Jerry Rawlings, a former president of Ghana, has allegedly died from COVID-19 complications on Thursday, 12 November 2020, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra, according to reports.
He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as a democratically elected president of Ghana.
As a senior officer in the Ghana Air Force, he overthrew a military government in 1979, handing over to a civilian leader.
Two years later he led a second coup and was the head of a military junta until introducing multi-party elections in 1992 when he was first elected president. He stepped down in 2001 after serving two terms.
He began his time in power as a committed socialist but later introduced free-market reforms.
He ushered in a long period of political stability that continues in Ghana today, after a tumultuous series of coups in the 1960s and 1970s.
The former president who ruled Ghana from 1981 to 2001 was 73 years old. He was born on 22 June 1947.
Might be the first time i am hearing bout this man and its all good things, RIP.
RIP Jerry Rawlings.
May his gentle soul RIP