25 NDC ‘hoodlums’ arrested over Nkwanta arson

Twenty-five suspects believed to be supporters of the governing National Democratic Congress have been arrested by the Police for vandalism and mayhem.

The arrests are in connection with the recent torching of five vehicles belonging to the Nkwanta North District Assembly in the Volta region.

The riots were used by the youth to express their displeasure with the president’s re-nomination of incumbent District Chief Executive Livingstone Gyato.

The angry youth say Mr. Gyato is a mole within the NDC and were therefore befuddled by his re-appointment by the President.

Thursday’s riots followed similar violence and mayhem by another group of NDC supporters in Salaga in the Northern region, following the president’s nomination of Aminu Lookman as District Chief Executive.

The arrests come amidst calls by Tema East Member of Parliament, Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover that the Inspector General of Police should resign over the failure of the Police to arrest any of the perpetrators.

"...With immediate effect the IGP must effect arrest; if he cannot do it then he should just leave his job”, the law maker fumed in an interview with Radio XYZ’s news magazine programme Strict Proof on Friday.

He said the Police would have effected arrests immediately the incident occurred if the perpetrators were members of the opposition New Patriotic Party.

“…If it is an NPP person who had burnt down these properties, wouldn’t they have arrested the person by now?”

However, Public Affairs Director of the Police Service, DSP Cephas Arthur denied the MP’s claim that the Police were being hesitant in effecting arrests because they were cowering to the whims of the government.

Cephas Arthur says the Police will arrest anybody who commits any crime irrespective of party affiliation.