Member of Parliament (MP) for Odododiodio, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has indicated the resolve of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to win the general elections in 2020 and ensure the release of former fellow NDC MP, Abuga Pele.
Mr. Vanderpuye stressed the NDC’s morale remains high ahead of the 2020 elections despite the incarceration of Pele, adding that the party was on course to regain power.
“It is unfortunate but I can only say that this will not dampen the spirit of the NDC. Between 2001 and 2004, they sentenced Tsatsu Tsikata, Dan Abodakpi, Ibrahim Adam and Kwame Peprah. It did not stop us from winning elections in 2008. We are going to win the elections and bring Abuga Pele out,” the MP told Citi News after the part’s Unity Walk in Eastern Region at Somanya.
Abuga Pele, the former National Coordinator of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA), was sentenced alongside the Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill International Group, Philip Assibit, to a combined jail-term of 18 years on various counts, including willfully causing financial loss to the state.
Pele was handed a four and six-year sentence which will run concurrently whilst Assibit got concurrent sentences of 12 and four years on different counts.
The court also ordered the state to recover all assets and money belonging to the state from the convicts. Philip Assibit has since served notice will be appealing his 16-year jail term alongside an application for bail.
Victims of broken system
Another NDC MP, Mahama Ayariga, put up somewhat of a defence for Abuga Pele and Philip Assibit saying they were only victims of agencies that were allowed to operate without any checks.
Responding to their conviction on The Big Issue, Mr. Ayariga said he was not going to abandon his “comrades” just because they had broken the law.
MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga
“These comrades fell because we operated a legal regime that left cracks that became the holes that devoured them. The cracks include the tolerance of unfettered discretionary power in the management of our public affairs and the permissiveness of sole sourcing and other negative practices of allowing institutions to exist without an appropriate legal framework,” Mr. Ayariga said.
Threat of legal action
Mr. Ayariga also said he was going to give some state agencies an ultimatum to present to Parliament, reforms of their regulations or face action at the Supreme Court.
He said he will move against every state agency exercising “unfettered discretionary power without clear non-discriminatory non-arbitrary regulations approved by Parliament governing the exercises of their discretionary power.”
“I shall in the coming week write to each and every agency of government concerned and demand that the regulations be brought to Parliament within 30 days otherwise I will proceed to the Supreme Court to seek an injunction against all that they are doing in violation of the law.”
Source: Citi News
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Nii, think about yourself because your seat be our target come 2020. You will lose by all means possible you mark it on your forehead.
is it not these same ndc people who said it was their supposed plitical will that took Abuga Pele and Asabit to court??? so what is nii Lante saying? total rubbbishhhh. if you people sent them to court and the court has sentenced them what has NPP got to do with this?
HMMMMMMMMM....... IS THAT ONE TO A LAW MAKER?
Nii Lantey Heeeeiiiiiii wake up from your dream.
Oh really? That statement is disrespectful not only to the judge who sat on the case but to the whole justice system and the judiciary. He must resign his seat in parliament because what is the point being a law maker when you don't respect the laws you make? These guys have been tried by a competent court of jurisdiction and you can beat your chest and say when you come to power in 2020 you will set him free? Well, let's see who gives power! I wonder how some of these elements with very low IQ get into parliament! He should be taken on because his comments are unsuitable for someone who holds the high office of a law maker. His comments show profound lack of respect for judicial processes in this country and an indirect call for people to set aside the law and do things as pleases them. This is a very dangerous call.
'Ghanafo moate!' NDC's main aim of doing politics or wining power is CREATE, LOOT & SHARE. Even if caught and a competent court sanctions them they will find a way to free them! Freeing Thieve%&&s? Ei, NDC. NEVER will you come to power
Ei, NDC! Are you defending this GRAFT?, Ghanafo NEVER vote NDC to power to free these THIEVE%^&Sand more!
Evil minded nation wreckers NDC for you! Fire burn you all. You cannot be Ghanaians!
Then find a way to escape from Ghana because all those who have embezzled our money would be brought to book. If the NDC is planning to free all these criminals just in case they come to power, then we've a long way to go as a country. Once they have made the agenda known, the populace will decide for itself so don't worry yourself. If they think we don't have heads.
The point is who told them they will win? Listen,every kriminal has no shame,no other party apart from the ndc will make such utterances ndc think Ghana belongs to them and it's like Ghanaians didn't vote but they gave the power to the NPP,if you listen to them carefully, but any right thinking person knows they are out of their minds and talking anyhow. They are suffering from Post election defeat depression. Any serious party will find solutions to the 1.5million votes against them but not talking to annoy the people. Your ndc can't win you elections and you making your party much more unpopular and unattractive. When We say ndc are fo*ls it's real their actions and utterances depict who they are, no responsible party will tolerate such st*pid talk but with the ndc it's normal, they think they can still rig and have their way, but they will regret come 2020.