Member of Parliament (MP) for Ledzokuku constituency, Dr Bernard Oko-Boye has emphatically stated that Ex-President John Dramani Mahama and his Foreign Affairs Minister, Hannah Tetteh should be blamed if there is any cause for alarm surrounding the Ghana/US military co-operation agreement .
According to him, aside the 1998 agreement, Ex-President John Dramani Mahama and Hannah Tetteh in 2015 secretely signed an agreement with the documents they are condemning today without the concern of any citizen, not even Ministers of their regime.
“How can you[NDC] sign a secret agreement with a foreign body that its soldiers can come here when Ghanaians have no chance to look at it, not even Ministers of their government heard about it”, he said on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ programme.
“This is just a strategy they [members of the NDC] have adopted to paint the government corrupt when they are the cause of our suffering today”, he noted.
Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has disclosed how the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 1998 and 2015 signed two major joint military agreements with the United States Armed Forces on behalf of Ghana without parliamentary approvals.
Mr. Nitiwul was addressing the media Wednesday at the ministry in Accra to “set the records straight” on an allegation by the minority NDC in parliament and a section of the public that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has agreed with the US Armed Forces to establish a military base in Ghana – precisely at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
Present was the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid.
According to him, there is no agreement between the US and Ghana for the establishment of any military base in the country.
Mr. Nitiwul said that there is only an agreement between the Government of Ghana and the Government of the United States of America on defence cooperation, status of the United States Forces and use of agreed facilities.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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The NDC allowed the Chinese to destroy our rivers and forest but they crying about this.
Sad for Ghana once again NPP making an illegality legal. Granted mahama made a mistake, are we that dump and uselessssss to make this stupiddddd agreement legal.
LETS STOP THIS HULLABALOO AND COME TOGETHER AS ONE NATION AND MAKE THING CLEAR FROM THE POINT OF VIEW FROM THE RULING PARTY AND THE OPPOSITION PARTIES...I THINK EVERYTHING IS IN THE DOCUMENT SO WHY THEY(RULING AND OPPOSITION PARTIES)OUT LINE THE BENEFIT PART OF IT AND THE RISK PART OF IT. I KNOW THERE MIGHT BE A BINDING CLAUSING SOME WHERE IN THE AGREEMENT YET STILL THE BENEFIT ASPECT IS ALSO THERE. LET US DON'T BRING POLITICS INTO THIS ISSUE OF NATIONAL INTEREST,AT LEAST $20 MILLION CAN HELP DO SOMETHING IF NOT OF OUR OWN SELFISH GAIN..GHANA FIRST
NDC MUST TELL GHANAIANS ABOUT WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN THE AGREEMENT OF JJ NDC GOVERNMENT IN 1998 AND MAHAMA NDC IN 2015 WITH AMERICA GOVERNMENT FROM THAT OF AKUFFO ADDO NPP GOVERNMENT IN 2018. WHAT DO WE HAVE IN AKUFFO ADDO'S AGREEMENT WHICH IS EVIL THAT WAS NOT IN JJ AND MAHAMA. OR WHAT WAS GOOD IN JJ AND MAHAMA AGREEMENT THAT CANNOT BE FOUND IN AKUFFO ADDO'S. WITHOUT MAKING THIS FACTS CLEAR TO GHANAIANS, THE SHOUTING OF NDC BECOME HYPOCRITICAL, MISCHIEVOUS AND SENSELESSSSS. IT IS BETTER FOR NDC TO STOP THE NOISESS AND ADDRESS THE ISSUE. THEY CANNOT KEEP SHIFTING POST TO SUIT THEIR POLITICAL AGENDA AT THE EXPENSE OF GHANAIANS. THEY CANNOT TAKE THE INTELLIGENCE OF GHANAIANS FOR GRANTED. IT WILL BE CONSIDER SHEER POLITICAL PROPAGANDA IF THE DONT ADDRESS THE ISSUE. WE EXPECT THE OPPOSITION PARTIES TO BE CREDIBLE AND CONSTRUCTIVE AND NOT JUST OBSTRUCTIONISTS.
Oh so they were going to sell GHANA for $20m to pay for thier campaign debts! God has exposed them! We wont agree on this deal. The whole of Ghana will demonstrate because this is an urgent and critical national tragedy.
Wonder why NDC is crying about the so called military base, for fear of been attacked by terrorist, forgetting that they were once who brought Ghana to radar if these terrorist, who brought GITMO 2? You always behave like goose , you have no m!nds of your own , follow follow, you can even choose to sleep at the Parliament House, the agreement will be signed, that is the beauty of democracy and having majority in parliament, do you remember what you did during your time when you had majority in parliament, you can cry blood 🤡🤡😋
1diots You people think we are ***barred word*** in this country. NPP STOP the blame game and fulfill your campaign promises. Don't pass back you w1cked intentions that you wanted to leach on us. NDC thank you for your vigilance. But for your vigilant our sovereignty would have been exchanged for mere US$20 million to augment the financial difficulties NPP has plunged the country into with their huge campaign promises.
FULLISH FULL. YOU ARE NOT TENKING RIGHT.
SHOW US THAT SECRET DOCUMENT!! ARE YOU NOT INPOWER NOW?? SHAMEFUL PEOPLE!!