New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey says President J.E.A. Mills should not have signed the ECOWAS document on Cote d\u2019Ivoire if he knew that military intervention was not on the cards for Ghana.
\nThe NPP Chairman was reacting to claims from government circles that the African Mission at the United Nations (UN), which described military intervention in Cote d\u2019Ivoire as \u201cno option\u201d.
\nSpeaking to Accra-based Peace FM, Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey insisted that the NPP never said President Mills should send troops to Cote d\u2019Ivoire, but was only concerned that the president had undermined ECOWAS\u2019 position on Cote d\u2019Ivoire.
\n\u201cThe President had told us that he had signed the [ECOWAS] document [on Cote d\u2019Iovire] with the other ECOWAS leaders. Then what that document had said, he had then gone on to say that he personally did not subscribe to even though he had signed it and that itself undermines the position of ECOWAS,\u201d he stated.
\nMr Obetsebi-Lamptey maintained that the President should not have signed the ECOWAS document on Cote d\u2019Ivoire which included the option of military intervention if he was not in favour of it.
\n\u201cIf the President\u2019s position from the very beginning was very adamantly that no troops should be sent, then possibly he should not have signed the document,\u201d he contested.
\nEarly on the same programme, Head of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho had said President Mills felt vindicated by the new continental position and stated that this would avoid any casualties on the side of all stakeholders.
\nMr Anyidoho said the President will be attending an African Union (AU) summit meeting slated for January 28 to January 30, at which the crisis in Cote d\u2019Ivoire is expected to be discussed and a statement issued to that effect.
\nThe Head Of Ghana\u2019s Permanent Mission To The United Nations reports that the African Mission at the UN is not keen on any military option in Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey says President J.E.A. Mills should not have signed the ECOWAS document on Cote d\u2019Ivoire if he knew that military intervention was not on the cards for Ghana. The NPP Chairman was reacting to claims from government circles that the African Mission at the United Nations (UN), which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n