{"id":639409,"date":"2019-06-18T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p> <strong>Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo <\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Chairman of\nthe opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has\nturned himself into a preacher of the gospel, using the pulpit to console\nhimself wi"},"modified":"2019-06-18T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T11:26:42","slug":"ofosu-ampofo-turns-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/18\/ofosu-ampofo-turns-preacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofosu- Ampofo Turns Preacher &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <strong>Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of<br \/>\nthe opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has<br \/>\nturned himself into a preacher of the gospel, using the pulpit to console<br \/>\nhimself with his current predicament.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently in hot<br \/>\nwaters after the police arrested and questioned him for any role he might have<br \/>\nplayed in the spate of kidnappings and arson that have rocked the country lately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Trial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo<br \/>\nalongside the party\u2019s Deputy Communications Officer, Anthony Kwaku Boahen, are<br \/>\nalready facing three charges at an Accra High Court over a leaked audio<br \/>\nallegedly detailing strategies the NDC allegedly intends to use for 2020<br \/>\nelections \u2013 one being the kidnappings of family members of political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>At the party\u2019s 27<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\nanniversary thanksgiving service held at the Royal House International in Accra<br \/>\non Sunday, the NDC Chairman who is an elder of the Pentecost Church, shouted,<br \/>\n\u201cMy hands are clean and my heart is clean!\u201d although it was unclear why he was<br \/>\nmaking the declaration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danger Ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cfor the past<br \/>\nthree months, pastors would call me and say pray because we had seen danger<br \/>\nahead of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said \u201cthe battle<br \/>\nis not for me; the battle is the Lord\u2019s and the Lord will win it for me.\u201d His<br \/>\nstatement appeared to be in reference to the charges he is currently facing in<br \/>\nthe court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, I prayed and<br \/>\ncried and I asked \u2018God if you knew this was going to be my lot why did you<br \/>\nallow me to win this election?\u2019 But the Lord asked me to go back and read<br \/>\nExodus, and read what Moses went through. And he told me that the Egyptians<br \/>\nthat you see today, tomorrow you will see them no more. Have the belief and<br \/>\nconfidence that the Almighty God that we serve will redeem me and His name will<br \/>\nbe glorified,\u201d he preached.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020 Projections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAs we journey<br \/>\ninto 2020, we have no strength to fight; we have no weapon to fight with but we<br \/>\nbelieve that the Captain of Israel, our Lord Jesus Christ, will be the leader<br \/>\nof our army and victory will surely be ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Arrest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo had once<br \/>\nagain been arrested and released last week over his alleged involvement in the<br \/>\nrecent kidnappings after failing to honour an invitation from the<br \/>\nDirector-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).<\/p>\n<p>According to the police,<br \/>\nthe invitation was extended to him to assist in the investigations of the spate<br \/>\nof kidnappings and arson in the country but his party prevented him from<br \/>\nhonouring the invitation, compelling the police to go to court to secure a<br \/>\nwarrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chilling Comment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo is<br \/>\npurportedly captured on the audio recording, among other things, calling for<br \/>\nArab Spring kind of revolution in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He had said on the tape<br \/>\nthat the NDC was going to clash with the police deliberately so that there<br \/>\nwould be chaos in the country and when that happens the international community<br \/>\ncould blame the Akufo-Addo government for the violence.<\/p>\n<p>On the kidnappings bit,<br \/>\nthe NDC Chairman is captured on the tape as saying \u201c\u2026 Nobody has slept in his<br \/>\nhouse. They even went to attack traders [and] some Imams had to come and plead<br \/>\nfor them. People will also start capturing your mothers and fathers and keeping<br \/>\nthem hostage until you show yourself up. So we need to go back quickly to the<br \/>\ndrawing board and strategize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the said tape, he<br \/>\nappeared to put some public officers in danger when he endorsed abuse and<br \/>\nviolence against them.<\/p>\n<p>He is heard declaring \u2018war\u2019<br \/>\nagainst the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, when he<br \/>\nsaid, \u201cAs for the EC chair, we must wage a relentless war on this EC Chair. Me,<br \/>\nshe doesn\u2019t want to see my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In urging NDC supporters<br \/>\nto abuse the Chairman of the National Peace Council Rev. Prof Emmanuel Asante,<br \/>\nformer President Bishop of Methodist Church of Ghana, he said \u201cfor the first<br \/>\ntime, I\u2019ll endorse insulting the National Peace Council Chair.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>Doctored Tape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NDC has already come<br \/>\nout to claim that the audio recording had been \u2018doctored\u2019 to incriminate Mr.<br \/>\nOfosu-Ampofo but a leading party member, Emmanuel Victor Smith, does not agree<br \/>\nwith them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tape was on <em>Ghanaweb<\/em> and everywhere. I have just<br \/>\nlistened to it and I think it was his voice,\u201d the former High Commissioner to<br \/>\nthe United Kingdom said, adding \u201cwhatever I heard was his voice, unless<br \/>\nsomebody can convince me that they can doctor things to make it sound like my<br \/>\nvoice; and that much I don\u2019t know whether someone has done that before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said on <em>Class FM<\/em> that he had known the NDC Chairman \u2018long enough\u2019 to know it was his voice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Melvin Tarlue&amp; Jamila Akweley Okertchiri<\/strong><\/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>Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo The National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has turned himself into a preacher of the gospel, using the pulpit to console himself with his current predicament. 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