The National Communications officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has described the trial of the Awutu Senya West constituency’s communication officer, Cassius Larbie and two others who were arrested and remanded for removing posters of Eugene Ahene on the District Road Improvement Project (DRIP) machine and threatening to deal with an eyewitness as an intimidation.
He spoke after the Awutu Breku court presided over by Her ladyship Naomi Konto granted a self-recognizance bail to the trio who were remanded into police custody sometime last week.
The Awutu Breku District Court presided over by Her Ladyship Naomi Kontor granted a self-recognizance bail to the three NDC members with a surety of GH¢,2,000 each.
Gyamfi described the trial as an attempt to disturb the NDC members questioning the decision of the NPP to affix Eugene Arhin’s posters on the DRIP machines while preventing the incumbent MP, Gizela Tetteh from doing same.
“The NDC is poised for victory. We have had enough of harassment. This arrest is nothing but intimidation because these equipment are state assets. The NDC communication officer for Awutu Senya West should instead be rewarded for removing the posters because these machines are not for the NPP, they are for us all as Ghanaians.”
“I want the NPP to know that the seat is for the NDC, and we will not be intimidation by their act. I am happy that the judge has granted the guy self-recognizance bail,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the New Patriotic Party at an earlier press conference insisted that the trial and subsequent remanding of the three NDC members were not necessarily influenced by the distortion of posters but rather the threatening of an eyewitness who spotted them while in the act.
The party was however worried that Eugene Ahene’s name had been embroiled in the act
“There was an issue which led to the arrest of NDC communication officer Cassius Larbie. There was information that our Parliamentary candidate Eugene Arhin is behind the move but I must say that he has nothing to do with it. The information they are peddling is false.”
“The NDC communication officer and some other individuals went to the DRIP machine removed the drivers mirror, attempted to remove the battery. An eyewitness saw them and shouted at them. They pounced on the man and threatened him after assaulting him. They even told the man that the DCE is their target and that they will deal with him,” Parliamentary candidate for the NPP and DCE for Gomoa West Bismark Baisie Nkum stated.
Source: Calvis Tetteh
