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Following the violent activities by some vigilante groups associated with the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Professor Seth Opuni-Asiamah, has urged the President to make every effort to contain the excesses of those activists of the party. 

While condemning the violent activities, Prof. Opuni-Asiamah said although President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had expressed his aversion to those acts and directed the police to deal with the situation, the recent reported attack on the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, Mr George Adjei, was an indication that more needed to be done to nip the violence in the bud.

In an interview in Kumasi Monday, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPC said it was important for the President to clearly send a message to the vigilante groups that perpetrating violence was not the way he wanted to run his government. 

Attack

Last Friday, some irate members of the NPP who call themselves the Delta Force stormed the offices of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator in Kumasi, smashed windows and doors and threw Mr Adjei out of his office.

In the course of the attack, a member of the Delta Force sustained a deep cut and bled profusely and was hurriedly carried away by other members of the group to an unknown location.

The group claimed that Mr Adjei was an outsider who was unknown to them and had neither been in the trenches nor suffered with them when the NPP was campaigning to win the 2016 general election.

Arrest

The Kumasi Police arrested the leader of the Delta Force, Kwadwo Bamba. The police also urged other members of the group to report themselves to the police for their own good because the police would pursue and apprehend them.

Reacting to the violent incident, Prof. Opuni-Asiamah urged the President to ensure that the attacks and seizures by the vigilante groups within the NPP were halted and the perpetrators dealt with according to law to serve as deterrent to others.

He said if the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) was not acting, the President must ensure that he (the IGP) worked, adding that if the violence continued, the President must know that Ghanaians did not vote for the IGP but him (the President).

Prof. Opuni-Asiamah said the people of Ghana voted for President Akufo-Addo and that required that he showed leadership in the matter on hand because some of the leaders of the party could not deal decisively with the people.