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Obiri Boahen’s comments in bad taste - Kofi Adams
The National organizer of the NDC, has said Ghana “cannot contain such elements”, insisting “the media must speak against it.”
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Kofi Adams, who serves as the National organizer of the NDC, says Ghana “cannot containsuch elements”, insisting “the media must speak against it.”
READ ALSO: Bank of Ghana to introduce a commemorative GH¢5 noteThere were several reports that some NPP members had besieged certain public facilities to destroy and seize them, after their flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo defeated the NDC’s John Mahama to emerge president.
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The NDC subsequently addressed the press in the aftermath of the 2016 elections appealing on the NPP to call their supporters to order, and threatened to respond if nothing is done.
Responding to the NDC, the NPP also organized a press conference with deputy General Secretary Nana Obiri Boahen cautioning the opposition party that they “will pay them back in equal measure” if any NPP member is attacked.
Obiri Boahen added that the NDC did the same thing to NPP supporters when they won power eight years ago, and so had no moral right to complain.
However, Kofi Adams believes the NPP deputy general secretary’s comments were misplaced and called for a public condemnation from the media and all stakeholders.
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“This country has to move and this country cannot contain such elements and all of you in the media must rise up and speak against it. I don’t think this is something we must allow. We cannot allow this to continue. Enough of this,” Adams said in an interview with Citi FM.
He added that: “If anything is going wrong, we draw the attention of anybody; we’ll wake up the media, the clergy, civil society… they are part of the process and must hear what is going on.
"I don’t think we [NDC] have done any wrong by calling on President Nana Akufo-Addo to act, he is the President and he must protect every Ghanaian.”
The NDC have, in recent, times called on President Akufo-Addo to come out and publicly condemn the acts, although the president is yet to speak.
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The Police have also confirmed the arrest of 14 perpetrators so far, and have revealed that they are on the hunt for others.
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