The National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Salam Mustapha, has described the current National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration as the \u201cmost intolerant\u201d government Ghana has ever produced, following the arrest of Dennis Miracles Aboagye by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).<\/p>\n
Speaking to newsmen\u2019 Hanson Agyemang when NPP supporters gathered at EOCO\u2019s office to demand information on Miracles\u2019 whereabouts, Salam Mustapha accused the government of disregarding due process and denying arrested persons access to legal representation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is perversion of the highest order I have seen, the most intolerant government this country has ever produced. They will not allow any access to him, they will not talk to anybody, they have no respect for anybody.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t tell you why they are arresting you, they just come and pick you and take you away. That is the Ghana in which we live today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He questioned why Miracles was arrested upon his return to Ghana, arguing that the aide to the NPP flagbearer did not pose any flight risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe travelled and the moment he returned to Ghana, he was arrested, not when he was going. The guy was not absconding. We arrest people when we think they are flight risks, this guy is here, always on TV and radio.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe travelled and has returned to his motherland, you go and arrest him from airport and come and dump him here that nobody should attend to him and it is order from above, is this democracy?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Salam Mustapha further alleged that the arrest formed part of a broader pattern of targeting NPP members, claiming that more than 20 party members had been arrested under the current administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder this government, over 20 NPP people have been arrested. Some of the arrests are due to the silliest of reasons,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Dennis Miracles Aboagye, an aide to the NPP\u2019s flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, was arrested by EOCO at the Accra International Airport after returning to Ghana on Sunday, July 13.<\/p>\n
The NPP General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, in a Facebook post, alleged that Miracles was picked up by EOCO officers with the assistance of immigration officials and taken into custody.<\/p>\n
The party also claimed that his lawyers had been denied access to him and that no charges had been filed against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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