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The New Patriotic Party is questioning the continued detention of a sympathizer of the party who was arrested recently for alleged violent conducts in the 2004 General Elections.Bashiru Mohammed, popularly known in Tamale as 'Red' was arrested at the airport shortly on his return to Ghana after a trip to South Africa to support the Black Stars.He was released briefly but re-arrested on Monday and has since been in detention without charge, the NPP claims.The party insists that the continued detention of Mohammed is unconstitutional and wants him out of prison custody.Addressing media men on Wednesday, the Minority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu questioned the motive of the security personnel in the arrest of the NPP sympathizer.Whilst condemning the security apparatus for what he says is a violation of the fundamental rights of their party member, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu also accused the Police and the BNI of selective justice.According to him, the Interior Minister was provided with the names and identities of the people he alleged were behind the murder of some NPP sympathizers in Agbobgloshie in Accra last year, yet the government has expediently glossed over that because the perpetrators are believed to have links with the government.He also accused the police of failing to take action against the deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Baba Jamal for what he says is Jamal’s unlawful conducts during the bye-election held in the region.Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is therefore intrigued at the action of the police in the case involving the NPP sympathizer.But Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, Police PRO for the Northern Region says the police has done no wrong.He said Red was was charged for illegal possession of arms during the 2004 election but explained that the police were unable to prosecute him then because the witnesses were then unwilling to testify.Things have changed; and the witnesses are willing to testify against the suspect, he explained.Criminal jurisprudence, he counseled, has no time limit, explaining that one can be prosecuted several years after committing a crime.Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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