By William
Yaw Owusu
Tuesday June
12, 2018
Former President Jerry
John Rawlings has stated that a minister who served in the erstwhile Mahama-led
National Democratic Congress (NDC) bought two mansions worth $3 million from a
property owner in Accra.
Mr. Rawlings, the
NDC’s founder, said each building cost $1.5 million.
The former president
said the minister, whom he called ‘small little character,’ was able to pay hard
cash to the astonishment of the property owner after the NDC lost the 2016
general election.
Hard Cash
“What did this small
little character do? After we lost the 2016, I said he went and paid cash for
two mansions,” Rawlings fired at the 39th Anniversary of the June 4 Uprising
held at the Madina Social Welfare Centre in Accra.
He said “one for
himself and one for his wife and of course, the man who was selling the
properties that he has built for sale should have been happy; isn’t it, because
he was making profit.”
Sad Situation
However, Mr.
Rawlings said that “he (property owner) was very sad and he was very angry. Why
do you think he was angry? Because he has sweated to build these houses to sell
for profit and instead of the money to come into his account or being given a
cheque, he was being given physical cash!”
“What that meant was
that he had to spend the whole night counting the $1.5 million each times two,
the $3 million. Do you get me?”
The former President
did not mention the name of the minister involved, but unconfirmed reports say
it’s a very young deputy minister, who is noted for his acerbic tongue and use
of intemperate language in the media against political opponents of the NDC.
DAILY GUIDE’s checks indicate that the said deputy minister
was cited in the leaked Electoral Commission (EC) tape in which he was said to
have pocketed $6 million meant for staff of the commission.
No Corruption
The former President
revealed that “when I came out of office together with my wife, we never even
had a foreign account to say we have even $10 in it.”
“Today when they are
tabling all the billionaires and the millionaires that we have, they put
Rawlings at number 9. I think, and they’ve
given me $50 million I think,” he said amidst laughter.
“Meanwhile the last
man behind me is Kofi Wayo. I don’t know, did they give him $30 million or
what? They gave him $30 million or $3 million. As for Kofi Wayo, I know he is
so broke that I believe he must have paid the newspaper to put me there and put
$30 million against my name.”
Setting Records
“I have answered these
kinds of things and I will answer it again. They play these games as a way of
white washing themselves; the genuine thieves among them so that if Rawlings
can have $50 million there is nothing wrong with it. If I had, I would have
worked honestly for it. But I don’t. They have it, the thieves and the honest
ones but they want to be acceptable, they want it to be normal, how did you
come by it.”
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