Listen to Akando

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Juaboso in the Western region, Kwabena Mintah Akando, claims the arrest of the Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho is diversionary.
According to him, the arrest is a strategy by government to shift attention from the public debate on the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the United States.
He believes that the move is laced with propaganda to cloud attention on the implications for the revelations surrounding government’s move.
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“I think Koku’s arrest is needless and should not be entertained. I believe it’s just a diversionary tactics. It’s just a way to shift attention from the main issue which has to do with the US military base in Ghana. It’s dangerous”, he said.
Mr. Akando was speaking on Adom TV’s Morning Show, “Badwam” Wednesday.
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service picked up Mr Anyidoho on Tuesday, 27 March, for inciting civilians to launch a coup d’etat against the Akufo-Addo government.
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Mr Anyidoho was picked up at the Press Centre in Accra where he and several other opposition leaders belonging to the Progressive Forces, were holding a news conference to condemn the government for signing a security cooperation deal with the United States of America.
But Mr. Akando who sees nothing wrong with the comment of Koku said his arrest is needless.
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He said the move does not augur well for a democratic country like Ghana.
“What the government and the police are doing is senseless because what Koku said does not warrant this unnecessary thing [arrest]”, he said.
 




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2 COMMENTS

  1. I think there are better issues that my MP can give constructive suggestions to help tackle than this which I called loose talk. What has been done to the dinner hall he promise Juasec for 6years now.
    My kindid opnion (Kofi Adjei of Juaboso)

  2. Kofi, does this needless arrest create the jobs and factories you needed to work in? We need serious minded persons to rule Ghana. Whiles people are thinking of how to provide butter and bread for his people, we in Ghana and the police are looking for people to victimize. Are we serious?
    When armed robbers robbed people, the police say they are handicap, but you see the same police force engaging in unproductive activities just to score political points. Look at the time and energy wasted in arresting Koku yesterday? Can’t we use it for something productive?
    We must grow as a nation.

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