“If I was Samuel Kofi Mills or Naadu Mills, I will not allow Rawlings into our home,” said Nii Lante Vanderpuye on Metro TV Good Morning Ghana, when commenting on the ex-president’s interview on BBC in relation to the death of president John Evans Mills, may his soul rest in perfect peace. I indeed found that premature and a statement misguided, unnecessary in response to the ex-president, and indeed if Rawlings said anything wrong, our presidential aide even made it worse. I have painstakingly listened to the supposed Rawlings ‘uncalled’ for utterances on the BBC twice and find nothing wrong with the interview. He spoke in context and answered the questions asked, maybe a little unnecessary to link what he could have done about some killings to the interview. Infact, lawyer Samuel Okudzeto shared almost the same sentiments, many interviewed on our television have said same thing, T. B Joshua in some breadth is alleged to have said same that he had throat cancer and others said it was not managed well. What is getting me more provoked is the phrase ‘they said it differently from Rawlings’. Was it not public knowledge that our president was visibly sick and even worse in recent times when we all saw him on television recently? So why do our government officials question anyone’s medical expertise who talked about him suffering from cancer? “The former president is not a medical doctor and he does not work with President Mills to claim to know more about his health status than those of us who work closely with the late President,” Nii Lante said. But really, if every single Ghanaian who watched TV saw that our president was that sick and those who were close to him tell the good people of Ghana that he wasn’t, it is frightening. Couldn’t they see? What do they know different from us that they not telling us? I think maybe very soon people like Nii Lante should come out and tell us the truth since they were close to our president or forever live with Ghanaians blaming them for being insensitive to it. Listening to Ex-President Rawlings, I realise he was sad, shocked as he said, but knowing he was really sick was not expecting our president to go that soon, though expected and just as the lies, it only took people like Nii Lante who never saw it, and a such he expressing his anger but rather under a boiling plate. He never spoke wrong of President Mahama and for me, it’s for Mahama to reach out and try to unify the party if indeed there is disunity. Mahama being a good minister at his time, like many other many ministers who serve in this current government, doesn’t mean he can be a good president and that is the ex-president’s opinion. Nii Lante, who was reminded that he was an aide to the president, was asked by kwaku Baako, “you are an aide to the president, aren’t you?” which Nii answered ‘yes, I am’ wherefore kwaku Baako cautioned that he should not do the same mistake he is correcting and should behave in the capacity of his office. I think the shameful mistake and alarm Nii Lante caused on Metro TV and the arrogance at which he speaks every good time exonerates the ex-president in the eyes of many good judging Ghanaians, that when Nii had a good opportunity to speak to the world he rather took it personal and made such unwarranted comments. Maybe from now, we should start looking at what culture is and how our culture teaches us to sometimes massage some truths which insult our sensibilities. It transcends and is embedded in all aspects of society. For me, what is more culturally insulting than, to have our leader gone, barely less than a week, a new flagbearere is elected? What is the rush? Even in the death of our good president the people Rawlings called greedy bastards still wage unnecessary wars and yet to deepen the rancour in the National Democratic Congress, since what Nii Lante calls for is nothing but call to cut ties with the Rawlings, seemingly to say, he is the cause of all. Indeed for me, since our great president is now known to all as a good man, which indicts us all as Ghanaians, that his team did not bring the state of his health in a good way but was pushed down to politics, to the extent that now, his people in some quarters say, when he was advised to rest he still worked which meant he was selfless and even in sickness wanted to do well for Ghana, is more insulting to the dead than what Rawlings said. God bless Ghana.