The decision by the Akufo-Addo Government to ratify the military co-operation agreement between Ghana and the US that has been in force for two decades in Parliament has been vehemently opposed by the opposition National Democratic Congress.
Koku Anyidoho, as a result, made some inflammatory comments which were deemed to be treasonable. He was subsequently picked up by Police CID for interrogations.
His arrest, much to the surprise of many Ghanaians, sent NDC members on the streets, blocking the road in front of the Police Headquarters.
These rampaging party members would not listen to reason, and were demanding the immediate release of their deputy general secretary. They were causing mayhem, and this induced the police to use minimum force to restore calm and order.
In the process, rubber bullets were used to disperse the aggressive crowd, hitting some of the rancorous protestors.
In their zeal to score cheap political points, the NDC has been very vociferous in articulating the mishandling of the protestors by the police force, especially one lady they claim got injured.
To give meat to their evil intentions, a picture of a visit by some former government appointees to the woman they claim was brutalized by the police force has been in circulation.
This picture which depicts the said woman sandwiched by Joyce Bawa Mogtari and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa with Ato-Forson, James Agyenim Boateng and Edward Omane-Boamah, has been hugely circulated on social media platforms and mainstream media, especially by media houses affiliated to the opposition party.
Checks conducted to ascertain the veracity of their claim have revealed that the NDC lied over the matter. United Television (UTV) did a report on the person who was injured and came out with her picture. Apparently, the photograph the NDC has been brandishing is not the person who got injured.
For reasons best known to themselves, these NDC folks combed their neighborhoods, found a relatively grown up woman who has been bedridden for some months now, and projected her as the person who got wounded in the course of the protests.
The two photos have been provided for your perusal. One can distinctively decipher that the pictures are worlds apart in terms of the people who supposedly got injured. It would appear that they attempted to pull the wool over eyes of Ghanaians with this invented exaggerated storyline.
Having lost the last elections based upon vile propaganda, barefaced lies, gross incompetence and massive corruption, one would have thought that the NDC would be sober in its dealings with the Ghanaian public.
It does appear that fabricating stories and falsifying facts have gained roots in their veins and would continue to be part and parcel of them for decades, if not forever.
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