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The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kwaku Baako Jnr. has said the recent development on the Ya-Na tape is an indictment on the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
“The entirety of the NDC stands indicted and is a classic exposure of the fact (that things we say during elections) should be something of sustainable value” he stressed.
The NDC in the 2008 electoral campaign promised to find the perpetrators behind the gruesome murder of the Dagbon Overlord Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II and bring them to book with the aid of a tape purported to be the video evidence of what went on in the Gbewa Palace.
The promise suffered a setback following a ruling by an Accra Fast Track High Court which acquitted and discharged 15 persons charged with the murder of the late king for lack of evidence.
However, Deputy General Secretary of the NDC and an aide to the Rawlingses, Kofi Adams, while addressing party delegates in Tamale where Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings had gone to campaign over the weekend revealed that, former President Jerry Rawlings handed over a video evidence of the killing of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II to government and the Attorney General to help in the prosecution.
Mr. Adams noted that he is convinced the video evidence and a thorough investigation would secure justice to the people of Dagbon.
The government refuted the allegations by Kofi Adams explaining that the so-called video evidence was an interview session between Ambassador Victor Smith and an eye witness who claimed to have been present when the incident occurred.
The Attorney General Martin Amidu said the video has no evidential value and cannot be admissible in a competent court of law.
Abdul Malik Kweku Baako on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Monday observed that the NDC is divided over the Ya-Na murder case because Mrs. Rawlings is seeking to make a political capital out of it to the disadvantage of President J.E.A. Mills, her contender in the party’s flagbearership race.
He said the attempts by Kofi Adams and Mrs. Rawlings to use the Dagbon crisis to score political points forced the government to come out with the truth about the said tape.
Kweku Baako noted that the NDC is being paid in their own coin after they capitalized on the Dagbon crisis to gain electoral advantage over the then government New Patriotic Party (NPP) when the incident happened.
“There was nothing in it (tape) from day one but for electoral, political purposes people decided to play along with it and created the monster out of this whole thing".
Story by: Adwoa Gyasiwaa/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana.
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