Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kwaku Baako Jr, has continued his attack against the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for their strong stance against the controversial Ghana-US military pact agreement.
According to the Veteran Journalist, the NDC have taken a hypocritical stance against the deal when they had previously signed two similar deals with the United States government when they were in power.
Mr. Baako who had backed President Akufo-Addo's choice of words to the NDC during a national address on the 2018 Defence Cooperation Agreement between Ghana and the U.S, said Mr. Akufo-Addo said nothing wrong..
President Akufo-Addo condemned what he said was the “unspeakable hypocrisy of the fraternity of some frontline politicians, who make a habit of running with the hares and hunting with the hounds, who secretly wallow in the largesse of the United States of America, whilst, at the same time, promote anti-American sentiments to a populist constituency.”
He also took “issue with the front-line politicians who have sought to mislead the people in this blatant manner, and those who, for mischievous purposes, leaked the document destined for the scrutiny of Parliament prematurely to a section of the media, who then went on to describe it as a ‘secret document’”.
However, speaking on MultiTV/Joy FM’s Newsfile Saturday, the popular social commentator said the President’s description of some of the dissenters of the military pact is appropriate.
“I see nothing unpresidential about this statement”, Kwaku Baako said of the President’s claim that some people are scheming to incite anti-American sentiments.
“The ‘fraternity of front-line politicians’ that is where the focus is," the experienced journalist pointed out.
"When you have a fraternity of frontline politicians out there, telling you that this 2018 agreement will create room for the introduction of nuclear bombs, the introduction of biological bombs into this country, the introduction of homosexuality into this country…
“If you have these people, who are experienced, who have been in government, who have signed similar agreements out there pushing that line…who are they? Hypocrites of the highest order,” Kwaku Baako said Saturday on the news analysis programme.
He said the President's response was an "adequate and immediate response" to these 'frontline politicians'.
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