Police Arrest Boakye Gyan! …Over ‘Civil War’ Comments

Former Member of the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), Major (Rtd) Kwadwo Boakye-Djan) is in police grips for comments he made about the Electoral Commission (EC) on a radio programme.

The retired soldier is alleged to have said that there will be civil war should the Electoral Commission (EC) compile a new voters register.

The comments were made on an Accra-based radio station, Okay FM.

Sources say Major Boakye-Djan failed to honour an earlier invitation by the police due to health issues.

Subsequently, police officers visited him for preliminary questioning yesterday.

According to the police, they chose to formally question him at his home due to his health condition.

The comments triggered controversy with leading members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) calling for his arrest.

The police in the Drobo in the Jaman South district of the Bono region however, invited Major Boakye-Djan for questioning.

However, some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by the NDC Bono Youth Organiser, Efo Walanyo, stormed the police station to demand his release.

He maintained that, Major (Rtd) Boakye-Djan was just warning about the repercussions of the EC’s conduct should it go ahead to compile a new register.

Mr Walanyo, who alleged the police intends to keep Boakye-Djan in custody, vowed to resist the “oppressors rule of the Akufo-Addo government.”