Inspector General of Police, David Asante Appeatu has invited Member of Parliament for Asutifi South constituency, Hon. Collins Dauda over recent violence that broke up in his constituency over the ongoing limited registration exercise and a National Peace Council meeting held over the weekend.
Some irate youth stormed the venue and beat up members of the council.
He will be assisting the police with ongoing investigations.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, Director General Public Affairs Department of the Ghana Police Service, ACP David Eklu explained that, he is being invited to assist the police in ongoing investigations about the violence that broke out.
Asked whether they have officially written to parliament concerning the invitation, he explained that this is an invite not an arrest and that they need not write to parliament.
"This is just an invite, we are not arresting him but will surely detain him if the need be," he stressed.
He says two (2) people who were arrested yesterday(Monday) are being processed for court today.
"This is not an arrest but an invitation to assist the police to help bring an end to this violence been perpetuated in the name of politics," he added.
However, General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia says there must be a serious crackdown to put an end to this Brong Ahafo violence.
Speaking on Okay FM, he noted that the NPP government must sit up to arrest the porous security in the country.
Crime has no political colour; the law will work – Nana Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo has reiterated that his government would enforce the law without partisan considerations, adding that all persons who commit crime would face the law.
He stressed that crime would not be viewed through partisan lenses.
“Police have said it and I will repeat it again . . . crime has no political colour. If someone attacks another with a cutlass, you don’t use their political colours to judge. What is important is that such a person has committed a crime and the law must take its course,” he said.
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