President Akufo-Addo has reiterated the widely-known fact claimed that Coup d’états in Africa are often engineered by people outside of the continent who have regime-changing agenda.
He made the claim when he opened a forum on coups in Africa on 15th March.
“Some foreign entities regard coups in Africa as a means of enhancing their regional ambitions,” he noted.
“As such, they engage in all sorts of disinformation campaigns in a bid to disparage the authority of democratically elected authorities and instigate opposition protests against the incumbent.”
According to the Akufo Addo, whose party is known to have trained party mercenaries while in opposition and has embedded them into the security agencies, coups and violence are not the way to go and must be condemned.
“The reappearance of coups in Africa in all its forms and manifestations must be condemned by all since it seriously undermines our collective bid to rid the continent of the menace of instability and unconstitutional changes in the government as currently defined by the frameworks enshrined in the Lome Declaration,” the Ghanaians President stated.
Africa has in recent times seen governments in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso removed by coupists. There has also been a failed coup in Guinea-Bissau.
Back home in Ghana, the Akufo-Addo government has been fidgeting with kneejerk arrests of supposed coupists which many fear may actually encourage others to start a misadventure.
But amidst worsening economic challenges mostly brought on by government corruption, some experts are warning that if solutions are not found as soon as practicable, Ghana could also suffer a coup.