General News of Wednesday, 26 June 2002

Source: Joy Online

Mrs Rawlings to sue Kweku Baako

The Rawlings family has described as fabrication, reports that the former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has a foreign account at a Swiss Bank. The Crusading Guide newspaper reported in Tuesday?s edition (Forex Account Of Konadu Exposed ) that it has discovered a foreign Swiss Bank (GEONET & CIE) in the name of Nana Konadu Agyeman. The report quoted a source as saying that the account is a multi-million dollar facility.

It also said the account has been in existence since the 1980?s and has a current balance of over $632,400.

The former First Lady, unhappy about the continuing reports about the Rawlings? family has decided to take legal action against the publisher and editor of the Crusading Guide newspaper. Special Assistant to the Rawlings?, Victor Smith told JOY FM that the legal action would be immediate.

?I can tell you that it is a complete fabrication and part of the evil crusade by Kweku Baako to tarnish the image of Jerry Rawlings and his family. The position here is that we are taking legal action immediately. Lawyers have been asked to come in for a discussion and to take immediate action against the Crusading on this and other publications,? he added.

But Mr Kweku Baako told JOYFM that he still stands by his story and is ready to appear in court. He recounted other publications on the Rawlings? which they denied but later admitted that it was the truth.

?When the paper exposed the expensive car gift given to Mr Rawlings by Ghanaian Business Tycoon, Eddie Annan of MASAI fame, they denied the story. But when the Crusading Guide subsequently gave a documentary proof of the transfer of the car to the ownership of Mr Rawlings, both Mr Smith and Mr Eddie Annan came back to peddle a ?cock and bull? story of the car having been a gift to Mrs. Rawlings who in turn gave it to her husband on his 50th birthday anniversary,? Mr Baako stated.