Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has lashed out at the government for failing to take proper care of the former first family.
She indicated that the government has turned a blind eye to the needs of her family and neglected certain privileges that should be accorded the husband as a former president.
Mrs Rawlings made the remarks when she addressed her supporters in the Upper East region as part of her thank you tour, which she also used to rebut claims that the family was being catered for by the government.
“Even the founder himself, who is supposed to be taken care of as a former president, that has not even started, how much more me, the wife. So when they [those spreading the lies] come, tell them to stop lying about our founder, stop lying about our party.”
The former First Lady was worried that certain elements within the ruling National Democratic Congress have been telling too much lies about her family, and feared those behind the lies have the potential to destroy the party if they are not exposed.
She stated, for instance, claims that she was given $5 million to run the Nsawam Cannery was a “big lie”, noting that “we have been struggling and struggling” to raise funds to support the factory.
“So anybody who comes to tell you that I am collecting money from the government, it is not true.”
According to Mrs. Rawlings, the lies are calculated at portraying her as ungrateful despite a supposed massive support she enjoys from government.
She was more concerned that those she called liars are those who joined the party at the latter days when it has grown and has become prosperous.
“They didn’t sleep in the bushes to form the party, they didn’t walk in the rains to form the party, they didn’t drink in the villages to form the party as we did, as you did, as I did,” she recollected.
Meanwhile spokesperson for the Rawlingses, Kofi Adams has reiterated his call for a rejection of the candidature of the number two man of the defunct AFRC Maj. retd. Boakye Gyan.
Major Boakye Gyan has filed to contest for the Jaman South parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NDC, but Mr. Adams told the gathering that someone opposed to the founder should not be made a leader of the party on a silver platter.
He however stated: “We welcome him as member [of the NDC] but he must show a track record.”
He warned: “Those who think that they want to dismember NDC by their actions, we must watch out and take them out. We will have the opportunity to clean and do what is right.”
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