Audio Attachment:Listen to Kwesi Pratt Jnr. on Peace FM's 'kokrokoo' |
Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has said that Ghana will not enjoy its peace as it has now when the United States (US) military is given the mandate to build a base in the country.
To him, all countries that have an American military base do not experience any form of peace, therefore they must not be given the go ahead to perform such a task.
“There is nowhere in the world that Americans have created its military base that peace have prevailed, there is stability, there is peace and there are no terrorist attacks, nowhere in the world . . . there is instability, there is terrorist attack, there is turmoil everywhere, anywhere that there is a US Military base”, he noted.
Speaking on Peace FM’s 'Kokrokoo' programme, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. indicated that “in this particular case, Ghanaian soldiers are being treated as inferior to the soldiers of the United State soldiers, Ghanaian soldiers don’t have the same privileges and rights being conferred on US soldiers”.
He said what disturbed him most on this matter was that some claim we should look at the amount involved than the many agitations, but he believes we should be much concerned of our national sovereignty.
“National sovereignty is not for sale and cannot be for sale at any price . . .”, he fumed.
According to Kwesi Pratt Jnr., listening to the Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul’s explanation to the issue filled his heart with much sorrow, as it clearly portrayed how naïve he was on the deal.
“I think it is almost reckless that we are able to sign an agreement that places no restriction on the type of weapons which come into our country”, he stated.
He said he was so surprised that Ghanaian MP’s who are being mocked at by the US government are going to approve an agreement that gives US soldiers more pivileges than Members of Parliament.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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PRATT NO TERRORIST SINCE 1998 AND 2015 WHEN JJ AND MAHAMA SIGNED THE AGREEMENT. WE CANNOT THEREFORE CONCLUDE FROM THAT ANGLE.
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.
Not true
Kwasi"s analysis of the situation is 100% correct. ghanaians should listen and take politics aside. a country has been named shithole yet we have people of position behaving like monkeys , animals who do not reason. what is wrong with some of us.just because of few million dollars or visas for our relations to travel to usa. I am amazed at the so called honorables. does it mean that if any ***barred word*** say a pig is dressed in a party color whether npp or ndc, cpp, ppp we will vote for that idioooot. lets reason as a nation and think of the future generation and generation yet unborn. am ashamed being a ghanaian because we are not using our god given common sense even if we are a shithole citizens. am very sure ghanaians can see the difference between cassava and crocodile and just they all start with letter c. a chicken black will always be black no matter what
The terrorists have hit Kenya and Tanzania long before hitting Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali, ICoast and Bfaso, there are no American Bases in these countries so what is this man talking about? They will try to hit Ghana with or without US presence so stop tickling yourselves. Are you now saying that the terrorist own our sovereignty? They decide who we invite? They will bomb us if we invite Kofi ne Ama from the US? You rather submit to the terrorists? What kind of logic is this NDC?
kwesi should be understood please. he is frastrated by the party that is ruling in the country. Allow him to ***barred word***
Lol Mr.Pratt has started again. These military partnerships are present in many countries in the world and have actually be going on here in Ghana for many years. Being emotional and selling this as a military base is a ploy to whip up national sentiments by the same people who brought the Gitmo 2. Saying that anywhere there is a US military base there are terrorists attack is simply a big lie! The NDC and their unemployed activists are really struggling to be relevant so they will hold on to any straw they can get.
BRAKING NEWS! USD 20,000000 IS MEANT FOR FREE SHS,1 MILLION USD FOR ZONGO FUND AND 1 DISTRICT 1 FACT. IN FACT TO ME WE SHOULD LOOK SHARP AND STOP IT. BLAME AKUFO ADO ON ALL THIS.
KWASI PRATT STOP DISTURBING OUR EARS AND GET A LIFE. THIS ABSURD AND INFANTILE REASONING IS ARCHAIC. STOP THE ***barred word*** NOISES AND THINK LIKE A GROWN UP MAN.
That long term strategy is projected to kick in fully, in 2050. Just about a few years to AU agenda 2063 bears complete fruits for the people of Africa. The stage is being set for that "tactic". It cannot take hold because we would have toiled in vain. My comment on a story on GhanaWeb under the heading; Don't allow Trump's soldiers into 'shithole' continent by a Pan Africanist which they censored. It's about our freedom, our full complete total emancipation and so we won't keep quite. Every human being is endowed with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and those rights are not the preserve of any small minority specific group of people to be curtailed, thwarted or held in abeyance by and for those minority specific group of people. There will be no military bases in Africa.