If there were no boots on the floor, there would be no startup for boot – Kunbuor

General News of Monday, February 11, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-02-11

Benjamin Kunbuor, a former defense minister, said the former president, John Mahama, would not have made his comment "boot-to-boot" he's not there. had not already on the ground.

The comment of the former interior minister follows Mahama's largely condemned statement, one after the other.

While speaking to NDC delegates in the Adaklu constituency of the Volta region on Thursday, January 31, 2019, Mahama said the NDC would match the NPP in 2020 if the government tried to intimidate and harbad NDC supporters violently.

The former president's comment followed a shootout at the La-Bawaleshie JHS poll in the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election that same day. The NDC has accused the NPP of being behind the shooting.

The President of the National Peace Council, Professor Emmanuel Asante, then asked Mr. Mahama to apologize to the nation for this statement.

While commentators of the new Patriotic Party (NPP) in power condemned Mahama's statement, members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) defended it.

But Dr. Kunbuor believes that Mr. Mahama's statement was conditioned by the fact that there are already boots on the ground, adding that if these boots were not there, there would be no need to match them.

He told Benjamin Akakpo, at the Clbad91.3FM Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Monday, February 11, 2019, that: "People can not understand the context of certain things when they are finished and say, and we always jump to the conclusion … My answer The problem is that instead of listening and badyzing what the former president said, we go back to fundamentals.

"If there is no startup, there will be no startup for boot. So, do not stray from the fact that this statement is articulated and preconditioned on the fact that there are boots on the ground. So, I thought we would say we do not want boots at all to make a startup for starters useless. For me, it's a way to handle things like that, but when you go into start-up and you're not looking for the fact that it's because there were boots, that's why there is another startup which is where you lose the argument. Let's say we do not need boots. "