The National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Salam Mustapha, has criticised the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), alleging that the agency is being manipulated for political purposes by the current government.
His comments come in the wake of the recent arrest and subsequent release of New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth activist and parliamentary candidate aspirant, Alfred Ababio Kumi, popularly known as Adenta Kumi, by the NIB.
In an exclusive interview on Channel One Newsroom on Friday, May 23, Salam Mustapha expressed dismay at what he described as the misuse of a revered national security institution to target political opponents.
Mustapha questioned the basis for Adenta Kumi's arrest, arguing that the offence, a publication deemed false, did not justify the involvement of a top-tier national intelligence agency like the NIB. "I shudder to think how one of the primus and finest security apparatuses in this country that we all cherish and revere so much, the NIB, has been reduced to a political pawn for the government to go after political opponents. "The case of Adenta Kumi is a clear case of political persecution.
