Why Are You Bent On Embarrassing The Country?? - Miracle Queries NDC After Commonwealth Petition
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are still at the receiving end of criticisms following a petition they filed at the Commonwealth secretariat
A recent criticism is from the director of local government, decentralization and rural development at the Presidency, Miracle Aboagye.
Miracle, contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM's The Platform programme, described the petition as shameful.
"...why is the NDC so shameful? why are they bent on embarrassing the country?? he queried further.
Listen to him in the video below
Background
The NDC has petitioned Commonwealth to monitor the human rights situation in Ghana as well as what they say is criminal persecution of its members.
General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, who announced this at a press conference Monday, February 28, said it was necessary to send the petition due to the "harassment, criminal persecution and human rights violations" against some NDC leading members including their National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo.
"There are some practices that are not in accordance with good governance and the principles of the Commonwealth so we have petitioned them to take the appropriate action," he added.
He further went on to cite the case of the Republic v Stephen Kwabena Opuni and two others, saying the Judge, Justice Clemence Honyenuga, hearing the case, made some pronouncements which "in any fair legal system would warrant his recusal from the case on the ground of real likelihood or appearance of bias".
General Mosquito as he is popularly called also made reference to the case involving the Republic vrs Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and Anthony Kwaku Boahen and the Republic Vrs Cassiel Ato Forson among others as examples of the criminal persecution of NDC members saying, "the conduct of the government of Ghana in this matter has been dreadful leaving no doubt the government is bent on a conviction regardless of the quality of the evidence".
"This is a brazen abuse of power by the government," Mr Asiedu Nketia added.
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