Koku Anyidoho
For supposedly nursing the ambition of overthrowing the Akufo-Addo administration, NDC Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho, has been slapped with treason.
The NDC loudmouthed lawyer, Victor Kojogah Adawudu, who confirmed the charge, told Joy Fm that the police say the suspect would not be released.
He was said to have spent the night at the police headquarters for his comments, which the government had earlier described as “treasonable.”
He was arrested at the International Press Centre where he was said to be planning how to make the country ungovernable over the controversial Ghana-US Military Cooperation Agreement.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) had, before his arrest, condemned the comments by Anyidoho.
According to the National Youth Organizer of the NPP, Sammi Awuku, “The NPP as a party unreservedly condemns this reckless, amateurish and misguided statement.
“We call on the security agencies to be on the alert because there is no smoke without fire. The police should invite Mr Anyidoho over his treasonable comments and inciting Ghanaians to forcibly remove a democratically elected government.”
The NPP called on all Ghanaians to condemn the statement “because 25 years of uninterrupted democratic rule under the Fourth Republic did not come cheap.”
The party said Anyidoho’s comments were tantamount to inciting Ghanaians to revolt against the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
“The NDC loose-talker in an interview with Accra-based Happy FM was emphatic that a nationwide demonstration under the sole sponsorship of his party and being led by the Ghana First Patriotic Front (GFPF) is the beginning of activities to stage a coup d’etat against the NPP government which was democratically elected in 2016.
“We must guard our democracy jealously and must not allow any disappointed and peeved politician feeling the pinch of being in opposition to take our destiny for granted.
“The security network must be on high alert on March 28, since the NDC is bent on using the demonstration to destabilize the country. We will resist any attempt by the opposition NDC to make Ghana ungovernable.
“The rule of law must work and everyone must respect the law. Ghanaians voted massively for President Akufo-Addo to rule for four years, and we must respect that.
“If the NDC has alternative views on how this nation should be governed, there are constitutional avenues for doing so, other than inciting the citizenry to a coup d’etat,” the statement pointed out.
A DAILY GUIDE Report