Anchoring Democracy Advocacy Movement Ghana (ADAM-GH) condemns the killing of a soldier named LC. DANSO MICHAEL in Kasoa and many other attacks on soldiers in recent days.
GAF, as an institution, belongs to Ghanaians, and it is our collective responsibility to protect the image of the GAF, regardless of some unprofessional conduct by a few senior officers and other soldiers who are stooges to evil and selfish political manipulation, denting the long-standing respect and reputation of the GAF.
It is a big disgrace to the entire country that soldiers, who are trained to protect our territorial borders against external enemies, can now be humiliated and killed by civilians because of misplaced priorities by their superiors. Since when did our soldiers deviate from their core mandate and become political tools for intimidation and maltreating Ghanaians instead of protecting the citizens?
However, ADAM-GH, as a civil society organization, has for some years raised serious concerns regarding how soldiers are used for civil exercises in civilian environments such as land grabbing, tribal conflicts, especially in Bawku, political or elections-related matters, personal bodyguards, and many other unacceptable behaviors and misuses of soldiers by those in government.
It is undoubtedly clear that civilians these days have no respect for soldiers, and people are highly tempered and always ready to confront soldiers on battlegrounds to defend their rights, be it political elections, tribal conflicts, or ownership of land and properties. The morale of the Ghana Armed Forces, the integrity, the respect, and justice of this great institution have been soiled by the leadership of the Ghana Armed Forces, who love their political masters more than the GAF as an institution.
My appeal to the current leadership of the Ghana Armed Forces is that if they cannot stay neutral and restore or redeem the image of the GAF once again, they should resign to save this noble institution from further embarrassment.
It will interest you to know that the Ghana Police Service, despite its long-standing records of being a corrupt institution, suddenly commands more respect than soldiers by the general public in this country.
If we can all recall the military invasion of Parliament House in January 2021 to fight for the NPP to retain their speaker of parliament, people in Military uniforms were seen openly shooting into crowds, killing eight innocent citizens, including teenagers, just to please their political masters in government in the 2020 General elections.
As we speak, there is another allegation ADAM-GH is investigating concerning NPP party boys who just finished training as special forces, and others are still in training, and their task in the December elections is to shoot and kill to protect the NPP and break the eight. When we finish our investigation, we will publish the names and house locations of those trained genocide special forces soldiers.
Military officers who belong to one of the conflict factions in Bawku and their friends, who are party boys, were used together with some party boys in National Security, openly went and attacked Buabula, a community in Bawku, killed twelve people in February 2021 in Ghana, and another three people were killed in Sabongari earlier this year in 2024. They used National Security and some of these same soldiers to attack the people of Garu, brutalizing people, and two died out of this inhumane treatment.
The leadership of the Ghana Armed Forces came out to deny and shielded the evil works of these genocide soldiers. Listening to the gentleman who shot and killed the soldier in Kasoa, his earlier frustration he went through by those in government using soldiers to commit atrocious acts, it is evidently clear that he did it out of frustration and anger, a weak system coupled with political state capture syndrome, using the presidency, especially Vice President Bawumia’s office seizing rice from businessmen, seizing lands, demolishing people’s properties, using National Security and soldiers to confiscate what actually belongs to the masses.
ADAM-GH is on its knees, pleading with the leadership of the Ghana Armed Forces to do all they can to redeem the image of this noble institution, to rebuild the lost confidence between the general public and the soldiers (GAF). GAF must detach from political, tribal, and unlawful commands from greedy civilians who are using biased political power, soiling the integrity of this great institution. If care is not taken, civilians and soldiers will continue to be sitting on tenterhooks, which can derail the dignity of GAF internationally.
Likewise, our appeal to the general public is that let us, as Ghanaians, at least help to protect our only Ghana Armed Forces we have, even in the face of leadership crisis as we witness currently. Let us not throw away the baby together with the dirty water.
