The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, can be cited for treason vis-à-vis the controversial military agreement between Ghana and the United States government.
“Ladies and gentleman, Honorable Nitiwul, who is pushing for the ratification of the agreement could well be cited for treason for attempting to subvert the sovereignty of Ghana,” General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia stated at a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra on Thursday, 22 March 2018.
This follows moves by the Majority to lay the defense agreement before parliament despite public uproar against it.
Ghana’s Cabinet approved the agreement granting access to the U.S. army to use Ghana’s military installations. It also indicated that Ghana has also agreed to bear the cost and take primary responsibility for securing U.S. military facilities in the country.
The news has generated mixed reactions. The Minority wants the agreement revoked while the Majority insists the deal was agreed upon when the current Minority were in power in 1998 and 2015.
However, the NDC believes any move by the Akufo-Addo government to ratify the agreement is tantamount to treason since it has the tendency of giving away the country's sovereignty on a silver platter.
Mr Nketia, nonetheless said the NDC will not blame the minister because he is acting on the orders of President Nana Akufo-Addo “who appears to have been swayed by an award conferred on him on his recent visit by a U.S. lobby firm called The Whittaker Group”.
He added that the “recent comment by the U.S. envoy to Ghana describing President Akufo-Addo as more visionary than recent Ghanaian leaders was part of a carefully orchestrated and well-rehearsed strategy to cajole Nana Addo into signing away the sovereignty of our dear country”.
According to him, existing protocols between the two countries are enough, thus, making the latest agreement needless.
The NDC, he said, will scrap the agreement if it wins the 2020 elections.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Listen to Asiedu Nketia who used FAKE DOCUMENTS to get his WIFE AND KIDS asylum in Canada. Can we trust a person like this?
NDC IS NOTORIOUS FOR TAKING GOOD TO BE BAD AND BAD TO BE GOOD. THE ARRANGEMENT OF NPP GOVERNMENT WITH AMERICA ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY IS FAR BETTER THAN THE GITMO 2 ARRANGEMENT OR ANY OTHER THAT NDC ENTER WITH AMERICA. THE REACTION OF NDC TO THE RECENT ARRANGEMENT OF THE TWO NATIONS SHOW HOW NDC IS MISCHIEVOUS AND HYPOCRITICAL. THE RECENT HULLABALOO OF NDC IS AN INDICATION THAT NDC HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE AND THE MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE COUNTRY IS A THREAT TO THEIR DIABOLIC AGENDA.
Asiedu nketia, where were u in 2015 n 1999, when the Ndc did same
WHAT IS TREASONABLE IS WEARING THAT ATROCIOUS OVER SIZE PAIR OF SHOE IN LONDON. LUCKY YOU LEFT FOR GHANA BECAUSE THERE WAS A WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST. B-U-S-H-MA-N LIKE YOU REPRESENTING GHANA. NEXT TIME STAY IN YOUR VILLAGE.
N.D.C is going to scrap everything in 2020 and Ghanaians are going to vote for this party again.Can't this riff-raff party change their rhetorics which is not convincing and unimpressive to Ghanaians?
It NOW worth it to even debate NDC on issues anymore. Listen to Asiedu Nketia, was the 1998 and 2015 treasonable? Oh, NDC!
Wow!. NDC has now taken stup1d1ty to absurd levels.
Does Mosquito understand the word "treason"?
Ah, is Asiedu Nketiah thinking? Maybe the embarrassing loss of his party in the 2016 elections has dazed him.