[ 2017-02-28 ]

There has been some back and forth tension between both ex-Presidents

Stop lying about me - Kufuor to Rawlings
Former President John Kufuor has said his
predecessor Jerry John Rawlings told untruths when
he alleged that he baulked at prosecuting Mr Larry
Adjetey, a son of late Speaker of Parliament Peter
Ala Adjetey, during his presidency.

“The 31st December Movement suffered bankruptcy
in supporting Atta Mills. How many of us bothered
to show up in court to offer her moral support in
recognition of the foundation she laid in leading
the women from the PNDC to the NDC? asked Mr
Rawlings in an interview with the Daily Graphic
recently.

“During that trial, Peter Ala Adjetey, the then
Speaker of Parliament, whose son, NDC’s well-fed
Larry Adjetey, was charged together with my wife,
threatened Kufuor that if he did not drop the
‘false’ charge against his son, he would
personally go to court to defend his son.

“Kufuor dropped his charges. How many of these
qualities of principled solidarity did we
demonstrate towards our own? Instead, people got
rewarded with appointments by denigrating and
trying to destroy some of us. What money did I not
borrow to assist some of our colleagues and
comrades who were suffering financially under
Kufuor’s regime? Those debts are still on my
head today.”

Mr Kufuor, in a statement, however, said: “There
is no truth whatsoever in this allegation.

“I wonder what ails Rawlings to make him always
try to impugn my integrity in his interviews.

“It is not true that I tried to prosecute Larry
Adjetey but relented because his father, Peter,
threatened me. The circumstances of his
(Rawlings’) wife’s (Nana Konadu’s) trial is
a matter of public record, available for anybody
who cares to verify. Rawlings should stop
posturing as the only person of integrity and
truth.

“If he wants to continue to blow trumpets from
rooftops about his integrity and incorruptibility,
let him do so, but he should leave Kufuor
alone.”

Source - classfmonline.com

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