Edudzi Tamakloe, the Director of Legal Affairs for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has revealed that the Greater Accra Regional Police Commander was not aware of the detention of the NDC’s Parliamentary Candidate (PC) of Awutu Senya East, Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor, by the police.
Ms Naa Koryoo, along with Mustapha Mohammed and Abdul Aziz Musah, were arrested last Saturday, June 8.
The trio was apprehended whilst traveling 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 that was linked to a stabbing incident involving Ato Koomson, the son of the current MP and the Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson.
Moreover, the police have since charged the NDC PC with transferring firearms, and the docket has been forwarded to the Attorney-General’s office for “study and advice.”
However, the NDC PC was released at about midnight on Saturday after scores of party supporters thronged the Cantonments Police station to demand the release of Ms Naa Koryoo Okunor.
Speaking on TV3 New Day on Monday, the private legal practitioner, representing Ms Koryoo Okunor and the other two gentlemen, expressed discontent about the selective application of the law, accusing the NPP of shielding the incumbent MP for the same constituency, Mavis Hawa Koomson, who fired a warning shot at a registration centre in 2020.
“… In fact to the point when we got to the Cantonments police office, I personally went to one of the offices and said, I’m begging permit me to just have a look at her [Naa Okunor] and just speak to her. They had to make calls whether I should be permitted to go… back and forth, back and forth, the Regional Police Commander himself [DCOP Arhin Kwasi Annor] came and said he wasn’t well but when he heard it he had to rush to this place.”
Edudzi added, “And that he is not aware of what is happening, yes.”
“The Regional Police Commander—I was with him throughout. In fact, we were tear gas and so we were all like coughing here and there…they didn’t know that the Regional Police Commander was with us and so he also got affected by the tear gas, so you could see the tears coming out,” he told Berla Mundi, co-host of the New Day.
Source: 3news.com
