NPP Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has filed a complaint against the Mahama government to the Diplomatic Community in Ghana, over what he calls the arbitrary harassment of the government’s opponents and citizens.
In his petition to the diplomatic community, Vincent Assifuah said the country, renowned for its respect for democratic values, has now been plunged into a climate of “fear and intimidation” under the Mahama NDC Government, as citizens, he noted, are “arbitrarily” arrested and detained without due process.
“Today, Ghana stands at a dark crossroads in our democratic journey. Our beloved nation has been plunged into a climate of fear and intimidation where dissent is punished and criticism is criminalized. What Ghana is experiencing is not democracy, but an orchestrated campaign of political persecution designed to silence voices that refuse to sing praises to the regime,” the MP wrote in the petition.
” This is no longer the safe Ghana we knew. Our democracy is being stripped bare. Fear has become the new constitution. Ordinary citizens now whisper in their own homes, uncertain who might be watching, listening, or waiting to pounce,” he said.
“The atmosphere resembles not a free republic but a besieged state where political enemies are hounded one by one. When soldiers and masked men raid homes in the middle of the night, when ministers and MPs are dragged like fugitives, when young people are imprisoned in everything but name for tweets and jokes, then Ghana is no longer safe.”
The MP listed a number of NPP members who have been arrested and detained, as well as some citizens, for expressing dissenting views against the government.
He called on the diplomatic community to take ”urgent steps” to urge the government to respect Ghana’s democratic values and the rights of citizens by stopping its arbitrary arrest and detention.
Below is the full petition:
