BNI invites NPP activist over Facebook comment

The Eastern regional Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has sent a strong warning to the ruling NDC government to stop using security agencies to harass members of the NPP whenever they comment on issues affecting the country.

In a press release signed by the Eastern Regional Youth Organiser, Jerry Osei- Opoku, the youth wing noted that it had come to the notice of the party that one of their Constituency Youth Organisers, Abubakar Alhassan aka Bee Wassa of the New Juaben South Constituency, was invited by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for commenting on issues affecting the good people of Ghana on Facebook, a social media platform.

According to the youth wing, when the news broke they thought “it was the joke of the century”, asking, “since when did the BNI start inviting people for exercising their fundamental rights to free speech? Do the BNI lenses only capture posts and comments from only NPP sympathisers?”

Their statement further quizzed, ”Where was the BNI when the NDC turned Ghana’s VVIP Lounge at the Kotoka International Airport into a thoroughfare for cocaine smuggling? Instead of working towards their mandate of providing the much needed security expected by the citizens of this country whose taxes are used to pay them, they are rather “lazing” around and dabbling in political witch hunting.”

The Eastern Regional Youth Wing and for that matter the New Patriotic Party asked the NDC government to stop using state security agencies to hunt NPP members who are fighting for the betterment of the country.

The group further stated that the party in general would under no circumstances tolerate any intimidatory tactics employed by the NDC through some compromised officials of state institutions, adding,

“We shall resist oppressors’ rule as our national anthem enjoins us to do in order to safeguard the future and integrity of our dear nation.”

Jerry Osei – Opoku posited, “Ghana belongs to all of us and all Ghanaians deserve equal rights and justice, but not to be intimidated by any party security agencies.”