Former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, Brigadier Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has asserted that former President John Dramani Mahama removed him from his position after he helped him become president.
According to Brigadier Nunoo-Mensah, Mahama became vice president under the late Prof. John Evans Atta Mills only because he (Nunoo-Mensah) put in a good word for him.
Speaking in an interview on Onua TV monitored by GhanaWeb, the former Chief of Defence Staff added that but for his intervention, the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings, would never have allowed Mahama to become the vice president of Mills.
“At around 6:15 am one day in 2008, someone was standing in front of my gate. I approached the person and I saw that he was Mahama, the MP for Bole Bamboi. I knew him but I had not met him before. He told me that he had come to see me because he had an issue that he needed my help with.
“He (Mahama) said that Mills had chosen him as his running mate, but Rawlings said he would not allow that to happen. He (Mahama) said that someone told him that if Rawlings refused to accept him as the running mate for Mills, he should see me because I was the only person Rawlings listened to. I told Mahama that I would work on it, and together with Victor Gbeho, we spoke to Rawlings, and he came to accept Mahama as Mills’ running mate.
“The sad thing is that after Mills died, Mahama became the president and he was later voted as president in 2012. What he did was to sack all the elders (the presidential staffers) who were working with Mills. He sacked me, Newman, Gbedeku Mensa, Gbeho, he sacked everybody,” he said in Twi.
The former Chief of Defence Staff added that the late Prof. Mills was the only humane president the country has ever had.
He added that all the other presidents Ghana has had in the first republic, including Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, John Agyekum Kufuor and John Dramani Mahama, are politicians who come and deceive the country for their own self-interest.
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Brigadier, what's your problem. If it's true you helped Mahama to become president and your reward was a sack from him, fine. Mahama is back wanting to be president again so also ensure that he doesn't become president again and you would have played a 1-1 draw game with him . So you have a huge task, but f Mahama wins the 2024 elections he would have beaten you by 2 goals to nothing, if you prevent him from becoming president then it's 1-1 draw. Try it for it's going to be a very interesting game such as Man city vrs Man U. Hahahaaaa,
Fadiga, No wonder babies with sharp teeth came about during Mills era. Its all because of Nunoo-Mensah. That's on the lighter side. The man still has ideas that we need to tap to improve the nation. He needs to journal his ideas so the youth can read and put them into action.
Has this man got children, if yes they need to sit him down. At his age he should learn to be quiet because silence is golden. No month passes without one hearing about him in the media, if he still wants to work he should go to the kofi Annan peace keeping centre and lecture the army officers who have gone there to upgrade themselves on some of his experiences as a former chief of defence staff. At your age what do you want again? It's was under your command that for the first time in Ghana's military history we saw a Brigadier General answerable to a flight lieutenant . It was under your leadership Ghana army became lawless with junior officers man handling their superiors. We don't want that, so stay in your little conner and take your monthly pension
It serves you right!
THIS BRIGADIER NUNOO MENSAH IS HE N.0RMAL AT ALL? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO AGAIN AS A PENSIONER ?