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Head of Communications at the presidency, Koku Anyidoho has said that the wave of fear and panic blowing in the country is a creation of people with bomb throwing antecedents.
According to Koku these people are scheming to disturb the peace and Better Ghana Agenda espoused by the Mills-led government.
His comments follow stern directives given to the security services to deal appropriately and decisively with persons who are creating fear and panic in the country by President John Mills while speaking at the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the chiefs and people of the Upper East Region at the weekend.
The Ghanaian media has been replete with daily reports of murder and armed robbery attacks with the recent being a "mass rape" allegation involving travellers on a Tamale-bound bus.
The presidency and the police believe the mass rape allegation was cooked-up and is part of a grand plot by certain persons to create a state of insecurity in the country.
In an interview with Joy News’ Cyrus DeGraft Johnson, Koku Anyidoho said the government was aware who were behind the plot, promising they would be dealt with decisively.
Mr. Anyidoho would not mention names of the alleged perpetrators, except to give clues;
“There is no point in mentioning names but let me just do a historical analysis and then maybe we will know what we are talking about because we have history to guide us as a nation.
“In the period of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, some people employed a lot of terror tactics; detonating bombs all over the place to create fear and panic. They did it to Kwame Nkrumah, hounded him, harassed him, in the end they succeeded in collaborating with the CIA to get him out of power.
“…In the year 2000 a few things happened. In 1996, there was a group called FARIGAN who did a few things in this country. In the just ended 2008 at least we have on tape a leading member of a sitting political party who is on tape and has admitted that that is his voice where there was a plan to move dead bodies from a morgue at the Okomfo Anokye Hospital to send to the Volta Region and create the impression that the people of Volta Region had killed certain people.
“…So with history guiding us the president is just putting it out there that if any group of persons think they will succeed in derailing the Better Ghana process via terror tactics, he the president, will not allow that to happen,” he warned.
But Ursula Owusu, a lawyer and a member of the New Patriotic Party says the president’s comments are misdirected.
She told Joy News the president must rather concentrate on waging a war on armed robbers instead of phantom terror and bomb throwers.
She said the police must rather be given the requisite training and equipment to fight armed robbery in the country.
Play the attached audio for excerpts of the interview with Koku Anyidoho
Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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