Leader of vigilante group Delta Force, Kwadwo Fosu Bamba, has challenged Head of the Department of Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Dr Kwesi Anning, to proceed to the court if the latter feels he did any wrong by calling on members of his group and other New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth to cease fire.

Speaking to Class News on Saturday, November 11, the Delta Force Boss insisted that he did no wrong in calling his boys to end any violent acts they are engaged in various parts of the country.

He said he is open to invitation from the police service for any questioning on the matter.

“I thought that it will be nice to come out and tell people that they should stop what they are doing in destroying the country; what is wrong about this statement?...If the police invite me I will go, he [Dr Anning] can go to court. Any action he wants to take he can take it but I know [that] in the end he will be defeated,” he said.

This comes on the backs of a recent interview Dr Anning granted to an Accra based Joynews, expressing surprise the police have not arrested Kwadwo Bamba for admitting to violence perpetrated by the Delta Force.

According to Dr Anning, the call by Kwadwo Bamba was a clear indication that he was complicit in the crimes committed by the group, hence the need for his arrest.

“When I heard yesterday that the Delta Force Boss had ordered his boys to stop what they were doing, I thought the police would have arrested the Delta Force boss immediately because that was a recognition that a: he was complicit in the crime that had been committed and 2: he had encouraged his boys to flout the authority of the President and the substitute security forces but no such thing has happened.

“Meaning that, the signal is clear, when you commit crime and you publicly say you won’t commit crimes again then it means that you are a free person but when we live in such a dangerous environment, such individuals and groups, political vigilantes, landguards, must be punished according to the law and we are not using the law to punish people to serve as a deterrent and that is dangerous in the short to medium term,” he stated.

Several vigilante groups associated with the NPP have engaged in several acts of vandalism, violence and chaos.