The Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is advocating the disbandment of vigilante political parties in the country. This comes after a group of well-built men from the governing New Patriotic Party’s Delta Force on Friday 24 March stormed the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council to stop Mr George Agyei, who has been … Read more
More than 200 members of a self-styled security force affiliated with the governing NPP have attacked the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator late Friday morning to physically hound him out of office. The group known as Delta Force says it cannot work with George Agyei because he was ‘not part of the struggle’ to wrestle power … Read more
New Crusading Guide editor-in-chief Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has given the Ashanti Regional Police Command two days to arrest a group of well-built men believed to be members of the Delta Force, a private security arm of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), or he petitions President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to reshuffle the command. … Read more
Former Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister Nana Oye Lithur has charged President Akufo-Addo to ensure that the spate of vigilante group attacks is curbed. In an open letter addressed to the president and security agencies in the country, she stated that the “unlawful acts [of such groups] have dire national security implications”. Her comments … Read more
Executives of the Ashanti regional branch of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) are holding a crunch meeting over attacks on the new coordinator of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), allegedly orchestrated by the party’s internal security arm, the Delta Force. On Friday March 24, a group of well-built men from the Delta Force … Read more
The timely intervention of police saved the new Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator from an attack by a group of stoutly built men believed to be New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters. The angry supporters had kicked against the appointment of George Agyei and followed up their displeasure by storming the premises of the Regional Coordinating Council. … Read more
Two vigilante groups of the ruling party have clashed over the appointment of Mr. George Agyei. Two vigilante groups of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP); Delta Force and Invincible Force have clashed over the appointment of one Mr. George Agyei as the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator. The group in their numbers stormed the administrative … Read more
In 2009, Kosmos Energy, a small oil exploration company in Texas, wished to cash in on its discovery of an oil field off the coast of Ghana — one of the largest found in West Africa in a decade. The company had an eager buyer in ExxonMobil. But some in Ghana believed the firm had … Read more