Minority leader in parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has observed that the current administration uses the detention of former appointments as a means of covering up its faults.
Speaking at the “Echoes from the Doyen J.B. Danquah to Ghana and Africa” launch on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, he revealed this.
He believes that as a party that upholds J.B. Danquah’s principles, they must remain unwavering and unafraid of the current government’s attempts to stifle the opposition.
“We must therefore not be intimidated by threats of detention or subtle use of state power through backdoors whenever scandals or allegations of wrongdoing arise within this current government.
If Dr J.B Danquah could stand alone in the face of the preventive detention act, we who inherit his political and moral legacy cannot afford timidity.
The defence of liberty has never been easy. It has always required resolve; our democracy will endure if there remain men and women prepared, like the doyen himself, to speak when it is safer to be silent and to stand when it is easier to sit,” he said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
