{"id":349814,"date":"2011-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/national-security-advisor-instructs-police-to-deal-with-rampaging-ndc-youth\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"national-security-advisor-instructs-police-to-deal-with-rampaging-ndc-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/national-security-advisor-instructs-police-to-deal-with-rampaging-ndc-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"National Security Advisor instructs police to deal with rampaging NDC youth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\tThe National Security Advisor, General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has directed police in Tamale to arrest youth, believed to be supporters of the ruling NDC, who are fomenting trouble in the region.<\/p>\n

Following the Tuesday discharge and acquittal by court of 14 persons previously accused of murdering the overlord of Dagbon, Ya Na Yakubu Andani II, some NDC supporters, feeling let down by the party, went on the rampage destroying and burning the party\u2019s office in Tamale. <\/p>\n

The youth have also threatened to burn down all NDC offices in the region.<\/p>\n

Gen. Nunoo-Mensah told host of Joy FM\u2019s Super Morning Show<\/b>, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah that so far as he remained in office, anyone who commits a crime in the country would be dealt with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will make sure any criminal is punished,\u201d the National Security Advisor stressed, sounding livid with the rampant impunity emerging in Tamale.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are gradually becoming a lawless nation. People get up and do what they like because the police, the law is not working,\u201d Gen. Nunoo-Mensah observed. <\/p>\n

He said irrespective of one\u2019s displeasure at a turn of event, whether as a member of the ruling party or not was no \u201clicense\u201d to foul the law.<\/p>\n

Gen. Nunoo-Mensah who felt the police in the region had not done enough to deal with the violence and indiscipline exhibited by party supporters, charged them to deal with people who go about rampaging, looting and doing all sorts of unlawful acts.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy advice to the police is (that) the police are there to deal with criminality, if people have committed a crime, you arrest them and deal with them. That is what I can tell them. No one is above the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police, especially in the region, are said to be virtually ineffective due to the incessant political interference in their work. But Gen. Nunoo-Mensah has asked them not to be \u201cafraid\u201d because they have his backing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will support anybody (the police) even at the peril of my job, to do the right thing,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf because you are a member of the NDC or what and you think you can go on the rampage and do whatever you like, that is not acceptable under the law, and the police are enjoined to deal with them,” he warned.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor, has described Tuesday\u2019s incident as a \u201cdisturbing and unfortunate\u201d development.<\/p>\n

He assured that the government was monitoring the situation \u201cclosely\u201d to ensure that it did not get out of hand.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as at Wednesday morning, spokesperson for the Northern regional police command, Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh said no arrest had been made but said the situation was under control.<\/p>\n

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