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Friday, March 11, 2016

Minority: Police Service unfair to NPP
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Sept 9, Ghanadot - The Minority caucus in Parliament has expressed displeasure with the Greater Accra Commander’s invitation to Nana Ohene Ntow, General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), for questioning in connection with the recent clashes at the Agbogbloshie Market, which left four people dead and many others injured.

The Minority caucus said although it had furnished the police with the names of the alleged architects and executioners of the violent and brutal assault, none of those perpetrators had been invited for questioning.

In a telephone interview with Ghanadot, the Minority Spokesman on Defence and the Interior, William Ofori Boafo, said Nana Ntow was being investigated in respect of a non-existent criminal offence, adding “That certainly amounts to discrimination and selective justice..”

He said the exercise was politically motivated and prayed the police to discharge their responsibility with the utmost profession devoid of their party interference.

Mr. Boafo mentioned Evangelist Nyame, who was allegedly shot and killed by Kwasi Adu, an NDC supporter at Sankore in the Brong-Ahafo Region, and the arrest of NPP opinion leaders in the area for alleged offences committed in the 2008 voter registration exercise and the attack of an NPP activist, Appiah Stadium by NDC supporters in Kumasi, without the police taking any action.

He also cited acts of impunity by some NDC stalwarts, the declaration of Jihad by the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Baba Jamal, prior to the Akwatia parliamentary re-run.

According to him, in all instances, the police had not arrested or invited any of the NDC supporters stressing, “the NDC supporters who are harassing the NPP people are perpetrating their barbaric acts with impunity and are enjoying immunity from arrest and prosecution”.

Instead, the spokesman said NPP supporters were being arrested, harassed and detained on daily basis, this he said does not speak well of the police service and called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to act immediately to rectify the problem.

Ghanadot