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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE <strong>22</strong>, 2018 11<br />
Politics<br />
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about<br />
anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for<br />
yourself —Henry James<br />
NDC didn’t sanction Desoso’s<br />
apology to Rawlings – Asiedu Nketia<br />
BY KWADWO ANIM<br />
THE GENERAL<br />
Secretary of the opposition<br />
National<br />
Democratic Congress<br />
(NDC), Mr<br />
Johnson Asiedu<br />
Nketia has said the party did not<br />
sanction the recent apology rendered<br />
to the party’s founder and<br />
former President J. J. Rawlings by<br />
National Vice Chairperson, Anita<br />
Desoso.<br />
Madam Desoso at the commemoration<br />
of the <strong>June</strong> 4 Upraising<br />
in Accra, went on her knees<br />
pleading with Rawlings to forgive<br />
the sins of the party.<br />
President Rawlings’ grip of the<br />
NDC began chipping away in the<br />
aftermath of his presidency in<br />
2000, totally losing control of the<br />
party during the Presidency of<br />
John Mahama, where junior officials<br />
of the government openly rebuked<br />
him for criticising the<br />
government.<br />
Worried by the seeming friction<br />
between the founder and the<br />
party, Desooso said “let’s respect<br />
and love those who have sacrificed<br />
for us. Let’s respect and sacrifice<br />
for those who have helped<br />
us<br />
“Now to my father – Founder,<br />
I know your children we have<br />
erred, and I also know that you<br />
•Anita Desoso begging former President Jerry John Rawlings<br />
are a human being and you have<br />
also done something; maybe it is<br />
not right.<br />
“And I was so happy when I<br />
heard you say that; when you<br />
brought that statement out, rendering<br />
an apology – you are a<br />
hero. You are a hero. This shows<br />
that what you have taught me is<br />
still within me. If you are a leader,<br />
be prepared to say that I am sorry.<br />
If you are a child, be prepared to<br />
say that daddy I’m sorry. So, I will<br />
take this opportunity on behalf of<br />
the party to kneel down before my<br />
dad – please forgive us. Let us<br />
come together to build this country,”<br />
an emotional De-Sosoo<br />
pleaded with the former president.<br />
However, Asiedu Nketia aka<br />
General Mosquito has stated that<br />
Anita Desoso had no business<br />
apologising on behalf of the<br />
party.<br />
“I’m talking to you as Chief<br />
Executive of the party and the<br />
person who keeps records of the<br />
decisions of the party and I’m<br />
telling you that we never at any<br />
point discussed the possibility or<br />
anything about approaching<br />
founder and apologising for anything.<br />
“And as we speak now nobody<br />
knows the offence for which<br />
Anita was apologising, and after<br />
she said it we brought her to a<br />
meeting trying to find out what<br />
offence she was referring to, she<br />
couldn’t answer. And so we considered<br />
it to be her personal issue<br />
with the founder,” He told Joy<br />
News.<br />
Abuakwa youth demand names of JB Danquah’s killers<br />
BY KOBINA WELSING<br />
J. B. Danquah Adu<br />
CONSTITUENTS OF the murdered<br />
Abuakwa North Member<br />
of Parliament (MP) J. B. Danquah<br />
Adu are asking the Police<br />
Criminal Investigations Department<br />
(CID) to immediately<br />
question elements within the<br />
New Patriotic Party who allegedly<br />
masterminded the murder<br />
of their MP.<br />
Their demand comes after<br />
revelations by the prime suspect<br />
that he was hired by some persons<br />
within the governing party<br />
to kill the MP.<br />
Daniel Asiedu in a 20-minute<br />
confession told the court that<br />
his contractors who are members<br />
of the ruling party told him<br />
to accuse the National Democratic<br />
Congress of the crime<br />
after he had carried it out.<br />
Additionally, he indicated to<br />
the court that after he committed<br />
the crime, his arrest by the<br />
Police was staged just to cover<br />
up for his actual privies.<br />
Another twist to the confession<br />
was that, the first accused<br />
person told the court that at the<br />
appropriate time, he would mention<br />
the names of the persons<br />
who contracted him to commit<br />
the crime of murder.<br />
Spokesperson for the group<br />
calling itself the Abuakwa Youth<br />
for Justice, Nana Sei in an interview<br />
with Starr News said the<br />
suspect must be probed further<br />
to verify his claims.<br />
“From the horses own<br />
mouth, he has said he was hired<br />
by some people and they have<br />
disappointed him, the promises<br />
they gave him, they haven’t fulfilled<br />
their part.<br />
“They [CID] should handle<br />
him in a very nice way so that<br />
everybody behind the murder of<br />
the late MP would be known so<br />
that everyone would know that<br />
justice has been served.”<br />
Meanwhile, the second accused<br />
person, Vincent Bosso,<br />
after the confession of the first<br />
accused person told the court<br />
that now that the first accused<br />
person had confessed, he ought<br />
to be released from custody because<br />
he knew nothing about<br />
the entire case.<br />
His involvement in the ongoing<br />
committal proceedings was a<br />
breach of his fundamental<br />
human rights, the second accused<br />
told the court.
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