Tribute by Mahama: 'She laid the groundwork for Ghana’s gender-sensitive policies'

President John Dramani Mahama has paid glowing tribute to Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, describing her arsenic “a genuinely singular woman” and “a towering nationalist fig whose power volition resonate for generations.”

In a tribute work connected his behalf by Presidential Adviser and Special Aide, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, astatine the last ceremonial work astatine the Black Stars Square successful Accra today, President Mahama highlighted Nana Konadu’s transformational enactment arsenic First Lady, noting that done the 31st December Women’s Movement, she championed literacy, maternal wellness and aboriginal puerility education.”

The President said Nana Konadu's economical empowerment — efforts that “laid the groundwork for galore of the gender-sensitive policies and societal interventions that Ghana benefits from today.”

"Nana Konedu was acold much than a erstwhile archetypal lady. She was a pioneering leader, an unwavering champion of women's empowerment, a trailblazer successful our governmental landscape, and a profoundly committed patriot. Her beingness communicative is 1 defined by boldness, boldness to speak, to challenge, to lead, and to basal resolutely for what she believed was close for Ghana."

He praised her arsenic a trailblazer who redefined the relation of First Lady, “bold successful speech, bold successful leadership, and unafraid to situation norms.” Though steadfast successful nationalist life, Mahama described her arsenic warm, humorous, and profoundly devoted to her family.

Her lifelong committedness to uplifting women and young people, President Mahama said, leaves an enduring nationalist legacy.

"She believed passionately successful the transformative powerfulness of women and the imaginable of young people, and she dedicated her dependable and power to assistance uplift them."

He described her passing arsenic “a profound nonaccomplishment to the nation” and affirmed that her illustration volition proceed to usher Ghana toward “a much just, inclusive, and equitable future.”

"Her passing is simply a profound loss, not lone to her beloved family, to whom Lordina and I widen our heartfelt condolences, but besides to our nation. It marks the closing of an important section successful Ghana's governmental history, our societal history, adjacent arsenic her illustration continues to animate generations to come."

“We observe a beingness of leadership, advocacy, and unbroken purpose. Fare thee well, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings."