A former Attorney General and Minister of Justice under the Jerry Rawlings-led administration, Dr Obed Asamoa, has described coup mongers as childish people who are unaware of the consequences military takeovers has for a country.
He observed that coup makers do not discriminate and coup mongers would be at risk when there is a military takeover and the soldiers who overthrow a constitutionally elected government would always revenge against persons they had issues with.
“If for example, someone is fighting with a military officer over a woman, that person will be targeted if there is a coup and be eliminated and the #FixTheCountry movement which some of them are openly calling for a military takeover are childish people.
“When a coup happens the power that is wielded by the soldiers immediately after the coup is not discriminatory, they look at it in personal terms and if for example, you have crossed some military officer in traffic and he is annoyed with you, he is coming to shoot you in the confusion of the revolution.
“Or maybe, you have been fighting with him over an issue and in the confusion he will shoot you so the consequences can be non-discriminatory, they can affect the people who are asking for that,” Dr Asamoah warned.
He explained that it was not automatic a military government would solve challenges and problems facing the people for which they are calling for a revolution and cautioned that there could be a military government that would be completely inefficient and ineffective which would compound hardships the citizenry were facing.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has raised concerns about commentaries on coups among some citizens and warned that Parliament would suffer most when there was military takeover as compared to Judiciary or the Executive.
In a meeting with members of the Council of State he indicated that “if there is a coup, it is Parliament that suffers, Judiciary will always be there, there will always be an Executive arm and because of the absence of Parliament, many Ghanaians do not understand what parliament is”. -3news.com
