{"id":415024,"date":"2018-04-02T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=415024"},"modified":"2018-04-03T07:33:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:33:51","slug":"well-spit-fire-ghana-us-military-deal-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/04\/well-spit-fire-ghana-us-military-deal-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ll spit more fire over Ghana-US military deal – Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority has vowed to continue to pile pressure on the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the\u00a0controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US.<\/p>\n
“We are wholly committed to holding the feet of the NPP and the Akufo-Addo government to the fire of accountability,” the Minority Spokesperson Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini said.<\/p>\n
The Sagnarigu Constituency Member of Parliament, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, Bolga Central constituency MP, Issac Adongo and a former Nanton MP, Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, were speaking at a lecture organised by the\u00a0Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC at the Tamale Technical University.<\/p>\n
The Sagnarigu MP, Alhaji A.B.A. Fuseini said the NDC was poised to hold the Akufo-Addo government accountable for their juicy campaign promises that won them power at the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n
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Alhaji Fusseini stressed that, “Government will see real fire and fury from the NDC in and outside of Parliament inasmuch as demonstrations and the Ghana-US Military Agreement are concerned. I am telling you something, we will make it costly for the NPP to carry forward the agreement.”<\/p>\n
“The Executive would have executed the agreement before it was brought to Parliament. We brought it to the attention of the Speaker to no avail. So from day one we have been against it. It is an illegality. It is a walking contradiction and an affront to our constitution. They will tell you our NDC MPs approved this at the Committee level. It is blatant falsehood,” he fumed.<\/p>\n
According to him, the NDC and their allies will not relax their resistance to the Ghana-US Army deal.<\/p>\n
“The Akufo-Addo government is yet to see the very least of resistance against the Ghana-US Military Agreement from the Minority. We are very ready to spit fire over the controversial deal.”<\/p>\n
He hinted of a nationwide protest by the Ghana First Patriotic Front and its allies against the deal.<\/p>\n
“The Ghana First Patriotic Front demonstration was the first and smallest in a series of demonstrations that will rock this government. The selling of our sovereignty to the US is something we will hold President Akufo-Addo’s legs to the fire of accountability.”<\/p>\n
“When ordinary people do not agree to something, no one can force them to it. The first demonstration by Ghana First Patriotic Front is first of many they are yet to see.”<\/p>\n