The Editor-In-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr., has once again taken ex-President Rawlings to the cleaners by describing his deeds as "empty, irritating and of no value."
According to him, there are a lot of people outside Ghana and in many African countries, particularly Nigeria who sometimes "do not study Rawlings well."
He said, apart from the renowned author from Nigeria, Wole Soyinka, who made a perfect analysis of Rawlings some years ago, no one has ever made such critical analysis.
�There are many young intellectuals around who think that man (Rawlings) has something to offer Africa�, he stated.
Speaking during a panel discussion on Peace FMs Kokrokoo�, he said "you sometimes wonder what should be done about Jerry Rawlings as nothing good could come out of him...The man is a walking contradiction," he told Tweneboah Kodua (TK).
"Who does he think he is or what does he think Ghanaians are? Does he take all of us as a constituency of fools, unthinkable beings? It is not fair...So he goes to sit in Abuja, reads a paper and people clap for him. Nobody wants to do a critical analysis of what the gentleman (Rawlings) is saying?" an infuriated Baako asked.
He added that it was time Ghana's ex-president was "stripped naked" for all to "see through the abject poverty of his ugly noises all over the place."
Over the weekend, ex-President Rawlings, at the Extraordinary Congress of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA) in Abuja, Nigeria, made a statement to the effect that, for the first time in Ghana�s political history, �we were going to enter a situation of failure to deal with the crimes of a previous regime; serious crimes, not just economic crimes but crimes related to human rights violations and this is obviously going to perpetuate a corrupt ruling class syndrome."
In his speech he emphasized that "f we do not punish such crimes in the life of the regime, but do so only after its removal, many will be able to escape the net of the law."
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