The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Awutu Senya East constituency has revealed that he acquired the gun to protect himself from the incumbent member of parliament for the constituency, Hawa Koomson.
Phyllis Na Koryo Okunor said she received multiple threats from Hawa Koomson during the 2020 elections but the police failed to take any action.
In an interview with Citi FM on Wednesday, June 5, Okunor revealed that she now owns a gun for her own protection.
She stressed that these threats occurred on four separate occasions, leading her to take personal measures for her own safety.
O’Knorr said she felt she was the best person to protect herself, given police’s failure to address her concerns.
She claimed she was forced to take this step due to an inadequate response from law enforcement.
“The best way to protect yourself from Hawa Koomson is to protect yourself and not others, so that’s what you need to do.”
“Going back to the 2019-2020 elections, Hawa Koomson pointed a gun at me four times. No arrests, no questioning, no investigation, nothing.”
“The case was closed and the police have not given me any protection since then,” she said.
Meanwhile, Okunor has denied that he was arrested on Sunday following the violence in Kasoa.
The Ghana Police Force on Sunday, 2nd June 2024, arrested three persons at Ofa-Akol, near Kasoa in the Central Region, for alleged illegal possession of firearms.
The suspects, identified as Okunor, Mustafa Mohammed and Abdul Aziz Musa, were reportedly arrested near the EC office in Ofakol while driving a Honda CRV sedan bearing registration number GX-2044-19.
A pump-action gun with four rounds of ammunition was recovered from the car. The arrests followed violence at the Electoral Commission office in Kasoa, which left four people injured.
During the incident, Ato Koomson, the son of Member of Parliament Mavis Hawa Koomson, suffered a stab wound to the chest.
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