North Tongu MP, Okudzeto Ablakwa has bashed Akufo-Addo for what he claims is his inability to stand up to US President Donald Trump.
Okudzeto Ablakwa posits that Akufo-Addo failed to assert himself and the country's interests in negotiating the enhanced defense cooperation between the two countries.
The North Tongu legislator reckoned that the President lacked the robustness and toughness he showed when addressing the nation on the military deal issue last week.
Okudzeto Ablakwa claimed that it was President Trump who called Akufo-Addo to request that the negotiation take place and an enhanced deal put forward.
Akufo-Addo addressed the nation last week Wednesday in a bid to close the public debate on the issues that arose when it was sent to parliament but has been heavily criticised by opposition groups and some sections of civil society for his posture and content of his delivery.
"I want to say that I really wish that this president's posture and his robustness, President Rawlings described the speech as hard, I want to beg the President with all due respect because he is older than my father that the people of this country want to see this hardness, this robustness during negotiation of agreements that's where we want to see it. We don't want to see this robustness, this hardness on us, we who are not negotiating with you. Your defenceless, innocent citizens who you lead who are only raising genuine concerns, that's all we are doing" Ablakwa stated.
"We don't have the might of America, we don't have all the weapons that America has. So when paragraph four to the preamble of this agreement reveals that President Trump called our president and they had a dialogue, to initiate this agreement, that is where we expect President Akufo-Addo to show this kind of toughness or robustness or macho" he added.
Hundreds of Ghanaians have demonstrated against the deal which gives US military and their civilian contractors unimpeded access to certain installations and in return offer $20 million by way of training and equipment to the Ghana Armed Forces.
Okudzeto Ablakwa was speaking at a forum organised by The Ghana First Patriotic Front at the Law Faculty Auditorium of the University of Ghana.
Also at the forum was a Senior Researcher at the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), Dr. Ken Ahorsu who noted that the US took advantage of Ghana's situation to impose a one-sided deal.
He explained says Ghana’s stable democracy and soft power credentials make it a fertile ground for the US to extend its power and influence across the sub-region.
Dr Ken Ahorsu is alleging the controversial 2018 Ghana-US military cooperation agreement will lead to the setting up of military bases at the Tamale and Kotoka International Airports.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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THIS WHOLE CHARADE OF HYPOCRITICAL CHARLATANS AND FALSE PATRIOTS, IS NOTHING BUT A PLOT TO DISTABILIZE THE GOVERNMENT OF NANA ADDO. BUT YOU WILL FAIL!!! IF TRULY YOU ARE PATRIOTS IN A DEMOCRATIC DISPENSATION AND CARE FOR THE TRUE INDEPENDENCE OF GHANA, THEN I SUGGEST YOU USE YOUR MISPLACED EFFORTS TO HIT THE STREETS TO HAVE THE INDEMNITY CLAUSES EXPUNGED FROM OUR SOVEREIGN CONSTITUTION!!! CLAUSES WHICH WERE SURREPTITIOUSLY INSERTED INTO THE CONSTITUTION, UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS!!!! THOSE PROVISIONS ARE THE REAL AFFRONT TO OUR SOVEREIGNTY AND DIGNITY, NOT A AN OPEN AGREEMENT BETWEEN GHANA AND USA, WHICH HAS BEEN SIGNE MANY TIMES BEFORE UNDER THE CLOAK OF SECRECY!!! WE ALSO HAVE SWORN TO DEFEND NANA ADDO FROM THE EVIL AND NATION-WRECKING MACHINATIONS OF ACADEMIC LAY-ABOUTS, POLITICAL NINCOMPOOOOOP[S AND GREEDY AND UNPRINCIPLED JOURNALISTS WHO RELY ON NDC TO SURVIVE!!! WE WILL MEET YOU BOOT FOR BOOT IF YOU CROSS THE LINE OF DECENCY, TRUTH AND NATIONAL PEACE!!!! ONE YEAR INTO OPPOSITION, YOU HAVE STRATED YOUR STUUPIDDD, NOOOONSEEENSE AND VULGAR NOISE-MAKING AGAIN TO PAINT A DECENT PRESIDENT BLACK FOR CHEAP POLITICAL GAINS. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT YOU WILL FAIUL MISERABLY. KWESI PRATTT, KEN AHORSU, ABLAKWA(THE HARPOON TEETH), BERNARD MORNAH, MAHAMA AYARIGA AND ALL LIKE-MINDED POLITICAL PIMPS AND RENEGADES, MAUST TAKE NOTE THAT THAT NANA WILL WIN THIS BATTLE TOO!!! YOUR OBNOXIOUS JEALOUSY AND HATRED FOR THE MAN DEFIES LOGIC AND COMPREHENSION, BUT YOU WILL FAIL MISERABLY WITH ALL YOUR NEFARIOUS PLANS TO DESTABILISE THIS COUNTRY AND SOW SEEDS OF DISCORD TO SABOTAGE NANA ADDO!!! GO FUUUUCK YOURSELVES!!!! NQUACHIAAFUOOO!!!!
Dis presidooo is short and also has a short brain he has no skills to do what u are asking him to do Mr ablakwa I haf not seen a president who is short of ideas like Mr 74 akuffo addo he is super incompetent and Ghanaians will suffer for de next 2 years be4 they can get their relief later in 2020
Babies with canine teeth should be competent enough to criticize their incompetent master. Hippocrates will not gain honour anywhere. Running with the hares and hunting with reckless dogs is betrayal.
Ewe tribalism at work you will fail miserably in your attempt to sabotage Akufo Addo. Why did you conceal those signed by your government if which you were a minister of state
If you and your NDC knew how to negotiate robustly, how come you were short-changed in the Karpower deal or the chinese loan where the country lost million of dollars on undrawn balance of the loan. Good negotiators indeed!!! It was only NDC that put in a budget judgement debt as a line item. Okudzeto, give us a break