"I Am Not Above The Law" - JAK

President J. A. Kufuor says he is he is not above the law and therefore prepared to face the law if he is found liable for wrong doing at the end of his tenure as President.

Mr Kufuor who made this observation was speaking in reference to the ongoing prosecution of former Ministers of state for suspected acts of malfeasance said “nobody is witch-hunting, it is the rule of law and the due process of law taking its cause.”

According to the President, so long as he remains the Chief Executive of the country for the next four years, he will ensure that the rule of law prevails, adding that no matter one’s political or economic rights, he or she should be subject to the rule of law. He made it clear that “those elements moving about trying to equate the rule of law to witch-hunting will not succeed because we are focussed on the entrenchment of democracy and the rule of law. The preaching of witch-hunt will not save those who have fallen foul of the rule of law.”

He added that those who are going about preaching witch hunt “should really ask themselves whether they have been honest to this country in view of the emerging criminal issues which we are determined to investigate and allow the law to take its natural cause.”

The President therefore called on Ghanaians to stand by the Government to enable it to carry out its mandated role effectively. President Kufuor made the remarks when he received the Mampong-hene, Daasebre Osei Bonsu and chiefs of the Mampong Traditional Area, as well as a delegation from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) at the State House in Accra. The delegation had called on the President to present a report on the economic and social development of the area.

The proposals were initiated by a local NGO, Families Together Ghana, after which it was presented to the CSIR for review and update. The proposals are meant to improve environmental sanitation, a potential for reclamation of degraded land, energy, electric power application, bio-organic fertiliser derivation and economically self-sustaining plant operations to create jobs for the people.

The Mampong-hene hinted that Traditional Council is considering venturing into the production of large-scale tobacco plantations for export to Libya, which has placed an order for 400 metric tonnes since 1995. He therefore appealed to government to play a facilitating role to attract investors to the Mampong area to create wealth and employment for the people.