| | When Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings came to power for the second time on 31 December 1981, calling on the people to form People's Defence Committees and Workers Defence Committees, and to participate through them in the affairs of the nation, he was admitting that the 'House Cleaning' exercise he had spearheaded in 1979 had not been sufficient to transform Ghana permanently. Peoples's participation, he hoped, would do it. Rawlings said that at one time he had thought exploitation and oppression were accidents of human character, but that he had now seen that they were part of a planned and systematic logic of social control. |
