The ruling New Patriotic Party has accused the NDC of being behind the recent market fires.
According to the party, there are strong indications that the opposition party is resorting to the move to create tension in the country.
“For instance, the NDC National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, is on record to have incited his party footsoldiers to undertake series of “overt and covert operations” including setting markets ablaze and embarking on armed robbery attacks in order to create fear and sense of insecurity in the country. Ofosu Ampofo is of course being prosecuted in court for this treasonable comment, and the court has established as a matter of fact that it was his voice in that leaked tape.
“Beyond the NDC National Chairman, mention can also be made of other leading members of the NDC including their 2020 flagbearer, John Mahama as well as their party executives, who are also engaged in this exercise of inciting their base to creat mayhem and make the country ungovernable particularly after their humiliating defeat at the 2020 polls. Equally, social media is awash with messages from some misguided members of the NDC, threatening to burn markets in order to ventilate their outrage at the outcome of the 2020 elections, which they are disputing,” NPP general secretary John Boadu said in a statement Monday.
The statement stressed: “As a matter of fact, there is an abominable Facebook comment which has been making rounds on social media attributed to one of their guys, who used the name, Daniel Tee, threatening that, “we are burning down Kantamanto tomorrow”. He made this comment on 15th December, and lo and behold, on 16th December, these hoodlums executed the act and burnt down the Kantamanto market.
Whiles commending the Police for arresting one of the suspected arsonists behind the Kantamanto fire outbreak by name, Daniel Dah Kormlah, who had been identified as an active member of the opposition NDC, we also implore the police to immediately arrest Daniel Tee together with all his accomplices and make them face the full rigors of the law.
“It cannot be gainsaid that the burning of the nation’s market can only be an execution of their widely publicized “overt and covert operations” as proclaimed by their leaders before, during and after the 2020 general elections which have, rightly so, been described as the most transparent and peaceful elections in our recent history”.
Meanwhile, Eric Adoglah, driver of Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) Peter Boamah Otukonor has been arrested over recent market fires.
According to lawyer Kojoga Adawudu [lawyer of the driver], after hearing the driver was picked up, he visited the BNI Headquarters only to be informed he (Eric Adogla) is being held at the BNI’s other office at 37.
Speaking to the issue in an interview with Happy 98.9 FM’s Sefah-Danquah on the Epa Hoa Daben political show, the lawyer said;
“I went to 37 only to be told by the officers around that he was not being held there either. I was told to return later and that they will bring him back for me to see him. The officers at the 37 BNI office later told me they were unable to contact anyone at the Head Office to approve my visit”.
He described the refusal of the BNI to allow him access to his client as a tactic used after they have tortured someone. “They are not giving me access to my client now and I believe it is because he has either been tortured or they are forcing words into his mouth and want him to admit to something he didn’t do just to frame his boss”.
