[ 2016-04-26 ]

Tribal prosecution comment ‘below the belt’ - NPP condemns Dzifa Attivor
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has condemned the
former Transport minister, Dzifa Attivor, for
inciting tribal sentiments after she claimed the
opposition party is anti-Ewe.

The Volta regional branch of the opposition party
has described the comment as “below the
belt”.

Dzifa Attivor stoked controversy after she charged
Voltarians to keep the NPP out of power otherwise
Voltarians in the NDC will be jailed.

She cited Victor Selormey and Dan Abodapki, two
former NDC government officials jailed for causing
financial loss to the state as examples of NPP's
persecution of Ewes. She said their treatment by
the NPP ought to be a memorial pointing Voltarians
to vote against the NPP.

The former minister explained that she may spend
time in prison time, is the NPP is voted into
power.

I want to remind you that it is your vote that
will decide if Fifi Kwetey and I will be
prosecuted and put behind bars or not, she
rallied.

Her comment is trending on social media raking up
at least 1,300 shares in a few hours. Some feel
her comment was a concession to having been
corrupt in the bus branding saga, a matter that
led to her resignation as Transport minister.

But her spokesperson, Egypts Kudoto, unfazed by
the negative commentary says the comments by her
boss were meant to remind residents of Volta
Region that Volta regional frontliners in the NDC
are likely targets for prosecutions under the
NPP.

He conceded that although the NPP prosecuted other
non-Ewe NDC government officials, a majority of
the victims were from the Volta region.

Egypts Kudoto referred to comments made by a
former NPP top brass J.H Mensah who reportedly
vowed to deal with the NDC until the party
collapsed.

The spokesperson inferred that the NPP will wipe
out the NDC starting with officials from its
stronghold, the Volta region.

Egypt was uninterested in responding to the
opposite claim that the NDC also prosecuted Akans,
the ethnic stronghold of the NPP.

The NDC prosecuted the likes of Kwadwo Mpianim,
Wereko Brobbey when it came back to power in 2009
but all of them were acquitted and discharged.

NPP chairman in the Volta Region John Peter Amewu
expressed disappointment in the former
minister’s comment.

He said the NPP has never jailed any NDC
government official. The party can only go as far
as presenting its case in court. It is a judge
that sentences an accused person, he said
stressing that the NPP is a big believer in the
rule of law.

John Peter Amewu said Dzifa Attivor’s comments
are calculated to incite young Voltarians against
the NPP in the November elections.

He pointed out that other non-Ewes Sipa Yankey,
Kwame Peprah were Akans but were also tried by the
NPP administration.

Source - Myjoyonline.com

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