In her autobiography, It Takes A Woman, of 2018, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings shared her experience and memories of that very day on June 4, 1979. Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings described how a journalist they knew by the name Elizabeth, corroborated the tales of her mother, giving her no more rooms for doubt. But Nana Konadu added that she wasn’t exactly surprised, except for the fact that she did not take an earlier statement he had made to her seriously. Beyond the realm of anything I could imagine, plans for his escape must have already been in the works,” she wrote. The Jerry John Rawlings-led military overthrow saw the end of the rule of the Supreme Military Council, with Colonel I. K. Acheampong as its chairman, on June 4, 1979.

Source: GhanaWeb February 20, 2026 12:18 UTC