Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has responded to criticisms by former President Rawlings that he demeaned Dr Kwame Nkrumah's legacy in his time as president.
In a very harsh tone, Mr Kufuor's spokesperson, Frank Agyekum, described Mr Rawlings' criticism as baseless.
Former President Kufuor has described as baseless criticisms from his predecessor, Jerry John Rawlings, that he demeaned the legacy of Ghana’s first President, Dr Nkrumah, during his tenure.
According to him, he only fulfilled the dying wish of Dr Nkrumah's wife, Fathia, and that could not have by any means demeaned his legacy.
Former President Rawlings, in an interview on Tuesday, criticised the presidents who have come after him for their poor handling of the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.
The harshest of the criticism went to his successor whom he accused of desecrating Dr Nkrumah's graveyard by burying his wife in the same grave as him. This gesture from Mr Kufuor, which he described as pretentious, turned the mausoleum into a family graveyard, effectively demeaning Nkrumah's legacy.
“Many years later when Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s wife, Fathia Nkrumah, also died former President Kufuor laid her coffin in the same dugout where Nkrumah had been buried and he feigned mourning her and we all fell for it and joined in the mourning without handkerchiefs wiping our tears. From that moment, that National Monument to honour that man became a family graveyard. Do you see how his grave was desecrated?", he said.
He argued that "Ex Presidents J. E. A. Mills and John Mahama claim they’re Nkrumaists, you have chopped into the man’s name. All these were done before your eyes while in power and they didn’t see?”
“The compound is big, you could have dug a hundred and one holes and put Madam Fathia also there. Build a three-story building there, you did not have to do that under the same monument under which Dr Nkrumah was".
But in a swift response, Mr Kufuor's spokesperson, Mr Agyekum, was emphatic that his boss did not err in granting the last wish of Madam Fathia.
Explaining further, he said Ghana's first ever First Lady, while on her sick bed, intimated to former President Kufuor who had called on her during a visit to Egypt that she wished to be buried beside her husband and he granted her wish.
According to Mr Agyekum, it would not be a surprise that Mr Rawlings would have turned down Fathia’s request because of his unsympathetic nature.
Source: Daily Graphic
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NOW I KNOW JJ IS NOT NORMAL WHAT'S HE TALKING ABOUT?
Ghanaians are aware that JJ hate Nkrumah and for that matter CPP. JJ once told the country that what Nkrumah left for Ghanaians is the FLAG OF GHANA. Such person often say he is NKRUMAIST. The whole members of his Party he formed NDC always uses Nkrumah name and legacy to deceive Ghanaisns.
Rawlings will never grow up. At this age where his whole hair has turned white, his level of wisdom is rather declining. What is this rubb*ish about Nkrumah legacy? The man died years ago and Rawings say weytin? What is Rawlings' own legacy? Let him tell us. Is it the $5Million bribe he received from Nigeria that makes him think he is better than everybody else? This fantastically corrupt apostle of probity and accountability should get off our backs and deal with his azonto shaky head.
RAWLINGS' HATRE.D FOR KUFUOR IS MAKING HIM(RAWLINGS) ILL. IT IS STRANGE HOW A MAN(RAWLINGS) CAN HAT.E HIS FELLOW MAN AND GET POISONED BY THE CHEMICAL SECRETIONS THAT FLOWS IN HIS OWN BODY AND KILLING HIM SLOWLY AND SOFTLY. LOOK AT HOW BLOATED RAWLINGS IS NOW AND HOW HIS HEAD SHAKES UNCONTROLLABLY. HATRE.D OF KUFUOR BY RAWLINGS IS MAKING RAWLINGS SICK, YET HE WOULD NOT STOP HATIN.G.
Rawlings is mentally ill
SAAAAYOOOOOO.MURDERER RAWLINGS.