimination. The Western Intelligence machinery threatened to bury me alive and they very nearly succeeded.
Prior to becoming the first President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana in 1992, Rawlings led two coup d’etats – first in 1979 and second in 1981, 31 December, to overthrow the regimes of General F. K. Akuffo of the Supreme Military Council II and President Hilla Limann of People’s National Party, respectively.
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The GoG of first suspended the agreement with PDS following investigations and suspicion of fraud in the arrangement on July 30, 2019.
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The agreement was one that required that the private company, PDS, to manage the distribution of power in Ghana.
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