Rawlings Enjoys Ghana@50 Benefits!

...As He Sleeps In AU Village!

At a time when ‘government guard dogs’ are saying the Ghana@50 celebrations frittered away the resources of the state, with two prominent Ghanaians in court facing various charges, this paper can state categorically that the Atta Mills government has allocated three (3) of the plush buildings located at La Wireless to house former President, Jerry Rawlings!

This comes in the wake of fire razing down the entire house of the former President at Ridge on February 14th, 2010.s

Our sources have confirmed to us that the former President has not taken up ‘permanent residence’ at the AU village but shuffles between the AU village and the house of a prominent Ghanaian businessman (name withheld) even though the facility has been allocated to him.

This paper can state that the area has been condoned off with military and men in mufti from the National Security stationed there to give 24-hours protection to the former President.

This paper gathers that when the former President arrived from his recent jaunt abroad in the wee hours of Sunday morning, 2nd May, 2010, he went straight to his new home.

We are told by our reliable sources that the wife of the former President, Nana Konadu, after welcoming her husband in the early morning hours of Sunday was in the company of the former President at the AU village the whole of Monday, 3rd May, 2010 receiving visitors.

The Daily Searchlight can also confirm that the former President left Accra for the Volta Region on Tuesday evening.

When the aide to the Rawlingses and the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was contacted to confirm whether it is true or not, he said “tell your source that he is an idiot”.

He stressed that “if you go ahead and write anything about the former President, you are going to meet me in court because your paper is noted for writing negative things about him”.

The aide would not speak to the reporter who wanted to cross-check the information at hand but kept on threatening the reporter who was just cross-checking his facts.