The Director of Legal Affairs Directorate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Abraham Amaliba has petitioned the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to immediately arrest and prosecute the Member of Parliament for Abetifi and Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong.
In the petition dated April 11 2023, Mr Amaliba said “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 follows comments made by the Minister during the Easter period at Mpraeso in the Eastern Region.
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Bryan Acheampong on Saturday, April 8 assured party supporters at a rally in Kwahu that the current government, led by President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, would hold on to power at all costs
“NDC party will collapse and collapse and collapse. If the NDC dares to use threats, Violence and foolishness in 2024 election we will let them know we have the men.We will show them that we have the men. We have the men![He screamed to emphasize]. 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”.
The NDC later in the day condemned Acheampong's statement, calling it “utterly reckless and treasonable.”
The NPP also reacted to the NDC statement saying it finds the NDC's statement not only ill-founded, hypocritical, illogical, and baseless but also one that lacks contextual substance for the consumption of the discerning Ghanaians who are not oblivious to the modus the Operandi of the main opposition party in deliberately putting diabolic and mischievous slant to an otherwise innocuous comment such as the comments made by the Member of Parliament in furtherance of their selfish political interest.