Former President Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has described President John Agyekum Kufuor as the worst “constitutional terrorist” he has ever come across.
According to him, when he handed over power to Kufuor in January 2001, he, Rawlings, was “tired” of power and had “little energy left” to feel anything. However, handing over power was something he “looked forward to”.
“The foolishness started but it was something that we had to put up with and we did. It was really bad and I hope enough people will see what I’m talking about,” Rawlings told Kwaku Sakyi-Addo on Asaase Radio.
When asked what was really bad, President Rawlings bemoaned “the persecution, the corruption that was going on, and some of the killings that were taking place” in Kufuor’s government.
“I mean right now as we sit here, I would wish I could shut my mouth about anything reproachful, or anything negative about Mills’s people, John Mahama’s and the current president.
And I’m saying so because, in this lifetime of mine [political activities], that man was one of the worst constitutional terrorists I’ve ever come across,” a visibly frustrated Rawlings said.
“If I have to criticize or expose this man once in a while, and that appears to be earning him public sympathy, then I don’t see why I should criticize people who have committed fewer offences,” Rawlings observed.
The two former heads of state have had a go at each other since Jerry John Rawlings handed over power to JA Kufuor on January 7, 2001.
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Source: TheBBCghana.Com
