Cassette leak: Ofosu Ampofo, President of the NDC, officially charged

Saturday, March 16, 2019 Policy

Source: peacefmonline.com

2019-03-16

National President of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, was formally charged by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.

During a phone interview with Peacefmonline.com, the public relations officer of the police, CID, DSP Juliana Obeng, revealed that two other leaders of the opposition party, Mr. Sammy Gyamfi and Mr. Kwaku Boahen, National Officer and Deputy Communications Officer, were also charged by the police.

"They have all been charged with conspiracy to commit a crime with intent to kidnap and conspiracy to commit a crime threatening to cause harm," she said.

As a result, she added, the duo was asked to "stop" at the CID headquarters.

The CID police, let us recall, sent a formal invitation to the national president of the NDC to badist investigations in a broadcast audio file capturing him as he conspired with party members to harm political and political opponents. incite his supporters to attack some officials, including the Electoral Commission.

Police said some of Ofosu Ampofo's comments had implications for national security.

"Spying falsified, trafficked and illegal"

Already, the NDC has stated that the tape is "falsified" and "faked".

The opposition party initially reported that its offices had been checked following the distribution of the recordings and accused the government of engaging in illegal espionage.

Sammy Gyamfi, told Akwasi Aboagye of Neat FM, during an interview in the morning show "Ghana Montie", the last week of February, that the nuclear power plant, with the help of state security, had installed secret loggers in some offices of its headquarters monitor their procedures.

"It's against the law, it's undemocratic," he said.

Samuel Ofosu Ampofo was initially slapped with four charges for the explosive audio recording.

He faced charges of "threat of injury, conspiracy to harm, riots and aggression of a public officer".

Context

An audio leak supposed to be the voice of the national president of the NDC, caused a shock wave among the public after it became viral nearly a month ago.

The leak, which would come from a meeting held at the NDC headquarters a few days after the infamous violence in the by-election of Ayawaso West Wuogon, seizes influential members of the opposition party who would have planned the strategies that he will use to regain power in 2020.

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo, who could be heard from some of the party members unequivocally, said the NDC would target the lives of NPP members by 2020, as state security can not protect them.

According to him, another tricky aspect to winning the 2020 elections concerns EC President Jean Mensa.

"We have to wage an unrelenting war against this EC President, she does not want to see my face …" he said at the party.