Former President Rawlings, a known anti-corruption crusader, has charged the president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to pursue an anti-corruption drive across-the-board during his tenure.
In a congratulatory message to Nana Addo, Mr. Rawlings wrote; “Your victory is a manifestation of the people’s desire for new leadership, and comes with enormous responsibilities, including a commitment to pursue an anti-corruption drive across-the-board.”
Mr. Rawlings did not mention the specific names of persons who must be pursued for their corruption conduct, but he is on record to have stated that some members of the outgoing government were corrupt.
“All I can do is speak up. I find myself in a situation where I have moral responsibility and no executive authority. I would have wished that my moral authority could have the same influence. But that is not the case, corruption has infiltrated our institutions and their leaders so badly today, that they use some kind of lens to demonstrate that you can keep your moral authority, but this is executive power at work,” Rawlings said in an interview he granted the Guardian Newspaper in Nigeria.
According to the NDC founder; “Ghana faces huge challenges, many of which you promised to tackle during your campaign tours. You have been elected as President, because the electorate believes you have the ability to confront these challenges and lead the country with fearlessness, humility and honesty. I commend you for committing to be a leader for all Ghanaians in your acceptance address. The onus is on you to pursue a leadership that unifies the people, so members of the losing side have no reason to feel insecure. I wish you the best of luck, as you prepare to assume the mantle of leadership.”
Meanwhile, Nana Addo, upon the receipt of Mr. Rawlings message, wrote back to him: “This is to acknowledge, with thanks, your letter of December 10, 2016, with its heartwarming contents. Our people, as clearly expressed in your letter, are confronted with huge challenges – unprecedented levels of joblessness, high costs of living, widespread and rampant cases of corruption, and deterioration in governance and in the quality of our health and education services – which they want addressed.
My goal is to provide effective leadership, which is honest, competent and determined to deliver, and address these challenges, so that we can put our nation onto the path of progress and prosperity, and, thereby, improve rapidly the standards of living of Ghanaians.
For this to happen, I would need the unalloyed support of every Ghanaian, irrespective of their ethnic group or religious or political affiliation. There can be no room in such an undertaking for witch-hunting or acts of political vendetta or harassment. No member of the NDC has anything to fear from my future government.
I am fully committed to pursuing “an anti-corruption drive across-the board”, as you put it, which will be fully anchored in the rule of law and strict respect for due process. That is the best form of security for every citizen of the country.
Once again, many thanks for your letter of congratulations.
Warm regards and best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President-Elect
Source: The Chronicle
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Rawlings should tell tel us how he why Tema Food Complex at a price which was equal to the cost of rehabilitation cost of the flour mill factory. He should tell ghanaians who owns "AGRONA FOOD PROCESSION FACTORY adjacent GHACEM/
...Abacha's gift is not Ghana's money..
NDC, you see how God has humiliated you, thinking you are denting Nana Addo's political carrier but in the order hand helping him. all the effort wasted on him ended you in a ditch. next time hate no man for no reason. oooh berima nsun anka JM besu wo na abrabo mu. sobbing,sobbing.......
Look who is talking, Rawlings you will be the first to be chased.
EXACTLY WANT HAS SENT YOU TO OPPOSITION. BITING ANYONE WHO YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH, WITH YOUR SHARP TEETH. ABACHA SHOULD COME AND COLLECT HIS MONEY IF MAHAMA CAN COLLECT HIS MONEY FROM THAT NIGERIAN ACTOR WHO GOT LOST AT CIRCLE. WE MEAN SERIOUS BUSINESS WITH THOSE WHO HAVE MISAPPROPRIATED GHANA'S MONEY. WHAT PAPA JAY SAID HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ABACHA OR THE MURDERED JUDGES. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GHANA'S MONEY. THAT'S WHY I VOTED FOR CHANGE. I WANT AN 100% AUDIT INTO THE OPERATIONS OF TOLL BOOTHS IN THE WHOLE OF GHANA. THANK YOU.
I am sure the chase will be in both opposition and the winning team. Nobody is free including they know themselves.
Yes...starting with you...the Abacha gift.
Nana Addo should firts with Rawlings for 5million bribe from Abacha.
YOU DON' SAY PAPA JAYY DON'T WORRY KROAA WE GO FINISH THEM FOR YOU STARTING WITH MY NAME SAKE
so so pressure from JJ,HE did it to atta millis,now akuffo addo too?bring the evidence n e police will act,