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Political Pundit Kweku Baako Jr has demanded evidence from key opposition Politicians claiming the recently arrested Airport Security Head, Solomon Adelaquaye was a Financier of the ruling National Democratic Congress. Adelaquaye and three others of different nationalities were arrested in the US about two weeks ago for illicit drug trafficking. Adelaquaye�s Sohin Security had been providing security at the peripheries of Ghana�s Kotoka International Airport. Some stalwarts of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, including former Kumasi Mayor Maxwell Kofi Jumah and Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong have come out to publicly allege that Adelaquaye sponsored the NDC in the last elections. Mr. Jumah, for instance alleged that Adelaquaye sponsored about 80 Parliamentary Candidates who stood on the ticket of the NDC in the last elections. Similar sentiments were put forth by NPP General Secretary Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie who told XYZ News that his party had proof that Adelaquaye bankrolled the NDC. Kweku Baako Jr however told Joy FM�s news analysis programme �News File� on Saturday that the arrest of Adelaquaye must not be politicised. ��I would ask for people to leave out the politicisation�, Kweku Baako urged. �...If you say somebody is a Financier, where�s the proof, where�s the fact, where�s the evidence?� He added that: �If a serial caller makes that statement, I won�t be worried, but if a guru (in reference to Maxwell Kofi Jumah who was mentioned by the Host), [makes that statement], I would ask him for evidence; I would ask him for substantiation because it helps then, the fight. But if it�s just put out there without any thing of evidential value, it brings undue politicisation into the battle against rocks and we lose the fight collective. So the big guys who are making those allegations must be ready to provide something of evidential value to drive public discussions�.