You are ignorant, no one breaks the NPP's record of violence – Sir John answers Mahama

General News on Thursday, February 14, 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

2019-02-14

There seems to be a debate about who has been more violent than the other in the history of Ghanaian politics, and the speakers representing the NDC and the NPP are former President John Mahama and Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (Sir John) , former secretary of the NPP and Forestry Commission. boss respectively.

MyNewsGh.com reported that former President John Mahama had sentenced two weeks ago the violence that occurred in La Bawaleshie during the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon.

Men dressed in black polo shirts and khaki pants stormed a polling station where the vote was going on to elect a new MP.

But Mahama, who blames the NPP for being responsible for the violence, said the NDC could do worse, warning the ruling NPP that the opposition party would meet it by 2020. He said that "no one can beat the NDC in matters of violence", recalling the NPP on "the revolutionary history" of the NDC.

John Mahama made these comments in the Volta region where he was campaigning.

The men who are supposed to be thugs shot and even slapped the Ningo-Prampram MP, Samuel George, who in a video seemed to question them. The NDC reacted to the violence by withdrawing from the byelection, accusing the NPP and the president of deliberately intimidating voters and their polling agents.

But, in response to John Mahama, Sir John, former secretary general of the ruling party, said Mahama did not know the history of violence in Ghana.

Sir John said that Mahama should go read the history of the Wawadiwawa era to the Kulungugu bomb and that he will realize that the NDC can claim to be better than the NPP in terms of violence.

"He (Mahama) does not know the history of Ghana. If he wants to know, he should go in search of the Wawadiwawa era. Our ancestors were expert warriors and not cowards who fled the battlefield. He only talks about Rawlings' 1990 revolution, does not he? As for the NPP in terms of violence, before Abraham, we were. Sir John said.

"Does he know when the violence started in Ghana? Even Kwame Nkrumah who arrested us, beat us and detained without trial, he could not bear us. Does John Mahama know how the Kulungugu bomb happened in this country? He should stop bragging about violence, "he added.

MyNewsGh.com will follow the debate closely to update our readers accordingly.