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September 3, 2024
Member of Parliament for Wa West Peter Lanchene Toobu said it is unfortunate for Ghana’s military to be reduced to being deployed to the borders in Northern region to prevent the export of grains outside the Country in the wake of drought that has hit the Northern Region.
According to him Ghana’s military has a mandate that is stipulated in the 1992 Republican constitution and it’s unfortunate to lower the standard of such a well-respected institution.
“The president is the commander -in -chief of the Ghana Armed Forces and chairman of the national Security Council; he is not the military, he acts on advice and whoever advised him to deploy the military to prevent the export of gains that particular person must bow his head in shame”.
I want to believe that, he, the commander in chief will listen more to his Chief of Defense Staff; I am not sure that the Chief of Defense Staff in the person that I know Lt. Oppong preprah will advise the president to deploy the military. That is the fundamental thing we are talking about if there are no hidden agenda that it is not the duty of the military, he added.
According to him, this is an election year and every Ghanaian should be interested in all that is happening around us. When we talk of electoral violence, it does not happen one day, if you see the buildup coming you will see the early warning signs.
“If you are a responsible patriotic Ghanaian do not be silent, we saw it in 2020 we were all silent but this time around we will talk about it as they intend to violate the right of people by unfortunately using the military at the end of the day it’s the image of the military that will suffer”.
“We, should stop it because the image of the military is standing tall anchoring our democracy, and any attempt by any politician to dent their image should be resisted by Ghanaians; it’s wrong today and will be wrong tomorrow”, he stated.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ecowasnewsonline.com