The National Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Henry Nana Boakye, has petitioned the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service to arrest, investigate and prosecute former President John Dramani Mahama and the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Aseidu Nketiah for making some treasonable and offensive comments conducive to breaches of the existing peace in Ghana.
The petition of Nana Boakye comes in the wake of demands by the opposition NDC for the arrest and prosecution of the Minister for Food and Agriculture and MP for Abetifi, Bryan Acheampong, for making comments at a rally organized by the NPP at Kwahu in the Eastern Region during the easter holidays.
Nana Boakye in the petition to Director General of the police CID said Mr. Mahama without any regard to his stature as a statesman proudly touted across various platforms, the revolutionary root of the NDC and their unparalleled capacity when it comes to unleashing violence for political gain, maintaining further to this, are his comments to the effect that the NDC’s approach to the elections of 2024 shall be one of “do or die” and “boot-for-boot”.
“When he was asked during a media interview what he meant by ‘boot-for- boot’ and ‘do or die’, and whether with the benefit of hindsight, he would want to retract those incendiary comments, John Dramani Mahama insisted that he meant what he said and that he was never going to retract” Nana Boakye argues.
On the part of Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the NPP National Organizer said the outspoken NDC National Chairman has repeatedly threatened fire and brimstone to ensure the victory of the opposition party in the 2024 general elections.
“He has disclosed that the elections shall be bloody and that his party was willing and ready to sacrifice lives to ensure their victory in 2024. He is on record to have stated unequivocally during his victory speech following his election as the National Chairman of the NDC, on December 18, 2022, that, it was time for members of the NDC to continue the fight to win the second Independence of Ghana, and that, they are prepared to sacrifice everything including their lives for an NDC victory in the 2024 general elections” he stated.
The NPP National Organizer noted these comments of the former President and the NDC Chairman speaks to the unwavering resolve of the duo to use fair or foul means to procure electoral advantage regardless of the consequences which in his view is contrary to sections 180 and 207 of the criminal offenses act, 1960 (act 29) respectively.
