That the Nail Rawlings Commission has, in the report that was submitted to Mr. Kufuor just about a week ago, “fingered” President Rawlings for the abduction and murder of the three high court judges and a retired military officer, is not been very surprising to many a Ghanaian.
Why? It is only a political neophyte or a self-willed ignoramus who would be unaware that that whole talk about reconciling this country was only a fine political gimmick to give the government the chance to attempt to give respectability and an appearance of “officiality” to accusations that President Rawlings and Capt. Tsikata were involved in the abduction and murders of the three high court judges and a military officer; accusations that persons in the NPP have used against President Rawlings, Capt. Tsikata, and the NDC at every election since 1992.
Indeed the Nail Rawlings Commission’s supposed report, at least that part that has so far been published in the pro-NPP media, makes us wonder if Mr. Kufuor and his co-conspirators in the Nail Rawlings agenda think that all of us are fools or all of us are incapable of reasoning and making informed deductions.
President Rawlings, the man who, according to the Nail Rawlings commission, had prior knowledge of the abduction and killing of the judges and the military officer, actually gave the Attorney-General of the day an absolutely free hand in setting up an independent board to investigate the abduction and murders, leading to the arrest, trial, conviction, and execution of a leading member of his government, among others, for the crime.
Yet Mr. Kufuor who wants us to believe that he did not have prior knowledge of the attack on the Ya-Na, has been unable to set up an equally competent body to investigate that crime let alone identify, arrest, prosecute the perpetrators of the brutal murder of the Ya-Na and over forty of his kinsmen.
We are told that President Rawlings knew of the abduction and murder because the NRC, note carefully, believe that those who were arrested could not have acted without the involvement of President Rawlings, (they did not establish this as a fact, they only believed).
We believe the NRC, and indeed every Ghanaian, have the right to believe what they choose to believe, our only problem is that, as taxpayers, we were compelled to contribute to the charade that was enacted in the name of reconciling the country. It is our belief that this country is even more polarised today than it was before the Nail Rawlings Commission started its work.
Though there may be no art to show the mind’s construction on the face, the Good Lord has taught us that by their fruits we shall know them.
Source: GhanaWeb
