{"id":451258,"date":"2017-12-31T18:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T18:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/31\/december-31-not-coup-historians-distorting-facts-rawlings\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T18:36:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T18:36:20","slug":"december-31-not-coup-historians-distorting-facts-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/31\/december-31-not-coup-historians-distorting-facts-rawlings\/","title":{"rendered":"December 31 not coup; historians distorting facts \u2013 Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday, 31 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-31<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/62035180.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cute Rawlings Here\" title=\"Cute Rawlings Here\" width=\"295\" height=\"168\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Jerry John Rawlings, former President of Ghana<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514745380_999_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former President Jerry John Rawlings has criticised individuals who describe the June 4 uprising and the 31st December revolution as coup d\u2019\u00e9tats insisting it was an opportunity for Ghanaians to demand their rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe records are there for our young ones to study and appreciate but the history writers have always thought it convenient to distort the facts to suit their elitist and so-called highly educated leanings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the June 4 uprising and the 31st December revolution which were borne out of a state of uncontrolled corruption, wretchedness and gloom has often been described as a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat by a group of characters who ought to know better; a great affront to the millions of Ghanaians who rose in unison to denounce the monopoly of a select few who thought the right to rule was their birth right,\u201d Mr Rawlings said in a speech to mark the 36th anniversary of the 31st December 1981 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s celebration was held at Ho in the Volta region on Sunday morning on the theme: \u201cUniting Around the Principles of Probity, Accountability and Social Justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rawlings insists the same group of people misinforming the public about events of the revolution and \u201ctheir puppets oversaw an economy that retrogressively provided limited opportunities for an increasing population\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that: \u201cThe price of goods and services were escalating in an unprecedented manner by 1981. The economic indicators were all negative at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/15300662.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who have forgotten and have a veneer obscuring their view, corruption had its own local terminology -\u2018Kalabule\u2019. In 1982 at the advent of the revolution, Ghanaians had to queue for essential commodities such as bread and maize in order to make ends meet. This did not break down the resolve of the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the young and able-bodied ones, mostly drawn from the universities travelled to the hinterlands to help cart cocoa on trucks and trains to the ports for export.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe desire to die for mother Ghana was the driving force behind the revolution. It was a re-birth of the spirit of patriotism \u2013 the love of one\u2019s country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was of the view that: \u201cThe economy recovered significantly over the ten-year period from 1982 to 1992 when we established constitutional rule after a decade of grassroots democracy never before experienced in the country. The Economic Recovery Programme, the Structural Adjustment Programme, the Financial Adjustment Programme and the introduction of the Value Added Tax were tough but bold decisions taken to tighten our belts while offering the country the much-needed turnaround in economic and infrastructural development\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/13324159.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: 39 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Sunday, 31 December 2017 Source: classfmonline.com 2017-12-31 Jerry John Rawlings, former President of Ghana Former President Jerry John Rawlings has criticised individuals who describe the June 4 uprising and the 31st December revolution as coup d\u2019\u00e9tats insisting it was an opportunity for Ghanaians to demand their rights. \u201cThe records are there for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":443944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>December 31 not coup; 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