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The Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul says former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the erstwhile NDC administration did not keep a copy of the agreement Ghana signed with the United States of America in 2015.
“When I met the agreement; and they had made copious references to earlier agreement we have signed with them which are still in force…. Infact the base document that they used in preparing this agreement is the agreement Ghana signed with them in 2015 by Hanna Tetteh but unfortunately Ghana didn’t have a copy of that agreement. It was the Americans that actually gave us that agreement (copy)…so while we signed the agreement with the Americans and they kept a copy, Ghana did not keep any copy; because it was not in the handing over notes; and I wrote to the Foreign Minister and she checked her archives and she didn’t have it as well and the armed forces didn’t have it and so clearly we didn’t know this agreement has been signed…
Until they made reference to it I didn’t have any idea…it was when Ghana Armed Forces were meeting with the Americans over how to structure this agreement; a month ago…then Americans gave them a copy of the ‘Hannah Tetteh agreement’. That is how we messed up ourselves as a country,” he said.
Nitiwul who was contributing to a panel discussion on Joy FM’s newsfile programme, Saturday said he does not understand why the opposition NDC are complaining of the agreement when they signed it.
“The very things Ghanaians especially the NDC, are speaking against today, they signed it…”
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NPP / NDC what the difference. Are this people the wise people mensah otabil was telling ghanaians to bring. Wise people indeed.
Dear People, Yes Ghana is afraid of those attacking Americans (Bokoharram, ISIS) etc and must be careful when engaging with the Americans, but we must bare in mind we cannot live in isolation like North Koreans as our soldiers also does travel to America and other countries for drills/training. Also, It is not only the Americans who uses our facilities but other European and other African countries do same, whilst Ghana armed forces also have such agreements with other countries of whom our soldiers travel there for military drills and training of which it does benefit us. Yes Americans always try to command but I think NPP did well not to let that happen this time round. Please we want a copy of the agreement NDC signed with the Americans in 1998 and 2015. Haruna must ask for this before walking out of Parliament. God Save Ghana. Ekow, Cape Coast
I believe NDC government did not want give the copy of the agreement to the NPP government which is really bad. But either way the old governments and the current one should not have accepted this proposal/agreement. Government officials are speaking on the issue as if we just have to accept this because it’s from Americans who currently think that we are sh.ithole ie tunmu. I’m so disappointed.
kokoase nkurasefo who can't say no to a whiteman . who the ***barred word*** is a whiteman if not for our corrupt leaders . jah has blessed us yet p3s3kuminya ni gyimie nkoaaaaa . these whitemen have a meeting with you guys, shake hands and when on their own they insult you as ***barred word*** and not so smart people who don't know what you're blessed with . make u people try agree that deal, and i will personally sign up to be a terrorist if given a good price i will blow up that ***barred word*** up base they want to do. americans think they are smart, we will show them niggas out here are smart and can bear their system and ***barred word*** them up . let's think about our generation to come and not think of 5 or 10 yrs from now. so many tribes with different ideologies and you want american troops here really ? they just want to ***barred word*** this place up so the whole africa will be a ***barred word***'d up state coz we the only country they see stubborn .***barred word*** trump and ***barred word*** america .
@nkwassiafour I agree with you 100%. See how this whole thing has turned into NDC/NPP blame game. Our very dear security is being taken for granted and offered for sale cheap. God have mercy ! Disappointed especially in this governemnet especially.
shithole indeed
both the current Nana Addo and the former Mahama govt are very very stuppppiddd ppl.