Mr Rawlings is said to have accused the Mills administration of exhibiting incompetence in managing the trial and subsequent ruling on the murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II, when he visited Tamale at the weekend. He added that the current political administration had deviated from its principles of probity and accountability, and this gives him cause to worry.
Speaking in an interview with Kwame Nkrumah on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo Morning show, who is sitting in for Kwami Sefa Kayi, the regular host, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa disclosed that “it comes as a surprise that Former President Rawlings is still saying that we didn’t open fresh investigations. I appeal to everybody to go to the court and see the court transcript for themselves. We conducted fresh investigations…,” he said.
He pointed out that the NDC relied on the professionalism of the Bureau of National Investigations, the Police and other security agencies to undertake the said investigations, and after the findings were found to be credible and upon the advice of the Attorney General at that time; presented their case in court.
Touching on the complaints by Mr. Rawlings about things not boding well for the party and plans to clean up the NDC by bringing in bold people; unless they want to lose the election in 2012, the Deputy Information Minister could only reply, “everyone has the right to express his opinion and that is the opinion of the former President and he has the right to express it. We disagree strongly with that opinion and we are not going to accept it”.
According to him, President Mills is trending the path of constitutionalism and doing what is expected of him as a president.
“Whether he is doing well or not is for the people to judge…President Mills is a man with integrity, something which even his opponents attest to…we will not accept otherwise about him,” he added.
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