…In Preparation To Rig 2008 Elections
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is convinced that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is on course to rig next year’s general election with the secret lodging of ammunition in an unidentified destination and the formation of the Community Protection Unit. Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, General Secretary of the country’s largest opposition group, made this allegation and stated that the government’s decision to keep those pieces of ammunition at the secret location and in the hands of private people for nefarious activities raises eye-brows.

“These ammunitions arrived in 2003 and some private people cleared and sent them to an unknown destination. They must tell us where the ammunitions are brought from into this country officially; there are certain top security people who take delivery of the ammunitions and the procedures for depositing them at the national armoury. “We raised alarm, and characteristic of the NPP government, they came out and denied that nothing like that had happened, when they were pressed further… we produced evidence which indicated that these ammunitions were loaded on ships from Belgium and other places,” the NDC scribe said in a no-holes-barred telephone interview with The Heritage newspaper last Tuesday.

Mr. Asiedu-Nketiah told the paper that the NPP caved in when evidence was produced to support the claim of the opposition, adding that is a sign of great concern not only to the opposition but Ghanaians as a whole. “They were forced to concede that it is true, but they argued that they had been imported to protect some ECOWAS heads of states, who had come to hold a meeting here in Accra.

This was totally a cock-and-bull story. As at now government has not come out to tell us where the ammunitions are since then and this should be a great source of concern for all Ghanaians”, he said.He warned Ghanaians to be wary and vigilant and decipher the signals NPP government is scheming behind the scenes prior to the next election.