Ghana: Opposition NPP cries out

  1. Posted on Wednesday 17 June 2009 - 17:39
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    Kent Mensah, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    The majority opposition of former President Kufuor of Ghana is crying out over what it calls "political persecution" of its top members by the ruling administration. The Bureau of National Investigations has paraded a number of former ministers and officials to account for their stewardship.
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    According to the General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Ohene Ntow, his party is fretted with the current political situation where passports of former ministers are being seized and others being prevented from travelling outside the country.

    The former minister of information, Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, his wife and two children were last Sunday prevented from boarding a British Airways flight at the airport to the US by BNI operatives. The undercover agents said the former Information Minister was due to answer questions bordering on a contract that was awarded during his tenure.

    The NPP scribe told a radio station that its members are going through maltreatment. Ntow said ahead of a press conference on Wednesday: “We are not saying the BNI does not have a right (to investigate cases), the methods that are being used are what we are going to question.”

    He said the party does not believe that any of its former ministers deserved to be harassed. He said the BNI is being used as a tool to harass and intimidate its members “who are not necessarily guilty of anything.”

    He said if the former ministers were guilty there are procedures in dealing with them and “in law, procedure is as important as the substance of a case.”

    Most former ministers including ex-foreign minister Akwasi Osei-Agyei and Chief of Staff Kwadwo Mpiani have all been dragged to the BNI.

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