NPP serbian “trainers” Fingered in Ukraine Uprising

The aL-hAJJ’s investigations have uncovered two of the four Serbian trainers contracted in 2014 by Nana Akufo-Addo and his “inner cabinet” to provide “militancy training” to activists of the New Patriotic Party ahead of this year’s polls were actively involved in the bloody Ukraine uprising.

Diplomatic sources and NPP insiders confirmed to this paper that the two former Ukraine “fighters” were invited into the country to train a “special wing” of the biggest opposition party on how to “recruit and mobilize” people to stage a Ukrainian-like uprising in Ghana should Nana Akufo-Addo fail to win the presidential election for the third consecutive time.

“What I know is that two of the four Serbians (the older ones) the NPP invited into the country in July 2014 to give special training to some of its members played active role in the deadly clashes between anti-government protesters and the police in Ukraine which culminated in the country’s parliament voting to oust President Viktor Yanukovych in early 2014,” a diplomatic source revealed.

Confirming the identity of the two Serbians, a senior member of the NPP with knowledge of the coming of the Serbian trainers into the country told The aL-hAJJ on condition of anonymity that “yes, two of the Serbians brought down to train some selected supporters across the country in the art of civil insurrection, christened "Assaulting the pillars of power" were indeed, involved Ukraine uprising.”

Short of giving further details on why the NPP 2016 flag bearer’s cousin, Ken Ofori Atta facilitated the coming of the Serbians into the country, the source said “all I know is that they were here for a strategic workshop.”

Almost two years after the NPP denied it invited Serbian mercenaries into the country to give special training to some party members, suspended National Chairman of the party, Paul Afoko revealed in an interview with Africa Watch magazine that four Serbians were indeed, brought into the country by Ken Ofori Atta, cousin of Akufo-Addo, without his knowledge to give special training to members of the party.

The suspended chairman stated that he was only informed of the training by the National Women’s Organizer, Otiko Djaba, at the funeral of Gladys Asmah of blessed memory.

According to Afoko, the Serbians were paid by Mr. Ken Ofori Atta and camped in a Hotel at Mile 7, Achimota in Accra.

Without disclosing the kind of training the Serbian “trainers” gave the NPP activists, Paul Afoko noted that the training program shocked him to the bones when he became aware of it.

“…immediately after the church service, I asked Djaba to take me to the hotel where they were camped and I asked General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong to join us. When we got to the hotel, I saw our people all over the place with two Serbians, a man and a woman, but I was told the Serbians were four and that two had left. I walked in and saw the national organizer, John Boadu, and I asked him what was going on. He was holding a piece of paper, and I snatched the paper out of his hands. It was the training contents and I was shocked to my bones at what I was reading.

“These people [NPP] were out of their minds. They wanted to win the elections on the streets of Ghana and not at the ballot box…that is the militancy I am talking about. I told them that I, Paul Afoko, as chairman of the NPP, would never allow them to take the party on that crazy route,” the business magnate stated.

Even though persons Afoko mentioned in the interview and are said to have in-depth knowledge and indeed benefited from the training have so far maintained a deafening silence; Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide, Mr. Kweku Baako Jnr, has rubbished the suspended chairman’s narration.

After promising to provide video and audio evidence to discount Afoko’s allegation, the veteran journalist last week published in his newspaper pictures culled from the supposed video showing Afoko, Kwabena Agyepong and John Boadu together with two of the Serbian trainers at the program.

A copy of the program lined-up for the “strategic workshop” published by Kweku Baako’s New Crusading Guide indicated that the Serbian trainers were in the country to among other things, train the participants on “recruitment and mobilizations”.

The recruitment and mobilizations bit of the training, our sources disclosed, is to get the participants abreast with modern trends and best practices in how to mobilize people to engage in unending violent protests leading to the ousting of a democratically elected government. Stay tuned.

Of Serbian Mercenaries, Afoko etc

PUT UP

BAAKO

…Or forever hold your head in shame!

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako appears to have bitten more than he can chew on his so far failed attempt to discredit suspended National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party, Paul Afoko.

Following his failure to redeem a pledge to air a supposed video to controvert Afoko’s account on the NPP’s importation of four Serbians to give special training to some of its members in 2014, the veteran journalist has come under heavy criticism from some section of the populace.

The latest to take on Kweku Baako is a columnist who writes with the name Point of Law. In an article titled Baako begs the question, the writer charged the veteran journalist to “put up or forever hold your head in shame!”

Read below the full article

Baako begs the question

Unlike Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr who is not sure if Paul Afoko will consider him (Baako) a friend due to his huge respect for him in the past, I still like Mr. Baako for his claim of discharging his burden of proof.

Although I have sometime decided not to patronize Kokrokoo for lack of balance content and panelist, I made time to listen to the embarrassing response Mr Baako was going to give to Paul Afoko on the challenge he invited him to. While the Wednesday panel continued in their usual boring, uninspiring and skewed analogy, I still stayed glued to my radio set because I have heard the host Sefa-Kayi announced among his topics ‘Afoko dares Baako’.

But to my dismay, Kweku began playing a victim of venom and assault on him by people he (Baako) describes as loyalists of Afoko rather than proving his claim that Afoko knew about the presence of the SERBIAN TRAINERS in the country, a claim Mr Afoko has disputed.

Hypocritically, Kweku, who thinks he should be allowed some space to state his position against Mr Afoko when it comes to politics, is vehemently opposed to a person who reacts to him on his position against Afoko.

Staying in my track, Adbul Malik is yet to provide evidence that suggest Paul Afoko as a national chairman of the New Patriotic Party was had a fore knowledge of the importation of the Serbian Trainers. On page 40 of AfricaWatch Magazine, Paul Afoko was asked ‘So the government’s statement that the NPP brought some Serbian nationals into the country in 2014 to train selected people drawn from across the country in the art of civil insurrection, dubbed “Assaulting the Pillars of Power,” is true? In his response he said 'the NPP as a group did not bring any Serbians into the country. ‘When I called a Steering Committee meeting on this issue’, ‘I was told that Ken Ofori-Atta, a cousin of the presidential candidate, paid the four Serbians and brought them into the country to train our party people’. ‘As the chairman of the NPP, I wasn’t aware of it and the Steering Committee also had no knowledge of it’. ‘ He insisted that when people who are related to the presidential candidate or people who are close to him, do their own things without authorization from the NPP leadership, it is unfair to blame the party. And people should stop associating the party with these crazy things by the intolerant militant wing’.

I won’t blame Mr. Baako because he said elsewhere that he does not glorify AfricaWatch but his Crusading Guide. I thought Mr. Baako has a standing Order not to attack the works of another Journalist?

The Crusading Guide managing editor told his Wednesday Kokrokoo listeners that before Afoko went to address the Serbian Training College, Freddy Blay, and the First vice National Chairman had inaugurated the training programme. The question, therefore, is how Afoko could have fore-knowledge of the program but wouldn’t know when it was inaugurated according to Mr. Baako?

How can Kweku conclude that, because Afoko told AfricaWatch that he, Paul Afoko, as chairman of the NPP, would never allow them to take the party on that crazy route in the presence of the two Serbians, and admonished his party people and asked them to leave the hotel immediately and go home amount to lies?

In any case, the ‘I HAVE THE DOCUMENT’ journalist is yet to salvage his dented image. As for credibility I am still looking around if he still has some left, because almighty Kweku Baako was unable to provide a strip of evidence to substantiate his claim, let alone attempt answering the SIX BULLET POINTS QUESTIONS from the office of the man he cherished so much to destroy.

All if not most of last Wednesday listeners of KOKROKOO were left wondering as Baako danced naked to the applause of his apple-polishing and acquisitive colleague in the name of journalism.

Uncle Baako, what has occasioned your hatred for a man you describes your good friend in the past? I want to know. Tell me why you failed to listen to your good friend before you began your mission to wane his hard earn reputation? Is that how good friends behave?

It is obvious Afoko as Chairman of NPP could not satisfy your needs and wants like your street agitator friend would do as President of Ghana. I would have done same if I were you, however with utmost diligence and care so you don’t hurt your relations with another only to enrich your pocket.

I don’t Know Mr. Afoko that much, but one thing I do know is that he is very honest when it comes to his politics because that is where I know him.

Kweku, there is no further challenge than put up or forever hold your head in shame!