Rawlings Can Be Prosecuted Even In His Grave; He Was A Walking Criminal – Boakye Djan

Major (Rtd) Boakye Gyan says late president Jerry John Rawlings can be tried posthumously for engaging in illegality in his second coup.

Speaking on Asaase Radio to commemorate the June 4 uprising he said Rawlings died a walking criminal.

“The fact that I built a democracy doesn’t mean that I could bear responsibility for somebody destroying it. Remember we handed power over to [Hilla] Limann… and I left to London to do my postgraduate course and 31 December came, I was not here but on the same day I opposed it and put down my uniform to roll it back which in the end I succeeded in doing.

“Remember the rule of law we used to hold senior officers accountable to, was the same difficulty that the second takeover had put us in. That is why I use to call him a walking criminal. The fact that he is dead does not exonerate him. He can be tried posthumously if people have the nerve and sincerity that what happened was wrong and should not be encouraged,” Boakye-Djan sad.