Jerry John Rawlings (J.J.)

The Electoral Commission's exclusive right to issue national identity cards derives not from the constitution but from a 1993 Act passed after the opposition had boycotted elections that led to a parliament dominated by Jerry Rawlings's National Democratic Congress (NDC)...

Light relief arrived however when the volatile ex-President Jerry John Rawlings touring the constituencies became involved in a fracas with one of his younger critics a cellular phone technician...

In 1982 a few months after Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings successfully staged a coup three High Court judges and an army officer were brutally murdered and their bodies incompetently burned...

Private investigators have been hired to trace government assets allegedly stolen by top NDC officials but no prosecutions have ensued leaving the public to conclude that the Kufuor government wanted the information only for its election campaign or that the claims of grand corruption against the regime of Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings can't be proven...

The NRC's final report due in September will deal mainly with complaints about previous governments under ex-President Jerry Rawlings...

After serving for a decade as an energy advisor to the previous government of Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings Wereko-Brobby formed his own party the United Ghana Movement and ran against President John Agyekum Kufuor in the 2000 elections...

Kufuor can draw on the experience of ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohamed ibn Chambas Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings government and Presidential Secretary Daniel Kufuor Osei who was Ghana's Ambassador to Guinea during Liberia's first civil war...

Three former officials of ex-President Jerry Rawlings's National Democratic Congress (NDC) were gaoled on 28 April for their part in the Quality Grain scandal involving a loan of US$20 million for a rice-growing project that never materialised (AC Vol 43 No 13)...

Jerry John Rawlings and his civilian successor the dour John Kufuor hit breaking point recently...

The opposition New Democratic Congress will start campaigning for the 2004 elections with flagbearer John Atta Mills (backed by ex-President Jerry John Rawlings) after he beat former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey (backed by party Chairman Obed Asamoah) for the nomination...

The opposition National Democratic Congress has criticised Kufuor's dealings with the Consortium - partly because the Jerry Rawlings-led NDC government had rejected its offer of a 'low-interest' loan...

After years of hostility to Togo Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire under Kufuor's predecessor Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings the NPP was swift to mend fences after coming to office in January 2001...