Akufo-Addo has brought Ghana shame - Koku Anyidoho

President Nana Akufo-Addo has failed to address key issues in his 90 days in office, NDC’s Deputy General Secretary Koku Anyidoho has said.

Mr Anyidoho was of the view that three months into the tenure of the new government, there should be significant achievements rather than what the country is experiencing.

He was speaking in an interview with Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Tuesday, April 11.

“Is this the story that Nana Akufo-Addo is telling us? That after 100 days we are discussing vigilantism? This is disgraceful and he should bow down his head in shame,” he said.

He was of the view that all the state-owned media should be screaming “‘1-District-1-Factory emerging, 1-Village-1-Dam begins, Free SHS starts, Cedi crashes to all-time low against the dollar’ but we are talking about vigilantism and ban on purchase of state vehicles”.

To him, “it is disgraceful and shameful what the country is experiencing under the weak leadership of President Akufo-Addo”.

According to him, the president authorised the transfer of the last Police Commander for Ashanti, COP Kofi Boakye, to the Police Headquarters even though he effectively controlled crime in the region and now “Kumasi is falling apart and Kofi Boakye is sitting in Accra because Wontumi (Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP) says he doesn’t want Kofi Boakye in Kumasi”, wondering: “Is that the low level Akufo-Addo has reduced the Police Service?”

Meanwhile, the NDC has disclosed its intention of petitioning the United Nations (UN) and the international community to place Assin Central lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong on the list of international terrorists.

Mr Anyidoho said that Mr Agyapong’s sponsorship of pro-government vigilante groups Invincible Forces and Delta Force essentially makes him a “terrorist.”

Members of the Invincible Forces have been on rampage seizing state institutions after Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn into office on 7 January. Members of the Delta Force also attacked the president’s regional security liaison in Kumasi and also stormed a Kumasi Circuit Court to free 13 of their members who were standing trial for assaulting the security appointee. The 13 suspects later surrendered. Eight of those who helped them to escape were also arrested and are standing trial. They have been denied bail and are to reappear later.

President Nana Akufo-Addo has condemned the action and said the rule of law was being adhered to while the situation has been put “under control”.

Speaking on the these issues, Mr Anyidoho said Mr Agyapong, who has repeatedly expressed public support for the two groups, said the lawmaker’s actions fit the profile of an international terrorist.

“Now what we are going to do is to petition the diplomatic community. Now the petition is going to say that a travel ban must be placed on Kennedy Agyapong, first of all, and, secondly his name must be added to the list of international terrorists because what he is doing here in Ghana is nothing different from terrorism,” he stated.

“Now if you reel back, 2008, he did the same thing prior to the elections, whipped up a lot of anti-NDC sentiment when President Mills won. On the 6th of January 2009, midnight, when the MPs were being sworn in, Kennedy Agyapong was nowhere to be found. He had run away from the country, was abroad, waited when the dust settled he came and he was sworn in alone in the Speaker’s chamber. In 2012, [the same Kennedy Agyapong said]: ‘Let’s kill Ewes, let’s kill Gas, let’s club people.’ This coward that he is ran away again when the results were not favouring NPP.

“… Now what we are saying is that this level of cowardice cannot be countenanced any longer. A travel ban must be placed on him so that in the unlikely event that his reckless utterances allow his terrorist forces to want to destroy this country, let him stay in this country so that, God forbid, if this country will be destroyed, let him be part of it. He will not run anywhere. So, yes, our guns are blazing at this Kennedy Agyapong character as an individual and his terrorist groups. We are listing them to the international community, they should place [a travel ban on them] and we are trying to even get names of all the individuals and hand them over to the international community, all these people must be blacklisted.”