My Tweet Was Not Aimed To Get Protesters On The Streets …British High Commissioner

The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, dismissed claims from a saucy letter from Inspector General of Police (IGP) George Akuffo-Dampare, saying she was inciting unrest in the country.

In an interview on Accra-based GHOne TV on Tuesday, May 31 she said that if the tweet had such capacity she would not have made it at all.

“Ghana is a peace-loving nation where people do have the right to express themselves, where they do have the right to come and protest things that matter to them. A tweet like that is not going to be the thing that will get people onto the streets, in my view. If I had thought that there was the remotest chance of that, I wouldn’t be tweeting things like that. That is clearly not my intention,” she said.

IGP Dampare had in a scathing letter, accused the British High Commissioner of also meddling in the internal affairs of Ghana after she had tweeted on May 17 that she was looking forward to seeing how the arrest of the convener of the FixTheCountry Movement would turn out.

Her tweet was prompted by the clear political victimization of Barker-Vormawor for his activism against extra-judicial killings by the government, corruption and the general tyranny of President Akufo Addo.

Mr. Barker-Vormawor and his friends have organized a powerful youth movement called #FixTheCountry and the conviction of the youth to rid Ghana of its corrupt political status quo is sending jitters down the spine of the government.