A former detainee of the obnoxious Preventive Detention Act (PDA) of 1958, J. S Boye-Doe, has cursed one of Ghana�s ex-presidents, JJ Rawlings, saying for allegedly supervising over extra-judicial killings during his military regime, God will never grant him mercies.
Speaking on Citi FM�s Eyewitness News on Monday, Boye-Doe said the former military leader, who later turned a democratic president after the 1992 elections, has tainted his hands with the blood of innocent lives and since that is against the will of God, he will have no room for clemency.
�Anybody who is a murderer I don�t want to hear his name,� the youngest PDA detainee said. �It is even against the will of the Lord to take somebody�s life. You think if somebody kills my son that will give me the joy to live a happy life? �
�He [Rawlings] has broken my heart forever. So many families are suffering because they are fatherless.
"JJ Rawlings cannot be forgiven by God. I don�t want to even hear any explanation from Rawlings because he killed people.
"You have no right to take anybody�s life� when it�s a criminal, rapist etc take the person to court,� Boye-Doe charged.
The PDA, passed in 1958 by Ghana's first Parliament under Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party government, caused the arrest and detention of several Ghanaians who were believed to have been working against the interest of the State.
Boye-Doe, who was 15 at the time of his arrest, was picked up from his home near Mantse Agbonaa in James Town on Christmas Eve 1960 by security personnel and sent to the Usher Fort Prison where he remained until the overthrow of the CPP government on February 24, 1966.
Boye-Doe branded the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration as a �government of lies� because it promises and fails to deliver.
He stated: �I hate a government that tells lies. The present government is running lies into the ears of people. There are so many issues with water and electricity.
�They tell us it will be solved within days and the next day you see the same problem still there.
"They must change immediately or else they will be out of government. If you lie to 10, 000 people within six months it will be 20, 000 people because the message may be spreading like wild fire. �
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