{"id":413759,"date":"2018-03-27T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=413759"},"modified":"2018-03-27T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:28:58","slug":"they-cant-scare-us-portuphy-responds-to-anyidohos-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/they-cant-scare-us-portuphy-responds-to-anyidohos-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"‘They can\u2019t scare us’ – Portuphy responds to Anyidoho\u2019s ‘arrest’"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Portuphy, has said his party will not be intimidated\u00a0by the invitation of its Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho, to the Criminal Investigations Department<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (CID) over some comments the latter made which have been described as treasonable.<\/p>\n

Mr. Portuphy, who described the development as an attempt by the government to scare them, said the party would remain defiant despite the arrest of one of their top officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey arresting the Deputy General Secretary of our party is not right, but they cannot scare anybody. We will go and listen to them, they said they want him. He works for us, don\u2019t worry we will go,\u201d he said in a Citi News<\/strong> interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”exeXCwe45PiDvm2liBHAz30LckklXqCc”]Mr. Anyidoho had, in an interview on Accra-based Happy FM, indicated that President Akufo-Addo will be overthrown because of the ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US.<\/p>\n

The deal was ratified by Parliament despite the resistance of some sections of the public which, according to Anyidoho, will spark a “social revolution” in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a civilian coup d\u2019\u00e9tat. There will be a social revolution. We [NDC] are starting it on Wednesday. The movement is starting on Wednesday. Nana Addo will have sleepless nights. He will suffer diarrhea. He said he wanted to be president, but we will make sure he will be fed up on the seat,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Anyidoho has since been widely condemned for the comments.<\/p>\n

He was subsequently picked up by the CID<\/strong><\/span><\/a> at the International Press Centre in Accra on Tuesday during a press conference by a group of opposition political parties known as the Inter-Party Coalition for National Sovereignty, who are kicking against the Ghana-US Defence Cooperation agreement ratified by Parliament last Friday.<\/p>\n

Several stalwarts of the NDC stormed the premises of the CID over his detention.<\/p>\n

They included former National Security Coordinator, Kofi Totobi Kwakye, former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Ofosu-Kwakye and former Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Baba Jamal, among others.<\/p>\n

‘Reckless, amateurish’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The governing New Patriotic Party [NPP], also described as reckless and amateurish<\/strong><\/a><\/span> Koku Anyidoho’s comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NPP as a party unreservedly condemns this reckless, amateurish, and misguided statement from Mr. Anyidoho, especially judging from his background as a former presidential spokesperson for former President John Evans Atta Mills, who was hailed by all as a peace-loving personality,\u201d a statement signed by National Youth Organizer of the NPP, Sammy Awuku said.<\/p>\n

Security agencies must be on alert<\/strong><\/p>\n

The statement from the NPP also urged the security agencies to be on alert to avert any attempt to destabilize the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on the security agencies to be on the alert because there is no smoke without fire. The police should invite Mr. Anyidoho over his treasonable comments and inciting Ghanaians to forcibly remove a democratically elected government,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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