Pentecostal Council condemns Ken Agyapong for supporting Delta Force

The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) has condemned Member of parliament for Assin Central Kennedy Agyapong for supporting members of the Delta Force, a vigilante group affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

According to the Council, the MP giving his support to the group is a dent on the democracy of the country.

A statement signed by General Secretary, Samuel Y. Antwi, said the activities of the vigilante groups undermine the authority of the Presidency, thus eroding the confidence and goodwill that Ghanaians have reposed in the government.

It will be recalled that some members of the Delta Force, besieged the Kumasi Circuit Court last week and freed its members who were facing charges for attacking the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator.

Kennedy Agyapong has disclosed why he supported members of the Delta Force.

He said they [Delta Force] put their lives on the line for the NPP during the election and deserve to be rewarded.

But the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council said "The latest action by the Delta Forces as the highest act of contempt on our judiciary and a serious threat to our democracy, which must be nipped in the bud before they turn into a monster of unexploded political ordinances ready to explode on our faces in a few years to come if we fail to deal with it collectively as a nation."

"For the President of the republic to publicly condemn the acts of these groups as criminals while addressing parliament and recently in Kumasi in the presence of the Otumfuo Asantehene and his call on the Police Service to act, attests to the seriousness of this cancer of political vigilantism in Ghana.

"While it is gratifying to note that the Ashanti Regional Police Command has taken the necessary steps in not only arresting some of those criminal elements who attacked the court and the judge, but have rearrested the original 13 Delta Force members standing trial, we urge them to ensure their successful prosecution to serve as a deterrent to those contemplating similar actions and also to restore the police’s battered image in the eyes of the ordinary Ghanaian.

"We also call on the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to openly condemn the actions of the Delta Force, the Invisible Forces and any such similar groups within their ranks, disown and dismantle them to demonstrate to Ghanaians its abhorrence to such extremist elements as a political party.

"The Council wishes to assure the entire judiciary of its unflinching support in the discharge of its constitutional responsibilities in safeguarding the rule of law without fear of threats and intimidation."