{"id":2980,"date":"2019-03-08T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2019-03-08T20:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:01:25","slug":"akufo-addo-and-npp-painting-ghana-black-with-vigilantism-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/08\/akufo-addo-and-npp-painting-ghana-black-with-vigilantism-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo and NPP painting Ghana black with vigilantism &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The National Democratic  Congress\u2019 (NDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/23\/ndc-has-decided-95-for-mahama-2020\/\">presidential candidate for the 2020 elections, John  Dramani Mahama<\/a> has described as \u2018\u2019harrowing\u2019\u2019 Joy News\u2019 latest  documentary on political party militia in the country. According to Mr. Mahama, the NPP government continues to paint the  country black because of their involvement and support for vigilante  activities. The former president in a tweet said the Akufo-Addo administration is  producing \u2018enough paint to paint the whole nation black\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Mahama\u2019s reaction to  the Joy News documentary is no different from what majority of Ghanaians  are saying. Joy News investigations reveal there is a militia group within the New  Patriotic Party (NPP), which appears to have the backing of government. De-Eye Group is allegedly training at the <a href=\"https:\/\/christiansborgarchaeologicalheritageproject.org\/history\/\">Christiansbourg Castle<\/a>  popularly called<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/De-Eye-s-Operation-at-Osu-Castle-disturbing-and-unfortunate-John-Jinapor-728964\"> the Osu C<\/a>astle in Accra. Mind you the Osu Castle is  security installation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> And this is a training  ground and headquarters of De-Eye Group, a militia group affiliated to  the governing NPP. Joy News on Thursday, March 8, 2019 aired the documentary which showed a  former personal bodyguard of the sitting president leading and training  a pro-government militia group at the Osu Castle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RdZSOkMxET8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> The documentary opined  that the group received considerable state support, training in the  presidency Annex since the party won power in 2017. Choman, the leader of the group is also alleged to have his office  inside the Presidency Annex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: yen.com \/ myjoyonline.com<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The National Democratic Congress\u2019 (NDC) presidential candidate for the 2020 elections, John Dramani Mahama has described as \u2018\u2019harrowing\u2019\u2019 Joy News\u2019 latest documentary on political party <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/08\/akufo-addo-and-npp-painting-ghana-black-with-vigilantism-mahama\/\" title=\"Akufo-Addo and NPP painting Ghana black with vigilantism &#8211; Mahama\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[453],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-vigilante"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/john-d-mahama.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9MOQw-M4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}