Kufuor Lies Again

By Peter Kojo Apisawu

Can you believe that Former President Kufuor van lie in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening and even at dawn when everybody is asleep? It is now certain that the ex-President is a double-tongued character with the penchant of spewing out palpable lies whenever he opens his mouth.

Mr. Kufuor, in an interview with US-based magazine, AfricaWatch, lied through his teeth to the interviewer and indeed, the whole world about his government.

When asked why people like former President Rawlings and Mr. Kwame Pianim perceived his administration as corrupt in spite of his “zero tolerant for corruption” rhetorics, Mr Kufuor lied to AfricaWatch and said that Mr. Pianim left the New Patriotic Party (NPP) before he (Kufuor) became President.

“Kwame Pianim resigned from the NPP. Later on he tried to come back and people perhaps thought he is still one of us. The truth is he didn’t work in my government. He is a respected person and apparently he is quite close to President Mills. I know him but he was not in my team,” Mr. Kufuor lied.

The Daily Post can authoritatively state that Mr. Kufuor told a blatant lie when he said Mr Pianim did not work in his government.

Daily Post’s checks have firmly established that it is an incontrovertible fact that Pianim indeed worked in the Kufuor government when he was the Chairman of the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC).

He has long ago established himself as someone who should not be taken seriously by any serious-minded person. Mr Kufuor, during his tenure as President of Ghana, had gotten what he always wanted through lies and treachery.

When Mr Kufuor was busted for acquiring a multi-billion dollar hotel, christened, “Hotel De Waa Waa,” he lied to the good people of this country that it was his son who, through a consortium, bought the hotel. While Mr Kufuor claims that the hotel belongs to his son, his mistress, Gizzel Yagzi, who negotiated for the purchase of the hotel pointed to Kufuor as the real owner. She told an Accra-based radio station at the height of the ‘Hotel De Waa Waa’ scandal that Kufuor bought the hotel and registered it in the name of his first son, Chief Kufuor.

Immediately he assumed office, Mr. Kufuor was hit by “kickback” brouhaha. He claimed that when people brought bribes and kickbacks to him at the Castle, he always told them to “go and come next time.” However, Mr. Harona Esseku, former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) exposed him when he said that Kufuor was personally collecting kickbacks at the Castle.

In a memo to the African Development Bank in Tunis for funds to establish the Kufuor Foundation, Mr. Kufuor claimed that he was awarded ‘Order of the Knight of the Bath’ by the Queen of England. Checks conducted at the British Embassy as well as with the British government reveal that Mr. Kufuor was never ever given such an accolade. Today, his lies have become the norm rather than the exception so much that what surprises Ghanaians is when he speaks the truth.

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