Pressure continues to mount on government to rescind the controversial joint military cooperation agreement it intends to sign with the United States of America - an agreement many believe is not in the best interest of Ghana.
Latest revelation by an international relations expert and a senior research fellow with the Legon Centre for International Affairs (LECIA), Dr. Ken Ahorsu has brought to light the “true intention” of the United States in getting the military pact signed.
According to the former lecturer of Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, research shows that Africa holds 30% of the worlds remaining natural resources, a discovery which has been the sole reason for the interest of Western countries.
Dr. Ahorsu further revealed that, an establishment of a military base is an obvious extension of US influence to subtly control Ghana’s natural resources; and the continent at large.
Speaking at a public forum organized by the Ghana First Patriotic Front as part of activities to intensify pressure on government to withdraw the Ghana-US Military Cooperation Agreement, Dr. Ahorsu noted that it has been a long-held plan of the US to establish a military base in Ghana, especially in the advent of oil discovery.
“The US was worried about much in role China has played into Africa in terms pumping money into the continent and controlling its natural resources. At the face value, the argument is that they are trying to strengthen our military, strengthen government in order to fight terrorism, but in you read in between the lines, this agreement was not signed with Mali, Niger, Mauritania or even Libya, the countries in which we have crisis. Senegal and Ghana are their target and they are the most stable countries on the continent. As I have pointed out the basically because of the natural resources on the continent.” he said.
Dr. Ahorsu revealed how a top military officer from the United States in 2007 visited the then President Kufuor to have talks regarding the establishment of a base US in Ghana.
“In 2007, when the Kufuor government was in power, a US General called T. Hobbins had actually come and discussed the establishment of a base in Ghana and all these were agreed upon that eventually….the initial plan was the building of the embassy and then the base will follow”, he mentioned.
With the Middle East (which hold the world’s largest oil reserve) in turmoil and war-ridden, Gulf of Guinea said to hold vast uranium, the US wants a base to be able to tap into this natural resources, Dr. Ahorsu added.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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NANA and barwumia are acting as if they not intelligent. Why do they assume that Ghanaians who are kicking against this deal are doing so because they don't like USA military base on Ghana. Our disagreement is not about only the military base idea, we are against a lot of provisions in the agreement that allows Americans to do anything without recourse to the laws of our land, that is the crux of the matter. If nana addo thought coming to tell us there is not going to be a military base through insults, will stop us he must be joking. We will do all we can to stop this agreement from being implemented.
The trouble with the 'BLACKMAN' is that we do not THINK !!!!; fail to reason with historical facts about anything ;the 'WHITEMAN' ON THE OTHER HAND ;think far into the future between 100 to 200 years and starts to keep records per aggreeemts ; our ancestors did the same mistakes with the Portuguses ; the British and and the Danes who came to our shores some 300 years ago ; they fulled our ancestors to sign BOGUS agreement to get a base and were able to take our resources away including our gold; art ;diamonds and our hunman resource call slavery and what did we get in return ;schannapps drinks ; calico ; tobacco etc ; the comparison in terms of added value was a master ROBBERY in history; it took over 200 years for ours elders to realise that we have being fulled as a people and therefore had to use agitation and fighting to regain our freedom from these countries ; today we the children of the same people are making the same mistakes again and are being fulled again to give away our lands to the US without thinking about the future lifes of our children ;grand children and great grand children who by the time they realise the folly of our ***barred word*** decisions today may have to fight another emancipation of war to release us from these so called soft agreements which in the long run will be turned into an agreement for a base in future ;IT WILL BE TOO LATE BY THEN !!!!!: WHY DOES NOT THE BLACKMAN THINK -KWARAAA !!!!!!; the sad part is that it is Nana Addo who seem to lead such folly because even if the NDC through Jon Mahama taking 'NOKOFIO" to initiate this aggreement why cannot Nana Addo review the whole agreement because this agreement is not in the interest of GHana !!!!!; everybody can undestand the desire for Nana Addo to favour the US because his great Uncle JB Danquah received percuniary assistance from the US embassy for years to look after his children until he was locked up by Kwame Nkrumah .
NPP supporters should think with their brains. US have no permanent friends but permanent interest. The US are very smart dudes and before we realize the terrorist the claim to fight would be in Ghana. The US have no better track record in fighting terrorists. And our President, instead of considering an amendment of portions of that bogus agreement rather attacked NDC. And said nothing about the substantive issue. Is Nana God? If he makes a mistake he should accept it and make amends.
MR.AHORSU, GO BACK AND READ THE AGREEMENT AGAIN. THERE IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN " MILITARY BASE AND COOPERATION".DONT ALLOW YOUR NDC COLOURS TO DECEIVE YOU.IT IS MILITARY COOPERATION NOT BASE.
If it was for resources, we have given most of it to the Chinese. Did USA went for Germany resources yet they have USA military bases there.
Elementary adusj, you have answered yourself. Your thought was as dumb as that of nana addo, that is why nana being a Ghanaian has already taken our sovereignty and given it to Donald Trump for free.
Those who seem be supporting this deal would be the first to crying when USA settles in Ghana and begin to through bombs in other nations from their Ghanaians base. Right now, they are not here yet, so any ediot can support it, but when they come in and find any means to throw bomb in our oil reserve areas in an attempt to take it from us, that is where nana addo and Barwumia would see how fuuullish they are. Even if you will sign this deal with USA do you do it when lunatic Donald Trump is president. It shows how dumbb our leaders are.
No sense Ahorsu
If Americans want your resources they would not establish a base to get them. Ghanaians will just take them to the americans. What do you have that Americans cannot buy with their money? let me tell you that within a few years petrol use will be a thing of the past in the west so don't rely on it. They will be in Ghana for your good!
I will say this ten thousand times, for Chinese people to come and even sell tomatoes, red plaintain, totobi, digging our gold to destroyed our lands, and water bodies of which Americans will never do. one chinese loans comes with ten thousand prisoners who will do any thing to survive in other countries because the don't want to go back to jail. I prefer the Americans.