General News of Friday, 23 March 2018Source: radiogold905.comMilitary deal: Bring the supposed agreement I signed to Parliament – Hanna TettehHanna Tetteh, former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional IntegrationFormer Minister of Foreign Affairs in the erstwhile NDC administration has challenged the Minister of Defense, Dominic Nitiwul to also present to the august house of parliament the previous Ghana-US defence deal she is supposed to have signed for scrutiny as they have done with the new deal. In an interview with Gold Power Drive host, Hanna Tetteh said, "I think that from the statements being made by officials of the NPP government, it is clear that this a new agreement. When you are signing a new agreement, it means that any provision you are unhappy with in the previous agreement you have the ability to renegotiate them. "When I sign any agreement on behalf of another ministry and in this case the Ministry of Defense, it is not the case it is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that has negotiated the agreement. "I read every agreement before I signed it and I don’t believe in my recollection that I signed any agreement committed Ghana to anything beyond the duration of that particular agreement.

Source: GhanaWeb March 23, 2018 08:03 UTC