NPP kept police busier than hardened criminals – Kwakye Ofosu

The main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) kept the Ghana Police Service busier than hardened criminals did in the country in the last two years, an indication that the leader of the party is not fit to be president of Ghana, Mr Felix Kwakye Ofosu, a Deputy Minister of Communications, has said.

According to him, within the past few years, police officers stormed the headquarters of the NPP on eleven times to forestall violence and loss of lives and destruction of property.

Speaking in an interview with Emefa Apawu on Class FM’s 505 news analysis programme on Wednesday August 24, Mr Kwakye Ofosu said President John Mahama, who at the moment is in the Northern Region campaigning, painted a true picture of who Nana Akufo-Addo is – a “divisive and dictatorial” political figure.

He said: “I am not sure when telling the truth [about] an opponent became an attack. The truth is that Nana Addo is an extremely divisive and intolerant political figure and the evidence of it is glaring. …Between 2014 and late 2015 and even the early part of this year, the New Patriotic Party kept the Ghana Police Service busier than the most hardened criminals in this country [did].”

“At the last count, the Police Service of Ghana had to rush to the NPP’s headquarters eleven times in order to forestall loss of lives. On a number of occasions, lives have been lost because of the divisions that Nana Addo has supervised in the NPP. For the very first time in the history of intra-party politics in Ghana, two people have lost their lives: the Upper East regional chairman of the NPP was doused in acid [and] a supporter of the NPP was brutally stabbed and he died at Asawase because of intraparty violence.”