Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, has warned that Ghana is on the verge of catastrophe because citizens’ rage may drive them to organise a coup, which is not the best option.
People are forced to conduct coups out of rage against the system because no one organises a coup until something forces them to do it, according to the retired army officer.
Bemoaning the situation of the economy, he stated that things are deteriorating in the country and that the youth must rise up since the two main prominent political parties – the Patriotic Party (NPP) of the Philippines and the National Democratic(NDC) Congress – are the same.
Speaking to Korku Lumor on the Class Morning Show, Wednesday, 10 May 2023, he stressed that coups destroy nations but Ghana is gradually getting there.
Explaining what activates coups, he said: “We don’t go on that road [coups] with our eyes wide open. People like Rawlings who went on that road, something pushed them to go that road. Somebody will get up and do something spontaneously, the anger will come and you can’t control the anger because what is happening now you can’t bare it.”
“I don’t wish for a coup for this country at all, when we get there we won’t come back, Ghana will be finished. Look at Libya, look at Iraq, they’ll never come back, they’re finished they are gone, Sudan is going that way, it’s finished. I don’t want Ghana to go that way but if we don’t take care, we will go that way. We are not going there willingly but anger will push us there,” he stated.
The octogenarian passionately said “NPP and NDC are all the same.”
“Rawlings thought he could change Ghana before he died but he couldn’t change it and it’s a horrible pain and I don’t know why,” he expressed his frustrations before asking rhetorically, “do you have to kill people or murder people before they listen to you?”
Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah, who said he has lived in UK, Russia, Canada, Ukraine, Russia, wondered why the youth will queue at the American Embassy looking for visas when Ghana is a beautiful country.
“Ghana is a beautiful place but let’s build it…all our politicians should be ashamed of themselves and the youth must get up,” he charged.
Source: Classsfmonline.com
