<<Print>>MAHAMA Salifu, the Kwahu-Mpraeso constituency chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region and other executives of the party have been remanded into police custody at Nkawkaw by an Mpraeso magistrate court.
They include the vice chairman, organiser, deputy organiser and youth organiser. Daily Guide gathered that the executives were remanded on the orders of the Kwahu South District Chief Executive (DCE), Joseph Omari. According to sources, the Mpraeso police chief, ASP Wiredu, Thursday night invited the constituency chairman to appear before the Mpraeso magistrate court yesterday (Friday).
They were remanded into custody to reappear in court on 14 August, 2015.
Daily Guide learnt that the court also ordered the arrest and remand into custody of the three other executives who were receiving treatment at the Atibie Government Hospital following injuries they sustained last Thursday when pepper was allegedly sprayed at an abortive meeting between the constituency executives and the DCE.
Meanwhile, the Eastern Regional NDC communication directorate has in a statement called on President Mahama not to entertain appointees who are indirectly against the party’s objective of winning 50% of the votes to be cast during the 2016 general elections in the region.
“While most of them are working assiduously towards the dream, others have decided to derail our efforts through their unacceptable behaviours.
“A clear case is what has happened in the Mpraeso constituency where hard working party executives who use their personal resources in building the party, got sprayed with pepper and were eventually remanded into police custody by the DCE,” the statement underscored.
Some supporters and party executives are demanding the release of the remanded executives. The chairmen in all the 33 constituencies have threatened to resign if the executives are not released.
The regional secretary of the party, Mark Oliver Kevor and the regional chairman, Tawiah Boateng, just came out of the police station where the five Mpraeso NDC executives had been remanded.
Their effort to seek bail for them (executives) was not successful; which means that they would be in police cells till Monday.