Everything about Hilla Limann totally explained
Hilla Limann (
December 12,
1934 –
January 23,
1998) was the
President of
Ghana from
September 24,
1979 to
December 31,
1981. Eventually he became a diplomat, and served in
Switzerland. Limann, whose original last name was Babini, was born in the northern
Ghanaian town of
Gwollu in the
Sissala West District of the
Upper West Region to a poor family. He managed to gain an excellent education, and took up an academic career.
Education
Hilla completed his basic school education at the Government Middle School,
Tamale in
1949. Between 1957 to
1960, he studied
Political Science at the
London School of Economics. He subsequently completed a Diploma in French at the
Sorbonne University,
France. He also obtained a
BA (Hons) degree in History at the
University of London and a
Ph.D in Political Science and
Constitutional Law at the
University of Paris.
Foreign Service
Dr. Limann worked as the Head, Europe Desk, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ghana between
1965 and
1968. During
1967, he was a member of the Constitution Commission which drafted the 1969 Constituiton of Ghana . In
1968, he became the Head of
Chancery/Official Secretary at the Ghana
embassy in
Lome,
Togo. He was appointed Counsellor at Ghana's Permanent Mission in
Geneva,
Switzerland in
1971. He assumed the position of Head, Europe, the Americans Southeast Asia Desk back in Ghana at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in June
1975.
Politics
Following the
1979 coup led by
Jerry Rawlings, Limann, though almost unknown even in Ghana, was
elected President on the
People's National Party ticket. He stood for the elections following the disqualification of Alhaji
Imoru Egala by the then ruling
Supreme Military Council and won 62% of the popular vote in the second round of voting. Dr. Limann assumed office as president on
September 24 1979. He was an economic moderate, and supported democratic values and
Pan-Africanism. He was deposed in a coup by Rawlings on
December 31,
1981. He thus was the first and only president of the third republic of Ghana.
In
1992, at the end of the
PNDC military rule that overthrew him. Dr. Limann again got involved in politics and stood as the candidate of the
People's National Convention in the
presidential election that year. He received 6.7% of the popular vote in the elections, coming third. He remained active among the Nkrumahist political movement in Ghana.
Death
Dr. Limann had chronic health problems and finally died of natural causes. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Fulera Limann, and seven children: Lariba Montia (née Limann), Baba Limann, Sibi Andan (née Limann), Lida Limann, Danni Limann, Zilla Limann and Salma Limann.
Addendum
After the handover ceremony in 1979, Military intelligence personnel consistently reported destabilising activities of former members of the AFRC. Dr. Limman insisted that there were no legal justifications to hold them in custody under a democratic dispensation. This decision eventually cost him the presidency and the years of humiliation and alienation he suffered at the hands of the Rawlings administration.
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