{"id":1134411,"date":"2022-06-26T00:08:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/26\/what-happened-when-i-met-rawlings-years-after-my-fathers-murder-kwabena-agyapong-explains\/"},"modified":"2022-06-26T00:08:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:08:48","slug":"what-happened-when-i-met-rawlings-years-after-my-fathers-murder-kwabena-agyapong-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/26\/what-happened-when-i-met-rawlings-years-after-my-fathers-murder-kwabena-agyapong-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened when I met Rawlings years after my father\u2019s murder \u2013 Kwabena Agyapong explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FS-CF1XWIAckV9e-Copy-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"Former General Secretary of the NPP, ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong\" title=\"Former General Secretary of the NPP,  ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former General Secretary of the NPP,  ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Scribe of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, has revealed what transpired the first time he encountered late President Jerry John Rawlings.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, although he worked with the State Broadcaster as a Sports Presenter, he and the late former President always avoided each other because of how his father was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>He said until the death and final funeral rites of a former National Chairman of the NPP, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, he had avoided the late former President.<\/p>\n<p>However, on the day of the final funeral rites of Mr Lamptey, the late Rawlings, together with his wife, walked up to him and they exchanged pleasantries.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He indicated that though they exchanged pleasantries, he did not disclose the contents of their brief conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnytime he saw me, he took a byline away. We never met until Jake\u2019s funeral. He walked to me\u2026I had just returned from the UK that was the time I was on suspension and at Jake\u2019s funeral he was sitting with the then President Mahama and President Kufuor on the High Table and he walked with the wife straight to me. I was surprised to see him, I didn\u2019t think he was coming to me. That was the first time I really shook hands with him, the cameras were there, I was uncomfortable, what am I going to do? But I said okay this is our country, it\u2019s okay, I shook hands\u2026He said a few words I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve to say everything,\u201d he revealed on Good Evening Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"JN-unco2-h8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Migration and Child Safety: The ordeals of kids begging on Accra\u2019s street \u2013 Adom TV News (25-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JN-unco2-h8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former General Secretary of the NPP, ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong Former Scribe of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, has revealed what transpired the first time he encountered late President Jerry John Rawlings. According to him, although he worked with the State Broadcaster as a Sports Presenter, he and the late former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[7907,2058,4732,7070,228,50,9354,1674,1151],"class_list":["post-1134411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-agyapong","tag-explains","tag-fathers","tag-happened","tag-kwabena","tag-met","tag-murder","tag-rawlings","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}