The formation of vigilante groups by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), is a response to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)'s numerous vigilante groups, General Secretary of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said,

According to him, the NDC was forced to form these vigilante groups after the NPP refused to disband its own vigilante groups.

“I endorse it fully”, Mr Asiedu Nketia told journalists, justifying that it’s a “proper response” to the “recalcitrance of the ruling government and their refusal to do anything about vigilantes on the NPP side”.

“You’d realise that for two years now we have all been complaining about the rising incidence of vigilantes in this country, the president promises that something will be done and nothing gets done, some of us have been affected by vigilante attack, yet nothing [has been done], nobody has been held responsible as we speak to you now.

“And they are now in charge of the security services and they still maintain party vigilantes terrorising people left right centre and all the security services are quiet.

“Even when you take steps to report, they diont take any action, so, are you saying that we on the NDC side, because we are good citizens, we should keep quiet for NPP to control the army, to control the police and to control everybody?”, he asked.

The NPP’s Invincible Forces and Delta Force groups ran amok when President Nana Akufo-Addo took office after the NPP won the 2016 elections.

In Mr Asiedu Nketia’s view, it was high time the NDC matched the NPP boot for boot.