Bismark Bebli
26 September 2008
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed concern about the consistent preaching of peace in the country by President John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Akufo-Addo, the flag bearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), without ensuring that truth and justice prevail.
According to him, the preaching of peace by Nana Akufo-Addo and President Kufuor would be meaningless if they failed to identify the killers of Ya Na and forty others, and Alhaji Mobila, the then Northern Regional chairman of CPP.
The former President underscored that the peace sermon being preached by the leadership of the NPP was just a smokescreen and tasked Ghanaians to juxtapose the peace that Nana Akufo-Addo and the President Kufuor are enjoying as against that of the masses of the nation.
Speaking to the press after he appended his signature to commemorate the 100 days of the incarceration of the former boss of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, Mr. Rawlings noted that the lifestyle of Mr. Kufuor and Akufo-Addo are diametrically opposed to that of many Ghanaians.
"Let us ask ourselves whether the peace that President Kufuor and Akufo-Addo were enjoying, corresponds to the peace of many Ghanaians. I am sorry. We need to wake up," he said.
According to him, peace would elude the nation as long as Ghanaians continue to suffer under the NPP regime. "If people do not have peace, how do you expect peace? When you subject people to various threats without truth and justice, how do you expect peace," he said.
Mr. Rawlings, known in political circles as "Dr. Boom", asserted that under his regime, they did not discriminate, practice nepotism and tribalism.
Touching on the Northern problem, he expressed concern that a bullet has been used to murder people under a civilian regime.
"When Ya-Na and forty others were killed and the people are crying for justice, how do you expect peace? When Alhaji Mobila is killed, not in a war, which was even against Geneva Conventions, and the alleged killers were not found, how do you expect peace?"
The NDC founder was of the view that the leaders must walk the talk to enhance the needed peace and tranquility.
Mr. Rawlings, obviously not pleased with the allegations of injustices going on in the country, said Mr. Tsikata has no right to be jailed by the NPP administration.
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