Bryan Acheampong’s Redeployment Part Of Plan To Rig 2020 – Asiedu Nketia

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said the redeployment of Minister of State in Charge of National Security, Bryan Acheampong, to the Interior Ministry, is one step taken by the Akufo-Addo government as part of a plan to rig the 2020 election.

In an interview with journalists at Parliament today, Mr. Asiedu Nketia popularly called General Mosquito said the redeployment was also a spit into the face of the Emile Short Commission which had recommended the possible sanction of Bryan Acheampong.

“It is a slap in the face of the Emile Short Commission. And I believe that it is a cog in the whole orchestration to rig the elections,” Mr Asiedu Nketia said.

Until his reassignment, Bryan Acheampong was Minister of State in Charge of National Security. He is well known to be an NPP hardliner who orchestrated the gun violence at La Bawaleshie in Accra during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election in 2017.

The Emile Short Commission which was established by President Akufo-Addo to look into how the election turned violent, resulting in the injury of 16 persons, recommended evaluation and reorganisation of the National Security Ministry in its report.

Led by Justice Emile Short, the Commission recommended for him “to be reprimanded for his ultimate responsibility as Minister in authorizing an operation of that character on a day of an election in a built-up area.”

But Government rejected the Commission’s recommendation.

According to Asiedu Nketia, the government’s rejection only legitimizes Bryan Acheampong’s misconduct.

“This is somebody who deployed thugs to create mayhem at a by-election for which reason the Commission was established and declared that action unlawful and recommended that the group he had been commanding be disbanded, he himself should be punished and so on.

“And so what President Akufo-Addo has done is to tell the Emile Short Commission and anyone who is worried about vigilantism and so on to go to hell,” he said.