Former
Member of Parliament for Okaikoi South, Nana Akomea has slammed former
President Jerry John Rawlings over his recent remarks that his successor
is an "autocratic thief."
President Rawlings promised Ghanaians
never to quit exposing the "corrupt" nature of former President Kufour
because to him, he (Mr. Kufour) has created an impression to the young
ones in the nation as if "corruption started with this man, the young
man, John Mahama, no, it started with Kufuor and that’s why I said
Kufuor was an autocratic thief.”
But speaking in an interview with Peacefmonline.com,
Nana Akomea sought to call former President Rawlings to order, positing
that Mr. Rawlings has "two personalities" and behave like "he's living
in two different worlds."
He wondered why he (President Rawlings) would single out his successor over something his own inventions.
“The
very same thing he accuses other people, he’s even more guilty. This is
a man who staged a coup in 1982 and overthrew the democratically
elected government of Limann. When Limann was in power, we had
Parliament. We had Auditor General looking at government accounts and
making reports to Parliament. We had all those institutional
arrangements taking place. Rawlings said they were corrupt. They were
inefficient. He came and removed them, and then brought his own PNDC.
“For
10 years, nobody could audit them…This is a person who sold State
Assets to his wife…This is a man who came and said that he wanted to
raise the poor up and yet, all his children; he educated them abroad.
Which money did he use to educate his children abroad?” he rhetorically
asked. |
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