NDC claims national security agency
interfering in their congress
Accra (Greater Accra)
12 December 2002- The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority in Parliament
on Wednesday claimed that the national security agency is interfering in the
Party's delegates' congress scheduled for 21 December.
A statement issued in
Parliament House in Accra signed by the Minority Spokesman on Communications,
Mr John Mahama said the recent interception of a report asking Bureau of
National Investigations (BNI) operatives in the districts to gather
intelligence information on the preferred candidate for the NDC presidential
candidate amounts to gross interference in the internal affairs of the Party.
"Further
information received from all constituencies indicates that BNI operatives are
compiling a list of delegates who will be attending and voting at the upcoming
congress," it said.
The NDC statement
described the action of the National Security as "akin to the infamous
'Watergate Scandal' of the 1970s in which the Nixon Administration in collusion
with some US security operatives grossly violated the privacy of the Democratic
Party."
The statement said
the BNI is a state security agency and must conduct its work in the interest of
the state and not in the interest of any particular political party of
government.
It said the action of
the BNI is injurious to the nation's democratic growth and requested that all
appropriate legal and constitutional instruments be urgently employed to
investigate the matter and bring the officials involved to book.
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