{"id":4030,"date":"2019-10-01T13:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2019-10-01T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:38:31","slug":"foiled-coup-nana-b-slams-ex-president-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/foiled-coup-nana-b-slams-ex-president-mahama","title":{"rendered":"Foiled Coup: Nana B slams ex-president Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, has described comments of former President John Mahama on the alleged coup plot in Ghana as irresponsible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Nana B as he is popularly known, the comments of Mr Mahama do not reflect those of a former president and a former Chief Commander of the Ghana Armed Forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe comment of Mr Mahama is reckless and irresponsible because as a former President, he must be worried and concerned but he chose to trivialise the situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Adom TV\u2019s\u00a0Badwam\u00a0show, Nana B called for the non-politicisation of the issue but wait for the security agencies to get to the bottom of their investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhanaians can make fun of the issue on social media but not a former president,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nana B added: \u201cThe action of the NDC over this issue is making me to believe they are behind this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahama, speaking at the 13th Annual Residential Congress of the National Health Students Association at Korle-Bu on Thursday, joined the many who have questioned the plausibility of government\u2019s announcement of an attempted coup in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The former President indicated he had joined the #CoupChallenge and explained how some weird weapons could be helpful in a coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was this challenge going on of people showing possible weapons that can be used in a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat . There was this one that was very intriguing because there was the wooden spatula that is used to stir banku that we popularly call \u2018bankuta\u2019 and I said well you can hit the guy with the bankuta and he may fall unconscious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, has described comments of former President John Mahama on the alleged coup plot in Ghana as irresponsible. 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