"The devil must be given its due sometimes" -JJ

Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings says despite the harassment and intimidations that he, his family and former Ministers of his government have gone through in the past one year of the NPP rule, he is consoled by the fact that Ghanaians are now beginning to distinuguish between truth and falsehood.

“Ghanaians are now better judges of the political and economic situation in the country, yesterday and today,” the former President told the Ghanaian Democrat in an interview.

He said when he told Ghanaians that the NPP was only deceiving them and throwing dust into their eyes with their vain promises before the December 2000 elections, nobody listened to him and Ghanaians went ahead to vote for the NPP.

“After only five months, Ghanaians started seeing the truth. By the end of the year, they were having nightmares as the payment of school fees and medical bills became a problem.”

According to Flt Lt Rawlings, Ghana was back to the bad old days when life became simply unbearable because of the biting economic conditions. Asked what was going through his mind as he listened to the recent state of the nations address by President Kufuor, the former President replied that he was just amused by the address.

He said at the appropriate time, he would take some of the issues raised one after the other but quickly added that at last, the foundations of not less than 95 per cent of the projects listed in the address were laid by the NDC government which President Kufuor continues to attack as being inefficient and incompetent.

In the words of Flt Lt Rawlings, he expected President Kufuor to have the decency to give the NDC government credit for some of the good things that they did. “At least the devil must be given its due sometimes,” he added.

Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings says despite the harassment and intimidations that he, his family and former Ministers of his government have gone through in the past one year of the NPP rule, he is consoled by the fact that Ghanaians are now beginning to distinuguish between truth and falsehood.

“Ghanaians are now better judges of the political and economic situation in the country, yesterday and today,” the former President told the Ghanaian Democrat in an interview.

He said when he told Ghanaians that the NPP was only deceiving them and throwing dust into their eyes with their vain promises before the December 2000 elections, nobody listened to him and Ghanaians went ahead to vote for the NPP.

“After only five months, Ghanaians started seeing the truth. By the end of the year, they were having nightmares as the payment of school fees and medical bills became a problem.”

According to Flt Lt Rawlings, Ghana was back to the bad old days when life became simply unbearable because of the biting economic conditions. Asked what was going through his mind as he listened to the recent state of the nations address by President Kufuor, the former President replied that he was just amused by the address.

He said at the appropriate time, he would take some of the issues raised one after the other but quickly added that at last, the foundations of not less than 95 per cent of the projects listed in the address were laid by the NDC government which President Kufuor continues to attack as being inefficient and incompetent.

In the words of Flt Lt Rawlings, he expected President Kufuor to have the decency to give the NDC government credit for some of the good things that they did. “At least the devil must be given its due sometimes,” he added.