We Are In A Police State, Everybody Is Afraid To Talk Under Akufo-Addo – Nyaho-Tamakloe

Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a founding member of the ruling New Patriotic Party, has stated his dissatisfaction with President Nana Dankwa Addo Akufo-Addo’s shift in character since taking office.

According to him, he backed the president’s candidacy because of certain traits he had displayed, even abandoning Former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s team.

He claimed that President Akufo-Addo has surrounded himself with individuals who are unable to advise him when he is on the wrong track, as he did when he was a member of the NPP.

He claimed that the country was in the midst of a police state regime.

“Every now and again, I sit back and wonder whether this is the same Nana Addo I know…because I can’t believe it.” Those that surrounding him were the ones who altered him. If I want to chat, I’ll talk for a long time. I can tell Nana Addo is moving in the wrong direction.

“There’s no one who can tell him that around Nana Addo.” I’m sure you understand what I’m saying. People that came to see me before I left the party talk to Nana Addo, and I talk to him as well, and he gets on with his life.

“How can you have a circumstance where someone you have trusted and who you believe has certain principles suddenly becomes someone else?” Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe observed, “Virtually this country in which we are today appears to me like a police state.”

When asked why he said the country was under a police state, the former GFA leader cited the bye-election violence in Ayawaso West Wuogon, which resulted in Madam Lydia Seyram Alhassan’s election.

People are reluctant to talk under the current Akufo-Addo-led administration because of the employment of militias, he claims.

“I was in Johannesburg when I learned of a shooting event in one of the constituencies [Ayawaso West Wuguon],” says the author.

“I was astonished but not surprised because militias were put in place before and immediately after we won power [when Nana Addo came to power], and I became concerned.”

“I became concerned because you can no longer manage them at a certain point.” I mean, who can advise Nana Addo, the democrat, to go down that path? It’s tough for me to comprehend. “Everyone in this country is now terrified to speak,” he stated emphatically.