The Atiwa By-Election And Aftermath

The Media Analysts Group of the NDC has observed with great concern the happenings at the Atiwa Constituency during the by-election held on the 31st August, 2010. It is unfortunate that prior to the by-election the General Secretary of the opposition N.P.P, Owusu Afriyie started castigating the ruling NDC, and his agenda heightened on the eve to the by-election at Atiwa.

Some of the wild allegations from Owusu Afriyie was that the ruling NDC had bussed macho men to the constituency to bully the electorates. The Media Analysts of the NDC investigation revealed that whilst the General Secretary of the N.P.P was making these unfounded allegations against the NDC, he was at the forefront of organizing the NPP youth in the Atiwa Constituency to perpetrate all sorts of illegalities against known NDC members in the Atiwa Constituency.

Mr Owusu Afriyie organized the youth in the N.P.P called the Bamba Boys to mount a barrier at Abomosu and the Bamba Boys were harassing people entering Abomosu to observe the happenings at the various polling stations. In one of these actions, the vehicle of the NDC Women’s Organizer, Anita De-sosoo was attacked and eventually, one of the political harlots, now a member of NPP Frances Assiam granted and interview to Citi and Joy FM respectively and described the Eastern Regional Minister Mr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and Baba Jamal Ahmed his Deputy as murders and the whole NDC members as such.
The Media Analysts Group is calling on the IGP, Mr. Paul Tawia Quaye to arrest Frances Asiam and Owusu Afriyie the NPP General Secretary as well as Jake Obetsebi Lamptey for making unsubstantiated reports on various radio stations that three (3) people died out of the illegal barrier which was mounted at Abomosu to attack NDC personalities which it was alleged that the NDC Women Organizer ran through.
The Media Analysts Group wish to ask that those who mounted the barriers were they security officers or what? Who authorized the mounting of the barriers? These are a genuine question that needs answers. It is on record and what our representatives observed at the Atiwa Constituency is that Mr. Taiwah Boateng of the NDC was attacked by supporters of the NPP and beaten to pulp his vehicle was also vandalized. Other NDC officials were who were at Atiwa to observe the by-election was attacked in a way or the other; their vehicles were vandalized as well.
The Media Analysts Group of NDC wants to bring to the attention of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Chairman of the Electoral Commission that what happened at the Atiwa Constituency, if the NDC had responded it would have been a different ball game altogether, it would have been destruction of property and even loss of lives. So it is about time that the Minister of Interior, the IGP and the Electoral Commission to call the leadership of the NPP to order because they pretend they are peaceful but their behaviour is the other way round.
The NPP family we all know prides itself as coming from a tradition that believes in the rule of law. The evidence however, shows that far from being adherents to the rule of law. The NPP family has been the group that most ermined a wave of bomb explosions that killed and maimed innocent people including children. It is on record that the father of Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, chairman of the New Patriotic Party, was a prinepal Culprit at the time- to enable him accomplish his dastardly act, he had tired a cottage in the then village of Bawaleshie, from where he and his NPP Family accomplices were distributing bombs meant to be detonated in various parts of the country. The following are some of the explosions from bomb distributed by Jake’s father, on August 1, 1962, as Nkrumah was returning from the Upper Volta and had emerged out of his car to speak to school children who had come to greet him, a bomb planted in a bouquet of flowers put in a hand of a seven (7) year old girl to be presented to Nkrumah exploded. The little girl suffered serve injuries, September 18, 1962, two bombs in Accra killing and maiming severed people –one of theses blasts occurred in Lueas house in Accra where nine (9) fell dead on the spot January 11, 1963 – bomb exploded at CPP rally – over twenty (20) people killed and more than 400 people injured including children and members young pioneer. January 1, 1964, an NPP family tired Police officer, Seth Ameterwey, who was posted on guard duty at the Flagstaff house fired five times at Nkrumah but Sgt. Salifu Dagati was not so fortune, he was killed on spot.
In 1965, another bomb, exploded at the Accra Sport Stadium meant to assassinate Nkrumah, Nkrumah again escaped narrowly but many sustained severe injuries including a little girl, Elizabeth Asantewa, who had one of her legs amputated while the other one rotted away, she lives in Dansoman currently.
In addition to Jake Obetsebi Lamptey’s father, Dr. Busia, at a press conference in Accra after the 66 coup openly admitted that he financed the purchase of most of the bombs used in bombing campaign. How this NPP family, co-founded by Danquah, a man who had no qualm selling his country for a few dollars.
Many people today hardly remember that the Gbewaa palace in Yendi was also attacked under the NPP sponsored military junta in 1969 and nearly 70 people were killed at that time. Against that background, perhaps the people of Ghana have to heave sigh that during the recent 2002 Mayhem under the NPP; in the same Gbewaa palace, only about 40 people were killed in addition to the Ya-Na.
Despite all these, the NPP family continues to harass, and attack the NDC.
The foot soldiers of the NDC would not watch unconcerned in the 2012 General Elections if the NPP try to use the communist inferior tactics.
Events cast their shadows before they manifest, a word to a wise is enough. They NPP think they can bulldoze their way to clinch political power in 2012 but it will be a mirage.
Meanwhile, the Media Analysts Group is humbly calling on the IGP to cause the arrest of Frances Asiam, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey and Owusu Afriyie of the NPP to substantiate the report they made to Ghanaians on the air waves just after the Atiwa Constituency by-election.

ALFRED KOJO TRIDDLES

(CO-ORDINATOR)
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