The Ghana Police Service has arrested 16 hooligans allegedly affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party for invading the studios of United Television in Accra.
The said hooligans reportedly stormed the premises of the TV station and made their way into the studios, interrupting the station’s weekly entertainment show, United Showbiz which was being aired.
Some of the show’s guests were allegedly manhandled while others left for fear of their lives and never returned.
In viral videos sighted by this news portal, the hoodlums are seen in the studios throwing tantrums and demanding to see A-Plus, a regular guest on the show.
Subsequent videos show them in a calm composure with one of them telling the police that they were there to ensure balance in the empanelment of the show and to demand that A-Plus apologise for tearing a letter the party had written to the station and for supposedly attacking leadership of the party.
They were, however, arrested and taken into police custody.
“Following a complaint from the Despite Media Group and Ministry of Information that certain people had invaded the studios of U-TV this evening, the Police proceeded to the scene and arrested sixteen (16) persons,” the police said in a post on social media.
The NPP had written to the media house, complaining about constant attacks on its leadership and members of the government particularly the president and his vice by guests who appear on the entertainment show.
According the party, the show had drifted its focus from entertainment to politics and thus, must include its representative in its empanelment to ensure balance.
Kwame A-Plus was enraged by the content of the letter tore it on live TV, arguing that the action of the party amounted to an interference in the independence of the media.
