Police in Ghana on Wednesday invited a top opposition politician for questioning over some comments he allegedly made on a leaked tape.
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo is the National Chairman of the country’s largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He is alleged to have been heard on the said leaked tape cataloging the party’s strategy ahead of next year’s general elections.
Ofosu-Ampofo according to local media allegedly said to regain power, lives of leading members of the governing ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) must be targeted.
On the tape he is purported to have said that “We will go after them,” adding that “once their lives are in danger they themselves will be careful.”
What else is on the tape?
Ofosu-Ampofo allegedly called for the NDC to wage a “relentless” war on chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission Jean Mensa.
“As for the EC chair, we must wage a relentless war on this EC chair. Me she doesn’t want to see my face,” he was heard saying on the leaked tape.
He also sanctioned the party’s communicators to verbally abuse Chairman of Ghana’s National Peace Council, Professor Emmanuel Asante.
“For the first time, I will endorse insulting the National Peace Council Chair,” he said.
Tape doctored, content false
The NDC rubbished the contents of the leaked tape involving its National Chairman.
The party said in a statement that what its chairman is alleged to have said was concocted and false.
It said further the allegations against Ofosu-Ampofo were “inconsistent with the character and track record” of him and the “values” he had always stood for.
The NDC accused the ruling party, the New Patriotic Party of bugging its offices and doctoring conversations for “their spiteful ends.”
“Such state-sponsored espionage is dastardly and shameful. The party is currently considering all legal options available to it and will take appropriate steps to halt this phenomenon immediately,” the NDC said.
Accusations distasteful
The Ghana government on Thursday reacted angrily to the bugging accusations, describing them as distasteful.
Ghana’s Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah told journalists in Accra that the government “finds it distasteful that the said party [NDC] chooses to bring the name of the State into disrepute in its attempt to respond to queries about the validity and origins of the said conspiratorial conversations.”
He said the government as a matter of policy and practice does not bug offices and homes of political opponents.
“To do so will be an infringement on the constitutional provisions of privacy,” he said.
Source: Africafeeds.com
