Accra, Ghana, September 30, 2019//-The Eastern Regional branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has condemned the barbaric attacks by some hoodlums on the Abuakwa south constituency communication officer of the party, Aikins Ofori.
The party in a statement issued and signed by the Eastern Regional Communications Officer, Comrade Darlas Williams registered its revulsion on the matter.
In the early hours of Saturday, 28 September, 2019, the constituency communications officer, Ofori, whilst at his grandmother’s funeral at Kyebi, was apprehended and beaten to a pulp by some hoodlums without provocation.
As a law abiding citizen, he went to the office of the district police command to lodge a complaint for the hoodlums to be dealt with according to the laws of the nation.
Upon his arrival, the police arrested him and was put behind bars, with the reason that he had been reported somewhere in July this year, for once insulting the Akyem Abuakwahene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, on a WhatsApp platform, a false allegation orchestrated to rationalise such obvious political violence.
All efforts to secure him a bail proved futile until it took the intervention of the Abuakwa south NDC constituency chairman, Alhaji Sanusi, to get him released.
“The police per our constitution are supposed to protect lives and properties and not to unlawfully detain victims of political violence, and rather protect the perpetrators”, according to the statement.
The NDC therefore demanded the following from the Abuakwa South District police command; that they act swiftly on the case and get the perpetrators arrested and prosecuted within 48 hours.
The party also asked that police command in the district commit to professional and fair policing to prevent others from taking the laws into their own hands.
The NDC further demanded that police stop feeding on orchestrated petty rumours from Social media platforms.
African Eye Report
