Kweku Baako has expressed doubts over the Ex President's self-acclamation stressing that Rawlings' assessment of himself together with his administration comes with a deficit.
Former President Jerry John Rawlings who also doubles as AU envoy to Somalia, in an interaction with a South Africa-based television network, eTV opined that during his nearly 20 years of rule, his ability to strengthen certain institutions like the judiciary and also empower Ghanaians qualifies him as the best Ghanaian leader.
But this proclamation has since created controversy which has left people to wonder why the Ex President would confer such title on himself. Former President J.A Kuffour described his predecessor's comment as "boastful" adding that Ghanaians are the best people to judge.
It is in the wake of this controversy that the Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide says what Ex President Rawlings sought to do was to "terrorize the judiciary into submission and set up a parallel judicial system". He revealed that Rawlings' reign could not have been the best regime due to the numerous abysmal activities that characterized his leadership.
He further explained that the Ex President's era did not allow public accounts to be audited and as a result, he (Rawlings) could not put into the public domain that his administration empowered Ghanaians. "The worst part if we were to look at the specifics...do you know that from the PNDC time, that is from; let's say the first time public accounts...were brought into the public domain, we had a 10 year period under Rawlings that accounts were not audited?", he said.
Kweku Baako who made this submission on Joy Fm's political show "Newsfile", this Saturday, adjudged Ghana's first republican President Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as the best leader ever in the history of the country, hence, rating the former President J.A Kuffuor and Dr. Hilla Limann, second and third best respectively.
Meanwhile, Alex Segbefia, the Deputy Chief of Staff, has discounted the claim that "Rawlings is the best leader in Ghana" saying he disbelieves the former President, also a founding member of the NDC, made such contentious comment. Even though he abstained from awarding marks to the erstwhile leaders of the country, he vouched for President Mills on the premise that the President's "religious" posture could win the heart of many Ghanaians.
Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Xfm 95.1/Accra/Ghana
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