Mahama Antipatriotic and Shameful Act – Osafo Maafo

General News on Thursday, February 14, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-02-14

Prime Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo condemned former President John Dramani Mahama for painting a gloomy picture of the country to some members of Ghana's diplomatic community.

Describing his act as unpatriotic and shameful, the Prime Minister stated that it was unacceptable for a former head of state to step down if tarnishing the country's image towards foreigners for the purpose of painting in black the government headed by Akufo-Addo. wins the favor of them.

According to Mr. Maafo, if Mahama had met with Ghanaian academics or businessmen to tell him about the violence that had occurred in Ayawaso West Wuogon, it would have been excusable to do so, but to meet diplomats was below the belt.

"It's the least we can say, it's unpatriotic and shameful. It's because if he brought Ghanaians together, call them Ghanaian academics, professionals, or businessmen and he was talking about issues that were of concern to him, I would have no problem. He is a former head of state, then a very important opinion leader, but gathering foreigners and trying to paint the black of Ghana is simply not acceptable, "he said.

Former President Mahama met on Wednesday, February 13, with various diplomatic missions to Ghana to inform them of the violence that occurred during the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon last month.

Joined by the National President; Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Secretary General; Johnson Asiedu Nketia, deputy leader of the minority; James Klutse Avedzi, former Minister of National Security; Kofi Totobi Quakyi and former President Mahama were of the opinion that the actions of the self-defense group, which he said under the instructions of the presidency, were criminal and should be prosecuted.

The meeting retraced the story of the NPP's introduction of vigilante groups, their training and the dangerous decision to arm the thugs and clothe them as alleged national security agents.

Diplomats watched many videos of barbaric attacks, armed violence, unrestrained confessions of responsibility of a state minister to the presidency, Bryan Acheampong, as well as videos of previous outings of groups Self-defense, Delta and Invincible Forces aligned with nuclear power plants.

In response to this, Yaw Osafo Maafo questioned Mahama's intentions and purpose, after showing them videos and images of Ayawaso's violence, pointing out that investigations were underway to bring the authors to the pound.

"What is he really looking for?" What does the former president Mahama want to describe? Why does he want to paint Ghana in black? When indeed there is nothing to paint in black. There was violence, it did not happen in a polling station, but in the home of the parliamentary candidate, far from any polling station. We do not know who shot. Why would you want it to look like a national disaster? This is really nothing. it's not good and I will never support such a thing, but if you look at what happened in previous by-elections in this country, it's nothing more than what happened earlier ", did he declare.

On January 31, masked members of the security forces allegedly being national security agents shot and injured seven NDC supporters in the by-election.

Following this, the government set up an investigation commission on the incident led by the former judge of the CHRAJ, Judge Emile Short, to investigate the case.