The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is insisting that the Minister of Special Initiatives and Member of Parliament (MP) for Awutu Senya East, Mavis Hawa Koomson should be prosecuted for firing a firearm in public at a voter registration centre.
According to the NDC, if the government fails to do so now, the NDC will make sure she is prosecuted when it comes to power.
The Director of Elections of the NDC, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said this at a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday [July 22, 2020].
The MP on Monday in a television interview with Adom TV admitted to firing a firearm at a registration centre at Kasoa in the Central Region in what she said was a warning shot which was meant to protect her and her supporters whose lives she said were in danger.
But at a press briefing in Accra Wednesday, Mr Afriyie Ankrah said Hawa Koomson should be made to face the law.
"The NDC is totally disgusted by the thuggish and criminal shooting incident involving a gang of NPP thugs who were led by Hawa Koomson which has received both national and international condemnation and which have been admitted by the Minister of State herself", Mr Ankrah said.
"We condemn in no uncertain terms such thuggery, sponsored and led by a high ranking government official and lawmaker who is supposed to uphold the law at all times. Hawa Koomson has by this singular criminal act and the many others committed before, together with her gang and all that they have meted out to NDC supporters and innocent Ghanaians in the last couple of weeks demonstrated that she is a gangster who does not deserve to occupy any public position of trust and we join the many voices of conscience in our society to demand her immediate dismissal from office and her prosecution for these heinous crimes".
Mr Afriyie Ankrah also served notice that the NDC will prosecute Hawa Koomson if their flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama is elected as president in the 2020 presidential election should President Akufo-Addo fail to act.
"We will, therefore, like to serve notice that if Hawa Koomson is left off the hook by President Akufo-Addo as we anticipate, the next NDC-Mahama government in the year 2021 shall arrest, prosecute and punish her and all the thugs who were involved in this unlawful shooting incident, and all the other related criminal acts."
Source: Daily Graphic
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Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, after going to blow Ghana's money in Brazil and coming to sit in front of the Commission to shed ***barred word*** and wasteful tears, did any government promise to prosecute you? You are still walking as a free man and yet you have the audacity to say NDC will prosecute someone who fired a gun purportedly as a means of self defense. You should be the last person to speak for the NDC on such issues. Ghanaians are tired of the noise you make in your press conferences. Tell us your policy directions and alternatives while criticising the government. What will you do differently when/if you come to power?
Look at who is talking Elvis Afiriyie Ankrah the Brazil crinimal one you think Ghanaians have short memories right you guys want to kill her Major Mahama and she defend herself noe you are sitting back crying
Will you greedy guys ever come back to power? Tafiakwa... God forbid. You guys will rot in opposition.
When are you coming to power? 30 yrs from now? Oh.... dreaming NDC!