{"id":1265894,"date":"2022-12-16T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T09:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/mp-worried-over-akufo-addos-comment-about-presence-of-russian-mercenaries-on-ghanas-border-with-burkina\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T09:03:03","slug":"mp-worried-over-akufo-addos-comment-about-presence-of-russian-mercenaries-on-ghanas-border-with-burkina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/mp-worried-over-akufo-addos-comment-about-presence-of-russian-mercenaries-on-ghanas-border-with-burkina\/","title":{"rendered":"MP worried over Akufo-Addo&#8217;s comment about presence of Russian mercenaries on Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"437\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Akufo-Addo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1666028649_997_Akufo-Addo-696x437.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"437\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1666028649_997_Akufo-Addo-696x437.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><b>South Dayi Member of Parliament Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor has expressed concerns about the public pronouncement by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<\/b> <strong>about the presence of Russian mercenaries on Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina Faso.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his view, Mr Akufo-Addo revealed what appeared to be contents of classified security briefings to foreigner powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an MP and a Citizen, I\u2019m terribly worried about the laissez faire manner the President revealed what appears to be contents of classified security briefings on Burkina Faso to a foreign power in this video. More worried about how Russia will react. Are we still a Non-Aligned Nation?\u201d Mr Dafeamekpor said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As an MP &#038; a Citizen, I&#8217;m terribly worried about the laissez faire manner the Prez revealed what appears to be contents of classified security briefings on Burkina Faso to a foreign power in this video. More worried about how Russia will react. Are we still a Non-Aligned Nation? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mTAsTR17Eu\">pic.twitter.com\/mTAsTR17Eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, Esq. MP. (@etsedafeamekpor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/etsedafeamekpor\/status\/1603649632965378048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reports say the interim Burkinabe government has hired the services of Russian soldiers to help the country\u2019s fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The Interim Prime Minister of Burkina Faso,\u00a0<span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Apollinaire Joachim Ky\u00e9lem de Tamb\u00e8la,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0is said to have been to Russia to negotiate this deal.<\/p>\n<p>The mercenaries have, reportedly, been allocated the south of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on the sidelines of the US-African Leaders\u2019 Summit on Wednesday, President Akufo-Addo described the development as \u201cdistressing\u201d for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Russian mercenaries are on our northern border,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurkina Faso has now entered into an arrangement to go AWOL with Mali in employing the Wagner forces there. I believe the mines in southern Burkina have been allocated to them as a form of payment for their services. Prime Minister of Burkina Faso in the last 10 days has been in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd to have them operating on our northern border is particularly distressing for us in Ghana. Apart from not accepting the idea of great powers, once again making Africa the theatre of operation, we are particular\u00a0 about our position you know about the Ukraine war where we have been very very vocal and upfront about condemning the invasion by Russia and therefore there now to have this group on our borders is a matter of some considerable disquiet and concern for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said there were reasons why the sub-regional body, ECOWAS, decided to take over the coup d\u2019etats in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons is to avoid a situation which is what is happening with Burkina Faso and the mercenaries currently.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo said he was only bringing the matter to the attention of Secretary Blinken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dayi Member of Parliament Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor has expressed concerns about the public pronouncement by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo about the presence of Russian mercenaries on Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina Faso. In his view, Mr Akufo-Addo revealed what appeared to be contents of classified security briefings to foreigner powers. \u201cAs an MP and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1224514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265894","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=1265894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}