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General News of Wednesday, 14 August 2002

Source: Chronicle

NPP connected with serial killings - JJ

The ex-President, Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, has expressed dissatisfaction over the death sentence imposed on Charles Ebo Quansah, the self-confessed serial killer.
The former President observed that the serial killing, which terrified the country, during his administration was politically masterminded.
Flt. Lt. Rawlings, explaining what he described as "positive defiance" against the NPP in a telephone conversation with a local FM station, OTEC, in Kumasi and monitored by this paper, further said the NPP is aware of the serial killings and since they came to power they have been looking for someone to push the blame on, "hence the unfair trial of Quansah."
The former President disclosed that at an appropriate time, he would react to it.
Quansah was last week sentenced to death by an Accra High Court for murder of Akua Serwaah in Kumasi.
On his real topic, the former President said what he meant by "positive defiance" against NPP was that Ghanaians should not sit down for the Kufuor administration to deceive them
He has also called on all Ghanaians to build a culture of positive defiance, so that they can detect all the lies by the NPP government.
The former President told his host that he would not sit down unconcerned for things to spoil.
Rawlings was also not happy that whenever he makes a pronouncement in the media, people attack him and wondered why Kwesi Pratt (Jnr.) and Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and others, do not encounter such confrontation by the public, when they express similar sentiments.
He observed that most of NPP candidates fielded during the district and unit levels elections failed to win because of their non-performance.
According to the former President, most of assemblymembers voted for are NDC activists.