[ 2016-11-14 ]

Protect us or we’ll protect ourselves: NPP
The police and other security agencies must
provide the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its
members all the necessary protection from attacks
from the governing National Democratic Congress
(NDC), otherwise the NPP will resort to its own
means of protecting its members, the party’s
Greater Accra regional chairman, Ishmael Ashitey,
has warned.

“We will make sure that there is no time during
this election period that we’ll go out there to
attack anybody or do anything untoward. We expect
the police and the security agencies to protect
our members anytime they try to hurt or attack any
of them. If the police and the security agencies
are not prepared to give us that protection, I
think we’ll protect ourselves,” Mr Ashitey
told Prince Minkah on Class91.3FM’s Executive
Breakfast Show on Monday, 14 November.

His comments follow Sunday’s clashes between
supporters of the two parties in front of the Nima
residence of the NPP’s flag bearer, Nana
Akufo-Addo, during which guns were fired.

Meanwhile, the Director of Communications of the
Police, Superintended Cephas Arthur, has said a
member of the security detail of the flag bearer
of the NPP “pointed a gun” at the Commander of
the Anti-Terrorism Unit of the Ghana Police
Service during the clashes.

“After pointing the gun at him, he pointed it in
the air and gave a warning shot and then dropped
it…again and pointed it at him

“But for the exercise of maximum restraint and
professionalism displayed by the police, we would
have heard a different story today,” Supt Arthur
told Prince Minkah on the Executive Breakfast
Show.

He said so far no one had been arrested in
connection with the clashes which got sparked
after supporters of both parties converged on the
vicinity of Mr Akufo-Addo’s Nima residence
during their respective Keep Fit activities.

Both parties are accusing each other of starting
the provocation.

Source - Classfmonline

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