[ 2017-02-28 ]

Rawlings lied – Kufuor
Former President J.A Kufuor is livid over comments
by his counterpart JJ Rawlings that he softened
his stance on prosecuting a son of former Speaker
of Parliament Peter Ala Adjetey.

“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?

“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,” Rawlings said in an
interview with the state-owned Daily Graphic.

Kufuor has denied Rawlings’ assertion, saying
“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.”

He added: “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,” the former president said in a
statement.

Source - Starrfmonline.com

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