Eugene Arhin, the Director of Communications at the Presidency, has denied claims that some soldiers, numbering about 77, have left the Jubilee and gone back to their base the barracks over unfair treatment.
In a letter dated September 3, Eugene Arhin refutes the aforementioned claims, deeming them false. The statement underscores the absence of any substantiating evidence to support the assertion that seventy-seven security personnel departed Jubilee House as a result of unjust treatment.
Furthermore, the statement elucidates that any security officer who vacated Jubilee House did so either voluntarily or on disciplinary grounds.
“The Office of the President would like to put on record that at no point in the tenure of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, from 2017 till date, have seventy-seven security personnel left Jubilee House to their respective units. Indeed, no security officer has left Jubilee House because of “unfair treatment” meted out to them at the seat of the presidency. Curiously, at no point in Mr. Owusu’s submissions did he provide any evidence whatsoever to buttress these false claims.”
“It is important to stress that any security officer who has left Jubilee House has either been due to disciplinary reasons, or as a result of a voluntary decision made by the security officer in question. We urge the public to disregard these false claims, and treat them with the contempt they deserve.”
Tru News Report earlier reported that in the wake of the numerous coups erupting in some African countries, a Ghanaian cleric and social commentator, Rev. Charles Owusu, revealed why he thinks a similar template could be replicated in Ghana.
While discussing the issue juxtaposed with the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Super Delegates Congress held recently, Rev. Charles Owusu revealed that some security men made up of the police and military were stationed at the seat of government, the Jubilee House, and were ill-treated.
In furtherance of this, he mentioned that about 73 soldiers have indignantly left the Jubilee House and returned to the barracks and this could potentially become the catalyst to spur on a coup. He cited instances when ministers and other politicians who have these men in uniform as security apparatus treat them like nonentities.
Rev. Charles Owusu, while in the studios of Peace FM, said that given the discontentment that unanimously tied the soldiers’ emotions and the vast abject poverty plaguing the masses, coups have become a safe haven within this context. He hinted that if care is not taken based on the aforementioned, Ghana could be the next country to experience a coup.
