Mahama must take full responsibility for the murder of Kumasi NDC – Lecturer

General News of Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

2019-02-19

Renowned lecturer at the University of West London, Dr. Aboagye Da Costa wants former President Mahama to take full responsibility for the shooting at the National Democratic Congress headquarters in Kumasi on Monday after rejecting the wise council of the National Peace Council, civil society groups and men of God who talk about the socio-political events in the country, reports MyNewsGh.com.

Former President Mahama described these "opinion leaders" in the country as hypocrites, after they criticized him for comments from his boot and asked him to apologize.

In an exclusive interview with MyNewsGh.com, Dr. Da Costa noted that the former president had made a mistake in refusing to apologize when Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante asked him to express his regret for having said that the NDC would equal the chances of the NPP. against violence in the 2020 polls.

"Mr. Mahama should have listened to the wise advice of the National Peace Council and others, because today these institutions have every interest in looking closely at the violence against members of the CDN, where a person is dead and two were injured after gunshots. The national president, the secretary general, a deputy secretary general and the regional executive committee of the Ashanti regional office in Kumasi on Monday, said the president, "he said.

Dr. Da Costa was of the opinion that the advisers of the former president were weak and had to sit down because Mr. Mahama would have done a lot of good for himself and the NDC, s & # They had advised him to apologize immediately after his comments and also to have allowed him to peddle the falsity to the diplomats to discredit and harm the nation.

"Perhaps if Mr. Mahama had apologized, those gunshots would not have occurred in the chaos." He added.

At the same time, the former president called for the immediate arrest of the suspects involved in the Kumasi shooting at an NDC meeting that resulted in the murder of one person and another seriously injured. Mr. Mahama called Facebook in a message on Facebook: "We have just been informed of a shootout that occurred in front of the Ashanti regional office of the NDC, causing the death of". one person and the injury of another.

I strongly condemn this incident. It is clearly a criminal act and I call on the police and the relevant security agencies to investigate, to immediately arrest the perpetrators and subject them to all the rigors of the law. "

Mr. Dacosta, however, felt that condemning and calling the police to act by Mr. Mahama was not enough, he actually reflected the actions and statements of the former president, especially when he had urged the members of the NDC to unleash violence against Ghanaians diplomats.

"The former president and presidential candidate of the NDC recently said that the party was ready to face the boots of his opponents, and it seems that what happened yesterday is the result of his direct appeal at boot for comments on the boots, perhaps in preparation for 2020. polls. Mr. Mahama must therefore take responsibility for the shootings and offer the nation a sincere apology, "he said.