An ex-Ghanaian soldier who was close to John Agyekum Kufuor, the country’s oldest living former leader, described a time when the senior statesman broke down in tears in front of him because he was refusing to go back to Ghana.
The 75-year-old man, Michael Molley, sometimes known as Gago or Rambo, claimed that President John Kufuor had visited him in New York and begged him to accompany him back to Ghana.
In an interview with Kofi Adoma of Kofi TV that GhanaWeb watched, Rambo claimed that the former president left because he knew he may die within a week if he returned to Ghana.
Although he had made it obvious to John Kufuor that he intended to stay back to retire so that he doesn’t lose his pensions, he continued, John Kufuor persuaded him to return.
Additionally, he said that Rambo had previously prevented two attempts by some military officers to depose President Kufuor.
“I was in America for 22 years. Kufuor has destroyed my life. I worked for so long in America so much that when I was returning to Ghana, my company didn’t want me to because they said it would collapse if I left. But I told them my country’s president had requested my presence, so I had to go.
“All the things President Kufuor promised me, as I speak now, not even a dollar or a cedi has been given to me. I have zero. I am really suffering… he wanted me back because he was facing a lot of coups issues at the time. So, personally, the visions I used to get, I called him and told him about the people who were intending to overthrow him. They were a military general and a military major. The general is late today, but I was able to stop him twice, even though he was, at the time, the best military officer. I proved to him that I was better.
“You have failed to fulfill all the promises you made to me. All that I have done, you have been giving awards to other people, you have never given me one. You never give me a car, I have been trekking up and down to countries working… you cried in New York when I told you I was not coming to Ghana because I still had 5 more years to go on retirement and returning to Ghana would mean that I would lose my pension.
“But he said that if I don’t go with him to Ghana and he returns alone, in a week’s time, I would hear that he was dead,” he narrated.
After trying hard to avoid crying on TV, Rambo explained that he is currently suffering so much that he blames all of it on the former president.
“So, Mr. President Kufuor, are you happy that I’m suffering?” he asked in the interview.
