Ghana: NDC Says No to 10-year Custodial Sentence

7 February 2007

Accra — As expected, the NDC has voiced its indignation against the sentence of Mr. Dan Abodapki, MP for Keta. Yesterday, as if possessed, parliamentary members of the party stormed out of parliament and converged at their headquarters where they joined others to hold a hurriedly convened press conference to challenge the sentence of their colleague Mr. Dan Abodakpi by an Accra Fast Track High Court.

The case itself was anything but fast, having been in court for the best part of the last five years. With many NDC members wearing pieces of red fabric around their necks or wrists, the NDC National Chairman, Dr. Kwabena Agyei said the judgment was a "travesty of justice" and accused the government of hiding behind institutions of state to decimate its political opponents.

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