The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is demanding the arrest of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) running mate for the 2024 elections, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, over a comment about the party.
NAPO, on a campaign platform, accused the NDC of killing pastors and spiritualists while in power and destroying people's mosques.
“They are the only people who kill pastors. They killed two pastors in Ghana. One of the pastors killed was Prophet Asare, and the other was Brother Amoako. They killed them in broad daylight.
“That was not even all; they killed a spiritualist, Nana Drobo, the one who invented the HIV drug. They killed him and left him in the bush. I’m not telling lies.
“They are the ones who also demolish mosques. If you live in a Zongo and you vote for the NDC, when they come to power, they will destroy your mosques,” NAPO said during a campaign rally.
However, responding to the comment, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party, Augustus Nana Akwesi, has called for his arrest to prove his claim while speaking in an interview on Neat FM on September 3, 2024.
According to him, making such utterances is a serious allegation that the police ought to investigate.
“NAPO should have been picked up by the national security because if you can say on a campaign platform that the NDC killed pastors and spiritualists, and the national security is still in this country…
“So, if someone goes ahead and says the same thing, would the person be arrested? … In Accra, someone demolished the Big Six statue and NAPO has also accused the NDC of killing spiritualists, pastors, and others but the national security is not saying anything. We are just waiting for someone else to say something similar for us to see if there would be any form of arrest.
“We all sit here and say we want peace, but someone has said something like that and nothing has been done. Indeed, we want peace, but we won’t sit down and be intimidated because if the other half goes scot-free, we won’t allow that. Imagine if what he said was said by an NDC member, the person would have been arrested by now,” he said.
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