{"id":637079,"date":"2019-06-17T07:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T07:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The embattled National Chairman\nof opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has been\narrested by a team of police officers in Accra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was arrested at th"},"modified":"2019-06-17T07:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T07:43:45","slug":"ofosu-ampofo-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/17\/ofosu-ampofo-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofosu Ampofo Arrested &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The embattled National Chairman<br \/>\nof opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has been<br \/>\narrested by a team of police officers in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested at the<br \/>\nresidence of a top member of NDC at Cantonments \u2013 his last hiding place. <\/p>\n<p>His arrest follows an arrest<br \/>\nwarrant secured by the police from court to pick him after his refusal to<br \/>\nhonour an invitation from the law enforcement agency. <\/p>\n<p>Armed with the arrest warrant,<br \/>\na team of cops traced the party chairman to Cantonment through intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his arrest, he<br \/>\nremained elusive as the police tracked him from one area to the other until<br \/>\nyesterday when his cup was full and he had no place to turn to. <\/p>\n<p>He was quickly sent to his<br \/>\nhouse, as part of police routine, to search his abode for telltale evidences in<br \/>\nthe investigation.<\/p>\n<p>At press time yesterday, the<br \/>\npolice were yet to speak on the subject as media practitioners, hungry for news<br \/>\nabout the development, made incessant calls to their contacts for further<br \/>\ndetails but to no avail. <\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the<br \/>\nDirector General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) COP\/Ms Maame<br \/>\nTiwaa Addo-Danquah invited the party chairman to come and assist the police in<br \/>\nan ongoing investigation into the spate of kidnappings and arson in the<br \/>\ncountry. <\/p>\n<p>A suspect being probed by the<br \/>\npolice is said to have mentioned the name of Mr Ofosu-Ampofo in connection with<br \/>\nthe occurrences.\u00a0 Under such<br \/>\ncircumstances, it behoved the police to invite him for a chat on the subject<br \/>\nwhich they did. <\/p>\n<p>The second invitation of Mr Ofosu-Ampofo<br \/>\nhas been controversial as the first \u2013 the latter already a subject in court for<br \/>\nwhich he is currently on bail. <\/p>\n<p>In the first case, he was<br \/>\ninvited by the police to assist the law enforcement agency following the<br \/>\nleakage of an audio in which he was captured making remarks which threatened<br \/>\nnational security.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, he unfolded the<br \/>\nparty\u2019s strategies for next year\u2019s elections, some of which included resorting<br \/>\nto kidnappings, throwing invective at the clergy and attacking the integrity of<br \/>\nthe Chairperson of the Electoral Commission. <\/p>\n<p>It took him close to a week<br \/>\nbefore he finally turned himself in, sandwiched between NDC lawyers. He was<br \/>\neventually charged and granted bail. <\/p>\n<p>In the latest episode as<br \/>\npointed out in a preceding paragraph, a suspect being investigated mentioned<br \/>\nhis name in connection with some criminal cases of national dimension. The<br \/>\ninvitation had NDC lawyers writing to say \u201cMr Ofosu-Ampofo won\u2019t be honouring<br \/>\nthe invitation\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>It would appear that the NDC<br \/>\nleadership had information about the police turning to the court to secure a<br \/>\nwarrant to arrest the party chairman. They preempted the action through a<br \/>\ncorrespondence which they put out on social media, telling party supporters about<br \/>\nthe intention of the police. <\/p>\n<p>Kakraba Essamoah, the National<br \/>\nCommunications Officer of the party, in the correspondence, asked party<br \/>\nsupporters to show solidarity with the party chairman whom the police intended<br \/>\narresting.<\/p>\n<p>The refusal of the party chairman<br \/>\nto honour the invitation could have stemmed from the elders of the party as<br \/>\nevidenced from the statement read by Alhaji Iddrisu Mahama, one of the elders. <\/p>\n<p>His speech was emphatic that the party chairman would not honour the invitation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By A.R. 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He was arrested at the residence of a top member of NDC at Cantonments \u2013 his last hiding place. His arrest follows an arrest warrant secured by the police from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637079","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>Ofosu Ampofo Arrested - 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\/06\/17\/ofosu-ampofo-arrested\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ofosu Ampofo Arrested - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo The embattled National Chairman of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has been arrested by a team of police officers in Accra. 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