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Interrogate former minister's ethnocentric comment – John Peter Amewu

According to him, Dzifa Attivor’s statement that people from the Volta Region should keep the NPP out of power otherwise ministers from the region will be jailed, sought to incite tribal sentiments.

John Peter Amewu in suit

“This is highly unacceptable. I’m surprised she came out with such a statement. It’s very tribal” he said on TV3.

Dzifa Attivor, addressing supporters of NDC at Ketu South in the Volta region, mentioned that NPP has a track record of targeting people from the Volta Region for prosecution and charged the people to vote for the NDC otherwise history would repeat itself.

She mentioned two former NDC government officials, Victor Selormey and Dan Abodapki, as examples of NPP's persecution of Ewes.

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“When the NPP came to power in 2001, a lot of our people were sent to prison; Victor Selormey, Dan Abordakpi, and so on, were imprisoned. Was it because no other persons committed crime in Ghana? But it was only Ewes that they jailed…. I want to entreat you not to do anything for Fiifi Kwetey and I to go to prison. It lies with you all to ensure that no Ewe person goes to prison. So I am pleading with you to work hard and deliver the hundred and twenty thousand vote target for the party in the constituency,” she is quoted to have said.

But Mr Amewu has asserted that the NPP has never interfered in the trial of the aforementioned, adding that some non-Ewe NDC officials were also prosecuted and jailed by a competent court of jurisdiction under the NPP.

“Coming down the line, it is not only people in the Volta Region who have been prosecuted. Are we saying that the likes of Ibrahim Adams and Sipa Yankey are also from the Volta Region? She went to incite the people of Aflao against other tribes. This ethnocentric comment should be interrogated,” he noted.

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