The Director of Legal Affairs Directorate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),A Amaliba has petitioned the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to investigate the Minister of Food and Agriculture Bryan Acheampong for comments he made over the weekend in Kwahu in the Eastern Region.
The petition, dated April 11, 2023, reads as follows: “That Your Petitioner says that the said Hon Bryan Acheampong continued to say that they — NPP will show the NDC that the NPP have the men, and that the NPP will do everything possible — fair or foul means to remain in power come what may in the 2024 general elections. I enclose herein, audios and videos of the utterances of Hon Bryan Acheampong for your perusal.
“That in the estimation of Your Petitioner and those of the general public, the statements uttered by Hon Bryan Acheampong could be interpreted to mean that the NPP has conceived a grand scheme to subvert the will of the people of Ghana in the 2024 elections and any attempt to resist them would be met with violence.
“Your Petitioner wishes to remind you of Hon Bryan Acheampong’s unilateral and illegal deployment of NPP hoodlums garbed in National Security Operatives uniforms to assault the Hon Sam Dzata George, innocent electorates and maimed some NDC supporters in the Ayawaso West Wuogon By-elections.
“Your Petitioner says that given the infamous and unenviable track record of Hon Bryan Acheampong in organising NPP hoodlums to unleash violence on Ghanaians, his statements on the 8th day of April 2023 border on national security threats and democracy and should not be taken lightly,” the petition contains.
Owning to this, the petitioner, Abraham Amaliba said the utterances of the minister are so serious that it must not go unquestioned because letting go of it becomes a “harbinger of a civil unrest,” and that he counts on the CID to act swiftly on the matter.
The petition comes after the Abetifi MP threatened that the ruling NPP would never hand over power to the opposition NDC.
While addressing NPP supporters after a health walk on Saturday, April 8, Mr. Acheampong said “it will never happen that we the NPP will stand on a platform to hand over power to the NDC. It will never happen! We will make sure NPP remain in government at all cost.”
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