Amenfi East NPP PC arrested – Municipal Chief Executive reveals
The Municipal Chief Executive of Amenfi East, Mr Frederick Korankye has disclosed that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency, Ernest Frimpong, has been invited by the Police for questioning.
He said, Mr Frimpong has been reporting to the Police since yesterday, June 11, 2024.
According to Mr Korankye, when the video became public, he reported the matter to the Municipal Commander of Police for the necessary action.
“He is with the Police now, they have taken his statement,” Mr Korankye, who is also the head of the Municipal Security, said on Accra-based Joy FM.
He described the statements attributed to Mr Frimpong as “unfortunate.”
It would be recalled that Mr Frimpong was seen and heard in a video that has gone viral on social media telling illegal miners to attack any military or security officer who attempts stopping them from engaging in ‘galamsey.’
He urged them to initiate reprisal attacks on the military, promising them that himself, the MCE and the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah, who was present at the meeting, will always protect them.
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) subsequently issued a statement urging members of the public to desist from attacking soldiers as that would amount to a grave offence.
However, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) criticised GAF’s response as too general. Especially so, when not too long after Mr Frimpong’s video went viral, a military officer was attacked.
“Unless the GAF, once the most disciplined and revered institution in Ghana, has become compromised along political lines, one wonders why Brigadier General E. Aggrey-Quashie (Director General, Public Relations) would conceal the detail of calling out the person(s) in the viral video and warning them directly instead of …. cautioning the general public,” the NDC stated in a press release signed by Elikem Kotoko, Deputy National Organiser.
The NDC cautioned that the GAF risks losing respect if such incidents continue unchecked.
The party emphasised the need to address the comments with the source in focus to avoid tragedies such as befell the late Major Mahama.
“In the past eight (8) years we have lost too many of your men to civilian actions and not at war fronts, this is disturbing. Mention can be made of…(1) Major Mahama in Upper Denkyira (II) Private more Sherrif in Ashairnan (iii) Lance Corporal Michael Danso in Kasoa” the NDC cited.
From: 3 News
