NDC to reduce Ghana to anarchy - Obiri Boahen

Page 36: Daily Graphic, December 29, 2008.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE Minister of State at the Ministry of the Interior, Nana Obiri Boahen, has said a National Democratic Congress (NDC) government in 2009 will reduce the country to lawlessness and anarchy.
He said the demonstration organised by the NDC last Tuesday on the premises of the Electoral Commission (EC) without due regard to the Public Order Act, was a signal for worse things to happen in an NDC regime.
He told the Daily Graphic in an interview that those who preached democracy, must learn and be ready to operate within the confines of democratic governance where the rule of law and due process reigned.
Nana Boahen said going into elections did not guarantee anyone the right to misconduct themselves, saying that “people must learn to operate within the confines of the law”.
According to him, going to the polls in the country did not mean that the Public Order Act was suspended.
Nana Boahen expressed the hope that what happened at the EC’s offices would be condemned by all well-meaning and decent Ghanaians.
He was also hopeful that the incident would not be repeated. He made it clear that the government would not tolerate any act of lawlessness and indiscipline, stressing that the police were also ready to stem such lawlessness.
Nana Boahen said the law would deal with any person, irrespective of their position in society, and that “those who think they are above the law must rethink”.
The minister advised the youth not to allow any person, especially those who should know better, to mislead them into such recklessness, since “they will be ruining their future”.