{"id":432488,"date":"2017-10-31T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/vandalism-high-because-npp-youth-are-treated-with-kid-gloves-ace-ankomah\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:40:09","slug":"vandalism-high-because-npp-youth-are-treated-with-kid-gloves-ace-ankomah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/vandalism-high-because-npp-youth-are-treated-with-kid-gloves-ace-ankomah\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalism high because NPP youth are treated with kid gloves \u2013 Ace Ankomah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ace-Ankomah-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Private legal Practitioner, Ace Ankomah wants government to act decisively against the escalating mayhem and disturbances taking a centre stage in Ghanaian politics.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that the situation may get out of hands, especially when culprits involved in such acts are left off the hook, or are treated with kid gloves.<\/p>\n<p>Some NPP youth in Gwollu in the Sissala West district of the Upper West region yesterday stormed the office of the Chief Executive,\u00a0Mohammed Bakor\u00a0\u00a0and chased him out. They also locked up his office.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iddrisu Waaleka, the constituency coordinator, the youth wanted their preferred candidate to be appointed the coordinator for the Micro-finance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) for the district.<\/p>\n<p>At least 20 of similar violent cases perpetrated by loyalists of the governing\u00a0 New Patriotic Party(NPP) have been recorded since the party won political power in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>But Speaking on Accra-based Citi FM, Private legal Practitioner and a member of the\u00a0OccupyGhana, Ace Ankomah said the heightened acts of lawlessness by youth of the governing NPP is worrying, and hence called for a swift action from government to stamp out the growing phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect the government and it\u2019s agencies, like the Police and the courts to put their foot down and stamp this out\u2026the way we treat those who are arrested can act as a deterrent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private legal Practitioner, Ace Ankomah wants government to act decisively against the escalating mayhem and disturbances taking a centre stage in Ghanaian politics. He warned that the situation may get out of hands, especially when culprits involved in such acts are left off the hook, or are treated with kid gloves. Some NPP youth in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vandalism high because NPP youth are treated with kid gloves \u2013 Ace Ankomah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/vandalism-high-because-npp-youth-are-treated-with-kid-gloves-ace-ankomah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vandalism high because NPP youth are treated with kid gloves \u2013 Ace Ankomah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Private legal Practitioner, Ace Ankomah wants government to act decisively against the escalating mayhem and disturbances taking a centre stage in Ghanaian politics. 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