By: Dehandsomeblogger Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has issued a scathing response to the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee following recent remarks criticizing Ghana’s debt repayment priorities. In a strongly worded post on social media, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee suggested that Ghana's foreign minister should prioritize repaying debts owed to U.S. companies and taxpayers instead of traveling to Washington, D.C. According to the post, “We cannot keep subsidizing Ghana while it continues paying far larger debts to China.” But the comments did not sit well with Ghanaian lawmaker and Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, who fired back by defending Ghana’s sovereignty and demanding mutual respect in international relations. He accused the U.S. of hypocrisy, particularly in its lack of commitment to reparations for its historical role in the transatlantic slave trade. “This is very...
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