Rawlings Has Nothing To Offer Africa

Wole Soyinka,the only man according to Kwaku Baako,who has critically made a perfect analysis of Jerry Rawlings

The Editor-In-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr., has once again taken ex-President Rawlings to the cleaners by describing his deeds as empty, irritating and of no value.

According to him, there are a lot of people outside Ghana and in many African countries, particularly Nigeria who sometimes do not study Rawlings well.
He said, apart from the renowned author from Nigeria, Wole Soyinka, who made a perfect analysis of Rawlings some years ago, no one has ever made such critical analysis. “There are many young intellectuals around who think that man (Rawlings) has something to offer Africa”, he stated.

Speaking during a panel discussion on Peace FMs Kokrokoo”, he said you sometimes wonder what should be done about Jerry Rawlings as nothing good could come out of him. “The man is a walking contradiction, he told Tweneboah Kodua (TK). Who does he think he is or what does he think Ghanaians are, does he take all of us as a constituency of fools, unthinkable beings? It is not fair. So he goes to sit in Abuja, reads a paper and people clap for him. Nobody wants to do a critical analysis of what the gentleman (Rawlings) is saying, he said.

He added that it was time sometimes we confronted the Rawlings feeling and stripped it naked for people to see through the abject poverty of Mr. Rawlings’ ugly noises all over the place.

Over the weekend, the ex-President at the Extraordinary Congress of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA) in Abuja, Nigeria, made a statement to the effect that that for the first time in Ghana’s political history, “we were going to enter a situation of failure to deal with the crimes of a previous regime; serious crimes, not just economic crimes but crimes related to human rights violations and this was obviously going to perpetuate a corrupt ruling class syndrome.

In his speech he emphasized that if we do not punish such crimes in the life of the regime, but do so only after its removal, many were able to escape the net of the law.

"Rawlings Has To Be Interrogated"

Kwaku Baako Jnr.Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide

However Kwaku Baako contends that the man (Rawlings) himself needed to face the will of the law, after committing so many crimes and atrocities during his regime. “Let’s interrogate this man”, he told Peace FM.

He said perhaps he could help with evidences and testify to some of the crimes he is talking about. “He is lamenting, complaining and making ugly noises and predicting that for the first time his own party’s government cannot handle criminal cases.

He told Peace FM that ex-President Rawlings should stop lamenting that his government was slow and was therefore not being fair to the administration.
He added that Mr. Rawlings on many occasions had said that he knew people who committed various degrees of crimes, but has refused to name them, especially those involved in the killing of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani. “I suspect he does not have it, but he says he has it”, he told Peace FM.

Source: Alex Ofei/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana