Kwesi Pratt has expressed his outrage over the address of President Akufo-Addo to the nation Thursday evening regarding the controversial defence cooperation agreement between the Government of Ghana and the US government.
President Akufo-Addo, delivering a speech yesterday, April 5, 2018 in a live telecast on national TV, lambasted his political opponents for claiming his government has sold Ghana’s sovereignty to the United States of America.
“I will never be the President that will compromise or sell the sovereignty of our country. I respect deeply the memory of the great patriots whose sacrifice and toil brought about our independence and freedom. I have stood with you, the Ghanaian people, all my adult life, fighting for our individual and collective rights,” he said.
The President, in his first commentary on the Military agreement, opened up to Ghanaians saying “everything I have done, since assuming the great honour and privilege of serving you as President of the Republic, demonstrates that I remain focused on building a self-reliant, free, prosperous Ghana, which will be able to make her own unique contribution to the growth and development of Africa and the world…it is difficult to understand that such people, knowing what they do know, would set about so blatantly to confuse people, and go as far as calling for the overthrow of our democracy? A democracy that has become the beacon of good governance in Africa?"
"Surely, this is the kind of cynical manipulation by reckless self-seekers, which, in the fullness of time, the people of Ghana will acknowledge and condemn. And I am sure that as the facts become clear and widely available, and as the people come to terms with the evidence, they will reject the falsehood and deliberate attempts to destabilize our peaceful country. Truth is sacrosanct”, he added.
But according to Kwesi Pratt, the President was blinded to the real issues and spoke from his partisan interest, hence failing to see the clear distinctions in the arguments in respect of the deal between both countries.
Speaking to host Nana Yaw Kesseh on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo, Mr. Pratt minced no words in describing the arguments in favor of the agreement as a “useless partisan battle”.
He noted that if the President had paused to take a critical look at the agreement, he would have known that there were aspects that need to be “fine-tuned” to serve the interest of Ghanaians.
“It’s scaring and shocking to me that Nana Akufo-Addo is taking the current stance that he’s taking. You know why? And do you know why he’s taking the current stance? Because it has turned into an NPP/NDC battle. That is the problem. If we all sit back and carefully and soberly go through this argument, we will all find portions of this argument that at least we want to fine-tune. It’s because it has become such a partisan useless battle not taking the interest of people of Ghana into consideration and we doing these things that won’t help Ghana”.
Clearly not impressed with the President's address and the partisan approach to the issue by both the Minority and Majority sides of Parliament, Kwesi Pratt stated emphatically that “we have failed in our effort as a people to build a Parliament which has processes which emphasize conscience as against partisan interest. And I’m deeply ashamed by what has happened. When this issue went to Parliament, all Members of Parliament on the NDC side took one position…All members of the NPP in the majority side took one position. Is that possible in a 275-member Parliament? If things were not being done in strictly partisan lines, would that have happened? Not one person dissented”.
“At least, there are aspects of this agreement which we can fine-tune. Why are we not talking about the aspects of the agreement which we can fine-tune in the interest of Ghana? Why are we reducing everything to NDC/NPP and fighting a battle which has no benefit to the people of Ghana?” he fumed.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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This whole bro ha ha stem demonstrates the lack of knowledge of African politicians when it comes to contract signing being it economic, trade or military. Ghanaians and other Africans are not well trained to handle such contracts. Just because somebody has been elected from a party to become a minister of whatever does not mean that person is competent enough to represent the country. This bro ha ha only demonstrates the level of incompetence meted by these politicians before, during and after the contracts were signed. One only wonders if they read and understood what they were signing or they were just busy and ready to collect the paltry sum involved. One also wonders why the President Akufo Addo did not hold a press conference and invite the commanders from the Ghana Armed Forces who understand some military strategy to assist the president in presenting his case. Everything is about presentation folks and the president failed miserably. For once he seem to lack the basic tenets involved in the contract. two he seem to lack the basic understanding of military strategy although he is the commander-in-chief. three his PR approach on the issue was poor. He seem tired, frustrated , agitated and irked blowing away the opportunity for better presentation. The reasons for the bro ha ha makes sense to a large extent. The masses have a need to know about what it means for this military contract. What if a cocoa farmer observes a Chinnok helicopter circling his farm something he has never seen before? what if that cocoa farmer spots special forces parachuting and dropping from the sky onto his farm? How do we expect that cocoa farmer to react? What if the fishermen of ghana spot a US submarine on ghanaian waters how do we expect these poor fishermen to react? these are some of the things that can happen and must be addressed to the nation. the people have a need to know. it is their country. ghana is not for npp or ndc. ghana needs a well informed person to explain the pros and cons of this military contract. somebody that will allay the fears of the people not highten their fearss. we need somebody that will strategically and tactical make sense to this agreement. The commander-in-chief failed this test and lost his cool.
THE PRESIDENT WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO YOU KWASI PRATT BECAUSE OF YOUR MISCHIEVOUS,OPPORTUNISTIC AND RECKLESS UTTERANCES AND YOUR SELFISHNESS. YOU HAVE NEVER DONE OR SAID ANYTHING IN THE INTEREST OF THE GENERAL GOOD OF GHANA BUT ONLY WHAT YOU CAN GET FOR YOURSELF. YOU HAVE BEEN ANTI THE WESTERN WORLD BUT YOU SEND YOUR CHILDREN TO STUDY IN ENGLAND AT THE EXPENSE OF GHANA. THE PRESIDENT WAS REFERRING TO YOU WHEN HE SAID, YOU ENJOY THE LARGESSE OF THE AMERICANS AND AT THE SAME TIME PROMOTING ANTI AMERICAN. THE DESCRIPTION OF "UNSPEAKABLE HYPOCRISY, RECKLESS SELF SEEKER, THOSE WHOSE PATRIOTISM CAN BE EASILY QUESTIONED AND MISCHIEVOUSLY MISLEADING THE PUBLIC WAS DIRECTLY AT YOU KWASI PRATT. YOU ARE A NATION WRECKER AND DANGEROUS TO THE PEACE OF GHANA. I WAS SO GLAD THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN THROUGH YOUR MACHINATIONS AND DOWN RIGHT TREACHERY. HE WAS ALSO REPLYING TO YOUR LIES ABOUT HIM FOR SMOKING WEED TO THE AMERICANS IN THE WIKILEAKE PAPERS. YOU THINK HE HAS FORGOTTEN? HE DOES THINGS IN HIS OWN WAY AND AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME. AB*AFUNU.
If you are member of political party and something is wrong, you still have to defend it even if it's wrong. What is wrong with us? because I am an NDC, there is nothing good about this agreement, If I am an NPP, everything is okay about this agreement. Is better we sell Ghana to the white because we don't think as a nation.
SOMEBODY TELL KWESI PRATT THAT HE HAS SIGNED A CONTRACT HE CAN NOT EXECUTE .SO IS HIS OWN INTEREST TO RETURN MAHAMA AND NDC MONEY . THE NOISE HE IS MAKING IS RATHER CAUSING HARM THAN GOOD TO NDC. ANYTIME NPP IS ON POWER KWESI PRATT IS CRYING HELL, BUT THIS TIME YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR LUCIFER BECAUSE YOU WILL BE IN HELL FOR CENTRIES
a1mals like you pratt and the ndc has made it a political football, kwashia buuuuului
@yaw nsiah asare. YOU SEE THE LIKES OF YOU CAN BE SPOTTED EVEN IN COCOA SACKS. YOUR HATRED FOR AKANS IN GENERAL AND NANA ADDO AND THE N.P.P IN PARTICULAR, REINFORCES THE BELIEVE OF SOME US THAT YOU ARE IN-W-**-D LOOKING, BEREFT OF REASONING AS HUMANS AND JEALOUS OF SELF MADE PEOPLE. YOUR LIKES ARE KNOWN TO BE PARASITES ON STATE AND EXPECTING FREEBIES. NOW THAT THEY HAVE BEEN STOPPED, YOU ARE BITTER AND WILL NOT LOOK AT ISSUES DEVOID OF YOUR INHERENT HATRED. MY ADVISE TO YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO ADOPT THE NAME OF PROPER HUMAN BEINGS LIKE THE ABOVE, PLEASE REASON AND BEHAVE LIKE AN AKAN. WE DO NOT BEHAVE LIKES YOUR KIND.AB*AFUNU.
Who are you traitor? Kwesi Pratt Onyame betua woka! You go to the source of a stream to muddy it and come down to complain who did that ? Onyame betua woka! I don't understand why this man is entertained in the Jubilee house during media encounter. This man is a known ndc serial panalist who has no business being in the Jubilee House, how can nation wreckers come near Ghanaians? We don't need them and don't want them, we, I mean the majority of the people who voted massively to drive away the kriminals don't care what our President take the opposition for aa political opponents we take them as enemies and want them to be treated as such. They are mischievous and evil and can turn your good intentions into evil and such people like Kwesi Pratt must never be near the seat of government. He has no shame because every evil person and kriminals have no shame, else how can he even shake hands with the President, how can he go to the seat of government where Nana Addo is the President? Only a wizard aN evil person can do that. The Jubilee house must be ware the Ides of march by Kwesi Pratt. Ghana hate ndc as ndc hate Ghana.
Thank the Trokosi gods that cleft you from the swamps of your eastern corridor to the fertile lands you refer to as kokoase. Today you can boast of a refined adopted name >YAW NSIA ASARE, far from your original thunderous AGBOLOSO AKPABLI. Yes i can understand your bitterness and attempt at payback but we can handle your insults with ease. We know your upbringing, and see you as a washed pig, still a pig
ghana is for ghanaians. akuffo addo having managed to get his family including ex babay mamas in top positions does not care. and we have stuuupid npp supporters who see no evil and hear no evil. wrong is wrong and right is right whether its npp or ndc. the right thing must be done. there is nothing like objectivity among npp followers. this is typical inward, kokoase, idiotismmm, lack of common sense in npp administration. hence the back stabbing among members of npp. it is an open truth that in npp no member is more qualified to hold any position than family of of the president and close ex girl friends. very very very shameful
Kwasi pratt is a disgrace to himself, his wife n family, friends n ndc and the country Ghana. Kwasi u r damnn as a bulll. Where were you when the ded goat flouted the constitution not to present the previous agreements to parliament? Bullu.