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NPP Germany: No
Ghanaian ‘illegal’ immigrant arrested for
‘demo’ against Mahama
The Germany Branch of the New Patriotic
Party has read with utter disbelief, the
shameless lie carried in the Daily Graphic
of Thursday, January 22, that two Ghanaians
“without papers” were arrested and will be
deported for taking part in the
demonstration against President Mahama in
Berlin this week.
Concerned about this alleged development,
NPP Germany took it upon itself to contact
the Police authorities in Berlin who denied
categorically that any of the protestors was
arrested, let alone for being an illegal
immigrant.
We have also spoken personally with Berlin
Police Inspector Hartman, who led the team
of police assigned to guide the
demonstrators on that day and he has also
confirmed that no one was arrested.
He, in fact, went on to point out that,
under German law, the police are not allowed
to control people’s immigration status at
permitted demonstrations.
Again, we have made contacts with the
organizers of the demonstration and they
have also confirmed that all those who took
part in the demonstration are back to their
various cities safely.
What is clear is that President John Mahama
and his Flagstaff House propagandists are
bent on using old-fashioned communist
tactics to strike fear against Ghanaians
abroad who want to speak out against the
corruption, and bad governance under his
watch in this second term of the NDC’s
eight-year rule.
It is a disgraceful act by a failing
Government that wants to take away the
fundamental human rights of Ghanaians abroad
to assemble and demonstrate peacefully
against their visiting President.
We believe the Ghana Embassy in Berlin and
the Flagstaff House in Accra should come out
to correct this false and negative
international publicity with which it has
tagged the German government.
These are the kinds of reckless propaganda
tactics that can cause a needless diplomatic
row between our country Ghana and Germany.
It is way below the belt.
We will end by advising the state-owned
Daily Graphic to stop this embarrassment of
being used as a propaganda tool of
Government. It must retract and apologize to
the public. The NDC cannot frighten
Ghanaians both at home and abroad from
expressing their views against the way their
beloved country is being run down.
Signed
Alhassan Yakubu Tali
Chairman, NPP Germany
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