In fact they deserved to win the Odododiodioo by-election because they worked very hard for it.

In congratulating the NDC for their well-deserved victory, it is very important to also respond appropriately to some utterances made by Mr. Jerry John Rawlings and Mr. E. T. Mensah. This response is intended to set the records straight, because Rawlings and his cohorts have the tendency of always making false and provocative pronouncements against the President and the NPP to win undeserved political points.

Rawlings described President Kufuor and his government as "evildoers involved in human blood soling, stealing, murders and vote buying".

He said: "They are sharing money. There is hunger. It is your money. The people's money meant for the country. They are using your money to build houses for themselves. They are putting your money in their bank accounts. They are taking the Ga lands, this is being done by Kufuor, his children and his blood relatives"

It is most unfortunate and highly disgraceful that Rawlings, who was crediting yoke-gari and stealing helicopter seats belonging to the Armed Forces, and using them as his room furniture, according to his own testimony, and after ruling the good people of Ghana for twenty years through the barrel of the gun, can stoop so low and make such serious allegations against President Kufuor, the NPP, his relations and children without providing any evidence to the people of Ghana.

After having presided over the most bloodletting regime in the history of this country, Rawlings has the audacity to call President Kufuor a "murderer and a thief".

Rawlings during the June 4 coup, supervised the execution of seven senior military officers, including three former heads of state. They are Generals Acheampong, Akuffo, Afrifa, Kotei, Yaw Boakye, Commander Joy Amedume and Colonel Felli. It is important to emphasise that these officers were executed without trial and without any specific charge leveled against them.

All what Ghanaians were told was that they used their positions to amass wealth. But Rawlings is one of the richest people in Ghana today.

It is also important to state that, the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) in its report, indicted Rawlings and his former security chief retired Captain Kojo Tsikata for having masterminded the brutal murder of the three High Court Judges and an army officer. Again, a former member of the P.N.D.C WOI Adjei Boadi admitted at the NRC that he extra-judicially killed some soldiers who were kept in the guardroom at the former Border Guards headquarters. Yet, Rawlings, as then chairman of the P.N.D.C. found nothing wrong with such a heinous crime.

For the purpose of setting the records straight, it is also important to state that Rawlings personally supervised the extra judicial killing of Lance Corporal Sarkodie, his colleague former member of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) at the Air Force Station in Accra.

In spite of all these murders committed by Rawlings' regimes against the good people of this country, he continues to accuse President Kufuor (a peace loving President) of being a "murderer, a thief and a liar" without providing any evidence. The NDC MP for Ningo Prampram Mr. E.T. Mensah described President Kufuor and the NPP government as "cows and liars". E.T. Mensah said, "there is a difference between how a cow sees grass and how it sees sugar. When you put sugar and grass in separate bowls and ask the cow to choose, it would choose grass. These people are cows; they do not appreciate nice things. If President Kufuor is a sensible father he would have advised his son against buying the uncompleted hotel building near his residence".

When President Kufuor responded to E.T. Mensah's insults and said, E.T. Mensah followed him "sheepishly" to cut a sod for the construction of a bridge at Ningo-Prampram, which is in his constituency, all hell broke loose.

Rawlings and the Minority Leader Alban Bagbin attacked President Kufuor. In an interview granted to a GNA reporter at Parliament House, Mr. Bagbin, "described as demoralizing and counter-productive, the recent verbal attack on Mr. E.T. Mensah, MP for Ningo-Prampram by President Kufuor at a rally in Bukum."

The Minority Leader "explained that whenever possible, Members of Parliament were enjoined out of protocol and courtesy to be with the President when he visited their constituencies".

If indeed it is the policy of the NDC that their members of parliament accompany the President when he visits their constituencies, and Mr. E.T. Mensah did just that by accompanying President Kufuor to cut a sod for the construction of a very important bridge in his constituency to link the people of Ningo and Prampram, is there any justification for E.T. Mensah to lambaste the President and his government at a political rally that "they do not appreciate nice things?"

In fact, if the President and his government "do not appreciate nice things", why did E.T. Mensah follow the President like a SHEEP (caps mine) to cut a sod for the construction of an important bridge in his constituency - something which his mentor-Rawlings could not do for the almost twenty years that he ruled this country.

Rawlings and E.T. Mensah should be ashamed of themselves for not appreciating the good works of President Kufuor and his NPP government.

Rawlings and his cronies in the NDC must give a free hand to President Kufuor to exercise the constitutional mandate given to him by the good people of Ghana to govern them.

If indeed Rawlings feels conditions in Ghana are not conducive for him, then, he better look for his father's country (He is lucky to have that choice) and leave this country alone because Ghana is not his property. Ghanaians and the international community are fed up with his un-statesmanlike behaviour towards President Kufuor. He needs to know that Ghana can only have one President at a time.