General News of Friday, 13 April 2018Source: www.ghanaweb.comMilitary deal taking Ghana back into slavery - Kwesi Pratt Jnr“My position and the position of people like me is radically different from some of the positions I’m hearing around. I have heard people say that let’s review the agreement….let’s change some clauses, no matter the number of clauses we change in this agreement will remain a very bad agreement”; Kwesi Pratt Jnr’s posturing on the controversial Ghana-United State military agreement. In the said agreement the United States government gets unrestricted access to a host of facilities and wide-ranging tax exemptions to the United States military and civilian personnel. The government of Ghana in a letter sent to Parliament of Ghana urged the august House to consider the agreement and give its approval. He insists that endorsing the deal amounts to plunging the country back into the system of slavery or colonialism.

Source: GhanaWeb April 13, 2018 02:15 UTC