NPP GERMANY
PRESS RELEASE
19—09—2025
Kevin Taylor, Captain Smart Made Sure John Mahama Benefited From Hate Speech And Insults—NPP GERMANY Condemns Abronye Arrest
The release of Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe Abronye DC, after a week-long detention, is not just a legal correction but a glaring indictment of the creeping authoritarianism of the John Dramani Mahama administration.
His arrest on charges of “offensive conduct” and “publication of false news” is nothing short of a calculated attempt to silence critical voices and intimidate political opponents. What we are witnessing is a shameful double standard.
The very man who now presides over a government that jails opposition figures for speaking their minds is the same John Mahama who rode to power in 2024 on the back of some of the most toxic and hateful speech ever witnessed in Ghana’s political history.
Let’s not forget: Mahama’s so-called “comeback” was powered not by policy superiority, but by the venom and vitriol of social media and broadcast firebrands such as Twene Jonas, Captain Smart, Kevin Taylor, Kwabena Bobie Ansah, Mugabe Maase, and others.
These individuals freely unleashed torrents of insults, fabrications, and outright character assassination against the NPP, its leadership, and state institutions.
They poisoned public discourse, sowed division, and demonized their opponents—yet not once did Mahama’s NDC machinery call for their arrest.
Not once were they gagged. Not once did the police storm their homes and drag them into custody.
Why? Because Mahama and his campaign were the chief beneficiaries of that hate-filled propaganda. It was their oxygen, their fuel, and ultimately their pathway back into power.
Fast forward to 2025, and suddenly, the same Mahama administration finds it convenient to weaponize the police, the courts, and the law to silence dissenting voices like Abronye DC.
His only “crime” was to speak truth to power, to question the conduct of the ruling party and the IGP. For this, he was bundled into custody, denied his rights, and forced to endure a week of detention that nearly broke his health.
This is nothing less than media gagging by state machinery—a cowardly, hypocritical assault on democracy. Ghana’s democracy thrives on free speech, even speech that offends.
If Mahama’s NDC had been subjected to the same standard they are now imposing, their entire 2024 campaign machinery would have collapsed before it even started.
The danger here is clear: if Abronye DC today, who will it be tomorrow?
Journalists, activists, or any ordinary citizen who dares to criticize government excesses? This is how authoritarian states are built—not in one stroke, but through incremental silencing of critics.
Ghanaians must reject this hypocrisy and demand consistency in the application of the law.
If hate speech was tolerable when it benefited Mahama, it cannot suddenly become criminal when it exposes the failures of his administration.
Free speech cannot be selectively applied; it is either a right for all or a privilege for none. The release of Abronye DC is a welcome relief, but it is not justice.
Justice will only be served when Ghana puts an end to political witch-hunts disguised as law enforcement, and when leaders like John Mahama are held accountable for their double standards.
For now, what remains clear is this: the NDC administration has chosen the path of hypocrisy, injustice, and gagging of the media.
It is a path that undermines democracy, and it is one that the Ghanaian people must resist—fiercely.
Mahama and the NDC may celebrate their conquest today, but history will judge them harshly for this authoritarian maneuver.
Ghana’s democracy deserves better.
God Bless Our Homeland Ghana!!!
Long Live Ghana, long live the Elephant Party!!!!
Kukruduuuu Eeeessshiii!!!
Signed:
Nana Osei Boateng
NPP GERMANY
Communications Director
