Peacefmonline.com can confirm that Spokesperson for the Young Patriots, the youth wing of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) who was picked up by security officers for allegedly disrespecting the Office of the President has been released less than an hour after his arrest.
The NPP Youth activist was hauled to the Police Headquarters on Wednesday afternoon but sources say he was released after the president instructed the police to do so.
No charges were preferred against him even though he was made to write his statement.
The police, according to sources, had intended to charge the outspoken NPP Young Patriot with offensive conduct and later process him for court on Thursday.
But President Mills is said to have stepped in.
The vibrant NPP youth activist was arrested in the studios of Adabraka-based HotFM just as he was about to partake in a political discussion programme. An NPP activist, Yaw Adomako Baafi, who was with him at the time of the arrest, confirmed the news to peacefmonline.com
According to him, four policemen accosted the NPP activist saying he was wanted at the Police Headquarters for interrogation.
Reason for his arrest and subsequent release is still unclear.
Only last week, John Kumah, on an Accra-based commercial radio station, Asempa FM, accused President John Mills of being a gay in reaction to a similar allegation made against the NPP's Head of Communication Nana Akomea by an NDC official.
It is not clear if John Kumah was arrested because of this pronouncement.
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