Executive Secretary of the National Interest Movement, Susan Adu-Amankwah, has taken aim at what she describes as reckless grandstanding by politicians whose unverified allegations could damage Ghana’s global reputation.
Speaking on Newsfile on Joy News, Saturday, she criticised Rev John Ntim Fordjour, the Ranking Member of Parliament’s Defence Committee, who recently made sensational claims about suspicious aircraft landing in Ghana, with references to drugs and money, but has yet to provide proof.
“What was he talking about?” she asked. “Because we will reasonably think that he had gone further to say suspicious flights and had mentioned cocaine and money. That makes all of us think there must be something more to it.”
Adu-Amankwah questioned how the MP handled the matter, suggesting that someone in such a privileged position could have engaged the appropriate authorities quietly and responsibly.
“He’s no ordinary citizen of Ghana. That’s why we pay them all that money [as MP],” she stressed.
“If he had those suspicions, and it was not about grandstanding and about politics, he could have gone to the head of NIB or BNI. He could have said, ‘Look, this has come to my attention. We want you to do this. If I don’t hear from you by a certain time, I will go public.’ That is the well-meaning Ghanaian.”
Instead, she lamented, the approach has appeared more performative than patriotic.
“We expect that you have more than just hopping from station to station and grandstanding,” she said.
Susan Adu-Amankwah emphasized the need to separate partisanship from national interest, particularly when the stakes involve Ghana’s image on the international stage.
“Look, people sometimes forget that when we go out there, it doesn’t matter whether you are NDC, NPP… you are Ghanaian,” she declared.
“And when things go out into the public and into the world, it is about you being Ghanaian.”
She warned that political players often forget how such controversies affect all citizens.
“They don’t profile us according to our political parties. They profile us according to our color, according to the country, Ghana. That is how they profile us. So when you go out there thinking that you are doing it against a party, don’t forget you are doing it against all of us who don’t vote either NPP or NDC.”
She called for a sober, non-partisan approach to drug enforcement and national security, especially given the history of drug-related concerns in Ghana.
“We definitely don’t want the other drugs to come and add to it,” she said.
“We don’t want to be used as a transit point. We don’t want to be used as an endpoint. And so it’s important that the government takes hold of it.”
She made an emotional plea to politicians across the divide: “All of us as politicians, we need to recognise this. It’s not just about party lines. It’s about the dignity of this country, and the lives of our people.”
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