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The Spokesman for ex-President Rawlings and Deputy General Secretary for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has taken a swipe at the media for reading meanings into statements made by Public officials. According to him, quite recently it looks like the media these days tend to give their own interpretations to statements in a negative way which tends to raise tension in the country. Kofi Adams cited the instance where the NDC National Propaganda Secretary, Richard Quarshigah, was misquoted just after his election at the party�s Tamale conference. "Mr. Quarshigah when speaking on the issue of the earthquake hoax that hit the nation a couple of months ago, only said, "probably detractors of the NDC may have caused it," but all the media houses who reported the statement replaced the word detractors with NPP," he stated. "Just some few some days back, the former first lady and NDC National Vice Chairman, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, also suffered the fate when she was misquoted by the media houses regarding a statement inappropriately attributed to her," he lamented. Speaking on AdomFM on Friday, the newly-elected Deputy General Secretary of the NDC stressed that Mrs Rawlings' statement regarding the prosecution of corrupt officials was taken out of context. "Corrupt past government officials do not only comprise NPP officials. As such the statement could not be said to refer to past NPP officials," Mr. Adams. He, however, backed calls by Mrs. Rawlings for the prosecution of officials who had committed any serious offences against the state. �The government must deal with corrupt ex-officials, who, in one way or the other have committed acts that led to the country�s suffering...Basically, the party that suffers ultimately will be the party which left the scene quite recently." "As a matter of fact, a lot of thing went wrong in the past and the government can not sit down and just pretend that nothing had happened...Ghanaians have grown to expect that even if there was evidence and a case has not been tested in court, it could not be considered as the truth...It is only accepted when you test it in court,� he stated. Mr. Adams charged that the previous administration needed to answer many questions as to why funds made available for various projects were not used as indicated. "Classrooms, toilets and so many other projects have been paid for, but have not been executed...the same people who wasted these monies are challenging the government...If they had used the money wisely, we would not be here paying for non-existing structures,� he added.