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12 Things You Should Know About Jerry Rawlings
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Former president of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings is dead.
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His was a colorful lifestyles. Below are some of the things you need to know about him:
1. Jerry John Rawlings was born on June 22, 1947, in Accra, Ghana.

2. After he finished from a military academy at Teshie, Jerry have become a lieutenant in the Ghanaian air pressure in 1969.

3. Rawlings staged his first coup in Ghana on May 1, 1979. The coup failed. He became arrested, court-martialed and publicly sentenced to loss of life.

4. He was a part of the Free Africa movement, an underground institution of military officers who desired to unify Africa via coups.

Five. On June 1, 1979, a set of squaddies sympathetic to his purpose were given him out of prison.

6. He led some other coup, dethroning General Fred Akuffo after which Supreme Military Council. He set up the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which he was the chairman.

7. Flight Lieutenant Rawlings dominated for 115 days and oversaw the execution of army officials, former Ghanaian heads of country and others.

Eight. He exceeded over peacefully to an elected government on September 24, 1979.

Nine. On December 31, 1981, Rawlings staged every other coup, ousting President Hilla Limann.

10. He resigned from the navy in 1992 and contested to end up a civilian president.

11. He served for two phrases earlier than endorsing his vice chairman, John Atta Mills for the presidency.

12. Rawlings became married to Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, who was the primary female to run for the presidency in Ghana.