Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has replied his predecessor, JJ Rawlings whom he said recently made "damning" comment about him.
Mr Rawlings had suggested during a meeting with some elders and chiefs from Mepe in the Volta Region last Tuesday that former presidents Mr Kufuor and John Mahama are evil and did not deserve to be in Heaven.
He had called the two ex-presidents corrupt saying, “I know with my integrity when I die, I will go to heaven but when I see these corrupt leaders, I will ask permission from God and flog them.”
“If they don’t leave heaven for me, I will go and leave the heavens and join Satan in hell because I cannot stay in the same place with them,” Mr Rawlings added.
However, on Monday, Mr Rawlings’s Communication Directorate, Kobina Andoh Amoakwa, issued a release apologizing for the comments and asked for forgiveness from the two statesmen.
Mr Mahama and Rawlings
"The former president apologises to former Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and John Dramani Mahama for the choice of words. He deems the words as inappropriate and withdraws them," the statement concluded.
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But in a sharp reaction, the office of former president Kufuor replied saying although it accepts the apology, Mr Kufuor had some records to straight.
In the letter signed by Dr Kwabena Osei Adubofour Monday, Mr Kufour rebuffed claims by Mr Rawlings about diverting state property saying “he never divested any state property to himself or his family members.”
He explained that all “the divestiture of state properties and enterprises that took place during his tenure in office was done legally and according to laid-down procedures, rules, and regulations, and to the utmost benefit of the people of Ghana.”
According to Mr Kufuor he never tried to unduly influence the promotion or appointment into the security services, more so, based on tribal consideration.
He stressed that in his government policies, he never used tribalism in serving the regions and tribes of Ghana.
The former president also explained that as to the creation of the medal the Order of the Black Star and Eagles of Ghana, he believes that it is the prerogative of the president of the state to make and he as such.
"President Nkrumah had created all the others upon Ghana attaining independence,” he added.
Source: joynews
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NO SERIOUS MINDED PERSON GIVE ATTENTION TO EX PREZ. JJ BECAUSE HE IS RECKLESS, INSINCERE AND NOTORIOUS. THAT IS WHY HE HAS SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH EVERYBODY, IN AND OUT OF HIS OWN PARTY. HE IS HATED BY MANY IN NDC AND HE IS A MOCKERY TO NON-NDC. HE ALWAY WANT TO GET ATTENTION AND HE THINKS THE BEST WAY BUT VERY INSINCERE, TO GET IT IS WHEN HE ATTACH PRESIDENT KUFFOUR OR ANYBODY PROMINENT. HE IS NOTORIOUS AND HE IS ONLY GET ATTENTION FROM DOING A WRONG THING ALL THROUGH HIS LIFE. HE IS A DISGRACE TO HIS FAMILY AND GHANAIAN SOCIETY. I AM GOING TO ORGANAIZE NO-NONSESE CITIZENS TO HOOT AT HIM THE NEXT TIME HE COMES TO KUMASI. HE MEETS SOME VOTARIAN AT MAPE AND MADE SUCH STUPIDDDDD REMARKS ABOUT OTHERS AND NON OF THE LEADERS OF THE PLACE FAILED TO CONDEMN IT. WE SHALL SHOW HIM THAT WE ALSO LOVE KUFFOUR AT KUMASI AND SHALL MAKE RAWLINGS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE IN KUMASI TO TEACH HIM A LESSON. ABUABIBA.
what of if he (Rawlings) meets the soldiers: Afrifa, Selormey, Utuka, Acheampong... that he killed. No one enters Heaven with satanic spirit. Mr Rawlings don't worry you are not going to Heaven, meet your guys at the Hell's gate.
From look of things, Mr. Rawlings is harbouring hatred against these leaders and that in itself is a sin. He cannot judge.
The man torch ooo. He will leave heaven for them???? Please what has he began smoking now
Who told Rawlings that he will go to heaven? It seems he deems everybody a misfit except himself. Rawlings has done more bad things to the people of Ghana than Kufour and Mahama combined. Why has Rawlings become a judge over all former presidents in this country? Atta-Mills found it very difficult to counter negative publicity from Rawlins. Likewise Kufour and Mahama. At least, Kufour, Atta-Mills and Mahama never killed anybody that we know of in this country.
HOW CAN EVIL MEN LEAVE WITH THE ALMIGHTY GOD IN HEAVEN? MAN SHALL NOT LEAVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT LEAVE BY THE WORD OF GOD. TIME WILL TELL.