NPP directs party flags to fly at half-mast

The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed

According to the acting national chairman Freddie Blay, the party suspects foul play in the stabbing and killing of the party's Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North in the Eastern Region, JB Danquah-Adu, at his residence in Accra on Tuesday.

Acting National Chairman of the NPP, Freddie Blay, yesterday said at press conference the circumstances surrounding the gruesome murder the MP point to a well planned and executed assassination.

The murder of the MP occurred just a day after the death of the party’s Acting Western Regional Chairman, Ben Kwaw. The leadership of the party directed that all party flags at the regional and constituency offices should be flown at half-mast.

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He said "it is our hope that a professional and swift investigation will be carried out, so that the perpetrators of this horrible crime will be made to face the full rigours of the law. We call on all to avoid any form of unnecessary and possibly harmful speculation at this time."

"We also call on the government, in the light of a long list of such incidents in recent times, to take a critical look and revise its policies and strategies towards the growing levels of insecurity and unsolved murders in the country," he added.