I Do Not Support Repeal Of Financial Loss Law -Mills

Francis Poku’s desperate attempt to muddy the waters and divert attention from the stinking and nauseating levels of corruption that are being exposed by Sallas Mensah’s Public Accounts Committee, have fallen into very deep water.

The attempt by Francis Poku to orchestrate a diversion from the goings-on at the PAC by getting the Daily Graphic to paint the picture that the NDC, NPP, PNC and CPP, have agreed to repeal the law on financial loss to the state has hit a dead end with the Leader of the NDC, John Evans Atta Mills distancing himself and the NDC from any such decision.

John Evans Atta Mills first distanced himself and the NDC from any desire to repeal the law on Radio Gold’s Newspaper Review Progamme yesterday and then did same later on Joy FM’s midday primetime news the same day.

Stating his position and that of his party, the NDC Leader and Presidential Candidate said that the party had taken no decision to amend the law let alone repeal it and that the story in the Daily Graphic sounded like Greek in his ears.

No such decision has been taken by the NDC to have the law repealed and so I don’t know where all this is coming from” John Evans Atta Mills said.

The NDC Presidential candidate made the point that if at any point in time the party wanted to pen its signature to any document to amend the law or repeal it, there would have to be wider consultation beyond the Functional Executives of the party.

“We would have to consult widely and fully before taking any such decision so nobody can put any words in our mouth” the Presidential Candidate said.

Pushed to the wall to make known his personal position on the matter and whether he does not want the law to remain in on the statue books for him to use to settle scores should he become president, “I want to state without any equivocation that I don’t support the repeal of the law but let me tell you that Atta Mills is not vindictive; vengeance is not mine, but Atta Mills will insist that the laws of the state be applied without fear or favour” the Leader of the NDC said.

On the issue of the need to repeal the law in order to reduce the level of polarization in the country, the NDC Presidential Candidate made it clear that he does not believe that the repeal of the law would solve any problem of polarization.

According to Leader of the NDC, after years of being haughty, is it toward the end of its reign that the NPP is now realizing that the country is polarized.

“Since when did they realize the need for reconciliation?” Atta Mills asked.

Sounding very fiery, Professor Atta Mills wondered whether there aren’t more pressing issues for the NPP to concentrate on rather than try to repeal one law just because of the ghosts that the are haunting Kufuor and his thieving functionaries.

“People are dying out of poverty and the hardship that Kufuor and his NPP have brought upon us, corruption has reached unprecedented proportions, Kufuor has lost control, and they want us to concentrate on the repeal of only one law?”

The fiery position of Professor Mills has certainly sat well with scores of NDC supporters as the Office of The Ghanaian Lens was inundated with calls as caller after caller who were initially swearing to desert the party should the leaders of the NDC go ahead and support any move to repeal the law, called back in extremely elated moods after their Leader made it emphatically clear that the NDC was not going to support any move to repeal the law of willfully causing financial loss to the state.

Francis Poku has certainly found out once again that his modus operandi is long past its prime and that neither Prof Mills nor the NDC can be toyed around with by the NPP.