The New Patriotic Party has strongly condemned
comments made by ‘caretaker’ Deputy Interior Minister, Kobby Acheampong on
Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme, on Monday, January 14, that President
John Dramani Mahama could decree a curfew and cause the arrest of the party’s
leaders.
A statement issued and signed by Deputy
Communications Director, Yaw Buaben Asamoah described Mr. Kobby Acheampong as a
“reckless and violent rhetoric” person who seeks to “destabilize the country by
threatening that the President could decree a curfew and the leadership of the
NPP arbitrarily arrested.”
Read the full statement below:
14th January 2013
MAHAMA GOVERNMENT THREATENS NPP LEADERS
The NPP condemns in the strongest possible terms
comments made on Metro TV’s – Good Morning Ghana programme, on Monday 14/1/2013
by Kobby Acheampong, ‘caretaker’ deputy Minister of Interior. This reckless and
violent rhetoric by a member of the Mahama government seeks to destabilize the
country by threatening that the President could decree a curfew and the
leadership of the NPP arbitrarily arrested.
Ghana is under the rule of law. The President is
NOT a dictator who rules by decree and cannot arrest citizens arbitrarily. The
people have a right to protection from the state as they express themselves
through speech or in demonstrations. No amount of intimidation or threats to
impose an illegal curfew, arrest the NPP leadership arbitrarily or crush
peaceful demonstrations will stop the resolve of the people of Ghana to reverse
the grievous scandal of an election that appears to have corrupted the true
will of the citizens of Ghana in the 2012 Presidential election.
In reaction to these vitriolic assertions and
threats of arrest of NPP leaders, the NPP wants to reiterate that Ghana is
under the rule of law and every government is subject to law and duty bound to
protect its citizens.
No amount of threats to law-abiding citizens would
operate to bring back the dark days of a police state that the NDC hopes would
deflect attention from the electoral scandal pending in the Supreme Court of
Ghana.
……signed……
Yaw Buaben Asamoah
Deputy NPP Director of Communications
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