Former President of the Republic of Ghana- head of state for a combine period of nineteen (19)- Jerry John Rawlings has revealed that but for the intervention of a respected figure Kofi Annan who ‘forced’ him to open a foreign bank account, he had never owned any bank account outside the shores of Ghana.
He was addressing Cadres and National Democratic Congress in Accra over the last weekend where he urged the cadres of the party to continue to stand for and by the principles underlying the founding of the NDC.
“My wife and I opened a foreign account at the urging of former United Nations General Secretary, Kofi Annan. He told me he will need me to help in the UN anti AIDS campaign and once in while the UN will pay me some allowance.” He said.
“My wife and I were in office for nineteen years, by the time we were leaving office, we did not have even one dollar foreign account”, he added.
He further revealed that the foreign bank account was no longer functional following the closure of the program for which it was opened.
“The campaign has ended long ago and that account has been closed. I don’t have any hidden foreign account and she (his wife) does not’’.
He also said he spent years, building his house bit by bit before it reached where it reached - that it took them more than thirteen (13)years to put up that personal house at Adjiringanno, a plush suburb of Accra. He said at the time he began, the place was a bush without any buildings around.
It is now fully developed.
“When we started putting up that structure, there was no building in that part of town, not the Trassaco Estates” he said.
Source: mynewsgh.com
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How did you pay for your children education in UK? Where did you get the money from? You can tell that to ***barred word*** NDC supporters. The truth will come out before you die, it is a matter of time.
U trust your wife too much yet she is very corrupt. u may not corrupt but dat cannot be said of your wife.
So you think that makes you clean? Your last days in office witnessed one of the most corrupt periods in the history of this country and it was under your watch. Anyway, you may not have been interested in material things but blood because you are a dracula! And , man, you drank a lot of it!
rawlings pl. give us a break,tell that to the wind. YOU OWN A HOUSE AT ADJIRINANOR YET YOUR WIFE SAID YOU HAD NO PLACE TO LAY YOUR HEAD DURING THE REFURBISHMENT OF THE RIDGE RESIDENCE,WHAT KIND OF DOUBLE STANDARD IS THIS?WHAT ABOUT THE"OCTAGON" BUILDING AT KINGBU,GNTC,NSAWAM CANNERY ETC,ETC.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
ARE U SURE MADAM DID NOT HAV A FOREIGN ACCOUNT LONG BEFORE U OPENED YOURS?WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE RAWLINGS' DID-ABACHA 5 MILLION,ETC
Opening or owning a foreign account means nothing!!! Stealing our money is the issue!! Our stolen money could be used to buy Nsawam Cannery and GREL.