Kwesi Pratt has expressed his outrage over the address of President Akufo-Addo to the nation Thursday evening regarding the controversial defence cooperation agreement between the Government of Ghana and the US government.
President Akufo-Addo, delivering a speech yesterday, April 5, 2018 in a live telecast on national TV, lambasted his political opponents for claiming his government has sold Ghana’s sovereignty to the United States of America.
“I will never be the President that will compromise or sell the sovereignty of our country. I respect deeply the memory of the great patriots whose sacrifice and toil brought about our independence and freedom. I have stood with you, the Ghanaian people, all my adult life, fighting for our individual and collective rights,” he said.
The President, in his first commentary on the Military agreement, opened up to Ghanaians saying “everything I have done, since assuming the great honour and privilege of serving you as President of the Republic, demonstrates that I remain focused on building a self-reliant, free, prosperous Ghana, which will be able to make her own unique contribution to the growth and development of Africa and the world…it is difficult to understand that such people, knowing what they do know, would set about so blatantly to confuse people, and go as far as calling for the overthrow of our democracy? A democracy that has become the beacon of good governance in Africa?"
"Surely, this is the kind of cynical manipulation by reckless self-seekers, which, in the fullness of time, the people of Ghana will acknowledge and condemn. And I am sure that as the facts become clear and widely available, and as the people come to terms with the evidence, they will reject the falsehood and deliberate attempts to destabilize our peaceful country. Truth is sacrosanct”, he added.
But according to Kwesi Pratt, the President was blinded to the real issues and spoke from his partisan interest, hence failing to see the clear distinctions in the arguments in respect of the deal between both countries.
Speaking to host Nana Yaw Kesseh on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo, Mr. Pratt minced no words in describing the arguments in favor of the agreement as a “useless partisan battle”.
He noted that if the President had paused to take a critical look at the agreement, he would have known that there were aspects that need to be “fine-tuned” to serve the interest of Ghanaians.
“It’s scaring and shocking to me that Nana Akufo-Addo is taking the current stance that he’s taking. You know why? And do you know why he’s taking the current stance? Because it has turned into an NPP/NDC battle. That is the problem. If we all sit back and carefully and soberly go through this argument, we will all find portions of this argument that at least we want to fine-tune. It’s because it has become such a partisan useless battle not taking the interest of people of Ghana into consideration and we doing these things that won’t help Ghana”.
Clearly not impressed with the President's address and the partisan approach to the issue by both the Minority and Majority sides of Parliament, Kwesi Pratt stated emphatically that “we have failed in our effort as a people to build a Parliament which has processes which emphasize conscience as against partisan interest. And I’m deeply ashamed by what has happened. When this issue went to Parliament, all Members of Parliament on the NDC side took one position…All members of the NPP in the majority side took one position. Is that possible in a 275-member Parliament? If things were not being done in strictly partisan lines, would that have happened? Not one person dissented”.
“At least, there are aspects of this agreement which we can fine-tune. Why are we not talking about the aspects of the agreement which we can fine-tune in the interest of Ghana? Why are we reducing everything to NDC/NPP and fighting a battle which has no benefit to the people of Ghana?” he fumed.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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bloody hypocrite!!!
... and you call yourself a journalist?
Your mouth like public latrine building. Ablakwa did not shock you. Get away there, you damn ***barred word***
Mr Pratt eii go and fine tune it? You a take a political, myopic and destructive stance but do not want to be told the truth in the face? What were you expecting? That you should be praised for your hypocritical stance or the president should be as confused as you are with no conviction? Massa our brains are not in your self-seeking pocket. Ghanaians have long seen through you and we treat you with the contempt you deserve!
AKWASI WHY THEN DO YOU FIGHT A ***barred word*** BATTLE, JUST ***barred word***
Eii Ghanaians there will also time u all will regret what nana addo is doing why what we want to u know is why is the agreement of ndc n let see the one npp has sign so that we all know the difference
was kwasi pratt and his partners in cr1me thinking Nana Addo will praise them for their stup1d1ty of causing fear and panic among the public? where was he when ndc were signing agreements without taking them to parliament for ratification.
Kwasi who, you mean that 1d!ot, matcheeew
kwesi pratt who gave his friend kweku baaku to the dogs is now back at it again, saying nothing in particular than rhetoric and insults. we need the co operation in the country. how did you finance your children education in Europe when you said your paper was making loses and could not pay taxes? interesting person you are.
@ YEBOPOWER, i agree with you 100% because they are lazy and they don't want to read the agreement and digest it before appending their signature. Agreement are supposed to be read and each line or sentence needs an explanation. Africans thinks agreements are just papers. They have to read and think through the agreement before appending their signatures. That is the reason why we always find ourselves being cheated.