Major Boajye Gyan (rtd)
Major Boakye Gyan (rtd), the self-proclaimed coup planner who called for a civil war over a new voters’ register, has been picked up by officials of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service for questioning.
He was arrested on Tuesday morning when he was preparing to go to his farm. He was sent to Drobo Police Station in the Jaman South District in the Bono Region.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that he was interrogated in the presence of his two lawyers and was at a point asked whether he still stands by his civil war comment.
He reportedly did not deny he made the threats claiming he had seen it all in the past and said the comment was a ‘warning’ to the President and the EC because, according to him, he wanted Ghanaians to continue to enjoy the peace they are currently enjoying.
He stayed at the divisional police headquarters till 4:00 pm when he was granted bail to the tune of GH¢20,000, with one surety.
As part of his bail condition, he has been asked to report himself to the Drobo Divisional Police Headquarters every Monday until further notice.
Boakye Gyan, a former National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Jaman South, refused invitation by the CID to Accra on health grounds for his ‘civil war declaration’.
The Police Service invited Boakye Gyan, 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, after he had issued an open civil war threat on radio over a new voters’ register.
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.
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.
Ghana would be spared a civil war only if the EC desisted from, “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…”
FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Sunyani