An Accra-based legal practitioner and a former Deputy Minister for Local Government under Ex-President Kufuor’s administration, Captain Nkrabea Effah Dartey (rtd) has emphatically stated that NDC’s National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo will be dealt with aptly after his bail.
According to him, charges leveled against the NDC Chairman is a caution of what he is likely to face in court.
“He should not be happy, this is just a caution,” he said.
Ofosu-Ampofo spent over five hours at the Criminal Investigations Department headquarters in Accra being interrogated over a leaked tape with security implications.
He is facing charges of threat of harm, conspiracy to commit harm, rioting and assaulting a public officer.
In a meeting with party communicators, the Chairman of the largest opposition party incited his men to “take the Electoral Commission Chairperson to the cleaners” and to “insult the National Peace Council Chairman”.
Charged supporters of the 'Umbrella' family besieged the surroundings of the CID headquarters demanding the release of their Chairman after hours of waiting on the street.
Moments after Ofosu-Ampofo was released around 17:45GMT, the agitating supporters went into a state of a jamboree.
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo stepped out to calm the crowd and assured them "the police were professional” in handling him.
He said NDC will not subvert the peace of Ghana and thanked the party’s leadership for being behind him.
But Lawyer Nkrabea Effah Dartey in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’ said “all the charges against him are appropriate. If the police show some seriousness on these charges unlike Kennedy Agyapong’s charges, then he will be in trouble”.
"But this time, we the NPP are serious, we have to show Ofosu-Ampofo that we [NPP] are in power and we are maintaining law and order in Ghana. This is not an issue of where power lies, this is rule of law,” he said.
“If NPP is in power, why should you [Ofosu-Ampofo] make such reckless statement that you cannot substantiate in public. The NPP is noted for rule of law and he will not go scot-free,” he guaranteed.
Lawyer Nkrabea Effah Dartey however noted that Mr Ofosu-Ampofo will be “used as an example” to deter others from making such “reckless” comments in future.
“God forbid that Ghana will experience war because of someone’s reckless comment,” he told host Kwesi Aboagye.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/ Twitter: @Washman5/ Instagram: Ambrose_wash
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Concert party man you just want to be heard
Rule of law my foot. Nyantakyi is walking free, obiri boahene is walking free and you come and talk about rule of law under NPP. GIMIFO.
Can you imagine this! The police are not even saying this but a leading member of NPP is saying Ofosu Ampofo would used as an example, he has therefore tainted and preempted the work of the police. The man is just under investigation and you come out to say he will not go scot free, you are indirectly instructing the police how to do their work. In any case, even if the police decide to go to court, are you the judge sitting on the case. Why do we have so many fuuuuulls in politics. You start this way and party hoodhums will amass at places to cause mayhem when the man is even genuinely being put through the justice system by the police. This man's comment is use.less.
what about vigilantes who are disturbing everywhere? Concert
ATTENTION and open letter to ofosu amposu, AND GHANA PEOPLE, n,d,c have lost credibility all over GHANA, AFRICA the world, ofusu ampofu is the biggest lair in the world he is not a man, women are better than him he is a coward, if ghanainas ignore the womanish ideas of maham, ghana will be like heaven , , no one must respect ofosu ampofu and his cohorts again, hahaha, how can a chairman of a party lie so so shameful, u planned evil and god has expose u , and u deny the evil plan u plotted with ur cohorts, you call your self a elder in church and lie to the whole world, god will judge u last day, n,d,c will lose come 2020 because Ghanaians have known that n,d,c is party made of lairs ,ghana people cant trust n,d,c with money, , mahama is a disgrace he has destroyed ghana. , ofosu amposu has disgrace the whole n,d,c party, ofosu is not a man, no ghanians must give power to n,d,c again, their lairs, they will loot ur monies and lie to u. no body in this world will take ofusu ampofu serious again, ofosu amposu is not a man, he is a coward, , he is disgrace to n,d,c, all ghana must vote against n,d,c for ever, mahama is the worst leader and the world has known it , he will make ghana like hell, send this to the whole world after reading, , gh pp
I grew up in Burma Camp when this man Effah Dartey was then in the army please ignore him he's always had alcohol problem. He was dismissed from the Army because of alcohol issues. He lived at Labadi Villas Just observe his behavior & you will notice a grown man with issues. If he was that smart why isn't Nana Addo leveraging his brains
Laudable, these cohorts of NDC have to be discipline. They are taken things for granted as if there are no laws in Ghana. Are they human at all the way they think and act? Their behaviour go be young reasoning.
WHERE FROM THIS MAN TOO. HE JUST WANTS TO BE HEARD. MAYBE HE WANTS TO REMIND THE PRESIDENT THAT HE IS ALIVE AND WANTS A POSSITION. COMEDY.`
COME ON TRY IT AND SEE. YOU THINK POWER CAN BE MISUSED... ***barred word*** TRY AND YOU WILL SEE.
IS THIS THE TIME THAT YOU ARE COMING TO SHOW GHANAIANS THAT YOU HAVE A STRONG LEADER. DO SAME TO YOUR NPP LOOSE CANONS TOO