Member of Parliament (MP) for Odododiodio, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has indicated the resolve of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to win the general elections in 2020 and ensure the release of former fellow NDC MP, Abuga Pele.
Mr. Vanderpuye stressed the NDC’s morale remains high ahead of the 2020 elections despite the incarceration of Pele, adding that the party was on course to regain power.
“It is unfortunate but I can only say that this will not dampen the spirit of the NDC. Between 2001 and 2004, they sentenced Tsatsu Tsikata, Dan Abodakpi, Ibrahim Adam and Kwame Peprah. It did not stop us from winning elections in 2008. We are going to win the elections and bring Abuga Pele out,” the MP told Citi News after the part’s Unity Walk in Eastern Region at Somanya.
Abuga Pele, the former National Coordinator of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA), was sentenced alongside the Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill International Group, Philip Assibit, to a combined jail-term of 18 years on various counts, including willfully causing financial loss to the state.
Pele was handed a four and six-year sentence which will run concurrently whilst Assibit got concurrent sentences of 12 and four years on different counts.
The court also ordered the state to recover all assets and money belonging to the state from the convicts. Philip Assibit has since served notice will be appealing his 16-year jail term alongside an application for bail.
Victims of broken system
Another NDC MP, Mahama Ayariga, put up somewhat of a defence for Abuga Pele and Philip Assibit saying they were only victims of agencies that were allowed to operate without any checks.
Responding to their conviction on The Big Issue, Mr. Ayariga said he was not going to abandon his “comrades” just because they had broken the law.
MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga
“These comrades fell because we operated a legal regime that left cracks that became the holes that devoured them. The cracks include the tolerance of unfettered discretionary power in the management of our public affairs and the permissiveness of sole sourcing and other negative practices of allowing institutions to exist without an appropriate legal framework,” Mr. Ayariga said.
Threat of legal action
Mr. Ayariga also said he was going to give some state agencies an ultimatum to present to Parliament, reforms of their regulations or face action at the Supreme Court.
He said he will move against every state agency exercising “unfettered discretionary power without clear non-discriminatory non-arbitrary regulations approved by Parliament governing the exercises of their discretionary power.”
“I shall in the coming week write to each and every agency of government concerned and demand that the regulations be brought to Parliament within 30 days otherwise I will proceed to the Supreme Court to seek an injunction against all that they are doing in violation of the law.”
Source: Citi News
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All of them; I mean NDC leaders are criminals who have made millions and Billions through politics and are walking free. It is therefore strange for a member to be convicted of causing financial loss of only 3.5 million and be incarserated. He is therefore right to say that they will win 2020 elections only for the purpose of releasing more criminaIs to cause more suffering to the nation. God have mercy.
when we say ndc is made up of the true sons and daughters of the devil, ple think we hate them. how shd this kind of a person with soo much evil in his mind be part of the law making body of this nation? any contribution he will make will be evil. God have mercy on them.
"Akyiri mma nnue"We are going to vote for you to set criminals free,those who have ears should just listen.
ITS SO SAD THAT SUCH PEOPLE LIKE NII LARTEY VANDERPUYE ARE LAW MEN IN GHANA.HOW CAN THIS BE? IS HE CONDONING CRIME? THESE NDC ***barred word*** ARE NOTHING BUT THIEEEEVES AND CRIMINALS AND NO GHANAIAN IN THEIR RIGHT SENSES SHOULD VOTE FOR THEM.HOW CAN HE GET PEOPLE WHO HAVE DUPED THE STATE FOR DOING NO WORK OUT OF JAIL JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NDC.SO IT IS RIGHT AFTER ALL THAT THE AIM OF THE NDC WAS NOT TO HELP THE MASSES BUT JUST TO CREATE LOOT AND SHARE.HOW A PATHETIC COUNTRY WE LEAVE IN.ONLY TIME ALONE WILL TELL.
People keep saying NDC is evil but never believe it till today from what the so called mp Nii is saying God have mercy on our mother land called ghana
If NDC free Abuga Pele them you must also free all those who are in prison at Nsawam for petty stealing and other fraud....
You must first pray to retain your MP seat before thinking of NDC winning 2020...... NDC !d!ots... Abuga Pele was tried by a court of competent jurisdiction... not PNDC kangaroo courts that killed genuine people during the so called f000lish revolution. NDC will remain in opposition forever.......
I hope Nii didn't actually say that to mean it's NPP which has got Abuga Pele imprisoned. In the same breadth, they ate saying this shows the courage of Mahama to put his own man through the court. Does it mean, when Mahama authorized the prosecution of Abuga Pele, it was just a camouflage, 'cis they had a plan to get him discharged. No winder the case took so long.