Rawlings: Support Mahama in fighting corruption

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has called on Ghanaians to help President Mahama’s government fight corruption in the country. He says President Mahama will succeed only if members of the public help to expose the weaknesses in his government and offer concrete suggestions in fighting corruption.

President Rawlings said he was aware of the fact that the government is confronted with a number of challenges including corruption and stated that the President concedes that all Ghanaians need to join hands in combating the problem.

President Rawlings who delivered the keynote address at the annual Deza Festival of the people of Dzodze in the Volta Region on Saturday said: “There is no point in voting for the President and government and sitting down waiting for Accra. You have an equal responsibility to help develop your country by refusing to sit on the fence doing nothing.”

According to Mr. Rawlings: "we must also bear in mind that we cannot achieve peace when there is no justice, probity and accountability which are the foundation of the Supreme Law of our land. Likewise, we cannot refer to our political circumstances as democratic when the ingredients of justice, probity and accountability are absent.

"The political circumstances that we enjoy today and which many tout as having been initiated in the run-up to the 1992 elections was initiated during the PNDC era when we encouraged the people to get involved in the political decision-making across the country... Today some modern day converts operate as if they own the copyright to the pain and sacrifice you the people had to endure," he said.

He charged the people to remain united and forge ahead to maintain the peace that Ghana is enjoying and also to take advantage of the peace in the country to create a sound economic environment for economic emancipation.