adminGaddafi was murdered.
In an interview with Xinhua via telephone, Deputy Minister of Information Ahmed Baba Jamal described the killing of Gaddafi as inconsistent with international law.
“Even in international law, when you arrest a war prisoner, you give him fair trial and the due process is followed,” he maintained.
“But the way Gaddafi was arrested, dragged on the ground and finally killed was not in line with international law and practice,” Jamal said.
Meanwhile, former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings, a long-time ally of the slain Libyan leader, sent his condolences last Friday night to the family of his late political benefactor.
Eulogising the man who was widely believed to have aided him in the December 1981 coup d’état that brought him to power in 1982, Rawlings told students of the University of Ghana that Gaddafi had selflessly
empowered his people, but unfortunately “the empowerment eventually turned out to be his nemesis.”
“In giving it all to his people, I guess the mistake he made was that he just could not let go of the empowered people,” Rawlings declared.
Another former Ghanaian leader, John Kuffuor, also expressed his condolences on Friday night to Gaddafi’s bereaved family.
Chief Administrator of the National Chief Imam of Ghana Adam Musah Abubakr summed up the feeling of Ghanaian Moslems about the turn of events, accusing NATO of interfering in the internal affairs of Libya and killing their leader eventually.
Speaking to Xinhua exclusively on Saturday, the Islamic cleric suggested that Gaddafi’s people did not kill him, as he had been with the people all his life.
“Why didn’t they go to Egypt or Tunisia when the crisis started in those countries? Why should NATO choose to go to Libya? If NATO didn’t come in, things wouldn’t have reached this level,” he said. – Xinhua.
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