Jerry John Rawlings
Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings has jumped into matters arising from last Tuesday’s ruling on the murder of the late Ya Na Yakubu Andani, blaming government for the turn of events that led to the eventual freeing of the suspects in the crime.
He observed that things would not have taken that turn had his insistence that fresh investigations be conducted been taken on board by government.
The no-love-lost relationship between him and the Wuaku Commission went overdrive as he descended on its report, observing that “to have used the evidence in the Wuaku Report was not only an insult to the intelligence of Ghanaians but a perversion of the truth and justice”.
Taking a swipe at what he described as the old Wuaku Report, he said it refused to admit serious and damming evidence which, for him, implicated certain personalities in the last government.
Sounding peeved, he saw in the turn of events a deliberate attempt by some persons in the Mills administration to kill the NDC, a party he said, was born out of the quest for integrity.
Such persons would fail in their tracks, he fired at them, stating, “If the approach to these murder issues and the refusal to also investigate serious crimes against the people of this nation; if this ineptitude and omissions are designed to destroy the NDC, let me assure them on behalf of the people of this country that they will rather destroy themselves, not the NDC, the party that was born out of the quest for integrity, truth and justice by our people.”
Turning to the Mobila case, he said the murder of the Northern Regional CPP Chairman and a police officer in the Volta Region, was no different from the murder of the Dagbon overlord.
Obviously flawing the investigation procedure in the matter, he observed that “rather than attempt to sacrifice pawns and suppress evidence, we should have questioned which officer gave the order for the brutalization of Mobilla and which politician transmitted those orders to the officer.”
He had some words for the security agencies, asking that they exercise restraint and uphold their professional standard.
He also asked both Andanis and Abudus to recognize that his numerous calls for an impartial treatment of the crisis were to ensure a lasting solution and prosecution of a criminal case.
“I have taken no sides except the call for justice and I appeal to you to do the same and not allow political perversions to keep you divided while justice and truth remain suppressed.”
By A.R. Gomda
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