THE NEW Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand, Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has urged the ruling government to ignore the utterances of ex-President Jerry John Rawlings and his cohorts and focus on the developmental projects to meet the aspirations of Ghanaians.
According to him, Rawlings as a ‘desperate man’ is bent on detracting the government’s attention from its developmental efforts, urging the government to tighten state security in order to combat people who might be contemplating transforming the inciting words of the former president to destabilize the current democratic dispensation in the country.
Speaking to Chronicle in an interview, Dr. Tamakloe, who described Rawlings as a ‘split or multiple personality’ said he is bent on jeopardizing the national democratic process.
He urged the leadership of the government to treat Mr. Rawlings’ reactions with all the contempt that it deserves.
When asked what is meant by ‘multiple personality’, he said, “it is a term applied to an individual whose behaviour at different times appears to be in possession of entirely different mental contents, disposition and character, and when one of the different faces shows complete ignorance of the other, that ignorance may be reciprocal.”
“There are people in this country today who are dreaming that Rawlings will come back to power through the back door.”
Dr. Tamakloe stated that he was amazed at the conduct and the utterances of the ex-president, adding it was rather unfortunate that Rawlings failed to seek a psychiatrist’s advice or consultation to enable him refrain from certain comments.
He challenged Mr. Rawlings to boldly appear before the National Reconciliation Commission to testify about the various allegations of violation of human rights leveled against him at the commission by the witnesses to clear his name instead of asking for a lie detector.
According to him, the revolution has brought nothing to the nation but rather, given Rawlings and his cohorts chance to amass wealth, adding that it was amazing that the former president compared the 31st December Revolution to the French, Cuban and American revolutions, Rawlings indeed really benefited from the so-called revolution together with his compatriots, he intoned.
“If Rawlings has never benefited materially from the June 4, where has he got the money to pay a custom duty of ?500 million for his bullet-proof four-wheel drive cars or the mansion with swimming pool at East Legon and also to engage in educating his children in the most expensive universities abroad?” he quizzed.
Arguing further, Dr. N. Tamakloe pointed out that a revolution that characterizes violent changes that took place in France, Cuba and America, has changed the lives of the people in those countries for better, stressing that those societies succeeded in bettering the lives of their people because the leaders of those revolutions were honest and upright people who never benefited materially as Rawlings benefited.
He rubbished the speech of the flagbearer of the NDC, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills. “When he said that ‘Ghana can never solve her problems until the people of this country accept the truth’ it was not in the right direction. I would have thought that Prof. Mills would say Ghana could never solve her problem until Jerry John Rawlings and his people accept the truth.”
