The Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay has said that people should stop blaming the NPP for the large crowd that gathered at the late Sir John’s funeral amidst the strict protocols for the coronavirus.
According to him, members of the party attended the funeral as guests and not organizers and for that matter, people shouldn’t apportion blames on them. Therefore, added that anyone who thinks otherwise can go to the police.
Mr. Blay made this assertion on Assaseradio.com, where he insisted that it will not be accurate to blame them for partaking in such a mass gathering when they were only invited there without directly being informed of what numbers would gather there.
“The arrangement was such that most of the people were going to be in mask. Be it as it may, the gathering was something else… I take into consideration the expression of the GMA and OccupyGhana.
“However, it was the family that organized the funeral and we were invited. It was not a funeral that was officially organized by the government or the party. It’s unfortunate that most of the people were NPP activists. It wasn’t a government or party event. We were not expecting the numbers that were there.
“If you want to condemn the government because many officials were there, then I think you’re wrong… The numbers were huge, and I think it’s quite regrettable irrespective of the protocols that were put in place,” he explained.
Asked about the calls on the Inspector General of Police for the arrest and prosecution of the organizers of the funeral, Freddie Blay indicated that, all aggrieved groups are entitled to report the case to the relevant authorities.
“I wouldn’t respond to that, that is their opinion and if they are calling on the IGP to arrest the organizers, the law makes provision for that,” he averred.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Joseph Asare
