Certainly, Brigadier General J Wonje has adequate capacity to call Capt (GN) H Manu (GH/3474), Dr. Wiafe Akenten of Department of Psychology of the University of Ghana, because of courtesies and respect, Brigadier Generals AY Assiamah (GH/2561), J Vander-Pallen (GH/2645), EK Konadu (GH/2749) Colonel MY Borbi (GH/3052) and Colonel EK Fiamavle (GH/2926).
Owing to the similarities in the scenarios of 2009 when the training of potential 420 Army recruits and additional 2,000 for the Army, Navy and Air Force were initially suspended and finally cancelled and 2025 suspension of 2024/2025 enlistment process and the dangerous investigation of RCC 64, who are already in training, we may wish to alert Ghanaians that these investigations are based on ethnocentrism, malice and mischief.
The inconsistent utterances of Colonel EWK Nibo (GH/1868) the then Director of Public Relations of Ghana Armed Forces, on Chairman General Kwame Sefa Kayi’s Peace FM “Kokrokoo Morning Show” between Monday, 2nd February and Wednesday 4th February, 2009 and those of NDC Communicators and some NDC Members of Parliament, especially those of Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo, then NDC MP for Kpone Katamanso, exposed the hypocrisy and mischief of the NDC Administration in matters of recruitment and enlistment into the Ghana Armed Forces. They alleged irregularities in the recruitment process but finally indicated that the selected persons were predominantly Akans, especially Asantes, who they could not tolerate to be recruited into the Armed Forces as they suspected that majority of them would be NPP sympathizers.
The same concerns and beliefs are held by the current NDC Administration of John Mahama. The appointments and employment of several thousand Ghanaians have been terminated for the fear that the persons involved are either all or mostly NPP members or sympathizers.
It is the same reasoning and philosophy that are underpinning the current investigation in the Ghana Armed Forces.
Furthermore, the current situation is more dangerous and serious when considered alongside other actions of the NDC Administration aimed at controlling all the three Arms of Government (Executive, Legislature and Judiciary), the Security Services, especially the Ghana Armed Forces, the Media, Ministries, Departments and Agencies and all other public institutions in Ghana.
The Constitutional Review Committee and its mandate, the violence experienced during the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in 2024, and the Council of State elections in 2025 and the usurpation of the mandate of the Electoral Commission in collation and declaration of results by the NDC are signs of worse things to happen in Ghana under the current NDC Administration.
We may wish to remind the likes of Generals William Agyapong and Lawrence Kwaku Gbetanu about the military recruitment and enlistment processes from 1985 to 2000 under the governments of the Provisional National Defence Council and NDC1 (PNDC) and 2009 to 2016 under the NDC 2 and 3 regimes of late John Mills and John Mahama.
Considering your ages and dates of Commission into the Ghana Armed Forces perhaps, you were too young to know about or you could not be bothered about recruitment and enlistment issues in those times.
General W Agyapong considering your declared date of birth, 08/01/1968, you were only fourteen years old when the PNDC assumed the coercive powers of state to govern Ghana and could be forgiven if you did not know about some of the methods and strategies used by the PNDC and later the NDC to inundate the Armed Forces with their politically and ethnocentrically correct persons without following the well tested laid down procedures and processes for recruitment and enlistment into the Ghana Armed Forces.
Rear Admiral GL Bessing (GH/2617) and General LK Gbetanu were slightly older than General W Agyapong as their declared Dates of Birth are 14/06/1964 and 20/07/1966 respectively.
AVM E Agyen-Frempong (GH/2603) with 14/06/1968 and AVM JL Mensah-Larkai with 26/04/1970 as their dates of birth respectively may be in the same boat of age groups or close contemporaries and may not know much about the recruitments and enlistment of persons into the Ghana Armed Forces during those eras.
It is our belief that you might know of or heard about a unit called Forces Reserve Battalion (FRB) which was established by the PNDC. The FRB was later christened the 64 Infantry Regiment to immortalize the June 4th (6 for June and 4 for 4th) Revolution. [The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC)].
For your information, one of FRB’s Finest Commanding Officers was Lieutenant Colonel DK Quarshie (GH/1373) of RCC 14. May his kind and gentle soul rest in perfect peace as he died tragically on 03 April, 1989 while on official duty.
During the FRB era and the 64 Infantry Regiment era in the 1980s till 2000, persons were recruited clandestinely into the Ghana Armed Forces and trained at Asutsuare Training Camp without following the time-tested laid down procedures and processes of recruitment. Personnel of Forces Records Office were taken to Asutsuare Training to document and give Regimental Numbers to these recruits under strict warning and threats never to divulge this information or would be held revolutionarily accountable and responsible and that could mean death.
All those persons were in the system and no investigation or Board of Inquiry was ever instituted into their recruitment even though it was a common knowledge in sections of the Armed Forces. The loyalty of those soldiers was primarily to the PNDC/NDC and most importantly to Jerry Rawlings. Until the prudent and systematic integration of those soldiers into the main stream of the Ghana Armed Forces from 2001 to 2004, there were always tensions in the Ghana Armed Forces because of their peculiar training, indoctrination and privileges.
Our dear investigator, Brigadier General Jackson Wonje, even though you were born on 15/08/1967, you were commissioned on 14/08/1992, just a few months before the first general elections of the 1992 Constitution. As a Second Lieutenant then, you might not have understood the system and appreciated the role soldiers of the 64 Infantry Regiment played in the Presidential elections of November 1992, which resulted in the publication of the Stolen Verdict by the opposition parties led by the New Patriotic Party and the subsequent boycott of the Parliamentary elections of 1992.
Events of today are similar to those days when the President had absolute Executive and Legislative power and cowed the Judiciary into submission especially because of the murder of the three Justices of the Superior Courts and the only Retired Major at the Bundase Shooting Range.
Our dear Generals, you may be wondering why all these tales are being told today. We may wish to alert you that our dear country, Ghana, is dangerously heading towards social disintegration and violence.
As respected members of our enviable Armed Forces, you have a duty and responsibility just as the politicians to ensure that we have peace, stability, unity and prosperity in our country. All acts of discrimination are to be eschewed as per the Directive Principles of State Policy under the 1992 Constitution. All forms of discrimination are to be avoided. Pragmatic and reasonable measures are to be implemented by the state to ensure that there shall be reasonable regional and gender balances in appointments and recruitments into public offices.
As a result, please heed to this appeal to ensure that there shall be no further acts of discrimination, persecution and prosecution along ethnic and political lines in the Armed Forces.
The current Military High Command has already relieved Lieutenant Colonels S Twumasi (GH/3535) and Edmund Nana Nyarko Osae (GH/3537) of their operational commands for Peace Support Operations in Gambia and South Sudan respectively. This is considered as a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing of Asantes in command positions of the Ghana Armed Forces. It cannot be sheer coincidence that the victims of these vindictiveness and victimization are all Asantes (Akans).
Our investigations have shown that Lieutenant Colonel Sarfo Kantanka Dapaah (GH/3607), wwho is training with his troops at Bundase, is also to be replaced soon because he is also an Asante (Akan).
In 2009, the then Defence Minister, Lieutenant General Joseph Henry Smith (GH/830) was asked an urgent question on the suspension and cancellation of the training of the four hundred and twenty (420) Army potential Recruits in Parliament under an Urgent Question. His answers to the main question and the follow-up questions were pathetic. Fearing that Dr. Omane Boamah could be invited to Parliament to answer questions on the enlistment, as hinted by Honourable Rev Ntim Fordjour, the current Military High Command under pressure from the Minister and hawks in the NDC Administration, have directed the Chief of Staff to convene this investigation in order to try and find fault at all cost. The ultimate aim is to Court Martial officers who are targets of this investigation and others to follow soon.
The case of the Cadets of RCC 64, who are already at training, may have very serious consequences and ramifications on our Armed Forces and society as a whole. Why can’t the hawks in the NDC allow sleeping dogs to lie coolly without any disturbances?
Were the current Generals of the Military High Command not in this country when during President Mahama’s first full term as President, tragedy struck the son of Honourable Cletus Avorka, then MP for Zebilla or former MP for Zebilla at the Ghana Military Academy? Was there any Board of Inquiry into the whole enlistment process at the time? Obviously no, it was only the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the death that were investigated even though it was a known fact that the former Honourable MP influenced the selection of his son for the Military Academy. We are watching the unfolding events with eagle eyes.
Remember that One Nation One People and One Destiny. Shalom!
