{"id":272709,"date":"2011-01-04T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=44550"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:30:16","slug":"mills-is-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/04\/mills-is-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mills Is Lost\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34162\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/10\/rawlings-wants-his-accommodation-debates-stopped\/jj_rawlings2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34162\" title=\"jj_rawlings2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jj_rawlings2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>Former President Rawlings claims that  President John Evans Atta Mills is not in charge of the affairs of the  nations and seems to have lost control of the men around him.<br \/>\nAccording  to the former president, Mills has surrounded himself with people like  the Ahwoi brothers, Professor Kofi Awoonor, Koku Anyidoho, the Tsikatas  and several others who were close to him but were doing their own thing.<br \/>\nHe  said those appointees were \u201cdoing their own things\u201d in government and  blocking wise counsel from well-meaning supporters of the party.<br \/>\nMr.  Rawlings said the president had become so lonely with little or  sometimes bad advice from so-called counselors. \u201cThe President has  become quite lonely,\u201d he said, claiming that one of his (Mills\u2019s) former  advisors boasted that he had told President Mills not to investigate  corruption allegations against officials of the past government.<br \/>\nHe  was speaking at a lecture to mark the 29th anniversary celebration of  the 31st December coup that toppled the government of Dr. Hilla Limann.<br \/>\n\u201cNot  too long ago,\u201d Rawlings narrated, \u201cour poor President, I think he  wanted to put an efficient person in some organization, when the person  went to inspect the place, only to discover somebody had already been  put there. Who put him there? Professor Awoonor had done his own  appointment without reference to even the President.<br \/>\n\u201cThe man  comes back and reports it to the president and the president says Prof  Awoonor \u2018ore haw me\u2019\u201d, in Fante, meaning \u2018the prof is worrying me\u2019.\u201d<br \/>\nAccording  to Flt. Lt. Rawlings, President Mills offered to give the man another  appointment \u201cwhen he should have called Prof Awoonor, given him five  seconds to move that your thing out of the office.\u201d<br \/>\nFurthermore,  he stated, \u201cWhen we get up its Ahwoi, Ahwoi, Ahwois, oh they are doing  their things but they are not the only ones. The Awoonor is also there  and Tsikata is also there doing his things. The Anyidohos, the Lanteys,  what do they call him? The one from Chorkor? The Ludwigs.\u201d<br \/>\nFormer  President Rawlings was explaining why he had strained relations with  President Mills, a man he brought from obscurity to political limelight.<br \/>\nHe  was particularly not happy with the fact that Mills had not heeded his  advice to prosecute members of the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP)  who he accused of corruption and having a hand in the murder of Ya Na  Yakubu Andani and Issah Mobilla.<br \/>\n\u201cThe people know that this kind  of corruption used to take place not too long ago. Killings, plain  killings where people should have been actually arrested, the attempt to  even do dirty things in Tain on that last day. Soldiers were caught  with sniper weapons, commanders who should have been actually arrested  and we give instructions out. I don\u2019t hear anybody being suspended. I  don\u2019t want to see anybody being sent on leave.<br \/>\n\u201cIf during the  period, the lifespan of a regime, justice is not being done, corruption  is not being prevented, when the time comes and you are booted out, then  that day people will begin to see the justice, the investigations, the  corruption that took place.\u201d<br \/>\nAccording to him, it was the same  thing that happened during the Acheampong regime which led to the  explosion, with people having to pay the price with their lives.<br \/>\n\u201cBut  if we have a situation like Kufuor\u2019s, the worst form of corruption in  our history, all governments put together, we don\u2019t measure up to  one-third\u2026of his level of corruption and killings and nothing is being  done\u2026we will now begin to institutionalize corruption.\u201d<br \/>\nRawlings  said he could do everything including dining with President Mills but  said the only thing that would make him reconcile with him would be for  him to start investigating the Kufuor administration and its officials  and expose them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Rawlings claims that President John Evans Atta Mills is not in charge of the affairs of the nations and seems to have lost control of the men around him. 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