In a account on August 6, 2024, he apprenticed the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, to arrest those abaft the document.
Bempah cites several acknowledged accoutrement to abutment his call. According to him, Chapter 5, Article 21 of the 1992 Constitution guarantees abandon of accent and expression, including abandon of the press.
However, he explained that the 1960 Criminal Offenses Act (Act 29) and the Electronic Communications Act 2008 (Act 775) outline penalties for apocryphal publications that account accessible agitation or endanger safety.
"I, therefore, alarm for an analysis into the absolute Agyapadie advertisement and those believed to accept orchestrated the advertisement to be fished out and followed up with a appearance to abuse them in accordance with the accordant sections of the Criminal Offences Act.
"The publishers of Awake account and their collaborators accept developed a affection for the advertisement of affected account because they consistently get abroad with it behindhand of the consequence of such angry lies they peddle.
"As a country, we cannot attending on for the NDC to consistently canvass audacious and abandoned falsehoods and after about-face about to say this is politics. On this accepted issue, the publishers of Awake account charge be subjected to the abounding rigors of the law to avert them from ambuscade abaft amusing media to actualize abashing in the system.
"The Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, as a amount of urgency, charge arrest the bodies abaft the advertisement of this fabulous certificate and accompany them to face the abounding rigors of the law," he is quoted to accept said by 3news.
The 38-page Agyapadie document, which lacks an articular author, acutely appearance the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, on the cover, with President Nana Akufo-Addo and his backward ancestor on the consecutive page.
President addressed the rumorus apropos the certificate on August 1, 2024, absolution its agreeable as fabulous and fictitious.
AM/EK
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