Blood thirsty suspected thugs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Kukuom, the district capital of Asunafo South in the Brong-Ahafo Region, yesterday went on rampage, beating up New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters at the District Electoral office.
The action was reportedly premised on who was qualified to transfer his or her vote to the constituency in the ongoing voter transfer exercise being carried out by the electoral body.
The alleged NDC supporters were said to have slashed the head of a former NPP constituency chairman’s driver, Louis Yeboah and beat up three other people mercilessly at the EC office before vandalising items in the office.
They also purportedly shot at a TV set in the office and made away with a television decoder.
The thugs were led by one Akwasi Adu, who is said to be an aide to the regional minister and MP for the area, Eric Opoku.
According to sources, Akwasi Adu was the same NDC activist who reportedly shot and killed an NPP member, Kwabena Nyame, a local evangelist at Sankore on July 19, 2009.
Akwasi Adu, after the alleged murder, left the town and was later smoked out of the regional minister bedroom at his Sakumono house with no prosecution because of alleged political support from the minister.
According to our source, after the mayhem at the EC and the NPP offices, the group wielded machetes on the streets of Kukuom and dared people to come and face them before going to the District Chief Executive’s residency in an NDC campaign vehicle embossed with President Mahama’s portrait.
The former constituency chairman of the NPP, Osei Bonsu, in an interview with DAILY GUIDE, said yesterday at about 10:30 am, a former resident of Kumasi (now residing at a village called Nobeko doing vegetable farming), came to the EC office and said that he wanted to transfer his vote from Kumasi to Kukuom but some NDC supporters prevented him from doing that because he’s not a resident and more so, he is an NPP supporter.
He said while they were there some NDC youth from Sankore, led by one Akwasi Adu, came and disrupted the transfer process.
He said they went away and later came with one Nii Loko, NDC constituency communication director, to the venue and beat him and others up without provocation.
In the end, his driver, Louis, popularly called Busia, was slashed on the head and bled profusely.
He later reported the case to the district police and was given police medical form to go to the hospital for treatment.
According to him, the NDC goons later went to the district police command and dared the personnel to arrest them, saying ‘the matter will not reach anywhere.’
All attempts to speak to the district police boss proved futile.
The commander’s phone was switched off whilst the divisional commander failed to pick his phone calls.
The regional crime officer, Superintendent Maama Ahim, said the case had not come before him and so could not speak to it.
Answering questions on a local FM station, Moonlight FM, yesterday in the morning, the Asunafo South Constituency communication officer of the NDC, Nii Lokko, also accused the NPP at Kukuom of busing people from Nhyeaso in the Ashanti Region to come and register for the vote transfer.
He accused the NPP parliamentary candidate of the area, George Boakye, of masterminding the move because he wants to win the Asunafo South Constituency seat at all cost.
He also accused him of organizing people to shoot and hurt, Eric Opoku, the current regional minister when he (Boakye) was the DCE in 2008.
It would be recalled that less than a fortnight ago during his rounds in the Brong-Ahafo Region to assess the situation on the ground, the acting NPP national chairman, Freddie Blay, appealed to all peace-loving stakeholders, particularly the police and other security agents in the region, to call NDC supporters at Asunafo South to order because they had allegedly attacked his party men.
Source: Daily Guide
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Who cares. When the politricksians use you, they dump you. See how much you are going to gain out of this issue - only pains and sorry. Use your energy, cast your vote if you so wish and go home. Period.
Gov't will maintain highest credibility of upcoming elections - Mahama assures He hasn't heard this.
i know NII very well, this guy can't even spell his name but have the power to beat someone.....they have sack the divisional commander and as well the eric opoku.
Kumawood make-up for real
I thought the NPP said the whole Ghana supports Akuffo Addo now because everyone is suffering, How come NDC still has supporters. I will only vote for NPP if i know the profession of sammy awuku and anthony karbo. these two people dont work but
sometimes, l dont understand why npp will behave like kids fir this DIRTY 1D1OT1X guys to do this to them, thats why they never get people to support them ooo, you have men and you sit aluff for this SL0TS to beat you guys up. and you want me to support you (npp?) APUUUUU
So why is the police allowing this ***barred word*** to go on. This ***barred word*** of a regional minister called Eric Opoku ought to be dealt with seriously for hiring assassins to torment his political opponents in the constituency. He is the same person who under his instructions led to the death of Kwabena Nyame in 2009. Are the police afraid of Eric Opoku cos he is the chairman of the regional security council by virtue of his position as regional minister?? What is the NPP national leadership doing to protect its members from such brutal attacks??? Even with vote transfer which the law allows, look at what these hooligans and miscreants are doing, I am wondering what's going to happen on the day of elections. NPP better sit up before these twerps put fear into their followers in the running up to the December elections. Again I hope the national peace council, chiefs and opinion leaders are watching what's going on in kukuom.
How can a commander switch off his phone and divisional commander not picking calls? No wonder they were saying if they arrest them it wont get anywhere cos they know they have bought the minds of the police in the area all in the name of politics. Must someone only transfer his or her vote to his hometown? Am so disappointed in the commander and his men for standing so low in the name of cheap politics. God should save this nation