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Former President John Mahama has condemned the alleged seizure of cars from the residence of the National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams by some national security personnel.
On Wednesday, reports emerged that alleged national security operatives seized five cars from Mr. Adams home whilst he was overseas in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Mr. Mahama in a Facebook post intimated that the security personnel were from the Flagstaff House.
He also placed the incident under the umbrella of what he described as unprovoked attacks on NDC functionaries and supporters.
The former President in his post said: “The unprovoked attacks on NDC functionaries and supporters are needless and must end. Yesterday the National Organiser of the NDC’s residence was invaded by security men from the seat of Government, the Flagstaff House in his absence, in search of vehicles when they knew very well they were on the wrong path. This must end.”
The vehicles seized included two land cruisers and three pick-ups.
The seizure
Narrating how the alleged seizure occurred on Eyewitness News, Mr. Adams recounted that, before he travelled to the UAE last Sunday, six officials claiming to be National Security personnel visited his home on Saturday in an attempt to seize the cars in his absence.
Kofi Adams
He said he managed to stop them when he was called at a funeral grounds and later confirmed that the men were not ordered to carry out the act by the National Security Minister.
However, Mr. Adams said he received a call, whilst in the UAE, indicating that the same six men with others, had returned to seize his five vehicles on Wednesday.
“I had to travel to Dubai for the function, so I left Ghana on Sunday, only to receive a call that sixteen military persons and some police officers together with four of the six who came the last time and a DVLA officer with a machine, came to the house, got into the yard, and insisted on getting the vehicles out. The DVLA official had a system that could check the genuineness of the registration when you enter the number of the vehicle; he did so according to the Youngman who was at home then, and everything clearly indicated that these were vehicles that had been properly registered and did not even belong to the state.”
“So the advice was that they needed to go back, but it looks as if the taste for seizing vehicles was so high, so they insisted the Youngman must bring the keys for them to do a test on a particular one. He told them he won’t do that; but one of them used the rear side of his AK-47 to hit him, and so he was frightened. Once he was walking into the room to pick the keys, they followed him forcefully, and whether he was picking the keys, they picked the other keys and tried each car to find out which one fitted and drove everything away.”
Meanwhile, authorities at the Ministry of Defence have denied sanctioning any soldier to carry out such an assignment.
By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana
