The Central Regional Police Command has reportedly invited for interrogation, Mavis Hawa Koomson, the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, after she shot into a group at a voters registration centre in Kasoa earlier this week.
Reports picked up by Whatsup News indicates that the “gangster” was invited for questioning at the Regional Police Command today, Friday, July 24, 2020. She was in the company of her lawyers.
An official statement has been taken from her and the supposed weapon she fired has reportedly been retrieved for further investigations, Whatsup News gathered.
Her case docket has also been reportedly handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at the police headquarters in Accra, but critics think the whole process was a mere window dressing as the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has justified her action, saying she fired the gun in self-defence.
President Akufo Addo’s cousin who doubles as his right-hand-man and the Deputy General Secretary of the NPP and several others within the party have encapsulated their support for Hawa Koomson’s violent action.
This support is despite widespread condemnation from civil society organizations, religious groups, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a cross-section of the public.
At a press briefing at the National Democratic Congress’ headquarters in Accra, the Director of Elections of the party, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said Hawa Koomsom and her accomplices should be made to face the law with immediate effect.
“The NDC is totally disgusted by the thuggish and criminal shooting incident involving a gang of NPP thugs who were led by Madam Mavis Hawa Koomson which has received both national and international condemnation and which has been admitted by the Minister of State herself. We condemn in no uncertain terms such thuggery sponsored and led by a high ranking government official and lawmaker who is supposed to uphold the law at all times,” Mr. Ankrah stated.
On Monday, a group of gunmen invaded a voter registration centre in Kasoa, Central Region, and forced the process to stop.
EC Officials, fearing for their lives called off the registration when the men, numbering about 15, began firing gunshots indiscriminately.
According to reports, the suspects had stormed the Steps to Christ registration centre in the Awutu Senya East constituency to disallow some people from registering.
Eyewitnesses report that the gun-wielding men had stormed the registration centre and tried to drive some prospective registrants away.
In an ensuing confusion, they fired shots scaring the EC officials into abandoning the registration.
According to the Minister who is also the MP for Awutu Senya East, she wielded the gun to the registration centre and eventually fired it, confirming that the men who caused the confusion were members of her gang.
“My brother, none of my men who were following me carried a gun, I carried the gun, yes the gun that went off. Politics is not the preserve of men only but women as well,” the MP said in an interview with Adom TV.
Per her admission, the MP has confirmed that officials of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) are behind some of the armed gangs terrorizing Ghanaians.