{"id":446606,"date":"2017-12-13T10:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/did-kufuor-snatch-rawlings-girlfriend-agyemang-manu-asks\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:40:58","slug":"did-kufuor-snatch-rawlings-girlfriend-agyemang-manu-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/did-kufuor-snatch-rawlings-girlfriend-agyemang-manu-asks\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Kufuor snatch Rawlings\u2019 girlfriend? &#8211; Agyemang Manu asks"},"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>adomonline.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\/11\/38818433.295.jpg\" alt=\"Rawlings Kufuor Plush Land\" title=\"Rawlings Kufuor Plush Land\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Presidents  John Kufuor and 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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513161658_158_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> As Ghanaians continue to wonder at the deep seated animosity former President Jerry John Rawlings has towards his successor, John Agyekum Kufuor, a former Deputy Finance Minister has suggested a novel reason: Perhaps the man known as the \u2018gentle giant\u2019, Kufuor, once snatched the girl friend of Ghana\u2019s longest-serving president, J.J Rawlings.<\/p>\n<p>Kwaku Agyemang Manu, who served as a deputy Finance Minister in the Kufuor administration, believes in the absence of a concrete reason, other reasons, such as pain over an emotional loss, could be the reason for the numerous attacks Mr Rawlings continues to launch on his fellow former President.<\/p>\n<p>Agyemang Manu who also doubles as the Member of Parliament for Dormaa and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee was speaking Wednesday on Adom FM\u2019s \u201cBurning Issues\u201d programme with Afia Pokua a.k.a Vim Lady.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the June 4 Uprising, former President Rawlings blamed President Kufuor for the current economic crisis the country is facing as well as the increase in corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have said over and over again that Kufuor is responsible for setting in motion the moral and economic crisis that we are experiencing today, and I will say it again today. The investigation that Mills should have initiated never took place. But today let me give one very visible and concrete example of Kufuor\u2019s mismanagement that we are all feeling the effects of\u201d Rawlings declared in his statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Kufuor\u2019s government removed four noughts from the cedi, he overnight abolished the people\u2019s economy. He abolished the people\u2019s economy because he abolished the means to exchange goods below the value of 1,000 old cedis\u201d the former military man stated.<\/p>\n<p>But in a sharp response to Rawlings\u2019 accusations, Kwaku Agyeman Manu suggested that Rawlings and Kufour might have clashed over a girl in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Agyemang-Manu also expressed worry about how former President Kufuor is silent over ex-President Rawlings\u2019 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Kufuor was corrupt, how could he have implemented School Feeding Program, Metro Mass Transit (MMT) among other projects during his regime,\u201d Agyemang Manu asked.<\/p>\n<p>Agyeman Manu said the high rate of Rawlings\u2019 corruption took Ghana to the infamous Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative but Kufuor took Ghana to a middle income country because of his good governance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/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: adomonline.com 2017-12-13 Former Presidents John Kufuor and Jerry John Rawlings As Ghanaians continue to wonder at the deep seated animosity former President Jerry John Rawlings has towards his successor, John Agyekum Kufuor, a former Deputy Finance Minister has suggested a novel reason: Perhaps the man known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":435352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did Kufuor snatch Rawlings\u2019 girlfriend? 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