NPP Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye has taken a jab at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for expressing dissenting views on the Military agreement between Ghana and the United States.
Speaking on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo, Dr. Okoe Boye wondered what wrong the Akufo-Addo government has done by granting access to the US Army to come into the country.
He threw his unwavering support behind the government for ratifying the agreement saying the US government has since 20 years of engaging with Ghana, pumped huge amounts of monies towards the country’s growth and development.
He therefore asked “what is wrong with the US having access to our country so they can protect their own when the same country, their taxpayers can pay money and fix your highways? You’re okay with it and you say I want justice… I’m putting it on record, all the 20 years the US has had partnership with us; they’ve put in more money than we've put in”.
“My issue is they’re people you have mutual relationship with and most of the time, you’re the beneficiary but the day that something is going to them, you say you have a problem. That cannot be the attitude of a friendly person. That cannot be the attitude of a country that wants to make a lot of gains”, he added.
Dr. Okoe Boye further noted that the NPP government won’t make decisions that will jeopardize the country but rather the opposition NDC is the party that sold out the sovereignty of Ghana.
" . . without your permission, we were put on auction. We sold out ourselves. We don’t even know the price”, he told host Nana Yaw Kesseh, in apparent reference to similar agreements with the US government in 1998 and 2015 without recourse to Parliament.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Is this one too a doctor. join the m_orons and you will see your exit soon. waste of tax payers money
john Ford Mahama you actioned Ghana with due process that is not the issue now. in 2015 when you signed the deal how much did the U.S government under the leadership of Obama gave Ghana . where is that money,did it pass through Bank of Ghana or a private individual accounts or where. At the time you were signing the deal DID YOU TAKE Ghana sovereignty into accounts. When you were signing for the two GITMO Arabs to come into this country did you take the sovereignty of Ghana into consideration? Can we then say today that if you are unable to answer these questions then you are indeed a Hippocrate and incompetent?
am gradually loosing respect for this man. NDC sold us, fine. you have the opportunity to reverse it but u choose to rather deepen the slavery. You are not even a shame
as I sit in uncle Sam's country, Ghanaians especially the opposition have a bigger problem then the whole world's problems put together.
I ordered 114 stickers for akufo addo, bawumia and the ministers but listening to oko boye I have to order some for NPP parliamentarians and deputy ministers too. What a cluelessly clueless government and followers. I give up!
Mahama and NDC tell us how much the US paid you for the deal in 1998, and 2015.Then , now that we are AWARE that the DEAL was SECRET, John we cannot TRUST you with the money that came with it IF any.BETTER pay it immediately to GOVT TRESURY to AVOID being CHARGED with causing financial loss to the state.
they actually give out the country on a silver plater