Don’t Touch Wontumi- NPP Group Warns

A New Patriotic Party Group in Kumasi is threatening to march to the entrance of the FlagStaff House, the Seat of Government if security authorities attempt to harass the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party, Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako, aka Chairman Wontumi.

The group is planning to occupy the entrance of the Presidency if it smells any move to intimidate the NPP Regional Boss.

There are reports that the ruling National Democratic Congress(NDC) has asked the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to question Chairman Wontumi over allegations levelled against the party and the First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama.

Chairman Wontumi in an interview with a Kumasi-based radio station allegedly accused the First Lady of chairing a meeting organized by the Ashanti Regional branch of the ruling party during which a plot was hatched to harass head porters in the city and shift the blame on the NPP.

The NPP Regional Chairman explained during the interview that the ruling party was planning to incite northerners against the opposition party by hiring people, masquerading in NPP T-shirts to intimidate porters plying their trade in the metropolis.

However, the NDC in a strong rebuttal, described the allegations as preposterous and unfounded. The Regional Secretary of the party, Raymond Tandoh, in an interview disclosed that the party had referred the NPP Chairman to the BNI to investigate the allegations.

Mr. Tandoh said the party was not treating the allegations lightly, more especially since the First Lady was involved and would ensure that the security agencies dealt with the NPP chairman.

But a pro-NPP group, National Youth Ambassadors, has threatened to resist any attempt by the BNI to intimidate Chairman Wontumi.

In a release signed by its President, Fred Appiah, the group also alleged that it has uncovered alleged moves by the ruling party to set up Chairman Wontumi and frame him up in a coca in scandal.

The group alleged that the NDC in separate meetings in Kumasi and Tamale, allegedly hatched an evil plot to implicate the Ashanti Regional Chairman by planting crack cocaine in his car and later accuse him of dealing in the illicit drug.

The National Youth Ambassadors additionally stated that it has also received reports that the ruling party is training some members of a gang who were recently arrested at Alabar Tinker Island to confess that Chairman Wontumi was the one who supplied them with the drugs.

"We are fully aware of an NDC evil strategy to implicate the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP. They hope to do this by planting cracks of cocaine in his car and later arrest him for peddling drugs. Honestly, we find these revelations unfortunate, shameful and evil which cannot and should not be encouraged in our body politics," the group noted.

The National Youth Ambassadors asserted in their statement that as the country moves into an election year it envisages the NDC doing more of these evils in their quest to retaining power and continually placing Ghanaians under a state of hopelessness.

It therefore sent a strong warning to the ruling party that if anything should happen to the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, it would hold members of the NDC responsible.