Ex-President Rawlings and the people around him have been warned to be cautious when they open their mouths to accuse others to avoid embarrassment.
“If ex-President J.J. Rawlings and the people around him do not know and they offer me the necessary platform, thus provocation, I will strip Rawlings naked before Ghanaians, Mr Kweku Baako Jnr, the outspoken Managing Editor of the Crusading Guide, a tri-weekly newspaper, has cautioned.
Baako, who fired the warning on a popular Joy FM’s weekly news file programme last Saturday said Rawlings has taken Ghanaians for a ride for far too long. The outspoken editor’s warning was a direct response to the fallout from the ex-President Rawlings’ pronouncement when he hosted a section of media practitioners at his residence last week.
At the said meeting, ex-President Rawlings was reported to have told the gathered media practitioners that in spite of countless times that Kwesi Pratt Jnr was arrested by his regime it is only one that he is aware and he may have caused it over some security matter. The ex-President, who used the opportunity to laud Pratt for his objectivity in criticizing the government, also said a lot about his almost 20 years regime.
The impression created by the ex-President suggested that he was innocent of some of the abuses meted out to Ghanaians under his regime.
“It was very bad on the part of Rawlings to claim that he did not recall or remember that he authorized the arrest of Pratt all that number of times, apart from the one he is aware of,” Baako underscored.
“We are not small boys to accept theory from Rawlings; we are not kids; people should be ready to accept collective or ultimate responsibility for the atrocities they meted out to others,” Baako added. The Crusading Guide editor hinted that he was going to expose Rawlings for people to know his other side if he was not going to comport himself. “I have decided to do an exercise on Mr Rawlings from the next two weeks, I am going to bring to Ghanaians other side of Rawlings.”
The exercise, Baako said, would help Ghanaians to know who Rawlings is and the deception that he represents. “There is the need for Ghanaians to know what he is; things that he represents, for people to know the man who the destiny of this nation was entrusted to.
Baako noted that Rawlings must be made to know that he cannot have it easy all the time. “He must be made to know that he can not touch all the people and get away with it. Those who are dead are dead, but if he doesn’t know and he provokes me, then that will be another thing altogether,” he reiterated.
He noted that a lot of bad water had passed under the bridge during the Rawlings regime and therefore cautions Rawlings and those around him not to provoke him to go to town on Rawlings. Kweku Baako has personally said he has been very close to Rawlings and it is widely believed he knows some of his secrets.
