NPP plans to mar December vote, says NDC

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused its main opponent, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), of scheming to disrupt the upcoming general elections in December with violence.
The party’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, aka General Mosquito, who made this accusation at a news conference he addressed yesterday, cited what he said was the lack of action by government on the Ayawaso West Wuogon incident, and the recent violence that characterised the voter registration exercise.
He also cited the shooting in Banda, Nkrankwanta, as well as the firing of a gun by the Minister for Special Developments, Mavis Hawa Koomson.
“This violence-ridden registration exercise, coming on the heels of an equally violent by-election at Ayawaso West Wuogon, is further testimony of the NPP government’s grand scheme to apply violence and other undemocratic intimidation tactics to rig and perpetuate itself in power against the will of the people,” General Mosquito claimed.
According to the NDC Chief Scribe, a further confirmation of the supposed grand agenda was contained in “an NPP leaked audio, capturing the voice of the Deputy Regional Minister of the Bono East Region addressing a section of the NPP Invisible Forces and Delta Forces at a meeting held deep in the night at a secret location, immediately before their deployment to cause mayhem in most parts of the country during the registration exercise.”
Concluding his address, the Chief Scribe used the opportunity to invite the international community to intervene.
The opposition party wanted the international community to impress upon the relevant state institutions mentioned in the leaked tape to take immediate steps to abandon any grand agenda of collusion with the NPP.
This supposed agenda, the NDC claimed, was “to perpetrate violence, intimidation and injustice on the people of this country, whose only offence is to insist on their right of self-determination, and choose the path of peace, justice, and fairness to help sustain our young fragile democracy, which appears to be under threat from the Akufo-Addo and Bawumia government.”
Ivorians attempted to register
During the voters registration exercise, news was rife, with video evidence, showing an impounded truck loaded with human beings, purported to have made their way from Ivory Coast to register in Ghana.
In the said video, the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, was captured in it, and the report was that he had led the people to illegally enter Ghana in a bid to register for the voters ID card.
At the press conference yesterday, Mr Asiedu Nketia took time to explain what actually transpired, and rubbished claims he led the Ivorians.
“…The media captured some of the Ivorians with their carte d’identité and the voter ID cards, and they confessed having been brought in by one Yao to register and get a payment of GH¢300 each.
“While at it, the NPP, in line with their strategy as captured in the Deputy Minister’s audio, rushed to the media to allege that the Ivorians have been brought in by my good self. This was followed by another press conference by my colleague General Secretary of NPP, John Boadu, confirming the lies that had been told by his Regional Chairman.
“The EC quickly came out to promise to open an investigation into the matter, apparently acting in a wrong belief that Asiedu Nketiah may have been trapped at last. They promised to investigate and publish their findings, whilst punishing anybody involved in the wrong-doing. We are still waiting for their report.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, after my initial rebuttals at Joy FM, I decided to stay put, investing my hopes in the EC to conduct the said thorough investigation, and for the Ghana Police Service and the Immigration Service to do the right thing by dealing with the culprits according to law.
“After waiting 27 clear days for action on this urgent matter, very little or no action appears to have taken, by way of serving the course of justice. Rather, what we have witnessed is a desperate attempt to cover up the perpetrators of the heinous crimes.
“Ladies and gentlemen, two incidents that have occurred recently, leading to my heightened suspicion that whatever crimes that had been committed during the registration exercise countrywide, and in particular at Banda, had happened with President Akufo Addo’s complicity.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the media, it is instructive to note that after the arrest of the Ivorians at Dorbor, they were quickly processed at the Sunyani Circuit Court and were quickly granted bail at the instance of the NPP Regional Women Organiser, Madam Ama Amponsah, and the case was subsequently adjourned indefinitely.”

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