What Rawlings Told The Police CID

Former President Rawlings has accused the Kufuor government of undertaking a transition of hatred against him and the NDC, which he represents. He however says he has nothing against the NPP and asked for a culture of civility, justice, democracy and good governance.

The former President added that so long as President Kufuor grants him these, he (Kufuor) could rule for 20 years and he would not care. He stated these in an interview with a team of five senior police officers from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service at his office last week.

The interview followed the former President’s allegations that 15 cabinet members in the present administration were involved in the serial killing of 34 women a few years ago.

Implored to give the names out, the former President said he would not, unless the concept of chemical interrogation, which he had called for was introduced to examine him and those who have accused him of various crimes at the National Reconciliation Commission.

He alleged that after Mr Odoi Sykes, chairman of the then opposition NPP stated that when they came to power, they would stop the serial killings, one woman was found dead in Accra. The death was recorded after the first round of Presidential elections.

Consequently, as President of Ghana at the time, he decided to broadcast to the nation but that address was stopped because that was the time when the country was preparing for the second round of presidential elections. According to him, if he had broadcast to the nation, it would have been misconstrued and the opposition NPP would have used it as grounds to call for the boycott of elections.