The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed concern over recent attacks on journalists at Citi FM and the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator by National Security personnel and vigilante elements in Kumasi.
A statement signed by Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the General Secretary of the Opposition party, on Sunday May 16, 2021 said following the invasion of Parliament by the military during the election of the Speaker, recent developments portend a dangerous erosion of the democracy citizens have come to cherish since the inception of the 4th Republic in January 1993.
According to the statement, the genesis of these trends is not hard to identify and said the invasion by state-sponsored vigilantes of the voting process during the Ayawaso Bye-election in January 2019, the virtual militarisation of the registration of voters process last year and the unprecedented violence that accompanied the election proper last December, culminating in the untimely death of eight innocent Ghanaian citizens are needless.
The statement said majority of the citizenry have erroneously decided to remain quiet because they assumed that the NDC were making unnecessary political noise.
It said the silence of those who formed that opinion only served to encourage the Akufo-Addo government that Ghanaians are weak and do not care enough about our democracy and advised the sycophantic elements in society who descended heavily on Sir Sam Jonah for speaking up on the sorry state of Ghana’s democracy to revise their notes by now.
According to the General Secretary, with the brutish assault of Mr. Caleb Kudah of Citi FM and the harassment of his colleague, Ms. Zoe Abu-Baidoo, the Akufo-Addo government has now demonstrated clearly that it does not believe in the rule of law nor common human decency.
The party scribe also condemned the dreaded NPP vigilante group, the Delta Force, which reportedly raided the office of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator and handcuffed him, claiming that his tenure of office had come to an end.
Mr. Asiedu Nketiah stated that this unprecedented attack on the people of Ghana and the apparent helplessness or seeming connivance of the President and Commander in Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, Nana Akufo-Addo, threatens the foundation of our democracy and the well being of our fellow country men and women.
The NDC has, therefore, condemned in the strongest possible terms the degradation of our democracy by the Akufo-Addo government and condemned the continuous abuse of our rights protected by the constitution by the marauding and wayward administration of President Akufo-Addo.
The party said Ghanaians have a right to live in safety and security as we go about our daily lives and warned that the party would not sit idle as President Akufo-Addo takes the citizens for granted.
He also urged the President to sit up and do the work for which he was allegedly elected to do with full respect for our rights and welfare.
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