A private legal practitioner, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has berated the former President, John Dramani Mahama and his legal aide, Tony Lithur for what he describes as their useless and highly incompetent letter to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).
The letter, dated May 4, 2020, was a request for the CID to invite the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC for questioning over some denigrating allegations made against the person of John Dramani Mahama on an Accra-based Television station.
The Letter which was authored by Tony Lithur and copied to former President John Mahama, General Secretary of the NDC; Johnson Asiedu Nketia and the Inspector General of Police; James Oppong Boanuh, was titled “Publication of False News, Section 208 of Act 29_Criminal complaint against Kwame Baffoe alias “Abronye DC”.
Speaking on Peace FM in reaction to the said letter, Maurice Ampaw said he has lost sleep due to disappointment in the courage by the Former President and his lawyer to take such a ‘trivial’ matter to the Police.
According to the legal practitioner, the act of peddling falsehood against each other is the order of the day for politicians and therefore the police do not have time to investigate something that should be treated as a ‘love letter.’
“Do you think the police will have time to investigate every falsehood politicians peddle against each other? So the police should be very careful, if I was the police I will see this as a love letter from a politician, the most useless and highly incompetent, the things their communicators say are they all truth?” he said in an interview monitored by ABC News.
In the said allegations made against the former President, Abronye DC claimed the NDC, led by Mr Mahama are plotting an assassination attempt on some members of the governing NPP, including himself [Abronye].
The Bono Regional NPP Chairman also alleged that Mr Mahama killed the former President John Evans Atta-Mills in his desire to take over the reins of power.
To these allegations, excerpts of Tony Lithur’s letter read, “His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama has firmly instructed me to say that the allegations are of course, false and for the avoidance of doubt, would like to state that neither the NDC nor he has planned to hire, hired or caused to be hired or instructed any person or persons to murder or assassinate anybody.”
“Regarding the rather irreverent and despicable allegation that he killed the late President John Evans Atta-Mills, he would not dignify it with any answer, expect to say that the allegation could only have come from an unhinged mind.”
Source: ABCNewsgh.com
