Mohammed Bashiru alias Red, the NPP youth activist who was arrested by police personnel at the Kotoka International Airport and handed over to the BNI on arrival from South Africa was on June 30 midnight whisked to the Bolgatanga Police cells.
His transfer followed the minority in Parliament’s earlier call for his immediate release at a news conference held in Accra to express the caucus’s displeasure about his unlawful arrest and detention.
Sources at the Northern Regional police command disclosed that Mohammed Bashiru’s transfer to Bolgatanga was due to political pressure from government functionaries and NPP members’ heavy presence at the police station.
The Northern Regional NPP Secretary, Clifford Braimah in a press release lambasted the NDC government for its continuous arrest and detention of NPP activists in the northern region and concluded that it was a calculated attempt to weaken the party’s youth front in the area before elections 2012.
“It has been the plan of the NDC to use the arrest and detention of NPP supporters in the northern region and Tamale in particular to bring back the passions that characterized previous elections in the Tamale metropolis,” Clifford fumed.
The NPP regional secretary reminded government and security operatives in Ghana to beware of their actions since that could lead to fresh hostilities in the Tamale metropolis and beyond.
He recounted several incidents where NPP activists and sympathizers loss their lives and property in Tamale without any arrests been made by the security agencies and said they will no longer tolerate such intimidation.
“We are advising personnel of the Ghana Police Service and the Bureau of National Investigation Officials not to allow themselves to be used by some highly placed government functionaries to redeem their sinking image in the region because of the problems they are having with their own people because of their actions and inaction,” Clifford Braimah stressed.
