The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has taken a dig at President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo following his comments on neighbouring Burkina Faso giving Russian mercenaries a mine as payment to help fight an insurgency in that country.
He described the President’s comments as reckless, arguing that such remarks could jeopardise the security of Ghana.
President Akufo-Addo during the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington said the mine is near Ghana’s northern border with Burkina Faso, which used the operation to pay for work done by Wagner Group.
But addressing delegates at the NDC’s 10th National Congress, on December 17, 2022, at the Accra sports stadium, the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, warned the President to desist from meddling in such matters.
The entity supposedly contracted by the Burkinabe government is a mercenary outfit run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.