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General news for Saturday, October 3, 2020
Source: Peace FM
2020-10-03
Experienced journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr
The seasoned journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jr., has criticized President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government for their response to the secession brouhana from western Togo.
Some residents of the Volta region have been involved in violent attacks for days to demand the freedom of Ghana.
The group, popularly known as Secessionists of Western Togo West, has attacked the State Transport Corporation (STC) and some police stations in the region.
They set fire to some buses belonging to the STC, asking the government to grant them independence to become a country.
Responding recently to the group, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in an interview on Hello FM during his tour of the Ashanti region, stressed that he has left the matter in the capable hands of the appropriate security personnel.
“I have to be calm because the institutions are in place. The security agencies are doing their job. They have already started and we will see results. If I panic, the country panics. It is like the COVID-19 disease, if there were panicked, fear would have gripped us all. But I know the work God has appointed me to do, if I panic, the entire nation will panic too. That is not the purpose of leadership. I am supposed to assure people that our country is going to work. What is happening in the Volta Region in the time of this handful – it is just a handful of people, these secessionists – we will solve it. I have no doubts about it, “he said.
“I trust the security agencies. I trust the Armed Forces. I trust the Police. I trust their leadership. The intelligence agencies, I know they are all working very, very, very hard to make sure this matter is resolved with the as quickly as possible, “added the president.
But Kwesi Pratt Jnr has a strong opinion that the government is not treating the issue with the required seriousness.
“I have seen the police situation report. Twenty-four (24) hours before the incident, the Police report indicated that these things were going to happen. According to the report we have, the attacks occurred around 1:30 am. The security agencies were grounded at 12 noon. What’s going on?
“Look at the number of ministers responsible for security; we can count four or five (5). When the defense minister is added, there are five and all this can continue. What is he telling us? Do we think we are children or what? All this happening with all this security architecture, why? ” He questioned.
He revealed that the government knew in advance of the plans of the secessionist group, but stayed on the sidelines to make it happen.
“The government knows; security knows who they are, where they are. What’s going on? Someone must be saying something sensible.”
He also wondered why the president has not cracked down on the group.
“One of the president’s duties is to sign the death warrant … You have a great responsibility when we hand over the reins of the country to you … Is everything we do in government good? Is espionage a good thing? Is war a good thing? Governments declare war, people die, and so on. The acid test is whether the actions that the government is taking are in the national interest or not, “said in Paz. FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’.
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