The national Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Salam Mustapha, has criticized insults hurled at him by US-based Ghanaian online broadcaster. Kevin Ekow Taylor.
The youth leader laments how Taylor on his programme “With All Due Respect” used unprintable words against him and called him names as a person from the northern part of the country.
He condemned the action of the broadcaster, who describes himself as a card bearing member of the NPP, and has promised to collapse the party he is a member of from Obuasi in the Ashanti Region.
Mustapha, who together with elements within the NPP, have often said insults is not a crime in Ghana’s laws, cites Taylor as the person who introduced “politics of insults” into the Ghanaian discourse.
“All the insults he rained on everybody, myself being on the chopping board of his show. He once sat on his show and called me “tanii aboa” and that I should be hit on the head to die. Such a person is granted access into this country, chauffeured, taken care of and allowed to go scot free without harassment and yet NPP people are being harassed that is the government we have today in Ghana”, he said at a press conference.
But the broadcaster has fired back, accusing Mustapha of doing worst in the past.
He has gone into the archives, digging all the insults Mustapha hurled at leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), including the then sitting President, John Atta Mills.
The insults which spans from mostly 2011 to 2012 went as far as insulting the late president with his prolong ailment pronouncing him as someone who was going to die in no time.
The president who later died in 2012 was accused of abusing alcohol for his alleged throat cancer.
The insults captured on his social media handles, have other members of the parties such as former Deputy General Secretaries Samuel Koku Anyidoho, Dr Peter Boamah Otukornor, now Minister for Communications and spokesperson to President John Dramani Mahama, the late Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tamale Central constituency Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed drawn in.
Mustapha, who worked at the Office of the former Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as aide, is did not stop there.
He also made rape accusations against the likes of the boss of the Financial Intelligence Centre, Albert Kojo Twum Boafo, now Deputy Chief of Staff Stan Dogbe, and editor of the Informer “David” Kankam.
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Today, September 23, Salam Mustapha is leading the NPP youth wing to demonstrate against what it describes government’s use of state institutions to intimidate and abuse opposition members, in Accra.
“That is why my friends in the media, we need to speak out, our country is being destroyed, the youth of Ghana are no more safe, they cannot speak. We will not allow the government to turn us timid, timorous people, that is not the youth of Ghana, we will resist oppressors rule. That is why in the voice of defiance I say to you rise up to demonstrate on the 23 of September and show our abhorrent to the selectivity, the injustice, the perversion of this government for all of us our collective safety and build a collective a better society for Ghana”, he said to justify the demonstration slated for today.
The demonstration is dubbed “Yen suro ahunahuna”.
By Gifty Boateng