What legacy do you intend to leave for NDC and Ghana? - Kwamena Duncan queries Mahama
Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has lambasted former President John Dramani Mahama for permitting his supporters to protest on the streets following the EC Chairperson s declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President-elect.
The former President has declined to accept the election verdict, hence doesn t see himself defeated by his political opponent.
He claims the elections were rigged and that the results are flawed and fictional .
He also demands an independent forensic audit of the election results.
Due to the statements of the former President and some leaders of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), the supporters who believe he (Mahama) won the elections have been demonstrating against the Electoral Commission.
Economic Fighters League slams police for stopping NDC, others from protesting
The Economic Fighters League has taken a swipe at the Greater Accra Regional Police Command for securing a court order to ban the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from further protests.
The youth pressure group that has championed several initiatives to educate the youth on the power they wield including the ‘No Vote’ campaign, believes the action by the police is an infringement on the rights of the party and its members.
A statement issued by the group and signed by Hardi Yakubu, Fighter General, said: “We remain non-partisan and committed to demolishing a system that is clearly designed to serve an elite few. That said, when the inalienable rights of the People are abused, we must and will always speak and act, out of loyalty to Ghana, and not party.
It’s needless to arrest harmless NDC demonstrators – Police told
The arrest of some 26 National Democratic Congress (NDC) demonstrators granted GH¢10,000 bail each during a recent demonstration at the premises of the Electoral Commission has been described as needless according to the party’s leadership.
“These people were harmless. They had no weapons to destabilize the country and their arrest was unwarranted”, Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the party, Theophilus Tettey Chaie said. The demonstrators were charged with unlawful assembling, and failure to notify the police before hitting the streets to register their displeasure on the election results.
Speaking to the arrest on Kumasi-based Akoma FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com, the former NDC lawmaker explained picketing is cannot be described as illegal as being claimed by the police.
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The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has arrested 26 people for unlawfully demonstrating at the Electoral Commission (EC) Headquarters.
The arrested persons, 15 males and 11 females, were among protesters who thronged major streets in Accra to reaffirm their displeasure in the general election results declaration by the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa.
A similar demonstration took place in the Ketu South Constituency.
A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Effia Tenge, said they were engaged in unlawful acts such as burning of tyres, pelting of stones and causing heavy vehicular traffic congestion.
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Indiscipline on the country’s only motorway, the Accra-Tema Motorway, is brewing danger for motorists who ply the 19-kilometre (km) expressway on a daily basis.
A Daily Graphic team that monitored activities on the road that most befits the description of highway for about five hours last Wednesday observed that the illegal activities along the 19-kilometre motorway were mainly perpetrated by drivers, slum dwellers, tricycle riders, farmers and herdsmen.
The dangers include pedestrian and livestock knockdowns, car crashes and other accidents thatlead to the loss of lives or injury to drivers, passengers and pedestrians.
The team also observed that there were growing slums and shanty towns along the highway whose dwellers had converted the bare land serving as buffer between the motorway and the settlements to vegetable farms, with others herding cattle at different sections of the motorway.