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GHANA\u2019S FORMER President, Jerry John Rawlings has commended Ghanaian women for the role they have played in the political and economic development of the country since 1979.
President Rawlings said: \u201cWe could not have achieved as much as we did without the women as our backbone.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was speaking at an awards and dinner dance to climax the Third Conference of West African Women in Leadership at the Ghana International Conference Centre on Friday.<\/p>\n

Former First Lady and President of the 31st December Women\u2019s Movement, Nana Konadu was honoured at the event with an award for her exemplary role in women\u2019s development, creation of grass root structures for women and serving as mother of the nation.<\/p>\n

President Rawlings took on the current government saying he was hopeful that it would wake up to the fact that destroying the mood or fabric of our people through intimidation will make it difficult to ignite their courage to fight in the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n

The former President said: \u201cWhenever we have timidity in certain parts of government or party machinery and they feel intimidated by the courage of the people, then what they end up doing is that they begin to deflate the fire and the energy that they will need to cross some of the most difficult obstacles.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stated that: \u201cIf we do not make and recognize that women in Africa are as much entitled to the freedom and justice that we are claiming for ourselves, I am afraid we will always fall behind and not be able to make the rapid progress that we should be making.
Mr. Rawlings said as soon as women washed their hands off the NDC because \u201cwe got careless and irresponsible, failing to recognize what they had done, that is when we lost our first election.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former President appeared at the ceremony moments after Nana Konadu had been honoured to present her with a large colorful bouquet of flowers before the two hit the dance floor with smooth dance moves that drew admiration from the international audience.<\/p>\n

In his speech afterwards, Mr. Rawlings heaped praises on women for their singular role of boosting national development and called on men to be more sensitive and show more responsibility towards the credibility and integrity of women.<\/p>\n

The conference agreed among other matters to ensure that representatives table reports to policy making bodies of their individual governments, restructure the power of women for advocacy, encourage women to stand for legislative positions and boost the interests of the physically challenged in women advocacy.<\/p>\n

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