Former President John Dramani Mahama has been advised to stop peddling falsehood in an attempt to score cheap political points.

This advice comes after the former President met some foreign diplomats and showed videos of the violence that marred the recent by-election at Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency including a recording of some heavily built Policemen dancing at a funeral.

The aspiring NDC Presidential candidate for the 2020 election during his presentation insisted that the security operatives who were singing and dancing were the armed masked men who brutalized electorates at the polling grounds.

He said the men were at the funeral service of the late Emmanuel Kyeremanteng Agyarko.

But the late MP’s family has bluntly denied Mahama’s claims and clarified that the video displayed was captured at the funeral of one late Lance Corporal Adu Teiko’s in August 2018.

“The family is appalled with the actions of the former Presidents which seeks to denigrate the memory of the nobleman who has been put to rest peacefully. The family wishes to state that we are still mourning our late brother and request that John Mahama keeps the family away from his political ploy. If indeed, John Mahama wants to be regarded as a decent fellow, then the family expects him to render a retraction of this palpable falsehood and render an unqualified apology for his unfortunate and despicable action,” says a statement signed by Boakye Agyarko.

Reacting to Mahama’s action in a statement, the family late Lance Corporal Adu Teiko confirmed that the video in which the heavily built Police personnel were singing and dancing was indeed shot at their late son’s burial service.

“The family wishes to set the records straight by stating emphatically that, first of all, the video was not shot at Agyarko’s funeral but at the funeral of our son, Lance Corporal Adu Teiko, who was shot to death on July 11, 2018, at Poano-Manso,” the family said in a statement.

The late officer’s family further explained that the men in the video are not members of a vigilante group of the New Patriotic Party as suggested by former President Mahama.

“…we wish to state that the men who were dancing to the jamma songs were indeed real police officers belonging specifically to the Kumasi Buffalo Unit, and are NOT members of any party vigilante force as president John Mahama wanted Ghanaians and the diplomats to believe,” the statement adds.

Read full statement below:

We, the family members of late Lance Corporal Adu Teiko, have noticed with great shock and disbelief, former President Mahama’s attempt to use a video which was taken at our son’s funeral, to score cheap political points during his recent meeting with some diplomats.

It would be recalled that at the said meeting, the former president showed excerpt of that video where some former colleagues of our late son in the police SWAT team were dancing to “jamma” songs, and claimed that they were NPP hoodlums dressed in police SWAT uniform at the funeral of Hon. Emmanuel Agyarko, who were later used to perpetuate violence at the Ayawaso by-election.

The family wishes to set the records straight by stating emphatically that, first of all, the video was not shot at Agyarko’s funeral but at the funeral of our son, Lance Corporal Adu Teiko, who was shot to death on July 11, 2018, at Poano-Manso.

Additionally, we wish to state that the men who were dancing to the jamma songs were indeed real police officers belonging specifically to the Kumasi Buffalo Unit, and are NOT members of any party vigilante force as president John m Mahama wanted Ghanaians and the diplomats to believe.

The family is appalled by the conduct of the former president, who is expected to be a statesman. Accordingly, we are calling on him to desist from championing such falsehood and fabrication on the alter of political expediency. Certainly, this is not how we want to be reminded of the painful killing of our son, in line of duty.

Finally, it is our expectation that former president Mahama would do the honourable thing by apologizing, first of all, to the family, and to the diplomats whom he sought to mislead, as well as to the Ghanaian people for this unstatesmanlike conduct.

…Signed…

Dennis Mensah

First Cousin

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Michael Adu (Liberty)