Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International, Nicholas Duncan-Williams has paid a glowing tribute to late former President Jerry John Rawlings.
According to him, the former President always put Ghana first.
“I will remember him for putting Ghana first. Now is the time to focus on the good that he did and the contributions he made, to extend forgiveness and grace where he missed it. He himself had some deep regrets. The best contribution we can all make to his legacy is to unite as Ghanaians and put the country first: to build together as citizens of a community rather than divided peoples of parties and tribes. We should care less about self-enlargement and the things that divide us, as he did,” Duncan Williams wrote in a statement issued on Friday, November 13, 2020.
Jerry John Rawlings died on Thursday, November 12, 2020, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where he was receiving treatment after a short illness.
He died at the age of 73.
Rawlings had led Ghana for close to twenty years through a coup and later as a democratically elected President.
Duncan-Williams, who witnessed Rawlings’ reign, described the late President as a leader who “dared greatly and will never be among those cold and timid souls who neither know great defeats or victories. Late President Rawlings was the personification of the Man in the Arena”.
Duncan-Williams thus used the opportunity to call on Ghanaians to join him and the Action Chapel network of churches worldwide for a corporate prayer session on Monday, November 16, 2020, from 12pm to 1pm at the Prayer Cathedral, Spintex Road, Accra.
Read the full tribute below:
