The National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary has justified the decision to go ahead with the #GhanaFirst protest despite the arrest of his deputy over some comments.
Addressing hundreds of protesters in Accra Wednesday, Johnson Asiedu Nketia said progressives all over the world are neither cowed nor distracted by political obstacles.
"They ignore them and focus on the mission ahead of them until victory is won," he charged a teeming crowd made up of NDC, Convention People's Party (CPP), People's National Convention (PNC) and All People’s Congress (APC) supporters.
Mr Nketia was reacting to the Tuesday arrest of his deputy, Koku Anyidoho, by the police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over comments he made on an Accra-based Happy FM.
The NDC Deputy General Secretary had threatened an overthrow of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the Ghana-US Defence Cooperation Agreement ratified by Parliament last Friday.
Mr Anyidoho said the current government will be ousted in the manner the Progress Party (PP) of Dr Abrefa Busia was overthrown by military officer, Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, on January 13, 1972. “Somebody should tell Nana Akufo-Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself. There’ll be a civil revolt,” he said.
But he was arrested at a news conference held at the International Press Centre to outline measures put in place to protest the military deal.
Mr Anyidoho has since been charged with “treason” over the comment that has roundly been condemned.
Some social commentators had said the #GhanaFirst demonstration would have been postponed because of the arrest of the NDC Deputy General Secretary but that did not happen.
Mr Nketia said the reason his deputy was “subjected to this brazen illegality” was to thwart the protest but they rose above the expectations of the detractors to go ahead with it.
“In the progressive world when we are fighting battles, some comrades will fall but when they fall we don’t stop to bury them; we walk over their dead bodies and continue with the mission until victory is won,” he said.
Source: Joy News
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wow! see people everywhere!!! i saw one placard that read"Nana Banza"
IS IT TRUE THAT NANA ADDO COULD NOT SLEEP LAST NOGHT AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE #GHANA FIRST DEMONSTRATION? A FISH FROM NANA'S WATERS COMPLAINED THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD A RUNNY STOMACH ALL NIGHT AFTER WATCHING THE DEMO ON HIS 75" SAMSUNG COLOR TV. HMMMM! I ASKED TO KNOW IF THE JET THAT FLEW BAWUMIA TO UK FOR TREATMENT HAD SINCE NOT RETURNED TO ENABLE THE PRESIDENT TO HAVE IS TURN.THE TROTRO JET, BAKO SI A NA BAKO A FRO! WAOO! 3Y3 BUTU-BUTU- A WO GHANA. MEAN WHILE KOKU ANYIDOHO HAD FIED POTATO CHIPS WITH GREEN PEPPER AND SOME TUNA FISH LIGHT SOUP AND SPICED WITH ODONKO BITTERS FOR DINNER WITH SOME PRESIDENTIAL GUARDS KEEPING SURVEILLANCE OVER HIM WHILE HE SLEPT AND DREAMED OF THE SUCCESS OF THE DEMO EVEN WITHOUT HIS (KOKU) PRESENCE HIS BOSS ASIEDU NKETIA WAS THERE TO HANDLE THE STEER FOR ANYIDOHO. THESE NDC GUYS ARE GUUUUUUD ORGANISERS. I JUST LOVE. KEEP IT UP FOR 2020 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER TO KNOCK AT YOUR DOORS SOON WHEN THE SUN SETS.
NDC should note that not every body in the country has short memories. The hypocracy of Sam. Okudjato was evident when interviewed at Obra sport. NDC people have vowed not to speak the truth till Thy Kingdom comeHe pretended as if NDC never signed any such agreement in the past. For Mahama he has gone past shame.
instead of thinking about their future they will follow these spent forces and have a bleak future whiles their children are in the oxford and combridge (do they even read this things)
WHAT KOKU ANYIDOHO DID IS FAR MORE SERIOUS THAN WHAT THE THREE JOURNALIST, MONTIE 3, DID TO BE JAILED DURING PRESIDENT MAHAMA AND HIS NDC GOVERNMENT. IN FACT THAT THREE JOURNALISTS WILL BE SADDENED AND FEEL CHEATED BY GHANA JUSTICE SYSTEM IF KOKU ANYIDOHO IS NOT JAILED.
SO ***barred word*** TO SAY THEY ARE UNEMPLOYED. THIS VERY INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT PROMISED TO BRING ABOUT EMPLOYMENT AND HE WAS EVEN CALLED EDWUMAWURA JUST BECAUSE OF THE RHETORIC HE'S MADE SOME YEARS BACK... WE ARE NOT ***barred word*** TO BE ***barred word*** NO MORE.... GHANA BELONGS TO US THE YOUTH AND WE WILL FORCEFULLY FIGHT FOR WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO US... GHANA FIRST...
Because this supporters are unemployed and have nothing doing that's why you are using them . Ask those leaders where their wives and children live, that man Aseidu nkatia wife and children live in Canada why not Ghana .think about it if you are not being use and fooling. Why do Ghanaians queue at the us embassy to travel if you think you are sovereign state