{"id":412023,"date":"2017-08-17T08:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T08:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/17\/video-call-kufuor-gentle-giant-not-me-rawlings\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T08:51:52","slug":"video-call-kufuor-gentle-giant-not-me-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/17\/video-call-kufuor-gentle-giant-not-me-rawlings\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Call Kufuor gentle giant not me \u2013 Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON – SEPTEMBER 15: (AFP OUT) Ghana President John Kufuor delivers a speech and toast during a state dinner in his honor at the White House September 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. Kufuor is on a three-day state visit to the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Former President Jerry John Rawlings during a public lecture at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) was described as a gentle giant after delivering his speech but the former President immediately interrupted the MC saying he isn\u2019t a gentle giant so shouldn\u2019t be called so.<\/p>\n

He claimed former President John Agyekum Kufuor should rather be referred to as the gentle giant because that\u2019s what he\u2019s known for and called by many.<\/p>\n

JJ Rawlings, who got shocked by the words of the MC quickly interrupted saying \u201cwait, who was he talking about? \u2026\u2026..But Kufuor is the one referred to as the gentle giant. \u2026..Yes but he\u2019s called the gentle giant, you are trying to praise me but gentle giant I don\u2019t hear it\u201d.<\/p>\n

This filled the lecture hall with laughter as he justified his stance on the \u2018gentle giant\u2019 issue whilst the MC tried to defend his words.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a programme held by the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Foundation in Accra Wednesday, August 16, JJ Rawlings spoke to the theme of the forum \u2013 \u2018The Role of the Council of State: A Critical Assay\u2019 \u2013 by calling for slight revisions to the constitutional provision on the composition of the Council of State.<\/p>\n

He ended his lecture with an anecdote about late South African leader Nelson Mandela, narrating how the freedom fighter had to wait for a very long time in a \u201cvery rich\u201d country for financial aid that never was.<\/p>\n

According to him, when an emissary got to Mr Mandela, who had waited for long at a designated venue of that country\u2019s airport, he told the South African anti-apartheid fighter that the car bringing the cash had involved in an accident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the money also injured?\u201d Mr Rawlings quotes Madiba as asking the emissary in the face.<\/p>\n