Do not use as manipulative tools.

General news for Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Source: rainbownradioonline.com

2021-01-05

Minority leader Hon Haruna Iddrisu has stated that minority MPs who agreed with the Electoral Commission (EC) have not personally received any subpoenas as required by law to appear in court.

The legislator says that NDC MPs do not respond to calls on social media and has asked the police to do what is necessary.

He said that the deputies are not cowards and will not be intimidated.

He beat up the police saying that they had allowed themselves to be manipulated to serve a political interest.

He said that the police not only allow themselves to be manipulated but are also confused.

The leader said the names of some MPs, including Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings and Mr. Isaac Adongo, were added to the accused MPs when they did not participate in the march.

For him, this shows that someone somewhere rehearsed the enemies they are targeting to humiliate them and projected them (MPs) as lawbreakers.

He asked the police to resolve the confusion and return according to the law.

He asked why the people who shot voters in Techiman South have not been arrested and charged, but the MPs who embarked on the legal procession have been charged with an illegal gathering.

The Tamale South MP, addressing the parliamentary press body, explained that the NDC party is a law-abiding party and would have responded to the invitation if the right thing had been done.

“Unfortunately, we do not and will not respond to social media invitations from the Ghana Police Service.

“I have not been personally served as required by law and many of my colleagues and therefore I should only be walking to court if there was a personal service of that summons.

“But I must assume without fear or contradiction that the Ghana Police Service is allowing itself to be used as a manipulative tool.”

Meanwhile, the court that heard the matter was forced to suspend the session because the deputies did not appear before it on Monday.

Some twenty minority NDC MPs, including leader Haruna Iddrisu, have been indicted in court for their march to the Electoral Commission (EC) headquarters.

These minority MPs walked from Parliament to the EC headquarters on December 22, 2020 to submit a petition to the electoral body demanding a new compilation of the Techiman South parliamentary results.

The police in a statement of the crime accused minority MPs of not notifying the police before holding a special event contrary to articles 1, 2 and 9 of the Public Order Law.

The police have also accused them of illegal assembly in contravention of article 202 of the Criminal Offenses Act.

According to police, the parliamentarians illegally gathered for a common purpose and behaved in a manner likely to cause reasonable fear in the people of the Ridge neighborhood.

“He is ordered on behalf of the republic to appear before this court in Accra on January 4, 2021,” read the summons distributed in the lockers (shelves) of each of the 20 deputies.

Affected MPs include Deputy Minority Leader James Klutse Avedzi, Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak, Ningo Prampram MP Samuel George, Former Deputy Interior Minister James Agalga, John Jinapor, Rockson Dafiamekpor, Adam Mutawakilu, Ebenezer Terlabi , Dr. Para Donkor, ABA Fuseini, Kofi Buah, Rashid Pelpuo, and Richard Quarshigah.

The rest are Collins Dauda, ​​Yussif Jahja, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh and Kunbungu MP Ras Mubarack. NDC Deputy Secretary General Peter Otukunor is the other individual charged in connection with the alleged crimes.