General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has claimed that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will be inviting terrorists into the country if he agrees to the establishment of an American Military Base in the country.
Cabinet has reportedly approved the granting of unrestricted access to a host of Ghanaian facilities and wide-ranging tax exemptions to the United States Military as part of an agreement between Ghana and American governments.
The agreement will permit the U.S. Military to use Ghana as a base for staging and deploying forces.
The United States Embassy in Ghana however denied the reports claiming that the United States government is investing over $20 million in training and equipment for the Ghanaian armed forces.
Ghana is also once again preparing to train U.S forces – as it did in 2017.
The Embassy in a statement claimed it is only planning joint security exercises with Ghana, which will require that US military personnel are allowed access to Ghana’s military facilities.
Reacting to this, Asiedu Nketiah said government should not allow the US to establish a military base in the country as the security implications would be very dire for the country. “What government is about to do right now is just allowing terrorism in the country because the US is noted for such things and so bringing them into our country means you are only promoting terrorism and risking the lives of Ghanaians?,” he said.
Asiedu Nketiah further called on the Members of Parliament (MPs) to reject the agreement.
“Our MPs should desist from it because it won’t work. They should rise up in arms against the move,” he said on Okay FM.
To him, it will be suicidal for Ghana to sign this agreement as the country stands to lose greatly from the arrangement.
Source: adomonline.com
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Listen to this MAROON again! Did NDC sell Ghana to terrorists in 1998 and 2015 when a similar law was signed by NDC.
The hypocr1sy and ignorance of the NDC and its apparachiks is in s1ckenng. When the previous NDC govts signed similar agreements in 1998 and 2015 illegally (without parliamentary approval) they didn't bring terrorists to Ghana. All of a sudden because the NPP govt has decided to act lawfully and transparently they are bringing to Ghana. What kind of warped thinking is this? Unfortunately, we have social commentrators like Kwesi Pratt and elder statesmen like Prof Akilapka Sawyerr and Dr Obed Asamoah making alarmist statements borne out of ignorance. The worse is the so-calied security experts who comment on issues without having the full sets of facts.
Even your Gitmo 2 did not bring terrorists here. The NDC's Hannah Tetteh signed similar agreement secretly in 2015 without seeking parliamentary approval and you now turn round to blame others.