You don’t need permission from NPP to deal with hooligans - Sammy Awuku to police

National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku has berated the police for failing to deal decisively with political vigilantism in the country stating explicitly that officials of the law enforcement agency do not need clearance from the party before dealing with such hooligans.

Some youth of the party in recent times have resorted to hooliganism as the only antidote in registering their displeasure about happenings with the party and government.

Between last week and this week, aggrieved party supporters in the Northern Region have engaged in lawless acts by locking up the offices of the Regional Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme.

The group calling itself “Burma Camp” claimed they were doing so because of some decisions taken by the managers of the programme which was in sharp contrast to their position.

Another pro-NPP group at Karaga in the Northern Region also stormed a police station to forcibly free two of its arrested members and in the process vandalized an office belonging to the party.

The chaos was in connection with their accusation of the YEA Director of the region that he discriminated against them in a job recruitment exercise.

On Thursday, the party’s in the Sisala West district of the Upper West Region went on a rampage chasing out the District Chief Executive of area Mr Zakaria Mohammed Bakor.

But Mr Awuku has stated that these acts of lawlessness must be dealt with by the police who has a duty to protect lives and property.

“The police should arrest those youth, whether they are NPP or NDC or CPP. If they are arrested, we as NPP will not contribute finically or legally to release them.

“This is a strong warning to all the youth of the NPP and all that the laws will work. We cannot continue to condone stupidity, we can’t accept that. We take a very serious exception to what happened at Karaga. The President is really working hard to fight against poverty in the country, and so we cannot allow saboteurs to be taking us backward.”

“Let me also caution those who hide behind the actions of the youth to foment trouble that the police will deal with them if they are caught.”

“The police should act with dispatch, if the person has violated the law, he must be dealt with, it’s as simple as that.”