NDC does not trust Emile Short's Board of Inquiry – Sammy Gyamfi

General News of Sunday, February 10, 2019

Source: X Y Z

2019-02-10

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said it will not appear before the investigative commission to investigate the violence in the by-elections held recently in Ayawaso West Wuogon, in the Greater Accra region.

Sammy Gyamfi, National Communication Officer for the NDC, told Mugabe Maase about Inside Politics on XYZ Radio that the party did not trust the chairman of the commission, Judge Emile Short, and the other three members.

He added that, in addition to Mr. Short, Professor Henrietta Mensah Bonsu, Professor of Law and a member of the Independent Panel of Experts on United Nations Peace Operations; and Mr. Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, former Inspector General of Police, are all supporters of the ruling NPP, noting that their work will protect the perpetrators of harsh acts in by-elections.

The NDC spokesman also said that the secretary of the commission, Professor Kofi Abotsi, former dean of GIMPA Law School, was also a government loyalist. His work will therefore help to protect the image of the government.

"We do not dispute their academic qualifications … These are people who demand respect, but their bias is the problem now," said Sammy Gyamfi.

He added: "What happened is a criminal case. The perpetrators must be arrested and taken to court and eventually imprisoned if found guilty. That's what we are looking for and not a commission of inquiry. "

State-sponsored violence

The Akufo-Addo government is under fire after Ayawaso West Wuogon's bloody by-elections and the death silence of the country's security ministers.

It will be recalled that in the elections of January 31, 1919, Sam George, NDC MP for Ningo Prampram, was badaulted by so-called heavily armed thugs who caused chaos at La-Baweleshie Presby Basic 1 JHS.

A similar situation occurred at the residence of Mr Delali Kwesi Brempong, NDC candidate in Ayawaso West Wuogon, where at least 6 members of the NDC were shot dead by masked men suspected of belonging to the group. Self-defense of the NPP, the Invincible Forces.

The NDC has finally announced its withdrawal from the elections, won by the girlfriend of the late MP, Lydia Seyram Alhbadan.

Although the Electoral Commission and the NPP Communications Directorate insisted that the incident occur outside the polling station and that the polls were very peaceful, civil society organizations condemned the act and asked for it. security agencies to search for thugs and bring them to justice.

It was after it was learned that the perpetrators of the scrum were "NPP hooligans" dressed in police uniform and driven freely in vans with the insiginia of the Ghana Police Service.

Calls for dismissal of the state's Minister of National Security for the presidency, Bryan Achempong, intensified after he admitted to having known armed thugs.

Analysts of the brutal video footage and the slides that came out of it identified some of the men suspected of belonging to the NPP's self-defense group, Invisible Forces.

New videos in which one of the people involved is heard screaming that we are at the beginning of 2020 are raising even more fears among some of the population that is pressuring the government for it to sack the minister. National Security and provides extensive investigations.

Occupy Ghana

A pressure group, Occupy Ghana, has asked National Security Minister Kan Dapaa to reveal the identities of heavily armed thugs who caused chaos in the by-elections held last Thursday in the constituency of Ayawaso West Wuogon. .

But in a statement addressed to Mr. Kan DApaah, with a copy to President Akufo-Addo, his deputy minister, Dr. Bawumiah, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Defense and Justice. Interior and Finance, among others, stated that they had seen that some of the gunmen "were driven in vehicles bearing the name and insignia of the Ghana Police Service and were in some cases accompanied or accompanied by people who appeared to be regular members of the police ".

The group stated that the activities of the masked men were non-constitutional and specifically asked the sector minister to inform Ghanaians about "The circumstances in which the Ghanaian police facilitated the acts of this force by providing vehicles or any other logistics in today's operations. "

Occupy Ghana also threatened that if the Minister failed to provide these accounts, they would go to court and "seek compensation, including (but not limited to): c) order the dissolution of the force, (d) ) impute to you all money spent for the maintenance of this force, and (e) further order that all such sums be reimbursed to the State, the expenses relating to said force be contrary to the law. "