National Youth Organiser for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Sammy Awuku says inaction on the part of the security forces to deal with political vigilantism, is causing overwhelming distress to the President, Nana Akufo-Addo.
The President he stated, has done his part by appointing persons whom he deemed to be competent, to man the security of the country and it is expected that those people bring their competencies to bear in such times that some groups are causing disturbances in the country, the youth leader of the governing party said on Saturday.
The President on several occasions has had to issue out command before the security, particularly the police, moved in to deal with activities of vigilante groups particularly those loyal to the governing party.
The most recent incident happened in the Northern Region specifically Karaga and Sisala districts where irate youth loyal to the NPP stormed the Assembly offices causing destruction to property in protest over the failure of the Chief Executives there to secure them jobs, ten months after they helped the party to recapture power.
Addressing chiefs and people of Manya Krobo in the Eastern Region during the celebration of the annual Ngmayem festival on Friday, the President “stressed that “the application of the laws of the land will occur, in the words of the judicial oath, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will, and without recourse to the political, religious or ethnic affiliations of any citizen of the land.”
Consequently, the police arrested the Karaga Constituency Chairman of his party, Tahiru Zakari, as well as three others suspected to be part of those who caused the disturbances at Karaga. The rest are Baba Ali Osman, Mohammed Alhassan and Abdullai Ziblim.
But speaking on Newsfile on Joy News TV Sammy Awuku who described the incidents as “very disturbing” said, “the police owe it as a sacred and mandatory duty to enforce the laws of our land” without having to wait for the President’s order.
He suggests the military be brought in to partner the police just like they are being involved in the fight against illegal mining, to nib in the bud, what is gradually becoming a culture of impunity.
“It’s about time that we also have to bring onboard the military…It’s about time that the security capos stop breaking the heart of the president,” the Board Chair of the Youth employment Agency recommended.
He said the party is determined in dealing with what he termed “internal backstabbers” in order to “jealously guard the political power that we have won.”
Meanwhile, National Organiser for the opposition National Democratic Congress, Kofi Adams said the President’s statement for the security to deal with the thugs is doubtful.
Kofi Adams recounted over 18 of such disturbances recorded across the country in the last 10 months since the NPP took over power after the Nana Akufo-Addo publicly condemned and yet no action was taken.
“If truly the president is unhappy, we should have been seeing some more action than we are seeing. I don’t believe that the president is unhappy,” he said.
The NDC organiser lay the blame on the doorstep of the leadership of the NPP, whom he said kept mute over unguarded comments made by some leading party functionaries in the heat to the 2016 elections.
“I don’t think that they [youth] are just acting based on nothing…I think that leadership is complicit in this matter,” Kofi Adams held.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Should under-performance and inefficiency and inaction mark any institution in the political structure of the present Nana Akufo-Addo NPP administration? To us the times are different; and the times must be seen to be different. Underdevelopment appears plastered on the country.Creativity the times call for is yet lying indolent and inactivated in spite of the low productivity and mediocrity that yet show everywhere. GROWTH, MEANINGFUL HEALTHY GROWTH IS NOT SHOWING ANYWHERE EVEN IN THE FACE OF THE MASSIVE RESTRUCTURING FALLING IN PLACE. IS THE GHANAIAN DNA-CAST TO BE UNPRODUCTIVE?
Mr Awuku, don't forget South Africa struggle to gain power by any means necessary against their white masters. The violence hasn't stopped ever since. Sometimes the seed that one sow could not be stopped to eat you up once they up and about. I hope this will teach some lessons to Ghanaian politicians to be careful of what they put into these uneducated minds, they called party supporters. Don’t promises them free everything, but rather teach them how they could provide for themselves through sound economic; and social responsibilities at all times.
But you said they should take position abi? Try and contain them. I fear.
The culture of impunity this Sammy Awuku guy is talking about, was started by him. He instigated the the NPP youth to be that violent and aggressive because they have suffered to bring the party into power. He actually told them to take positions when the party won the 2016 election. he went on to tell them they should wait or call for anybody, they should just take over government institutions whether they qualify academically or not. So see the this hypocrite call on the police and the military to deal with these tugs that he had brought up. May that time he was in trace might have known what he was doing. Now i believe he's out of that sick situation and come back to his senses.