A former Chief of Staff, Nana Ato Dadzie has called for the resignation of the Inspector General of Police, Mr David Asante-Apeatu and the Minister of State in charge of National Security at the presidency, Mr Bryan Acheampong, over the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election shooting and violence which injured 16 members of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the residence of the party’s parliamentary candidate on Thursday, 31 January 2019.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, 5 February 2019, the former Senior UN Consultant on Political Transition, said: “The Minister of state for National Security, Hon. Bryan Acheampong, on the basis of his violation of Act 652, and his direction of the assault during the by-election under that guise, must immediately resign his office. He must cause the president no further embarrassment by waiting for the demand of his resignation to do so”.
Additionally, Mr Ato Dadzie said: “The Inspector General of Police, as a matter of personal honour and principle, must resign his office for entertaining the violation and abuse of his command by the intrusion of an unconstitutional paramilitary force.
Below is Nana Ato Dadzie’s full statement:
Based on the public facts of the assaults at Ayawaso West Wuogon during the by-election on January 31st, 2019, I wish to place on record the following views on the ongoing public discourse:
1. The calls for a judicial commission of inquiry, though well-intentioned, may only serve a diversionary cause.
2. The Minister of State for National Security, Hon. Bryan Acheampong, on the basis of his admitted violation of Act 652, and his direction of the assaults during the by-election under that guise, must immediately resign his Office. He must cause the President no further embarrassment by waiting for the demand of his resignation to do so.
3. The Inspector General of Police, as a matter of personal honour and principle, must resign his Office for entertaining the violation and abuse of his command by the intrusion of an unconstitutional paramilitary force. The transportation of the offending persons in official vehicles of the Ghana Police Service, and their display of branded gear of the same, reaffirms this demand. The same must be said of the sad spectacle of the helplessness and non-intervention of senior police officers at the scene.
4. The unconstitutionality of the paramilitary force in question is beyond debate, and does not require any pronouncement of the Supreme Court of Ghana to affirm the same. It must be disbanded with immediate effect.
5. Holders of public office must remind themselves that immunity in Ghana today will not serve as protection from future prosecution at the International Criminal Court on the basis of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity.
6. The President of the Republic of Ghana must urgently and unequivocally condemn the the events of January 31st, 2019 in order to restore public confidence of the citizenry in the constitutional order. I shall expand on these positions at a future time and in a more expansive format.
Nana Ato Dadzie,
Former Senior U.N. Consultant on Political Transition,
Former Chief of Staff at the Presidency.
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These NDC people think in their dreams that they will come back to power in 2020 that is why all of them want to be heard so that they will be given position in the unlikely even that they win the elections.
Look at another Simpa Payin hunu talking garbage.If you have just arrive from the utter space then let your own NDC brief you what happened at Talensi,Chereponi,Atiwa etc.At Talensi it was timely intervention of Prof Frimpong Boateng that has to operate the victim from gun shot.Please reserve the little respect you have. Ghanaians do not have short memory as your aspiring presidential candidate John Mahama believes.
Nana you have lost my respect. Where were you when Talensi and others happened. Did the then presidents even comment on them.
WHY NDC HAVE SO MANY INCOMPETENT PEOPLES WHY ANOTHER CLASS ONE INCOMPETENT LAWYER IN NDC ALWAYS SEEKING ATTENTION
Atiwa, Chereponi, Asawase, Tamale Central,Talensi, Amenfi West and Ablekuma Central must all be investigated. Ato Dadzie were where you when Prof Frimpong Boateng had to perform surgery during the by election in Chereponi? Anita De Sooso escaped at Atiwa is still fresh in our mind. The election of Muntaka Mubarak and Insuah Fuseini came to Parliament through bloody by elections. Did anybody resign, double standards cannot by entertained by us please give us cause to reason with you.
I AM SURE AFTER 2020, THE NDC PARTY WILL BE NO MORE. THEY ARE GOING TO LOOSE THE ELECTIONS EVER SEEN IN THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF GHANA. THEN ALL THESE ***barred word*** IN THE PARTY WILL BE NO MORE. LISTERN SOMEONE LIKE NANA ATO DADZIE, WHAT HE IS SAYING. NDC IS THE GENESIS OF ALL THESE POLITCAL THUGS NOW TURNED VIGILANTES. ATO DADZIE CAST YOUR MIND BACK TO PNDC/NDC EARLY DAYS AND YOU WILL KNOW WHAT HARM YOU PNDC/NDC HAS DONE TO GHANA POLITICS. RAWLINGS KNOWS IT, SO YOU SEE HOW HE IS ADDRESSING THE ISSUE?
Was Ato Arthur alive when Ghanaian youth were killed at agbogbloshie by ndc hoodlums during Prof Asomdwee Mills and mahama time? what do you people think of yourselves above every Ghanaian or because you are excellent in violence so you are untouchables saaa! then you are wrong! Ghanaians are tired with your bullies and intimidations and ready to defend themselves against ndc atrocities, it will never happen again cowards, look at how they've all come out from their rat holes to talk! The police did a grievous mistake by visiting those hoodlums in the hospital, did they think they were going to do their mission without retaliation? did they think they could fire guns in this Ghana and go scot free? they were lawless and the law taught them sense! Ato Dadzie what you taught them to do is what they did and got paid back what's your problem ndc?if these guys had succeeded their mission and killed or maimed innocent Ghanaians would these f000*00ls, elderly f00*00ls come out to speak for those Ghanaians? they would have said they were NPP and deserved it so ndc hoodlums also deserve that! This shouldn't discourage our security forces in anyway, they should protect and defend Ghana at all cost against hoodlums who think they will put their lives in the harms way for somebody's ambition! Where was Ato Dadzie when Mr Freddie Blay a colleague lawyer was hurt by these same azorka boys in Talensi when John mahama odwanfun said it was a dress rehearsal? nons*ense! who should resign because ndc say so, who are you? are you more human than the rest of Ghanaians? Ato Dadzie Onyame betua woka wo ne wo ndcfuo nyinaa! mpannin bone in the ndc who never give good advice to their footsoldiers but when they get hurt come out to spew nonsens*e. I can't take these people! Ghanafuo make sure these people and their ndc never taste power again in Ghana, they dont respect you and don't care about you! they care about their hoodlums sent out there to hurt you who couldn't take the heat! Ato Dadzie I think John mahama has consulted you to go to court so why are you talking go to court and get those you mentioned fired! for my president will never listen to ndc to rule Ghana, he is much more concerned about those the hoodlums were sent to hurt but not those hoodlums who got what they paid for! next time they should listen to the ndc and put their lives on the harms way! There is no joke, the president will protect and defend Ghana against ndc aggression!
This can ONLY come from NDC. Where was this Ato Aurthur guy during the Wolensi, Akwatia and Chrepony time? If you were BOLD to have condemn those violence during your NDC time, people would have taken you serious. How many people did AFRC and the PNDC killed? Yet you are PROUD to be associated with that! Nobody will take NDC serious!
Sorry to disappoint you, nobody is resigning. Worse things happened during your time.