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NDC condemns use of police to arrest
union leaders
Accra, July 3, Ghanadot/GNA – The National Democratic
Congress (NDC) on Thursday said it was alarmed at the use of
armed policemen to arrest one of the union leaders of the
Bank of Ghana, Mr Benjamin Duffuor.
It said there were also several policemen wielding AK 47
guns around and he was subsequently detained for more than
seven hours.
A statement signed by Mr Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, Deputy
General Secretary, Operations, of NDC, said it smacked of an
attempt to intimidate unionized workers, stifle free
expression, and introduce a “culture of silence and fear in
the Ghanaian body politic”.
The NDC also stressed that, it was appalled at the high
handedness and the illegal and unconstitutional manner in
which the two union leaders of the senior staff of the bank
were served with their letters of dismissal without citing
any concrete reasons.
The statement said the harassment, heckling and punching of
other innocent staff who were demanding the legal basis of
such an action was an affront to the human rights and
dignity of these staff.
“The NDC condemns in no uncertain terms these acts of
brigandage and urges all right thinking Ghanaians, civil
society, the clergy, the media and especially the Labour
Commission to intervene immediately to restore sanity and
confidence in the sanctity of the rule of law, equal rights
and the rights of organized labour to express themselves
freely and lawfully without any fear of intimidation or
victimization,” it said.
GNA
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