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Press Release
Concerned
Citizens
May 25, 2015
NDC WANTS TO DANCE
ON THE GRAVE OF ADAMS MAHAMA
All Ghanaians mourned Adams Mahama, the late
Upper East Regional Chairman of the NPP, who
was murdered in cold blood.
As the rumours rage on over the motives of
his alleged murderers, we, Concerned
Citizens of Ghana, will ask the NPP to stop
throwing accusing fingers and allow the
police to do their work. We understand that
this murder is alien to the tradition of the
New Patriotic Party (NPP), but the party
must come out of this stronger and
single-minded in focusing on how to
recapture 2016. Ghanaians would not forgive
the NPP if they did not use this tragic
death to realign its leadership to bring
back total confidence of the rank and file
in the direction and purpose of the party's
leadership. The party should take now or
never the tough decisions that would bring
back confidence in its leadership.
As with all murders in Ghana, the murder of
Alhaji Adams Mahama is a criminal matter
that must be thoroughly investigated by the
Ghana Police Service, and all who are found
culpable in his death, either directly or by
proxy, irrespective of their status in
society, must be dealt with according to the
laws of this land. Nothing short of this
will satisfy Ghanaians, the NPP and the
family of Adams Mahama.
However, Concerned Citizens of Ghana are
very disturbed by the attitude of the ruling
party in this matter. At this point, it is
important for us to turn our attention to
the events/pronouncements immediately
following this dastardly murder, and for us
to ask some hard questions of certain
people.
As you would have noticed, and as confirmed
by the circulation today of a copy of an
internal NDC Propaganda guidance note to its
communicators, it is clear that they want to
use the unfortunate death of Adams Mahama as
a strategy to deflect attention from the
many leadership failures of the John Mahama-led
NDC Government, the least of which is Dumsor.
The NDC wants to dance on the grave of
Alhaji Adams Mahama.
Clearly, the NDC is the one political party
in Ghana who, without exception, always seek
to make political capital out of the death
of public figures.
Ghanaians should be concerned at the cold,
heartless voyeurism that drives these kinds
of duplicitous, hateful, devisiveness by the
NDC. This is the one party in Ghana’s
history that made political capital over the
death of a great King and Warrior, Ya-Na,
and those of Issa Molbila, and President
Atta Mills, among others. And now they seek
to make the same of Adams Mahama.
If Ghanaians will recall, it is the same NDC
that created a state of doom and gloom over
these deaths, falsely claiming access to
evidence that points to the culpability of
politicians, especially of the NPP. They
went on to make promises of using this same
evidence they claimed they had to prosecute,
and jail the people they falsely accused.
Now, we all know, that it was all a shameful
exploitation of the deaths of honourable
Ghanaians for political advantage. In fact,
NDC has, without a shred of shame, through
its founder, claimed that the death of their
own, then President Atta Mills, was a
'fortunate event' because it gave them
sympathy votes during the 2012 Elections.
Their National Women's Organiser in 2012
hailed the death of the President as coming
at the right time. President Mills died
under very strange circumstances. Yet, the
NDC government chose to ignore popular calls
for investigation into the death of
President Mills. How much more evil can a
whole party be? How much more callous,
devious, and heartless can the NDC be? Is
nothing sacred anymore as far as the NDC's
politics is concerned? Have they no shame?
Now they are back, and seek to do same with
the death of another Ghanaian. It was sad to
note, that even at the point when our Adams
Mahama was yet to be buried, these same
ghoulish vampires jumped on their political
soapboxes, drumming up vile propaganda and
hate, again, all for political benefit.
While regretting the circumstances of the
murder of Adams Mahama, and calling on the
Ghana Police Service to leave no stone
unturned in bringing the culprits to book,
we call on Ghanaians of all political
persuasions to, with one voice, reject the
NDC's insensitive, and evil politics of
exploiting the death of Ghanaians to further
their political agenda. We call on Ghanaians
to avert their minds to the duplicity of the
NDC, which is, not focusing their attention
and energies on security for all Ghanaians
who daily are under attack by armed robbers
and contract killers.
The deaths of other Ghanaians like Fennec
Okyere and Francis Anderson, who were
brutally cut down in the prime of their
lives and careers, have not received the
same kind of attention the NDC has attached
to deaths they see as politically
'beneficial'. It is obvious that this NDC
Government does not care, nor is interested
in the personal safety of ordinary Ghanaians
butchered by armed robbers simply because
their lives have no political/electoral
'value'. It is a great shame.
We therefore urge Ghanaians, let us come
together as one people and say to the NDC:
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Signed
Asafo Agyei
Coordinator
Concerned Citizens of Ghana
0206922633
asafoadjeinana@gmail.com
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