SOURCE: CITI
The National Democratic Congress, NDC, has taken strong exception to the Police Administration’s response to the British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, for her public remarks on the arrest of #FixTheCountry Convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor.
Harriet Thompson tweeted: “Oliver Barker-Vormawor, Convener of #FixTheCountry movement, arrested again, I understand it’s for a motoring offence and he’s currently on his way to court. I’ll be interested to see where this goes.”
But in a strongly-worded letter, the Police through the IGP, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare said the High Commissioner’s tweet were “either from a biased or uninformed position.”
This reply, the NDC finds “misguided and regrettable”.
General Secretary of the Party, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah in a release said the utterances of the IGP could mar Ghana’s strong bilateral relations with the UK government and urged the IGP to withdraw the letter and apologise to the UK mission.
“The IGP’s rather ill-advised attack on the British High Commissioner for being meddlesome in Ghana’s internal affairs appears rather far-fetched, particularly considering the significant fact that the activist of interest is a student in the UK, and that matters of human rights are universal and cardinal”, the NDC’s statement read in parts.
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