Breaking The Law has Procedures, Harassment and Intimidation Are Not Part Of Them - Miracles Aboagye

Dennis Miracles Aboagye, aide to former Vice President, Dr. Bawumia, has indictated that breaking the law in Ghana has procedures which does not include harassment and intimidation. 

Speaking to journalists at the ongoing 'Yen Suro Ahunahuna' demonstration, he noted that people within the party may commit an offense but they have it within the party structure to deal with the offenders, stating that this doesn't warrant the government using that a means to harass the people. 

''We acknowledge that so long as we are in a plural voice environment, we may have  some individuals going to the extreme and so we have a mechanism in place internally within the party where we do some monitoring, and we deal with it on a day to day basis. But that is not an excuse for a deliberate government harassment.

He argued that there are different procedures in dealing with people that commit an offense or break the law, and that harrasment and intimidation are not part of those procedures. 

''Even if someboy errs on the side of the law or somebody commits a crime, there are processes and these processes do not include long overdue keeping in custody, it doesn't including raiding peoples homes in the middle of the night, it doesn't include been seem to deliberating punishing the people using the law. But should someone even wrong the law, I believe there are processes whcih do not include what we are seeing today. 

Miracles Aboagye claim the issue regarding the unneccessary arrest, harassment and intimidation of their party memberts is fuelled by the government and not the police force, stresssing that the police force is a professional institution but the people behind all these issues are those at the helms of affairs.

''I have always insisted that, the police service is one of the most professional bodies you can find in this country. But the problem is with the political interferance, because ultimately the head of the police service is an appointee of the political class and that is where the challenge comes from''. 

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) are currently embarking on a demonstartion dubbed 'Yen Suro Ahunahuna' that aims to send a strong message against what they describe as intimidation, political harassment and injustice by the NDC government.