Former President Jerry John Rawlings  has slammed the Daily Guide newspaper over a publication attributed to him with the caption ‘Mahama led a corrupt regime – Rawlings’.

In a Press Statement signed by the Communications Director at the office of the former military leader, Kobina Andoh Amoakwa said Flt Lt Rawlings did not meet former Sierra Leonean Vice President Chief Sam Sumana ‘over the weekend’ as reported in the story.

The paper quoted Mr. Rawlings, who is known to have had a frosty relationship with Mr. Mahama and his appointees, as saying “By the time [the Akufo-Addo] administration came into office, the country was literally drowning in the practice of corruption with impunity. This administration has therefore inherited national corruption at its worst.”

According to the paper, the remarks were passed over the weekend when Mr. Rawlings received a delegation of political leaders from Sierra Leone, led by former Vice-President, Chief Sam-Sumana.

“The last time Chief Sam Sumana called on former President Rawlings was in late 2017,” the Release noted.

The statement thus cautioned the media to desist from dragging the name of the former President into “imaginary circumstances.” m