2016 Election was extremely dirty – Fadi Dabbousi

Prolific writer, Journalist, and a sympathizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and a fierce critique of the erstwhile Mahama administration Fadi Dabbousi has described the 2016 elections as “extremely dirty”.

He said this in a speech delivered at the launch of his new book ’59 Dark Hours – A free speech campaign’, a book about his arrest and detention by the Bureau of National Intelligence (BNI) following allegations he made against the then president of Ghana John Dramani Mahama.

“I had the urge to painstakingly depict how dirty the elections were. The elections 2016 were extremely dirty,” he stated.

Mr. Dabbousi described the attacks made on President Akufo Addo’s personality at the time by members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as “the disgraceful demeanour of supposed honourable men who made pronouncements in unfashionable dictum and lazy political outbursts.”

“We should never have to resolve to such an unholy war,” he advised. The 2016 elections saw the exit of the NDC from government and the entry of the NPP into power after a long period of staying in opposition after a blinding loss in the 2008 elections.

“The last straw to break the camel’s back was the nauseating feature article in Steve Mallory’s Africa Watch magazine. It was disgraceful, it was downright filthy and despicable.” he stated.

According to him, the actual events of the detention transpired over 62 hours but he needed the new title to complement his previous book and shortened the time three hours to fit the title.

The launch was attended largely by prominent NPP members and state officials including Hassan Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), former organiser of the NPP, Laud Commey, and Head of the National Identification Authority Professor Ken Attafuah.

Chairman of the launch was Dr Kingsley Nyarko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute who is also a Senior Lecturer at University of  Ghana , Legon, Department of Health and Teacher Education said freedom of speech does not means you can whatever you like  with impunity  and called on all the citizenry to show maximum respects  to the authority.

A copy of Mr. Dabbousi’s new book sells at 50 cedis.

Source: otecfmghana.com/ Eric Asamoah Protocol