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www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw
Owusu
Thursday,
November 17, 2016
Details are emerging about how the Nima residence of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP) flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was reportedly attacked
by supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Sunday.
DAILY
GUIDE has learned about how some police officers inexplicably stood
unconcerned while NDC goons attempted to storm the house and in the process started
attacking the property with stones and bottles amid wild insults.
The provocative action by the
NDC supporters has received worldwide condemnation, with both the United States
and United Kingdom governments expressing their disgust at the upsurge of
violence as Ghana prepares to go into general election on December 7, and even
threatened sanctions against politicians who are inciting violence, including
possible visa embargo and revocation.
Vivid Narration
A source has said early Sunday morning, one of the private security
personnel at Nana Akufo-Addo’s house upon discovering an unusual occurrence on
the security camera, proceeded outside only to see a crowd of NDC supporters
hurling stones and bottles into the house.
“As the bottle and stone throwing continued, a policeman, one of the
many standing by, told one of the two bodyguards undertone to go and tell the commander
of the Nima police who was observing the attack, to do something about what was
happening,” the source claimed.
According to the source, when the security man told the police
officer, he allegedly did not utter a word and only sneered at him while the
goons continued to attack the property.
“He asked the police officer to get them to leave immediately by
insisting that Nana Akufo-Addo’s wife, Rebecca, was returning from church and
wanted to get into the house but the officer could not be bothered,” the source
said.
He said the bodyguard recognized one of the NDC supporters as an
Alajo resident and asked him why they were throwing stones into the house.
He said it turned out that pockets of the NDC guys were firing
warning shots.
“Some of them were armed with pistols. The bottles and stones were
in the vehicles which brought some of them. Harry Zakour turned up and told us
to stop firing the warning shots else his people would follow suit,” according
to the source.
Regarding the allegation by Superintendent Cephas Arthur that one of
the security chaps in Nana Akufo-Addo’s house pulled a weapon on the Commander
of the Counter Terrorism Unit, one of the security men said, “Mr. Cephas Arthur
only came to the crime scene in the afternoon, many hours after the siege. The
said officer was not in uniform and had asked us to stop firing but we told him
to get the attackers too to stop. He said if we did not he would ask his people
to fire. Cephas’ narration was incorrect.”
Premeditated
Attack
The NPP has said utterances and actions of the NDC as a party showed
clearly that the attack on Nana Akufo-Addo’s residence was premeditated.
Nana was in the Brong-Ahafo Region campaigning towards the December
7 polls at the time of the incident.
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