{"id":1081356,"date":"2022-05-09T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/i-do-not-desire-military-rule-oliver-vormawor\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:58:06","slug":"i-do-not-desire-military-rule-oliver-vormawor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/i-do-not-desire-military-rule-oliver-vormawor\/","title":{"rendered":"I do not desire military rule \u2013 Oliver Vormawor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"496\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Oliver-Barker-Vormawor4-595x424_1600x1140-696x496.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Oliver-Barker-Vormawor4-595x424_1600x1140\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Convener and Community Mobilizer for the #FixTheCountry campaign, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has said he does not desire military government for the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a comment on the current state of free speech in Ghana at a press forum in Accra, Oliver said that though Ghana\u2019s current democracy as substandard, it is not an endorsement for military rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not desire military government for this country, and two ideas can coexist at the same time. And that I think that our democracy is substandard without calling for the military to rule Ghana,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Barker-Vormawor also believes the military as an institution has not acted in interest of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I do not believe that the military itself is an institution that has acted as a pillar in our democracy and that they continue to treat them as persons whom you have to be careful with, and if you create a taboo around an institution in a democracy then it\u2019s not sufficient in the democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that. the military in a democratic state such as Ghana must be tolerant noting that, citizens should not live in fear of a potential military takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Oliver Barker-Vormawor is currently standing trial on charges of treason felony after he was arrested on February 11 at the Kotoka International Airport for allegedly threatening to stage a coup in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ASlWz690hZo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Nkuranhyensem on Adom TV (9-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASlWz690hZo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Convener and Community Mobilizer for the #FixTheCountry campaign, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has said he does not desire military government for the country. In a comment on the current state of free speech in Ghana at a press forum in Accra, Oliver said that though Ghana\u2019s current democracy as substandard, it is not an endorsement for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[12629,7350,7553,2243,12630],"class_list":["post-1081356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-desire","tag-military","tag-oliver","tag-rule","tag-vormawor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}