Feature Article of Monday, 19 March 2018Columnist: K. BaduIs Rawlings really relishing the opportunity to reclaim his brainchild? Ironically, though, former President Rawlings is said to have founded the NDC Party based on the principles of probity, accountability and transparency. Rawlings and his conspiratorial plotters vowed to lustrate the country of the rampant sleazes, corruption and social injustices which instigated their coup d’état. To fulfil his lifetime ambition of becoming the head of state, J. J. Rawlings and some obstreperous army officers took arms and succeeded in overthrowing the constitutionally elected government of Dr Hilla Limann on 31st December 1981. After all, didn’t the party General Secretary, Asiedu Nketia, who was proselytised by Rawlings, once call Rawlings a barking dog?

Source: GhanaWeb March 19, 2018 08:03 UTC