I planned to kill Rawlings - Yeye Boy's son

A TWENTY-ONE year old student, Allen Ahiaku, who considered himself orphaned by ex-President Rawlings has said he planned killing the ex-President in the 2000 electioneering campaign, but was only stopped by his uncle.

Allen, who is a son of the late dreaded jujuman, Yeye Boy, told a press conference at Koforidua, March 1, that he had fixed the date of his assassination of Rawlings in the day he addressed a mammoth rally of the NDC at the Koforidua Jackson Park at the countdown to the 2000 elections.

“I planned to kill him for inflicting the trauma of not having a father on me. Anyway, my uncle prevailed on me to exercise patience as there is time for everything and I eventually caved in”, he said.

Flanked by his uncle, Bonsu and his mother, Agnes Bonsu-Bandoh, Ahiaku said “there are a thousand and one ways of killing a cat” - in answer to the question how he planned to eliminate the then Head of State.

But Allen’s uncle’s moderating effect seems temporary.

The boy who is a third year student of Koforidua Secondary School has warned the Kufuor administration to scrap the Indemnity Clauses which protect Mr. Rawlings and his colleagues for them to be tried or be prepared for a different showdown.

In addition to the trial, Allen and his mother are calling for reparation in tune with the new administration’s reconciliation moves.

“If no trial and no reparation, I will form an association of orphaned and widowed people who have an axe to grind with Mr. Rawlings, directly after I have finished school, to ensure that the bodies of Rawlings and his people are exhumed and tried - even if they are dead”, were Allen’s words.

He narrated how he had struggled in school as a result of the death of his father, arguing that if Yeye Boy had been alive, he, his mother and sister could have enjoyed a better life.

As published in our edition, Yeye Boy was suspected to have been abducted and killed on February 28, 1982.

What Allen, who was then a year old, says what he grew up to hear was that “they killed him because after helping them come to power, my father was consulting for other soldiers who were feared to be planning to overthrow the PNDC.”

One of the rumours about the killing of Yeye Boy was that soldiers were ordered to go and finish him because he had been abducting, killing and using innocent people’s blood for various rituals at his shrine at Atiadzive in the Volta Region.

Confronted with the possibility, the youth first pleaded ignorant, accepted the possibility but insisted that so far as he was not tried in a court of competent jurisdiction, his father did not deserve to be killed, burnt and thrown away - the way it happened.