The National Communications Director of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Osei Kofi Acquah, has criticized the continued recognition of Lieutenant General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka in Ghana’s public institutions and monuments.
Speaking on the AM Show, Acquah described the situation as a historical injustice against the country’s democratic development.
“The reason why the CPP has been suffering for so many years is that we have agreed for the state to name our monuments and institutions after somebody like Kotoka,” he said.
He welcomed recent discussions about changing such names, saying the party supports any move in that direction.
“Now, we in the CPP are thanking them very much for considering a change,” he added.
Acquah also called for firm action against individuals involved in military coups that disrupted Ghana’s constitutional order.
“All those who took part in the coups that overthrew the First, Second, and Third Republics should be stripped of their ranks,” he stated.
“If Kotoka were a lieutenant, he should be made a corporal.”
According to him, the role of the military is to serve civilian leadership, not to take over political power.
“Soldiers are supposed to work for the government, not be government,” he said.
He stressed that Ghana must change how it remembers its past by honouring people who protected democracy rather than those who undermined it.
“The state must recognise those who defended democracy, not those who sabotaged it,” Acquah said.
