[ 2016-09-26 ]

Prez Mahama Is Intolerant . . . Detaining Fadi Proves He's A "Dictator" - Mike O
Deputy Communications Director of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP), Mike Oquaye Jnr. has
described President John Dramani Mahama as a
"dictator" over BNI's arrest of Fadi Dabbousi, a
Ghanaian-Lebanese pilot.

Fadi Dabbousi, a fierce critic of the Mahama-led
NDC administration was picked up by the BNI when
he touched down in Ghana from Lebanon on Friday,
September 23, 2016 and detained beyond the
statutory 48 hours.

He was arrested for alleged offensive conduct
against President John Mahama.

Latest news indicate the Ghanaian-born Lebanese
author was detained for making defamatory claims
about the President.

In his latest articles, Fadi Dabbousi alleged that
the President has HIV/AIDS. He also suggested, the
President had impregnated the daughter of the
Ashanti King, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.

Fadi insists his claims originated from the print
media.

Hassan Tampuli, lawyer for Fadi Daboussie, says
his client told officials of the Bureau of
National nvestigations he only repeated the
comments complained about after first reading them
in two newspapers affiliated to the governing
National Democratic Congress.

The legal practitioner said he would have expected
that once Fadi had been arrested by the BNI, the
editors of Al-hajj and The Catalyst newspapers
ought to have been queried by the security
agency.

The security apparatus had taken note of his
highly critical and incendiary political
commentary against President John Mahama and his
government.

Commenting on the arrest, Mike Oquaye Jnr.
lambasted the BNI for apparently doing the bidding
of the government.

According to him, the BNI appears to be sacrosanct
and violating the rule of law which to him, does
not augur well for the agency and the government
as well.

Mike Oquaye Jnr. made reference to some 'bulldozer
actions' which was meted out to some South
Africans employed by the opposition NPP to train
their members on security issues and pinned them
on the Mahama administration, stressing that
President Mahama is "intolerant".

To him, people who owe no allegiance to the NDC
are tormented by the BNI and such behaviour should
not be encouraged in the country.

The NPP Deputy Communications Director further
questioned the logic in detaining Fadi Dabbousi.

“This kind of behaviour is not going to
wash…Anybody who detains somebody against the
rule of the constitution of 1992 is a dictator.
And that is what you’re doing. You’re showing
intolerance. You’re showing that you can do what
you like.”

Without mincing words, Mike Oquaye Jnr. stressed
on PeaceFM's "Kokrokoo" that President John Mahama
is “practicing dictatorship".

"That your BNI can arrest South Africans and the
court orders for them to be discharged, and then
you don’t respect the court and you still arrest
them and nobody has been sacked in BNI? Is this
not dictatorship? Can you imagine? Can you do this
anywhere in this world?”

"We will talk and talk, and talk and talk. Come
and catch all of us," he concluded.

Source - peacefmonline.com

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