President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is to address the nation on the Ghana-US military cooperation agreement that has become an issue.
The address would be telecasts live at 2000 hours today, Thursday, April 5, 2018, across all major news outlets, according to information gleaned from the Jubilee House.
The agreement has over the past month, generated agitation among opposition legislators, whose understanding of the contents of the military pact between Ghana and the US, is that the nation was making concessions that amounted to ceding part of Ghana’s sovereignty, insisting the deal be annulled because the country made no gain from the agreement.
But the Majority side in Parliament also argued that the agreement with the US was not new, but an advancement of standing agreements which previous administration had agreed to in 1998 and 2015.
The side pushed that the agreement only bolstered the strong defence relationship between both parties based on a shared commitment to peace and stability and common approaches to addressing regional defence and security issues.
Thus the agreement was deliberated on and ratified by Parliament a fortnight ago, and has received the approval of Cabinet.
It is expected that the President’s address to the nation would put issues in prospective.
Source: GNA
