NPP Executives Arrested In Tarkwa

The MP's desecrated office with coal tar
The Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency of the Western Region, Osei Boamah, popularly called Africana, and his constituency secretary, Benjamin Kesse have been arrested by the Tarkwa police for allegedly desecrating and defacing the office of the NPP Member of Parliament, Gifty Eugenia Kusi.

The action was suspected to have been carried out in the wee hours of Thursday, August 7 after public announcement was effected on a local radio station at Tarkwa by the secretary of the party that executives were very much concerned and irritated by a new office of the MP painted in the colours of the party.

The public announcement was preceded by an official press statement by the same executive members that the MP's office located at Nsuta Junction, Tamso is an illegality and should be disregarded with all the legitimate power since such acts breed factionalism but the constituency executive members allegedly took the law into their own hands and went ahead to deface a billboard with the MP's picture as well as her office at the Nsuta Junction.

The MP who reported the incident to the police said the action of the executive members is a criminal offence and should therefore be made to face the full rigours of the law.

The MP told the DAILY GUIDE that the new executive members after being elected into office had deliberately sidelined her in every activity the party undertakes in the constituency even though she is a member of the executive committee at the constituency level, stressing that the new executives were seriously undermining her bid to run again as an MP.

“The executive members should have at least shown some respect to me knowing very well that the office is my office by approaching me officially to register their concern over my new office which I acquired in September, 2013 but decided to put an announcement on radio to ridicule me and go ahead to desecrate the place,” she said pointing out that the issue is a serious offence and borders on criminality.

She indicated that personally when the new executive members were elected into office, she wrote an official letter to them congratulating them and asking for their support to work together for the 2016 general elections which she said were critical elections for the party and even enquired in that letter about a date for them meet to do the mandatory appointments but never had response from the executive members.

According to her, despite her congratulatory letter calling for unity and hardwork, the new party executives went ahead to make certain appointments without her knowledge.

By Thomas Fosu Jnr