The National Organizer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Desmond Twumasi Ntow, has defended the statements by the party’s chairman that led to an invite from the Police CID.
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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service invited the Chairman of the PNC, Bernard Mornah, for allegedly threatening to disrupt the new voter registration exercise.
The Chairman is quoted to have said in a press conference: “we will kill each other”, should the EC go ahead with the compilation of the new voters’ register.
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However, in an interview with Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning show, the National Organizer of the Party stated that the Chairman’s statement was in relation to the effects Coronavirus will have on the exercise and not a threat to the EC.
“You know we are not in normal times. When people get to know that someone has the COVID-19, they scatter. As we are about to start the voters’ register, people will queue to register. If you check someone’s temperature during the exercise and it happens that the person’s temperature is high, possibly because of the temperature from the sun, you might be tempted to isolate the person.
What do you think will happen? Don’t you think the others in the queue will scatter? You might be tempted to isolate the person. Imagine if this person brought about two people to guarantee for him or her because he or she doesn’t have a passport or birth certificate. What do you think will happen?”, he said.
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According to him, he finds it very shocking that the CID will invite Bernard Mornah over his comments when people who have stated worst things are moving freely.
“If you look at the things that Chairman Bernard Mornah said at the press conference, I don’t think the CID needed to invite him because we have heard worst things than what he said. But all those people who made such statements are moving freely in the country. Thus, I find it very strange. We have been saying that this Government is using the police and the security agencies to infringe on the rights of Ghanaians”, he added.
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He was of the view that Bernard Mornah committed no crime in his statements.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah