The Central Regional department of the New Patriotic Social gathering (NPP) has condemned using extreme and politically troubling try by operatives of the Nationwide Investigations Bureau (NIB) to arrest the Member of Parliament for Assin South, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, at his residence.
The occasion described the modus operandi of the safety particular personnel as “unwarranted, extreme, and politically insensitive,” and appealed to President Mahama to place a cease to the intimidation and persecution of members of the NPP.
Addressing the media in Cape Coast, the Central Regional Secretary of the NPP, addressed by the Central Regional NPP Secretary, Richard Takyi-Mensah, said that, the try to apprehend Rev. Ntim Fordjour demonstrates the try of the present administration to make use of state safety institutions towards opposition members.
“The NPP within the Central area won’t ever sit down for us to be intimidated and persecuted. We’ll solidly be behind our members of parliament to make sure that they execute their duties lawfully as members of parliament” he stated.
He known as on well-meaning Ghanaians, Civil Society Organisations, the Christian Council and different establishments to voice out and condemn the intimidation and persecution being perpetuated by the present administration.
He alleged that the act by personnel of the Nationwide Investigation Bureau (NIB) shaped a part of makes an attempt by the present administration below President John Dramani Mahama to silence and intimidate opponents.
It adopted Rev. Ntim Fordjour’s public allegations concerning two suspicious flights that landed at Kotoka Worldwide Airport, which he alleged could have been concerned in drug trafficking or cash laundering.
Based on the MP, one of many plane, Air MED flight L823 AM, landed in Ghana on March 20 and remained for 5 days with none file of transporting a affected person which prompted President John Dramani Mahama to order safety businesses to collaborate with the MP to investigate the allegations.
Mr Tekyi-Mensah additional elaborated that some members inside the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) made sure statements which had been tolerated by the Akufo-Addo administration and questioned why the present administration had turn out to be illiberal with views from even a member of parliament.
“Immediately below President Mahama’s authorities, they’ve turn out to be so illiberal to the extent that that when a member of parliament for that matter a rating on the Defence and Inside Committee of parliament requires the investigation of two suspicious flights which have landed on this nation, the persecute and intimate him and even tried to arrest him” he defined.
He stated that it was incumbent on the MP to make sure the security of Ghanaians, saying, “He is not only a member of parliament however a rating member on the Defence and Inside Committee of parliament and was exercising his duties in parliament.”
He counseled the Minority Chief and MP for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, for his swift and tactful dealing with of the situation when there was an try to arrest the MP for Assin South
The regional executives and members of the occasion, he explained, stand solidly behind Rev. Fordjour and the minority in parliament, saying, “We pat them within the again for the nice job that they’ve executed for the final three months that the NDC had been in energy.”
The Minority in parliament, he emphasised, had executed extraordinarily effectively by uncovering plenty of issues over the previous months and stated, they deserved to be celebrated.
He additionally indicated that members of the area could be of their numbers to supply solidarity to Rev. Ntim-Fordjour when invited constitutionally to help with investigations into the difficulty.
FROM DAVID O. YARBOI-TETTEH, CAPE COAST
