Opinions of Monday, 6 April 2026

Columnist: Nana Yaw Osei, PhD

Ghana-EU defence deal after slavery reparations debate raises questions

Vice President Prof Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang (R) signed the partnership with EU Vice President Prof Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang (R) signed the partnership with EU

Although journalists are not lawyers, it would almost invariably appear superfluous to assert that writers are very ‘inquisitorial”. On Saturday, March 28, 2026, as the writer was driving on busy Highway 35W in Minneapolis, he saw demonstrators on the overpass crossing, holding placards with interesting signs. Some read: “no king”, “stop the Iran war”, “Ice out”, “democracy now”, “no fascism’.

These signs were referencing Donald Trump not only as a regal poon and mercurial personality but also as an obsequious lickspittle of fascism. Like Donald Trump, John Mahama-led National Democratic Congress government appears mercurial in signing a defense deal with EU after the latter abstained from recognizing slavery as an egregious crime against humanity, and more severe than the holocaust.

Here pity interposes as the writer cannot forget that when he attacks John Mahama, he wounds the fortunes of his own NDC, a party he joined in 2002. Again, Professor Jane, who signed the deal, taught the writer in 1998 at the University of Cape Coast. The course was titled “Women and development in Africa”. Professor Jane was not only a pretty scholar and ardent feminist but also appeared braggadocios about the capabilities of African women.

She cited Nana Yaa Asantewaa of Asante, the Amazon women warriors of Dahomey kingdom as examples of capable African women in history. It appears sad to attack my party and my professor. Nonetheless, the writer is goaded by the interesting slogan of the first pro nationalist movement of the Gold Coast, the Aborigines Rights Protection Society, formed in 1897. “For the safety of the Republic and the welfare of the race.”

John Mahama and Veep Jane are behaving like queen Victoria of England. After stigmatizing and judging those who used cannabis, Queen Victoria was secretly using marijuana for menstrual cramps. How could my president secure slavery reparations from the UN and have a defense deal with the EU? Far from suffering from cognitive bias known as the “horn effect,” the writer sincerely haggles to catch the drift. All that the EU ambassador to Ghana said is known in psychology as reaction formation (a defense mechanism in which individuals feel the opposite of their true feelings).

The USA voted against because of covert racism in some States. The writer came across a journal of sociology which found that when a black child picks a folk, he was hostile. The Caucasian child with the same folk was described as playful. The writer was not surprised by the decision of Argentina, for that country is one of the most anti-black in history. Most Nazis of Adolf Hitler’s fame migrated to Argentina. This partly explains why the writer will never support Argentina in the World Cup. Most Israelites are notoriously and incurably racist.

The best form of defense is buying fighter jets for the Ghana Air Force, equipping the Ghana Navy, and the Ghana Army. We should not take the 2028 elections for granted. Ghanaians are praising John Mahama because of Akufo-Addo’s bad governance. Uncle John Mahama, as a psychologist, I can see from afar that you have a big problem with trusting people. NDC needs to restructure the electoral commission with non-politically exposed citizens.

The EU could not defend Ukraine against Russian aggression. How could they defend Ghana against the militant terrorists? The deal is a betrayal for those who expressed solicitude for the black racial stock during the UN slavery reparation voting. “If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” ---Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The thought that the writer hates is the needless defense deal with the EU. Ghana and the EU defense deal place Ghana on a satirical spoof globally.