The Editor-in- Chief of the Crusading Guide newspaper, Malik Kweku Baako has chided former president Rawlings for raising security concerns in the country.

He said the former president cannot be talking about security threats in Ghana when he presided over the slaughter of 3000 people in the Konkomba-Nanumba war in 1994.

“Let’s not become alarmists. Let’s not raise red flags unnecessarily,” he charged.

Mr. Baako was speaking on Joy FM’s Current Affairs Programme, News File on Saturday, September 13, 2008.

He said in 1994 the Chronicle newspaper reported on simmering tensions between the Konkombas and the Nanumbas but the reports were dismissed.

A month later a war broke out between the two groups leading to the unfortunate massacre of thousands of people.

That, according to him, the former president, who was at the helm of affairs, did not think was a national security challenge for the country.

“Why is somebody scaring all of us?” he asked.

On the Mr. Rawlings’ comments that the New Patriotic Party is arming its supporters with arms, Mr. Baako provided documentary proof suggesting that guns were left in the hands of wrong people during the reign of Mr. Rawlings.

He said the homes of some persons close to the former president were virtually armories, citing Michael Sisoudise.

Contributing to the discussions, the Communications Director of Prof. Mills’ campaign, Mr. Koku Anyidoho claimed some guns had been imported illegally through the Kotoka International Airport into the country.

He said the NDC had intelligence reports that the NPP was helping its supporters to stockpile arms.

According to him, the said weapons imported into the country were probably in the hands of NPP symphatisers.

But Mr. Baako refuted the allegations saying the weapons were cleared according to due process.

Story by Malik Abass Daabu