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The Communications Director at the presidency, Mr Koku Anyidoho has denied media reports he hates former president Kufuor. He has however conceded stating in a radio interview in London that he does not like the former president. Mr Anyidoho said his comments were taken out of context explaining that his dislike for former president Kufuor stemmed from certain decisions of the former president. �I may not like Mr Kufuor and indeed I don�t like his face because of certain things he did. I mean if you are leaving office and days before you leave you release armed robbers and it comes out that one of them is establishing an armed robbery academy, training young boys you don�t expect me to like him,� he told Joy FM, an Accra-based radio station. To the members of the NDC who want the NDC government to immediately throw former government appointees into jail, Mr Anyidoho said they have to wait. �The fact that I don�t like president Kufuor doesn�t mean that we can just get up and go and carry him and throw him in jail,� he stated. Mr Anyidoho said the process of gathering convincing information and evidence to secure a conviction was slow. According to him, the president was determined to work in accordance with due process of law because he swore an oath to do so. He is therefore not going to continue the cycle of harassment of political opponent as was the case in the past, he observed. Touching on his controversial attack on another leading member of the NDC, Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the Communications Director said Dr Spio-Garbrah�s comments needed to be responded to.