The Dispatch reports in a front page story that but for God's intervention, President Jerry Rawlings could have suffered irreparable medical damage as he pushed his luck last Thursday (December 31, 1998), when he addressed the security services who had earlier gone on a route March. According to the Dispatch, President Rawlings was very ill with malaria and yet "stubbonly", tried for over two hours, to present an address which was sometimes incoherent, unfocused and irrelevant. The paper says one statement which came out of the mouth of the President was that he had no regrets about the 1979 executions. He is quoted as saying some senior officers were executed but added, " I have no regrets about it. We had to take responsibility for it. The point is that the bigger criminals were around and are still around. You can go and quote me." The Dispatch says the President also spent sometime on the fear of some Ghanaians in using the word "revolution". President Rawlings, the paper says, then drifted into how one or two of his stewards stole some of his drinks and diluted them. He also warned the security personnel guarding senior government officials to stop being used by criminals, saying that soon, all such people will be brought to book. GRi
The Dispatch reports in a front page story that but for God's intervention, President Jerry Rawlings could have suffered irreparable medical damage as he pushed his luck last Thursday (December 31, 1998), when he addressed the security services who had earlier gone on a route March. According to the Dispatch, President Rawlings was very ill with malaria and yet "stubbonly", tried for over two hours, to present an address which was sometimes incoherent, unfocused and irrelevant. The paper says one statement which came out of the mouth of the President was that he had no regrets about the 1979 executions. He is quoted as saying some senior officers were executed but added, " I have no regrets about it. We had to take responsibility for it. The point is that the bigger criminals were around and are still around. You can go and quote me." The Dispatch says the President also spent sometime on the fear of some Ghanaians in using the word "revolution". President Rawlings, the paper says, then drifted into how one or two of his stewards stole some of his drinks and diluted them. He also warned the security personnel guarding senior government officials to stop being used by criminals, saying that soon, all such people will be brought to book. GRi
