Victor Smith, Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to the Czech Republic and former aide to ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, has said the revelation of secret tapes purported to be emanating from the home of his former boss is an indication that Mr. Rawlings is spying on President John Evans Atta Mills.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy\u2026are you spying on the Presidency? I really want the National Security to sit up then,\u201d he said in a reaction to a revelation that President Mills was caught on tape discussing spending GH\u00a290million on his re-election bid as NDC flagbearer.<\/p>\n
Mr. Smith\u2019s outburst came after Herbert Mensah, the man who calls himself a friend of the Rawlingses, repeated his claims on Adom FM, a Tema-based private radio station yesterday that the camp of President Mills in the NDC flagbearership race was bribing delegates with huge sums of money in his attempt to lead the party for the 2012 general elections.<\/p>\n
He said yesterday on Adom FM: \u201cThe tapes were brought to us\u2026we listened to those tapes\u2026 it had details of other areas including intimidation, including alternative bank account details, naming of persons in government, people in the Castle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not want to go into detail\u2026I do not want to inflame the situation further than that,\u201d Herbert stated.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mensah is saying that former President Rawlings has security tapes that suggest that President Mills has sanctioned GH\u00a290 million to be used for his campaign to lead the ruling party for a second term.<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Mensah, a former Chief Executive Officer of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, he listened to the tapes together with the ex-President and it was clear that the huge amount is going to be used to influence delegates to select the President as the party\u2019s flagbearer and to ensure that the former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings does not succeed in her presidential bid to unseat the President.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are hearing of budgets of GH\u00a290million to ensure that she does not make it\u2026some of the newspapers have started publishing stories of loans being given to women organizers,\u201d Mr. Mensah had told first Peace FM on Monday.<\/p>\n
He said everybody knew that if the impending delegates\u2019 congress was free and fair, the former First Lady would win hands down.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not want a candidate who is not a unifier. We need somebody who is capable of bringing the nation together and capable of bringing the party together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Immediately the family friend of the Rawlingses hanged the telephone, Victor Smith called into the programme from his Prague-base, accusing the former First Family of working towards the disintegration of the NDC.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they are going to allow such things to be put out against our government\u2026security tapes\u2026what is the security tape they are talking about\u2026Are they recording meetings of the President or National Security, who did the recording and made it available to the former President?<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are issues that we should not allow to lie quietly\u2026They are disturbing the peace of the party\u2026Are we enemies in one party for Herbert to say they have intercepted a security tape?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Smith said what Herbert was saying about President Mills sanctioning GH\u00a290million for his campaign might not be the truth but rather somebody\u2019s imagination, stating, \u201cYou put out such dangerous information and when you finish you call for peace and unity in the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hear so many things about what is going on at the former President\u2019s place. We hear many things about what Mrs. Rawlings is doing. I get a lot of information about the goings-on in that house. We are not out there speaking because we want peace.\u201d
He admitted that what was going on in the ruling NDC was reducing investor confidence because he was being inundated with queries from diplomats about the situation in Ghana.<\/p>\n
He said Herbert Mensah was not the Auditor General or the Minister of Finance to determine misuse of public funds after the latter had expressed fears that the GH\u00a290million purportedly sanctioned by the President for his campaign might be tantamount to misuse of public funds, saying, \u201che should go to CHRAJ to make his argument.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruling out a possible Konadu victory in the primary, Mr. Smith said, \u201cMrs. Rawlings is not going to win this election\u2026 we stand a good chance of winning 2012 when Prof. Mills is the flagbearer.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wonder why former President Rawlings is on the back of the President all this while\u2026You ruled for many years and nobody from your party tried to disrupt your administration\u2026We gave you our fullest support\u2026Why is President Mills going through all that he is going through with the founder and his better half?\u201d<\/p>\n
Araba Tagoe, Western Regional Women\u2019s Organizer of the NDC, also called into the programme to accuse Herbert Mensah of fanning troubles in the NDC. \u201cWe know about his deeds. We do not want to expose and disgrace him. He should back off the NDC,\u201d she screamed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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