Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress John Dramani Mahama has accused President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of taking Ghana through a dangerous path by the use of military to enforce matters that are purely civil.
The concerns of the former President comes at the back of a viral video that captured some military officers preventing some persons from registering in the ongoing voter registration exercise.
The video captured the men in uniform ordering some persons who had joined the queue to vote to leave because they were deemed not qualified to register.
In a post on Facebook seen by dreamzfmonline.com, the former President said “This is not the Ghana our forebears toiled for and built! Each and every successive President left a peaceful, stable and united country.
The road President Akufo-Addo is taking our beautiful country through, using the military and party thugs to stop people from exercising their right to register and vote in the upcoming December elections, is dangerous and unacceptable.”
He noted with concern that matters of these sort are purely civil and need not the involvement of the military.
“Executive power must not be used to foment ethnic discrimination and abuse as is happening under Nana Akufo-Addo. These calculated acts of “dehumanisation, disenfranchising Ghanaians and stripping them of their citizenship” must end. They will surely never happen under a new NDC administration because we will foster a spirit of peace and unity in our nation.
As Commander-in-Chief, I will not use our military in such a partisan manner to terrorise our own people, and in matters that are purely civil and dwell in the very heart of our constitutional democracy,” he added.
According to Mr. Mahama, the deployment of military men to parts of the Volta region and where Voltarians reside is dangerous and unacceptable.
“There have been many reports and video evidence, like the one in this post, of the President’s deployment and discriminatory use of soldiers to target our brothers and sisters in the Volta Region and wherever there are settlements of Voltarians and non-Akans,” he added.
