{"id":1239244,"date":"2022-10-31T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/bagbin-lashes-out-at-akufo-addo-for-withdrawing-his-military-attachment\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:28:49","slug":"bagbin-lashes-out-at-akufo-addo-for-withdrawing-his-military-attachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/bagbin-lashes-out-at-akufo-addo-for-withdrawing-his-military-attachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagbin lashes out at Akufo-Addo for withdrawing his military attachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has lashed out at President Akufo-Addo for taking away his military protection.<\/p>\n

He said government led by Mr Akufo-Addo engaged in hypocrisy and double standards in the withdrawal of his military detail.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was second deputy Speaker, the Office of the same President approved his staff sergeant to by military attach\u00e9.<\/em> For four good years, the staff sergeant was with me.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I\u2019ve been elected as the Speaker, which is a higher position, and the same president says I\u2019m not entitled to military attachment,\u201d he lamented in a media engagement on Friday, October 29, 2022.<\/p>\n

In January this year, the Chief of Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces withdrew military officers attached to the Speaker on grounds that they were attached \u201cwithout proper procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A letter written to the Speaker indicated that efforts were being made to regularise their attachment, something that has still not been done.<\/p>\n

This raised speculations with the Minority in Parliament saying it was a politically motivated action<\/strong> to diminish Mr Bagbin\u2019s confidence.<\/p>\n

According to the Minority, the calculated move was due to the Speaker\u2019s persistent bid to impartially and independently steer the affairs of the legislative arm of government.<\/p>\n

Months later after the action was taken, Alban Bagbin is wondering why some public office holders are entitled to military attachment but he is not.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy military team, I\u2019ve managed on my own; I\u2019ve been managing on my own. This world is an interesting place\u2026 but the others are entitled and if you go to His Excellency\u2019s office, you may count them [military officers] to about 200.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Vice President definitely has access to some. I am not entitled but the Chief Justice after me has four; ministers have their own and each Supreme Court judge has two but the Speaker is not entitled. This is Ghana\u2019s unique democracy but don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m very secure,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n

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The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has lashed out at President Akufo-Addo for taking away his military protection. He said government led by Mr Akufo-Addo engaged in hypocrisy and double standards in the withdrawal of his military detail. \u201cWhen I was second deputy Speaker, the Office of the same President approved his staff sergeant to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239244","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=1239244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}