{"id":618023,"date":"2019-05-12T17:09:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>\n<iframe width=\"536\" height=\"323\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/deURk4j1Mns?rel=0&amp;wmode=Opaque&amp;enablejsapi=1;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n <p>IMANI Africa President Franklin Cudjoe feels the\u00a0Criminal"},"modified":"2019-05-12T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:09:32","slug":"inviting-ofosu-ampofo-to-cid-over-kidnappings-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/12\/inviting-ofosu-ampofo-to-cid-over-kidnappings-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Ofosu Ampofo to CID over kidnappings ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"536\" height=\"323\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/deURk4j1Mns?rel=0&amp;wmode=Opaque&amp;enablejsapi=1;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>IMANI Africa President Franklin Cudjoe feels the\u00a0Criminal Investigations Department\u2019s (CID) invitation of the\u00a0Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo over recent kidnapping incidents is a bit ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>The Big Issue<\/strong>, he suggested the invitation to the NDC chair was the latest in a string of inconsistencies from the CID because it\u00a0has been in the news \u201cfor all kinds of funny reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cudjoe reminded that the CID last month said <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>it knew the whereabouts of the kidnapped girls<\/strong><\/span> from Takoradi.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are told that these kidnappers have been located somewhere. All of a sudden the narrative changes. You ask and they [the CID] say we didn\u2019t say that\u2026 You told us that you know where the kidnappers are. Have you found the kidnappers and have they told you that this man is the one who is telling them to go and kidnap?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the whole thing begins to look like some comedy of errors and that may have emboldened the NDC,\u201d Mr. Cudjoe stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Because of the inconsistencies, he said it was understandable why the NDC would kick against the CID invitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt begins to sound a bit ridiculous and for me, that is where I think the opposition is coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Criticism from NDC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Council of Elders of the NDC accused the government of using the country\u2019s police service to intimidate the party\u2019s National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, who addressed a press on behalf of the party\u2019s Council of Elders on Thursday said there was a deliberate attempt by the government to clamp down on dissenting views by targeting people such as the NDC Chairman<\/p>\n<p>Former President John Mahama also said the CID was setting a bad precedent with \u2018useless\u2019 allegations against Mr. Ofosu Ampofo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet them remember that in whatever they do, they are setting precedent. You cannot take any frivolous and vexatious investigation and be inviting the Chairman of the biggest opposition party every day to the CID headquarters on very useless allegations,\u201d he said last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ofosu Ampofo had been arraigned and was\u00a0<strong>charged with conspiracy<\/strong>\u00a0to cause harm and assault against a public officer alongside a deputy National Communication Director of NDC Kweku Boahen.<\/p>\n<p>This was after he was heard on tape allegedly suggesting that plans were in place for acts that would cause fear and panic in society.<\/p>\n<p>He also in the leaked tape allegedly endorsed verbal assaults on the\u00a0Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The two national officers of the NDC pleaded not guilty to the charges and are currently on bail in the sum of GHc 100,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>Their case has been\u00a0adjourned to May 27, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>  <\/p>\n<\/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>IMANI Africa President Franklin Cudjoe feels the\u00a0Criminal Investigations Department\u2019s (CID) invitation of the\u00a0Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo over recent kidnapping incidents is a bit ridiculous. On The Big Issue, he suggested the invitation to the NDC chair was the latest in a string of inconsistencies from the CID because it\u00a0has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inviting Ofosu Ampofo to CID over kidnappings ridiculous - 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\/2019\/05\/12\/inviting-ofosu-ampofo-to-cid-over-kidnappings-ridiculous\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Inviting Ofosu Ampofo to CID over kidnappings ridiculous - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"IMANI Africa President Franklin Cudjoe feels the\u00a0Criminal Investigations Department\u2019s (CID) invitation of the\u00a0Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo over recent kidnapping incidents is a bit ridiculous. 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