I detest any loose talk that suggests that the Ghana Armed Forces is a conduit for coup – Koku Anyidoho tells Sam George

The Founder of the Atta-Mills Institute, Mr Koku Anyidoho has said he abhor any comment which seeks to suggest that the Ghana Armed Forces was an avenue through which coup plotters could carry out their undemocratic act.

According to him, having grown up in a barracks, Burma Camp to be specific, he was of the firm conviction that officers of the Ghana Armed Forces joined the service with good principles and reasons and not to use the service as an avenue to overthrow governments.

Mr Koku Anyidoho made the comment in a twitter post sighted by GhanaPlus.com on Thursday, May 27,2021.

“I was born in Burma-Camp and grew up there: I am of the firm conviction that ALL the fine officers and men/women I saw/see in uniform; joined the GAF for reasons of good conscience. I detest any loose talk that suggests that the GAF is a conduit for coup,” his tweet reads.

I was born in Burma-Camp and grew up there: I am of the firm conviction that ALL the fine officers and men/women I saw/see in uniform; joined the GAF for reasons of good conscience. I detest any loose talk that suggests that the GAF is a conduit for coup.

— Samuel Koku Anyidoho🇬🇭 (@KokuAnyidoho) May 27, 2021

I wanted to join the Army to stage a coup against Kufour

The renowned politicians post was in reaction to a comment made by the Member of Parliament(MP) for the Ningo Prampram Constituency, Mr Samuel Nartey George that he had wanted to join the Army in 2005 after leaving the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST to over throw the then Kufuor administration.

He made the comment on 3FM Drive on Wednesday May 26 and indicated his reason was that he felt President Kufuor was maltreating former President, Jerry John Rawlings.

“My plan was to go into the Army. There were four of us who bought our forms together, the other three are all senior Majors now, one or two of them should become Lieutenant Colonel by the end of this year if everything goes right.You may have been calling me Major Sam and not Honourable Sam,” he said.

“My mother cried and said no, I won’t go into the military because at that time I was quite young. When I was leaving the university I was 20 years and my dream was to go into the Army and stage a coup  because I didn’t like President Kufuor  that much at the time.

“I thought he was maltreating Rawlings,” he added.

Source: GhanaPlus.com