Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, Cousin of President Akufo-Addo has bemoaned the seeming eagerness by African leaders to catch the eye of China for financial support as sad.
According to him, the situation is a reflection of how Africans have failed themselves over the years.
A two-day summit in Beijing brought together the leaders of China and 53 African nations on Tuesday, with a declaration and an action plan being adopted.
China is emphasizing the strengthening of relations with African countries with natural resources and huge markets. At the opening ceremony on Monday, Xi announced $60 billion in financing for projects in Africa in the form of assistance, investment and loans over the next three years.
Tweeting on the development, Mr. Otchere-Darko who attended the conference said: “Watching 40-odd African leaders lined up to be hosted by China was indeed a sad spectacle, necessitated by 2 things: how we’ve let ourselves down, historically; how eager we are today to catch up. I believe in the promise of Africa now than ever before. Destiny and duty beckon”.
Ghana-China relationship
“The $2 billion Sinohydro deal was also signed between the Government of Ghana and Power China.” The barter trade facility will be used to construct roads, hospitals, houses, rural electrification, interchanges, bridges and other government priority projects.
The agreement received parliamentary approval in July despite protest by the minority who insisted that agreement is a loan.
In a Facebook post, President Akufo-Addo said, “Amongst others, I held separate bilateral talks with President Xi Jinping, and Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, with the talks centered on deepening the ties of co-operation and the bonds of friendship between the two countries.
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@ GH PP. I HONOURABLY AGREE WITH YOU 100%. IT LOOKS LIKE AKUFFO ADDO HAS SWALLOED HIS OWN WORDS ON FIGHTING CORRUPTION.NEVER TRUST ANY AFRICAN POLITICIAN THEY ARE ALL THE SAME.LICKINGGGG EACH OTHERS BOOTS.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
say this to ur cousin bcos he was the one that led the other african leaders to china. I have no doubt in mind that their only mission is to sell africa to china to enrich themselves and their generations yet unborn. China wil soon start colonizing some african countries and I see Ghana as their first colony. we all were in this country when we saw how these ndc ple were stealing our monies. we voted them out and brought in npp hoping they will be able to chase these ple for our stolen monies but no. they choose to let them walk freely still enjoying the money whilst they go to china to beg for money. i can not express how disappointed i am in npp but that wont mean i will vote for ndc. i will rather worship the devil than vote for ndc to come back to power.
Massa; Gabby ; how naive can you be in Geo-politics today ; the spectacle you see or saw in China is nothing new ; the US ;Europe including the UK does it all the time ;Africa is the future and every country need to form alliance to discuss economic progress ; China has done very well by not accepting democracy as their political base ;everything controlled from the centre ; they have worked hard and today the US has a trade deficit with them ; in the past these same western economies manipulated AFrica and took away both our human resource and natural resource ;their economies were built on the back of slavee ; china does fair trade deals ; give us your resources and we shall come develop your infrasture for you and because of corruption we have decided to come and build these strucures ourselves besides the World Bank and IMF a so called democratic fake system control the lending and monetary systems and therefore cannot help Afrcan leaders; China have the cash and the man and expertise to help develop our economies and Gabby WHY NOT TAKE THE CHINA WAY !!!!!
ATTENTION TO ALL GHANA PEOPLE, IF NANA ADDO CANT COLLECT ALL LOOTED MONIES FROM INDEPENDENT TO TODAY, FROM N,D,C EXECUTIVES,THEN HE MUST RESIGN, 53% OF GHANA PEOPLE VOTED FOR YOU, AND 24 MILLION PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY STARVING, YOU ALLOW N,D,C LOOTERS TO BE MAKING NOISE INSTEAD OF THEM BEEN IN PRISON BY NOW, WHAT KIND OF SCRATCH MY BACK , I SCRATCH YOU BACK GAME IS GOING ON IN GHANA, LIFE IS HELL IN GHANA NOW, . WHY, GH PP