An Accra-based businessman and three others have filed a motion on notice for mandamus at the High Court seeking to compel the Inspector General of Police (IGP), John Kudalor, to arrest and investigate Abdulai Naba, brother of Collins Dauda, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development.
The three other applicants are Zac Rahman, Sulemana Aliu and Joseph K. Manu.
Naba recently boasted on live radio that he would deal with Kennedy Agyapong, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, should the latter come to Asutifi South in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
According to the junior brother of the Local Government Minister, Kennedy had threatened to let the NPP’s Invisible Forces attack him (Naba) on 7th December – voting day.
Naba was emphatic that he and his gang would beat Mr Kennedy Agyapong mercilessly, arrest and kill him, should he dare come to the area, describing him (Kennedy) as a mad man who only rants unnecessarily.
But days after the utterances, the applicant, Mohammed Bashiru, is skeptical that the police will on its own volition effect the arrest of Naba.
Parties
He wants the court to order the respondents to do a public duty by “arresting the self-confessed murderer and put the fear of God in all such persons to refrain from further killings.”
Joined to the suit are the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID); Director, Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and the Attorney General (AG).
In an affidavit in support of the motion, lawyers for the businessman said in line with the battle readiness of the police, “I was happy when I heard in the news that the Northern Regional Chairman of our great party, Daniel Bugri Naabu, has been arrested to come and explain to you the police what he meant by demanding that all NPP voters should stand by the ballot boxes after voting on December 7, 2016.”
The affidavit said the applicant was totally shocked and greatly surprised when another Ghanaian citizen like Naba could boldly, fearlessly and arrogantly speak the said words on open airways and yet be walking a freeman when he had “confessed to the world that he and some people kill every day.”
Confessions
Bashiru noted that the words, spoken in Twi literally meant: “The bragging of Kennedy Agyapong walahi, if he comes to make rough we shall arrest him, we shall beat him, we shall kill him, we will not joke with him when he stands at radio stations he talks excuse me to say like a madman…”
He continued: “Walahi, we will first beat him up; he should go to his constituency and teach them how to fire a gun and how to kill. As for us we kill every day.”
Relief
The applicants are asking the court to force the state agencies in charge of criminal prosecution, crime control and justice delivery to arrest the self-confessed criminal, investigate him and bring him to justice.
They say all the respondents have a duty to protect the peace before, during and after the elections.
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