Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings was boldness personified

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the precocious First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, arsenic boldness personified. 

“She was the precise heartbeat of a question that reshaped Ghana’s political, social, and antiauthoritarian landscape,” it said.

Tribute

In a tribute work connected behalf of the party, the General Secretary of the NDC, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, said she was a foundational pillar of some the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and the NDC.

He said Mrs Agyeman-Rawlings did not run from the inheritance but was astatine the centre of organising women, gathering structures, “shaping strategy, strengthening the grassroots, and helping springiness commencement to a enactment that was not conscionable political, but profoundly connected to the people.”

He pointed retired that the past of the NDC could not beryllium told without her sanction spoken boldly and with honour.

“She was not an perceiver of the struggle. She was an designer of its success. She was not a specified participant.

She was a pillar, strong, unyielding, indispensable,” helium stated. 

Mr Kwetey said her predetermination successful 2009 arsenic First Vice Chairperson of the NDC was a designation of her stature arsenic a founding parent of the party, “one whose power could ne'er beryllium wished away, revised, oregon forgotten.”

Courage

The General Secretary said she again defied each limits and became the archetypal pistillate to contention the presidency of the Republic of Ghana, “a testament to her courageousness and her lifelong connection that enactment is not a man’s birthright.”

He said the NDC was celebrating a pistillate who lived with intention, “who spoke her information without fear, and who served this state with unshakeable conviction. “

Mr Kwetey said during the turbulence of the 1980s, Mrs Agyeman-Rawlings did not basal astatine the margins but stepped into the arena, not simply to enactment a revolution, but to specify one.

He said her founding of the 31st December Women’s Movement was 1 of the boldest acts of enactment successful the country’s history.

“What began arsenic an thought became a nationwide translation motor that empowered millions of women, nurtured assemblage leadership, and restored assurance successful those who had erstwhile been invisible,” helium stated.

He said nether her commanding and charismatic leadership, much than 870 aboriginal puerility centres were established crossed the country.

“Today, thousands of adults successful their 30s and 40s transportation the acquisition of aboriginal acquisition due to the fact that Nana Konadu and her Movement walked into their communities and planted opportunities wherever nary existed. Her enactment was practical, personal, and profoundly transformational,” helium stressed.

Mr Kwetey said Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings’ advocacy went acold beyond education.

He said done literacy drives, micro-enterprise programmes, and ineligible reform, she helped thousands of women go informed earners and assured citizens.

“Her boldness influenced the transition of the Intestate Succession Law (PNDCL 111), a watershed authorities galore rightly telephone the ‘Nana Konadu Law’,” helium stated.

Mr Kwetey said Nana Konadu stood betwixt widows and injustice, warring to guarantee that nary pistillate would beryllium near stateless oregon powerless successful her darkest hour.

He said her fearlessness besides took Ghana to the satellite stage, particularly astatine the 1995 Beijing Conference, wherever she spoke for the African miss kid with a clarity and authorization that commanded planetary respect.