NDC Condemns State-Sponsored Attacks On Citi FM Journalists

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has condemned the recent arrest of two journalists with Accra-based Citi FM and the attack on the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator by vigilantes of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

In a statement signed by party General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the developments were described as attacks on Ghana’s democracy with the approval of President Akufo-Addo.

“In the brutish assault of Mr. Caleb Kudah of Citi FM and the harassment of his colleague, Ms. Zoe Abu-Baidoo, the Akufo-Addo government has now demonstrated clearly that it does not believe in the rule of law nor common human decency,” the NDC fired.

 “And as if these events are not enough, elements of the much dreaded NPP vigilante group, the Delta Force actually raided the office of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator and handcuffed him, claiming that his tenure of office had come to an end.”

  According to the NDC, “ it is this unprecedented attack on the people of Ghana and the apparent helplessness or connivance of the President and Commander in Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo that threatens the foundation of our democracy and the well being of our fellow countrymen and women.”

 Mr. Caleb Kudah and his colleague Zoe-Abu-Baidoo had been arrested by seven heavily armed operatives of National Security over Mr. Kudah’s film of some abandoned State vehicles on the premises of National Security.

After the two had been interrogated and released, Mr. Kudah later revealed he had been handcuffed and slapped about by Police officers. 

Also, one Lt. Col. Agyeman had made him kneel and then kicked him in the groin.

According to the NDC, the conduct of the National Security operatives was unprofessional and that it was so because National Security has been stuffed with NPP vigilante elements.

“The genesis of these trends is not hard to identify. The needless invasion by state-sponsored vigilantes of the voting process during the Ayawaso Bye-election in January 2019, the virtual militarization of the registration of voters process last year, and the unprecedented violence that accompanied the election proper last December culminating in the untimely death of eight innocent Ghanaian citizens,” said the NDC.