The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram constituency, Samuel Dzata George, says vigilante groups are just Community-based Organizations.
“The party; the NDC does not have any vigilante groups; these are groups that owe allegiance to individuals . . . I will refer to them as a community-based organization,” he said when he appeared before the Emile Short Commission, Monday.
His answer appears almost in sync with those of the NDC parliamentary candidate for the just ended Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election, Delali Kwesi Brempong, that the two main political parties - the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) -
do not own the vigilante groups attributed to them.
He believes the vigilante groups are owned by some mafias within the political parties whose aim is to cause commotion.
Delali Kwesi Brempong was responding to Chairman of the Commission, Justice Emile Short question of whether his party, the NDC had measures put in place to disband its vigilante groups.
Disband, Or....
There have several calls from well-meaning Ghanaians that the state takes a decisive position and disband all political vigilante groups to save the nation from future acts of violence.
Thus it was hailed as a step in the right direction which could nip the worrying and unacceptable phenomenon in the bud, when President Akufo- Addo, during the delivery of the State of the Nation Address last Thursday, warned the NPP and NDC, that if they do not voluntarily meet to fashion out ways to disband their vigilante groups, he would apply legislation to disband them himself.
Vigilantes Owe Allegiance To Individuals
Quizzed if he believed that these vigilante groups are units of the various political parties they are affiliated to, Sam George, who also narrated the sequence of events leading to him being slapped on that day, said “it will be naïve for me to suggest that political parties may not benefit from these groups” adding that “I believe that these vigilante groups owe allegiance to individuals; these individuals use them for political purposes served through a vehicle of political parties”.
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TODAY, THE BOYS FROM MY HOOD IN KUMASI ARE OVERWHELMINGLY BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE CURRENTLY IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY OR POLICE FORCE, I WANT TO BELIEVE THAT, NANA PERSONALLY IN 2016 BROUGHT SECURITY FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO TRAIN INVISIBLE AND DELTA FORCES FOR ELECTIONS 2016, NOW HIS IN POWER SO HE CAN CALL NDC TO STOP THEIR VIGILANTE GROUPS, WHILES HE PAINTED HIS WITH NATIONAL UNIFORMS TO TERRORIZE INNOCENT GHANAIANS. MR. PRESIDENT PLEASE COME AGAIN. SOME GEORGE IS THE MAN OF THE MOMENT: FORE FIRE, WE ARE BEHIND YOU..
And yet we happily address such wicked, dishonest character as honorable? I'm ashamed to have such a thing in parliament making laws for me. Gosh!
Well Islamic State (ISIS) were initially presented as a group doing charity work in the Middle East. We all know what happen after that. Our politicians are always happy to tell lies through their backside and get away with it because of the high illiteracy rate in Ghana.
Unfortunately there are people who believe that TRUTH is found in how straight you keep your face, a high-pitched voice and pointing onesfore-finger in the air, when giving responses. No. Truth is universal. Fortunately in this case, we all see it, and we all feel it. To call the Azorka Boys a community-based group and to forcefully say the NDC does not have a vigilante group is like a kid trying to hide stollen money behind his back while standing right in front of his parents.
SAM GEORGE IS A TROUBLE MAKER SO NDC SHOULD BE CAREFUL ABOUT HIM. BECAUSE HE IS GIVING THEM A BAD NAME.NOW LOOK AT THE ISSUE HE IS RAISING NOW.
Please tell this to the dogs and your gullible NDC party followers.Community based organisation doing what? Azorka boys based in Tamale, so what were they doing at Ayawaso West Wuagon. One was interviewed and he said he a member of NDC national security.They came purposely to unleash innocent people and God opened them up.