Season Greetings from Rawlings

Rawlings wishes Ghanaians Happy X'mas and Prosperous New Year

Accra, Dec. 22, GNA - Former President John Jerry Rawlings on Friday wished Ghanaians Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year, asking them to consider unity as imperative for national development. In a statement, Rawlings said, "We must all help build a national unity, which transcends ethnic, political, class and professional boundaries." He said that could only happen 93when each and everyone of us demands that our political, religious, academic, industrial and traditional leaders pursue a bold and sincere course towards real good governance. It must be one that eschews corruption, nepotism, tribalism, cronyism and political cynicism.
Rawlings said, "as long as we maintain a passive or indifferent attitude towards the persistence of these socially divisive tendencies, we would have betrayed the developmental trust and aspirations that our people (from whom we derive our power and social influence) have reposed in us." He reminded Ghanaians that as they celebrated the Yuletide the good Lord would give them wisdom and courage to demand from their leaders that Ghana deserved real equality of opportunity for progress. Former President Rawlings said, 93In this season of peace and goodwill we are also reminded of our obligations to one another and to our nation. "The joy of sharing a time of celebration cannot be meaningful unless we are mindful of the disadvantaged, the weak and the distressed and unless we are committed to the work of establishing a country in which social justice prevails."