By Inusa Musah
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has disclosed that the wanton greed and corruption in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) caused the party’s last electoral ‘massacre’.
Known for his boom speeches, Mr. Rawlings said he knows some selfish persons in the NDC whose wealth, amassed from greed and corruption, has brought the party into opposition.
JJ said: “You must make good and clean money…not like the sickening and selfish ones I know in the NDC.”
In a sharp comparison of the greed and corruption in the NDC, therefore, JJ Rawlings did not mince words, saying: “The greed and corruption of today is thousand times more than the execution some generals had to suffer in 1979.
“And if we should go by that measure of yardstick, a lot of innocent blood would be shed. When you betray the values of June 4, the consequence was the disgraceful loss in the last elections.”
JJ Rawlings said these yesterday at Wa, where he climaxed this year’s June 4 celebration, held under the theme: ‘Restoring the values of probity, accountability and truth in contemporary governance’.
JJ said, in his persistent efforts to ensure that he restored the values of June 4 in the party, that he and his wife toiled to found, the present NDC had tried hard to design disgusting and painful machinations to strip him of the influence he commands and enjoys in the party.
“But because the greed and corruption are too much and because Nana and I have continued to stand by and protect the ideals of probity, accountability and social justice, we are continuing to suffer cruel humiliations, political insults and their unimaginable consequences.
“I have been trying hard to emulate the tolerance of the traditional leaders in the country, but I cannot because there is a limit to everything, because of the persistent foolishness of some people.”
The corruption the party has been involved in, he said, has been enormous to chronicle, saying “I left this plane after driving it as clean as possible.”
Jerry Rawlings said the principles of June 4 are not alien or have never been alien to mankind; hence, anybody who did anything to disregard such values ought to be made to face the full rigours of the law.
He said, once upon a time, he had to rescind his decision of quitting the NDC because of the avarice, injustice, greed and corruption the few loyalists would continue to suffer.
The NDC squandered many opportunities to clean the party in the past and so Jerry Rawlings said the party needs fresh leadership to clean it from the nauseating greed and corruption that has baptised the party.
He maintained that Ghana needs citizens who would stand up for what is right, especially when the country prides itself as the beacon of hope and Africa’s pride.
To this end, he advised the party faithful to “properly open their eyes and minds, otherwise they will be taken through a political 419 like Victor Smith did to him, which eventually forced him to fire Mr. Smith, who was then his secretary.”
By Inusa Musah Former President Jerry John Rawlings has disclosed that the wanton greed and corruption in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) caused the party’s last electoral ‘massacre’. Known for his boom speeches, Mr. Rawlings said he knows some selfish persons in the NDC whose wealth, amassed from greed and corruption, has brought the party […] Read Full Story
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