The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) national organizer, Henry Nana Boakye, often known as Nana B, has accused President John Dramani Mahama of “reckless politics” and blamed him for escalating the ongoing unrest in Bawku.
On Wednesday, April 16, Nana B voiced her serious concerns about the worsening security situation in Bawku during an appearance on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News.
He brought up the recent murders of two police officers and questioned the Ghana Police Service’s account of what happened.
“The Bawku issue is getting out of hand and shockingly you have a whole IGP who goes in there and it looks like he was even shocked for his life. We’ve had two police shot dead. There are some reports that what the police put out is not the accurate report,” he said.
Nana B maintained that, contrary to what officials said, the attacks were targeted assaults on the police and not merely instances of armed robbery.
“These were clear attacks on the police people but then the police is also blaming it on armed robbery. It looks like the Bawku issue is really getting out of hand,” he added.
He went further to accuse President Mahama of politicising the conflict by aligning himself with a specific faction in Bawku for electoral advantage.
“Indeed the sitting president now did a whole lot of reckless politics with it where he said that anytime that NDC is in power there is calmness, there is peace in Bawku. Today look at what you’ve caused. You went in there and threw your weight behind a particular faction as the leader there because you thought it was going to help you politically. Today you’ve soiled your hands in these matters because you’ve already taken sides,” Nana B claimed.
He also highlighted that the current administration is now relying on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to help mediate the conflict—an indication, he said, of the extent of damage caused by Mahama’s alleged actions.
“So his excellency the president has caused us a lot of harm especially regarding this Bawku matters,” Nana B concluded.
