Delta Forces Not Part of Us – NPP

The Communications Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Yaw Buaben Asamoah has stated emphatically that, the party has not formed any vigilante group.

Delta Forces, Invincible forces, Bolga Bulldogs, Kandahar Boys―none, he says is owned by the NPP as speculated by many.

Though there may be several groups that affiliate themselves with the NPP, the communication director posits they stand on their own.

“The NPP does not have any vigilante group. The NPP nowhere has created the Delta Forces…Delta Force is not a wing of the NPP. I will not deny that delta force has supported the NPP in terms of campaigning and sometimes rally security but we don’t endorse lawlessness. We dissociate ourselves from lawlessness,” Mr. Buaben Asamoah noted on Accra based Starr FM, yesterday.

His comment is a fallout of the recent attack on Member of Parliament (MP) for Tafo-Pankrano, Dr. Akoto Osei by some members of the Delta Force.

Delta Force members were reported to have disrupted a constituency meeting between the MP and some party officials on Sunday, 7 October 2018.

The aggrieved young men are said to have chased out the MP for failing to fulfil promises made to them ahead of the 2016 elections.

NPP Promises

Mr. Buabeng who was in the Starr FM studios to give an up-to-date account on promises made by the Akufo-Addo’s administration said, the NPP will come through with all its pledges made to Ghanaians before the close of its tenure.

“It is a dynamic process, it is ongoing and we believe that in four years, the full weight and benefit of the social, economic and political engineering that is going on now under the leadership of Akufo-Addo will bear fruits that will demonstrate to the people the need to keep the NPP in power long enough,” he said.

Corruption Fight

The communication director says the NPP was doing all it can to ensure the bane of corruption is completely dealt with.

He however expressed worry over the futility of some anti- corruption state agencies hoping they step up their game.

According to him the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) amongst others have not been effective in the fight against corruption over the years.

“We have been frustrated by this corruption fight for a very long time…we have experimented with CHRAJ, it hasn’t worked, we still have to invest in CHRAJ, we are experimenting with EOCO and we don’t know how far we will go and we still have to invest in them,” Mr. Asamoah said.

He therefore hopes that government in the near future, would invest more in effective corruption fighting initiatives like “up-to-date modern crime labs with forensic capacity and the training of  ‘crack’ investigator.

By: Grace Ablewor Sogbey