Ghanaians have made history in the 2016 Presidential
and Parliamentary elections. The results of the elections have clearly
indicated that the “One-Dollar President” is not fit to be the leader of our
community.
If the outgoing Commander In Chief of our community
had respected us and had not employed the divide and rule tactics, nepotism and
cronyism to the chagrin of the majority of the members of our community; if the
outgoing leader had not endorsed corruption everywhere in the Ghanaian Society;
if the “one-term” leader had not abused the rights of Ghanaians everywhere and
if the incompetent leader had not mismanaged the resources of our motherland in
an unprecedented and gargantuan manner, perhaps the story would have been
slightly different.
Ghanaians have voted for real and positive change in
their lives. Members of our community voted against our leader in the “special
voting”.
From the military perspective, our leader was
disrespectful and arrogant in the manner that the “One Dollar” increase in the
Earned Dollar of formed troops on peace support operations was announced. For
an uncaring leader, one dollar per day for Ghanaian troops was a “big deal”.
At a durbar with troops, expectations had been so
high on what the leader could do to ameliorate the economic conditions and
welfare of troops. The troops had experienced an exponential increase in their
“Earned Dollar” from fourteen (14) to twenty-seven (27) under President Kufour.
The troops had also witnessed the increase of their Earned Dollar from
Twenty-Seven (27) to Thirty (30) dollars by the late Professor John Mills.
Yet, the One Dollar President had the impudence,
disrespect and arrogance to defend an increase of only One Dollar within four
years. Without any compunction, the Director of Public Relations, Colonel
Aggrey Quarshie was made to defend this insulting behavior of our leader on the
airwaves everywhere thereby annoying the military members of our community all
the more.
The leader of our community “exported” corruption
from the Civil Street to the barracks.
The new military formation had been formed by the Commander
In Chief himself and had been placed under the direct operational and
administrative command and control of the Chief of Staff, Major General SK
Adeti, who had been appointed as the Second In Command of the new cabal with
direct access to the President on matters of corruption and election
malpractices.
For the sake of Major General SK Adeti, Major General
Opoku Adusei had to be sacrificed at a time that the former was under
investigations for various acts of corruption, impropriety and /or
inappropriate actions.
While Ghanaians were reeling under the foul-mouthed
atmosphere of NDC communicators, the President imposed on them an extremely
arrogant, disrespectful and stubborn chair-person of the Electoral Commission.
For reasons best known to John Mahama, more
experienced and competent persons were ignored and Madam Charlotte Osei was
appointed the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana. All the steps
of Madam Charlotte Osei were for the benefit of the President and the NDC and
not mother Ghana.
All attempts to guide her to the path of peace and
stability were ignored by her. Right from day one, Madam Charlotte Osei did not
hide her intentions to rig the elections in favour of the NDC. The time table,
preparations for and the conduct of the 2016 elections were all done to favour
the NDC and President Mahama. But because God is not like the parents of
Charlotte Osei and Amadu Sulley, all their evil plans were nullified by the
Lord. They had forgotten that the elected leader of our community had
appropriately themed his struggle for power as the “Battle is the Lords”.
The series of the electoral battles were left in the
able hands of the Lord. By contrast, President Mahama and his NDC had placed
their hopes in mortal human beings -Madam Charlotte Osei and Amadu Sulley.
Madam Charlotte Osei found willing partners in our
community to assist her to rig the elections in favour of our outgoing leader
and the NDC. The Chief of Staff, Major General SK Adeti, the Director General
Joint Operations, Brigadier General N. Kporku, Commander Support Services
Brigade Group, Brigadier General Francis Ofori, General Officer Commanding Southern
Command, Brigadier General Musah Whajah, Director General Defence Intelligence,
Brigadier General AK Adu, Colonels Komlaga, Vander Pallen, Mantey and some
commanding officers and officers commanding companies, squadrons and detachments
were deeply involved in the “Charlotte-Osei-NDC” machinery to rig the elections
for JM and the NDC.
Already discussed and pre-arranged letters were
written by the Chairperson of the EC to the Chief of Staff to facilitate the
rigging of the 2016 elections. The tricks included proxy voting on behalf of
troops, transfer of votes from certain locations to strongholds or weak areas
to give advantage to the NDC, storage of electoral materials at military
installations and facilities, conveying of electoral materials by the Chief of
Staff, Director Generals and Commanding Officers,. The following are pertinent
questions.
1. Why
did Major General SK Adeti pick RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenades/Guns) from the
Base Ammunition Depot?
2. What
did Major General SK Adeti intend to do with them? Was he planning to kill the
President-elect and his Vice?
3. Were
Ghanaians at war to warrant the operational readiness of the Ghana Armed Forces
as exhibited by Major General SK Adeti and Brigadier General N. Kporku?
4. Why
did Brigadier General Francis Ofori turn his office and home into rigging
machinery for the NDC?
5. Why
did Brigadier General AK Adu go to the Ghana-Ivory Coast border to meet General
PA Blay (Former Chief of Defence Staff and Ambassador to Ivory Coast)?
6. How
many Ivoirians (or Ghanaians resident in Ivory Coast) did Brigadier General Adu
facilitate their crossing into Ghana to vote?
7. Why
did Lieutenant Colonel Awaribey (Co 3Bn) collaborate with the Brong Ahafo
Regional Police Commander to facilitate the brutalities of Mr. Collins Dauda
(Minister for Local Government and Rural Development) and Mr. Eric Opoku (Brong
Ahafo Regional Minister) against innocent law-abiding citizens in the Ahafo
Area of the Brong Ahafo Region?
These and many other questions are begging for
answers from the leader of our community, the Chief of Staff of the Ghana Armed
Forces and the individual officers who played various inappropriate roles
during the elections.
The Chief of Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces did all
those negative things against his background of corrupt practices. He wanted
the victory of President Mahama and the NDC in order to escape any sanctions for
his wrong doings.
Right from the time of General Smith as Defence
Minister with General Blay as Chief of Defence Staff, several malpractices and
malfeasance have been uncovered.
Most of the contracts signed to alienate the
interests and rights in military and Public Lands to private developers have
been fraught with corruption, greed and avarice to the detriment of the Armed
Forces and members of our community.
Under the guise of Private Public Participation or Partnership
(PPP), military land/or public lands under the care of the military have been
given to these private developers at incredible terms to the benefit of the
Generals and Ministers.
Lands at Takoradi belonging to the Airforce have
been given out to friends of the Presidency and Military High Command. Lands
around the Airforce Base and Airforce Mess are all gone under dubious terms
inimical to the Armed Forces and the state. Most of those contracts, agreements
or arrangements cannot be found.
The lands around the Headquarters of the Southern
Command of the Ghana Army at Teshie have also allegedly been given out under
strange agreements/arrangements. Certainly, “the fencing for land” deal was not
in the best interest of the Ghana Armed Forces.
What about the land on which the two GOIL filling
stations have been built –one at Teshie near the Command Headquarters of the
Southern Command of the Ghana Army and the second at the Labadi Villas
Junction. Who owns those two filling stations? What were the terms of the
Agreement or Arrangement?
What about the Services Integrity Savings and Loans Financial
Institution that has been formed under the auspices of General SK Adokpa who
was all in all – (Director Resettlement and Director General Defence Industries
for over six (6) years).
Where did General Adokpa keep the proceeds of the
Provident Fund? What portfolio of investments did he engage in? Answer to all
these questions may be sought at the appropriate times.
What about the “Army Mess Deal?
What were the terms of the so-called PPP arrangement
with that private developer? Did it make sense to give such a prime area to a
private person for such pittance?
Why would a private person be allowed to build a
private hospital so close to the 37 Military Hospital? – Is it to compete with
the Public Health Services of the Military Hospital? Or is to cause the ruins of
the military hospital?
Did the Military High Command take into account the
real living accommodation needs of Military and Civilian Officers? The type of
accommodation being built by the private developer is not the best for modern
circumstances. The officer corps is grappling with living accommodation
problems and therefore the designs should have been for a quasi military
marriage quarter of at least two bedrooms and a hall with kitchen, toilet and
bath and not the old style single accommodation with a hall, bedroom, toilet
and bath only.
Most officers may live in the single accommodation
for over or close to ten years after commission owing to the inadequacy of and
deterioration in the living married accommodation. That was not the concern of
our Military High Command. All their actions were motivated by selfish
interests. The unpatriotic Generals were thinking of themselves only and their
future while ignoring the primary interests of the majority of the members of
our noble professions.
What about
the lands around the Air Force Mess and the Air Force Base in Accra? Who has “bought”
them or who benefited from their alienation? There are all sorts of allegations
that the former Chief of Defence Staff, General Blay, the former Defence
Minister, General Smith and others are behind most of the “PPP deals”.
General Adokpa is also allegedly figured in those
deals. My sources indicate that General Adokpa is subtly and surreptitiously
more involved in the various deals than his egotistical, bigheaded and
self-important “tribesman” who wants to conquer everything that he surveys.
There are also several questions about sole sourcing
of the contracts at the Directorate of Engineer Services (DES). The allegations
have it that Brigadier General Francis Ofori was the main architect and
promoter of the sole sourcing at the DES. He is alleged to have “accumulated”
so much as part of the ground design of the “new military cabal”.
General Francis Ofori is alleged to have used some
of the funds to support the NDC in the 2016 Presidential Elections. According
to the scheme of events, if the Charlotte Osei EC had declared John Mahama
winner using the electronic transmission of results against the real tallied results
as per the Collation Sheets, Generals Adeti and Ofori were to “fight” any
attempt to challenge that declaration.
The work done at Northern Command along is enough
proof.
The assertion continued that if the “Plan B” had
succeeded, General Adeti was to become the Chief of Army Staff (Army Commander)
and General Ofori the Chief of Staff. General OB Akwa was to be retired by
March 2017.
But God has His own plans and does things His own
way.
