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Former President Jerry Rawlings says criminals are monopolising political power in Ghana. ��Some of the criminals in this society are actually promoting their criminal children into politics, into political power�, he said Thursday at his residence in Accra. According to him: ��When I watch the extent to which some of these characters are promoting their children and how some of them lie like their fathers on TV screens, I worry a lot�. Mr Rawlings burst forth with his concerns when the winner of TV3�s Ghana�s Most Beautiful pageant paid a courtesy call on him. The former Military leader used the opportunity to � for the umpteenth time � lash out at his successors for doing little to fight corruption. �This country has been pushed into a dark tunnel by � is it the second John � made worse by the other John and I was beginning to wonder if the fourth John can get us out of that dark tunnel�. All of Ghana�s Presidents in the fourth Republic since 1992, including Mr Rawlings, are called John. He said: �As I watch TV, I never felt so sad; something to do with the depth of irresponsibility to which some aspects of this country appears to drown into�. Mr Rawlings bewailed the situation where the youth and virtually everybody necessarily have to compromise themselves before gaining access to opportunities in the country. �No no no no no no, a nation doesn�t grow that way�, he said.