Former President Jerry Rawlings has cautioned politicians to desist from acts that tend to institutionalize a culture of vengeance in the country. Mr. Rawlings was speaking on a Voice of America television programme, ‘Straight Talk Africa’ on the topic: Life after Presidency.

The former Leader accused the NPP administration of vindictiveness, much against the tenets of democracy. He said his expectations that the culture of democracy initiated by his government - the NDC will be maintained have been dashed.

In the opinion of Mr. Rawlings, two years into the administration of the NPP government; nothing has been done to protect the culture of democracy adding that this is dangerous for the development of the country. “In place of protecting the judicial system, they came in with a mentality of vindictiveness and vengeance” adding that “vengeance can only bring back vengeance which is unhealthy for the nation”

Mr. Rawlings also alleged that the NPP government has teamed up with some western agencies to investigate assets he acquired while in office. According to him, “one of the first things that the administration did with the collaboration of other international agencies was to go round the world and ask all the banking institutions all over the world, to do everything possible to trace monies that may have been saved in their banks”.

The former President noted that the NPP undertook that exercise to prove to Ghanaians that he had stashed money in foreign banks, as they preached before coming into power. p> “These same institutions including the FBI etc etc, came back to them and told them that neither Rawlings nor his wife, had a penny in any foreign bank”, he noted.