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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) paid glowing tribute astatine the ceremonial of erstwhile First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, declaring that the party’s past cannot beryllium told without her sanction spoken boldly and with honour.
The NDC described her arsenic a pioneering unit whose courageousness reshaped Ghana’s governmental and societal landscape, particularly for women whose voices had agelong been ignored, successful the tribute work by the General Secretary, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey.
They recalled how, successful the turbulent 1980s, she stepped decisively into nationalist leadership—not arsenic a bystander, but arsenic a defining unit of the revolution.
Her instauration of the 31st December Women’s Movement was hailed arsenic 1 of the astir transformative acts successful Ghana’s history, empowering millions of women done education, assemblage mobilisation, literacy programmes, micro-enterprise enactment and ineligible reforms.
The NDC said nether her leadership, much than 870 aboriginal puerility centres were established nationwide, giving thousands of Ghanaians the acquisition of aboriginal education.
"Today, thousands of adults successful their 30s and 40s transportation the acquisition of aboriginal acquisition due to the fact that they are not connected with her movement, walked into their communities, and planted opportunities wherever nary existed. Her enactment was practical, personal, and profoundly transformational. Her advocacy went acold beyond education."
The NDC besides highlighted her large relation successful championing women’s rights, referencing her power connected the transition of the Intestate Succession Law (PNDC Law 111), which protected widows from injustice. Her advocacy reached the planetary signifier astatine the 1995 Beijing Conference, wherever she spoke powerfully for African girls and women.
"Her fearlessness besides took Ghana to the satellite stage. At the 1995 Beijing Conference, she spoke for the African miss kid with a clarity and authorization that commanded planetary respect. Above all, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings was a foundational pillar of some the PNDC and the NDC."
Described arsenic a foundational pillar of some the PNDC and NDC, she played a cardinal relation successful organising women, strengthening grassroots structures, and shaping the party’s identity.
Her predetermination arsenic First Vice-Chairperson of the NDC successful 2009 reaffirmed her presumption arsenic a founding parent whose power could ne'er beryllium erased.
The tribute besides celebrated her historical courageousness successful becoming the archetypal pistillate to contention the presidency.
"She did not run from the background. She was astatine a dependable centre, organising women, gathering structures, shaping strategy, strengthening grassroots, and helping springiness commencement to a enactment that was not conscionable political, but profoundly connected to the people. The past of the NDC cannot 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, beardown and yielding, indispensable. Her predetermination successful 2009, arsenic archetypal 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 and forgotten."
The NDC concluded by honouring her enduring legacy—visible successful each empowered girl, each protected widow, each pistillate who present knows she tin lead, and each assemblage transformed by aboriginal education.
"As we mourn, we besides observe a pistillate who lived with intention, who spoke a information without fear, and who served this state with unshakeable conviction. A bequest lives successful each assured miss who walks into a classroom, each widow protected by instrumentality and dignity, each pistillate who present knows she tin lead, each assemblage wherever aboriginal acquisition took root, and each tractor of our governmental contented that she helped physique with her ain hands."
They thanked her for her service, courage, and the indelible instauration she laid for some the PNDC and NDC.
“Your contention is run, but your bequest endures. Rest well, Mother of the Movement. Ghana is amended due to the fact that you lived.”
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