Burkina Faso/Nana Akufo-Addo’s Liar’s Poker: Ghana’s ambassador summoned.

In Burkina, Ghanaian diplomat Boniface Gambila Adagbila was summoned to an “urgent hearing” on Friday 16 December 2022, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The cause was unverified and unfounded remarks by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on an alleged agreement between Burkina and the Russian private security group Wagner.

Last Tuesday, on the sidelines of the US-Africa summit, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo expressed concern about the presence of Russian private security group Wagner’s forces in southern Burkina Faso, on the border with his country.

Following these somewhat gratuitous and unverified assertions by the Ghanaian President, the authorities in Ouagadougou simply recalled their ambassador in Accra, General Pingrenoma Zagré, for “consultation” after summoning the Ghanaian diplomat accredited in Burkina.

From his assertions, it also appears that Burkina Faso is ceding its mineral resources in exchange for the group’s services.

In any case, these untruths tarnish Burkina’s image in the international community.

Despite the terrorist threat and the urgent need to reconquer the national territory, the Burkinabe authorities have not called on the Wagner group to fight the jihadists, contrary to the allegations of the Ghanaian president.

Instead, the transitional government has favoured its own resources, drawing on the mobilisation of the FDS and VDP as well as on the solidarity of the population.

It is understandable then that such accusations prevailed prior to the US-Africa summit from Nana Akufo-Addo to the US authorities in order to isolate the country of the Integral Men from the summit.

“…Therefore, the presence of this group on our borders is a matter of considerable concern and worry for us,” the Ghanaian President said, still hoping to “have a privileged opportunity to discuss its implications” with the US authorities as if he had not raised it unofficially before the summit.

As a result, like Sudan, Guinea and Mali, Burkina was also left out of the summit for, and I quote, “institutional instability”.

However, this decision is a credit to Burkina Faso, which is following in the footsteps of its full sovereignty and ‘total and acquired independence’.

But for the time being, the Burkinabe government has not yet reacted to the false statements of the Ghanaian president.

Miss OLY