THE writing was on the wall as soon as President JEA Mills of Ghana uttered the controversial dziwo fie asem words which betrayed the regional body, ECOWAS, and, by extension, the wish of the majority of Ivorians to have their electoral mandate respected by the defeated incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo.
The New Statesman can confirm that the entire staff of Ghana’s embassy in Abidjan, including the ambassador, Col E K T Donkor (rtd), have been evacuated to Ghana and the mission closed down.
This evacuation, according to embassy sources, was forced by perceived or real threats to the lives of the staff of the embassy after Laurent Gbagbo’s arrest and Alassane Ouattara taking full charge as the legitimately elected president of Cote d’Ivoire.
The reaction of the opposition New Patriotic Party in Ghana has been swift and damning. Nana Akomea, the Communications Director of the NPP, told the New Statesman, when reached for his party’s comment, said, “it was a likely consequent of the President’s blunder which we warned was reckless, compromised our national and regional security and exposed the lives of Ghanaians to danger.”
When contacted for his comments by on this latest development the Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, wondered who Ghanaians in La Cote d'Ivoire would turn to if they needed any form of assistance.
Copyright, Blaise APLOGAN, 2010,© Bienvenu sur Babilown
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