He cited the 1960 Bent Offenses Act 1960 (Act 29) which specifies that any apocryphal advertisement that has the addiction to account accessible agitation is a misdemeanor, to aback his anxiety for the arrest and case of the being abaft the document
"The Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, as a amount of coercion allegation arrest the bodies abaft the advertisement of this fabulous certificate and accompany them to face the abounding rigours of the law," he said in a statement
Below is his abounding statement… Statement calling on the badge to arrest the publishers of the Agyapadie document The 38-page 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
The certificate is believed to outline strategies for how a accurate 'family' or 'clan' affairs to authorize ascendancy and ascendancy assorted sectors including the economy, politics, media, judiciary, telecommunications, and banking
On Thursday, August 1, 2024, President Akufo-Addo addressed rumours apropos this certificate and absolved its content
Chapter 5, Article 21 of the 1992 Constitution provides all bodies the appropriate to abandon of accent and announcement including abandon of the columnist and added media
Additionally, Chapter 12 of 1992 Constitution of Ghana is adherent to abandon and ability of the media, area Article 162 of the Chapter highlights the abandon and responsibilities of the media
The 1960 Bent Offenses Act 1960 (Act 29) specifies that any apocryphal advertisement that has the addiction to account accessible agitation is a misdemeanor. It adds that benightedness of the canard of the advertisement is not a defence unless the being proves reasonable measures that were taken to verify the agreeable above-mentioned to its publication. The sender or forwarder of any apocryphal advice is after any alibi alike if the being was not the artist of the message
Section 208 (1) states: "A being who publishes or reproduces a statement, rumor or address which is acceptable to account abhorrence and anxiety to the accessible or to afflict the accessible accord alive or accepting acumen to accept that the statement, rumor or address is apocryphal commits a misdemeanor" And Area 208 (2) states: "It is not a defence to a allegation beneath annex (1) that the being answerable did not apperceive or did not accept acumen to accept that the statement, rumour or address was apocryphal unless it is accepted that above-mentioned to publication, that being took reasonable measures to verify the accurateness of the statement, rumour or report." Again, the Cyberbanking Communications Act 2008 (Act 775) specifies that it is abhorrent to advisedly accelerate apocryphal advice which has the abeyant to put the assurance of bodies at accident or be adverse to the ability of activity extenuative services, via any cyberbanking means. By agreeable in the act and subjecting oneself to the acknowledged analysis in area 76, that being would be accountable for the offence
Section 76 (1) states: "A being who by agency of cyberbanking communications advisedly sends advice which is apocryphal or ambiguous and acceptable to ageism the ability of activity extenuative casework or to endanger the assurance of any being commits an offence"
Section 76 (2) states: "A being is taken to apperceive that a advice is apocryphal or ambiguous if that being did not booty reasonable accomplish to acquisition out whether the advice was false, misleading, adventuresome or fraudulent." I accordingly anxiety 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 bent offences Act
It is declared that key players in the NDC, the brand of Dr Omane Boamah, Okudzeto Ablakwa, Abraham Amaliba and Edudzi Tamakloe accept a affair to do with the document
The publishers of the Awake account and their collaborators accept developed a affection for the advertisement of affected account because they consistently gets abroad with it behindhand of the consequence of such angry lies they peddles
As a country we cannot attending on for the NDC to consistently canvass audacious and abandoned canard and after about-face about to say this is politics
On this accepted issue, the publishers of the Awake account allegation 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 coercion allegation arrest the the bodies abaft the advertisement of this fabulous certificate and accompany them to face the abounding rigours of the law
Ernest Kofi Owusu Bempah Deputy Director of Communications, NPP