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  • Otokunor ‘escapes’ threat of assault at Kumawu by-election – Report

    The Kumawu by-election saw an increase in tensions as Peter Boama Otokunor, a former deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), nearly averted a violent conflict with three NPP women.

    The media explained that Otokunor suggested at the polling center that NDC agents should position themselves closely behind the Election Commission officials to prevent any potential electoral fraud.

    She further added that Otokunor’s statement provoked the ire of the NPP women present.

    According to Yiadom, one of the women named Salomey, who formerly served as the NPP Deputy Women’s Organizer for Bantama, displayed immense courage and came close to physically engaging Otokunor and even threatening him.

    This drew the attention of another woman, identified as Vivian Ofosua, a national representative for the NPP, who nearly engaged Otokunor in a confrontation as well as an additional party woman.

    As tensions escalated, individuals at the scene intervened to prevent the situation from getting out of control and ensured peace was restored.

    “Three women in the NPP have really done well today, they nearly beat Otokunor today, three women, they nearly beat him, the women, one is called Salomey who is the former NPP deputy women’s organizer for Bantama, she is very brave, herself and Otokunor it wasn’t easy, she nearly put her hands into his eyes.

    “And another one Vivian Ofosua, a national rep for NPP, and another person, they nearly beat Otokunor, so people had to intervene to calm them down before there was peace….so, we asked him why was he causing confusion and he explained that per the election rules, the NDC agents are supposed to sit close behind the EC officials because they could steal the election, so, it is because of stealing that is why he did that by allowing his party agents to sit close behind the EC.

    “…so, most of the electorates got angry and accused him of bringing chaos at the poling center…so he had to go back to his car and later on Madam Salomey followed up warning him that if he ever comes there again, she will deal with him…which made him laugh and he moved his car away,” she narrated.

  • Ashia Huang must not be spared; she must be prosecuted – NDC

    The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the case involving galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang, must not be trivialized.

    According to a Deputy General Secretary of NDC, Peter Boamah Otokunor, government must handle the issue with the seriousness it deserves.

    This comes on the back of an accusation by the lawyer for Aisha Huang, Nkrabea Effah Dartey that the media is overstretching the substance of the case involving the Chinese national.

    In a media interview, Mr. Boamah Otokunor stressed that the issue has not been blown out of proportion.

    “I have read commentaries from NPP members and the lawyers defending her that this is not any matter and that, the issue is being blown out of proportion. Look at the crisis the country is going through and the challenge of suffering the worst currency depreciation in the history of this country. Gold is the solution to this problem, but Aisha Huang is doing all manner of things to our mining laws, but because NPP is in power, she is being defended.”

    Peter Boamah Otukunor added that Aisha must be dealt with in accordance with Ghana’s laws.

    “What we are demanding now after finding out that, Aisha Huang is still in the country is the proper application of the law in dealing with her. She must be prosecuted”, he added.

     

  • Aisha Huang: Akufo-Addo will soon say he’s unaware he’s president – Otokunor mocks

    Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor, has lampooned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over his recent comment on Chinese galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang.

    President Akufo-Addo, it will be recalled, stated in an interview earlier this week that he was uncertain about the purported ‘deportation’ status of the notorious Chinese national.

    Speaking in an interview on Stone City Radio in Ho during his tour of the Volta Region, the president said: “… I am not still sure whether she was, in fact, deported or whether she fled the country the first time and has now come back or whatever. There still seems to be some uncertainty about it.

    But speaking to the media on the sidelines of an NDC press conference on September 15, Otokunor described the president’s state of unawareness as one too many and of great concern.

    “…I wonder how somebody who is supposed to have been deported and the president admitting that she has been deported. The senior minister, if you want the prime minister Osafo-Maafo saying that she has been deported, all of a sudden the president is playing dumb and saying that he doesn’t know that the woman has been deported.

    “I think that it is becoming one too many and it is becoming a worrying trend. You have a sitting president who always says that he is not aware of decisions he himself has undertaken.

    “The President has issued executive instrument and he says he is not aware. He has written letters of authority and he says he is not aware. Corruption appears under him and everybody is talking about it and he says he is not aware.

    “Today, Aisha Huang, he is saying that he is not aware that Aisha Huang was deported. Very soon he will say that he is not aware he is the president of this country and I think we should be worried. We should be concerned,” Otokunor said.

    His comments are similar to earlier ones made by Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr who said on the September 14 edition of Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme:

    “There have been all kinds of interpretations to what the President said in that interview in the Volta region. There are those who are saying the president merely is talking about his own memory capacity and he is saying that he cannot remember what really happened. Whether the woman fled on her own accord or that she was deported.

    “If that is the case, it is still a source of worry. You have a president who can forget such live issues and [it] actually expose his memory weakness. It is worrying in any democratic institution.

    Meanwhile, Aisha Huang has been denied bail together with her three accomplices. They have been remanded in custody for two weeks.