Kufuor causes high prevalence of HIV, poverty and population growth – Rawlings "booms"

General News on Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

2019-02-13

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has launched a new scathing attack on his colleague former president John Agyekum Kufuor about HIV, poverty and population explosion in the country.

The man known for what many Ghanaians call "boom" speeches, said the selfish and backward thinking of the former president was at the origin of Ghanaian poverty because of his campaign for an uncontrolled birth that has driven the country into the abyss of poverty, MyNewsGh. Reports .com.

"I remember when we were fine and even during elections or preparations for the elections … I was campaigning, I was still talking about HIV / AIDS and I was still talking about family planning. When the nuclear plant would only promise that … Kufuor promised that as far as he would go, he urged Ghanaians to give birth to more children, "he said.

The former military chief said his wish was to see wealthy Ghanaians to be able to support themselves and their families through a controlled birth, but former President Kufuor and the NPP wanted the reverse for votes.

"I wondered what's wrong with this man? I want my people to be rich … to have enough. There will never be enough when you produce uncontrollably. Not knowing that some of them have in mind the more people they can have, they will have more votes. Such backward and selfish thinking, "he said at a meeting with NDC supporters in Ashaiman, in the Greater Accra region.

According to him, whites are able to control poverty through family planning that he has tried to implement under his tenure, but the neo-patriotic party (NPP) of the opposition has not been able to. then did with propaganda aimed at overthrowing the National Democratic Congress (NDC). at the time.

"The white man was able to contain his poverty through family planning," he revealed.