"Rawlings Is Dead And I Feel Cheated" - Acheampong's daughter cries

Nana Serwaa Acheampong, daughter of former Ghanaian military ruler Ignatius Kutu Acheampong has written a long message on how cheated she feels after hearing the death of Ghana's ex President Jerry John Rawlings.

Detailing how life has been for her and her family after the death of her father , the Abuakwa North constituency NPP MP aspirant shared her experience of how her life has been after losing her father to Ghana's firing squad adding that the death of the late Ft Lt Jerry John Rawlings who overthrew her father in 1979 was an easy one.

In some paragraphs of her message to the world , Nana Serwaa Acheampong wrote:

"Now he’s dead, and somehow I feel robbed, cheated because unlike my father, Rawlings’ death was too easy, too comfortable probably.

Death by firing squad, that’s how my father died, when I was just 6 years old. At the time I didn’t understand, but as I grew up, it started to become clearer, I had no one to call father.

Now I think, his children and I are the same fatherless! But at least they grew up knowing their father, they grew up being provided for and protected by their father. So no we are not the same. Rawlings took my father away from me by firing squad, leaving me with no father to provide for me or protect me. Rawlings is dead and I feel cheated.

If there is an afterlife where you meet those who have gone before, I wonder what Rawlings will say to my father, who showed him kindness, and all the others he killed so ruthlessly.

In this life, Rawlings never acknowledged the pain he caused so many of us, never said sorry for our loss or showed remorse. Nothing! So Rawlings is dead, to me his death was too easy, too comfortable, unlike the death he gave my father and countless others. Aside from this I feel nothing about the man, except pity for his children who now know the pain of losing a father."