Arrest those behind highway rape hoax story — Media Analyst

THE Media Analysts Group of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the security agencies to ensure that all those behind the highway rape hoax story are brought to book.
This, the group said, would end the increasing number of concocted stories by some unscrupulous people to create fear and panic among the people and also to mar the image of the security agencies and the government in general.
Speaking to the media in Accra, the Spokesperson for the group, Mr Albert K. Yeboah alleged that those moves were part of a grand scheme by opponents of the government to also score cheap political points.
Giving reason for his claim, Mr Yeboah noted that in the year 2000, opponents of the NDC allegedly murdered innocent women and littered the nation with their dead bodies and that the trick worked for the nation wreckers because Ghanaians innocently bought into their agenda.
He alleged that in 2008, the NPP wanted to resort to a similar trick which backfired. They compiled a so-called hit list and cautioned Ghanaians that if they voted for the NDC, those people whose names were on the hit lists would be assassinated.
Mr Yeboah said ironically, the NDC had been in power for close to two years and those earmarked for the assassination were still alive and going about their normal duties without fear or any harm.
He also mentioned the earthquake hoax in early 2010 through SMS messages as part of the clandestine moves to create consternation and fright among Ghanaians and engender a state of insecurity.
Mr Yeboah also recounted the death threats on the life of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, which made him to come out with the Prevention Detention Act (PDA) to ward off such attacks on his life which culminated in some innocent Ghanaians losing their lives and limbs.
He said all those were moves by some nation wreckers whose activities started in the 1960s till date and that the security agencies must close in on them.
He also expressed worry about how some Christian leaders who were not aware of the truth about the highway rape hoax “went on the airwaves preaching and praying with some of them virtually asking God to fast-foward his judgement”.
“It was as if the Mills Administration had brought a curse upon the nation and the men of God were desperately asking God to pass judgement on him, despite the fact that statistics and facts portrayed a positive picture of the Police Service significantly reducing the crime rate under the tenure of President Mills,” he added.
Mr Yeboah said it was amazing that even when the security agencies had declared the highway rape case as fabricated, some men of God continued to create the impression that the incident actually took place.