Ghana wasn’t a ‘captive state’ under my tenure – Kufuor to Rawlings

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has denied claims that Ghana was a “captive state” that was “whitewashed” by western media and governments under his tenure. Former President Rawlings, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper alleged that western media and governments “whitewashed” the image of Ghana after he left office. 

"Not too long after I left office, I was giving a talk in Tanzanian and I said the world was going to see an exponential growth of terrorism. I had left office and the western media and western governments were desperately whitewashing the image of Ghana in spite of the atrocities and the corruption that was going on in my country after we had left office. 

Ghana had become a captive state, being whitewashed. You see how they orchestrate things? This is what I want you to wake up to. Now, it might interest you to know that, while they were whitewashing, making these claims and things were also falling apart, as late as just a few months ago, BBC now claims that terrorism had risen by 84%, creating a false impression at that time. This is the power of the Western media"

But Kufuor in a sharp rebuttal dismissed his claims, saying “President Rawlings is not the only living Ghanaian during the administration of President Kufuor, and therefore he cannot rewrite history for Ghanaians.” Kufuor asserted that “whatever commendations his government received were worldwide and well deserved and were based on the results-oriented approach that was brought to bear on governance during his eight years at the helm of affairs of Ghana.”