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The office of former President Jerry Rawlings says it is unfair for people to compare Ghana�s development of to non African countries. This follows comments made by a leading member of the Conventions People�s Party (CPP), Professor Badu Akosa stating that Ghana�s development stagnated and retrogressed under the Rawlings regime. He cited Malaysia as a country which gained independence within the same period as Ghana but is far ahead in terms of development. But in response, Mr. Rawlings� spokesperson, Kofi Adams questioned why a comparison was rather not made between Ghana and Togo, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and a host of other African countries. He insisted that persons who make such developmental comparisons �need to do a regional analysis and ask yourself, what was the performance of Ghana vis a vis the other countries around which equally also had same heads for a very long time.� According to him, such regional comparisons will reveal �the conditions under which West African countries were operating and the conditions under which the Malay regions also operating.� Mr. Adams recalled that under the Rawlings regime, an expansion was seen in Ghana�s electrification and water production adding that the country was not totally healthy when Ex-President Rawlings took over. He mentioned that Rawlings took over a country �that was having inflations in their thousands, a country that was having a negative GDP at the time that it was taken over and moved to a positive figures, a country that virtually had no motorable roads if you take out the motor way�so how can you talk that way.�