KT Hammond scolds Atuguba over coup comment
Professor Raymond Atuguba during a forum on 28th February 2022 stirred the hornets’ nest prompting a backlash from the Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Kobina Tahir Hammond.
For the legislator, he could not fathom why some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress take delight in the call for military intervention in running the affairs of the country when the New Patriotic Party is in power.
Prof Atugubainsinuated that the current economic hardships Ghana finds itself in create fertile grounds for coups.
He challenged the government to come out and own up to the economic situation the country finds itself in and do its best to salvage it.
“We do not want coup in this country but if we do not act quickly we may have one in our hands. 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.
“Ghana’s economic problems started before Covid-19. On balance, Covid-19 was a good thing for Africa and Ghana,” he said at a forum held by Solidare.
But in a sharp rebuttal to him, while engaging the media in Parliament on Wednesday March 2 2022, KT Hammond said “Why is it that in the course of NPP administration every opportunity that the NDC get, not all of them to be fair, but the irresponsible ones are calling for intervention of the military?
“Clearly, he is NDC sympathizer and indeed, I do know that at a point in time he worked with the office of the president, he is an NDC sympathizer but no problem with that but the constitution allows for the people of Ghana to speak at periodic times.
“The last one was 2020, we had the election, four more years, we have spent almost one and a half years thereafter, we will go for election.
“If the people do not like the NPP administration because they feel that we messed up it is for the people of the country to pass their judgement, it is not for the person who thinks he knows the law and who thinks he has studied the law to go about and brandishing foolishness like that.
“I will be surprised if they have not already invited him. Clear foolishness.”
