Gifty Ohene Konadu
THE NEW Patriotic Party (NPP) Women’s Organizer for the Asante Akim South Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Madam Comfort Asamoah, insists her life is in great danger and has thus appealed for help from several groups including the Parliamentary Women’s Caucus.
Madam Asamoah alleged that some thugs had been harassing her and laid the blame at the doorstep of the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Hon. Gifty Ohene Konadu, who is also an NPP member.
She alleged that the MP has engaged the services of one Arimeyaw, also a staunch member of the NPP, to eliminate her because “Hon. Ohene Konadu is afraid that I am secretly campaigning for someone to topple her as MP in the next polls.”
To buttress her claim, Madam Asamoah gave some instances where Hon. Konadu allegedly engaged some people to attack her physically.
According to her, it all started on September 13, 2009, around 10:00pm, when the MP stormed her home with four police officers and a certain guy to arrest her for no apparent reason.
The NPP Women’s Organizer said she was tied to a tree with a rope at the police station and attempts by the NPP constituency chairman to get her released proved futile until the DCE of the area, who is an NDC fan, intervened.
The then Ashanti Regional leadership of the NPP, led by its organizer, Abdella, later sat “me and Hon. Konadu down over the arrest, where she admitted her guilt and apologized never to repeat that act again.”
Two weeks later, the MP hired some thugs to physically attack her at an NPP function at Asante Akim Praso, but she was luckily saved by people around before her attackers could harm her.
Again, Madam Asamoah alleged that on July 22, 2010, when the NPP was preparing for its national congress, one Arimeyaw, a known errand boy of Hon. Konadu, slapped her without provocation.
After beating her, Arimeyaw openly warned her that if she continued sabotaging the MP, he would make sure that she would be eliminated before the 2012 elections are held.
According to her, she suspected that the MP had told Arimeyaw to manhandle her on that occasion because “people close to the MP have told me to be very careful since the MP has warned to eliminate me before the next elections are held.”
In the face of these threats, Madam Asamoah passionately appealed to bodies like the Parliamentary Women’s Caucus, Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit and the Ghana Bar Association, just to mention a few, to intervene.
Meanwhile, Arimeyaw has flatly debunked the wild allegations leveled against him and Hon. Konadu and even went on to describe Madam Asamoah as a blatant liar who wants to taint the MP’s hard-won image.
Reacting to the allegations on Angel FM, he said Madam Asamoah’s main preoccupation was to peddle unfounded liars just to create discord and disaffection among the rank and file of the NPP in the constituency.
He said the MP “who is like a mother to me has never engaged my services or the services of any other person to eliminate Madam Asamoah,” asking, I am killing her to get what?”
Arimeyaw said Madam Asamoah was ethnocentric and always looked down upon NPP fans from different tribes, especially those from the northern part of the country.
“She treats us like animals and since Hon. Konadu embraces every manner of person irrespective of your background, she hates her so much and wants to adopt diabolical plans to put her in the bad light of the public,” he added, challenging Madam Asamoah to produce any evidence she had.
From I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Konongo, Ashanti
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