[ 2017-03-21 ]

Nana Obiri Boahene, Deputy General Secretary - NPP

Obiri Boahene applauds Invisible Forces' tit-for-tat takeover of Kintampo Waterf
The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic
Party has justified the takeover of the Kintampo
Waterfall by the Invisible Forces, a vigilante
group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic
Party.

Nana Obiri Boahene is suggesting the takeover is
nothing more than sweet revenge for what happened
to him in 2009.

According to him, his company managed the Kintampo
Waterfall in 2008 until hoodlums in the NDC
forcibly took over the facility in 2009 when the
party won elections.

"Those who want to probe further should find out
what happened in 2009... NDC activists, NDC
hoodlums, NDC sympathisers invaded the place,
chased my workers out, beat them up, vandalised
the place, broke into offices and they used the
police. No police man was able to touch them," he
said.

The management of the Kintampo Waterfall has
become a subject of debate after 19 people lost
their lives under bizarre circumstances on
Sunday.

A tree was said to have crashed the revelers,
mostly students, who had gone to the Waterfall for
an excursion.

Questions have been raised about the competence
and the professionalism of the managers of the
facility during the incident.

It emerged that the Invisible Forces, a militia
group within the NPP had added the Waterfall to
the list of assets it took over immediately the
NPP won power in 2016.

Without any training and competence in managing a
tourist facility critics have blamed the militia
group for last Sunday's national disaster.

But Obiri Boahene has mounted a spirited defence
for the militia group even though he claims the
party did not sanction the takeover.

"We don't know anything about it. The party is not
involved. The party has never directed,
instigated, encouraged, facilitated any individual
to takeover," he said.

"Personally, speaking for myself, and what
happened to me in 2009, I don't think there is
anything wrong if for one reason or another some
NPP sympathisers have taken over in a tit-for-tat
affair," he added.

He argued those questioning the competence and
professionalism of the Invisible Forces to manage
the facility should have done same when the NDC
hoodlums took over in 2009.

The Waterfall has however been shut pending
further investigations into the circumstances
surrounding the disaster.

Source - Myjoyonline.com

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