{"id":446581,"date":"2017-12-13T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T09:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/rawlings-blasts-kufuor-mills-mahama-not-spared\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T09:11:04","slug":"rawlings-blasts-kufuor-mills-mahama-not-spared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/rawlings-blasts-kufuor-mills-mahama-not-spared\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings blasts Kufuor; Mills, Mahama not spared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>todaygh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-13<\/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\/62035180.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cute Rawlings Here\" title=\"Cute Rawlings Here\" width=\"295\" height=\"168\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>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\/1513156264_563_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former President Jerry John Rawlings is not happy about the way and manner three of his successors pretentiously dealt with the legacy of Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMills, Mahama you all say you are Nkrumahists. You have chopped into the man\u2019s name,\u201d the former military leader said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rawlings particularly, singled out his immediate successor, former President John Agyekum Kufuor, whom he alleged demeaned the legacy of Dr Nkrumah by desecrating his grave.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Mr Kufuor\u2019s fault was when he buried Kwame Nkrumah\u2019s wife, Fathia Nkrumah, at the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, the same place her husband was buried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat national monument became a family graveyard\u2026do you see how his grave was desecrated,\u201d he told the family of the late Joy FM\u2019s broadcaster, Kwadwo Asare Baffuor Acheampong (KABA), when they went to inform him of his burial.<\/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>Fathia Nkrumah\u2019s bodily remains was flown to Ghana for a funeral at the State House in June 2007 following her \u201clifelong request.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was subsequently buried next to her husband.<\/p>\n<p>But the former Ghanaian leader was not enthused about how the \u2018enemies\u2019  of Dr Nkrumah paid pretentious respects to the man who was overthrown in 1966 by the military during the burial of Fathia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Kufuor do when Fathia Nkrumah died?  He pretended to be crying and we were all following him, saying, oh Kufuor has done well for Fathia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen he took a shovel and dug a hole next to Dr Nkrumah and put her there\u2026the compound is big, you could have dug 101 holes and put Madam Fathia also there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou did not have to do that under the same monument under which Dr Kwame Nkrumah was. It fooled all of you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also took a swipe at late President Mills and former President John Dramani Mahama for using Nkrumah\u2019s birthday as a national holiday for their personal gains.<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) traces its ideological roots to the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) which was the political rival to Kwame Nkrumah\u2019s Convention Peoples\u2019 Party (CPP).<\/p>\n<p>The rivalry in present day is playing out in an NPP promoted debate over whether Ghana has only one founder or several founders.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: todaygh.com 2017-12-13 Former President, Jerry John Rawlings Former President Jerry John Rawlings is not happy about the way and manner three of his successors pretentiously dealt with the legacy of Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. \u201cMills, Mahama you all say you are Nkrumahists. 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