Being Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces doesn’t literally mean President John Dramani Mahama should be seen wearing military uniform in public, a top journalist in Ghana has observed.
“The title Commander-in-Chief doesn’t mean wear military uniforms”, the host of Movement TV’s political morning show, Kwaku Dawuro, said.
He observed that in the heat of the on-going Bawku conflict, it was wrong for President Mahama to wear military uniform in public.
“If you have started wearing it, then go to Bawku because you were the one who fuelled the conflict there”, he asserted.
He insisted that President John Mahama has deviated from the path his predecessors chose when it comes to wearing military regalia.
He cited the late former President Rawlings and commended him for going against wearing of military uniforms in public despite being a military ruler and later a democratic leader.
“Rawlinga became President under the democratic dispensation and I don’t remember him even rocking a military cap before.
Kufuor became the Commander-in-Chief for eight (8) years and he never wore a military uniform. Atta Mills didn’t commit this blunder.
But Mahama during your first term, you started wearing military uniform. He wore two; the camouflage and the red ceremonial regalia”, he said.
