Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kwaku Baaku, has downplayed concerns that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is training thugs at Asutuare to cause mayhem during the 2020 election.
Mr Baako Jnr, commenting on the issue, said the debate of people being trained has been recycled since 2000 and does not come to him as a surprise.
According to him, Asutuare is a national security installation which isn’t under the military even though they [the military] also patronize the place sometimes.
He admitted that there was a National Security training ongoing at Asutuare, but said it will be misleading and deceitful to allege that it is being done to create chaos during the 2020 election.
“Asutuare actually is under the National Security Council secretariat and not the military so I see this debate of training people at Asutuare as a recycled issue. We always make noise about it then the matter dies, then we come back after elections without any issue,” he told Accra-based Metro TV.
Flagbearer of the NDC, John Mahama, was the first to raise the issue when he spoke about electoral violence during a visit by the Ghana Journalists Association.
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has since denied the claims.
But the outspoken journalist said he felt uncomfortable when the former president made those claims when he [the former president] knows what goes on at Asutuare.
“Mahama knows this issue very well. He knows that under his own tenure, these things happened. He knows that it happened under Kufuor and Rawlings and the rest so the distortions, the scaremongering and the misinformation, I thought was unwarranted. I am telling you there is no cause for alarm,” he added.
Source: Adom FM
