Rawlings Is Not An Attorney-General To Prosecute – NPP

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. John Kwaku Owusu Afriyie otherwise known as “Sir John” has asked ex-President Rawlings to keep mute over pressuring the NDC government to prosecute past corrupt government officials.

He said Jerry Rawlings’ advocating for the prosecution of state officials, was an unnecessary witch-hunting which was not going to help the NDC win power in 2012 again.

”It is not Rawlings who is the Attorney-General of this country to determine when to and when not to prosecute. It is the duty of the Attorney-General (Betty Mould Iddrisu) to prosecute if she so wishes,” he stated.

According to Sir John, it was not the duty of the ex-President “to force her to go to the court when there was no proof as to the gathering of evidence.”

“They are several instances where the ex-President (Jerry Rawlings), during his regime, failed to prosecute a lot of cases…but is putting pressure on his own Party now to prosecute past state officials,” he added.

Speaking in an interview on Radio Gold, an Accra-based private radio station, Sir John asserted that there was no way the government could prosecute officials of the previous government if they had no concrete proofs. He, however, praised ex-President Rawlings for pronouncing through his recent statement, that the NDC was going to find it very difficult to win back power in 2012 if they continue to operate in a slow manner to fulfill their “better Ghana agenda”.

“I praise Rawlings for the feat when he said the “better Ghana agenda was “yaamutu”/not achievable,” he said.

He added that their agenda can never be attained by this incompetent administration of the ruling NDC.

Source: Alex Ofei/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana