The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, has asserted that police actions have effectively secured the Awutu Senya East parliamentary seat for the party’s candidate, Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor. Mahama argued that if the arrest and detention of Okunor were intended to intimidate and deter her, the strategy has backfired.
In a live broadcast on Sunday, June 9, Mahama criticized the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for acts of inequality and selective justice, highlighting the disparity in how similar incidents are handled. He referenced the incident involving the current Awutu Senya East MP, Hawa Koomson, who fired a weapon at a voter registration center and faced no significant repercussions, whereas Naa Koryoo was detained for legally possessing a firearm.
“The inequality and selective justice of this government are gullying, otherwise, how could Hawa Koomson, who fired a weapon at a registration centre and boasted about it, walk away free and a parliamentary candidate for Awutu Senya East is detained partly because the very police that issued her with a firearm’s license misspelt her name?”, Mahama stated.
He continued, “If the government was seeking to break the spirit of Naa Koryoo with that politically organized arrest, they have rather handed over the Awutu Senya East parliamentary seat to the young woman, who by all standards towers over and above the incumbent.”
