Asiedu Nketia Flies Kids Out

INFORMATION reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), for rather suspicious motives, at the threshold of the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections, has withdrawn two of his children from universities in Accra and flown them out of the country.

Reports say Kwaku Asiedu-Nketia and Yaa Asentewaa Asiedu-Nketia, schooling at the Central University College and the University of Ghana, Legon, respectively, have both been withdrawn from the schools and whisked away to Canada.

The sudden flight of the two children of the NDC chief scribe has raised eyebrows in political circles as a number of disturbing reasons are being adduced to the development.

Several attempts by DAILY GUIDE to reach Mr. Asiedu-Nketia on phone to get his version of the story proved futile as his phone was switched off.

As at the time of filing the story, he was yet to reply two sms text messages DAILY GUIDE sent to his phone requesting to have an interview with him on the issue.

Reports say the flight arrangement was facilitated by an Accra based private travel and tour operator which has something to do with the sun.

The timing of the travel has been perceived as one that is related to the elections and has been interpreted by many as an attempt by the NDC guru to whisk his children out of the country so they are not affected in the event of any election related violence.

Many NDC spokespersons during the electioneering campaign have expressed confidence that their party would win the elections and added that the party would not accept anything different.

The NDC has insisted that it has reliable information that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has plans of rigging the polls and threatened that should that happen, the Kenya scenario might be re-enacted in Ghana.

Prof. John Atta Mills, presidential candidate of the NDC, in an attempt to substantiate the party’s rigging allegation, recently stated publicly that some friends of his had told him that some friends of theirs who are government officials had disclosed that the government was planning to rig the polls.

In response, the NPP alleged that the NDC has realized that the elections would not go in its favour, and is thus making the above allegations as a smokescreen to reject the poll results and champion a series of violent disturbances so as to create unnecessary doubts about the credibility of the polls.