'I may not like Stan Dogbe -Bernard Mornah

Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah has said despite his dislike for presidential staffer, Stan Dogbe, allegations of his involvement in the murder of the Abuakwa North Legislator is worrying.He noted that the making unsubstantiated claims on social media by some unknown persons, as well as the spreading of false information through the same medium is a practice that should not be allowed to continue.“I think that in this trend, we ought to advice ourselves on the abuse of social media. It is not just related to this particular incident or what is happening to Stan Dogbe. I may not like Stan Dogbe but I think that somebody is dead and if you have vital information…if you have evidence, if you have

support for the claims you are making, why do you have to come to social media and dent people’s image, only to leave it at that?” he asked.“To call somebody a murderer is not easy because you don’t know who might have read and these days people read everything. Your child might have read it…” Mr Mornah said during a panel discussion on Accra-based Radio Gold.Mr. Dogbe has been accused of masterminding the murder of the Abuakwa North Member of Parliament (MP), Joseph Boakye Danquah- Adu at his residence at Shiahsie in Accra.In a Facebook post, he rubbished such claims and accused the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) of spreading such falsehood for political gains.On Saturday, the Police in a statement categorically stated that Mr. Dogbe was not involved in the murder case.
"The Police can state on authority that the suspect has never mentioned Mr Stan Dogbe or any politician’s name as of now,” the statement said.Mr. Mornah criticised political parties for capitalizing on issues for political gains.“In every aspect of our lives, we put it in partisanship and it is hurting and injuring the many things that we have done. Why are we doing this in our society?” he asked.He however charged the security agencies to investigate the source of such rumours and punish the perpetrators to serve as a deterrent to others who hid behind social media to spread such rumours.“This should be easy to investigate. I am sure that our CID is up to the task. They can track which number originated tit first and at what time and who is it for; so that you can just close in on such persons and pick them up.”“Today it may be Stan Dogbe, tomorrow, it will be you! As for concocting stories, it’s easy and so nobody should celebrate it. I think that we should all condemn such foolishness on our social media,” he fumed.“We have allowed these things to degenerate in our society…we ought to stop it because it is not helping anybody in any way.”