A campaign team member for the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has disclosed that he was physically assaulted twice by party officials aligned with Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia during the party’s Special Delegates Conference.
Charles Addo, the party’s youth organizer in the Bono East Region, reported that his efforts to enforce adherence to the electoral regulations resulted in him being attacked by two party officials who were angered by his actions.
“I told the regional police commander and some of his men that two regional party officers were seeking to represent the vice president contrary to the rules of the game. Then the police commander confirmed my position and called the EC official and the regional organiser, one Sulley outside and explained to him.
“It was left with the deputy secretary, Liman Seidu who was resisting. So he was forcefully brought out by the police and when he came out he was engaged in an exchange with the police inquiring from them who the complainant was.
“This was around 8:30 when the election had not started, a police officer pointed me out that their colleague regional executive is the complainant. So he asked me if it was true and the next thing he told me was that do I know that the organiser who was ejected is my boss in line with party structures? I answered that we are not here to do boss work, we are here to monitor the system to ensure order,” Mr Addo who was wearing a neck brace having been allegedly assaulted narrated.
He revealed that the two party officials jumped on him and subjected him to severe beatings after which an amount of GH¢40,000 was taken away from his pocket.
“My attention was not there because I was on phone and the next thing I saw was them hitting me. If you look at my phone… I had forty thousand in my pocket and they picked it from my pocket,” he said.
