Too late for Rawlings to act on serial-killings

"It was too late for me to act on serial-killings of women- Rawlings Techiman (B/A), July 5, GNA- Former President Jerry John Rawlings said at Techiman in Brong Ahafo on Saturday, that he got to know the perpetrators of the serial murders of women in the country but he found that it was too late for his government to act. He said the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) could have stopped the parliamentary and presidential elections and exposed the culprits but it was impossible for him to do that, as his government did not want Ghanaians to think that he wanted to remain in power.

Former President Rawlings was addressing a meeting of NDC party supporters and executives at Techiman. He alleged that 67 per cent of votes were from women and the NPP government "decided to link the murder of women with politics to misinform Ghanaians in order to win their votes".

Dr Josiah Aryeh, General Secretary of the party repeated that there were rumours that the dead bodies of the murdered women were imported into the country from Togo ostensibly to discredit the NDC government. He alleged that, "some journalists and policemen had teamed up with government to pursue selective justice", saying "Ghanaians have the calibre to vote out the NPP government in 2004".

Dr Benjamin Kumbour, MP for Lawra-Nandom said "the NDC was the only party that came to power, organized elections and handed over peacefully to an in-coming government". He appealed to the government not to intimidate NDC functionaries, explaining that it was the NDC "that brought the FM stations but they have now been turned into weapons against us".

Alhaji Collins Dauda, Brong Ahafo Regional Chairman of the party appealed to party functionaries to work harder to win the 2004 general elections. Mr A.A. Munufie, former Ambassador to Cote D'Ivoire in the NDC government presided.