Unless the unexpected happens, ex-President Rawlings is sure to drop another “boom” at Kumawu in the Ashanti Region soon.

The “Crusading Guide” intelligence sources have indicated that Mr Rawlings will surely avail himself of the forth-coming Kumawu bye-elections and freely bare his heart out on what he terms as the failure of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Government to honour its campaign promises. Tit bits picked from National Democratic Congress (NDC) Party officials who had gone to Kumawu to hold their primaries to elect their Parliamentary candidate for the Constituency’s bye-election, indicated that the NDC would hold on, and wait until the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) had held its rally at Kumawu before it (NDC) would move there with their Founder (ex-President Rawlings) to do the same.

The source said “We are not going to hold our rally at Kumawu until the NPP have done theirs – even if it is a day to the bye-elections (1st October, 2002)”, a source who wanted to remain anonymous confided in this paper. According to the source “the ex-President would use the occasion to lambast the NPP and appeal to the people of Kumawu to stem the tide of corruption and abuse of human rights that are being perpetrated by the ruling Government, through positive defiance and rejection by voting for the NDC candidate of the constituency”.

Asked whether another “boom” speech would secure the seat for the NDC – a seat that the NPP won in the 2000 elections with more than 6,000 votes margin the source amusingly replied, “This boom speech is really going to drive the people to change their minds and vote for the NDC candidate”. The source made it clear that the ex-President holds the freedom as any other citizen of Ghana, to speak his mind freely on issues concerning the country, adding that “former President Rawlings was unfairly treated the last time he spoke his mind.”