RAWLINGS IS SHINING MORE UNDER AN NPP ADMINISTRATION THAN HIS OWN NDC ONE

Folks, isn’t it mind-boggling that Jerry John Rawlings and his wife are easily taking the shine off in an era of the NPP administration instead of being pushed down the drain to doom?

Happenings clearly confirm that the Rawlingses are better off now in terms of publicity and other aspects of protocol than they were when [ads1]Kufuor was in power or when their own NDC was in charge of affairs. Why so, especially under Akufo-Addo?

Conscionable observers of political developments should be baffled at the turn of events because of how the Rawlingses pitched themselves against Akufo-Addo at the time that they were in charge of Ghana and saw Akufo-Addo as a pesky bug to be squashed (Remember the series of “Kume Preko” open demonstrations?)

Of course, much bad blood flowed. Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings damned Akufo-Addo as not being a “lawyer” ( a huge claim that still begs for answers); but the late Ata Mills quickly stepped in to defuse the tension, blessing Akufo-Addo as an established lawyer. The Ghana) or is it General?) Legal Council and Ghana Bar Association opened up to say that Nana Konadu was wrong. Akufo-Addo has since then continued to be listed as a lawyer in good standing.

Those of us who have traced issues all along think that Akufo-Addo still has cobwebs to clear from his quarters in this matter, no matter the plastering being done.

Not only that. Rawlings himself stepped in to portray Akufo-Addo as a weed smoker, further detracting from his credibility or integrity as someone not to be entrusted with managing the destiny of Ghana. (Of course, Rawlings himself was a weed smoker who would later claim to have abandoned that trait. I hope he isn’t anymore.).

And when Akufo-Addo got the chance to be in charge of the office to determine the fate of the Rawlingses after the voters had put Kufuor in power, he went all the way to show the Rawlingses where power lay. The denial or protocol service(s) to Rawlings and how things went round to be turned in favour of the NPP is known.

The Rawlingses are now cozy friends of the NPP and its government under Akufo-Addo despite all the huge and dirty baggage behind it all. What are the genuine NPP members feeling, especially after all the tons of accusations against the Rawlingses for collapsing their businesses and for the murder of their relatives under the AFRC/PNDC only to have the Rawlingses in their camp?

Let’s not even bring in the issue of corruption under Rawlings that made the Kufuor government prosecute close allies of the Rawlingses and Nana Jonadu only to abandon everything midstream. And since then, the Rawlingses have bounced back, barking and biting anybody crossing their line (of self-grastification) without any action being taken by the state to deal with them.

It is clear that the Rawlingses are what they are in power and out of power. Why should it be so, especially under an Aklufo-Addo who claims to be a fighter of equity and whatever else to make Ghanaians proiud of their integrity?

What did Rawlings and his wife find wrong with Akufo-Addo when he was confronting them that they now admire? And what does Akufo-Addo now find admirable about the Rawlingses that he had joined others opposed to the Rawlingses to sacrifice lives for?

The picture is clear that the Rawlingses have succeeded in ingratiating themselves to the safe arms of the NPP under Akufo-Addo (even as they continue to hate Kufuor) and to damn and abandon their own political comfort zone (the NDC). What manner of people are these? And how does all that subterfuge move Ghana forward?

Shouldn’t an Akufo-Addo government entering political office on the basis of fighting against corruption in Ghana be the first to put the Rawlingses on the chopping block for all that the NPP had said about injustice, human rights abuses, and economic mismanagement all these years before being favoured by the voters to be in power?

And to chip in the millions of Dollars that the Nigerian monster (Abacha) gave to Rawlings for nothing but bribery and corruption so Rawlings could sing Abacha’s song?

Or to bring in the huge tracts of land belonging to the chiefs and people of the Adoagyiri-Nsawam area that Nana Konadu took aw2ay for a mere song?

There are many other issues to consider; but the point is glaring: What is it that has now united Akufo-Addo and the Rawlingses to the point that the terrible misdeeds by the Rawlings in the past (as howled about by the NPP camp) should now be glorified and pushed aside as a political benefit?

Is Ghana really safe in the hands of these double-dealers? I don’t think so. Neither should you, folks. Danger looms. Your concerns, my worry too. The conundrum thickens.