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Deputy Minister of Information has slammed the NPP for backing the
incendiary and ethnic-laced statement made by the MP for Assin North,
Kennedy Agyapong, describing their reaction to his incarceration as
similar to events surrounding the arrest of Austrian-born German fascist
leader Adolf Hitler for alleged subversive acts.
Samuel Okudzeto
Ablakwa said he is disappointed in the NPP for treating the beleaguered
lawmaker as a ‘hero’ regarding his ‘genocidal’ comments which he
(Ablakwa) deems “inexcusable, reprehensible and despicable.”
“The
statements that Kennedy Agyapong made are so inexcusable,
reprehensible, despicable and disgusting that the only thing the NPP
could have done was to support the state and distance themselves…,” he
said.
The NPP firebrand was granted a GHC 400,000 bail by two
different High Courts on Thursday, after spending three nights in BNI
cells. He is alleged to have declared war and incited Ashantis against
Ewes and Gas and has been charged with treason, felony and acts of
terrorism.
During his arrest and appearance in court, scores of
NPP activists besieged the Police Headquarters, the Bureau of National
Investigations (BNI) offices and the court precincts in solidarity.
Contributing to discussions on Metro TV’s ‘Good Morning Ghana’
show, Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa related the incident to that of
Austrian-born German fascist leader Adolf Hitler, whose supporters
vehemently protested his arrest for alleged subversive acts.
“Exactly
123 years today (Friday), 20th April 1889, Adolf Hitler was born and he
had a lot of supporters. In 1923, he was arrested for a lot subversive
activities but his supporters destabilized the state…so he was released
for the sake of peace. 20 years down the line, Adolf Hitler led the
German Reich which killed over 11 million citizens of the world,
including 6 million Jews. So I am not surprised that the Kennedy
Agyapong is described to be a hero by the NPP, history has repeated
itself,” he said. |
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To him, the NPP has officialized the
conduct of Kennedy Agyapong since they rendered him their support right
from the minute he was detained by the police.
“…the NPP masterminded in a Rwanda style on Oman FM,
with a lot of their leading members like Frances Assiam calling on the
people from Ashanti Region to descend to Accra and teach the police a
lesson. And within hours of the Rwanda style genocidal calls, their
supporters descended on the police headquarters,” he said.
The
deputy information minister added that events like the Kennedy Agyapong
incident have caused him to question his chosen profession as a
politician, and wondered why the Assin North MP, who hails from the
Central Region, did not call on his constituents to ‘defend’ themselves
but rather called on the people from the Ashanti Region to attack Gas
and Ewes.
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