... Ex-NDC youth leader ‘strips’ Rawlings naked
... Dares him to disclose whereabouts of hidden weapons

A former youth organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sheik Amin Larry has vowed to “expose the politics of deceit and exploitation that ex-President Jerry Rawlings and the NDC engaged in throughout the 19-year rule of the P(NDC).

Speaking at a press conference in Accra yesterday, Sheik Larry who recently defected to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), alleged that the former president has a cache of weapons in his possession.

He said just before the 1996 elections, he, together with some others, offloaded weapons in a truck that pulled up at the 31st December Women’s Movement headquarters at Ridge at around 8.00pm.

Sheik Larry who said he and the people of Nima have now seen the light and repented from the bad and heinous actions they often meted out to opponents of the NDC, has challenged the ex-president to tell Ghanaians where the weapons were hidden.

He has given Mr. Rawlings a one-week ultimatum to mention the whereabouts of the weapons or be exposed.

“I am prepared to expose where the weapons are”, Sheik Larry said. He advised the ex-president to stay away from the people of Nima, as they are no longer going to succumb to his “dirty and ungodly” politics. Nima gained nothing for the support they gave the ex-president.

” Sheik Larry, an Islamic scholar, said he was not being incited by the NPP, rather, he was only helping to promote its policies as a result of its good governance.

He observed that while Nima and some Zongos lack basic amenities, the former president has a Jaguar with gold-plated tyre rims parked in his house.

He said Mr. Rawlings pretended he was a friend of the poor, but he is not. “In his house, I could count 18 dogs of different breeds, which were taken better care of than the Nima and other Zongo youths he used in causing confusion.”

Sheik Larry further accused the ex-president of masterminding the attempted coup against the Togolese president indicating that those who undertook the assignment are prepared to talk if their security could be guaranteed.

He asked Ghanaians not to be influenced by ex-president Rawlings’ “wild” statement about the murder of the 34 women, saying he (Rawlings) had a hand in their killing.

He said the “shit bomb” visited on the offices of the Crusading Guide, a private newspaper, was masterminded by former Minister of Youth and Sports and Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, E. T. Mensah, who detailed two men to undertake the job.

According to him, he was at the office of E. T. Mensah at the Ministry when he told the two men in Ga to “open it all” when they got to Mr. Baako’s office.

He challenged Mr. Mensah to deny this.

He noted the former president simply wanted to incite Ghanaians to his advantage.

On the disgraceful attack on the TV3 crew at the NDC headquarters on December 10, 2000, the former youth leader said he and other youths from other Zongo communities perpetrated the act on the orders of the former NDC general secretary, Alhaji Huudu Yahaya, after he had spoken to ex-president Rawlings on the phone.