NDC’s Parliamentary Candidate for Awutu Senya East, Phyllis Naa Koryo says she is in “shock” with the Minister of Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson’s ‘Rambo style’ of handling issues in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise.
She condemned a shooting incident by the MP for the area that marred the voter registration exercise at a centre within the Awutu Senya East Constituency (Kasoa) on Monday, 20 July 2020.
Madam Hawa Koomson has admitted to firing warning shots in self-defence after she was informed of a conspiracy by the NDC to bus non-residence to register in her constituency.
"I fired the warning shots; I'm an MP, I need to protect myself"
According to her, she took a gun to the centre for personal protection in her attempt to stop the parliamentary candidate, Phyllis Naa Koryoo, from busing aliens to the area to register.
“None of my men carried guns to the centre,” she told Accra-based Adom FM, adding: “I fired the warning shots myself”.
“I’m a Member of Parliament, I need to protect myself. It was at dawn; my police escort had not started work yet. So, that is the modus operandi I engaged in his absence,” she said.
Who did she want to kill?
Phyllis Naa Koryo who was accused of busing ‘aliens’ to the constituency in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’ denied the allegation.
“I don’t know of anyone busing people to registration centres to register. I was home when I heard about the shooting incident. I don’t need to bus people to Kasoa,” she said.
Adding that “She [Hawa Koomson] came to the registration station for a purpose. The police must investigate the matter. Who did she want to kill?”
Bullets fly, 3 bikes burnt, EC officials run
There was confusion at the Step To Christ registration centre in the Awutu Senya East Constituency (Kasoa) of the Central Region during the ongoing voter registration exercise today, Monday, 20 July 2020, when heavily-muscled gun-wielding men stormed the premises to disrupt the exercise.
Officials of the Electoral Commission took to their heels when the men, numbering about 15, ransacked the place.
According to eyewitnesses, this led to a scuffle and pandemonium as live bullets were fired as warning shots into the air.
At least, three motorbikes were burnt in the mayhem.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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We in the constituency prefer 'Rambo' MP to a land guard surrounded MP as land guards are more dangerous!!!
IT IS DISHEARTENED FOR GHANA PARLIAMENT AND OTHERS TO ATTACK HON, HAWA YAKUBO. HER ATTACKER HAVE NOT TAKEN THE TROUBLE TO KNOW OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED AT THE GROUND. IT IS EASY FOR ANY LAZY ARMED CHAIR COMMENTATOR TO CRITICIZE WITHOUT ASSESSING THE ISSUE IN DETAILS. WE MUST ASK QUESTIONS SUCH AS WHAT WAS THE FACE MASK MOTORBIKE RIDERS DOING AT THE POLLING STATION. WHAT WAS THEIR PURPOSE AND INTENTION. WE ALL KNOW IN THE PAST THAT SOME GHANAIANS WERE BEATEN AT ATIWA, CHIRIPONI AND OTHER PLACE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITIES. THE GANGSTERS ARE ALWAYS SENT BY SOME EVIL POLITICIANS TO CAUSE THE MAYHEM FOR THEM. HON, HAWA PREVENTED A REPETITION OF SUCH INCIDENTS. DO YOU THINK THAT THE MP HAWA WAS SO RECKLESS TO FIRE A WARNING SHOT WITHOUT BEING THREATENED. HAS SHE BEEN EVER ASSOCIATED WITH VIOLENCE. SHE IS NEVER KNOWN TO BE PROVOCATIVE NOR A THREAT TO PEACE IN SPEECH AND IN ACTION. I AM SERIOUSLY VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THOSE WHO HAVE CRITICIZED HER. DO THEY WANT HER TO BE ATTACKED AND HURT SO THAT THEY CAN BLAME EC FOR THE REGISTRATION WHEN WE ALL KNOW THAT WE CANNOT DO AWAY WITH THE REGISTRATION AND THE ELECTIONS. FOR HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE NOT HEARD FROM MAHAMA AND MANY TOP NDC OFFICIALS AND OTHERS LIKE BERNARD MONA THAT THERE COULD BE NO REGISTRATION EVEN TO THE POINT OF SHEDDING BLOOD. UNFORTUNATELY THOSE TALKING TODAY NEVER SAW THE WISDOM TO CONDEMN SUCH VIOLENT UTTERANCES. NOW THE NDC FOOT SOLDIERS ARE EMBOLDENED TO EXECUTE WHAT THEIR MASTER'S KEEP TRUMPETING. IT IS SAD THAT WE DONT CRITICIZE THE BEATING OF WAR DRUMS BUT WE DO IT TO THOSE WHO PREVENT THEMSELVES FROM THEIR ATTACKS. IT IS DISAPPOINTING TO HEAR SUCH CRITICISM NOW FROM HIGH PERSONALITIES AND GROUPS LIKE KWESI ANING, CODEO, REV. EMMANUEL ASANTE, MPS AND OTHERS, WHEN WE HAVE NOT HEARD FROM THEM ANY STRONG CONDEMNATION AGAINST THE REPEATED CALL OF VIOLENCE TO MEET THE REGISTRATION. IF FOR ANYTHING HAWA MUST BE PRAISED FOR ACTING TO PREVENT GHANA TO BE IN THE FOREIGN MEDIA FOR A BAD NEWS. AFTER ALL SHE DID NOT AIM THE GUN AT ANYBODY TO INJURE ANY PERSON? SHE ONLY PROTECTED HERSELF AND OTHERS TO SPARE EC, THE GOVERNMENT AND THE NATION FROM THE LITANY OF NDC BLAME FOR WHAT THEY HAVE WISHED. IT IS SAD THAT PEOPLE SIT IN THE COMFORT OF THEIR HOMES AND CRITICIZE THE HARD WORKING WOMAN IN THE FIELD TO MONITOR THE REGISTRATION. NONE OF SUCH PEOPLE HAVE GONE OUT TO ANY OF THE HOT SPOTS LIKE KASOA TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES ABOUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING ON THE GROUND. EVEN A SIMPLE KEEN MONITORING FROM THE MEDIA CAN TELL ANYONE THAT KASOA SINCE DAY ONE OF THE REGISTRATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN THE NEWS FOR VIOLENCE AND MISUNDERSTANDING. I WILL PLEAD WITH HAWA TO BEEF UP HER PERSONAL SECURITY THE NEXT TIME SHE IS OUT. THE POLICE MUST ALSO INTENSIFY THEIR SURVEILLANCE AT KASOA AND ANY OTHER HOT SPOTS TO PREVENT THE BLOOD SHED TRUMPETED BY THE ENEMIES OD DEMOCRACY.
I bet hawa koomson was High on that faithful day. people hide behind the title 'honourable' to misconduct themselves with impunity... Ghana our beloved lawless nation with selective justice..
Oooh NDC the violent party.This NDC PC knows everything about the attack at the centre.Its good the motor bikes were burnt.Now your party will replace them for you.As for NDC it is a party of hooligans.Look at their chairman and general secretary.They are all warlike people.This is just common registration why all this. The lady was right to defend herself .If she didnt have a gun she will be dead by now.Protect yourself .As for this NDC party ,they started snatching ballot boxes not today.Protect yourself .Blow off any NDC head when you see one misbehaving.Kill them.They dont want peace.No more vigilante groups,you are still having vigilante at registration centre.Deal with those arrested drastically.Jail them for long years so that during voting they will be in the cooler.What sort of ***barred word*** party is this.Common registration.The police should step up their game.Next time the MP should go there with police patrol team and arrest all those who are bussed there .The parliamentary candidate(Lucifer) who caused all these is spewing out rubbish that she ws at home and heard a gun shot.You think we dont know you.
idio--t but it is safe with land guard mp. no-sen- se