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Original Post Date: 2010-09-08 Time: 17:00:01 Posted By: News Poster
By Kofi Agyepong
He may not have said it directly, but former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has sent words of caution to Ghana’s President Mills and other African leaders to stop “the glamorization of coup makers.”
He did not stop there; he also called for the total condemnation of unconstitutional truncations of democratic governments. The Former Nigerian leader was in Ghana last week to attend the first ever Africa Green Revolution Forum.
Speaking as a guest at the Ghana Military Academy (GMA) Golden Jubilee Panel Discussion in Accra, he said “Any military coup is unacceptable and we must stop glamorizing their actions.”
Was that a veiled or direct swipe at NDC founder Jerry Rawlings who continues to extol and celebrate the coups that brought him to power and is aided directly or indirectly by Ghana’s current civilian head of state?
Military adventurism, General Obasanjo said, is detrimental to any country’s development and growth and “If a military officer wants to govern, he should resign his commission and seek for political power democratically.”
The former Nigerian leader rose to power not as a coup maker himself, but after the leader of a coup, General Mohammed Murtala was assassinated.
Obasanjo, then the most senior officer after the slain Murtala, took over as head of the military government.
He is credited with stabilizing Nigeria after that and eventually handed over to a civilian administration.
He was incarcerated by another military adventurer, General Abacha, whose death led to elections that brought Obasanjo back to power, this time as a leader of a political party.
He relinquished power in 2007 after his constitutional mandate run out.
The GMA event, where he spoke was on the theme: “Turning out Quality Military Leaders in the 21st Century: A re-appraisal of leadership Training in the Ghana Armed Forces”.
It formed part of activities marking the 50th anniversary of the GMA, at which some eminent academicians and military officers urged the retooling of that institution to make its training relevant in contemporary times.
The GMA has trained over 3,000 military officers, with a significant number of them, coming from other African countries, some of whom have excelled not only in their military carriers but in governance in their respective countries, including Gen Obasanjo.
Gen Obasanjo congratulated the GMA on that milestone, calling for a re-evaluation of the training needs of the institution and the overhauling of facilities to reflect changing trends in the defence arena.
He said the changing security environment necessitated that the military should not be rooted in the past, but to continually evolve with reviews to leadership training.
“The military has its ethics and principles but the challenges of the times demand that we also change because it will not auger well for any armed forces that is rooted in the past” the former Nigerian President said.
He called for a pragmatic approach in training military leaders for the 21st century, insisting on the need to imbue in military officers the tenets of democracy and good governance.
Gen Obasanjo said that all future programmes to train military leaders should be structured such that it could make an impact on the development of nations.
He, together with others like ex-Flt. Lt. Rawlings in Ghana, Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso, Yaya Jammeh in The Gambia are the last remaining vestiges of soldier politicians, serving or retired, still stomping the ECOWAS sub-region.
Mr. J.J. Rawlings, now the “Founder” of one of Ghana’s political parties is the only coup maker alive, having seen off three of his predecessors in the art of coup making through executions after the junior officers and Other Ranks mutiny of 1979.
Even though Nigeria was also riddled with coups after independence, her past military leaders have not suffered the same fate as their erstwhile Ghanaian counterparts.
Mr. Rawlings’ coup credentials have served him well, making him one of the most vociferous voices on Ghana’s political landscape. He is critical of everybody but himself.
He was always snapping at the heels of the Kufuor Administration and even when his party slipped through by a razor thin margin to form a government after Election ’08, he has continued to snap at the Mills Administration.
In a remarkable show of solidarity however, President Mills has steadfastly stood by his “Founder” even describing him as a “Statesman.”
In a press conference to usher in his first hundred days in office, President Mills described Mr. Rawlings as a person with vast political experience whose advice should be taken seriously.
Mr. Rawlings’ words have mostly been inciting rather than insightful even describing some members of the Mills’s cabinet as “greedy bastards” but he continues to be glamorized…Could that be what General Obasanjo was getting at?
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Original date published: 7 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009070951.html?viewall=1