Speaking during a media affirmation in the Upper East Region, he gave the affirmation that the abutting NDC government will assignment to boldness the artificial accord amid Ghana and Burkina Faso, as appear by myjoyonline.com.
He said there is a "diplomatic tension" amid the two countries, admitting the president's efforts to boldness the issue.
John Mahama fatigued the charge for Ghana to advance acceptable relationships with neighbouring countries, decidedly as allotment of efforts to abode threats from the Sahel region.
"When your neighbour's bristles is on fire, you back baptize and put it by your bristles because it can advance to your own.
"We apperceive what is accident in Burkina Faso, and we should be alive afterpiece with our assembly in Burkina Faso. Unfortunately, this government has created astriction amid us and Burkina Faso because our Admiral went to accessible his aperture too widely, chattering about your neighbour, so it has created some adept tension.
"When government changes, we accept to go and allocution to our neighbours because we charge assignment together. I anticipate that we charge advance our relationship," he said.
He declared for added surveillance, and added aegis measures to anticipate bounded conflicts from overextension to the country.
Background
On December 14, 2024, the president, while acclamation reporters alongside U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, declared that Burkina Faso had assassin Russian mercenaries and that Burkina Faso had offered Wagner a abundance as payment.
"Today, Russian mercenaries are on our arctic border. Burkina Faso has now entered into an adjustment to go forth with Mali in employing the Wagner armament there," Akufo-Addo said.
Subsequently, Burkina Faso summoned Ghana's Agent on Friday, December 16, for "explanations."
In a account issued afterwards the affair with the ambassador, Burkina Faso's adopted admiral said it had "expressed disapproval" about the statements fabricated by the Ghanaian president.
"Ghana could accept undertaken exchanges with the Burkinabe authorities on the aegis affair in adjustment to accept the appropriate information," it said.
JKB/AE
Watch the latest adventure of Everyday People on GhanaWeb TV below: