Invite JJ Over Serial Killings

President John Atta Mills has been aided in his attempt to investigate the serial killings of women, which occurred during the Jerry John Rawlings regime, as he has been admonished to look within his own party to resolve the murders.

Nana Akomea, Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) spokesperson on Communication and Member of Parliament (MP) for Okaikwei South, has dared President Mills to invite the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) founder, ex-President Rawlings, for answers if he was really determined to get to the bottom of the serial killings.

Delivering this year’s state-of-the nation address, President Mills indicated he was concerned about the cases of unsolved murders and that he expected the Police Administration to seek external help and collaboration where necessary.

This was after he had ordered late last year, the re-opening of investigations into the serial killings, which occurred from 1998 to2000, a period that President Mills was the Vice President of Ghana and Chairman of the Police Council.

Although the previous NPP administration investigated the killings, with a court trying and sentencing Charles Quansah for the murders, ex-president Rawlings claimed the convict was only used as a scapegoat, apparently forming the basis of the re-opening of the cases.

Ex-President Rawlings indicated he knew the killers of the women but would only disclose their names if the then NPP administration was able to provide a ‘chemical interrogator’ to interrogate and confirm his testimony.

Taking his turn on the debate on the state-of-the-nation’s address Friday, Nana Akomea said President Mills did not need to overburden the Police Administration with the killings because ex-President Rawlings told Ghanaians he knew those behind the murders. “If the President is so minded to investigate the serial killings, then he should invite Jerry John Rawlings, the founder of the NDC, who said he knew those who were involved in the killings and that he needed a chemical interrogator to disclose the names.

President Mills should just provide the chemical interrogator and invite the ex-president,” Nana Akomea, who is also the Director of Communications for NPP 2012 campaign team, admonished.

President Mills had indicated that the sad chapter in the history of Ghana would not be closed until “we get to the bottom of those serial killings.”

As part of tackling the unsolved murders, Nana Akomea also challenged the Mills administration to include the four NPP sympathizers who were brutally butchered to death by a group of young men believed to be associated with the ruling NDC at Agbogbloshie, a suburb of Accra.

The Okaikwei South MP called on President Mills to call NDC foot-soldiers to order, if he wanted to keep the security and peace of the nation and not put the national security on red alert over non issues.

According to him, NDC footsoldiers chasing District Chief Executives out of office, burning tender documents and seizing the shoes of a former Ashanti Regional minister and chasing him away from a meeting are threats to national security and peace, and not Nana Akufo-Addo’s ‘All die be die’ admonition to NPP supporters.

Source: Daily Guide