PNC’s Benard Monarh Reaction to CID Invitation over Alleged Threats: “I Only Cautioned the EC”

The Chairman of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Mr Bernard Mornah has said he only cautioned the Electoral Commission (EC) on the chaos the new voters’ registration exercise might cause after being questioned by security officials.

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has invited PNC Chairman to assist with investigations into an allegation of threat against the EC, should it proceed to compile its new voters’ register.

The police have sent an invitation letter to him asking that he should report at the CID headquarters on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, at 10 am.

Parts of the letter  dated May 28, 2020, signed by Barima Tweneboah Sasraku II, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) and sighted by soireenews.com indicated read;

"The CID Headquarters is investigating a case in which you [Mornah] were alleged to have threatened to resist any attempt by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter's register for the 2020 general election."

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"You were also heard in a video interview to have threatened "that people who are already Ghanaians and already registered are going to be taken out of the register, don't you think confusion will come at the registration and if confusion come there, you think the EC staff will be safe, we will beat each other there, we will kill each other there if that is what the EC want to lead this nation to,"

But in a radio interview on Accra based Citi FM on Thursday evening, Mr Mornah said his statement was a caution to the EC if it was "intending to flip us [Ghanaians] through this dangerous path, they should know that there would be confusion."

"And so it is a caution. If cautions become threats, I will not run away from it. But you know, I don't know who thought the CID English in school because my English teacher when he sees this statement will know that it is a caution and that he taught me English well, and that a caution cannot represent a threat. But if they see it as a threat, then I may have to bring my English teacher to tell them that caution is different from threat."

Mr Mornah who reiterated that he made the statement at a press conference on May 26, 2020, organised by the Inter-Party Resistance Against New Register (IPRAN) insisted that "I have nothing to run away from. The Electoral Commission is messing our democracy and we must do everything to resist and we will resist it. There is nothing that will allow us to sit down and allow this Electoral Commission to slip our democracy away from the peace and stability that we have enjoyed."

"And so when we are telling the Electoral Commission and alerting that, oh! your action can lead us on a very perilous path and you come and say that we are threatening, I don't know, so I will visit the CID, I've told my lawyer that I will be going there and if my lawyer wants to come fine, but if my lawyer wants to water down the words, I will ask him to go because I am responsible enough to own my words."

 Read Invitation letter from CID