National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party, Henry Nana Boakye, says the party will not be intimidated, insisting that recent arrests of opposition members will not silence their voices.
He made the comments during an interview on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem morning show, reacting to the ongoing detention of party officials.
Mr. Boakye criticised the conduct of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) during the interrogation of Agona West Constituency Organiser, David Essandoh, saying even basic conditions at the facility reflected the country’s wider power challenges.
“When BNI were investigating the Agona West Constituency Organiser, David Essandoh, their lights were off and they had generators making noise. You could hear the generators running,” he said.
“I even told one of the officers that even the lights are off here, so is dumsor not back?” he added.
He questioned the priorities of state authorities, arguing that attention should be focused on more pressing national issues.
“Why do you chase after things that are not important? The government has nothing better to do,” he said.
He added that issues such as power shortages, challenges faced by cocoa farmers, and concerns from nurses should be receiving greater attention.
“Serious things are happening in the country. We are suffering from dumsor, cocoa farmers are crying, nurses are crying for better conditions, yet they will not concentrate on such concerns,” he stated.
Mr. Boakye insisted that the party would resist any attempts to silence its members.
“For the NPP, we will not be intimidated. Nothing is going to stop us,” he said.
“If that is how they want it, then they will have to arrest all of us.”
His comments follow the rearrest of the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Kwame Baffoe, who has been remanded for two weeks as investigations continue into allegations of misinformation and offensive public statements.
It also comes after the arrest of David Essandoh, Agona West Constituency Organiser, over allegations that he criticised President John Dramani Mahama regarding the return of intermittent power outages, popularly known as “dumsor.”
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