The Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the police of doing the bidding of the Akufo-Addo-led government by intimidating officers of the largest opposition party.
The Council also alleges that the latest invitation the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to the National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, to appear before it is an attempt by the government to divert attention from the insecurity in the country.
The Council’s Vice Chairman, Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, made these remarks on Thursday, May 9 while addressing journalists at the party’s headquarters in Adabraka, Accra.
Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu was delivering the address on the back of an invitation to Mr Ofosu-Ampofo over allegations that his name popped up in investigations which have to do with recent kidnappings and fire outbreaks in some parts of the country.
“In our view, this is yet another case of intimidation and harassment being employed by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government using the instrumentality of the police to instill fear in our chairman and supporters of our party and to suppress dissenting voices in the country,” he said.
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo (middle) was at the press conference while he was due to be at the CID
Prior to Wednesday’s invitation, Mr Ofosu-Ampofo has been trekking back-and-forth the CID headquarters over comments captured on a leaked tape and said to have been made by him.
On the leaked tape, a voice is heard instigating the addressees to take the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana, Jean Mensa, to the cleaners and gave greenlight to his audience – said to be party communicators – to verbally attack the National Chairman of the National Peace Council, Rev Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Asante.
“Suffice me to say that we consider the decision by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government to prosecute our officials as meticulous and intended to frustrate the work of the [NDC].”
Alhaji Iddrisu dared the CID to arrest his party’s National Chairman and announced that the latter will not honour the “outrageous” invitation.
Source: 3news.com
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NDC IS NDC INDEED. THE CHAIRMAN HAS MADE SUCH AN IRESPONSIBLE AND UNPARDONABLE SPEACH LIKE THIS AND THE WHOLE COUNSIL OF ELDERS SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT? THIS IS A BIG SHAME . IF THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUR ELDERS IN A POLITICAL PARTY LIKE NDC THEN GHANA IS NOT SAVE . THEY ARE NOT ELDERS BUT PARTNERS IN CRIME
ST..UPI,,D OFOSU AMPOFO HAS GROWN LEAN BECAUSE OF HIS FO,OO,LI''SH==NESS. YOU WILL GO TO JAIL. GHANA IS FOR NOBODY
Get ready, Ghana is about to burn.
Nigeria has Boko Haram, Somalia has Al Shabab,Syria,Irag have ISIS, Afghanistan has the Taliban and we have NDC.Do these people believe in the rule of law?Every offence in our statutes is bailable so it's not as if Ofosu Ampofo is going to be detained. What do they fear?
DO YOU CALL THESE ELDERS? SORRY TO THEY GOT IT WRONG. THIS CHAIRMAN HAS SPOKEN IRRESPONSIBLY AND THEY TRY TO COVER HIM BY GIVING SUCH A AN ADVICE? NO WONDER THE PARTY IS IN SUCH A DISORGANIZED STATE. CONFUSION IS ALWAYS A RECIPE FOR FAILURE. IDDRISU AND HIS SO CALLED HAVE GOT IT WRONG. THEY DO NOT MAKE SENSE. SOON THE ATTACK WILL BE ON THEM FOR SUCH A UNNACCEPTABLE ADVICE. WHAT ARE THEIR SO CALLED LAWYERS THERE FOR AND THEY LISTEN TO THESE WARPED OLD MINDS. THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS OF KILLING A CAT THEIR LATE CHAIRMAN POSTULATED IN THE PAST AND IT WILL COME TO PASS.
***barred word*** political party even their elders don't have sense, they behave like zombie instead of advicing ofosu ampofo to go and clear himself you here saying thrash this thing called ndc must not be allowed anywhere near political power because they are so uncivilized and immature to manage our affairs
What do you expect them to say? Hon. J. B. Danquah's alleged killer said in open court that he was hired by top men from N.P.P. to kill the man, who in N.P.P. has been invited? even Zimbabwe, Togo, Congo have stop this type of backward politics, Ghana have outgrown this backwardness, let's be serious. We are setting a very dangerous precedent, my disappointment is Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. I think I overrated him, he and George Andah are the reason that I voted for NPP. I thought for once we were going to have analytical minds in our political space, how wrong i have been
Nons* and nons*ense again do they think ndc is a nation then they must get out , if they continue to live in Ghana and think they are above the laws of this country the law will show the old f00*00ls in the ndc that they are not above Ghana's laws, what can they do?do they mean they will subvert the country or what? they should try any st*pid thing,the fact that their faces look like monsters don't mean they can conquer Ghana! this alone tell us ndc elders are part if the kidnappings and killings and burning if markets especially their enemies in Ashanti, and I can't understand why Ashanti can't chase out ndc living in Ashanti region. Their elders are saying their members in Ashanti region have every right to burn your stores and you looking at them? chase ndc out to have your peace! they have mo business being with you they are evil and their elders support their evil machinations! the police must effect arrest and we see what they will do! they can't burn gas pipe lines, markets, kidnap Ghanaians and killing people and dare the police to arrest them. Nonse*nse is Ghana for these us*eless, hate*ful and env*ious incompetent and thi*eves? Ghanaians must show to the ndc they can't live with us with intimidation in opposition, we don't I'm them and we've voted them out and will vote them out again and again! Arrest them and if they play the f00*00l deal with them mercilessly! and let's see if they will cry! We saw them when Koku Anyidoho was arrested and we saw them when they tried in Ayawaso! Ndc can't intimidate Ghanaians! Ndc mpanin bone! no wonder they send their grandchildren to insult Ghanaians and expect Ghanaians to vote them into power you will rot in opposition! Nkwas*eafuo mo ne mo mpaninfuo nyinaa!
Elders that dont give good advice. If his name has pop up in an investigation why shouldnt he go and clear himself? This is how problem start in a country and it generate into something else.