Burkina Faso / Ghana: Pan-Africanists protest against Nana Akufo Addo’s childish and indecent behaviour
While Ghana is on the verge of implosion, the consequence of an unprecedented economic crisis, characterized by inflation reaching more than 50% and the national currency, the cedi, in free fall to more than 50% in 2022, President Nana Akufo-Addo is putting his feet in the dish in the policy of his northern neighbor instead of tackling the economic situation of his country.His recent release in a video last week in which he took pleasure in spreading allegations about Burkinabe leaders shocks many. Lowering himself to the same level as President Traoré’s critics, Nana Akufo-Addo attacks the Burkinabe authorities, making unfounded and defamatory statements, as if he had a tooth against them.
“Today, Russian mercenaries are on our northern border. Burkina Faso has now reached an agreement to go hand in hand with Mali by employing Wagner forces there,” Akufo-Addo said, before inventing that the Wagner Group had been offered a mine in southern Burkina Faso as payment for services – presumably fighting Islamist militants.Following these unworthy statements of a Head of State, the Ambassador of Ghana to Burkina Faso, Mr. Boniface Gambila Adagbila, was summoned to an urgent audience on Friday, December 16, at the Burkinabe Ministry of Foreign Affairs for explanations, as was the Burkinabe Ambassador in Accra, General Pingrenoma Zagré.Observers of the African socio-political scene, such as lawyer Latifa Dib, denounce this indecent and warmongering behavior of Nana Akufo-Addo. For the Pan-Africanist, the sub-region is in the grip of a permanent terrorist threat and such indecency inciting revolt is to be strongly condemned by the peoples. “It is unacceptable for a president of a country to like to relay rumors invented by ill-intentioned individuals who seek to sabotage the MPSR 2 combat policy for personal gain,” she said.
“I don’t really know what Mr. Nana Addo is referring to when he mentions a gold mine attributed to the Wagner Group. According to the latest news, a Russian company NORDGOLD SA has obtained a license to operate the Yimiugou industrial gold mine. As far as I know, this company has been operating in Burkina Faso for about ten years, even before the terrorist attacks began,” says Me. Latifa Dib. According to her, “
“It is a real shame this base-mindedness displayed by Mr. Addo who clumsily interferes in the affairs of another country. Burkina Faso has always maintained cordial relations with its neighbours. I therefore call on my Pan-Africanist brothers and all the peoples of the West African community to demonstrate against the lack of tact of President Addo who appears as a kid in diplomatic matters and wants to create tension between the two border countries calls out to Mrs. Dib
“I take this opportunity to salute the reaction of the Burkinabe leaders who, despite their young age, show intellectual maturity in this issue by preferring to summon the Ghanaian ambassador and their ambassador for thoughtful consultation than to give a response from the shepherd to the shepherdess to Mr. Addo,” continues the lawyer who urges “President Traoré to continue the anti-jihadist fight in which he is engaged and not to be demotivated by backbiting”.
Miss OLY
