Regional police commander was unaware of NDC PC arrest – Edudzi Tamakloe
The Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edudzi Tamakloe, has disclosed that the Greater Accra Regional Police Commander was not aware of the detention of the NDC’s Parliamentary Candidate for Awutu Senya East, Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor.
Naa Koryoo was held at the Cantonments Police Station on Friday, June 7, after being summoned, a move that sparked outrage among NDC supporters who later gathered at the premises demanding her release.
Following several hours of detention, Naa Koryoo was released.
Narrating his experience at the Cantonments Police Station, Mr Edudzi Tamakloe said, “When we got to the Cantonments police office, I personally went to one of the offices and said, ‘I’m begging to permit me to just have a look at her [Naa Okunor] and just speak to her’. They had to make calls about whether I should be permitted to go… back and forth, back and forth, the Regional Police Commander himself [DCOP Arhin Kwasi Annor] came and said he wasn’t well, but when he heard it, he had to rush to this place. And that he is not aware of what is happening.”
“The Regional Police Commander—I was with him throughout. In fact, we were tear-gassed, and so we were all like coughing here and there…they didn’t know that the Regional Police Commander was with us, and so he also got affected by the tear gas, so you could see the tears coming out,” Mr Tamakloe said on TV3.
The trio was apprehended while onboard a Honda CRV car with registration number GX-2044-19 near the Electoral Commission Office at Ofaakor.
During the arrest, a pump-action gun with four rounds of ammunition was retrieved from the vehicle, which was linked to a stabbing incident involving Ato Koomson, the son of the current MP and the Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson.
He was reportedly stabbed near the EC Office at Ofaakor in the Central Region.
However, in an interview on Wednesday, June 5, Naa Koryoo clarified that the firearm found in her car was legally licensed.
According to her, she acquired the gun to protect herself from the incumbent NPP MP and Minister for Fisheries, Hawa Koomson, because the police had failed to protect her in previous altercations where the MP allegedly attacked her and, in some cases, fired gunshots.