NDC MP, Samuel Nartey George has rejected the characterisation of the Azorka Boys as a vigilante group. Instead, he argues the group is into community development.
The Ningo-Prampram Member of Parliament made this claim Monday when he appeared as a witness before the Emile Short Commission investigating the violence that marred the recent Ayawaso by-elections and related matters.
Mr. George’s testimony before the Commission has become necessary following media footages which captured him being assaulted by men said to be national security operatives but whom he claims are members of the governing New Patriotic Party’s invincible forces.
According to Mr. George, those who accuse the Azorka Boys of vigilantism are misinformed, “I can state for a fact without equivocation that the party I belong to, the NDC, does not have any vigilante group”.
However “The NDC is a corporate organisation which has procedures for integrating members. These groups have not undergone such processes to be integrated into the structures of the party to be recognised,” he told the Short Commission.
He added that the right characterisation of the Azoka boys is community base organization.
“I will refer to them as a community base organization. I witnessed the commissioning of a borehole project by the Azorka boys that has been done based on community engagements in the area,” he said.
Political militia has become topical issue recently not only because of the violence that marred the Ayawaso-by election, but as a result of the shooting that took place at the NDC’S Ashanti regional office last week where a man was shot and killed.
The pro-NDC group, ‘The Hawks’ have been linked to the shooting.
By: Myjoyonline
