NPP accuses Baba Kamara of abuse of power
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the National Security Advisor, Mr Baba Kamara, of brazen abuse of power and incumbency to intimidate and coerce civilians.
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“This is very dangerous and all Ghanaians must stand up against this unfortunate development,” Nana Akomea, the Director of Communications of the NPP, stated at a press conference in Accra last Tuesday.
According to him, the government’s National Security Advisor, who caused the arrest of his neighbours for merely taking pictures of packed Mahindra pick-ups, was taking Ghana back to the regime of settling civil disputes through the use of the coercive tools of the criminal justice system of the state.
Even if Mr Kamara believed the privacy of his property had been violated, he argued, his course of action should rather be a civil case.
By ordering the BNI to arrest his neighbours who he suspected to have taken the pictures and violated his privacy, Nana Akomea explained that, Mr Kamara would stand accused of using his official position to coerce and intimidate civilians.
Background
Last week, the owners of a property, adjacent to where the branding of a large number of Mahindra pick-ups in NDC colours was taking place, were arrested by the BNI on suspicion that they had taken photographs of the pick-ups.
The Director of Communications of the NPP said information and pictures that filtered through last week also showed a large number of Mahindra pick-ups which were being branded in NDC colours.
He said the story was that those pick-ups were meant for the use of the National Commission for Civic Education but had been commandeered by the NDC for its campaign.
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Nana Akomea said even though the story on the diversion was not verified, it had been given credence by the subsequent action of the National Security Advisor.
Wastage of public funds
On how the government was wasting resources, he said in the face of the blatant deprivation that millions of Ghanaians suffered every day, the NDC government was spending taxpayers’ money on sponsoring pseudo-political parties.
He recalled that last week Mr Akwasi Addai, aka Odike, of the United Progressive Party (UPP) was caught on tape disclosing how the NDC would soon be advancing huge sums of money to his party.
According to Nana Akomea, Odike said: “Very soon they will bring me the money for the work and we will recover our cost. When you go behind my back with your machinations, Asiedu Nketia calls me and gives me all the information. The money will come very soon.”
Odike, who is the founder, leader and flag bearer of the UPP, recently unveiled the party’s new colours, which are quite close to those of the NPP.
Nana Akomea wondered why that party would deliberately choose new colours that were close to those of another party which might confuse supporters of both parties.
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Concerning the role of Superlock Technologies Limited (STL) in the electoral process, he called on the EC to clarify the company’s official role, since the Minister of the Interior had come out to state that STL was engaged in the transmission of tallied election results, thereby raising the spectre of interference with results before they got to the EC.
Nana Akomea said that had become necessary since the EC, in a statement issued by its then Chairman on December 8, 2012, had asserted: “The commission’s attention has been drawn to allegations that it had engaged the services of a company to do electronic transmission and collation of results on its behalf. We wish to state emphatically that no such engagement has been made, neither is the commission doing electronic transmission of results.”
Nana Akomea also asked about what the EC and the NDC were hiding concerning the engagement of STL and why they were hiding it.
Volta Region
With regard to President Mahama, the NPP and the Volta Region, he stated it was hard to understand why President Mahama, while on an official visit to the Volta Region recently and was responding to concerns raised by the Awoamefia of the Anlo State, Togbe Sri lll, should call into question the NPP’s record in the region.
By bringing up the NPP’s record in the Volta Region, he said he wondered if President Mahama was engaged in the usual NDC ploy of playing up the NPP against the region.
Nana Akomea stated that the President needed not be told that the complaints against the NDC in the Volta Region were coming from Voltarians themselves and asked: “Can President Mahama look himself in the eye and say that in all the eight years of the NPP not a school, road, clinic water project, etc. was done by the NPP in any district in the Volta Region? The Keta Sea Defence, the estates, Ho town roads, etc., etc.?
“Is President Mahama this desperate?”
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