Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings
A First Vice-Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress and Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings says her comments about the NDC’s Better Ghana Agenda concept being an original idea of the then PNDC regime, were misconstrued.
The Chronicle Edition of Thursday September 9 published a story captioned ‘Konadu plays Mills' secret 'tape'.
The paper said Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, had disclosed, that the 'Better Ghana' agenda concept being used by the Atta Mills government was developed by her husband, and therefore, remains his legacy. The purported comment attracted a barrage of criticisms from some members of the Mills administration who challenged her assertion.
Lee Ocran, Ghana’s Ambassador to South Africa who was the Chairman of the NDC’s 2008 Manifesto Committee was one of those who refuted the claims.
According to him, the Better Ghana Agenda concept was developed under his chairmanship and had nothing to do with the regime of Ex- President Rawlings. Nana Konadu, who sought to clear the air, says her comments had no ill motives and were misread. She however maintains that the concept was originally written in 1983 by the PNDC regime.
The Former First Lady was addressing a Handing over ceremony by executives of the NDC’s Tertiary wing, TEIN of the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) on Wednesday September 15.
“This document called towards a Better Ghana was written in 1983 as a policy statement by Flt. Lt. J.J. Rawlings. Unfortunately I was talking about this in Takoradi and it’s been taken completely out of context. I was saying that in those days, there were no parties so there were no manifestoes. So everything that was done by the PNDC was put out as a policy statement by the Chairman of the PNDC and then after that, they reconcile groups or executives or committees that will actually look at the structural and economic programmes and work towards it. So it is not new and I was only saying that, we as a party are continuing what was started in 1983” she explained.
The Former First Lady said she was shocked that the NDC’s communication machinery has since not sought clarification from her to enable them speak to the issue effectively.
“Sometimes it’s important to ask questions. Up till now, not one person has called to ask me what exactly I said. Not even our propaganda people, so that I can explain for them to go on the radio and speak on it. ‘Towards a Better Ghana Agenda’ was written on the 31st of December 1983” she emphasized.
Source: Citifm
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