Support Akufo-Addo to fight corruption - Rawlings

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has called on Ghanaians to support President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the fight against corruption in all sectors of the economy.

 According to him, the extent of  corruption in the country keeps increasing by the day, so the citizenry need to offer the necessary support to government so that corruption would be eradicated.

 “If we leave the fight against corruption alone on the President, it won’t work,” he said while addressing a ceremony to dedicate a family house built by Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (retd), former Chief of Defence Staff, at Winneba last Tuesday.

 He said the corruption they stood against in the 1970s was still endemic and that it had become so bad that it was crippling the growth and development of the country.

 “As a country, we the citizenry cannot sit down aloof for corruption to destroy the nation,” he pointed out.

 Fake pastors

 He bemoaned the acts of fake pastors who were only interested in extorting money from poor members of their congregation to enrich themselves.

 “I can tell you that today; the ‘craziest’ person you see picks the Bible to preach the word of God with an ulterior motive of duping their members,” he noted.

 He commended General Nunoo- Mensah for honoring his late parents with the house and stated: “It is important we build monuments in honour of our ancestors.”

Addressing the gathering, Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah bemoaned the culture where people in opposition, who might have better ideas, were completely ignored because they did not share the political philosophy of the government in power.

 He stated that the problems confronting the nation were so glaring but those in power had no idea of how to solve such problems, making us jump from one crisis to another.

 Gas Explosion

 He cited the recent gas explosion at Madina and the 2015 flooding at Kwame Nkrumah Circle which claimed many lives to back his claim.

 He said some politicians and public servants of today drove in cars with tinted glasses so that the ordinary people they were supposed to serve wouldn’t see them, let alone talk to them about their problems, which was not so during the colonial days.

 “We have communities such as Winneba deprived of many essential social services and no one seems to care about them,” he lamented.

 He thanked his grandparents, Nenyi Kofi Nunoo, Nenyi Kwamena Annan and Nenyi Kwamena Mensah in whose honour he built the house, for supporting him to become a better person today though “they lacked many things we take for granted today.”