Why Ghana allows US military base on its soil - The current government is adhering to an old policy of appeasement of Western interests
” and the Ghanaian government providing “unimpeded access to and use of [a]greed facilities and areas to United States forces.”
Pratt told me that this agreement allows US soldiers “far more privileges than those prescribed in thefor diplomats. They do not need passports to enter Ghana. All they need is their US Army identity cards. They don’t even require visas to enter Ghana. They are not subject to customs or any other inspection.”
Ghana has allowed the United States armed forces “to use Ghanaian radio frequencies for free,” Pratt said. But the most stunning fact about this arrangement is that, he said: “If US soldiers kill Ghanaians and destroy their properties, the US soldiers cannot be tried in Ghana. Ghanaians cannot sue US soldiers or the US government for compensation if and when their relatives are killed, or their properties are destroyed by the US Army or soldiers.
The current president of Ghana, Akufo-Addo, comes from the political ideology that the former prime minister of Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia , also conformed to. In the early 1950s, Pratt told me, those following this ideology “dispatched a delegation to the United Kingdom to persuade the authorities that it was too early to grant independence to the Gold Coast.
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