This is fcking unexpected, I really loved this guy's balls. RIP man, if there's an other side, I hope you're enjoying it.

OgaTheTop2:
The story no complete. I would like to know how he escaped the death sentence..

He was court marshaled for a treasonable offense(attempted coup). Death sentence was imminent but whiles in custody, other junior officers broke jail and took him out and quickly joined the revolution that same day...there was chaos in Accra on that June 4th, more like an action movie.. An armed fighter jet was prepared for him and he flew out to sea, fired some shots into an abandoned vessel to test and flew to Ghana’s broadcasting office then, with intention of firing from above any resistance against the revolution. Thankfully the resistance wasn’t too strong so he aborted that mission. A few days later his junta rounded-up alleged corrupt leaders and some top military officers and executed them, no trial though. He handed over to an elected government but after one year he came back. He ushered Ghana into democracy in 1992, stood and won two elections and handed over in January 2001.

Ecstasy154:


https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-jerry-rawlings-ex-ghanaian-president-dies-from-covid-19/amp

An Iroko tree has fallen in Africa. Rawlings is irreplaceable. RIP.

Late Gedion Okar would have been Nigeria’s JJ Rawlings.


Okar failed because Nigeria is not blessed by God.

chaiiiii RIP sir

SMI2020:
sheby him sef na human...

. No Na Spirit from the Space .... Mtchewww

R.I.P to a great African!

Thomas Sankara's faithful comrade.

CodeTemplar:
RIP to him. Isn't he the one who gathered looters and sprayed them all?

Yes he was. He got all the corrupt leaders of the past and killed them. Something badly needed in Nigeria right now. We just need a radical leader like Rawlings to make it happen.

boyjo:
Liars!

Which Covid 19??

So tell us what killed him, genius

Asifiwe:
A True Hero. The man who brought Ghana out of the grip of destroyer through a revolution, A man who was quoted to have said, NGERIAN LOVES THEIR OPPRESORS.
he came, he saw, he served. You will never be forgotten when history is written
Adieu General Rawlings. Rest in Power

Correction: he never gave himself a rank more than flight lieutenant, unlike our own coupists

mansakhalifa:
Forget any other thing you have said so far.

I call this the biggest casualty of the Covid 19 pandemic and 2020 as a whole.

This year just got crazier.

I've got nothing but loads of respect for that man.

Rest on legend.

P.S: Sankara's long gone. And now, Rawlings goes on to join him. The only two guys that I admire so much(politically-speaking) in Africa.

I didn't see this coming actually. Honestly. It's a rude shock.

Buhari is gone too. How come you no mention am

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PoliteActivist:


So tell us what killed him, genius

Awww...thanks.

Notatribalist:
Verify news before pushing it to front page..I am in Ghana and I have not even heard the news here.

Just because u r a mendicant in Ghana doesn't mean you know what's going on in Ghana. BBC, VOA, CNN are all lying, genius

And he just buried his mother last month oo

Na wa for this 2020

Ghanaians will remember you for taking them out of the woods

PoliteActivist:


Just because u r a mendicant in Ghana doesn't mean you know what's going on in Ghana. BBC, VOA, CNN are all lying, genius

Yeah I just confirmed it.It's such a shame that here in Ghana many TV station are not even talking about it.Death is a Normal thing in Ghana shall, they don't really care.

Ecstasy154:


https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-jerry-rawlings-ex-ghanaian-president-dies-from-covid-19/amp

No nonsense man. One of the few African military men that you would want to be carrying out coup over and over again. Another one is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso.

If only somebody like Abacha could just be a people's person who has human feelings, he could have cleaned up Nigeria too with his no nonsense, kill anybody 'kill able" attitude.


On a different note, why do people keep writing RIP for a dead person? you even see some saying RIP sir
Your condolence should be directed towards the family the dead left behind, the man or woman is gone and can't hear you. condolence messages are meant for those of us still here (at least for now) reading the messages, not for the dead.

jrtorrents:
He died of heart condition not COVID!

https://www.ghanaweb.com/sil/r.php?thread=27929345

When will you conspiracy nuts let it rest?
Genius, so these reputable news outlets are all lying

May his soul rest in peace. He was indeed a rare gem, one of the very best. Rest on, dear soul. Rest on.

Moferere:
Friends, please let's stay safe, this nonsense pandemic scamdemic is still very much around.
May we never be unfortunate.

R.I.P to the dead.

ALL THANKS TO DR FAUXY, WUHAN LABORATORY SCIENTISTS AND THE BIG GUY JOE. NOTHING IS HIDDEN UNDER THE SUN.

oh God! Just when we were about to have our own revolution here in Nigeria? I'm sure you would have loved to see a revolution in Nigeria. Rest in Peace dear Jerry Rawlings.

my GOD. hope its not covid.

Notatribalist:
Yeah I just confirmed it.It's such a shame that here in Ghana many TV station are not even talking about it.Death is a Normal thing in Ghana shall, they don't really care.

It is not about death, it is about greatness of the subject,, the greatest Ghanaian alive just died

Rest in Peace

yommen:


May be that's what Ojukwu would have done. That would behave paid off for us. For those that might want to quote me, I am talking as a Nigerian. Besides, I'm not Igbo, I am Yoruba.

But is there no one officer that could lead that now?

OgaTheTop2:
The story no complete. I would like to know how he escaped the death sentence..

He was scheduled to be executed, but b4 he could be executed his boys broke him out of jail. That's why he promptly executed those he exected, no trials even

Covid 19 is not a disease it's a virus. You people are too backward. There are huge differences between a disease and a virus.

Ecstasy154:


https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-jerry-rawlings-ex-ghanaian-president-dies-from-covid-19/amp

soojar:


No nonsense man. One of the few African military men that you would want to be carrying out coup over and over again. Another one is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso.

If only somebody like Abacha could just be a people's person who has human feelings, he could have cleaned up Nigeria too with his no nonsense, kill anybody 'kill able" attitude.


On a different note, why do people keep writing RIP for a dead person? you even see some saying RIP sir
Your condolence should be directed towards the family the dead left behind, the man or woman is gone and can't hear you. condolence messages are meant for those of us still here (at least for now) reading the messages, not for the dead.

It is called tradition. Who does your condolence help, dead or alive?

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