I am ever ready to be a political prisoner-Ablakwa

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has taken a swipe against the controversial pastor Victor Kusi-Boateng alias Kwabena Adu Gyamfi against a court injunction. According to the lawmaker, he is ever ready to be what he termed, a "political prisoner". The MP in a post on social media accused the state of trying to intimidate and gag him from performing his duties as a lawmaker, describing Rev. Kusi Boateng as a charlatan of double identity under state cover. “A country where parliamentarians carrying out their constitutional oversight mandate become victims of state-sponsored harassment, strange court injunctions and judicial threats of imprisonment even as double identity charlatans are protected and pampered is a nation in the dark abyss.” The MP has adduced evidence in the public domain exposing the pastor as having a double identity which he uses to evade authorities including the possession of two Tax Identification Numbers using two different mother names. The pastor has gone to court to injunct the MP. He expressed his profound gratitude for the overwhelming solidarity and words of encouragement I have received since the series of cathedral exposés in the pursuit of my constitutional mandate of oversight, and in the face of the current fascist machinations to use the judiciary and other state institutions to silence and intimidate me. I am eternally indebted to the good people of Ghana, my dearest family, former President H.E. John Mahama, the NDC executive led by Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the NDC Council of Elders chaired by Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, my beloved North Tongu constituents, the rank and file of NDC comrades across the country, Civil Society Organisations, activists, genuine pastors, the credible media, my dedicated staff, gallant and dependable colleagues of the NDC Caucus in Parliament led by Dr. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson. A country where parliamentarians carrying out their constitutional oversight mandate become victims of state-sponsored harassment, strange court injunctions, and judicial threats of imprisonment even as double-identity charlatans are protected and pampered is a nation in the dark abyss. Let the cowardly forces of tyranny be told that I am not one to be frightened by imprisonment. I am ever ready to be a political prisoner of conscience than to be coerced and compromised into a behind-the-scenes deal with the corrosive enemies of the Republic. Nkrumah, Rawlings, Mandela, Kenyatta, Sisulu, Motlanthe, Desmond Tutu, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jnr., Thomas Mapfumo, Andrei Sakharov, Antonia Gramsci, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have all taught us to overcome the fear of prison and be constantly of the indomitable belief that Truth and Justice cannot be imprisoned. Silence and Surrender cannot be options!