JJ is back

The Ghanaian Voice reports that ex-President J.J. Rawlings who had his plane diverted to Halifex in Nova Scotia Canada flew back into the country from London on Thursday last week.

The President who was three hours away from Boston in America when the terrorists struck the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. was due to address a conference at the University of Boston. The ex-President was going to be the keynote speaker at the African Growth and Opportunities Act platform.

The Voice says with the closure of all the airports in the USA, ex-president Rawlings could not honour his engagements. His special aide Mr Victor Smith had a meeting with the President of the Boston University Mr. John Westling and both of them agreed to cancel the engagement.

The paper recalls that following a front-page story by the Voice titled "Rawlings stranded in Canada", Hon. Hackman Owusu Agyeman, the Foreign Minister, directed Ghana’s Mission in Canada to give the ex-president protection and comfort.