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Former President Jerry John Rawlings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the recent wave of allegations against him in a section of the media is part of determined efforts by some people who are threatened by his integrity.<\/p>\n

He said he has held onto his integrity for long, and it is too late for him to compromise on what has brought him this far.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not for sale,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

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Flt Lt Rawlings expressed concern, however, that the attacks on him are rather an attack on the sense of purpose of the youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not the one they are really after. You are the ones they are after. To break that tenacity, that belief in you,\u201d he told a charged atmosphere at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Delivering the keynote address at the 2018 KNUST SRC organized TEKTALK event, the former President said: \u201cWhen you maintain the solidity of your position and refuse to compromise, they naturally have a problem because you may have become so influential.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power of the influence that you wield I think threatens some people so that if they cannot buy you, if they cannot get you to compromise your position, you need to be destroyed, otherwise your word tomorrow could do damage to them, and move them out of office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The former President responded to allegations by a so-called former bodyguard of his, stating that he was not his bodyguard but the driver of one of the armored tanks captured during the 31st December 1981 uprising.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won that battle that day, but he became overexcited, took a tank and drove into some people, so I distanced myself from him. After that, he became prey to some of the dissident elements.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said it was unfortunate that he is brought onto television to spew so much untruth and dared people of his ilk to do a polygraph test, enforcing the charge of how far vested interests would go to protect an agenda.<\/p>\n

Former President Rawlings also referred to another who hid in his girlfriend\u2019s room on June 4, 1979, but has subsequently been put out as a hero of the uprising for 37 years.<\/p>\n

He said Ghanaian children are reading about some of these falsehoods in history books and the time had come for some of these people to be exposed through the lie-dictator test.<\/p>\n

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The leader of the June 4 uprising and the 31st December Revolution, said during the 3rd Republic he was caricatured as a weed smoking young man to the extent that by 31st December 1981 many young people had taken up weed smoking because their hero purportedly smoked weed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to move from school to school to explain it was negative propaganda. That is the extent to which some people in their quest to consolidate their power will go. They did not care that they were destroying the kids in their quest to destroy Rawlings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former President urged students to be politically potent and ask serious questions of national political leaders and query them when they fail to make their voices heard on issues of global inequality and abuse of the vulnerable as is happening in Palestine and Yemen.<\/p>\n

The Founder of the National Democratic Congress also spoke about the damage of global warming and the need for young people to educate themselves adequately on its effects, stating it was necessary to re-cultivate the habit of tree planting to help ease the scourge of global warming.<\/p>\n

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Other speakers\u00a0who attended the event where former Minister and Member of Parliament, Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor and popular newscaster, Nana Aba Anamoah.<\/p>\n

Former President Rawlings has been criticized over the murder of some three judges in the country during his days as military ruler.<\/p>\n

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Source: citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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