By Onyewuchi Ojinnaka
The former president of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, has passed on.
The former Air Force officer toppled the civilian government to became Ghanaian military head of State. He promised to return the country to democratic rule and consequently he retired from the military, joined politics and contested as president and won.
Jerry Rawlings popularly called ‘Papa J’ by his admirers in Ghana due to his positive overturning of Ghana economy is reported to have died of COVID-19 complications at a hospital in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday morning.
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He led Ghana from 1981 to 2001 under both the military and democratic rule.
