NDC Defends Secret Tape...No Threat to Security

Richard Quarshigah, Propaganda Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has discounted claims of any threat to nations security following the revelation of a secret recording of the National Organizer of the party, Yaw Boateng Gyan.

According to him, contents of the tape does not licence any action from the law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Boateng Gyan has been implicated in a tape recording promising to help recruit party foot soldiers to join the country’s security agencies to help the party’s agenda in the elections. In the tape, he is heard promising to ensure party loyalists are specifically recruited into the Special Forces.

Mr. Quarshigah in an interview on an Accra based radio station stated that “I don’t know what Mr. Boateng Gyan has said in that tape that is a threat to national security for which Kennedy Agyepong will be calling on National Security to take certain action.”

He further explained: “If the person is talking to people and assuring them that he could facilitate their being recruited into the security services when they keep faith with the NDC when it comes back into power, I do not see that crime that these people are trying to impute.”

He took a swipe at the Assin North MP, Hon. Agyapong, who leaked the tape to the media accusing him of trying to find some equalization to his earlier comments “which called on Akans to kill Gas and Ewes for no apparent reason and so I am so surprised that he is the very person who put out the tape and also he is peaking to it.”

He also accused the opposition New Patriotic Party of trying to find excuses to carry out their ‘all-die-be-die’ agenda saying, “if you listen to responses from Nana Akufo-Addo and Jake Obestebi Lamptey to President Mahama’s call for some form of dialogue among political leaders to ensure some degree of peace and co-existence, you would realise that these are people who don’t mean well.”