{"id":446222,"date":"2017-12-12T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/rawlings-slams-kufuor-for-desecrating-nkrumahs-legacy\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:00:30","slug":"rawlings-slams-kufuor-for-desecrating-nkrumahs-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/rawlings-slams-kufuor-for-desecrating-nkrumahs-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings slams Kufuor for desecrating Nkrumah\u2019s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/24855367.295.jpg\" alt=\"KUFUOR RAWLINGS HANDS\" title=\"KUFUOR RAWLINGS HANDS\" width=\"295\" height=\"126\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former President John Agyekum Kufuor and Former President Jerry John Rawlings<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513080030_478_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former President Jerry John Rawlings has in a characteristic style attacked his successor, former President John Agyekum Kufuor, accusing him of demeaning the legacy of Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.<\/p>\n<p>The former Military dictator also slammed the late President John Mills and former President John Mahama for allowing Nkrumah\u2019s legacy to be desecrated.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Rawlings, the former NPP leader supervised the terrible handling of the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra which is a tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Many years later when Dr. Kwame Nkrumah\u2019s wife, Fathia Nkrumah also died former President Kufuor laid her coffin in the same dug out where Nkrumah had been buried and he feigned to have been mourning her and we all fell for it and joined in the mourning without handkerchiefs wiping our tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom that moment, that National Monument to honour that man became a family graveyard. Do you see how his grave was desecrated?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rawlings added \u201cEx-Presidents Mills and Mahama claim they\u2019re Nkrumahists, you have chopped into the man\u2019s name. All these were done before your eyes while in power and they didn\u2019t see? The compound is big, you could have dug a hundred and one holes and put Madam Fathia also there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuild a three story building there, you did not have to do that under the same monument under which Dr Kwame Nkrumah was,\u201d Mr. Rawlings said when the family of the late Multimedia Journalist Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong popularly paid officially informed him of the Journalist\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Fathia died on 31 May 2007, at Badrawy Hospital in Cairo, Egypt, due to a stroke after a period of illness.<\/p>\n<p>Her remains was flown to Ghana for a funeral at the State House in June 2007 following her \u201clifelong request\u201d that she be buried next to her husband.<\/p>\n<p>The Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum designed by Don Aurthur, houses the body of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his wife Fathia Nkrumah, it is meant to represent an upside down sword which in the Akan culture is a symbol of peace.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2017-12-12 Former President John Agyekum Kufuor and Former President Jerry John Rawlings Former President Jerry John Rawlings has in a characteristic style attacked his successor, former President John Agyekum Kufuor, accusing him of demeaning the legacy of Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. 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