The governing New Patriotic Party has disassociated itself from an alleged militia believed to be operating from the former seat of Government, Christianburg Castle.
The revelation was contained in a JoyNews investigative piece put together by its head of Investigation, Manasseh Azure.
The NPP emphatically stated in a press release issued to rebut the allegations that, “Whilst any effort at helping rid the country of politically related violence is welcome and is to be commended, the NPP wishes to state UNEQUIVOCALLY FOR THE RECORDS that it has no connection to the purported group shown in the documentary.”
The party insisted it is committed to the pledge by the president to ending vigilantism and have expressed readiness to engage the opposition NDC to develop a road map to curbing the menace.
“In the event, the NPP believes that given President Akufo-Addo’s open and public commitment and determination to uprooting the menace of politically related violence, the political parties and indeed civil society at large, especially the media, have a responsibility to confront the issue candidly, without preconditions. Media commentary ought to give even more impetus to the Presidents’ demonstrated and undoubted will and purpose of facilitating and securing the participation of the two major political parties in constructive dialogue” a statement signed by the Director of Communications of the Party, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah stressed.
The Minority in Parliament today organised a press conference requesting an immediate swoop on the premises to rid the Osu Castle of these security operatives.
The insisted that the President hasn’t proven his commitment to the matter and must thus resign with immediate effect.
“We insist that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must resign as President of the Republic with immediate effect. The President has lost every moral authority to continue to occupy that high office after having been caught “In flagrante delicto,” the Minority asserted.
They insisted “President Akufo-Addo has so far shown that apart from class acts which easily makes him a candidate for an Oscar, there is no sincerity and genuineness on his part to uproot the menace of party militias. On the contrary, it has now emerged that President Akufo-Addo is himself a War Lord as Prof. Henrietta Mensah Bonsu has appropriately advised on how to describe persons who sponsor and house party militias.”
Below is their full response to the video showed yesterday
8TH MARCH, 2019
PRESS RELEASE
The NPP has watched with keen interest the news commentary put together by journalist Manasseh Azure and aired on the Joy News Channel in the evening of 7 March, 2019.
Whilst any effort at helping rid the country of politically related violence is welcome and is to be commended, the
NPP wishes to state UNEQUIVOCALLY FOR THE RECORDS that it has no connection to the purported group shown in the documentary.
The NPP has not established any such group and is neither affiliated to nor supports one.
However, it is significant that in seeking to make a point about militias or vigilantes, the news commentary makes obvious and extensive resort to footage from the ongoing public inquest into the violence related events of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. Nowhere in the footage shown is the subject persons or specific identified group seen or connected to any violent activities.
In the event, the NPP believes that given President Akufo-Addo’s open and public commitment and determination to uprooting the menace of politically related violence, the political parties and indeed civil society at large, especially the media, have a responsibility to confront the issue candidly, without preconditions. Media commentary ought to give even more impetus to the Presidents’ demonstrated and undoubted will and purpose of facilitating and securing the participation of the two major political parties in constructive dialogue.
The NPP urges its counterpart the NDC, to emulate the President’s sincerity in demanding that the parties go into talks and to do so aided by any inputs available from diverse sources.
That way, the NPP believes that the wider public can participate in resolving the vexed question of politically related violence once and for all.
…. signed…
Yaw Buaben Asamoa (Hon)
(Director of Communication)
By: Jonah Eledi/awakenewsonline.com