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NDC Founder, JJ Rawlings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has revealed what he describes as several attempts on his life after he handed over power to former President Hilla Limann in 1979.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the former president, the attempts became so intense that he was persuaded to leave Ghana but he refused to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking at the 75th-anniversary celebration of the formation of the Mine Workers Union in Ghana, former President Rawlings alleged that Ghana\u2019s Intelligence Agencies with support from the west wanted to bury him alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter my handover to Limann\u2019s 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. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to becoming the first President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana in 1992, Rawlings led two coup d\u2019etats \u2013 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\u2019s National Party, respectively.<\/p>\n

He explained that the coup of June 4, 1979 popularly known as the June 4th Revolution or Uprising, orchestrated by junior ranked military personnel, was necessitated by the need to bring an end to the corruption, rot and abuse of power that had become the order of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NDC Founder, JJ Rawlings Former President Jerry John Rawlings has revealed what he describes as several attempts on his life after he handed over power to former President Hilla Limann in 1979. According to the former president, the attempts became so intense that he was persuaded to leave Ghana but he refused to do so. 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