The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Awutu Senya East, Phyllis Naa Koryoo Okunor, has been released from police custody.
She was arrested on Friday, June 7, 2024.
NDC National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi, in a brief statement, called on all party faithfuls to rally at the Cantonments Police Station, where Naa Koryoo and the others had been detained.
He said they should come and solidarize with her.
“All NDC supporters should join us at the Cantonments Police station for us to solidarity with our sister and demand her release now. Enough of the oppression and harassment of NDC figures by the …Police Service. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!” he wrote in a statement dated June 7, 2024.
Former President John Mahama also issued a statement claiming that the detention was ordered by the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, under the instructions of National Security Minister Albert Kan Dapaah.
It would be recalled that Phyllis Naa Koryoo Okunor, along with Mustapha Mohammed and Abdul Aziz Musah, were arrested last week.
The trio was apprehended while travelling in a Honda CRV saloon car with registration number GX-2044-19 near the Electoral Commission (EC) Office at Ofaakor.
They were found in possession of a firearm which was linked to a stabbing incident involving Ato Koomson, the son of the current MP of Awutu Senya East and the Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson.
He was reportedly stabbed near the EC Office at Ofaakor in the Central Region.
The police recovered a pump-action gun with four rounds of ammunition from the vehicle, as detailed in their statement.
Meanwhile, Naa Koryoo insisted that the pump action gun found in her car was legally licensed.
She also said 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.