{"id":13902,"date":"2019-11-05T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=13902"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:19:35","slug":"poor-quality-of-justice-allowed-you-to-walk-free-rawlings-attacks-kufuor-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/11\/05\/poor-quality-of-justice-allowed-you-to-walk-free-rawlings-attacks-kufuor-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor quality of justice allowed you to walk free &#8211; Rawlings attacks Kufuor again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Jerry John Rawlings says\u00a0his successor, John Agyekum Kufuor,\u00a0would not be a free man but for the tolerance of Ghanaians coupled with the country\u2019s\u00a0poor justice system.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rawlings, who had earlier accused Mr. Kufuor of being responsible for the perennial floods in the capital city,\u00a0appears to have been\u00a0rubbed up the wrong way after the later in a response\u00a0described\u00a0him [Rawlings] as a hypocrite.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tu5ghVBK9pM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rawlings had accused his successor of leaving a legacy of impunity that has\u00a0encouraged individuals to indiscriminately site buildings in waterways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kufuor one, those Villagio villages and those things built in waterways&#8230;so if he can do it why can\u2019t others do it&#8230;build their houses and factories on the southern side of the motorway where it blocks the waterway,\u201d\u00a0furious Rawlings quizzed\u00a0last Thursday, when the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) paid a courtesy call on him.<\/p>\n<p>But Spokesperson for Mr. Kufuor,\u00a0Dr Kwabena Osei Adubofour dismissed\u00a0claims that his boss supervised the building of hotels and luxury apartments in waterways in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Adubour said once there is a department that is mandated to do that job if any individual or business entity is able to get a permit to put up whatever building, it is not for Mr Kufuor to answer.<\/p>\n<p>He then took a swipe at Mr. Rawlings, claiming he should be the last person to speak about integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Rawlings] talks about integrity? You know, that is like the pot calling the kettle black\u2026He is the last person to talk about integrity,\u201d\u00a0Mr. Kufuor\u2019s spokesperson said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on Monday, Mr. Rawlings said\u00a0he has\u00a0been advised to ignore the former President, John Kufour, because no matter how true what he says, it rather draws some sympathy for him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.myjoyonline.com\/photos\/news\/201911\/728363866969_2116975340319.jpg\" alt=\"JJ-Kufuor tweet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Jerry John Rawlings says\u00a0his successor, John Agyekum Kufuor,\u00a0would not be a free man but for the tolerance of Ghanaians coupled with the country\u2019s\u00a0poor justice system. Mr. Rawlings, who had earlier accused Mr. Kufuor of being responsible for the perennial floods in the capital city,\u00a0appears to have been\u00a0rubbed up the wrong way after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[4553,11261,11394,6573,11583,9331,5787,192,12502,5403,11493,4786,10419,8618,9880,11973,10917,3805,5278,4197,6988,594],"class_list":["post-13902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-accused","tag-attacks","tag-black","tag-capital","tag-city","tag-flood","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaians","tag-hotels","tag-interview","tag-john-rawlings","tag-justice","tag-kufour","tag-motorway","tag-one","tag-poor","tag-president","tag-quality","tag-rawlings","tag-successor","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50954,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13902\/revisions\/50954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}