It’s My Voice
: NDC Guru Admits Dirty Plot
Yaw Boateng Gyan
He admitted being the one whose voice was captured on the secret tape but tried to justify the vicious scheme, which could plunge the country into chaos, exposing the NDC agenda of visiting mayhem on Ghanaians during the election.
With the revelation of the ruling party’s dirty plot, the late President John Atta Mills and lately his successor, President John Mahama’s call for peaceful polls could not be anything but a mockery.
An obviously distraught Yaw Boateng Gyan who could not bear the heat of the criticism that followed the revelation of the dangerous plot in the wake of the release of the tape, hopped from one radio station to the other trying strenuously without success to justify his outrageous intentions.
“Well, I am not like some other people, I will just say that yes, that is my voice but mind you, it wasn’t for any bad intentions,” he said.
On the said tape recording which is currently being circulated in sections of the media, Mr. Boateng Gyan, who had often exhibited a holier-than-thou attitude, was among others heard planning a dangerous scheme with some members of the NDC on how to get them enlisted into the supposed ‘Special Forces’ to intimidate and cow their political opponents into fear during the elections, including stealing of ballot boxes on election day.
He spoke of a plan to get these NDC footsoldiers identification cards that would make them look like operatives of the National Security to enable them to move freely to carry out their obviously vicious intentions during the election period.
He said if the plot backfires on Election Day, the ruling party will blame the violence on the opposition NPP, particularly its presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, citing his ‘all-die-be-die’ mantra.
Speaking on Adom FM’s ‘Adwaso Nsem’ morning show, Mr. Boateng Gyan, who is now battling to salvage his dented reputation said, “This was a conversation with such persons to find out those behind the formation of NDP and NDC persons who want to leave to the new party so we can approach them and talk to them to rescind their decisions.
Everybody knows the people who make up the NDP are all members of the NDC, and as a party we have to be concerned about people leaving our party” whilst insisting that “the conversation was about NDP, which had just received provisional certificate, not NPP at all.”
“I am the National Organiser of a national party with two deputies, and we cannot be everywhere, so it is only natural that we have people who go out to gather information for us. Any party that does not have such a mechanism is not serious.”
Vicious Plot
In the said conversation, the NDC National Organiser is heard speaking in Twi language, saying, “The other time we were talking about this Special Forces, we haven’t abandoned it. If you are there it does not mean you cannot still work for us.
We will send you there, you will be trained and come back and will be working.
When the need arises, we will call you, whatever duties will be assigned you then you’d come back and be working for the party.”
He went on to state that “during the time that we were in power, those who are following the President now, they were at the party headquarters, they were soldiers but they were at the party headquarters.
You ask Kofi Yeboah, he was serving as a guard at the party headquarters so you could be there and later come and serve.”
In that regard, Mr Boateng Gyan told the young men, “Those of you who don’t have the strength to serve in that capacity, you should make up your mind. But this is the immediate thing that we want you to follow.”
He mentioned the name of Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor as the one to provide funding, obviously from the national kitty, for the execution of the project.
“When they gave me the money and I was leaving, it was the Finance Minister himself who called me and called the Finance Director, and told him that as for you, you always come here talking about somebody, you have never spoken about yourself.
So I said I have some boys I am working with but now it is hard getting them planted.
So he said okay, bring this, bring that and let me get some money for you so that you can give it to them,” he stated.
He said, “As and when we pay and everybody knows that these people have been paid, I am sure they will increase it.
So for all you know, in about two, three or four months, God willing if we win these elections and I know we will win, you will see that all of you will be married or something then you will see what jobs will be assigned you.”
He explained that his job as National Organizer of the ruling party was to ensure that the NDC wins the elections “and some grassroots members have expressed interest to get themselves employed in some of these government institutions and by way of motivation assuring them that we will work it out on merit for those who will be enlisted.”
Justification
“I don’t think it is anything out of the role of somebody like me to assure people because we are in this country and when Asamoah Boateng declared that he alone initiated the enlistment of about 300 people for his constituency and that is not a crime to me,” said Mr. Boateng Gyan.
But Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, who is leading the crusade to expose the diabolical plan, insisted Yaw Boateng Gyan and the NDC have a dangerous plan and stressed the need for all well-meaning Ghanaians to be vigilant during the election since they intend to rig.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu