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Akufo-Addo is the brain behind vigilantism in Ghana – Mahama

• By EDMOND GYEBI
• February 23, 2019
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Former President Mahama has accused President AKufo-Addo of being the brain behind party vigilantes in the country alleging that his activities whiles in opposition helped their growth.

Former President Mahama insisted that the recent spate of vandalism and harm caused during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election by some persons alleged to be members of pro-NPP vigilante groups co-opted into the National Security only gives credence to his assertions.

John Mahama buttressed his allegations by citing a sequence of events including the deportation of three South African mercenaries from Ghana during the NDC government in the lead up to the 2012 elections.

“…the phenomenon of militant vigilantism is a creation of Akufo-Addo government. Not only his government, even as a candidate. They started this all die be die, if we don’t win Afghanistan and all those kinds of threatening things and urged their youth to be militant. We must win this election at all cost, they started it. And then you remember when we were in office in 2012 we deported three South African mercenaries, they were brought in here to train the invincible forces and Delta Forces and so really, Akufo-Addo is the father of militant vigilantism. That is the next level that this phenomenon has gotten to. For the first time we saw party vigilantes in uniform, in those black t-shirts and jeans trousers,” he detailed during an interview on Pro-NDC radio station, Radio Gold.

The former President made these remarks in response to President Akuf0-Addo’s plan he outlined during the State of the Nation Address to disband such political party militia.

Source: awakenews