The former leader Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings backs Atta Mills...
It was vintage Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings...
There are parallels with Ghana where few believed Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings the military leader turned civilian president would go quietly after two decades in power...
Taking over in early 2001 Jonah had to be seen to abandon the strategy followed by former Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Quartey who was appointed under President Jerry Rawlings...
An interesting footnote to tales of corruption during the reign of President Jerry Rawlings is offered by the case of Juliet Cotton convicted on 17 June by a federal jury in Atlanta United States of colluding with members of Rawlings's government to dupe Ghana of over US$20 million (AC Vol 42 No 8)...
He has strong links to the Abdulai family and is an old enemy of ex-President Jerry John Rawlings...
Yet it sends two powerful signals to President John Agyekum Kufuor's government: it must re-think its security system which may be more liberal but is also sloppier than that of Kufuor's martial predecessor Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings...
Vol 43 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Kufuor's New Patriotic Party still keeps a wary eye on former leader Jerry Rawlings who finds life out of power too difficult...
Jerry John Rawlings the outgoing President paid lip-service to the private sector during his 19-year rule but bequeathed a bad hand to Kufuor...
However as cases drag on through the courts bad policies are being blamed as widely as corruption for the economic collapse under Jerry Rawlings...
Apart from pacifying the activists Kufuor needs to show that his government will not use the sell-off as a source of political patronage and party funding - the sins of which Jerry Rawlings and his party stand accused...
