• Headlines! #Ghana
  • #Friday Headlines in #Ghana
  • Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has begun engaging key stakeholders of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to inform them about his intention to run for the presidency, DGN Online can report.
  • The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) while welcoming the numerous calls for action and investigations into what has come to be known as the Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng report, has reiterated that it is already investigating the stewardship of the Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), which would include the report.
  • The Paramount Chief of Tepa, Nana Adusei Atwere Ampem I, has installed Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the education minister as the Development Chief (Nkosuohene) of the Tepa Traditional Area for his immense contribution to the transformation of education in Ghana.
  • Headlines in Ghana #ghana
  • 6.1 million SIM cards scrapped! #Ghana Headline
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Monday, May 12, 2025
  • Login
  • Register
The New Crusading Guide Online
Advertisement
  • Home 🏡
  • Ghana

    Commonwealth Lawyers Fights Mahama …Over Suspension Of Chief Justice

    Broken Dreams: 36,000 Ghanaians Pay for U.S. Visas They Never Received”

    State Sponsored Intimidation and theWitch-Hunting of Political Opponent

    Afenyo-Markin Slams Mahama’s First 120 Days as “Disappointment and Deception”

    Godfred Dame On Supreme Court’s Decision Over Suspended Chief Justice: 3-2 Ruling Shows Our Case Had Merit 

    Peace Over Partisanship: Bawku’s Peace Can’t Wait For Political Games -Bawumia

    Ghana’s Political Parties Demand Reinstatement of Chief Justice, Decry Executive Overreach Story by Adu Koranteng 

    Ghana’s Political Parties Demand Reinstatement of Chief Justice, Decry Executive Overreach Story by Adu Koranteng

    NPP, Opposition Parties Rock Accra with Massive Demonstration Against Chief Justice’s Suspension By Adu Koranteng

    Trending Tags

    • Anas
    • NDC
  • Politics

    Commonwealth Lawyers Fights Mahama …Over Suspension Of Chief Justice

    Broken Dreams: 36,000 Ghanaians Pay for U.S. Visas They Never Received”

    State Sponsored Intimidation and theWitch-Hunting of Political Opponent

    Afenyo-Markin Slams Mahama’s First 120 Days as “Disappointment and Deception”

    Godfred Dame On Supreme Court’s Decision Over Suspended Chief Justice: 3-2 Ruling Shows Our Case Had Merit 

    Peace Over Partisanship: Bawku’s Peace Can’t Wait For Political Games -Bawumia

    Ghana’s Political Parties Demand Reinstatement of Chief Justice, Decry Executive Overreach Story by Adu Koranteng 

    Ghana’s Political Parties Demand Reinstatement of Chief Justice, Decry Executive Overreach Story by Adu Koranteng

    NPP, Opposition Parties Rock Accra with Massive Demonstration Against Chief Justice’s Suspension By Adu Koranteng

    Let’s Keep Hope Alive; We Shall Bounce Back -Bawumia Rallies NPP Members

  • Africa

    French Development Agency CEO on Field Mission in Moroccan Sahara

    ‘Proud to be young’ – Beauty queen, lawyer and Botswana’s youngest cabinet minister

    Pope Leo XIV has supported his predecessor - and attention will focus on his early actions

    Who is Robert Prevost, the new Pope Leo XIV?

    World Law Congress 2025: Morocco highlights its legal model and its Autonomy Plan.

    James Arkoudis – CEO of Cassius Mining Limited

    In The Matter Of $277m Suit Against Gov’t: Cassius Mines Releases Update

    ANAS WINS $18M AGAINST KEN AGYAPONG

    GITFiC-AfCFTA Curriculum Launch Path To United, Stronger Africa

    2024 Elections: Mahama Wins …As Bawumia Accepts Election Outcomes

    Jospong Group, Uasin Gishu County

  • World
    • All
    • Europe
    • Middle East
    • US
    Pope Leo XIV has supported his predecessor - and attention will focus on his early actions

    Who is Robert Prevost, the new Pope Leo XIV?

    The World Can Not Be Safe If West Africa Remains Unsafe -Hon. Kan-Dapaah

    Niger’s junta revokes military agreement with US

    Anas and Muntaka win award in France

    What Were Hamas thinking?

    Ghana Will Continue to Export Cocoa to EU Market  -Cocobod Dep. CEO 

    German climate activists raided for forming ‘criminal group’

    Ukraine war: US distances itself from Belgorod incursion into Russia

    US To Help Ghana Resolve Economic Crisis

  • Entertainment
    • All
    • Gaming
    • Movie
    • Music
    • Sports

    People are handing out badges at Tube stations to tackle loneliness

    Magical fish basically has the power to conjure its own Patronus

    This Filipino guy channels his inner Miss Universe by strutting in six-inch heels and speedos

    Using a mind reading device, ‘locked-in’ patients told researchers they’re happy

    GoPro’s Karma drone is back on sale after design flaw made them fall out of the sky

    J.K. Rowling Is Shutting Down Readers Who Burned All Their Harry Potter Books

    The Scary Reason Healthy People Die After an ER Visit

    Watch Justin Timberlake’s ‘Cry Me a River’ Come to Life in Mesmerizing Dance

    Barack Obama’s Now Mainly Focusing on Wearing This Casual Backwards Hat

    7 February games you should get excited about

    • Lifestyle
      • All
      • Fashion
      • Food
      • Health
      • Travel

      People are handing out badges at Tube stations to tackle loneliness

      Magical fish basically has the power to conjure its own Patronus

      This Filipino guy channels his inner Miss Universe by strutting in six-inch heels and speedos

      Make yourself feel better by laughing at January’s best news bloopers

      Using a mind reading device, ‘locked-in’ patients told researchers they’re happy

      J.K. Rowling Is Shutting Down Readers Who Burned All Their Harry Potter Books

      The Scary Reason Healthy People Die After an ER Visit

      Watch Justin Timberlake’s ‘Cry Me a River’ Come to Life in Mesmerizing Dance

      Barack Obama’s Now Mainly Focusing on Wearing This Casual Backwards Hat

      7 February games you should get excited about

      Trending Tags

      • Golden Globes
      • Mr. Robot
      • MotoGP 2017
      • Climate Change
      • Flat Earth
  • Subscribers content
  • More News
    • Reviews
    • Social Media
  • Tech
    • Apps & Software
    • Mobile
    • Startup
No Result
View All Result
The New Crusading Guide Online
No Result
View All Result
Home Ghana Politics

Coups Retard Growth -President Akufo-Addo Bespeaks

by News Desk
March 16, 2022
in Politics, Social Media
Reading Time: 3 mins read
A A
0
491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Whatsapp

“Our unity and resolve should send a clear message to coup plotters that coups have never been, and will never be durable solutions to Africa’s political, economic and security challenges. Statements condemning coups alone without corresponding action will, however, achieve little or nothing, as witnessed in recent times. This problem requires collective agreement, effective deterrence, bold action and, equally important, adequate preventive measures”.

These were the words of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at the African Union Peace and Security Council Forum on Unconstitutional Changes of Governments in Africa, held on Tuesday, 15th March 2022, at the Kempinski Hotel Accra.

Delivering the keynote address at the event, President Akufo-Addo stated that even though it has taken a long time for a consensus to emerge in Ghana, and, indeed, in Africa, that the democratic form of governance is preferable, “we should not take it for granted that everybody has accepted democracy as the preferred mode of governance”.

According to the President, “there are those who hanker after authoritarian, personal rule, because they claim Africa is underdeveloped and democracy is cumbersome, and we need to get things done in a hurry. There are those who seek short-cuts to office to exercise power without limits, and there are those who have no respect for the free choices of our sovereign people, because they do not accord with their so-called ideological preferences.”

Against this background, reiterated that “we still have some work to do to convince such people that we are all safer under democracies”.

 

Citing data from the 2019 Annual Risk of Coup Report, the President noted that Africa has experienced more coup d’états than any other continent, with thirty percent (30%) of all coup attempts on the continent having occurred in democracies.

“As current Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States, I have witnessed directly the devastating effects that coups d’états and attempted coups have had on the region. There have been at least three such occurrences in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso, and an unsuccessful attempt in Guinea Bissau. As some of you may know, the AU and other Regional Economic Communities (RECs), such as ECOWAS, have identified a myriad of factors underpinning unconstitutional changes of government,” President Akufo-Addo said.

He continued, “Among them are, according to the AU Peace and Security Council, ‘deficiencies in governance, political greed, mismanagement of diversity, failure to seize opportunities, marginalization, human rights violations, unwillingness to accept electoral defeat, manipulation of constitutions and their revision through unconstitutional means to serve personal narrow interests’ and so on”.

The reappearance of coups in Africa in all its forms and manifestations, the President said, must be condemned by all, since it seriously undermines the collective bid to rid the continent of the menace of instability and unconstitutional changes in government, as currently defined by the frameworks enshrined in the Lomé Declaration, the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, and other important regional and continental instruments.

“Unconstitutional regime changes retard a country’s growth,” he added.

 

In as much as the drivers of unconstitutional changes in Government are largely domestic, President Akufo-Addo noted that the international dimension cannot be overlooked, as foreign involvement in fomenting unconstitutional changes, often in favour of repressive governments, foreign economic interests and other would-be geo-political benefits, are contributory factors.

“Some foreign entities regard coups in African countries as a means of enhancing their regional ambitions. As such, they engage in all sorts of disinformation campaigns in a bid to disparage the authority of democratically elected governments and instigate opposition protests against incumbents,” he added.

 

Sanctions

In implementing existing continental and regional instruments and protocols, he indicated that defaulting Member States are condemned and suspended from the activities of continental and regional bodies, and individual coup-makers are sanctioned.

However, he noted that, in reality, these sanctions have not been applied uniformly.

“While we are quick to sanction military coup leaders, civilians, who achieve similar ends via the manipulation of constitutions to remain in power, for example, go without sanctions, although their actions are clearly prohibited in our legal instruments. This means that the existing frameworks need to be strengthened to capture such infractions,” President Akufo-Addo said.

 

Share196Tweet123SendShare

Get real time update about this post categories directly on your device, subscribe now.

Unsubscribe
News Desk

News Desk

Related Posts

Commonwealth Lawyers Fights Mahama …Over Suspension Of Chief Justice

May 12, 2025

Broken Dreams: 36,000 Ghanaians Pay for U.S. Visas They Never Received”

May 10, 2025

State Sponsored Intimidation and theWitch-Hunting of Political Opponent

May 8, 2025

Afenyo-Markin Slams Mahama’s First 120 Days as “Disappointment and Deception”

May 8, 2025

Accra to Host TARJ Forum Pre-Event on July 26th

May 7, 2025

Vivo Energy Ghana provides training for Women of Chosen Rehabilitation Centre

May 7, 2025

World Law Congress 2025: Morocco highlights its legal model and its Autonomy Plan.

May 7, 2025

Ten Grabbed In Boin Forest Reserve …Over Galamsey

May 7, 2025
Load More
  • Dr. Stephen Amoah Discovers Formula To Raise Ghana From Economic Doldrums

    491 shares
    Share 196 Tweet 123
  • Okyenhene Warns KOANS …To Stay Away From Akyem Lands 

    491 shares
    Share 196 Tweet 123
  • Supreme Court Exposes Estate Developer …Over Fraudulent Judgement Against Jeleel 

    491 shares
    Share 196 Tweet 123
  • Muntaka, Bailiff Showdown @East Lagon Police Station

    491 shares
    Share 196 Tweet 123
  • Twumasiwaa Hospital Killer Grabbed …Detailed Accounts Of How NIB Nabbed Main Suspect Within 48Hrs

    491 shares
    Share 196 Tweet 123

Follow Us

  • 200 Followers
  • 242 Followers
  • 250
  • 23.9k Followers

Instagram Photos

  • Headlines! #Ghana
  • #Friday Headlines in #Ghana
  • Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has begun engaging key stakeholders of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to inform them about his intention to run for the presidency, DGN Online can report.
  • The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) while welcoming the numerous calls for action and investigations into what has come to be known as the Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng report, has reiterated that it is already investigating the stewardship of the Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), which would include the report.
  • The Paramount Chief of Tepa, Nana Adusei Atwere Ampem I, has installed Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the education minister as the Development Chief (Nkosuohene) of the Tepa Traditional Area for his immense contribution to the transformation of education in Ghana.
  • Headlines in Ghana #ghana
  • 6.1 million SIM cards scrapped! #Ghana Headline
  • Alan Kyeremanteng Meets Chief Imam, Muslim Community for ‘Iftar’
Ghana

Commonwealth Lawyers Fights Mahama …Over Suspension Of Chief Justice

May 12, 2025
Business

McDan Defends 18-Year Legacy on Airport Land Amid Legal Tensions

May 12, 2025
Africa

French Development Agency CEO on Field Mission in Moroccan Sahara

May 11, 2025
Africa

‘Proud to be young’ – Beauty queen, lawyer and Botswana’s youngest cabinet minister

May 11, 2025
    • Trending
    • Comments
    • Latest

    Dr. Stephen Amoah Discovers Formula To Raise Ghana From Economic Doldrums

    September 24, 2024
    Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II

    Okyenhene Warns KOANS …To Stay Away From Akyem Lands 

    August 23, 2022

    Supreme Court Exposes Estate Developer …Over Fraudulent Judgement Against Jeleel 

    March 11, 2022

    Muntaka, Bailiff Showdown @East Lagon Police Station

    August 15, 2021

    Alarm Blows!! Over 1,200 Companies Caught Evading Tax, Money Laundering

    2

    Furious Winds Blow Over NTHC …Customers Up-In-Arms Over Dividends, Investment As Company Limps

    2

    Why Asantehene is a King – A rejoinder

    1

    Queen Mother Floors Ga East MCE In Court …Over Kwabenya Market Lands

    1

    Commonwealth Lawyers Fights Mahama …Over Suspension Of Chief Justice

    May 12, 2025

    McDan Defends 18-Year Legacy on Airport Land Amid Legal Tensions

    May 12, 2025

    French Development Agency CEO on Field Mission in Moroccan Sahara

    May 11, 2025

    ‘Proud to be young’ – Beauty queen, lawyer and Botswana’s youngest cabinet minister

    May 11, 2025
    • About
    • Advertise
    • Privacy & Policy
    • Contact
    Call us: +1 234 JEG THEME

    Welcome Back!

    OR

    Login to your account below

    Forgotten Password? Sign Up

    Create New Account!

    OR

    Fill the forms below to register

    All fields are required. Log In

    Retrieve your password

    Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

    Log In

    Add New Playlist

    No Result
    View All Result
    • Home
    • Entertainment
      • Gaming
      • Music
      • Movie
      • Sports
    • Lifestyle
      • Food
      • Fashion
      • Health
      • Travel

    Copyright © 2025 The New Crusading Guide Online

    Are you sure want to unlock this post?
    Unlock left : 0
    Are you sure want to cancel subscription?