The Ghanaian Chronicle

Goozie attacks Rawlings

Mr Goozie Tanoh, a leading member of the Reform Movement, is reported to have slammed President Jerry Rawlings? allegations against him that he used the name of the First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings to obtain a loan for his cassava chips business, as a blatant fabrication to besmear him.

"I have never used the First Couple?s name to raise money neither have I enjoyed any privileged lending or misapplied any loan", the Ghanaian Chronicle quotes Goozie as saying.

The Chronicle says in a response to President Rawlings? claim in Tamale, when he addressed cadres, that he obtained a loan of about 1.9 billion cedis from various sources against Nana Konadu?s will, Goozie said for over 10 years now, he had neither met privately with the First Lady nor the President.

Mr Tanoh is reported to have said that the closest he had got to the Nana Konadu was in 1994, when Ms. Sherry Ayittey, an executive member of the 31st December Women?s Movement, approached his company, Transport and Commodity General Limited, to discuss the possibility of the 31st December Women?s Movement supplying him with cassava.