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President John Mills was not part of the fund raising programme by African leaders to wrestle Somalia from the doldrums of poverty and hunger because he was not invited, Ghana’s Foreign Minister, has said.Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni was responding to the opposition New Patriotic Party, whose General Secretary Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie lashed out at the President for not attending the programme.The NPP scribe described Mills’ absence as a diplomatic blunder, a brazen attempt to sabotage the efforts of one of his predecessors, Jerry John Rawlings who was leading the campaign to wrestle Somalia from the shackles of hunger and poverty.Rawlings, since his nomination as the African Union High Representative for Somalia has led several campaigns to draw the world's attention to the strangling poverty and hunger in Somalia and at his instance, the AU organized a fund raising ceremony opened to all African leaders and geared towards mobilizing resources for the famine-ravaged Somalia.But the NPP believes President John Mills is not doing enough to help the cause being championed by Mr. Rawlings, due largely to recent differences and verbal altercations between the two leaders.The General Secretary cited Mills’ absence at the fund-raising ceremony as clear example of Mills' attempt to ‘sabotage’ the effort of Mr. Rawlings and admonished him to bury his personal differences with his predecessor in the ultimate interest of the country.The NPP could not also fathom how Ghana could donate an amount of $3 million to Haiti when it suffered an earthquake and turn a blind eye to the scar of poverty in Somalia, especially, when no mean a person, than Ghana’s ex-president John Rawlings is leading the campaign for Somalia out of its woes.
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