Akufo-Addo: Don’t entertain coups, they retard progress

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that coup d’états retard progress and must, therefore, not be entertained in any country.

The President said this when he addressed officials from the Pan African Youth Union at the Jubilee House in Accra.

He noted that citizens have every right to insist on good governance and democratic responsibility but must never entertain coups.

“We have to insist on good governance and democratic responsibility in our continent. We have seen what the years of coup and military intervention did to our continent in the past. Coups only retard progress. Let’s not entertain them,” Akufo Addo said, as quoted by Ghanaweb.

His comments follow some utterances by the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana that the current hardships in Ghana could force a coup.

Prof. Raymond Atuguba suggested that Ghana was ripe for a coup due to the poor economic situation of the country.

“We do not want coup in this country but if we do not act quickly we may have one in our hands,” Prof. Atuguba noted.

“There is one thing to do now, prevent coup in Ghana since the climate and the environment, national and immediate international, are conducive for one. We must compel the government to acknowledge the current economic mess, they mostly, and previous governments, to a larger extent.”

Meanwhile, the law professor’s comments have been widely condemned by the government, with Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah describing his utterances as an attack on Ghana’s democracy.

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