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Ghana�s former President, Mr. Jerry Rawlings is 66 years today. The former Pilot and Military Leader, who later won two elections and became President at the start of the country�s fourth Republic, was born on June 22, 1947. He won both the 1992 and 1996 Presidential elections after having led the Provincial National Defence Council's military junta for over a decade. The PNDC took power from President Hilla Limann on December 31, 1981. Prior to the PNDC era, Mr. Rawlings, together with some junior officers, took power in a bloody coup on June 4, 1979 under the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. He had been arrested a few weeks earlier in a foiled coup attempt on May 15 that same year, but got rescued by his colleague junior officers. Mr. Rawlings, who founded the governing National Democratic Congress, is a staunch anti-corruption campaigner who has been relentless in touting his principles of probity, accountability and social justice both home and abroad.