{"id":85466,"date":"2015-01-25T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T13:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=85466"},"modified":"2015-01-25T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T13:36:48","slug":"npp-labeled-ndc-kofi-boakye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=85466","title":{"rendered":"NPP labeled me NDC \u2013 Kofi Boakye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ashanti Regional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Kofi Boakye has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) labeled him as a National Democratic Congress (NDC) party sympathizer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ecwpOzXjE13n121z3FMUnzG8jd8Fz8Iz&#8221;]This he said was because he was assigned to the former President Jerry John Rawlings on a number of his international travels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, \u201cNPP came to power and some of us were nearly sacked because there was that presumption that once I have traveled with the head of state before; because I traveled with Rawlings to Libya, once I was the lead Policeman whenever Rawlings is coming I am automatically NDC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said such misconception compelled him to stop communicating with the former President during the NPP&#8217;s regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cImmediately NPP came to power I had to cease talking to him, completely,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DCOP Kofi Boakye reveled this on TV3\u2019s Hot Issue programme on Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85468\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dcop-kofi-boakye-with-mahama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-85468\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dcop-kofi-boakye-with-mahama.jpg\" alt=\"President Mahama with DCOP Kofi Boakye\" width=\"620\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Mahama with DCOP Kofi Boakye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He however advised politicians to desist from interfering in the work of security institutions in the country, adding that \u201cin the long run it will have a devastating effect on our security, if we don\u2019t allow recruitment to be based on meritocracy but based on nepotism, patronage, favouritism, party political activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ashanti Regional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Kofi Boakye has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) labeled him as a National Democratic Congress (NDC) party sympathizer. 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