Mills Fingers NDC•Over Health Wahala

Prof. Mills Prof. Evans Atta Mills, flag-bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is reported to have accused leading members if his party of deliberately planting stories in the media about his perceived health problems.

Madam Frances Asiam, a former National Executive member of the party dropped the bombshell at a news conference in Accra yesterday and said Prof Mills himself was the person who told her that the NDC was behind the said stories that made headlines a few months back.

She noted that the NDC had published a defamatory material about her in a particular newspaper and not satisfied about the publication, she called Prof Mills on his cell phone to ask him to advise his party to leave her alone.

“I had occasion to call Prof Mills on his cell phone to talk to his people that I would not want any crossfire between me and them because he is the leader of the party; and his immediate answer was that I should not take it too highly because he himself was a victim of such things from NDC operatives that he had undergone surgery which was not true and that they are the ones spreading tales that he is sick but he is not.

“And he appealed to me and pleaded with me that he would speak to them so I should rest my guns,” Frances Asiam disclosed.

 The former NDC capo said it was hypocritical on the part of Prof. Mills to go behind closed doors to condemn NDC for such mafia propaganda tactics yet refuse to do it openly.

“I want Ghanaians to know that if you have such a personality who behind the cloak would try and appeal and appease your conscience and openly would not have the control and courage to tell his people that what they are doing is bad, but he would condone all those utterances, threats and intimidation, I would have failed in my duty as a Christian, a Ghanaian and a human rights activist to alert Ghanaians that Prof. Mills cannot be trusted,” she added.

Speaking at the same news conference, Madam Frances Asiam  named one Dzidzor Tay, a member of the NDC, as one of the persons issuing sinister threat messages to her and other prominent Ghanaians.

She said as a former leading member of the NDC, she knows Dzidzor Tay quite well and still keeps the latter's phone number, thus recognized the number the moment the threat was sent to her via a sms text message.

She said Dzidzor Tay did not deny sending the threat when she was asked about the issue on Asempa Fm, an Accra-based private radio station, and rather went ahead to repeat the threat with glee.

“You can let the police protect you or run to radio stations, I don't care. Let the coffee shop mafias protect you, I don't give a fuck. Watch out,” was the message purported to have been sent from the phone number of Dzidzor Tay to Frances Asiam.

Speaking at the press conference yesterday, Madam Asiam said she received a more sinister threat on Sunday, asking her to cancel the conference.

She disclosed that the sender of the message had noted: “You better cancel your press conference for tomorrow or get killed as you read the statement. You prostitute who fucks your children's age mates”.

She noted that after replying the sms, the person sent another one which read: “Ok.

We dare you to go ahead. I would be there as a journalist. I would shoot your head right before the media and commit suicide.”

Indeed the press conference had a great police and security presence.

By Halifax Ansah Addo