We will fight for freedom – Asiedu Nketia on arrest of Awutu Senya East NDC PC
The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketia, has cautioned the Ghana Police Service against using state powers to intimidate their members.
Speaking after the release of NDC’s parliamentary candidate for Awutu Senya East, Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor, from police custody, Mr Nketia said the police service should exercise fairness in dealing with political cases going into the 2024 elections.
He added that the NDC will not sit aloof and allow their freedom to be trampled upon.
“The laws of the country are meant for all of us. There should be no discrimination in applying them. We will not be victims of the peace that the country enjoys. Freedom is not free. We will fight for freedom.
“We will not allow the coercive powers of the state to be used against us. We cannot go this way towards election 2024,” he stressed.
Her release came after members of the NDC besieged the Cantonments Police Station to protest her arrest.
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.
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.
Ms Okunor, along with Mustapha Mohammed and Abdul Aziz Musah, were arrested last week.
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 trio’s vehicle.
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.
We will fight for freedom – Asiedu Nketia on arrest of Awutu Senya East NDC PC