Late former President Jerry John Rawlings certainly had a bone to pick with Col. Kwadwo Damoah (rtd) per the account he has given; detailing the numerous lies people peddled about him to the extent of accusing him of plotting to murder Rawlings.
During his active years in the Ghana Armed Forces, the current Commissioner for the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) reveals that in all his encounters with the late former President Rawlings, the latter considered him as someone who openly spoke his mind.
“I encountered him severally when I was in the military and he saw me as someone who speaks his mind. On one occasion my hometown didn’t have a district so during the decentralization, my hometown was placed under Jaman District and they wanted me to be the District Secretary… I was taken to his office and I told him that I came to work as a military officer and not a politician”, Col. Kwadwo Damoah (rtd) said on the Wontumi Morning Show.
Years after that encounter, the astute military officer revealed that during the 2008 general election some person managed to lie to the former leader that he (Col. Kwadwo Damoah) was plotting to assassinate him (Rawlings) at Tain.
“Afari Gyan had just announced that there was going to be third round at Tain and all the political parties were preparing for it. I never stepped foot in Tain, I was in Accra. Only Rawlings managed to go there, Kufuor and even then candidate Akufo-Addo stayed in Accra and didn’t go there.
Despite not visiting the place, someone managed to inform Rawlings that I had loaded a bus with soldiers to assassinate him. This was the genesis of my beef with Rawlings”, he narrated
Unfortunately for Col. Damoah, the late former President believed the story he told him and according to him, he heard from some sources that Mr. Rawlings despised him.
He added that he had never hatched such a plan and he knew the level late former President Rawlings had attained in the country made it impossible for anyone to attempt to kill him.
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