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Pratt Slams Rawlings
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Jan 28, Ghanadot - Many people including politicians have recently voiced out their dissatisfaction about the behaviour and utterances by the former president Jerry John Rawlings concerning the  the administrative approach of the current government.

Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Managing Editor of "The Insight" and a leading member of the Committee for Joint Action (CJA) has slammed former president Rawlings for interfering in the running of President Mills’ administration. He added that Mr. Rawlings’ utterances about how the current administration should be effected are not only embarrassing, but also insulting to the intelligence of President Mills.

He described Mr.Rawlings’ behaviour as childish and reminded him not to look at himself as the only former president the country has, asking him to seek some wisdom from his successor, former President Kufuor.

“Today Rawlings have said this, tomorrow he goes to say another thing, what does he want from us? If for nothing at all he should take lessons from former president Kufuor, who had been quiet all this while even when in the face of all provocative comments over ex-gratia case”.

According to him, Mr. Rawlings’ call for the dismissal of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Patrick Kwarteng Acheapong, and the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Lt. General J.B. Danquah was gratuitous.

Mr. Pratt Jnr berated the former President Rawlings for the pictures he reportedly took at the restricted areas of the Kotoka International Airport, adding that Mr. Rawlings is fun of antics that is geared for ‘cheap popularity’.

Majority of Ghanaians, he said are getting irritated by the utterances of the former president especially when people did not believe that Mills, even though he won the presidency, had enough backbone to be his own man. Now Mr. Rawlings’ behaviour, Mr Oratt, will make many people accept those allegations.

President Mills, after a few weeks of his swearing in as president, it would be recalled, asked all District Chief Executives and government appointees to remain at post.  Immediately after that, former president Rawlings, at a press conference in his house, blasted President Mills for treating the NPP officials with kid gloves.

Mr. Rawlings has also recently blasted President Mills for keeping in office security chiefs and commanders who were appointed by the former president Kufuor. In response, President Mills quickly fired the security chiefs.

Rawlins is currently out of the country on a tour of Europe.


 

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