Rawlings did not beat his Vice President, but there was an ‘incident’ – Kwamena Ahwoi
Kwamena Ahwoi clarified rumors about the fight between Former President Rawlings and his vice Arkaah
Jonas Danquah 
Fromer Minister of Local Governement and Rural developement, Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi, has set records straight in regards to popular speculation that former President Rawlings beat up Vice President Kow Nkensen Arkaah at a cabinet meeting during the first administration of the fourth republic.
According to Kwamena Ahwoi, who was a long-serving Minister under Rawlings, the former President did not beat up his vice-president. However, he suggested that, there was a scuffle that caused the two – Rawlings and Arkaah – to fall on the ground.
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He said Rawlings and his Vice were separated before it could escalate.
“Rawlings didn’t beat him [Arkaah]. But there was an incident and both of them fell [onto] the floor. But Commodore Steve Obimpeh, who was a military person, was sitting next to Arkaah so he went very quickly, jumped into them and separated them and Arkaah left there [the cabinet meeting],” Prof Ahwoi told Citi News in an interview.
He continued:
“At the time he [Arkaah] was leaving [the meeting], his suit wasn’t torn but we all later saw a picture with his suit torn. [He did that] because he went to the then IGP to report that he had been assaulted by President Rawlings so he needed evidence.”
Prof Kwamena Ahwoi said he witnessed the ‘scuffle’ and it was not serious enough to get former Vice President Arkaah’s coat torn.
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Kow Nkensen Arkaah, was the flagbearer of the then National Convention Party (NCP), prior to the 1992 presidential polls, became the vice-presidential candidate to Jerry John Rawlings following an alliance between the NDC, NCP and EGLE party, the so-called Progressive Alliance.
The pair had a rocky working relationship. There were reports that Rawlings physically assaulted Arkaah at a cabinet meeting on December 28, 1995.
When asked why the “Fante” caucus within the NDC did not save Kow NKensen Arkaah, Prof Ahwoi retorted: “Arkaah was beyond salvation especially when the problems reached their climax with his affair with Jemima Yalley [Arkaah’s rumoured lover], that created all the problems. That’s when he became even more stubborn and so we were fixed with an impossible situation.”
