Pressure group, Economic Freedom Fighters, has called on Ghanaians to rise up and reject in unison the 2018 military agreement Ghana has just signed with the United States of America.
A one-sided parliament on Friday March 23 ratified the controversial defence cooperation agreement despite huge public outcry.
The ratification followed the Minority’s boycott of the process, leaving the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs to rubberstamp the pact late Friday night before Parliament rose for recess.
After clashing with the police prior to the passage of the controversial agreement which security analysts warned would spell doom for the country, the Economic Freedom Fighters held a press conference today, Monday March 26, 2018 to announce the next line of action following the approval of the pact.
Addressing the press conference, the leader the group Ernesto Yeboah urged Ghanaians to pour out onto the streets in protest of what he termed neocolonialism.
“Power and authority resides in [us] the people. The sovereignty of this country exists because of us,” he said, adding: “We have called on the people that power resides in their hands [and] that they should rise up.”
“This is basically what we are doing. We are not going to end it here. We saw what happened in Burkina Faso when the political leaders of that decided to take them for granted. They simply converged and burnt down the very parliament that was going ahead to pass an arrangement that was going to have President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year rule,” he stated.
He continued “let not our leaders forget that we were the ones who gave them the power to represent us and like we have consistently said under no circumstance can those who are representing us become more powerful than those of us who have given them the power to do so.”
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
