Explaining that it is not a negative refrain at all, President Kufuor created a scenario of an underdog who is always at the receiving end of a bully’s attack.
‘One day such a victim would muster courage and dare his aggressor, ‘come on I am ready to die’. It is at this stage that the aggressor would discover the manliness of the person he has always bullied,’ he told Ekuorba Gyasi of Hot FM yesterday.
Mr Kufuor had earlier deferred media comments on the matter to Nana Addo when he was asked by journalists for his views.
It is untoward to have one person all over the place bullying people, he said, adding that the ‘all die be die’ refrain is therefore not a negative idea but a natural response after getting fed up with constant attacks.
”All die be die’ is an instantaneously courageous revolt against bullies by perceived weaklings who may have gotten to their wits end as a result of having suffered perennial bullying at the hands of bullies. I think that should be a normal human practice. We can’t allow any one person to hold us eternally hostage when that person doesn’t even have our welfare at heart. They must be made to know their limit. It is important that Ghanaians clearly understand what the slogan ‘all die be die’ means,’ Mr. Kufuor said.
The former President was speaking to Hot FM, an Accra-based radio station, following his arrival from the United States where he was named co-winner of the World Food Prize Foundation award for 2011, alongside former Brazilian President Inacio da Silva da Lula at a ceremony in Washington last week.
The two former leaders will share the $250,000 prize money, with the Ghanaian former president promising to use his portion for a leadership foundation.
The former President described the interview as one which afforded him the opportunity to discuss issues he would otherwise not have done.
He described as irresponsible, persons who label others as dealing in drugs when there is no evidence to support such allegations.
The former President was reacting to yesterday’s utterances by the head of the Narcotics Control Board, Yaw Akrasi Sarpong during which the latter sought to label some politicians as dealers in narcotic drugs.
‘Ghanaians talk too much. Issues about people dealing in drugs is about the law and so persons who make them should be mindful about what they say,’ he said.
Responsible citizens should report people they suspect of dealing in narcotics, if they have evidence, to the police, he said, adding, ‘Not doing so would render such a person irresponsible. I know Akrasi Sarpong very well; if he sees such activities and fails to alert the security agencies then he has goofed.’
Continuing, he said, ‘If there is no evidence to the allegations he is throwing out, he is only polluting the atmosphere.’
Many would jump to the conclusion that persons riding big beautiful cars are dealing in narcotics, he said.
‘Such persons who make allegations against others do not undertake investigations before drawing their conclusions.’
On whether political parties use drug money to fund their activities as being alleged by the NACOB boss, Mr Kufuor said he did not use such funds to run the New Patriotic Party (NPP), explaining that in every organization such as a political party there are bad nuts, and so it would be improper to describe a party such a person belongs to as a party dealing in drugs.
‘There are bad nuts in the NPP, NDC and CPP and so it would be improper to use the case of one to describe the whole party,’ he said, adding, ‘I did not use cocaine money to fund the NPP. There is too much generalization in the country. A man in the position of Akrasi Sarpong should not be talking the way he is doing.’
Former President Kufuor’s interview also touched on his relationship with ex-President Jerry John Rawlings.
He took a swipe at the man he took over from as President, stating that ‘when God lifts you to the high office of president you should be mindful about how you talk’. Â Â Continued…Â Â Â
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