NPP Hits Streets Over “State-Sponsored Harassment and Abuse of Power”

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has today hit the streets of Accra to protest against what it calls “State-Sponsored Harassment and Abuse of Power” by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.

Protesters converged at Obra Spot, Kwame Nkrumah Circle and are expected to march to the Police Headquarters and end at the Jubilee House.

A Facebook post by the National Organiser of the party, Henry Nana Boakye, accused the government of witch-hunting and selective justice against the opposition party members.
“This massive protest is against the weaponisation and misuse of state agencies targeted at harassing opposition party members and also the selective justice being perpetuated by the law enforcement agencies at the instigation of President Mahama and his appointees.”

He urged the public to join the National Youth Wing of NPP for the “March Against State-Sponsored Harassment and Abuse of Power” (Yen Suro Ahunahuna).

This followed the arrests of some leading members of the party, with the recent one being Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe, known as Abronye.

The opposition party alleges that the government has, in the past eight months of its administration, marshalled state security against the NPP rather than addressing pressing national issues.

In its view, the government has “completely lost focus”.

“The government has used the past eight months to weaponise the state security, not in the fight against galamsey, and certainly not to protect the citizenry and deescalate the growing insecurity situation in many parts of the country, particularly in Bawku, Nkwanta, and Gbeniyiri in the Savanna Region, where recent communal clashes have claimed over 32 lives and displaced more than 50,000 Ghanaians, some of whom have become refugees in neighbouring countries,” it said in a statement issued two weeks ago.

Story by Hajara Fuseini

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