The Germany branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has denied reports that some two Ghanaian residents in Germany have been arrested after demonstrating against the President.
[contextly_sidebar id=”xEGPyExLKYhI0aLNi5YJTK6zh5M55grW”]The party has subsequently accused the President John Mahama and his “Flagstaff House propagandists” for using “old-fashioned communist tactics to strike fear against Ghanaians abroad who want to speak out against the corruption, and bad governance under his watch in this second term of the NDC’s eight-year rule.”
Last week, there were reports that some two Ghanaians who joined the demonstration against President Mahama in Germany had been arrested for being illegal immigrants.
However, a statement signed by the NPP Chairman in Germany, Alhassan Yakubu Tali said their checks with the Police have proved otherwise.
“NPP Germany took it upon itself to contact the Police authorities in Berlin who denied categorically that any of the protestors were arrested, let alone for being an illegal immigrant.”
“We have also spoken personally with Berlin Police Inspector Hartman, who led the team of police assigned to guide the demonstrators on that day and he has also confirmed that no one was arrested,” he said.
Yakubu Tali described the media report as a “shameless lie” insisting that, no Ghanaian was being processed for deportation from Germany.
He disclosed that the party in Germany had also contacted the organizers of the demonstration who have confirmed that all those who took part in the demonstration are safely back in their various cities across Germany.
He argued that the reports were “a disgraceful act by a failing government that wants to take away the fundamental human rights of Ghanaians abroad to assemble and demonstrate peacefully against their visiting President.”
Yakubu Tali admonished the Ghana Embassy in Berlin and the Flagstaff House in Accra to “correct this false and negative international publicity with which it has tagged the German government.”
“These are the kinds of reckless propaganda tactics that can cause a needless diplomatic row between our country Ghana and Germany. It is way below the belt.”
He stressed that the “NDC cannot frighten Ghanaians both at home and abroad from expressing their views against the way their beloved country is being run down.”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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