We are not behind the alleged police intimidation against NDC supporters in Asawase – NPP

Politics of Tuesday October 27, 2020

Source: Kasapa FM

2020-10-27

The New Patriotic Party (PNP) has called allegations that it is using the police to intimidate opposition supporters in the Asawase constituency as unfounded.

It follows the arrest of some 10 supporters of the opposition Democratic National Congress who were detained in an anti-theft police raid.

Asawase Member of Parliament Muntaka Mubarak claimed that the recurring arrest of NDC loyalists was an orchestration of some elements of the New Patriotic Party.

“It’s getting difficult since the voter registration exercise, you are there and they just arrest their agents for no good reason. We go to the police station and bail the person out. At night they came to arrest these people but the police tell us that they were looking for some suspects in a robbery case and they found out that they were in the area, “the legislator told the media after Sunday’s arrests.

He pointed to the campaign operations director of the PNP’s Asawase constituency, Ali Suraj, as one of the influences using power and money to manipulate the police.

But Suraj is demanding a retraction and an apology for such comments that he says have damaged his image in the constituency.

Background

Members of the NDC besieged the Ashanti Regional Police Command after ten of its members were arrested by the police after a party event.

NDC activists were arrested by the anti-theft squad of the Ghana Police Service in front of the office of the area member of parliament, Mr. Muntaka Mubarak, in the Aboabo police office, after returning from campaign activities Saturday, October 25. , 2020.

The reason for their arrest is unknown, but the area member of Parliament said they were detained for allegedly being suspected of robbery.

Mubarak told Starr News that some regional party executives, including regional organizer Esham Alhassan, regional president Augustus Andrews Nana Kwasi, and regional secretary Kwame Zu, have come to the police headquarters on the matter.

He said he has met with the regional police commander and promised to release them on bail after their statements are taken.

“It’s getting difficult since the voter registration exercise, you are there and they just arrest their agents for no good reason. We go to the police station and bail the person out. At night they came to arrest these people but the police tell us that they were looking for some suspects in a robbery case and they found out that they were in the area, “he said.