[ 2011-06-14 ]

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper

Kweku Baako: Ya-Na tape saga is an indictment on the NDC
The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide
newspaper, Abdul Malik Kwaku Baako Jnr. has said
the recent development on the Ya-Na tape is an
indictment on the ruling National Democratic
Congress (NDC).

“The entirety of the NDC stands indicted and is
a classic exposure of the fact (that things we say
during elections) should be something of
sustainable value” he stressed.

The NDC in the 2008 electoral campaign promised to
find the perpetrators behind the gruesome murder
of the Dagbon Overlord Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II and
bring them to book with the aid of a tape
purported to be the video evidence of what went on
in the Gbewa Palace.

The promise suffered a setback following a ruling
by an Accra Fast Track High Court which acquitted
and discharged 15 persons charged with the murder
of the late king for lack of evidence.

However, Deputy General Secretary of the NDC and
an aide to the Rawlingses, Kofi Adams, while
addressing party delegates in Tamale where Nana
Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings had gone to campaign over
the weekend revealed that, former President Jerry
Rawlings handed over a video evidence of the
killing of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II to government
and the Attorney General to help in the
prosecution.

Mr. Adams noted that he is convinced the video
evidence and a thorough investigation would secure
justice to the people of Dagbon.

The government refuted the allegations by Kofi
Adams explaining that the so-called video evidence
was an interview session between Ambassador Victor
Smith and an eye witness who claimed to have been
present when the incident occurred.

The Attorney General Martin Amidu said the video
has no evidential value and cannot be admissible
in a competent court of law.

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako on Asempa FM’s Ekosii
Sen programme Monday observed that the NDC is
divided over the Ya-Na murder case because Mrs.
Rawlings is seeking to make a political capital
out of it to the disadvantage of President J.E.A.
Mills, her contender in the party’s
flagbearership race.

He said the attempts by Kofi Adams and Mrs.
Rawlings to use the Dagbon crisis to score
political points forced the government to come out
with the truth about the said tape.

Kweku Baako noted that the NDC is being paid in
their own coin after they capitalized on the
Dagbon crisis to gain electoral advantage over the
then government New Patriotic Party (NPP) when the
incident happened.

“There was nothing in it (tape) from day one but
for electoral, political purposes people decided
to play along with it and created the monster out
of this whole thing".

Source - MyjoyOnline

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