June 4 Revolt� �A Political Armed Robbery� By Rawlings

Immediate Past Youth Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] Emmanuel Attefuah Danso has accused former President John Jerry Rawlings of robbing Ghanaians of their resources through his revolution [June 4]. According to him, the then Rawlings regime brought nothing but �pains, anguish and hardship� onto peace and loving Ghanaians. He further stressed that; the idea of celebrating �June 4� must be expelled since many have come to realize that ex-president Rawlings did a great harm to the nation. �The fact is that, indiscipline, blatant corruption, wanton destruction and mismanagement of the economy were introduced by him [ex-president Rawlings] yet he keeps blaming a statesman [ex-president Kufour] as corrupt,� he said. Former President John Jerry Rawlings in a speech to mark 35 years of the June 4 uprising at the Revolution Square, Wednesday, noted that, Ghana�s ill economy now is as a result of some acts of omission and commission by ex-president Kufour. He [Rawlings] blamed the current economic crisis on the decision by the Kufuor government to redenominate the country�s currency in 2007 after labeling Kufour as the most corrupt president ever. But in an interview with Peacefmonline.com Attefuah wondered why the former president [Rawlings] always vilifies his colleague presidents in his �hate speeches�. �I am happy Rawlings is still live today to see the rotten seeds he sowed. He claims he detests corruption�but he failed to account for the infamous account 48, the redenominated 50,000 cedis during his time, the corrupt deals of his minister he issued a white paper to cover, divestiture of state corporations that the wife and he benefited from among many others,� he said. Emmanuel Attefuah Danso further questioned the �moral courage and justification� of the former president to �talk about corruption when he is an apostle and the leader of the corrupt brigade and the cabal, whose term of office were officers of state introduced as financial wizards.� �Rawlings can't preach virtue and practice vice,� he added.