The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has described the trial of the Awutu Senya West communication officer of the party, Cassius Larbie and two others who allegedly removed posters of Eugene Arhin on a District Road Improvement Project (DRIP) equipment as senseless.
Speaking after the three were granted self-recognizance bail with a surety of GH¢2,000 each on Monday, September 16, Sammy Gyamfi said the trial is an attempt to gag the NDC members, questioning the decision of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to affix Eugene Arhin’s posters on the DRIP machines while preventing the incumbent MP, Gizella Akushika Tetteh-Agbotui, from doing the same.
“This arrest should not have happened in the first place. This is nothing but madness, simple! Because those equipment, those DRIP equipment in connection, are state assets, bought with our taxpayers’ money.
“So if the NPP says, Gizella Akushika Tetteh-Agbotui cannot be affixed to that equipment, even though she is the elected seventh Member of Parliament for this constituency, then how much a common parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Eugene Arhin, how can he have his posters on a state asset?
“And if a responsible citizen boldly decides to remove that poster from that state asset, he should be applauded, he should be rewarded, he should be commended.
“Rather, you have this NPP-controlled police service who don’t know their are left from right and who are being pushed about, arresting an innocent for doing a civic responsibility.”
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