The President of the Republic of Ghana, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo has said he is not in to play tribalism as some people are claiming he is.
According to him, no one is perfect and that he has his own weaknesses but tribalism has never been part of this, and therefore those who indulge in this act and promote them in our communities should be rejected.
“No one who is committed to the Ghana Project, as I am, can have an ethnic agenda. Rather, we should shun all those who would promote ethnic sentiments and divisions amongst us for selfish, partisan, political ends.
“There are people from this region, some of whom are well known to you here in Amedzofe, who serve in sensitive parts of my government and influence decisions on a daily basis. I may have my own failings as we all do, but being a tribalist is not one of them,” he said.
President Akufo-Addo said this on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, at the commissioning of the Five Piped Water Supply System in Amedzofe for 69,000 residents of three districts in the Volta Region.
Saying that he is one of the people in this country who recognizes and appreciates the indivisibility in the country.
“In my time as President, development has been distributed equitably to all parts of the country, and the impact of our policies has been felt by all. So, I want to assure all of you that neither the NPP nor I have any plan whatsoever to bring division to any part of the country,” he said.
Adding that, “We do not have an ethnic agenda against any group or grouping in the country, and, certainly, we have no ethnic agenda against residents of the Volta Region.”
Stressing on the fact that the Volta Region was not and has not been singled out for any military operations as it’s been alleged.
“The deployment of the military personnel along our borders is an ongoing nationwide exercise, and has been done across all our borders, and not in the Volta Region alone. One thousand soldiers are the subject of this deployment, of which 163 are based along the borders of Volta,” he said.
He revealed that “their presence is to guard against potential terrorist attacks on our shores and to prevent the importation of the virus into our country. They have not been stationed at our borders to execute any political or ethnic agenda.”
Nana Addo repeated that “keep knocking on the door until the door is opened to me until the Volta Region and the NPP are married. I know that this constituency, Ho West, will one day revert to being a stronghold for the NPP as it once was for the United Party (UP)”.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Pechi-Anim Alnice Padikie
