Sir John posits that the wrath of the demonstrators was rather aimed at President Mills and his government for failing to fulfill their campaign promise.
According to him, President Mills’ government had created the impression that they evidentially knew the people who murdered the Ya Na and were going to prosecute them as soon as they were voted come into power, but that has turned out to be a mirage.
Angry Andani youth in Dagbon moved to Accra and joined members of a group calling themselves the Northern Youth for Justice to embark on a street protest to pressurize the government to act swiftly on the Fast Track High Court ruling on the Ya-Na’s murder case by ensuring that the killers of the late overlord of Dagbon and his clansmen are found and duly punished.
Speaking in an interview on OKAY 101.7 FM, an Accra-based private radio station, the NPP Chief Scribe pointed out that the Andani youth would not have warned NDC MP’s in the Northern region not to step foot in the region if their anger was directed at the opposition NPP.
“It is not true that the Andani youth are angry with the NPP…besides all their Press Conferences have focused on the promises government made to them…Professor Mills promised that he even knew the murderers and he was going to ensure their prosecution, unfortunately, the suspects have been acquitted so if anybody is angry, it is focused on the NDC not the NPP,” he noted.
Sir John, who has been absent from the media landscape for about a month now, added that the NDC led by President Mills made Ghanaians to understand that they will set up an independent commission to thoroughly delve again into the Ya-Na’s death, but the prosecution arrested the same people who were acquitted during the NPP era, without conducting any further investigations.
He asserted that the Mills government is shaken by the comments by the founder of the party, ex-president Jerry John Rawlings, and hence, has resorted to shifting blame.
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