06Major (rtd) Boakye Gyan
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has invited Major (rtd) Boakye Gyan for threatening mayhem over a new voters’ register.
The man, who escaped a court martial and treason charge for his role in the indiscipline which rocked the Ghana Armed Forces and the coup of 1979, threatened the country with a civil war should the Electoral Commission (EC) go ahead to compile a new voters’ register.
A source at the CID Headquarters, Accra, confirmed to DAILY GUIDE that “Mr. Boakye Gyan is expected at the CID Headquarters today (Friday) over some comments he made on radio to assist in investigation.”
The source said the invitation had reached him but was yet to report himself to the police.
In the past week or so, he has embarked on a campaign of fear-mongering on radio stations, with his actions bearing semblance of doing the bidding of others.
His accusation of the EC planning to rig the December polls exposed him to public ridicule as those who remember his association with the murders that characterized the 1979 putsch called for his immediate arrest.
On one of the radio stations, he said the NPP had ‘cooked up figures’ already which the party seeks to legitimize.
This, he said, had accounted for the EC’s insistence on compiling a new voters’ register.
“This party (NPP) won power with the biggest electoral margin so what has gone wrong? This morning, I overheard an NPP activist on radio claiming if elections are held today, Nana Addo will be re-elected with a difference of 1,300,000 votes,” he said.
“See, the NPP members have cooked up the figures already. They are simply looking for the means to legitimize their rigging and that is why they want to undertake the registration exercise,” he alleged, and exclaimed, “If they want civil war they will get it!”
For him, the December 7 polls can be held with the existing voters’ register, warning that any attempt to compile a new register would plunge the country into chaos.
Ghana would be spared a civil war only if the EC desisted from, as he put it, “toeing the line of its paymasters.”
He alleged the former EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, was removed from office as a result of ‘political motivation,’ saying “they want to beef up the numbers so they can win simply because they don’t have confidence in their winning numbers…”
By Ernest Kofi Adu