NPP reacts to interrogation exercise

Mankessim (C/R), June 17, GNA - The Mfantseman West Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to the National Security Coordinator to ensure that the interrogation exercise they have embarked upon is given a human face.

Briefing the Ghana News Agency at Mankessim about the party's position on the exercise, Mr Felix Nyarko-Antwi, the constituency Vice Chairman, who was the spokesperson of the large number of the supporters of the party who gathered at its office said the action of the security operatives suggested that it was a crime to serve one's nation. Referring to how Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng's trip to the United States of America was aborted at the airport after he and his family had gone through all the necessary formalities, Mr Nyarko Antwi said it was the most inhuman treatment to be meted out to a former Minister of State, his wife and kids.

He said Mr Asamoah Bpoateng, who was the immediate past Member of Parliament for the area came to the constituency last week to inform them about the trip to the USA, and promised to be back before President Barrak Obama's visit to the country in July.

"It is about seven months ago when elections were held, if the former Minister knows he has committed a crime against the state which he could be called upon to answer, he would have absconded immediately the party lost the election", he said.

He said what was currently happening in the country pointed to the fact that the government wanted to use arrest of its opponents to divert attention of Ghanaians from the hardships they were facing. "If the government wants to do a house-cleaning exercise it must start from the era of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council as the former President Kufuor started the Reconciliation exercise from the CPP regime".

Mr Nyarko Antwi said if President John Evans Atta Mills still stood by his pledge to be a father of all Ghanaians irrespective of political affiliation, then he should order the security operatives to put a stop to the manner the exercise was being conducted.

"The nation needs peace to move forward and the President must live by the "Asomdwehene" title that has been conferred on him by ensuring that the people live in peace," he stated.

He appealed to the government to compensate Mr Asamoah Boateng and family for the trauma they went through at the airport.