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September 3, 2024
Ranking member on the Committee of Defense and Interior James Agalga has alleged that the Government of Ghana under the leadership of President Nana Akufo-Addo has a hidden agenda of deploying the military on Ghana’s borders in the Northern part of the country claiming their role is to prevent smuggling of cereals out of the Country due to the drought that affected the countries agriculture.
According to him the deployment of the military up Northern Ghana should have come with timelines if indeed it is related with the crises of drought.
“We back this by what happened at the run off to the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, we were all in this country and some of us pointed out that the said attacks by some people to form an independent Country out of the Volta Region, was not true to warrant massive troops to the Volta Region and Oti Region”.
In an interview, he questioned what has been done to neutralize the secessionist treat? “So our suspicions are justified as far as there are no time lines, it means this government has a hidden agenda”.
“We will be watching with an eagle eye this time around, we will not allow anybody to use the military in our country to intimidate voters”, he emphasized.
Mr. Agalga further added that this whole scheme of deploying the military is to intimidate and harass eligible Ghanaian voters who are residence outside the borders of our country from entering our country to exercise their civic responsibility of voting.
We have Ghanaian residence in, Togo, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire who want to cross the borders and vote. The fact that foreigners’ would infiltrate our country and vote is neither here nor there because we have the voters’ register. And before people were registered they went through an elaborate procedure to have their names captured, so the idea of closing borders and deploying military around our borders is an attempt to intimidate eligible Ghanaian voters who support the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC), he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com