Sarpong, Justice
Anytime I write an article about this clown and yahoo to boot, I receive threats
from Rawlings factotums and praise singers for calling him a murderer and a
thief. Let me watn these Rawlings admirers who have lost their brains that,
Rawlings has admitted killing at least Yeyeboy and some fetish Preiests from
Volta region to prove a point that, voodoo is a sham. Who does Rawlings think he
is, GOD? You decide to kill somebody not because the person has been convicted
in court for murder but to prove a point? FOR HIS OWN CONFESSION FOR KILLING
Torgbui Akakpovi Ahiaku, popularly called, Yeye Boy of Atidzive,and others, I
implore President Mills to arrest this Futz who has made lying a metier. HOLD ON
FOLKS, I JUST REALISED THIS COWARD WHO SANCTIMONIOUSLY PONTIFICATE LIKE T.B
JOSHUA HAS COCOONED HIMSELF WITH THE INDEMNITY CLAUSE IRON CURTAIN. Forumers
should now read about Rawlings confession of killing yeyeboy and I will come
back and tie these people to the murders of the three Judges and the army
officer.
WHY I KILLED 'YEYE BOY'-Rawlings Confesses
By Daily Guide - Daily Guide General News | Sat, 04 Nov 2006
Several years after the series of bloodletting, atrocities and disappearances
that characterised Jerry John Rawlings' military juntas, some of the motives
behind the sinister acts are beginning to unfold, this time from the horse's own
mouth.
The leader of the bloodiest regime in Ghana's history, Flt. Lt. Jerry John
Rawlings, claimed that his main reason for ordering the execution of Torgbui
Akakpovi Ahiaku, popularly called, Yeye Boy of Atidzive, near Abor in the Volta
Region, as well as other traditionalists, was to demonstrate to their people
that juju does not pay.
The former President and founder of the opposition National Democratic Congress
(NDC), after nearly three decades of silence, was virtually compelled to blow
off the lid at a press conference in his Ridge residence last week Thursday.
With no sense of remorse whatsoever, Mr Rawlings, an apostle of fetishism,
boastfully said Yeye Boy in particular, was “killed to send a strong message
to fetish priests that juju was a sham.â€
According to Mr. Rawlings, the execution of the jujumen, who were suspects of
ritual murder in their communities, was to let the people know that there was no
salvation in juju.
At the conference, a female TV Africa reporter had wanted to know whether the
country, and therefore the citizenry, was any safer now, than in the
revolutionary days.
Obviously not satisfied with the responses from Victor Gbeho and other
spokespersons like Dr Benjamin Kumbuor, the unrelenting lady reporter insisted
on a specific answer to her question, which prompted the former president to
tell the world, the 'hidden truth'.
Rawlings said, “Talking about the lady's question on safety, we talked of the
murder of the judges and the punitive action that was taken, and I also talked
about my brother's son….
When people commit ritual murders and we catch up with them and the chiefs and
timber merchants, and we execute them right in their villages for people to
think that juju has not saved them, then we are violent people?†he asked..
Yeye Boy, the fetish priest of Atidzive, near Abor in the Volta Region, was
abducted from his home by armed soldiers in 1982 and bundled into a waiting
military vehicle.
That was the last time his relatives saw, or heard of him.
A few days after his abduction from Atidzive, his charred, mutilated body was
discovered in a bush along the Accra-Ho road.
He was not tried in any court of law or even military tribunal, and no official
explanation had since been given for his execution.
However, there was the strong suspicion that it was part of the witch-hunting
exercise embarked upon by the leadership of the PNDC.
Rawlings' chilling confession may now give his family the respite, as regards
the sin of the once revered jujuman.
Dozens of vehicles and properties registered in Yeye Boy's name were looted,
while several of his relatives and children were forced to go into hiding, after
his sadistic murder.
Unofficial sources suggested human ritual, but his execution was not announced,
as were the cases of the generals.
In the wake of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) two years ago, the
children of Yeye Boy petitioned the commission and after thorough
investigations, the committee recommended reparation and apology for his death.
Torgbui Akakpovi Ahiaku was the 111th person on the reparation list and his
family is to be given ¢20m.. Hundreds of fetish priests, traditional rulers,
students and soldiers were murdered in similar manner, a number of whom were
suspected of committing crimes as minor as indebtedness.
Yeye Boy's execution was one of the most chilling stories heard by the Justice
Amoah-Sekyi-led NRC.
The Commission was informed by a certain Mathias Kudzo, who was at the time of
the murder, a soldier with the Ho Mortar Regiment and a close Rawlings
confidante, that he was part of the team that raided Yeye Boy's location after
an order for the action was received from Accra.
The jujuman was rumoured to have been a voodoo consultant for Rawlings in the
heady days of the revolution, but attracted his wrath when he was reported to
have asked for the clothing of the junta leader.
As Bombardier Mathias Kodzo related, when a close friend of Rawlings heard about
the request which he (Yeye Boy) had made, it was believed that he drew the
attention of the junta leader to a rumour that the late General E.W.K. Kotoka,
one of the architects of the 24th February 1966, had obliged to a similar
request by the jujuman and paid dearly for it.
On hearing this, the NRC was told, Rawlings grew furious and allegedly ordered,
Go and bring the bastardâ€, whereupon his cohounds charged on Yeye Boy, seized
him and eventually subjected him to a gory death.
In fact, the whole of Atidzive suffered the wrath of the soldiers, who descended
on the village to carry out the orders. Bombardier Kodzo, now a man of God,
showed visible remorse for having taken part in that operation, when he took his
turn before the NRC.That was the closest Ghanaians got to knowing what had
happened to Yeye Boy, whose abduction and subsequent death, like many others in
the course of the so-called revolution, was shrouded in mystery."
WHEW!!!, what a confession. Folks, the same people who Rawlings sent to kill
Yeyeboy and others are the same people who were dressed in smocks by Rawlings to
implicate Northerners as the people who killed the Judges and the Army officer
despite the fact that, all of them were Ewe executioners on a mission for her
'Majesty' Togble Avaklavzu Rawlings.
These Rawlings goons used the same modus operandi in accomplishing the murders
of the Judges and Yeyeboy and his Priests from Volta region. Now Rawlings is
hypocritically urging Mills to solve the Ya Na case despite his refusal to turn
his so called evidence on a tape.
Now talking about tapes, is this the first time this kleptomaniac murderer
Rawlings has told Ghanaians about having a tape concerning a crime? No, Rawlings
told the whole world that, he and Kojo Tsikata have been exonerated by one of
those guys he sacrificed to hide their involvement in the Judges murders. He
said he obtained that confession from Senya or one of those murderers when the
person was tied to the stakes with less than five minutes to live before
Rawlings executed him. So what happened to that tape, you guys take a guess;
FIRE, FIRE, FIRE DESTROYED THE TAPES when this clown burnt down the GBC or one
of those government properties this criminal has no qualms torching. Now
Rawlings is playing with Andanis and Ghanaians as a whole telling us he has tape
evidence of those responsible for Ya Na's murder. Let me prescience what is
going to happen eventually. Rawlings has no tape as Kwaku Baako has said so when
he is finally forced through subpoena to turn this tape in, guess what this
clown will tell Ghanaians. FIRE, FIRE, FIRE THAT HE SET ON HIS RIDGE RESIDENCE
HAS DESTROYED THE YA NA'S TAPE TOO. RAWLINGS IS AN ARSONIST.
Let's seek real justice for Ya Na family and the Andanis as Rawlings is urging
Mills to do. At the same time, lets seek justice for these Chiefs too who were
killed during Rawlings regime.
1. The Chief of Apowa or Apedwa in Western region was killed during Rawlings
rule.
2.The Paramount Chief of Offuman Tradional area in Brong Ahafo was killed by a
faction that backed Rawlings P/NDC. This chief's head was cut like what they
did to Ya Na and nobody has gone to jail for that,
3.B.B Birsmirch who was also the chief of Aburi was arrested by Rawlings men
because he happened to be a rich man which Rawlings hate then and that Chief has
not been heard from again. According to stories going around, B.B was put in a
Helicopter by Rawlings and he was dropped in the Atlantic ocean at night to be
feasted on by sharks when he was alife.
For those who are ready to die for this man without knowing about his crimes, I
say get grip of yourselves for defending this devil incarnate called Rawlings.
Justice Sarpong
Houston, Texas
