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Editor of the Ghanaian Observer, Egbert Faibille has strongly objected to references made to former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings as founder of the women’s empowerment group, the 31st December Women’s Movement.

Mr. Faibille’s claim brings to the fore the 1980s mysterious murder of Cynthia Nuamah.

The Herald’s information is that she was brutally murdered in her home after work. Her hands were tied behind her with an electric water heater which had been plucked on.

She was found with her face smashed and her wrist slashed with what was believed to be a blade, for her to bleed to death.

Insiders claim that she had a heated argument with a very powerful person the previous night before retiring home. After the incident, her husband, Mr. Jude Quarshie, presently with the Audit Service, was picked and put in cells for a longtime, but released without going on trial.

As to whom that powerful person is and what the heated argument was about, hours before her death, till date remains a mystery.

According to Mr. Faibille, Mrs. Rawlings did not play any role in the formation of the group.

Speaking on Newsfile, a news analysis programme on Joy FM and Joy News TV, Mr. Faibille noted that the group was originally founded by one Cynthia Nuamah of blessed memory, Gertrude Zakaria Ali and others who mobilized women to push for the 31st December coup.

The Herald has it that the movement started as the Federation of Ghanaian Women, fashioned along the lines of the Federation of Cuban Women, the women wing of the Cuban revolution. Experts were said to have been brought from Cuba to orient their Ghanaian counterparts (women), as to how to run the movement.

Mr. Faibille alleged that Nana Konadu had no part to play in the formation of the movement, until later when she realised the impact the group had had on women at the time, before she went ahead to register the movement in her name.

The 31st December Women’s Movement has being at the forefront of championing women’s empowerment in the country, and at a ceremony last Tuesday to mark its 30th anniversary, former President Rawlings lauded the efforts made by the group to empower Ghanaian women.

But Mr. Faibille said Ghanaian women did not learn to pursue their rights or become active in politics under the leadership of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings.

He noted that even before the advent of Nana Konadu, Ghanaian women, dating back as far as Yaa Asantewaa’s era, had been assertive and played major roles in national development.