.....They Make Is A Rawlings Versus Mills Issue.

Facts are Facts no matter their sources.

The Former President Jerry John Rawlings appears not to be happy with the way which President John Evans Atta Mills and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) governments are controlling the steer wheel of the country.

When addressing a delegation of Chiefs, Members of Parliament (MPs), Ministers, District Chiefs Executives (DCEs) and other identifiable groups from the Upper West Region who paid a courtesy call on him at his residence, and didn’t even know what to tell the people, he said things were so bad that all seemed lost.

Mr. Rawlings was very much worried about what message to deliver to the people of Ghana during the next electioneering campaign because of the inability of the NDC government to offer hope to the people.

He stressed vehemently on the pains of the current state of Ghana. The ex-President wished he could put you back the delegates on the bus and send them to the Castle to ask President Mills a few questions. He told the guest he did not know the message of hope he could give the people at the next 2012 campaign.

The ex-President Mr. Rawlings told the delegation that “what is happening is taking away the sense of hope”, stressing that “the rank and file will desert the government, if it does not act appropriately”.

It was a majority opinion to hear the former President lamenting, “We need to wake up and let the government know what is going wrong.”

He believed that if the NDC as a government kept quiet about some of the actions of members of the Kufuor administration, they would regret in the near future, insisting that “we will suffer more pain than we did in the eight years prior to 2009”.

He therefore wondered why people, especially members of h is own party, see his criticism of President Mills as a personality clash.

“The sad thing is that when I criticize, then they make it a Rawlings versus Mills issue, the former President Rawlings” Well in my own opinion as a Columnist, President Mills’ endeavor to make Ghana a prayer camp is not all that bad but he must not forget the God help those who help themselves.

Prayers alone without working can’t give the Country a better Ghana.

FRANCIS TAWIAH (Duisburg – Germany)