Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has once again condemned the detention of the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Awutu Senya East Constituency, Phyllis Naa Koryo Okunor.
Naa Koryo was detained at the Cantonment Police Station on Friday, June 7, after accepting the invitation, sparking outrage among NDC supporters who thronged the station demanding her release.
Naa Koryo’s arrest is reportedly in connection with a firearms possession charge and the stabbing death of the son of Awutu Senya East Member of Parliament Mavis Hawa Koomson on June 2, 2024.
During a dialogue with Ghanaians known as the “Mahama Dialogue”, Mahama criticised the inequality and biased judiciary under President Akufo-Addo’s administration as “infuriating”.
He pointed to the contrast with the treatment of Hawa Koomson, who fired a gun at a registration centre in July 2020 but remains free.
Mahama believes that Na Koryow’s arrest was meant to break her spirit but instead strengthened her position and ultimately secured her seat.
“The inequality and arbitrary justice of this government is infuriating. Otherwise, how can Hawa Koomson, who fired a gun at a registration centre and bragged about it, be free and why is the Parliamentary candidate for Awutu Senya East constituency in detention because the police who arrested her got her name wrong?”
“If government was trying to crush Naa Koryo’s spirit with politically orchestrated arrests, it has instead handed over the Awutu Senya East seat to a young woman who by all standards far surpasses the incumbent.”
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