Alhaji Mustapha Alhasan, the organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Manhyia South Constituency, was declared wanted by the police, a move that came with criticism from the party’s Ashanti Region leadership.
The party views this as an overreaction and a ploy to draw attention away from the nation’s difficulties.
Following his provocative remarks, Alhaji Alhasan became a target for the Ashanti Region Police Command.
Alhaji Alhasan is seen in a widely circulated video vehemently denouncing the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and threatening to use violence if they try to rig the election.
In the video, he even considers getting into potentially lethal violent altercations to guarantee John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the NDC, victory.
He clarified that Alhaji Alhasan’s comments were a response to some provocative remarks made by an NPP member during a conversation.
Dr Amoakohene also questioned the rationale behind the police’s decision to declare the party’s well-known Manhyia South Constituency Organiser wanted.
“It is an exaggeration, and it can be likened to killing a farmer with a sledgehammer. And this is just a purported action to divert the attention of Ghanaians from the hardship that is going on in the [country], because it takes two to tango, and it takes two to have a conversation. It was a conversation between an NDC person and an NPP person. They managed to get the video out which has the NPP person’s comment edited out of the video. Then now you declare an officer wanted without having to resort to the institution to produce the officer.”
“So if you know you can find the person, then you should publish the person’s name without associating him with the NDC but if you want to associate him with the NDC then you should come to the regional leadership that we have come across a video from an officer of the party and the police would want to have a conversation with him. Then the regional leadership can produce the officer for you. But you have attached the NDC to the officer, you didn’t come to the regional leadership and yet declared him wanted on social media. But from my understanding, you only declare someone wanted when the person cannot be found or has gone into hiding. This is an officer that you in the police you know, and he is a tailor to most of the policemen, and it is not as though he is even a stranger or somebody you don’t know,” he noted.
