Former President John Mahama has backed the demonstration dubbed 'Ghana First' organised against the ratified Ghana-U.S. defence cooperation agreement.
The demonstration which is taking place today, Wednesday, 28 March 2018, is being led by former government officials including former vice president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur among others.
In support of this action, Mahama, who is currently in Sierra Leone as an election observer, wrote on his Facebook wall condemning the high handed police response to innocent citizens at the CID Headquarters yesterday when the deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho was arrested.
"As a party that prides itself in the non-criminalization of speech, with a self-acclaimed human rights activist as President, the arrest of K. Anyidoho with armed men in the middle of a press event is obviously disproportionate. Moreso, the high-handed police response to innocent citizens waiting at the CID HQ is condemnable," he wrote.
The former president further added a tweet: "I join in declaring #GhanaFirst as my compatriots and other democratic forces converge to demonstrate their opposition to the Ghana/US military agreement".
Meanwhile, Ghanaians are divided over Mr Anyidoho’s comments. While some argue he is not the first person to have made such comments, and, should, therefore, be set free, others believe he should be punished to serve as a deterrent to others.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Mahama is making himself smaller than he should be. These comments speak of his desperate effort to lead Ghana again. Has he forgotten his infamous "bulldozer" response to Kufuor's "sledgehammer" comment over the Kennedy Agyepong's arrest?
@ Dave.Respect is earned.It is not anybody's right to be respected.Mahama under his watch made Ghanaians suffer.He made governance look like a kg thing. Millions of tax payers' money was st0l3n by this man and his friends and he looked elsewhere as our environment and water bodies were destroyed How do you respect a man like that? In fact he is lucky that all he gets are insults. I think he ought to be shot.
Please Mr. Former president it would be better to talk to your loose talk brothers and stop wasting our ears.
"Ejaculative" comment from an incompetent ex-president. Next time the one million votes will be three million;
Hello there Mr TRUMP.
JDM is not matured!
I've always maintained that John Mahama is not intelligent one bit. If he were, he wouldn't have waded into this case that he himself has a history. Sad we had him as a president of GH. He's just use-*less.
NDC you can go to MOON and cause queyos there ,the state will still investigate MAHAMA and HIS CORRUPT OFFICIALS if found guilty WILL BE PUT BEHIND BARS.
***barred word*** talk
Uncle John is still incompetent in opposition. if you could use a bulldozer to kill an ant and this time the government is using a mosquito spray to kill an ant, i think there would be some savings in the method of killing. check the economics. still incompetent and inefficient in opposition