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Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has patted the back of the Deputy Attorney-General designate, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah for supporting his [Obiri Boahen] advocacy for the death penalty to be implemented in the country.

According to him, he fully supports the death penalty which is enshrined in Act 29 of the 1992 Constitution, instructing the killing of those who have been found guilty and convicted for intentionally murdering innocent people.

“I am all for the death penalty; if someone has intentionally committed a murder, the person must be killed too. What the lawyer said, for me it is not something new; it is actually my song I have been singing that he is intensifying for me because the law says that if someone intentionally commits a murder, the culprit must also be killed and that is the law, it has not changed,” he posited.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Lawyer Obiri Boahen maintained that the issue of the death penalty is simple as whoever kills with the sword must die by the sword as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution.

He, however, chastised and disagreed with those who are canvassing for amnesty and human right in a well-established case of deliberate killing in the court; adding that the advocators should also consider the violation of the fundamental human rights of the dead and allow the law to take its full course to serve justice in the country.

“So if people talk of amnesty and human right when the law explicitly talk of killing a convicted murderer, I don’t understand those people. We should all consider how people deliberately murder others as some people intentionally ambush victims and kill them or armed robbers go to rob a house and kill innocent people and others rape and kill the victim and at some point remove certain parts of the body after killing the victim, and when these people are caught and found guilty by the law, some people somewhere are talking of considering their human right and amnesty after a competent court of jurisdiction has pronounced them guilty of the crime. Does the dead person have no human right? I honestly don’t want to hear such things," he chastised.

Therefore, Nana Obiri Boahen turned the heat on the past Presidents from 1992 to the current President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for their refusal to sign for the criminals be killed.

To him, such acts of the past and the present leaders from 1992 to date amount to injustices to the victims and the families who have lost their dear ones; insisting that he does not agree with them for refusal to sign the sentences for justices to be carried out.

“I don’t know why whenever the court finds people guilty of a murder case and the court sentenced the convicted person to death, all the past and present leaders from 1992 refused to endorse the sentence so that the guilty ones would be killed too. I don’t know if they hear some voices asking them not to sign or endorse the sentence. If they will not sign, then they are doing a lot of injustices to some of us because the circumstances in which some people are killed are sad,” he opined.