THE Volta Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vehemently reacted to accusations levelled against the opposition parties by the Volta Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Dzamesi, in connection with the recent rumpus in which two persons died at the Ho Residency.
The NDC condemned the infantile behaviour of the regional minister and his security chiefs and called on President John Agyekum Kufuor to beware that the regional minister and his cronies had seriously compromised the security of the Residency, which was first and foremost a presidential lodge.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Regional Chairman of the NDC, Mr Modestus Ahiable, and read at a press conference in Ho on Monday.
The release called for an independent committee of enquiry into the allegations by the regional minister to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the speculations.
It also called for a similar probe into the shooting of Dan Dzikunu Agbaley and the Ho Municipal Police Commander, Superintendent Theophilus Nartey, who was described as “one of the finest and peace-loving police officers Ghana has ever produced”.
According to the release, the regional minister and the security heads in the region had accused all political parties, except the New Patriotic Party (NPP), of subverting the 1992 Constitution and the State by declaring that they were planning to declare the Volta Region a separate state, which was never perceived anywhere.
The statement referred to a report on an Accra FM radio station which had alleged that the regional minister had accused opposition parties in the region of hatching a plan to eliminate political figures and departmental heads in the region to cause a state of insecurity in the region.
It assured the general public, especially the electorate in the region, that the NDC would be the last party to deploy such barbaric and vicious machinations to eliminate NPP and government functionaries, let alone departmental heads, and create chaos and an atmosphere of insecurity in the region.
According to the statement, since the NDC knew that the region was its stronghold, it would do nothing negative to create confusion in the area to affect the current sparkling fortunes of the party at the December polls.
It stated that the regional minister could not have any genuine motive for throwing a political gimmick into the public domain other than use it as a cover up to deploy his “macho men, special forces” and their “action troopers” in the Ketu North Constituency in particular and the region at large to manipulate the forthcoming elections.
The statement called for answers to pertinent questions pertaining to the number of policemen on guard at the Residency, whether they were at post when the alleged intruder arrived, whether the intruder forced his way into the Residency and at what time.
It also challenged Mr Dzamesi to confirm or deny the fact that the deceased’s father was his spiritual master and, therefore, he took the boy as a son and junior spiritualist.
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