The former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, has stated that whether her husband ex-President Jerry John Rawlings will appear before the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) or not will be a thing for the future.
‘I am not going to say what it will be when he goes there or not. That is not for me to say. That is a future and let it be,” she said.
Contributing to Radio Gold’s newspaper review this morning, on a front page story in a private daily with the headline “Nana Konadu throws a bomb,” she expressed misgivings about the way the whole reconciliation process was being handled.
According to her, the way and manner the Reconciliation bill was passed by Parliament raised doubts in the minds of people as to whether the nation was ready to reconcile.
“It does not give the so-called reconciliation process a good footing to take off”.
Asked whether she thinks the Commission’s job is a wasteful one, she replied, “I am not going to comment on it”. If I were the one in charge of it, I will say listen, we want to reconcile, so let us have everybody’s view. Why do you say you don’t agree with this or that, I mean, you have to listen to opposing views. Do not take an iron-handed approach on matters and just act your way because you are more than the other group. This does not bring out the spirit of reconciliation. It doesn’t, she said.
Nana Konadu said she observed what happened in Parliament saw how the bill was rushed through and how it was signed by the executive and passed.
I am looking at how it was signed by the executive and passed on”. She said, “when you want to reconcile, you start on a certain level, and that is all I am going to say which did not happen”. Asked whether if the nation gets to that level she was asking for and the husband is required to be present he will oblige, she said “we have not reached that level. Let the powers that be, be right”.
Source: GhanaWeb
