Ending a year on one of Jerry Rawlings? comic series can be annoying

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Ending A Year On One Of Jerry Rawlings? Comic Series Can Be Annoying

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Ending a year on one of Jerry Rawlings? comic series can be annoying, more so when he seeks to present himself as a political colossus, his signature performance.

Some, for want of a more appropriate appellation, have dubbed the now incoherent and sometimes gibberish effusions as ?Rawlings? booms?.

Spent and almost idle, the addle-headed former President is at it again, seeking relevance in today?s politics by all means, if even it means posting derisive remarks as he did in Bawku recently.

Like many Ghanaians, we are not amused about his hot and cold effusions which lack sincerity and veracity at a time when the most critical subject in the country is the unusual level of corruption. With an image bereft of respectability and etched with 1979 indiscipline and mutiny, Rawlings should be the last person to sermonize about morals.

Ghana?s politico-economic travails today are traceable to the Rawlings -inspired mutiny, most of whose players have regretted their part in the nonsense dubbed revolution.

What does he mean by asking President John Mahama to sack non-performing ministers in his cabinet? Stopping short of telling the President that his government is not delivering good governance is a typical Rawlings hypocrisy in full flight.

He no longer descends on President Mahama directly as he used to do and the reasons are not far-fetched: fear of losing the privileges and freebies. Posting remarks such as ?President Mahama is too gentle to manage the challenges of Ghana? as he did during a cultural festival in the Volta Region, when the word should have been ?weak?, is an attempt at walking on eggs.

Let him give us a break: we have had enough of a man who rode on the back of a so-called love for the common man?s socio-economic predicaments. Let him deny he is a rich man living an opulent life, which he denied those whose death he engineered.

The sore inflicted upon Dagombas through players like him is healing with time and members would rather the status quo is maintained. Inciting them as he has began doing is total rubbish and unacceptable.

Rawlings failed to make good his promise of providing evidence pertaining to the death of the late Ya Na, yet he has the guts to call for the reopening of the case. Does he now have the evidence?

In the unlikely event of the case being reopened, it would not be adjudicated in a Rawlings-style kangaroo court which had many Ghanaians killed and whose graves cannot even be traced. Demurring with the legal outcome of the Dagbon case, but saluting Mr. Justice William Atuguba on his management of the election petition, speaks volumes about the former President?s double standards.

Poor fellow! He is not at peace with himself: the effect of the killings and disappearances is beginning to take its toll as he embroils himself in one issue or the other ? a spiritual punishment of sorts for a political sadist.

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