Bryan Acheampong has been requested to be detained by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
The NDC claims that the Minister of Agriculture is required to respond to inquiries regarding recent remarks made regarding the general elections of 2024.
Abraham Amaliba, the NDC’s director of legal affairs, characterized Bryan Acheampong’s statement as a threat to Ghana’s security and an insult to the constitution.
Abraham Amaliba urged the police to detain Bryan Acheampong right away in a statement to the media after submitting a petition to the Ghana Police Service regarding the situation.
“We were at the CID office to present to the CID boss, a petition, calling on the department to arrest, investigate and prosecute the Minister of Agric, Bryan Acheampong for the uncivil comments that he made during the Easter break. You are aware that he, in a viral video, said that they, the NPP, will not hand over power to NDC come what may. And as lawyers, we are of the view that his comments on that day bother on national security and an affront to national security”.
“As lawyers, we think that the police administration must be interested in this matter. As stakeholders in this democratic dispensation, we will not sit by for one person to pass comments that will bring unrest in this country. The CID boss assured us that she will take the necessary steps,” he said.
“That Your Petitioner says that the said Bryan Acheampong continued to say that they-NPP will show the NDC that the NPP have the men, and that the NPP will do everything possible-fair or foul means to remain in power come what may in the 2024 general elections. I enclose herein, audios and videos of the utterances of Hon Bryan Acheampong for your perusal,” some part of the petition read.
“That, in the estimation of Your Petitioner and those of the general public, the statements uttered by Bryan Acheampong could be interpreted to mean that the NPP has conceived a grand scheme to subvert the will of the people of Ghana in the 2024 elections and any attempt to resist them would be met with violence”.
Speaking to party supporters on April 8 in Mpraeso, Mr. Acheampong declared that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will never cede control to the opposition NDC in 2025.
