Military officer with loaded gun caught in Mahama s office Yen 20/12/2020 Nii Ayi Ayitey
Social commentator and head of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jr., has alleged that a military man with a loaded gun has been arrested at the office of John Dramani Mahama.
Kwesi Pratt Jr. is thus seeking an explanation into how this could be possible. Making this claim on the Pan African Television Network, the outspoken political journalist gave more details on how the said operative has his pistol seized by the security apparatus of John Mahama’s office.
“Who is this defense intelligence operative who went to former President John Dramani Mahama’s office with a concealed loaded weapon? The security of former President John Mahama detected it, arrested him and they seized the weapon,” he further stated.
Mahama condemns high military presence at polls
Former President John Dramani Mahama, the Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has condemned what he described as high military presence in the just-ended elections.
He said that contributed to the post-election violence, recorded in parts of the country that claimed more than six lives.
Mr Mahama said he was a President before and it was not allowed anywhere in the constitution to use the military to ‘intimidate citizens’ during peaceful elections adding it was the duty of the police to maintain law and order at polls, not the military.
He emphasised Ghana had gone through eight successful elections, saying election 2020 was the worst form of elections the country had conducted since 1992.
Mahama in Techiman to console families of bereaved families 17th Dec 2020 | Source: GNA
Former President John Dramani Mahama, the Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Wednesday visited the families of the three Party supporters who died in a post-election violence that erupted in the Techiman Municipality of the Bono East Region.
To console the families, the flag bearer of the Party, was accompanied by Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the General Secretary, Mr Ofosu Ampofo, the National Chairman of the NDC who earlier visited two of the supporters who sustained gunshot wounds and recuperating at the Wenchi Government Hospital.
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Downpour disrupts Mahama s rally in Techiman
Torrential rains on Wednesday disrupted a rally of supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Techiman Municipality of the Bono East Region. The hundreds of supporters clad in party paraphernalia, however defied the downpour to give audience to former President John Dramani Mahama, the Flagbearer of the NDC who was in the region to console the families of the three NDC supporters who died in post-election violence that erupted in the town. Mr Mahama earlier visited two of the supporters who sustained gunshots wounds, and recuperating at the Wenchi government hospital. As at 1600 hours the former president has not arrived to address the rally at the Techiman Zongo L/A park because of the rains that followed a storm, set in around 1520 hours and lasted for about 15 minutes.