[ 2016-12-13 ]

We are not in coup situation - Ade Coker laments
The Greater Accra Chair of the National Democratic
Congress is incensed at what he says is violent
attacks on supporters of his party and has called
on president elect Nana Akufo-Addo to show
leadership.

Ade Coker said the "country is not in a coup
situation" and the supporters of the New Patriotic
Party cannot be visiting mayhem on their political
opponents.

His complaints Monday, follow pockets of violence
between supporters of the two leading political
parties shortly after last Wednesday's elections.

One person was said to have been lynched last week
Friday in Ekumfi in the Central Region whilst
three others sustained gunshot wounds.

In Accra, a group said to be linked with the NPP
vigilante group, Invincible Forces, on Monday
besieged the Tema Motorway toll booth, drove away
officials of the toll booth and took custody of
the tolls collected for the day.

The leader of the group, Mohammed Ali, justified
the takeover, claiming they were only there to
monitor events and not to attack them.

He said they took over the monies only when they
realised officials at the toll booth were
diverting the cash. He added that they handed the
cash to the police when they came in.

The attacks appear to be reprisals by supporters
of the NPP who few days before the elections
complained of being victims of attacks by NDC
supporters.

With power changing hands, the NPP supporters have
also taken the law into their own hands and are
visiting violence on their opponents.

The police have however condemned the recent
attacks and have deployed more men to bring sanity
to areas of violence.

One person has since been arrested for the
lynching whilst investigations continue unabated.

Ade Coker told Joy News editor Dzifa Bampoh the
police and the NPP leader can do more to foil
these attacks.

According to him, he has received a call that some
supporters of the NDC in a community in Dansoman
called Glife were attacked by supporters of the
NPP.

He called on the president elect Nana Akufo-Addo
to whip his supporters in line.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Peace Council Prof
Emmanuel Asante has called on the two political
parties to allow the dust on violence to settle.

Source - Joyfm

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