Ghanaians Will One Day Ask For JJ's Return -Riad

Former President’s Rawlings’ confidante, Riad Hozaifeh is reported to have said that Rawlings is an international statesman who rescued Ghanaians from long queues during a period of shortage.

According to him, “Ghanaians would one day line up and move to the promised gate to shout for the return of their saviour – JJ, JJ, JJ” (a dream he says he has).

Riad made the call in an interview with Radio Gold, an Accra based radio station.

He described Major Boakye Djan as a coward. He said as the vice chairman of ‘the Revolution’, Boakye Djan showed disloyalty to his boss, the Chairman (Rawlings); run away to exile and fabricated a story of assassination against him (Riad).

He revealed that he was very angry with Boakye Djan because of an allegation he made to the British authorities that he, Riad had been sent by the PNDC government to assassinate him.

Asked why he used to wear military uniform and possessed an AK 47 assault rifle during the days of the erstwhile PNDC although he was not a soldier, Raid said he did that so as to be able to interact with soldiers. “In my heart, I am a soldier”, he added.
He lambasted the present government on its lifestyle, saying that Kufuor’s motorcade was more posh and luxurious. “The Speaker rides in a more flashy Mercedes Benz, but Justice Annan was using a Toyota”, Riad noted.
In the same interview, Riad Hozaifeh threw a challenge to the New Patriotic Party administration to rename the Kotoka International Airport after Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s First President “who started the construction”.
Research by the Crusading Guide newspaper has shown that attempts by some members of the AFRC during its reign to demolish Kotoka’s statue at the Airport and rename it after Nkrumah was fiercely resisted by Rawlings, who openly declared that General Kotoka was his hero, because he (Kotoka) liberated Ghanaians from the shackles of Nkrumah’s tyranny.