Legal practitioner and member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo, has defended the actions of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) in their attempted arrest of Assin South MP, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, over his recent claims connected to the ongoing AirMed scandal.
Speaking on The Forum on Asaase Radio, Samoa Addo dismissed the backlash surrounding the incident, urging Ghanaians to avoid sensationalizing what he described as a lawful process.
“I don’t know why we are creating a whole noise about the fact that an MP has been invited and in his invitation the NIB went to his house and attempted to arrest him and there was a compromise,” he said.
“As far as I know, the Minority Leader intervened and went into an understanding with the NIB that the Rev. Minister would be brought in the next day, and that ended it.”
Samoa Addo argued that the NIB, like any law enforcement agency, has the authority to act in such matters.
“Let nobody be out there and say that the NIB cannot obtain an arrest warrant to execute the arrest warrant. They have every right to do so,” he emphasized.
He added that should Rev. Ntim Fordjour believe his parliamentary privileges were violated in the process, the proper channels exist to address such grievances.
“If Rev. Ntim feels that his privileges have been breached, he will go through the right process. But until that is done, I don’t see why we should fault the security agencies because there are a lot of precedent to this.”
