"The minister of state for national security at the presidency has owned up that he was responsible for deploying them. The minister of state for national security works for the president…several of the people who were deployed were wearing shirts of the national security council inscribed on it and we all know that the national security council is chaired by the president, vice president…” asserts ex-President John Mahama.
The former President made this comment while ‘briefing’ some members of the diplomatic corps, Wednesday on the violence that ensued at Ayawaso West Wuogon.
Mr Mahama believes violent acts being perpetrated by vigilantes of the NPP is as a result of ‘pronouncement and actions of President Akufo-Addo.
"This particular president, as a candidate, has always promoted violence and it is on record; about his pronouncements and actions that show that this has just been accumulative approach that has finally ended up where we are…the all die-be-die mantra, and all other pronouncement that was made. He took the ordinary localised macho men and began to train them and bring people from outside to come and train them…what they call Invisible forces and Delta forces…once the NPP came into power…they gave these guys national security cards and took them to a military training facility owned by the state at Asutuare…they’ve trained them for other sinister motives and now we know they disguise them as the SWAT of the police and used them to do things; like they did at Ayawaso,” he intimated.
According to him, "as president you get security briefings once a week" and so "there is no way he (Akufo Addo) wouldn’t have been briefed about security preparations for the Ayawaso West Wuogon by election…"
"It is obvious that this was a partisan deployment… this is just a bunch of hoodlums deployed for a purpose…the NPP candidate, Lydia; they were escorting her from polling station to polling station providing security for the parliamentary candidate. If they were neutral participants what will they be doing protecting one candidate…it just shows that this was a partisan deployment and as they themselves said; a dress rehearsal for 2020," he added.
A statement from the former President's office indicated that Mr Mahama was joined by the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu Ampofo; General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketiah; the Deputy Minority Leader James Avedzi; a former Minister for National Security Kofi Totobi Quakyi; and senior members of the opposition party.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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John Mahama is insane and needs mental care. Who is advising Mahama? Send him to Ankaful to treat him. The man still has bad advisors around him. Very sick but still in coat so only wise and smart people see his sickness and behavior.
JOHN MAHAMA IS A FUUULLLL PAAA.SO HE THINKS THEY ARE GOING TO VOTE IN 2020.
Do you know why these whites do not respect we the blacks , its because of people like former president Mahama , so mahama thinks these people have not watched the videos circulating and you went to them with this narrative, all that they will say in their head was this man the former president and they will laugh kwa kwa kwa.
GOOD WORK MAHAMA, EXPOSE THE AKUFO ADDO GOVERNMENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IF THEIR MEDIA CABAL AND SO-CALLED CIVIL SOCIETY FUUUULLLS WILL NOT CONDEMN THAT GOVERNMENT SPONSORED ATROCITIES. THOSE OF YOU CONDEMNING MAHAMA TODAY IF YOU DID NOT CONDEMNED AKUFO ADDO WHEN HE DID SIMILAR THINGS WHILST IN OPPOSITION MAY GOD PUNISH YOU ALL. BRAVO MAHAMA, IF NPPIGS ARE NOT HAPPY THE SEA IS THERE YOU CAN GO AND DROWN YOURSELVES. IT IS ONLY AN IIDDIOOOT WHO WILL COMPARE ATIWA, CHEREPONI AND OTHER PLACES TO WHAT HAPPENED AT AYAWASO WUOGON.
Kennedy Agyapong is always right to say"THE E'VIL MEN DO ALWAYS LIVE AFTER THEM".Now NDC is running for cover WOW.You say your men so why Int. News Conf. or you Think Ghanaians and the gov't in power is afraid of anybody NO.The BOOT will MEET FIRE come 2020 that is what you WANT and the security agencies are prepared to GIVE 2 YOU.MAHAMA and his team running for COVER,YOU AIN'T SEE NAFIN YET.
With all due respect John Mahama is a big disgrace to this country and to the NDC party. As a Ghanaian, I am appalled that he ever represented Ghana as president. We all don't support violence but can he say there were no skirmishes in the by-elections he supervised? Was that Collin's Dauda brother who was violently assaulting the citizens in that area ever brought to book under his watch? And to have the effrontery to go and complain to diplomats and foreigners shows his level of thinking. John Mahama if you don't know, Ghana is a sovereign state. Those whites are no longer our slave masters, we don't owe them any allegiance so stop behaving like a puppet. You are an ex-prez for goodness sake! That 4-year presidency you are clamoring for is not more important than the image of the country you governed for 8 years. I am highly disappointed in you.
So you had security briefings and yet you thought its okay to plug out someone eyes and turn around and said it was tomato paste?
This man can choose to go to Hague and report who cares. Under your watch worse things happened, but Ghanaians accommodated you.
Mixed all the colors and pour on your drunkard father and decorate your majajia mother. Shakara woman come again daawa.If you want the dollar rate to go down tell Mahama and his cohorts bring back the cedis printed and shared among themselves.They send cheap money in cedis to buy the dollars at any rate just to defeat the aims of the current government.Whether the dollar will go down or not NPP will still win 2020 elections hands dowm with big margin.
I have come to the full realization and conclusion that Mr Mahama is indeed the most truly incompetent leader in Ghana's history. The sad part his incompetence is still showing. Do you think the diplomat are ***barred word***. Let me tell Mr Mahama , this diplomats know everything happening in Ghana better than yourself. Mr Mahama's incompetence is also a clear sign of desperation. Was Mahama not in government when let my vote beatings happened, let alone what happened in Chereponi and Atiwa, and now making a U-turn to condem Ayawaso. Mahama is not only a very big ***barred word*** but the most incompetent Ghanaian Leader that NDC has ever produced.