OWUSU BEMPAH WAKES UP POLICE

Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com

By William Yaw Owusu

Saturday, October 23, 2016

The Police Administration has suddenly sprung into action, inviting people who they consider to be making inciting comments that threaten the peace and stability of the country.

The police are currently on the heels of General Overseer of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Regional Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu, for their alleged comments considered to be offensive, a move some people see as politically motivated.

The invitations were said to have been motivated by calls on the police by National Democratic Congress (NDC) activists in the Northern Region and Greater Accra region.

Prophet Owusu Bempah is alleged to have stated that some politicians were plotting to kill NPP flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

But he wonders why the police should consider such prophesy as a criminal offence.

He is also being invited because of supposed comments he made about a purported plot hatched by the Electoral Commission (EC) and the ruling NDC to rig this year’s elections for the party.

Rev. Owusu-Bempah is quoted to have said, “On Election Day, there will be a lot of gunshots at NPP strongholds and many will sustain injuries, while others will lose their lives. The NPP must beware!”

Bugri Naabu is being invited because he allegedly told NPP supporters at Savelugu that the party would deploy ‘macho men’ to all polling stations in the region to protect ballot boxes on December 7, warning that anybody who steals ballot box will be disciplined.

Rev Owusu-Bempah has been asked to report to the CID headquarters in Accra while Bugri Naabu is supposed to appear before the Northern Regional police CID in Tamale.

As at yesterday, he was said to be on a campaign tour.

“The police, National Security and the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) never saw anything wrong when three notorious NDC activists sat on Montie FM, a pro-NDC radio station and threatened to ‘rape’ the Chief Justice and kill judges,” a top legal practitioner, who pleaded anonymity, said.

It took the Supreme Court justices to summon the three and jail them four months each for contempt.

However, after a month into their sentences, President Mahama remitted their sentences and they were released immediately, sparking public outrage.

Rev. Owusu Bempah remains adamant and has said that he would continue to protect Nana Akufo-Addo from harm through prayers as the astute politician prepares to contest for president.

He cautioned the NPP flag bearer to watch his movements when he visits the Volta Region where he is scheduled to campaign next week.

 “People are planning to kill him there. God has revealed to me. I will not sit down for anyone to kill Nana Addo. God has revealed to me the plots against him by some individuals but that won’t happen under my watch,” he told Neat FM in Accra yesterday.

He said he was ready to honour the invitation by the police, adding that “together with my lawyers, we will go to the police. If they want us to go into the spiritual realm, we will.”

In the ensuing debate, one Yeboah Boateng, an NDC communicator, during a political talk-show on Hot FM in Accra hosted by Isaac Boamah Darko, accused Rev Owusu-Bempah of hiring people to assassinate Nana Akufo-Addo and then turn round to blame it on the flag bearer’s opponents.

Reverend Owusu-Bempah, reacting on the programme, rubbished the NDC man’s claim, before describing him as a fool.

“If he is not careful God’s power will strike him,” he warned.

On Thursday ASP Joseph Benefo Darkwa, PRO of the CID, was hopping from one media house to another to get the recording of Rev. Owusu-Bempah to enable the police respond to the threat on Nana Akufo-Addo’s life.

COP Tetteh Yohunu, Director-General in-charge of Operations, later confirmed on radio that the police had indeed invited the fiery man of God, stating that the comments suggested there was no police institution in the country and that citizens could take the law into their own hands.

"The police have called him to come and explain his action. When you dare people, you want to take over as if there is no security,” he said, adding, “We will not sit down for somebody to make statements that could affect the security of this country.”