Ashaiman Brutality: You’re unfit for Ministerial job – Deputy Defense Minister told

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Deputy Defense Minister Kofi Amankwa-Manu has come under a barrage of verbal attacks by a former appointee of John Dramani Mahama describing him as undeserving of a ministerial appointment or a lawmaker

The Former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Obuasi Kwasi Ofori Agyemang popularly known as Zuba in a live radio commentary was angered by the responses of the Deputy Defense minister in the wake of the soldiers attacking some residents in Ashaiman after a colleague soldier was slain.

Speaking on Ultimate FM, Mr. Agyeman said the defense minister who is a lawyer does not even qualify to be an assembly member, much more a minister of state and a sensitive one such as defense.

Below are his direct comments in quotes.

“I learnt the deputy defense minister is a lawyer. Is that correct? What I am about to say can you let him hear it for me, tell him that me Kwasi Ofori Agyemang, I live at Tafo, I am saying that he is a fool”

“You have citizens of Ghana who have been asked to drink mud water and you are saying that these are excesses. The man is not serious” he said in an angry tone.

“He is not fit to be an Assembly Member, this one is an MP… Jesus Christ where have we gotten to? He questioned.

“Has the country been cursed? Is God punishing us? That we have short-tempered people governing us? These are the people running Ghana and he calls himself honorable?”

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“Everything the man has said shows that he is not sensible”

Deputy Defense Minister Kofi Amankwa-Manu is the first person in government to have responded to the Military invasion in Ashaiman that saw lots of civilians being brutalized.

According to him, should Ghanaians fail to protect the military, that would be the end of the country.

“There is one institution we have in this country that every Ghanaian must make the effort to protect and that for me is the military.

“The very day we lose that thing about the military that will be the beginning and the end of our nation and we cannot do that. We simply cannot do that,” he said.

The Minister in multiple media engagements has also sought to suggest the military operation was sanctioned, necessary and justified.

“Military is under attack and we cannot sit and fold our arms. It has suddenly become a crime to wear a uniform, you wear a uniform and then you become a threat…hitherto, even when a cop or members of the security agency board a public vehicle and you’re seated, you get up for them”, he observed.

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