‘This is Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, you can’t tell us how to conduct our foreign policy’ – Okuzdeto Ablakwa tells US Senator

Jim Risch is a veteran American politician and lawyer who has served as a senator from Idaho since 2009 in the USA. The 82-year-old has criticised Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwah, for constantly visiting the USA without planning on how to help his nation pay its US debt.

The Senator, on July 1st, wrote a message on his X wall informing Ghana that the US cannot keep supporting Ghana whilst it pays larger debts to China.

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“Instead of a trip to D.C., Ghana’s foreign minister should focus on honouring his government’s commitments to repay U.S. companies and the American taxpayers. We cannot keep subsidizing Ghana while it continues paying far larger debts to China”, Jim Risch.

Okudzeto Ablakwah, upon seeing the message, replied to Risch via his X wall by telling him to avoid trying to advise Ghana on which country they have to conduct foreign policy with.

Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister wrote;

“This is very rich coming from someone who refuses to engage in the same advocacy for the payment of reparations by the US for its despicable and condemnable role in slavery.

“You will not be allowed to dictate to a sovereign country on how we conduct our foreign policy — if you need to be reminded — this is Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana — the first African nation to defeat colonialism and imperialism.

“Let me be clear, those measly debts compared to what you owe us in reparations would be paid when we deem appropriate based on our prudent economic recovery program — even though the debt was not created by the new Mahama Administration. Unlike you, we take responsibility and honour our national obligations.

Trump’s administration is contemplating adding Ghana to the list of countries that the US have banned from travelling to the country.