Crime Is Crime, It Has No Political Colour--Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has reiterated that his government would enforce the law without partisan considerations, adding that all persons who commit crime would face the law.

Speaking in the Asunafo South Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, the president urged residents to end what he called “political violence” which has created tension in the area.

He stressed that crime would not be viewed through partisan lenses

“Police have said it and I will repeat it again… crime has no political colour. If someone attacks another with a cutlass, you don't use their political colours to judge. What is important is that such a person has committed a crime and the law must take its course.”

President Akufo-Addo was speaking in the constituency to the chiefs and people of Kukuom at a durbar organized in his honour during his tour of the region.

He described the tensions in the area as a disgrace and an insult to modern politics.

The constituency has seen its Member of Parliament, Eric Opoku, and three others National Democratic Congress (NDC) sympathisers, attacked.

Eric Opoku, the former Brong Ahafo Regional Minister also had his home raided and vandalised in December 2017.

President Akufo-Addo did not hide his disappointment at the protracted political violence in the area and urged the constituency to do better.

“When you meet loved ones, and you don't put the truth before them, it's not the best. The nasty conflict that is going on Asunafo South, where we pick up cutlasses and weapons to attack each other because of politics; this is village life… it's not the best.”