The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jr, has strongly criticised the growing trend of political parties resorting to diplomatic missions to settle domestic disputes.
Speaking on Metro TV on April 9, 2025, Kwesi Pratt Jr insisted that such practices highlight weaknesses in Ghana’s democratic system and subjects the nation to international ridicule.
“This drama is taking a bizarre proportion… Now, for me, the worst thing that has happened so far is the involvement of diplomatic missions in state issues. I have to be honest here, it is not only the NPP that takes that tangent; the NDC also behaves like that too. We have a small disagreement; we don’t see eye to eye, and then they run to diplomatic missions.
“What’s wrong with the political leaders that we have in this country. Why? They forget that on December 7, we lined up to choose a government. We didn’t vote for diplomatic missions… So, this running to diplomatic missions as if they have oversight responsibility over our governance is strange. I don’t understand it,” he lamented.
His reaction follows the Minority in Parliament’s petition to the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and Ambassador of Lebanon to Ghana, Maher Kheir, to intervene in the ongoing controversy surrounding the alleged suspicious flights from Gran Canaria that landed at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
In a statement issued on April 8, 2025, and signed by the Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, the Minority appealed to the diplomatic community to support Ghanaian authorities in investigating the alleged landing of two AirMed flights and a Cavok Air cargo flight that reportedly transported suspected illicit drugs and money into the country.
The request follows a press conference held by the Minority on April 1, 2025, during which they raised serious national security concerns and called on state authorities to probe the mysterious flights.
This development has irked the veteran journalist, who has questioned why both parties are quick to request the involvement of diplomatic missions in resolving issues of the state.
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